Mayor’s Nominations for Appointment to the Golf Commission, Housing Authority Board of Commissioners, and Library Board.
All right. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. With that, I'm going to very quickly introduce you to my nominees for the golf commission, which is one position and two nominees for the library board. You will have a chance to meet them and vote on them at our September 21st meeting. And I am elated at what a robust response we have had to announcements of opening on our boards and commissions. People really want to get involved in their community and we have a tremendously talented, very generous community. So I am delighted to nominate Robert Lattimore to the Golf Commission. Mr. Lattimore is about to retire, but he has been working in finance, helping low and moderate income businesses and individuals build their businesses and be successful. And he also has been involved in the first tee program with minority young golfers for many years. He has experience as a PGA marshal at Pebble Beach and also a U.S. Golf Association scorer. He he didn't grow up playing golf and but he started in college and never put his clubs down since then. Then he, I think, will just bring a lot to the golf commission and really excited to nominate Mr. Lattimore. And we have two openings to fill on the library board and I am nominating Miss Dimple Kanji and she is by profession. She's a pharmacist. She actually works at CVS in Alameda where she tells me she's been given lots of COVID vaccines. Hooray for you as a 16 year resident. And she is the mother of a kindergartner and fourth grader who are very involved in the library and library programs and just have participated in all kinds of programs. And she has a lot of great ideas for making the library more accessible to everyone, including geographically, including out in the the West End, where maybe something like a bookmobile out at Alameda Point might be a way of bringing the library to people who can't come to the library. And then I'm also nominating Miss Sarah Strickler, who's a works for Google as a a service designer, and that's a designer of people's experience with various products. And and she spent a lot of time looking at case studies about libraries, how to make them more user friendly, how to make them more efficient and friendly to the staff, to all users, and. Just lots. Of enthusiasm. I love the fact that she's a Googler and she's young and all that, but she loves to just go and sit in the library and read books, actually flip the pages and read books, including cookbooks as a way of relaxation. So thank you. That is those are my nominations to the Golf Commission and the Library Board. It is my fervent hope that I will have a nominee for the Housing Authority Board and also nominees to fill the positions. Vacancies that are coming up on our Commission on Persons with Disabilities when we meet next time on September 24. So thank you very much, everyone. And now we will move on to proclamations and special orders of the day. And so I have a special announcement I want to share with you or news, I should say, which is I know you're aware we're Californians. We know that it seems like half our state is on fire. And there's been some really massive fires and fires that have joined fires and gotten even larger.