mr. peter cohen who we've done a lot of work with together in san francisco and has been serving for -- since 2011, so for about four years, so my conflict is that you've been serve ining this capacity for four years and have a tremendous body of knowledge and information but i'm afraid that the connection of your knowledge and body of information is not connecting to the community that needs to experience and can most greatly benefit from that knowledge, so i don't know what to do, so -- >> supervisor tang? >> through the chair, i would just say that again, mr. loftman did reach out to our office, as he shared with us, he does have 25 years of experience and the cdbg funding, and all of that, that was really attractive to to me, he understanding that structure, his day job working for the oakland housing authority, he is out of the country, he's someone i'm interested in having sit on this committee but i think we're all in agreement with ms. hall. >> let me ask a question. >> supervisor cohen? >> is it possible to move ms. hall forward and reserve -- i don't know if this is seat number 2 th

mr. peter cohen. who is actually reapplying. >> thank you, i guess good afternoon now, supervisors, peter cohen, and thanks for your consideration on my reappointment. just on a personal note because i want to stay there, it takes time for all of us who serve on these mitt taoe, i have two kids and i'm active in my own community, and i take to this particular committee, it's not a policy committee, you're trying to connect with people. we're hearing people's stories and it's important for us to think about that through our own personal lens. i was first appointed in 2011 to essentially replace a jenlts man called renne who passed away the year prior who is a housing advocate and it wasn't possible to fill his shoes but the role i've tried to play on this committee is being kind of a housing expert and understanding the array of housing programs and the housing that we have in the city and picking up on that perspective renne brought and it continue tos come back when we have community meetings, what's

first off, i really want to support peter cohen who has come for reappointment on the committee. mr. cohen as you heard from his remarks [inaudible]. >> i also did like hearing from ms. hall and her experience and i absolutely agree with supervisor avalos and that it could be a great forum for her to learn about how funding decisions are made and how it is that we can better bridge sources to communities that need it. in termser of looking at what this committee does, i know that a lot of the decisions that are made has to do around funding and how you allocate grants, so i do see how mr. stafford could bring with his background with his strategic planning, background, some value to the community as well and someone who did not appear us before, mr. loftman, i really liked his background and what he brought to the table. he did reach out to our office and i know he couldn't make it because he was out of the country but he's someone who has expertise in affordable housing finance, he works for the oakland housing authority, so i think he brings a good perspective to the committee, so