Consideration of Mayor’s Nominations to the Civil Service Board, Commission on Disabilities, Golf Commission, Library Board, Planning Board, Public Art Commission, Public Utilities Board, Recreation and Park Commission, Social Service Human Relations Board, and Transportation Commission; and Mayor’s Appointment to the Rent Review Advisory Committee.
Federation of Mayors nominations to the Civil Service Board Commission on Disabilities Golf Commission. Library Board. Planning Board. Public Art Commission. Public Utilities Board. Recreation Part Commission. Social Service. Human Relations Board and Transportation Commission. And Mayor's Appointment to the Rent Review Advisory Committee. So this evening. I'm not a we're not doing transportation or. Correct. Right. We have one speaker slip. Four Smiley. Good evening, Madam Mayor. Council members. Know you have a big item with the budget on the agenda, so I'll try to be brief, but I just want to. Say in my. Day job I work for the county and I really appreciate. It. Listening to the considered discussion you had. On the body camera item. There's a lot of. Discussion even at the county level about data retention and surveillance policies. And it's very refreshing to see you all. Have that discussion and. The police department stepping up to be. Accountable and setting example for other departments on how to work with a policy body and the community on on those types of things. I understand you're not going to be taking up the Transportation Commission. Item this evening, but I did want. To attend to. Just say that I hope to continue to serve on the Transportation Committee and receive the nomination to. Be reappointed. In the four years that I've gotten to serve with the other commissioners, it's been a privilege to work with them, city staff. And residents in that public process. I've really I've been really encouraged. Growing up here in the on the island and. Working in government for many years, seeing. The active participation of so many residents. At our meetings. For a time, the Commission wasn't meeting. When I started. We started meeting again with. Considerable help from city staff. To make sure those. Meetings took place and the diligent work. Of the other commissioners as well. You know, not every city in our county has a transportation commission. So I think this shows real commitment from this body. Your council, to. Really consider these. Items and. Have community engagement on on transportation decisions. And so that's why I take this volunteer position so seriously, as well as the. Impact it. Has on. Long term environmental impacts due to greenhouse. Gas emissions, as well as improving. Our everyday quality of life as we move about our island. So with that, I just hope to have your ear receive your. Consideration and support to continue serving the city. Thank you. Thank you. So this evening. I will be nominating candidates for civil service board or my recommend my appointments for Civil Service Board, Golf Commission and Rent Review Advisory Committee. And first, I want to say that we had a very good candidates for all of these positions. I am limited in regards to how many I can appoint. So it's actually a really hard process and for some of these. We we would have. I received input from community members staff. And after actually a lot of deliberation on my part. And then and it's time to do the nominations. So for Civil Service Board, I will be nominating Jan Bryant and Cookie Robles Wong. For Golf Commission. There's two seats. One of us. One is a partial term and the other one is a full term. For the partial, I'll be nominating Ronald Carlson. And for the full ad downing. And then the last one is Rent Review Advisory Committee. And for that position, I'll be nominating Karen Lucas. Those will be the nominations. And then they will come back for approval by count by council at the next meeting, except. For the rent review advisory committee that the mayor directly appoints. Okay. So except for a rent review advisory committee and the rest of these commissions and boards. Members of the public may still continue submitting applications. And we are. Rolling out these as we get through them. So some of them you can expect to see come back on the 16th. And also in regards to when their next meeting is, so that they will hopefully have a quorum at all of the upcoming meetings and then after. So in June and July, you should see the appointments for the balance. Yes. Member Ashcroft. So, um, thank you, Mary Spencer. So I would just like to comment. First of all, I appreciated hearing from Commissioner Miley. I have actually been at a transportation commission meeting. I think we did a joint planning board Transportation Commission meeting when I was on the planning board. And I've also had occasion to sit in on a transportation commission meeting. And I would say that this is just the kind of applicant, current serving commissioner that I'd like to see more of. And why is because as you can see, he's young and I appreciate hearing that perspective. We often find that it's almost you know, it's something that takes a lot of time and to be in the midst of a full time career, to have a family and to take time out to serve your community, I think is something laudable. I think anyone who's done a good job in one term as a commission, really, as a commissioner, really should, and by tradition has always been reappointed. And I wouldn't want to think that we're trying to make our commissions very homogenous so that I mean, in terms of maybe opinions and outlooks and, you know, wanting people to just vote a certain way. It goes back to what I said earlier, that I think we as a community, certainly as a council, are better served by a wide array of differences of opinions. And I really do like whenever ever I'm out and about. And people often, you know, young families that have moved down, me meeting, they tell me how much they love Almeida. Love what's going on? Love the development. Added Alameda Landing. I've been hearing that a lot lately. I always say, Well, wouldn't you love to serve your city on a border commission? Go online? They go, Oh, it takes so much time. I just don't have time. So I really hope that we're encouraging people who are already doing a stellar job to to keep doing it and that we will look for diversity of, I know age, geographic location, ethnicity, professions, all those different things. Thank you. Any other member body? Thank you, Madam Mayor, for putting forth your nominees. And in a way, I respect the prerogative of the mayor to make these nominations. I mean, I think there should be some respect to the the council is provocative to approve them. And I hope as you go through deliberations, you'll give serious thought to renominating Mr. Miley. I think he has served the community well. I think it's important to have an independent voice on these these boards and commissions. These are where the issues that we ultimately decide percolate through the community, where there's a lot of discussion, a lot of back and forth, a lot of forming of of policies and recommendations. And then, you know, after we have that back and forth on both sides, you know, we get a chance to weigh in and either ratify those or send them back for reconsideration. So I really respect the job that Chris has done as a as a fellow government staffer. You know, I think he brings a wealth of knowledge and connections to to the position. And I really think he deserves an opportunity to be renominated. And I hope that you give strong consideration to renominating him. And I'm also happy that Cooky Roberts Wrong is going to be on the Civil Service Board. So. Thanks very much for making that that nomination. So any other member comments? I think we have many good applicants that are diverse and I am working with staff and community members on feedback for all of the positions and I actually I do welcome more applications. If there's anyone else that's interested in applying for these other positions, step up, feel free to. And you can always in fact ask staff if you have any questions about what what the position entails or any other members that are serving currently. If you'd like more information, feel free to inquire. All right. That being said, I will. Now, at this point, I'm going to do it during the meeting. Oh, sorry, sorry. We did have two additional. Speakers under oral communications, if we could go back to that. On prior to going to number eight. Okay. And do we have those lips? That's all right. And just so you know, we would just be adjourning the first meeting, but then we have a second meeting. All right, Linda Weinstock and then Ken Petersen.