thank you, president chiu. thank you, supervisor mar, for bringing nancy forward in honoring her today. it s been almost four decades and i think i ve known her for almost four decades. many of those organizations that are named, we crossed paths many times. nancy, you can name all these organizations that she s worked on and volunteered on and certificatedctionv on ~ and served on and so forth. what s missing on this is what i have seen her starting from the beginning and seeing her blossom to being the leader that she is today. and mentoring many other leaders since then. the thing that struck me about nancy, unlike other people that may be part of larger organization, is she always found time for everybody, regardless of your part of the organization or not. if there is somebody, individual that needed help, she s always there and will always say yes. i can t do it right now, but maybe this saturday at 9 o clock, i ll come to your door steps and ask what s wrong. and i v
unilaterally appoints a member of our branch. this proposes a simple solution to [speaker not understood]. let the voters elect our electses officials in democratic special elections ~. this measure is not about any existing mayor or any existing supervisor. the most recent member of our board katy tang, supervisor katy tang, had credentials, great experience in the neighborhood, knows her way around here, is an obvious person to serve on the board of supervisors. when it came to selecting mayor ed lee for the interim mayor of 2011, i was one of the persons who voted in favor of mr. lee. my concern was at that time was the process, how a small group of people could make decisions that really should be handled by thousands of people through our electoral process. the lack of checks and balances in the important process means a small minority of people, us, and the interests that are behind us selects who will fill vacancies in the mayor s office or on the board of supervisors.
few months in an effort to resolve these concerns and intend to continue doing so even after the board adopts these resolutions today. the staff should arrive at agreement with the developer groups on any changes to valuation methodology in the next couple of months. the board may authorize these changes in september when it holds a public hearing and considers a resolution of intent to form the district. before closing, i do want to discuss the one item in the ruben letter which staff does agree should be amended. on page 5 of the letter, it is noted that staff proposes to apply the mello-roos special tax rates to gross square feet of buildings. gross square feet of buildings, excuse me, though their valuation is calculated on net leasable square feet. this is indeed an error and would as the letter pointed out have resulted in too high a special tax being applied to buildings. we have amended the rate and method of apportionment document attached to your resolution to fix t
katy tang, had credentials, great experience in the neighborhood, knows her way around here, is an obvious person to serve on the board of supervisors. when it came to selecting mayor ed lee for the interim mayor of 2011, i was one of the persons who voted in favor of mr. lee. my concern was at that time was the process, how a small group of people could make decisions that really should be handled by thousands of people through our electoral process. the lack of checks and balances in the important process means a small minority of people, us, and the interests that are behind us selects who will fill vacancies in the mayor s office or on the board of supervisors. if we approve this measure, it would allow voters to decide who fills vacancy in special elections. then we move from a selection process with a small group of people to a more democratic electoral process, one where thousands more people participate in the process even in small turnout elections. that would be our
nancy, you can name all these organizations that she s worked on and volunteered on and certificatedctionv on ~ and served on and so forth. what s missing on this is what i have seen her starting from the beginning and seeing her blossom to being the leader that she is today. and mentoring many other leaders since then. the thing that struck me about nancy, unlike other people that may be part of larger organization, is she always found time for everybody, regardless of your part of the organization or not. if there is somebody, individual that needed help, she s always there and will always say yes. i can t do it right now, but maybe this saturday at 9 o clock, i ll come to your door steps and ask what s wrong. and i ve seen that over and over again. so, i m really proud to be part of the resolution that we re going to vote on today. you just make everybody proud. thank you, nancy. (applause) supervisor chiu, supervisor yee, and honorable supervisors on the board, thank yo