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Well, good afternoon, supervisors. My name is janet reilly and i want to thank you for taking the time today to consider my reappointment to the Golden Gate Bridge board. It has been an absolute pleasure to serve on this board and i am just coming off of my twoyear term as president and it was a very eventful two years. I have to say. Last year at the district we celebrated 40 years of providing transit to sonoma and to marin counties to downtown San Francisco. And, of course, the highlight was we celebrated our 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge, which i think we put on this spectacul...

Influence. We can Pay Attention and do our best. But its a special moment when we get to actually individually have an influence and i feel like i did that with regard to this proposal. They had come forward with an idea to charge for parking which is not best practice and wouldnt have raised enough money and wouldnt have served a Good Transportation purpose. I and several Board Members got them to revisit that and tomorrow im meeting with them to look at that again so that we can better manage the parking and raise more money for better public transit. So, that means you wont be charging for ...

To marin counties to downtown San Francisco. And, of course, the highlight was we celebrated our 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge, which i think we put on this spectacular civic celebration that was inclusive of kids and nonprofits, as well as people from all over the state of california and beyond. So, were really, really proud of that. And because of the 75th anniversary, we formed a unique partnership at the district that weve never had before with the Golden Gate National parks conservancy, and the National Park service. So, this allowed us to not only put on a great sell braaeti...

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Golden gate bridge board and i respectfully request your reappointment. By way of my qualifications, you have my resume so ill just summarize quickly. I have two decades of experience in transportation policy. I seek to use transportation policy to advance social justice, strong economy, and sustainable environment. That experience includes being the director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and being the transportation policy director for spur, San Francisco planning and urban research. And a project director for the San Francisco transit riders union. In those jobs, especially in the l...