Mayor’s Nominations for Appointment to the Housing Authority Board of Commissioners and Mayor’s Economic Development Advisory Panel.
Thank you very much, everyone, so quickly, because this is just the announcement in your request vote at the next meeting before the Housing Authority Board of Commissioners. I am pleased to nominate Ms.. Christina mann. I miss my name is the Director of the Housing and Community Development Department for the City of Oakland. She has a master's in city planning from UC Berkeley and a Bachelors in Urban Studies from UC San Diego. She spent. Extremely well qualified. And then for the two nominees for the mayor's economic development advisory panel, where we have representatives from different sectors of our economy. And there were a couple of openings to fill. I would like to nominate Yvonne Jennings, who is the dean of Career and Workforce Education at the College of Alameda. And I would also like to nominate Dan Paretsky with Blue Rise Ventures, and that is the entity that owns Marina Village Business Park, which is getting quite a few exciting tenants in the biotech field, R&D. And these are my two recommendations. So thank you very much for allowing me to put those nominations forward at this time. Okay. And then we will move on to item number three, which is proclamations, special orders of the day and announcements. And I do have a proclamation to read and. And I will start now. This has to do with October being lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer questioning man. Whereas, for 15 years, the month of October has been dedicated to the celebration of the important role lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer questioning individuals have played in creating social