Have been the president of the league of women voters for three years. Ive been sitting on the board for eight years. When i started my work with the league excuse me basically working hand in hand with the ballot simplification sitting member, whereby i developed the pro and con guide for the league and helped distribute that english, spanish, and chinese. Ive never been to a Hearing Committee meeting because of the nature of my relationship with the pro and con guide meant that i met regularly with adele for briefing. I guess speaking to the residency waiver that im asking for, i used to be a San Francisco resident. I lived in district three, i lived in district two, and as we discussed at great length this afternoon, i had to leave the city. I couldnt afford to live here anymore. I couldnt afford to raise a family here, and yet my dedication to San Francisco continues now with sitting on the board and now acting as the president of the league of women voters, and thank you. Supervisor safai great, thank you. Yeah, no, we often do residency requirements, particularly when we have appointments that have to come from specific bodies. Have you participated in and gone to the process as measures were going to the ballot . Have you sat through that, and are you aware of im sure you are. I just have to ask for the record, because when we did an appointment for a couple of people last time, they made it very clear that you know, youre essentially in some ways giving up about a month of your life, which is condensed into one period before the ballot, so is that something you can commit to, and is it going to be okay . Yes, i can commit to it. I would like to echo mayor supervisor safai agnos. Agnos, thank you. Its been a long day, call to this committee to the grboard supervisors to help dissect measures before they are brought to the ballot. 26 measures in 2016, we almost ran out of the alphabet, and that was just a bit too much. For the voters, part of what i do for the league is to help entice voters to participate, not just register, but to actually turn out and vote, and so i would like to echo that call to your committee as well as to the entire board, but know, i have not sat on a hearing for specifically the ballot simplification committee, but i am well aware that it takes all day in some instances, and that it is an entire month that you are setting aside based off of research and attending and hearing. Supervisor safai great. Thank you. Commissioner stefani, do you have any questions . Okay. Great. Can i entertain a motion . Oh, wait, we have Public Comment. Supervisor safai i think theres something going on. Its your theme music. Any other members of the public wishing to comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Thats what happens when your Committee Meeting goes past a certain hour, theres events happening in the hall. So supervisor stefani, can i entertain a motion . Yes, i make a motion to send this out to the full board with full recommendations. Supervisor safai including a residency waiver . Yes. Supervisor safai for seat two on the Small Business im sorry. Im reading the wrong one, for the ballot simplification committee. Okay. Without no without no objection, that item is ordered and moved. Congratulations, and thank you for your continued service. Thank you. Supervisor safai did you get the full language of the yes, yes. Supervisor safai okay. Great. Please call item number 6. Clerk item 66 is the hearing to appoint one member and one alternate member to the joint bay powers authority. There are two seats and two applicants. Supervisor safai we can do it together. Okay. With you lets just do this one, yeah, lets do this one first. Okay. So miss wait, which one item number 6, right . Clerk item number supervisor safai right. So unless theres any initial comments from colleagues, miss nadia cisea, will you work forward and address the commission . Good morning, supervisors, nadia cisea. Its for a number of reasons, particularly with the role im in right now as executive director of the office of Community Investment and infrastructure, and the role we play in partnering with the Transbay Joint Powers Authority as well as acting in consultations with City Partners on developing the Redevelopment Area within the transbay, and the fact that we are responsible for aligning the Assembly Land to produce revenue to finance the transbay Transit Center, as well as incremental state parcels, to fund the ongoing state debt, as wg as ongoing funding for the transbay joint Transit Center. I should note that over the years ive worked on the project in various capacities, and ive been part of the city family thats worked with the tjpa thats worked first to setup the communitys district that was established in 2014, and worked with a in the state, as well as locally to get information done and work with the developers in determining the rate and method of apportionment, as well as working on Creative Solutions to work to fund the gap that was announced in 20162017, so i have been actively involved in the project in various capacities, as well as in my prior position providing the financial expertise and working with the city family to provide a funding bridge funding to meet at least the phase one of the development. And theres still work to do with phase two, so that we know as we know, phase two, the downtown rail extension is still being looked at in terms of the realignment, and that was in the billions of dollars, so there is a role for me and the board to think that Funding Options stis options exist. So ive worked with the tjpa folks on the in terms of all the financial nuances and provisions and sensitivity to getting additional also carrying the same revenues for the loan that exists, so i feel i bring a different skill set to the board. The board is currently situated, including various representatives from transit organizations and public works, and so theres no one thats on the board that has the financial expertise that i will bring to the board, so i look forward to the opportunity to working with my partners and my alternate, so if this committee decides to put me forward to look in the best interests of the citys strategic fiscal solutions, and collaborate with the various transit agencies and various city agencies that would play a big role in this major project of connection between the Transit Center and the 14th kings station as well as the other operators that would utilize the transbay Transit Center, the high speed rail, as well as caltrain. Supervisor safai okay. Thank you. Colleagues, any questions . I think her experience speaks for itself. Now well hear from our second applicant, is director tilly chang. Good afternoon, chair safai. Supervisor safai good evening, really. Good evening, supervisors. Tilly chang, executive director of the county transportation authority. Im pleased to seek your support for my appointment to the seat four, the alternate seat for the same tjpa board of directors. Im happy to present a brief overview although you have it in my application. Im happy to speak to the tjpa, but im happy to serve as you wish. Supervisor safai i think were very knowledgeable of your qualifications, and were happy that this is an applicant and alternate applicant. Good. Supervisor safai any questions for miss chang . Okay. Any members of the public wish to comment on this item, please come forward, you have two minutes to speak. High, happy valentines Day Community members. Thank you so much for reviewing the qualifications of the two applicants we have here this eep evening. Im a legislative aide for supervisor jane kim, and im happy to support [ inaudible ] and tilly chang. The supervisor has known both of these applicants for a very long time, and they both have a wealth of qualifications pertaining to issues relating to transportation and infrastructure. The tjpa board requires a 70 of members being in attendance to make quorum . Being that thats the case, it requires five out of seven voting members to be in attendance to start meeting and to conduct business. Being that thats the case, supervisor kim will be introducing a resolution at the february 27th board of supervisors meeting . That allows the alternate appointed to serve on behalf of either of the board of supervisors appointed members to the tjpa body. We know that voters passed proposition h in 1999 calling for the construction of the Transit Center, and this center was supposed to open in 2017 . Our office is hopeful that with the added leadership of nadia and tilly, that there will be no further delays in the project, and thank you so much for considering them to join this board and we appreciate your time this evening. Supervisor safai thank you. Any other members of the public wish to comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comments closed. Supervisor, can we have a motion . Yes, id like to make a motion to send this out to the full board with positive recommendation with 234 ad nn seat four, and tilly as the alternate. Supervisor safai for the Transbay Joint Powers Authority. Yes. Supervisor safai so moved. Thank you ladies for all your continued leadership as directors and your continued work on this project. Its very important. Thank you. Supervisor safai please call the last item. Clerk item number 7 is an item to accept or reject Melissa Johnson to the Planning Commission for a term ending june 30th, 2018. Supervisor safai please proceed. Thank you so much. Good evening, chair safai, supervisor stefani. Im happy to be the closer this evening, and i really just appreciated all of the testimony today, which resonates with my own personal background and so much of what ive advocated for during my career. I am honored to be nominated for the San FranciscoPlanning Commission, and i am so excited to express my desire and present my presentations to serve. To under my desire to be a part of the Planning Commission, i have to get a lull vulnerable and take you back to a form ative experience in my life. I grew up in queens, new york, and was raised by an amazing mother who worked hard to give me the best of everything, even when it was hard to make ends meet. She believes that getting a best education was the best that she could give me in life, and so when it came time to send me to public school, i remember her doing research on nights and weekends to find the best school in queens to send me to. She eventually found that school, but it was in a district that started just three blocks away from where we lived. As my mom began to describe the district process to me as a seven or eightyearold, i realized that there were invisible lines drawn around certain communities to keep them from opportunity. That realizization has really been a northstar throughout my career in wanting to create opportunities for others. In college, i created my own major in social justice studies, and i wrote a thesis on hows discrimination in housing in the u. S. , including hud. I went onto work for a state representative, where i chaired several interagency working groups on housing development, code enforcement, Public Safety and land use. This is where i really came to understand and participate in the planning process, including those long, nine, tenhour meetings, and its there where i deepened my commitment to developing resource rich communitied for all. I came here to work for green line institute, i worked throughout the state of california traveling from sacramento to bayview, Hunters Point to the inland empire, talking with residents and Community Organizations about how the foreclosure crisis and predatory lending was rachblg ravaging their communities. I used those stories and solutions to bring together legislators, Financial Institutions and other financial stakeholders to create winwin partnerships that invested in those solut n solutions. Fast forward, i have worked with organizations like Tipping Point community, and bringing together multiple stakeholders in our community to strengthen our region. As Planning Commissioner, i want to use my skills to be a translator and community builder, and my passion for equitiable access to Affordable Housing and opportunity, to u unite our Community Around a multitude of backgrounds. So with that, id like to open it up, and im happy to answer any questions that you might have. Supervisor safai thank you. Supervisor stefani . Thank you for your desire to serve our city. As we discussed, your background and personal experience is extremely impressive, but your Actual Experience with zoning and actual land use is less than some of the other commissioners, and id just like to know if you can talk a little bit about how you believe your experience will help facilitate a robust conversation at the Planning Commission as the items come before you. Great. Great question. You know, i would say i didnt necessarily study planning in college, but i have done my homework. I have attended Planning Commission meetings for about a year now. I know actually whats up in the next Planning Commission meetings, the fact that a transportation study is umm canning through, really looking at our longterm transportation and how that affects housing, looking at car ownership rates in our city, looking at retail in our city, and vacant storefronts, which are issues in multiple districts in the region. I also know that, you know and i have worked on the facts that we have a housing crisis an Affordable Housing crisis, and also a homelessness crisis. And i also have a long track record of working to bring different stakeholders from different parts of our communities together to create communitybased solutions. And finally, i would just say that i bring a fresh and new perspective to the Planning Commission, one thats balanced, one that really looks at systems and how we can transform them and how we can make all our processes more equitiable, and so i think that will benefit the commission. Supervisor safai great. Any other questions . Okay. Great. Well, then, why dont we open this up for Public Comment. Any best testimoniers of the public wish to comment on this item, please come forward. In the spirit of valentines day, be concise, be direct, and be brief. Good eepg, supervisors, your meeting stamina is very impressive. My name is ed center. I am a longterm resident of San Francisco, a parent of two kids, one in public schools, a recent homeowner, all is to say very invested in the city. Im here to advocate for my colleague and friend, millicent. I would like to address the question you asked. We worked together two years, and she is an incredibly fast study, and she raises the game of the people around there, if im in a meeting with her, im researching and coming in with game because i know shes coming in with it. I will say that an appointment of millicent is a deep belief in equity. She is the most thoughtful and passionate person around Racial Equity that ive ever met. We Work Together to bring a greater Racial Justice lens to the organization we work for, Tipping Point, which is a Nonprofit Foundation fighting poverty. And as an example of that, milicent convened Corporate Stakeholders who donates money to Tipping Point and was able to move the conversation from money to money and jobs, getting them to hire low income people of color into high salary, secure jobs in San Francisco. I she will bring that passion to this commission, and in concluding, i will say that on valentines day, unlike our child care advocates, i didnt make you cards, and i apologize, but i think elected milicent to the commission would be an act of love to San Francisco. Thank you. Supervisor safai great. Thank you. Next speaker. Good evening. My name is gail gilman. Im the president of housing partnership, and a proud resident of district three. Im here to ask that you send milicent forward with a full recommendation. I had the honor to introduce her to the late mayor ed lee, back this summer, when he was considering making the switch on the Planning Commission. The reasons milicent came to my mind when i had learned that mayor lee was considering putting a new person on the Planning Commission to replace Christine Johnson was her diligence. She looks at all sides of a community issue. She looked at community input, whats best for the city, and she played that role both at Tipping Point, also when she worked at the sharing economy, and her role at the womens collaborative. I am impressed by her dill jeps diligence and thoughtfulness on matters. Her dedication to spend one week one day every week at commi