Dee cellyman. Come on up. Good morning, supervisors, thank you. I want to my name is dee cellyman, i want to congratulate supervisor farrell and the committee on improving the draft. And i have one piece of text that i feel should be submitted. Changing page 12, line 3. I believe it should be changed as follows i will explain why, rec and parks guidelines for new open space and renovations shall be reviewed and adopted by the rec and Department Park commission. The reason i believe this, that the environmental and Design Guidelines are currently entirely in the hands of rec and park. There is no required review by the rec and park commission, who are in fact the ones tasked with representing the publics viewpoint. This is a very important point, design assumes policies. Let me say that one more time, and let you think about it. Any design assumes policies. What happens if recs and park calls for more grass lands in open spaces and the nonnative trees that they feel less desirable. Shou
Anniversary of roe v. Wade. And hundreds of thousands of people, including prolife advocates from my own hometown of st. Louis, missouri, will gather in our Nations Capital in honor of the over 56 million precious angels we have lost since that Infamous Supreme Court decision. Not to mention the millions of women who have been adversely affected in the aftermath of their abortion, both physically and emotionally. I first participated in the march for life 25 years ago this week in 1990. I was 28 years old with a real bad hairdo and i was 12 weeks pregnant with my son, steven. At that point at 12 weeks in my pregnancy, steven was able to suck his thumb. A few weeks later at 15 weeks he could make facial expressions and he had taste buds. By 17 weeks steven began to kick. By week 18 his ears had developed and he could hear. And by week 20 not only was steven able to recognize my voice as his mother, but he was capable of feeling pain. While killing an unborn child is unconscionable at an
Who would like to comment, please come forward and seeing no one come forward, we will close Public Comment and we have this before us. Supervisor cohen. Thank you, i just want to put forward Michael Seville, recommended for seat no. 2 and deanje brookdter for seat no. 3. I think they represent a deep commitment to the communities they will be representing, they have also demonstrated a proficient, even exceeding proficient role on this body. I agree with you, michael, i think it is exciting and extremely important. So i ask that we consider Michael Seville for seat no. 2 and michael brookter for seat no. 3. Both the remaining applicants are smart and connected. Im concerned mr. Townsend has only been in town for 2 1 2 years, i am looking for someone who has a deeper stronger root, connection with San Francisco. I was disappointed miss mcnulty was unfamiliar with the second role and responsibility of this body. However, i am going to ask that you consider miss mcnulty for seat no. 1. S
Applying for this position. I have encouraged him to do that and i wasnt aware he had. Kevin is very hardworking and very talented employee at swords to plow shares and knows a lot about what veterans need in this city. As for what i think the Veterans Commission should be doing in the next few years, i think homelessness is no. 1. The va, as we know, has messed up and the city has very little opportunity to do much about that, but the city has a great deal of influence over homelessness. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Supervisor tang, supervisor cohen, supervisor avalos, thank you for the opportunity to speak in front of you. My name is eddie ramirez, i served 22 years in the air force, native to San Francisco, recently retired from the Va Medical Center as the Administrative Officer for mental health. I am currently the coowner of mama art cafe and i am founder of one vet, one voice, a nonprofit that focuses on health care, education, housing and employment for our veter
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 on to, in order, the people who are on the list,