ms. brinkman's candidacy and know she will be a tremendous m.t.a. board member. supervisor campos: thank you super size visor mar. i agree. i think this is a very solid appointment. i do think that the experience that she brings is one that will be very youthful -- useful and i do hope that we, as a board, work closely with ms. brinkman and all the other commissioners to figure out how we can move this agency forward. i will be supporting the nomination but let me say that the problem that i have is not with the nomination itself. i think the nomination is a solid, as solid a nomination as we can have. the problem i have is with the structure that we currently have at the board of the m.t.a. i do believe that the current structure, notwithstanding some exceptions, i point to commissioner oka as one of those exceptions, the current structure does not, in my view, provide for the level of accountability and independence that is needed. i think that until that structure changes, that we are going to continue to have some of the same problems. we are going to continu

ms. brinkman, let me say i'm strongly supportive of her nomination an think she would be a tremendous progressive visionary on the m.t.a. board and i think it's one of mayor newsom's best appointments and i hope to see many more like it with tremendous background in

ms. brinkman, let me say i'm strongly supportive of her nomination an think she would be a tremendous progressive visionary on the m.t.a. board and i think it's one of mayor newsom's best appointments and i hope to see many more like it with tremendous background in improving our neighborhoods and city. to the points, and i know ray from years from rap high school and working with low-income kids, and really turning their lives around, and mr. steve also from labor video project that informs so many of us of labor struggles not just here around the world. i totally agree that m.t.a. board needs to be restructured board needs to be restructured and governance