schools, and they are impressive. we don't have any questions at this time. i do want to know that you are also a certified arborist, you are also qualified for seat 3? >> i am embarrassed to confess that my certification at this point, although i am qualified, it has technically lapsed because mike continuing education has not been kept up. far and away, i can say -- supervisor kim: that's ok. >> i don't spend my day to day work as an arborist. i have to make that clear. supervisor kim: thank you. next is bonnie, applicant for seat one.

i wanted to recognize that you were not able to be at the last committee meeting. i want to thank you for your service on the forestry council. >> i would love to be able to continue to use of. i am sorry i was not able to be here in the march meeting. i have worked in developing a link for a living library in chinatown to link with the san francisco's chinatown. i have over three decades of experience as an educator. planting and maintaining trees, [unintelligible] beginning in the mid-70s about

an arts center that resulted in a new city park that transformed about 7 acres of their land -- derelict land into -- in those early days, we have and gardens in the middle of the 101 interchange. since then, by nonprofit, the farm was an early life frame. it was used each month at six schools in san francisco in three neighborhoods. exelsior, vernal heights, they are transforming their neighborhood and school campus into a green, and unique living libraries.

two of the branch living library and think parks are part of the watershed. another initiative that i am actively engaged in is developing a nature walk linking parks, schools, housing developments, other open spaces and streets leading to the creek at the south end of st. mary's park. we have already planted over 600 california native trees that have been funded by the california department of forestry. this is just the beginning of the opportunities to frame the watershed that linked at least 11 neighborhoods in southeast and southwest san francisco.

one of the initiatives or opportunities is to develop the urban forest that frames the watershed. i have been working closely and helping them with their plan to look at the watershed. you may have heard of it. i think that this strategy can greatly increase the urban forest, and there are also opportunities to daylight and the creeks in certain open spaces such as parks. i believe that might be understanding, experience, and involvement with watersheds and creeks and underground systems -- in other words, planting trees that like fresh water.

it is very important as they cn an be integrated with public education. this expertise is really significant for the urban forestry council. for a working with and helping advise various city agencies. i hope to be able to work again with the urban forestry council. i understand there is a bit of a conundrum with the current situation. i certainly appreciate my colleagues and wish everyone well. i certainly hope that we could find a way to be back on the urban forestry council to do the work that i do. there is a lot more to do.

thank you very much. if there are any questions you may have. supervisor kim: thank you for your service. we appreciate seeing you here today. next we have made in sutherland -- megan sutherland. >> i'm megan sutherland, i'm a certified arborist and a utility specialist. it is a subset of additional criteria. that is through the international society of horticulture. i went to school in madison for a conservation ecology course that was called the biological aspects of conservation. i have a certificate in environmental studies. i moved back here to the bay

area, and i have been working for a company that contracts with pg&e, actually. it basically supplies pg&e with trees specialists and arborists. i have been working for them for a little over five years now. within that company, a number of different positions. i have spent time working as an estimated harbor as -- and they would contact me so i could work as the go-between between what

they think they need in the city or the home owner or the property owner needs. that would make sure everyone is happy at the end. it is not as easy as it sounds. you have really helped grow that program. i also worked as a supervisor for my company. that was down in the south bay. it was really fun, but i was also shortly thereafter offered -- i taught at the program and make sure that they are doing a good job maintaining all of the

clearance is the need to to make sure that we are not starting things on fire. i go and basically report to pg&e and let them know how they are doing, how their vegetation management program is doing. that is my professional experience. i feel like the experience i have had within pg&e is so broad that i have a very good understanding of what their program entails. there is a lot of history that pg&e has in this city. there has been some conflict. it can only help things because we can see plans that are put forward and we can know if it is going to dovetail or butt heads. we can know if this is going to

be a point of contention or not. it is kind of a unique aspect to bring to this committee. i also have a certified while left protector, and other program that is offered for certified arborist. i think it is another aspect that can have light shed on the outreach of the forestry council. i also have taken courses, i don't know if you are familiar -- supervisor kim: i was going to ask you what that was. >> how to describe it? it is a way of assessing an

organization for the low hanging fruit of how you might optimizes system -- optimize the system. it is involve the maltese the process for you take in a project. you can apply it to almost any situation. but to assess what are some of the shortcomings, how might we approve this -- improve this and figure out a whole circle of steps. it is a much more involved process. it is about to identify areas that can use improvement and taking the steps to make that happen. several training programs focus on that. i can see that it could have a

lot of application there. supervisor kim: thank you so much for being here. are there any follow-up questions for my colleagues? seeing none, thank you again. >> great, thank you. i'm really excited about this, so -- [laughter] supervisor kim: we appreciate the enthusiasm. at this time i will now open up for public comment. is there any public comment on this item? please come up. >> good afternoon. my name is joe, and i'm a student at the college. i'm a first-year horticulture student. when i started last fall i wasn't sure what direction or what i'd encounter at city college, and malcolm is the type of person i had hoped for. he is inspirational.

his base of knowledge in horticulture is amazing. my head is usually bursting after four hours of lecture, so he's very thorough and very knowledgeable. you can see other students being very inspired by this in our class, students much younger than myself. we're going to have very long careers in horticulture, and you just see them being influenced by him. and for the last six weeks of class this semester, we have a team project where we're already going out in the field. we're volunteering as teams. my team has worked right on campus restoring natural plant life, so this is our experience right now. thank you. >> thank you so much for being here. you have some great students.

all right. any other public comment at this time? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [gavel pounds] colleagues, any suggestions or thoughts? we have three applicants for two seats. mr. hillen and ms. shirttor seat one and ms. suths land for seat three. it's my understanding that mr. hilland does not qualify for seat three, since his certification has lapsed. >> thanks, supervisor kim. i think, once again, we have a lot of great applicants here. for both seats. it seems to me that megan is the only one qualified for seat three, so i think that is, at least in my opinion, an easy one. the first one is obviously much tougher. two people who are currently assigned and one person who couldn't be here the last time. that means that in the future we'd love to find a way to get

bonnie back on. but right now i find it difficult, and mr. hilland is a strong candidate to continue to serve and so would support him continuing in seat one and then megan for seat three. supervisor kim: so we have a motion to move forward. mr. hilland for seat one and ms. suts land for seat three, with recommendation to the full board. i see no objection. i just really want to add, again, this is the tough part of being on rules committee is how qualified our applicants are and continue every week at the level of expertise and enthusiasm for the folks that come on for a variety of activities and task forces that have knowledge. i'm not an expert in that area. i want to work with miss sharp on potentially bringing you back in some other capacity. i think in terms of fulfilling the education seat, which is seat one, mr. hilland is

clearly an instructor and teaches many classes seems perfect. ms. sut they areland, it's great to have you, and we appointed another new member and it's good to have new membership on the committee as well. we really appreciate your enthusiasm coming to our commiment. i think we have no objections to this mocks with recommendation to the full board. thank you so much for coming to rules committee. madam clerk, can you please call item number four. >> item number four, considering appointing two members to the in-home supportive services public authority. there are two seats and two applicants. supervisor kim: thank you. i believe that both applicants are here today. i actually think that one applicant informed us she would not be able to be here today due to a prior conflict.

and we have mr. boyd here. please come up. again, both of these seats are re-appointments and they both sit on this committee currently. thank you so much for your service in this committee thus far. >> is that it? >> if you'd like to share a little bit about yourself, your interests on this committee and your qualifications, you can be very brief. >> ok, i'll just briefly impress you. i worked for many years with ed roberts, who is probably the greatest figure in disability history. he was just given a day, all california children and public education and state employees as of this year and from now on will be educated as to his life work. he basically put in-home care and independent living on the map. he was paralyzed from the neck down for 45 years, got a ph.d.

at u.c. after having to sue him in 1962 because they wouldn't allow disabled people to attend higher education. when he died his obituary in los angeles said he was the caesar chavez of disability. washington, d.c. called him the martin luther king of disability. they said he was the national mahatma gandhi on disability. as of next year everyone in california and possibly across the country, as george miller introduced the bill, a national day. supervisor kim: thank you, mr. boyd. at this time we'll open it up for public comment. two minutes. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm patrick from the san francisco public authority. i thought since mike said so

much about ed, i'd say a little bit about mike. mike, as you know, has been on our board for many years. he's been involved in disability politics for about 40 years. he's a home-care worker himself. he was a specialist assistant to ed roberts and traveled all over the world with him teaching disability politics. he's also been a union steward. he represents -- continues to represent the public authority at many conferences, and i wanted to add he also has the full support of -- of staff liaison and also his fellow board members. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you so much for being here. we really appreciate the work that ihsf does for our city. any other public comment at this time? seeing none, public comments is now closed. colleagues, we have two applicant for two seats and we have a motion. >> sure. i'd say mr. boyd, thank you for

your service. i think the motion to move mr. boyd forward with recommendation for seat one and continue seat 13 to the call of the chair. without hearing from someone in person, it's a little bit challenging. supervisor kim: we'll hear from the department, yes, please. >> yeah, i just wanted to add, i think alice wanted to extends to all of you a statement. maybe i could read that. supervisor kim: we actually have the statement, so -- >> well, alice has been on our board for many years. she served and is currently serving her third term as board president. she's a staff research associate at ucsf working on person care assistance and issues. unfortunately, she apologized for not being able to be here today, but she's been a great asset to our board and continues to be, so i'd also like to add, of course, that she has the full support of staff and her fellow board members. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you. is there any issue, if we do continue this item, in terms of

meetings or quorum? i know that she chairs the task committee, for us to continue it to a time where she can be here in front of us? >> i don't know of any. she has a regular job, so i don't know if that was the conflict or what, but -- supervisor kim: ok, thank you. i'm happy to move forward, mr. boyd, for seat one. i'm happy to continue seat 13. and i'm also happy to move forward with the recommendation as well. >> i'd suggest we move her forward. there are no other applicants. if there were other applicants, maybe, but her history would be good, so i suggest we move both names forward with recommendations. supervisor kim: ok. so without objection, we will move forward.

both mr. boyd for seat one and ms. wong for seat 13 with recommendation to the full board without objection. madam clerk, can you please call item number five. >> ordinance amending coordination in the code enforcement efforts of city departments and to establish code enforcement activities. supervisor kim: thank you. we have heard from the sponsor of this legislation that it's his intent to file this ordinance. before that, we do need to hear public comment on the motion to file. any public comment at this time on this item? seeing none, public comments is now closed. may we have a motion to file this item? thank you. can we do this without objection? so we will move this item forward -- i'm sorry. we will file this ordinance. madam clerk, do you have any further announcements? >> no, madam chair.

supervisor kim: seeing none, this meeting is now adjourned. thank you colleagues and members of the public. [meeting adjourned at 5:40 p.m..]