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Rules Committee recommends six members to Market & Octavia CAC
Summary
The Rules Committee recommended six appointments to the Market & Octavia Community Advisory Committee after a series of applicant presentations and public endorsements; selections were advanced to the full Board with recommendations and several seats were chosen to balance neighborhood representation.
The San Francisco Rules Committee on Dec. 15 recommended appointments to six seats on the Market & Octavia Community Advisory Committee (CAC), forwarding nominees to the Board of Supervisors with recommendations.
Eleven applicants addressed the committee for six seats that will expire Dec. 16, 2012. Applicants described professional and volunteer experience in transportation planning, neighborhood associations, affordable-housing development and community benefits work. Kruti Singha emphasized multimodal access and transportation planning experience; Peter Cohen and Dennis Richards recounted long-term involvement in plan implementation and neighborhood organizing. Other applicants included Jason Henderson, Michael Simmons, Kenneth Wingard and several community leaders who spoke to qualifications and neighborhood representation.
Public commenters and neighborhood association leaders endorsed a number of nominees, citing experience in the Market & Octavia planning process and practical implementation work. Committee discussion focused on balancing representation across neighborhoods (Upper Market, Western Addition, DeBose Triangle/Hayes Valley) and on ensuring technical experience for implementation tasks such as aligning community-benefit timing with development schedules.
The committee moved several appointments without opposition: Kruti Singha (seat 1), Michael Simmons (seat 2), Peter Cohen (seat 3), Kenneth Wingard (seat 4), Dennis Richards (seat 5) and Jason Henderson (seat 6), and advanced the package with recommendations to the full Board. Supervisors said they would continue outreach to fill any demographic or geographic gaps at the full Board level if necessary.
The nominations will be considered by the full Board at its next scheduled meeting.
