i would like to nominate our vice-chair greg harper to svr as chair. it's been great to serve over the last to years to serve on this committee and to get to know director harper who has come back. he was at the founding of this board of directors and the historical knowledge that you have of this project is immense. so i have enjoyed getting to know you, but also appreciate learning from you. and also, i think this will be one of the first or it's been a while since we had an east bay representative >> it would be the first. >> it would be of the first time that we had an east bay member as chair of the transbay joint powers authority and i will make that motion for director harper to be chair. >> second. >> so we have a second. seeing no further comments, i will take from the silence an acceptance of the motion. >> so can we take a roll call on the motion. >> yes, motion to elect director harper as chair of the tjpa and no members of the public wanting to comment on the item, director harper? >> yes. >> are you sure? no, kidding. director kim? >> aye.

. >>> back now with harper who is a mini golden doodle and greg is here with olive, and what is olive> and they are out walking the dogs. and you have to put the mic up close. thank you very much. and so, listen, when you are going through the tough storms here and the blizzard of 2015 a lot of attention is being paid to the animals, and harper is right there, and mommy is right there, and you are back with tom salp and so tom, these guys are out here walking the dog, and he has on booties, and so does olive, because the sand and the salt can hurt the paws right? >> yes no, question about it. when people are out to buy the salt for the driveway or the sidewalk it lwill say pet-friendly, and that is what you want because it can be sore on the pads. right now, with the mountain lion the paw ss, it will be good for them, and they have fur on the bottom of the feet, so it is like a built-in insulation but it sis sensitive. and for the pets at home, if if they are walking on sand or salt it will really irritate them, and then make it harder for them to walk in the snow. >> and greg, do har

greg is still unconscious with a traumatic brain injury. and she learned a heart condition he had since birth is harperring his recovery. it won't pump enough blood. >> he has a lot of wires today but never seen him completely out of this like this. >> reporter: bottom line what did the doctors tell you that? >> he might die. >> reporter: the lowrys with homeless. they have been living in this west oakland encampment not far from the scene of the bicycle crash ever since margaret lost her home in berkeley last year. and now this. >> when he was 10 he had his surgery they took him almost a half-hour to start his heart again after he was off bypass and that was the most horrible half-hour of my life. now it's worse because i don't know what's going to happen. >> reporter: your son is in critical condition. >> yes. >> reporter: a lot of people are upset right now about the robbery on top of that insult to injury. you don't seem focused on that. >> that's petty baloney. >> west oakland is some of the most wonderful people you will ever meet and some of the worst. >> reporter: for example, as unbelievable it is that her son