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Rules committee advances a slate of advisory-board appointments, including veterans, asthma, homelessness and pedestrian-safety nominees
Summary
The Rules Committee forwarded multiple committee appointments — including Michael Thompson for reappointment to the Veterans Affairs Commission, Tiffany Sutter to the Asthma Task Force (with a residency waiver), Ginger Martin to the local Homeless Coordinating Board, Chris Staley to ABAG's executive board, and Howard Strassner to the Pedestrian Safety Advisory Committee — all with recommendations to the full Board.
At its meeting the Rules Committee advanced several advisory-board and commission nominations to the full Board of Supervisors with recommendations.
Michael Thompson, applying for reappointment to the Veterans Affairs Commission, said he previously served four years (two years as commission president) and cited nearly three decades of experience as a veterans’ employment representative for California; the committee moved his reappointment forward with recommendation.
Tiffany Sutter, who identified herself as executive director of the Community Health Resource Center at the California Pacific Medical Center and who described both professional work on asthma management and personal experience as a parent of a child with asthma, sought a residency waiver; the committee approved the waiver and forwarded her nomination with recommendation.
Ginger Martin described community work in the Haight-Ashbury area and runs a business called Mo Peace that offers trainings; Alice Schwalinger, staff to the local Homeless Coordinating Board, told the committee the board is nine members and typically meets the first Monday of each month from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., and that committee members usually chair a subcommittee that meets an additional estimated two hours per month; Martin confirmed she could meet those time commitments and the committee forwarded her nomination with recommendation.
The committee also advanced a nomination for Supervisor Chris Staley to the Association of Bay Area Governments' Executive Board and moved Howard Strassner’s appointment to the Pedestrian Safety Advisory Committee forward; Strassner described a long record of pedestrian-safety advocacy and work on countdown signals and walking-speed standards. All those items were forwarded with recommendation to the full Board.
