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SFGTV BOS Rules Committee 102716 November 14, 2016

Change. Recently we have moved food, and food is a very, very important part of survival, development and recovery. Partnered with a friend of mine who developed a green, mobile Health Education kitchen, with a small grant, we have a truck, a flame, a flameless stove. We go directly into the sros and we take the residents down from their rooms. And have them entertained, we serve them, we show them an opportunity to change the way that they have been eating without pressure. And move on. And we just keep that cycle up. We dont leave. We give everybody an opportunity to experience a night out on the town. And without ever leaving their own residence. It has been very effective. And since i have been with the task force, i feel that it is absolutely imperative that i work with them. So that they can continue to develop policies for change. And i will make sure that each one of you have one of my cards. This is printed on vegetable ink, totally organic, and you can almost eat that thing. So if anybody has any questions, feel free to reach out and i think eric, we talked about getting you on the truck. And i think that i have a date for you if you want. Yes. Okay . And anybody else. That is it. Thank you. And ladies and gentlemen as you can see supervisor mar has joined us and i am going to turn the Committee Meeting back over to him. Thank you and so we have heard from mr. Williams and mr. Grier, and if there are know other questions, lets open it up for Public Comment, is there anyone that would like to speak . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. I wanted to actually thank palua jones who is here and the director of the food systems in the city and one of the code chairs, and what an Amazing Group of people. And thank you so much to bruce and also for the project open hand, and do we have a mission on mr. Williams for seats . Im trying to think, for the seat four . Yeah, and geoffrey grier. I make the motion. Second. Could we approve them without objection . Thank you. Supervisor mar, if i may, just interject here, we need to make a motion and then to excuse supervisor tang. Okay. So supervisor. I make a motion. Seconded by supervisor farrell. And we can do that without objection, excusing our chair, supervisor char. The first item would be noted as absent. Unless the committee were to resind the vote. A make a motion. Do that without objection . And it has been moved to excuse supervisor tang and seconded and without objection . Thank you. Thank you to the Food Security task force, did we already vote on that . Previous item. Yes. Mr. Chair, one last thing, i believe if i am not mistaken, residency wave requirements are needed for the applicants both williams and grier. Very good. Thank you. There has been a motion that we wave the residents requirement for both of those applicants. Yes. And it has been seconded. Do we need to do that. Shall we resind the vote. Do the motion over with the residency requirements, motion to resind the vote, moved by farrell and we will do that without objection, and now, motion to approve both candidates with a waiver of residency. And it has been moved by supervisor cohen, and seconded by farrell and we can do that without objection, colleagues . Thank you. Great. Thank you mr. Evans call the next item. The hearing to consider, appointing three members, terms ending, march 19, 2019, to the child Care Planning and Advisory Council, there are three seats and three applicants, and seat, 13, is error on the agenda, that is a new term that is appointed by the board of supervisors and the board of education. And we have received the appointment from the board of education. Very good, thank you. And i think that we have two of the applicants if any of the applicants would like to come up, please to speak and since laura is not here. She is. Great. Then we have all three. So the three applicants come forward in no particular order. First of all good morning, supervisor farrell and mar and cohen, it is my pleasure to be here today. And im actually very familiar with all three of you and your work, and eric when you were on the board of education, and mr. Farrell when i was assistant supervisor at the school you were at a meeting there and i remember you there. And malia you are the supervisor of my dekt, and i met you many times and so it is my pleasure to be here today. Good to see you this morning and, why dont you talk to us about your interests. Okay. So my interest is serving on the cpac. My work, my lifes work is actually has been supporting children and families. And working in School Districts, across the country. But, as a resident of bay view and being very closely involved with children and families over the years, i see a high need to really continue to support the children and families that are going and especially in the bay view area. I feel that my work on the cpac, that i will be able to have an impact by contributing my expertise as an educator, and as a parent, and as a community member. This work is very important to me. And i do know that the cpac has made an impact on the work that they are doing to continue to improve the lives of children and families in San Francisco. Im very anxious to be a part of that work. To me it is not work, it is a pleasure. And it is something that i enjoy doing on many different levels. And so part of my reasons, i can go on and on and on, but i would like to give the other people the opportunity to speak as well. And im open to questions if you have any for me. I know that our supervisor from district ten has nominated you. And but i just want to acknowledge your amazing work to follow through with amazing work done before you, but especially turning the school around and making it such an hub of community as well. And your leadership throughout the School District as well. Thank you. If there are no questions, lets have the next applicant come forward. Thank you. . Ethank you very much. He good morning, supervisors, im karin little and i am nominated for district two, seat on the cpac and i am a parent of two young boys, and life in district two, and they actually go to school in district one. And i have worked in education, both for the early care as well as kto 12 education for the last 15 years. And in a number of roles, including working at the School District and recruiting teachers as well as doing, policy development for our children and our Families Initiative and in the city. And even working on the Texting Program of the parents of preschoolers out of stanford and trying to help parents get their kids ready for kindergarten. And so, a number of issues in education and would be excited to serve on cpac and advocate for families. I recognize that i am very privileged parent. And i have had great child care and would like to enlist the help of other privileged family to advocate for folks as well as lift up voices of families in that are not being heard. So thank you. And i just wanted to thank you for the strategic work within the School District but also within parent organizations and otherwise over the years but thank you, and for also being a great part of the pea body parent grouping in district one. And district two, in some ways, but thank you. Thank you. Good morning, supervisors. So im laura and the Deputy Director of the department of youth and their families. I have been attending the cpac meetings for probably over a year now. When our seat became vacant, we felt it was important that we kept a presence at the cpac meetings and as you know the early care or the early child care and education work has been consolidated under the office of early care and education. And however, dcu, after the youth fund is a very large funder of early care and education and so it is important for us to be present at the meeting. And stay current on policy, and workforce and accessibility. And regularly at the cpac meetings. So with your approval, i will look forward to becoming a Voting Member of cpac. Any questions colleagues . No questions. And again, mr. Evans, explained that this is a jointly appointed seat by the board of supervisors and the board of education, and my understanding is interim superintendent lee has strongly supported your leadership or ongoing, leadership on the cpac and i also wanted to thank, michelle for her amazing work from first five to so many efforts in the hsa and throughout the city and helping the city become a National Model on so many levels. For miss moye, i wanted to thank you also for bring not only the park to the community representation, but also as a parent on so many levels from the lincoln, to the challenges of ethnic and by racial children. Any other comments . And lets open it up for Public Comment. Seeing none, Public Comment closed. I would like to make a motion, to approve karin little for two, khalique for seat two, and moye. Second. And could we approve this without objection. Yes. Thank you. Thanks. Item three, a hearing to consider appointing two members to the public utility revenue bond, and there are two seats and four applicants. So, four applicants for two seats. And we have several applicants that are here. If mr. Cronin and leshner and anyone else can come forward . Actually and also, nico barawid is here. Whoever wants to start. My name is tim, and i would just like to thank each of you for the opportunity to appear here today. And support of my application. I am an attorney here in San Francisco. And i focus on clean energy and clean infrastructure, project development and finance. I am also an advocate for both of those things in my work outside of the office as well. And im a graduated law school here in the bay area over at uc berkeley. If i could just touch first on my qualifications to serve on the Public Utilities and bond oversight committee. First in terms of my daytoday work, i am looking at the construction agreements that go into building, Infrastructure Project and providing Due Diligence on those agreement and drafting the power Purchase Agreement and working on the financing of those projects and i, i had a chance to attend a meeting and i got to see the handson approach that they take to project development. And construction, and their oversight role and i think that my experience in reviewing the construction project and insuring that the construction milestones are met and then looking to insure the financing of those projects would translate, directly to this work. And i would be eager to support in that way. And i also think that part of our role is of course, it is general oversight. And the responsibilities, but also insuring that San Franciscos Movement Towards infrastructure that is sustain able, is also ak quitable for all of San Francisco and some of my professional work has been aimed at the same goal specifically in the area of solar energy, and i have worked with local nonprofits to help to come up with ways to insure that Community Members of all income levels can gain access to solar energy and to help Community Nonprofit and religious stulgss have access to roof top solar energy. And in terms of goals for serving on rboc and i think that the base line is to provide the oversight and the guidance of the bond issuance. And spending that is, at the core of the committees work and i think that my professional experience will lend itself to that. But in order, or in terms of more unique goals, that i specifically would seek to contribute to, i think that my experience in Financing Renewable Energy projects, and i would like to steer that over time to making sh you are that the sfpuc is also using the Financial Capabilities to support clean power, sf. And i have had a chance to work on the financing of Renewable Energy projects associated with several other ccas in california and i would like to make that an emphasis in my service. So thank you again for your time. What were the other ccas that you worked with . You know, i dont know if i can disclose that in this setting. Because it was part of a transaction that has not been announced. Okay, understood. But thank you. And i would speak about it in more generalities. So thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, mr. Leshner . Good morning, my name is robert and it is a pleasure to present before the board of supervisors and simply put i plan to be the resident bond geek on the revenue bond oversight committee, my career in finance started while i was at discover bank, managing their Interest Rate policies, and the planning during the crisis of 2007, to 2009, and i managed 60 billion dollars of issuance and at that house scaning in their portfolio at that time. And i worked vigorously with consultants and regulators and including the federal reserve, and the treasury and the occ and the Credit Rating agencies during that time. I was the founder of the management business that advises 8 million of client investments. We have that firm made investments in the Revenue Bonds and i was the member of the committee that steered tho s decisions and did the planning and the modelling for our investments. And i was able to help our clients and individuals generate a return. And im a chartered financial analyst, and im a member of the San Francisco Charter Financial analyst society. And my skill set in that process, which is a multi year process of training was centered around the Financial Analysis and planning. And you know, simply put, i have always been a bond geek. And so the opportunity to the oversight of the bonds that we issue is appealing to me. I became interested in this issue two years ago, it was at the time that i had a small business, where it was located at 18th and fulsom and it was actually the victim of flooding during the rains of 2 years ago. And i had never really spent the time thinking about what the infrastructure meant, until i was able to experience it first hand. And you know, start to appreciate the hard work that goes into our infrastructure. My goal is simple, it is to increase the amount of transparency, and i have always been a believer that more information leads to better policy and better decisions and increases the invest or confidence, and my goal is to have more hearings, and more information that is produced by the committee. With the ultimate aim of increasing the Investor Confidence in the issuance and decreasing the spreads that our bonds have been, and the future for the planned issuance, and idealy, we can save the city, money with good, financial oversight. Great, thank you. And i dont think that i have heard bond geek used before. It is a technical term. And it is appropriate for the bond oversight committee. Are there any other applicants mr. Zachary, or nico that are here . So seeing none, lets close this part and open Public Comment. Is there anyone that would like to speak on behalf of any of the applicants or for any reason . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. So kol leez, we have seats, one and two. And there are two people that have spoken and two that are no the here. And im wondering if you have any thoughts on mr. Cronin leshner or the two that are not here. I am happy to make a point to appoint, tim cronin to seat one and move to the Committee Report to the full board. And then im open to discussion for the other seats. Okay. Sure. Does the committee know why the other members are not present . The other applicants . So i know that my staff reached out to both and we are not sure and. Are they still interested . You know. Mr. Chair, i did receive correspondence from both applicants. Barwid is not able to make it at the last minute and he had something come up. And i am not sure what that is, mr. Townsend is in sacramento right now for a meeting. Okay. So, ill move support, i think that Robert Leshner explained his strong finance background. Being a chartered financial analyst. Not only being a bond geek, but his experience with supporting Small Businesses and his work in the Tech Industry with a number of entities as well. And i think that he expressed strong interest in having attended the meetings from over two years ago, as well. And showing to me, serious interest in having strong bond oversight. And so, i would like to make the motion that we support mr mr. Leshner for seat number two. A motion on it. Right, and i understand. And supervisor, farrell, do you have any thoughts on townsend . Look, this guy, and i found it amazing. And so, i would be happy to support that guy. But i think that to the people that came and are very interested and obviously knowledgeable about what is going on here. I will second that motion, that is open. Okay. So, there is a motion and a second on moving forward, tim cronin for seat one, and leshner for seat two and as a Committee Report for consideration on november first at the board of supervisors meeting. It has been moved and seconded. Could we do that without objection . Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Item four, hearing to consider, appointing four members, and there are four seats and nine applicants. Thank you. And so, nine applicants for four seats. And a number of people that

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