Consideration of Mayor’s Nominations for Appointments to the Civil Service Board, Commission on Persons with Disabilities and Social Service Human Relations Board.
a while. And now we're going to talk about the concept of landfill obsolescence. So the recycling plan is currently in the process of being updated, and I should have more to provide as that's taken care of. Thank you. Great. Okay. So then I will move on to Item 10-K, which is the last of my board and commission appointments. I have done lots of interviews, but I've enjoyed them all because as I've said more than once, we have amazing residents. And so here are my three boards and commissions that I'm filling vacancies for. The first one is the Civil Service Board, and I am recommending there's two terms or two openings that I'm recommending that the incumbent, Troy Hayes Murphy reappointed. And Mr. Hosmer is actually a retired Coast Guard commander and has been a valuable member of this commission and would like to spend another term, serve another term, and we would like to have him do that. And it was we had amazing candidates. It wasn't easy to choose, but I have selected April Madison Ramsey as my as my appointee for the new position on the the Civil Service Board. And Ms.. Madison Ramsey is an attorney, an amazingly qualified attorney. She currently is on the staff of legal counsel to the Stanford Medical Center, which is besides Stanford Medical Center, Stanford Hospitals of the SEALs, Salter Packard Children's Hospital, Family Medical Center and more. She was senior counsel to Dignity Health before then, where she handled employment, litigation and risk management. She has a very full resume, but a few highlights that are very relevant is she's worked in the Oakland City Attorney's Office and also in the San Francisco city attorney's office where she served as legal counsel to the Civil Service Commission. So you can imagine the Civil Service Commission in a city city county the size of San Francisco is a pretty big deal. But she is happy to volunteer to serve as a. Member of the Civil Service Board in Alameda. So those are my two appointees for that board and then the Commission on Persons with Disabilities. Again, just a very inspired group that applicants. And so I am these are my appointees. There were three openings to fill. So Arnold Berlinguer is the incumbent and Mr. Berlinger is a former schoolteacher. He's a former school principal. He is is in a wheelchair because he's lost a leg. He is an advocate for disabled individuals. And when it's not times of COVID, he is a frequent user of public transportation. But he's just you know, he's in a vulnerable category. And so he's had to curtail his use of public transit for the time being and also reappointing another incumbent. Her name is Jennifer Linton and Ms.. Linton, like my other appointee, Alison Mullings, they're both parents of children with special needs. What if the child has had special needs since toddlerhood the other because of circumstances became disabled as a teenager. And but yet they're passionate advocates for their children and bring so much awareness of what it's like to just navigate through daily life in school and living circumstances as someone with disabilities. So we are happy. I am happy to nominate them, introduce them to you for my nominees to the Commission on Persons with Disabilities. And then we have our very busy. They're all busy. But the Social Service Human Relations Board, you heard from Ms.. Baptiste earlier, they're going to be doing some more work, looking into programs around homelessness. So I am pleased to reappoint the incumbent, Christine Chilcote. And Christine, chocolate is well known around town because she is the executive director of Girls Inc of the island city. She also has worked closely with the school district on the mental health awareness programs and the studies and assessments that were done of the mental health needs in our school district. And so she is and she has a master's degree in education and so and reappointed is Chilcott and they are very excited to appoint two newbies and one of them is create and then create. You might have met her because she's the mother of what is the Butterfly Girls. You remember the Butterfly Project, but pretty impressive. In her own right, she has an undergraduate degree in biology from UCLA, a master's in public health from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. She's currently working in Oakland in a program called Starting Oakland Starting Smart and Strong, which is a cross-sector early childhood collaborative focused on improving urban care in education in Oakland, especially in the most underserved areas. She has worked in the city of Oakland, Department of Human Services and the Violence Prevention Unit and in Headstart. And she brings a wealth of skills to the set of Social Service Human Relations Board. And then we have Mr. Anthony Lewis, who has worked as a vocational rehabilitation counselor for the state of California, assisting people with severe disabilities to achieve employment. He's retired now, but he is a volunteer with the Institute on Aging and help staff their San Francisco call center. And so he was telling us about how they're definitely hearing from seniors, many of whom live alone, who are experiencing loneliness and depression from the shelter in place requirements. And he's also a member of the Paratransit Advisory Committee of the Alameda County Transportation Commission. Mr. Lewis is also blind, and so he is a also a frequent user with his golden retriever of public transit. And I said AC Transit and he said all forms of transit. So those are my. Nominees to the Social Service Human Relations Board at our next council meeting on October the 20th, you will have a chance at the opportunity to meet them and to vote on them. And so then Councilmember Odie 410 be that you kind of give us your stop waste topic three. Yeah, I think so. I apologize for news out of Turkey. You know, it could have been a council communication. So I would say with that that end and we will adjourn this council meeting at 11:00. So well within the same day we started. Thanks, everybody. A lot of work. A lot of good work. Thank you for your time. Take care. Stay safe. Let's see at the next meeting. Thank you, staff. Great job. Good night. Thank you so.