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 commission meetings, i will say is dedicatition in itself. I really hope this commission sends her forward unanimously, and i hope she gets a full 110 vote by the supes. Okay. Anybody else wishing to make Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Supervisor . Thank you to those who came out for Public Comment, and i just wanted to say that when i met with milicent, shes got a lot of heart, and i think you can tell about that with someone right away. With that, i would like to make a motion to forward this out to the full board with recommendation. Clerk mr. Chair, we need to amend the motion first to approve the nomation. Supervisor safai well make a motion to clerk make a motion to strike the rejecting language. Supervisor safai oh, oh, is that right. Clerk its a mayoral motion. Clerk you need to make the motion to amend the motion to strike all rejecting language. Supervisor safai okay. So lets make a motion to strike all rejecting language first. Clerk yes. Supervisor safai okay. So thats ordered and moved without objection. Now we can make a second motion. Clerk recommendation as amended. Supervisor safai and recommendation as amended. Clerk okay. Lets try this again. Third times a charm. Id like to make a motion to move the mayoral appointment nominee out to the full board with positive recommendation. Supervisor safai for milicent johnson. Supervisor safai okay. Without objection, that item is ordered moved. Congratulations, miss johnson. As i said earlier today, we had a great conversation. I think the thing thats the nicest at this point, you can clap, theres no one else here. I hope you bring that smile and positivity and it lasts. For all four years, youre on the Planning Commission. Any other business before us on this commission . Clerk that is it for today. Supervisor safai we are adjourned. You. Today, i wanted to kickoff and welcome you to the first every family well forum clapping. compromising is carmen chu currently which this of the family forum we put this event dough went to a lot of Community Meetings and were he and she about families worries and troubles aaron planning for the future and ahsha safai for buying a home and college and retirement and for many of the seniors how to passing on their prompts to their kids. The family Forum Benefits throughout San Francisco im supervisor norman yee representing district 7 people are homeowners fritter buyers and they dont thinks the planning. What youll notice if you walk around todays activities multiple languages transactions available for people in the seminars and 101 counseling and the today, we not only have vendors that have come here the seminars where people are lining about important topics was of most unique pieces we have oneonone free counseling for people so important that people understand about taxes and how you transfer your assets to our next generation because we do it wrong as you may know to lose much money. We did if grassroots on the radio and worked with all nonprofit and partners to get the word out we personally went to Community Meeting to tell people about this event well have a whole line of people that will wait to ask skews im thinking about passing on my property or so glad i can speak but i cannot speak english well we created in first every family forum and hope that will bring a lot of people good information to plan for their future three hundred people signed up for 101 counterand we so hope that is a model for success for the future and hope to do more if we learn from this one to be better the board of education. The board of education, Unified School District for february 19th. 2018 is now called to order. Thank you. Mr. Kirk. Dr. Morsi. Thank you. Mr. Sanchez . Here. Mr. Walters. Miss min. Thank you. The section a is Accessible Information for the public. Open items. We have five tonight. Number one, approval of board minutes. As announced. As it has been announced the past two meetings. The members of the public are reminded that if they wish to address the board of education, an individual can complete a speaker card for the item b column. And present it to the executive assistant. Importantly, according to board rules and procedures, the speaker cards will not be expected for an item already before the board. Superintendent mr. Reid tonight. Thank you, Vice President. And everyone has gathered by now. Standing in for dr. Matthews on one of the rare occasions he is out of town for an educational conference. With the Vice President and myself. Good evening, everyone. I would like to begin this evening by acknowledging that it is february, which is black History Month. During this month, we celebrate the rich history of African Americans in the city and in the country. This month, the students will participate in meeting challenges, they will read as many books by africanamerican authors as they can. They will create art and host events at their school to honour historical africanamerican figures. Although, we celebrate this month with a host of events and activities, our students dont just learn about the history and contributions of African Americans in february. As you may have read in dr. Matthews column, he stated that teachers incorporate africanamerican history into curriculum all year around and at all grade levels. All of the high schools are for ethnic study. The educators work to include all historical narratives in the course work. I would like to announce a highlight to black History Month events. First, on tuesday, february 20th, next tuesday, from the 6 to 8 p. M. Is the 23rd annual africanamerican honour roll ceremony. It will be at the cathedral at 111 goth street in San Francisco. The educators and the African Community request the honour of your presence at our honour roll academic roll ceremony and reception. We will honour 312 grade students who achieved a 3. 0 or higher in the Academic Year. The commissioner received invitations to the event. It is open to all. There is a 10 request for guests. February 24th, from 8 30 a. M. To 12 30 p. M. The 37th annual musical contest. It will take place at