before moving to the san francisco community college board of trustees. again, i think my tenure on the board of trustees demonstrated by ability to reach up to a variety of communities and be aware of the myriad of issues that come before a city body. then of course i joined the board of supervisors. as you know, you have to become experts in a broad variety of issues. i hope that while i served on the board i was able to bring my legal background, having worked in representing design professionals and a large public-works projects as well as some public agencies, but having worked in representing employees who are discriminated against in the workplace. i was able to bring those varied law practices to my work on the board, where i had an open-door policy. as a member of the port commission, i will be able to continue to reach out to the broad communities of san francisco, to be open, available, and transparent in the work, because we have quite

a task before us. as a former member of the board, i recognize how important it is to keep a strong dialogue with the board so we all know what is happening as we move forward. this will be a fast-moving project and we want to make sure it is done right to benefit the city as we move forward. supervisor campos: i do have a question for ms. moyer, if i may. one of the things that i wanted to know about was the current makeup of the port commission. my understanding is that there are usually five members. i am wondering if you can talk about how many you have currently. i know there are a number of things that need to happen in a very short term. so the issue of making sure the port commission has a quorum is something i am definitely worried about. >> thank you. for the record, monique and moyer, port of san francisco. thank all of you for your tremendous support in helping us work through a myriad of details

on the america's cup. it is going to be something for the generations, i think. it is not going to be easy. it is going to be complicated. with respect to the port commission, there are five members. there have been vacancies since july 1, actually, when the maid terms expired and the 60-day hold over. expired. -- when the may terms expired and the 60 day holdover expired. i am concerned about another delay. we have so much work to do for the america's cup. the sooner we can get everybody up to speak, the better. all of us as departments need to submit our budgets to the mayor's office. we are one of the budgets that go early. we start our budget hearings in early february. i do not know how much of a delay this is. going forward, there are

budgetary impact on the part by the america's cup that are not routine. if i could compel you to think about that, it would be very helpful. the port's business is extremely complex. a look in my resin they would tell you that i had very little -- a look in my resume would tell you that i had very little experience in the business report does, but it takes somebody who is committed, engaged, and able to do complex thinking, but also to be in coordination with the community. that has been really important to us with commissioner fong, commissioner brandon, and many others. we've been fortunate to have a good breed of commissioners. but those empty seats are important to us. i hope that answers your question. supervisor campos: thank you. supervisor alioto-pier: i am curious. i know that crowley was just put on and is new. i believe the commissioner

brandon came on two years ago. >> a year ago. she will be finishing up her first year at this may, the first year of a four year term. supervisor alioto-pier: commissioner lazarists has two more years? >> yes. supervisor alioto-pier: for my own thinking, we have three solid commissioners through the america's cup currently. >> through 2013? yes. at least through everything we need to do by our deadline. supervisor alioto-pier: i am asking the question to make sure we do not have someone else -- anyway. thank you. supervisor dufty: i briefly wanted to add some welcoming remarks for supervisor katz and think lesley for incredible service on the board. i was a board aid and worked in neighborhood service during her tenure, and she was an incredibly substantive member of the board.

be she did an incredible job of bringing those business interests together with the city, helping us understand it, really being mayor brown's point person. with the transition to district elections as a proud resident, there was a longstanding supervisor, and not often in public life do you see someone get back and accord someone that respect that tom was deserving, not seeking to just pick up roots and move somewhere else, although probably over time, she did come to live in my district, but i just sensed that lesley is really an incredible member of the public family in san francisco and a longstanding

member of the democratic central committee, someone who did not just get on the central committee in order to get somewhere and let it go. she stayed there as a stalwart democratic and someone who has made a significant contribution. i know so many people in the community have reached out to me, to be sure that i knew how important it was to see someone of her accomplishment, someone of her integrity, and someone of her capability have this opportunity. supervisor mar: i was just going to thank supervisor katz as well. i appreciate your interest. i think you would bring tremendous depth of experience to the commission, especially during this critical america's cup period. i see you as a problem solver, but also someone who believes in strong community engagement, community relations. you were also one of the

nominees today that i'm supportive of, and not continuing, especially given what monique just said about the need for as full report commissioned as possible as we move toward the america's cup. i appreciate your enthusiasm as well. supervisor campos: thank you. i know we're going to take public comment, but i do believe it is important to us to make sure that we have as full a complement of that commission as possible, and i think that the sooner we act on any of those vacancies, the better. what a better way to do it than with someone who has the experience of having served on this very body. why don't we open it up to public comment? is there any member of the public who would like to speak? please come forward. we continue to be joined by the commissioner of the board of education. >> briefly, i wanted to thank

you both for your service, and i feel lucky to have senior here today and be able to express that, so thank you very much, and good luck. i also want to let you know that i'm supportive of leslie katz in all of her public service. i think she would be a wonderful complement for commissioner, at -- to the current four commissioners, and particularly at this crucial time, we need someone with that experience and with the ability to negotiate and understand public service, private sector coming together for such a big event, but there is a theme, for me, that means true with lesley, as it also has done for the other appointments

that i'm here to support today. mr. courtney, ms. bridges, and ms. katz has an incredible an uncanny ability to reach across the boundaries of political spectrum, community spectrum and engage in the discussion in the argument in the conversation, and that is why i'm here standing before you to support her. i wanted to let you know that i'm in support of her nomination. thank you very much. supervisor campos: 9 you, commissioner. next speaker please. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i've been a resident of san francisco for 55 years, and for 24 of those years, i've been a supervising deputy attorney general. i've done litigation, appeared before many boards and commissions. i know lesley professionally and personally, and i have to give

you full disclosure -- she is my daughter-in-law. there are probably not very many mother-in-law's who would come before you advocating for her daughter-in-law, which shows what a quality person you have before you, and i volunteered for this. leslie is a fantastic person, the most competent professional person i know. there is a running joke in our family. anytime anybody need something done, call lesley, and she gets it done. you have heard from her, and i've heard from you. she's enormously devoted to public service. she's worked tirelessly in all kinds of things with no compensation at all. she loves san francisco, and i know she wants to do everything possible to help san francisco. on a personal level, she is just a wonderful person, would be fantastic to work with. she is very collegial, very easy to get along with, and i would

enthusiastically add my voice to all of you who supported her nomination. supervisor campos: thank you. is there any other member of the public who would like to speak? yes. >> sue hester. may 1, there were three seats open on the port commission. the mayor did not do anything with them for an awfully long time. then one commissioner moved on to i believe the fire commission, and after he had been confirmed, the president of the board commission was surprisingly moved to the planning commission. that shocked everybody. we have had these rolling vacancies. this is the last appointment made by the mayor on this very powerful, extraordinarily important commission. at the beginning of this

hearing, you said you were going to defer making a lot of decisions. this nomination was made the first of december. this hearing was notified thursday. for today. no one knows about it. you have to be really obsessive to find out about a hearing over a holiday weekend. i really think that's a port commission, given its magnitude -- there should be a little bit more thought given to it so that people can have a chance to really raise issues, and you can ask the full range of questions. i do not see why this has to be voted on tomorrow. that is my point. thank you. supervisor campos: thank you. is there any other member of the public who would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues?

supervisor alioto-pier: i would like to make a motion to send this forward to the full board as a committee report with approval. supervisor campos: we take that without objection. thank you. madam clerk, is there any other business before the committee? >> no, mr. chair. supervisor campos: thank you very much. the meeting is adjourned.

mayor newsom: thank you all very much for taking the time to be here. i'm grateful and surprised by the number of people that actually showed up. i'm grateful for the number of people that took the time to be here to watch a number of your friends and family members and get to some various boards and bodies.

this officially will constitute i believe my last public swearing in as mayor. there may be one or two people that i will be swearing in quietly in the mayor's office, but we are running out of commissions and running out of commissioners and boards, so i'm grateful that you took the time to be here for this. i thank supervisor dufty, supervisor elsbernd for also taking the time to be here. how about a giant round of applause? [applause] i want to thank a number of department heads.

the press secretary and other commissioners, i want to thank matthew for all his hard work getting the commissioners to give up their resumes and in some circumstances, give up their tax returns so we can find out more about you -- not literally. i am grateful to be swearing in a dozen or so of you. the arts commission, the asian art museum commission. i will have some editorial comments in a moment. the finance corp., the golden gate bridge district, golden gate park concourse authority, graffiti advisory board -- and there is a story attached to that -- housing authority commission. small business commission, and the south east community facility's commission. briefly, i see p.j. johnson is the president of the arts

commission who is here, and i'm pleased that kimberly striker is more publicly going to be sworn in, and my old friend who is going to move over from the department on the status of women and has long had an artistic bent and passion and history and background, and it seemed appropriate that we took this opportunity to appoint dorca to the arts commission. i happen to think that our public arts scene in this community has improved dramatically. i was pleased to see something highlighting one of those pieces, but i'm very proud of the work that has been done over there, and i certainly hope and expect that we will be doing all those wonderful things for this neighborhood, but never forget the quality and imagination we strike when we probably right and opportunity to access in any

meaningful way that challenges, ignites, and excites them, and that is why having these big, bold pieces of public art i think is so important to our city and provides a framework at least symbolically, not just substantively, people can appreciate the great history of the arts in our city. the asian art museum, at work and victoria both be reappointed -- i joked about that. we have work to do over there. great things are happening. when we say world class, it tends to be a widely overstated phrase, but you talk about collection. there is simply not a collection in the western world as broad and deep as the asian art museum collection. it is truly an extraordinary collection. the challenge is it is in a beautiful building, and as great as that building is and as beautiful as the civic center is, it sometimes gets lost to

those other cultural icons throughout the city that are in areas that are more accessible to people, at least they believe them to be more accessible. the challenge for the asian art museum is to build its foundation and to provide some new -- i see jay who is here, the director -- the opportunity to take more risks in terms of how we rediscover the museum and get people to appreciate the extraordinary work that has been known over there in its leadership, so i'm excited about what you have been done. that is why you are being appointed back. we hope to have some announcements very soon about the asian art museum and its stated future. a lot of work to be done behind the scenes, as you know. finance corp. -- this is interesting. i'm pleased they are both going

to take the mantle to serve on this corporation. this is a big deal. thank you for being here. [applause] the finance corp. was conceived as sort of a watchdog group of folks that could make sure -- that is why not yet as to say you wonder why these people are year. there's a connection. to make sure that we are being good fiduciaries to the work that is being done in this city that is being sponsored by the people and their support of our municipal bonds. there have been questions in the past -- distant past -- that we have not always been doing what we could be doing, and that is why this was conceived. so it does not get as much attention as it deserves, but it is incredibly important. that is why i called ken and arnold up and asked if they would be willing to serve on this body, because it is an important body.

so i'm very grateful. i have known arnold for many years, and i have admired and appreciated his commitment to this city. he knows more about their brown and jordan and feinstein am i ever will, as he has been a friend and served in different capacities formally and informally for previous mayors. i'm very grateful for the role you will be serving. can cleveland -- you are always saying we need to be they of fiduciaries, so why not put the watchdog group, and i know all the members of the group, and i appreciate your willingness to serve. john, how many years have you

been on this board? a long time. he was laid off a few times, but he keeps coming back. i guess that is the real story. but i told john his only job -- i'm going to leverage you publicly -- i said i'm going to be a poignant, i want one thing -- i want to walk up the table of the golden gate bridge -- if i'm going to be a point you. i conditioned his entire reappointment on that, i expect publicly there is going to be some announcements. spend the day with us, so i said i'm happy to do that, so i'm happy to walk up with those men and women.

i still want to do that. there is two more directors. i know. i'm very pleased as well. stephen, an old friend of mine -- not a very old friend. we got to know each other just a few years ago, but he works with the giants and has been very involved in community work and doing other things before that, and is just a passionate enthusiast of our recreation and parks system, and it was one of those things are you said, "my gosh, what about steven to serve on the golden gate park's authority?" and he kiley said yes, and i'm very pleased you are willing to do this, so thank you. you are going to be outstanding. there was a column in the "chronicle" which i thought was interesting, about someone, and i will not get into the

particulars. you can read the column if you are interested -- who went out there -- i do not want to belittle what the column said. what do you call those fancy shoes? manolo or something. i purposely did not remember that, so i do not have to at home. some fancy shoes and fancy outfits, and she was out there cleaning up graffiti, and she sort of made an art of it because she does some serious work in the real estate world, some fancy work, and she drives a fancy car and gets out there with big cans of paint. they are in the back of a car, and she just stops everywhere, middle of the street, double parks, whatever, and jobs out there and will clean out your graffiti. i thought maybe there was something right about her. maybe there was something wrong. so i had to check. i realized it was hollow.

i had known her over the years and did not connect the dots. -- i realized it was paula. kurd of like you are going to sit there telling us we can do a better job -- how about this? we have this position somehow that was vacant on the graffiti advisory board, so we said how about that? she said yes and went on to tell me more about the -- anyway, she was already on the job. i thank you for your hard work on this appointment. kind of, i don't know, interesting circuitous way onto this board. but good luck. but now, you are part of the problem. not just books at city hall. housing authority commission, dorothy smith. this was interesting -- we had a public process for this commission. there is always a public process, so we decided to dig deeper into public housing, and

we had a very specific slot for a certain type of commissioner, and we interviewed a bunch of folks, and we found the perfect person to serve on our housing authority. you all know how exciting housing authority is, right? they are going through a complete reinvention, out there, starting at hunters point and moving out to sunnyvale, and eventually alice griffith. completely real imagining public housing. -- completely real magic in public housing. we keep putting band-aids, and is just failing more efficiently. we put up $95 million of city money. people do not fully appreciate -- $95 million in bonds the city put up to build this public- private partnership. we're finding that will dollars,

state dollars that we otherwise would not have discovered had we not have the courage to put that deals together. so it is an exciting time in public housing. and no, public housing is not what it should be, and, yes, a lot of us should be ashamed that we allowed it to go this long and thus far, but that is a national issue as much as it is a state and local issue, but the state is stepping in where the federal government walk away, and dorothy is going to be a big part of that. i'm grateful you said yes and your name into this mix. so thank you. small business -- steve adams. a small-business advocate. he has friends here. he is just a great guy. i think all the supervisors know steve well, really committed to the mission district and stepped up in some creative ways to create a little miniature community benefits district there and has always been out front supporting our small business week and our small business commission, our small

business this, our small business that period has been an informal adviser on this position. a number of months came up, and we called in -- call him, and he said yes on the spot. it has just taken months to get here, and swearing in, but i'm grateful for your service. finally, the southeast community facilities commission. we have known bridgette for years. this is it, because i know you guys are hungry. almost lunch. it is a wonderful facility, but it is underutilized and needs to be completely be imagined. and we need to really gauge the community -- we need to reengage the community to reimagine this facility. as the she could do that in an appropriate manner.

so that is the lineup. now, for the swearing in. this is rather easy. all you have to do is raise your right hand. you appropriately if you would like, to stand just because it seems more formal. what i will do is i will say "i" and then you will state your name, and then entering such time as you hold the position of, and you will say, "small business commission, blah blah blah." got it? this is not as hard as it appears. please raise your right hand. please state your name. >> [inaudible]