president bermejo has been terrific in the last year. in addition for all the work she does for the commission, she's a great spokesperson for the commission. she makes sure that necessary lejs are represented as important measure -- lemgs lation are represent -- legislation are represented as important measures. >> thank you. i just wanted to say that i did the ordinances -- [inaudible] >> -- embellish or try to edit in creative ways, so thank you for that. >> is there any further discussion on this nomination? >> i'll chime in. i think one of the things that president bermejo does, and i can tell that even in my short time on the commission, she's a great connector. and her positive energy is just obvious, and she made this very new commissioner feel very welcome and very connected, so i'm happy -- i didn't move quick enough so second, so i'm happy to provide a second second. >> okay. thank you, commissioner sullivan. thank you. i appreciate that. >> all right. >> just real quick, if i could, if i could do the third second. i really th

the second page is the letter from our commission president, commissioner bermejo. if you read through the letter, you'll see kind of the list of highlights and milestones and a guide to the subsequent pages as we go through the notable events from 2018. some of our most notable events was filling out our roster of commissioners with the appointment of mike sullivan and the appointment of commissioner eddie ahn who added to the decades of experience that we have on the commission on the environment. commissioner ahn brought that nook between social justice and labor to our commission, and commissioner sullivan has deep knowledge of our city's trees, and so that definitely expanded the deep knowledge base that we already had here at the department of the environment. and we needed that deep knowledge base because of events like the global climate action summit, and the commissioners definitely helped extend the reach of the department, of our city's elected officials, of the city's capacity to host visiting nations, visiting cities, del gats from all around the world