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Supervisors recommend labor and transit voices for Golden Gate Bridge board
Summary
The Rules Committee recommended reappointments and new nominees to the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District, including incumbent Richard Groszball and labor and transit representatives Sabrina Hernandez, Michael Theriault and Bert Hill for a transit/transportation perspective.
The Rules Committee forwarded four nominees to the full Board for seats on the Golden Gate Bridge Highway & Transportation District, emphasizing a mix of labor representation and transit and active‑transportation expertise.
Incumbent Richard Groszball (board president) and Michael Theriault (longtime labor leader) received strong public support from labor groups and community advocates, who credited them with moving the suicide‑barrier and movable median projects toward construction. Groszball told supervisors the suicide‑deterrent system was due to go out to bid in the coming months and highlighted multimodal transit advances, including ferry and bus ridership increases (SEG 5161).
Sabrina Hernandez, an IBEW business agent and former Golden Gate Bridge board member (served 2004–2009), presented her experience on the bridge's building and operations committees and advocated for workforce inclusion on procurement and project oversight (SEG 4999). Bert Hill, an active‑transportation advocate and former bicycle advisory chair, argued for planning to manage growing non‑motorized uses and tourist flows and supported the suicide barrier and other safety projects (SEG 4746).
Public comment included multiple labor organizations and neighborhood groups urging continued labor representation and transit expertise on the board. The committee voted to forward Groszball and Theriault for reappointment and to name Hernandez and Hill as nominees; the package will go to the full Board as a committee report.
