>> as i mentioned earlier, i pride myself in being able to work with a wide variety of community members. we have a complicated time line, and it is a disk medical tasks -- is a difficult task, so any way we could incorporate technological processes and other opportunities to outreach to community members will be good. so efficiency. and lastly, accessibility. as an immigrant and a bilingual and hopefully multilingual person, i know that language plays a big role in reaching people, so i would want to make sure that that is present as well in a process that the task force undertook. supervisor kim: a question that came up, since you both live and work in district 9, your understanding of the city as a

whole? >> i have the honor of being able to navigate the city very quickly whenever i have a hankering for a particular cuisine. through that, i have been able to explore vary widely different offerings that the city has. so i am actually one of the people that many people call whenever they have a question about a particular area or neighborhood and they want to have some particular cuisine. they call me up, and i let them know what is good over there. besides that, my work in the bicycle advisory committee gave me some curve you on bicycle- related matters for all differ neighborhoods and districts -- some per view -- soem purview -- some purview. i had the privilege of working with workingco-containers -- working with my co-conveners on

those issues as well. supervisor farrell: very impressive background. i will ask the same question i have been asking -- is is the first commission or appointment you have applied for? >> no, i am on the bicycle advisory committee. i am district 9 representative there. supervisor farrell: aside from that one. >> this would be the first one. supervisor farrell: why this one? >> it is interesting. as i was hearing this earlier, it brought me back to my first experience of being engaged in civic activities. at age 9, i wanted to volunteer on the commission on elections, but they said that i was too young and that i could not do so, so i had to settle for making sandwiches for the volunteers there. since that time, as you see in my professional and personal engagement activities, i have always been interested in really

being part of a process that really engages a wide swath of community members. this is definitely the opportunity that would allow me and enable me to do so. it is also an opportunity to allow me to get to know the city even better than i do now and in a deeper way than meandering around on my bicycle. that is part of the reason why i have been really interested in this. supervisor kim: thank you. any further questions? thank you so much. our last applicant is sarah pearce. is she here today? ok, we did get an e-mail saying that she would not be able to make it. i guess ms. ebora is our last applicant to speak. at this time, i will be opening

for public comment. please line up if you would like to speak. thank you. just to help our clerk who is taking minutes, if you could say that you are speaking for a particular candidate or against in the opening. >> i served on the elections task force in 1995. i was one of nine members, which actually brought back district elections and to the first lines that were approved by the voters. i have not applied at this time because i will be submitting maps to the commission, and one of the things i have been working on is making sure that committee members will not have a preconceived agendas going in. they will be serving as a jury -- a quasi-jury. they will be hearing public testimony and legal advice. hopefully they have an extensive

knowledge of statistics maps and neighborhoods. basically going for the process with a closed mind, and frankly, there were some people on the commission nine years ago that had an agenda. when i was on the task force, three were appointed by the mayor, three by the board, and three by the elections director. we were all individuals. what you found nine years ago was a block of basically four progressives, four moderates, and one person who was kind of close. he will remain an mentioned, but he ultimately voted with progressives, and we have had that results ever since. so i would ask that -- i am action and not speaking in favor or against anyone, but

looking at the criteria language, you should appoint people. first, i heard very little talk about the fact that you have to equalize the population. i think there are only about three people out of the entire batch that suggest that. and it is going to be an arduous task. secondarily, look at their voting in districts. the people have not voted 80% of the elections that are going to be here, that is a case of disengagement from the political process. are they going to be able to fill the hours they need to do? i will tell you, it is an arduous task. then, conflicts of interest. anyone getting city funding or belongs to an organization that receives city funding or a former candidate should not be included. lobbyists should not be included. finally, look at the three people that were appointed by the elections commission. you do not want to have redundancy. you want to basically look at creating a broad-based team that

can work together to bring individual skill sets that make the commission work well. so these are all things i would like you to look at. again, there are only eight people out of the 23 applicants that voted 80% of the time, and i am usually very cognizant of that fact. there were some that voted not once. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you. did you have a question? >> i am 8 no. of market neighborhood activist. i also was involved 10 years ago. as was pointed out, really, the most pervasive impact is going

to occur on district 6. all the other districts have relatively minor changes, which gets you a lot more possibilities. there's a huge difference, with the possible concern of district 9, which has a problem. it gives you a lot more possibilities, and adding a few blocks to your neighborhood is a lot different than hacking away each piece of it, which is a lot of what will happen with district 6. because of that, i think it would almost be irresponsible of you not to put someone on this commission who was knowledgeable about district 6. i guess that if you are worried about statute of limitations issues, you might want to look more towards -- you might also consider jenny lam. she was well spoken, and she does seem to have the elements of community interests. also, rachel ebora from

district 9. i appreciate the questions about mr. hogarth, but when community interest, the works for both parties. it works for both sides. then we get different kinds of supervisors, and while it is kind of dis-uniting, we actually let the board of supervisors decide things at the board of supervisors and work and out there. supervisor kim: thank you. any other public comment? >> good morning, supervisors. i am a resident of district 11. i applaud everybody for being up here because it takes a lot of guts to get up here in front of you all, in front of supervisors, and just put it out there and at times get grilled.

i am speaking on behalf of -- i am really supportive of maria and lupe. this task force is the right place where we could have new blood, new insight, a new generation of community activists that really want to contribute to our city. me, myself, personally, i can understand and feel a lot of their inspiration and vision and their roles on this task force coming from immigrant families. families that are not politically engaged because the countries that our families come from, you get disappeared. we get killed. to us being the new generation, me on the older cusp of the new generation, the being engaged,

being out there. cutting their teeth on community campaigns, building new parks, curbing youth violence, clamoring for affordable housing. i see juanita taking that next step. to see her mature politically and mature as a civic the engage young woman, it fills me with a lot of pride. this would be a perfect place. she might be green in some areas, but that is what is beautiful about this task force. learning from older activists to sickly engage people because she has a perspective that you are not going to hear. so thank you very much. supervisor kim: thank you so much. any other members who want to speak, please line up. >> hello, supervisors. i wanted to voice my support for jenny lam and mr. james tracey.

we believe they exhibit the independence and ability to work with communities of interest. i also wanted to speak on a more personal note for jenny. i have known her since first coming to the bay area six years ago. i have seen her in action and believe that she preserve the ability to both be able to voice her opinion and take a step back in discussions, and i think that is invaluable with a task force that is likely to be very controversial and in a lot of ways require a lot of work and collaboration between the other colleagues. again, wanted to strongly voiced my support for her and mr. james tracey to be appointed. believe it will be independent voices on this force. thanks. supervisor kim: thank you. seeing no other public comment, public comment is now closed on this item. we have actually been in session

for a little over two hours, and i was hoping you will forgive my colleagues if we took a five- minute break. if there are no objections, we will take a five-minute break. we will all come back in five minutes. thank you very much.

supervisor kim: thank you for our recess. we are reconvening. we are an item number four, the redistricting task force. one of my colleagues has said elections commission has appointed three appointees and

there was a question. reno -- we know mr. shiber is in district 7. district two? >> [unintelligible] supervisor kim: we want to get confirmation on that. we want to know there is a breath of diversity, and we know the mayor is concerned of the equitable distribution on the task force as well. at this time, we will open this up for board discussion, and also if there are any of further questions for applicants? supervisor el