i do recommend dr. loman but i am okay with keeping all the incumbents. >> i, too, would like to show my support for dr. loman for seat 5. >> so i would like to make sure that we have, we keep a district 11 resident on the commission and i do believe in terms of geographic spread of where commissioners come from, there are very -- she would be the only one from the southern part of san francisco. i think from close to the southeast part of san francisco i don't think there's anyone from the southeast part of san francisco on the commission, so we'd like to be able to keep her on there -- sandy sherman, she is a district 11 resident. >> may i speak on -- i'm a little concerned about supporting sandy sherman she did miss several meetings and not reaching out to the office. you heard me ad nauseam about this. it is easier for me to support dr. meg loman >> i did mention last year she had some health issues and that has now passed, but she -- that was the reason for her absences. i can't speak about her outreachi

to support hillen in seat no. 1, sullivan, seat no. 2, kita, seat no. 2, flannigan, seat no. 4, dr. loman, seat no. 5, hillsen, seat no. 7. >> okay, supervisor tang. >> thank you. i would say again although i am more familiar with dr. loman's work and i think she is incredible, i do understand supervisor avalos's desire to have a district 11 appointee on this, so i am willing to cede my recommendation for seat 5 to miss sherwin again with the understanding that i believe dr. loman will toipb do amazing things in the community and really around the world. even without her presence on this council. >> okay, well, i really appreciate that and given the comments from supervisor cohen right now i think we can get consensus on that as well. so if you want to make that motion, if hillen for 1, sullivan, 2, kita, 3, flannigan 4,. >> through the chair, make that recommendation with a positive recommendation to the full board of supervisors. >> i second that motion. >> okay, colleagues, thank you very much, i appreciate your flexibility and we'll take that without objection. okay, we have one more

dr. meg loman, who is also a close colleague and a friend of mine. from my day job at the academy of sciences, meg is our chief of science and accountability so she is our head scientist. we are one of the leaders in propriding stem education and support to both the children and teachers of san francisco. meg is one of our primary leaders in that effort. beyond this, the academy is very active and involved in serving this city and we put a significant amount of our resources to reach the underserved and underrepresented communities. we are one of the leading employers in this city of individuals with disabilities .d one illustration of meg's work align these lines is tree climbs. i know we have opened this ub opened this up to the public and supervisor tang went up our big tree, it's more than just a big climb, it's studying the health of the tree. she also has had people with disabilities up in that tree. we have dedicated apparatus up in the tree. so this is an important aspect to embrace urban forestry. outside the academy, meg is well known by he