And then that would be were serving on the same committee. That would be a good notice, tom . [speaker not understood]. Anyway, good form would be to do a good notice meeting, whatever we call it. The Ad Hoc Search Committee of the department of environment the Environment Commission seeks Community Input during our search for [speaker not understood] director. We can share that back to the commission. [inaudible]. Thats good, thats a good one. All right. I just want to add that i think, you know, its great that youre taking this on, josh, and i think, you know, we all really appreciate you putting in all this work and interviewing all the search firms and putting together the plan. I mean, god, doing this right now, it is a huge amount of work, so, thank you for taking that on. Thanks, commissioner. And ive just been looking forward to sharing this stuff because we get ideas about how much we can talk and obviously easiest is do notice meetings and have a conversation. Really, david h
Around they. We are proud parents and now just excited to be here on the board. I think im in the middle. Im a moderate person. Fiscal fiscally conservative and that is the way i intend to practice what i preach here. In terms of getting into politics, i think for me it was really that reasons. First being from here, i think that was part of my own motivation, feeling a sense of roots in San Francisco. Also raising our children here. I think we went through as a young family the discussion and dialogue that many young families go through. Should we move to the suburbs . Away decided to stick around and we are very happy we did. Once you stick around i think it was a turning point to say we are here for good. What can we do to make this place better . There were a lot of lessons to be learned in running a race in San Francisco. A few that stick out, money does matter. Raising money. That is a simple, somewhat unfortunate fact if you want to be candidate. Most importantly, one thing i dr
Welcome to district need your district supervisor. Were here with Supervisor John Avalos, from district 11, which includes the excelsior, and will sign, our mission, and Crocker Amazon neighborhoods. Supervisor avalos was elected to the board in november of 2008. We are going to get to know him and talk about the toughest issues facing the city. Welcome and thank you for joining us today. Tell us a lot about your background, where you grew up, went to school, the job you worked. I was born in a town called and los angeles. It was a lot of workingclass folks. My father was a shore worker, my mother was an Office Worker at usc. My parents were divorced when i was 10 years old, and i moved to the east coast for six years before going back to california after high school. I went to school at uc santa barbara, graduated in 19988 1988. I have lived in the excelsior since 1999. I have had lots of different jobs, but my main job is doing social work force and a disco, i have been a community o
Building. I grow up in the philadelphia area, in new jersey, went to school up and down the east coast. I went to undergrad at Duke University and law school at harvard. After clerking for a judge, i came out here and have been in here for the last 14 years. I always assumed i would go back to the philadelphia area because that is where my family is, but i was always interested in Sanford Cisco in terms of the city, culture, the amazing Lgbt Community i was always interested in San Francisco. I am an attorney. I started off in private practice, doing complex litigation. In 2002, i moved to the San Francisco city attorneys office, where our work on the trial team, doing trials for the city and doing my own cases and supervising a team of attorneys as well. Another huge issue confronting the city is the deferred maintenance on our infrastructure. We have a lot of infrastructure that has been deteriorating because we have not maintained it properly, from our roads to our sewer system to m
I just want to make a Public Statement to acknowledge that appointments to the Police Commission and any commission which is a policymaking body is very important. I want to encourage about keep in front of our minds the importance of not only to elect women, but to work to get more women appointed to these bodies that help make legislative decisions for our city and county of San Francisco. I am from San Francisco. I grew up in the local neighborhood. I did my under deprad wait work at fisk university, where i studied Political Science with a concentration in Public Administration and worked eight years largely in the public sector. Then i earned a masters degree from carnegie melon in pittsburg, pennsylvania. I spent some time as assistant executive director for a nonprofit. We did work if a lot of kids in the neighborhood. I have done fundraising for candidates and issues. I have experience with the Federal Reserve bank of San Francisco. When i look around my neighborhood and see th