No. 3. I think we do have some consensus there. If i got you correctly, supervisor tang, you are aligned with that. You havent actually decided between townsend or. Through the chair, i had, because supervisor cohen had already put mr. Brookter forward, i think our difference was mr. Townsend, but as i express i am very thrilled with all four of the applicants here today. Id like to propose that we have a motion to support brenda Queen Mcnulty for seat no. 1, Michael Seville for seat no. 2 and michael brookter for seat no. 3. Second that. Take that, colleagues, without objection . Okay. Thank you. Thank you, everyone, for your application. Lets see, can we take a oneminute break before the next item . It will be very brief, i just need to run to my office. Be right back. brief recess . Item 5 is a hearing to consider the terms of members to the Veterans Affairs commission. There are 5 seats and 11 applicants. Very good that was a big item for today. 5 seats, 11 applicants and lets go o
Queen mcnulty for seat no. 1, Michael Seville for seat no. 2 and michael brookter for seat no. 3. Second that. Take that, colleagues, without objection . Okay. Thank you. Thank you, everyone, for your application. Lets see, can we take a oneminute break before the next item . It will be very brief, i just need to run to my office. Be right back. brief recess . Item 5 is a hearing to consider the terms of members to the Veterans Affairs commission. There are 5 seats and 11 applicants. Very good that was a big item for today. 5 seats, 11 applicants and lets go on to, in order, the people who are on the list, on the agenda, starting with mr. Joiner. Good afternoon, thanks for giving me the opportunity to address you. Id just like to highlight a few things about my application that i think are important for your consideration. No. 1, im a native San Franciscoan, i grew up on potrero hill in the early 80s and 90s, im raising my family here, i came back here after the law school, i came back
Transparency, expanding citizen access to government information. For example, San Francisco uses granicus to streamline government meetings. I worked there for 61 2 years until last november to start working on my own software idea. I have also been active in the open Source Software community throughout that time. In addition to my software work, i have been active in election and voting integrity issues for over 10 years. While living in davis, i advised the city appointed body called the davis Governance Task force and was recommended by them for my valuable contributions. ~ on election issues. In San Francisco i have been appointed [speaker not understood] inspector two times starting in the june 2006 election. I have attended many Election Commission meeting over the years here. Iest mate over a dozen. I have provided advice to the commission on things how we can improve manual audits and how we can improve the [speaker not understood] results. [speaker not understood] procedures
Keeping my privacy, but ive been here for a long time. Did you a member have to be a resident of San Francisco . ~ does deputy City Attorney john give more. Yes, if the applicant lives in San Francisco and is a registered voter, then she does not then she qualifies. Yes, im aes are identified. ~ resident. For me its a matter of making sure somebody knows you are actually a resident. My application lists my resident. I googled it and i can see my application was still present. I did a word search and it says my address. Im not going to give it out now. [speaker not understood]. I appreciate that. I have to do my job also. Thank you very much. Let me see, i think there is one more person. [speaker not understood]. Can i speak about that . Later. Good afternoon, supervisors. Im deborah dacumos and im actually asking for reappointment for my seat. And i was appointed back in 2011. My goal at that time was basically related to [speaker not understood] and still is my focus. I have a ph. D.
So, the threat to our elections is real. San francisco and california are pretty clean, but we do need to maintain our vigilance to make sure there are no threats to our city and county. Any questions . ~ paves supervisor tang. Sure,ly ask this of all candidates. But if you can speak to some of the goals that you have if you were to serve on this commission ~. Yes, thank you. Integrity is a very general goal, but it is the number one priority. If any outside influences do try to threaten the electoral integrity, i do think that is our duty or my personal goal to fight it and the oppressive voter id law is a perfect example. More specifically, continuing with the Election Commission, i really want to work on poll worker training. We already do have a good program, but they are our front line defense and are essentially judge, jury and executioner on election day. There are thousands of them and yet only a few dozen fulltime electoral staff. They need better training. Theyre doing a good