my name is david wu. i was the person for staff report for advertisement by the commissioner. so i'm a mechanical engineer at the port and project engineer and manager of the project. when we received the documents from the contractors, we evaluated the requirements and experience, etc. ch for this particular contractor, they submit more than maybe 15 references and they've done some projects with the city, including airport of san francisco and -- >> in the area of this, i mean, was it the same type of work? that's what i was trying to understand. >> most of the projects they've done basically are on zero engineering like roads -- i mean, roadways and pavement and facilities. >> okay. so they're general contractors? >> yeah. and also some small amount of -- in the street. so the main thing is they basically supplied the plan to the subcontractor. >> do we evaluate the sub contractors? >> this contractor was working with the port for one of my really big projects. do you remember, the one on taylor street for all those restaurants, down the pier, piping replacement for the who

david wu, south of market community action network. we urge you to please reappoint both commissioners katherin moore and dennis richards to the planning commission. commissioners moore and richards both bring much-needed perspectives to the planning commission, where they look at the impacts of a development or project in a neighborhood or community. while we do not always support their decisions, commissioners moore and richards consistently voice and raise community concerns in addition to community needs. these are aspects to planning that are often greatly lacking in formal planning processes. it's important and valuable and we support both their reappointments to the planning commission. thank you very much. >> supervisor safai: thank you. next speaker. >> cynthia gomez, unite here local 2. the planning commission has seven dedicated members who are dedicated public servants, four of whom are up fore appointment. i'm here to speak about two of them in particular, dennis richards and katherin moore. they're >> disappointed there i

wu w due process. >> i hear you, and what you're saying is you want to hear her this is fair and that's all i think we can ask for. david senator. david? >> senator kennedy. you said that this process historically has been marbled with politics, that was a good phrase. i want to ask you a question i think a lot of people are wondering. this is a lifetime appointment to the court. what's the rush? why have this artificial timeline for voting and getting it done so quickly when there are obvious profound questions. why the need to do it so quickly? >> a couple reasons. first i think we have to accept reality. there are people on both sides of this nomination who are in good faith, there are people on both sides of this nomination who are not in good faith. it's about power. it's about truth or memory or fairness. that's just reality. number two, i have always believed that we should have someone in place by october 1. i don't think it's fair to have people, litigants, spend a lot of money on important questions to get a kiets united states su court and end up with a 4-4 tie. that's not what our founders intended. that's w