connie ford to leave earlier today. she had a conflict, but she ask that i speak on her behalf. she was been with cac since its inception so we have been working together for the last eight years and she's the only original member of the cac that's with us and working hard. she is currently also with the san francisco labor council and she represents a really important voice talking about not only labor but work force opportunities that is a really good priority for the soma stabilization fun. >> next up is christine gogo. >> hello, supervisors. my name is chris, i'm reapplying for the housing seat for the stabilization fund. i've been on the cac for a year and a half now and currently serve as the co-chair along with tom saprona. i'm apart of the eastern neighborhoods cac. currently i work for the city of oakland administering community service block rants for low income families. my background includes working on land use and housing issues in low income areas in the san francisco bay area and in new york city. i've c

i know that connie ford had to leave, but i think for the reasons -- this entire group has done a great job and we need to continue and we need to let them continue to do that work, so i'm happy to support your motion. >> likewise. i just want to thank all the applicants who even wants to continue to serve. any of these committees is time consuming and each one of you were describing what part of things you are doing and so forth, it sounds like you're fully engaged. i would like to support all the applicants also, so without any objection, the motion passes. congratulations. >> okay. madam clerk, can we please hear item number 6. >> hearing to consider appointing two members, terms ending april 27, 2015, and six member, terms ending april27, 2016, to the sunshine ordinance task force.2-0156 member, terms ending april27, 2016, to the sunshine ordinance task force. thr are eight seats and # 1 applicants. -- there are 11 applicants. >> i believe thomas pew. >> good afternoon, chairman and community members. thank you for allowing me to speak. i'm tom, and i'm at the school of journalism a

i want to acknowledge connie ford and tim and brenda, i don't think she's in the chamber today, but there's a number of people that i work with. but there's two gentlemen who has brought me and has speaking the -- i call them the city ordinances whisperers who have been educator and i want to recognize ken and danny from the iron workers. these two gentlemen have -- [ applause ] >> thank you. that was nice, mr. tray, and danny deserved that. but mr. tray, he's an educator through and through to his heart and although i'm no longer one of his students he has been working with me and i want to say thank you. i want to acknowledge the leadership of mike who has been work with me in the last four years and its been quite a remarkable journey and i'm excited to celebrate with everyone today. thank you. >> supervisor yee. >> thank you president chiu. i basically want to express my gratitude to soup adviser campos and -- for offering and allowing me to co-author with a few others. i want to acknowledge the work that supervisor breed and farrell has done to make this ordinance even stronger. i give

connie millstein, the ford foundation, the sloan foundation, deloyte foundation, nikcey.ll these people are leaders. all of these people are leaders who bring together traverse viewpoints to ensure that we can make change. we had to learn from those models. we'll have a great day today, but today is just the beginning. we're going to have to roll up our sleeves and make change at the local, state and ultimately federal level to improve the quality of lives for all our families and ultimately for our economy. so it's my great honor and privilege to introduce jill biden and vice president biden because these are two people who work every day to improve working families and who we are so thrilled to help start out the conference. [ applause ] >> good morning, everyone. >> good morning! >> i think i need some of what tom perez was drinking. he really had that energy, didn't he? it's wonderful to welcome you all here to this important discussion. and thank you, neera, for that kind introduction. everyone here knows the challenges facing working families. i, myself, can vividly

connie millstein foundation, the ford foundation, the lloyd gardner foundation, bright horizons, nekc, all of these people are leaders. [ applause ] all of these people are leaders who bring together diverse viewpoints and ensure that we can make change. we have to learn from these models. we'll have a great day today. today is just the beginning. we're going to have to roll up our sleeves to make change at the local, state, and ultimately federal level to improve the quality life for all our families and ult mittly for our economy. so it's my great honor and privilege to introduce joe biden and vice president biden and jill biden because these are key people who work every day to improve working families and who we are so thrilled to help start out the conference. [ applause ] >> good morning, everyone. >> good morning. >> i think i need some of what tom perez is drinking. he really had some energy, didn't he? it's wonderful to welcome you all here to this important discussion and thank you, nira, for that kind introduction. everyone here knows the challenges facing working families.