i'm calling for carol isen's nomination. i am a labor union president at b.a.r.t. and have worked with carol for years and facilitating partnerships between labor and management. carol shares the values that my neighbors and i in bernal heights uphold. i support carol isen's nominations of appointment human resources director for the city and county of san francisco. thank you. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker. >> hello. can you hear me? >> chairman: yes, we can. >> okay. good morning chair peskin and the other members of the rules committee. i'm here to urge you to support carol's appointment to the department of human resources director. i currently work at the san francisco zoo as executive vice president of human resources. prior to this, i was with the city and served as g.s.a. and labor relations manager before promoting to human resources director. i also work for p.n.c. and chinese affirmative action. i first met carol back in 1994. we were on staff for 10 to 14 years before carol decided to take a position in leadership. i got to know her very well as a

carol isen is the antithesis. i known carol for 30 years. he says carol nurtures a supportive environment where people feel free to express their concerns. she's sensitive to disenfranchised marginalized community. carol is a highly skilled listener. she enhances any environment where she is present. that is consistent what i heard from others and what i experienced in getting to know ms. isen during this process. i look forward to working with you and working to protect our employees and bring the necessary changes to our city to d.h.r. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you president walton. i think this is a stellar appointment and i'm excited to see what ms. isen will do in this job. in the committee you took strong issue that d.h.r. is broken. it does feel like the city's hire and training processes in important ways are broken. it is tremendously frustrating to see it playing out in department after department where some of the biggest problems the city has are we find solution to those problems frustrated by the number of vacancies that w

it's a motion to approve the mayor's nomination of the appointment of carol isen of the human resources director of the city. pursuant to section 10.103. >> president walton: thank you so much. i don't see anyone on the roster. i do personally want to make a statement. i'm going to actually allow for my colleagues to speak first. i do see supervisor haney? >> supervisor haney: thank you. i did want to see -- i assume that interim director isen is here. i want to ask her a question if that's allowed? >> president walton: that's definitely allowed. >> supervisor haney: thank you director isen for coming forward and for being willing to accept up in this role during this very challenging time. i enjoyed my conversations with you and some of the comments you made. i'm sure other colleagues will speak to this around equity and racial equity within our workforce being really to commit to concrete ways. there was one question that i want to ask you. that's specifically how you challenge around our temporary employees. my concern that i have specifically and we had a hearing around this is, the

director, carol isen, it was a critical point for me to understand that how under her leadership she will put in place sort of a checking mechanism in all levels of city government, you know, from frontline staff all the way to really the executive and city department heads to make sure that the working culture is not toxic, and being able to flag in all levels before it just got to, you know, someone like, unfortunately, our former director, muhammad newer. and even some of the sexual harassment complaints we see from sfmta, it didn't really come to light until there was lawsuits filed, and you see there was already here a pattern. those are disappointing to learn years later. so i hope and look forward to having our h.r. put in place the city government to make sure we check these behaviors before they fester and become a pattern. thank you, chair peskin. >> chairman: thank you, supervisor chan. supervisor mandelman? [please stand by] >> the most obvious explanation and the reason your perjuries ps wouldn't change much, you will get more whistleblower complaints. my other question