ms. tanner today. >> supervisor cohen: i want to acknowledge that supervisor peskin is correct. ms. wilson is leaving. she did a fantastic job. i have the one who nominated her and fully vetted her. i nominated ms. tanner. i hope you will support her. she's in position to serve on seat two of board appeals. you should note that she has served as a senior planner for planning department and has worked for -- she's managed multimillion dollar capital projects and has familiarity with the san francisco planning code which i believe is an asset to enable her to hit the ground running for the first board of appeals meeting which is scheduled to be next week. currently, there are only one other woman, that's commissioner ann lazarus. she's serving on five member board of appeals. this is a young woman of color. she's bringing a fresh new perspective to the board of appeal. i believe she will be able to adequately handle the duties as we see fit as a quasi judicial body. i don't have a law degree. the point that i'm making, we too, sit in a quasi judicial body and don't have the legal expe

ms. tanner to this seat. >> thank you. ok. ms.en thater, please come forward. you can make some remarks to the committee, three minutes or less, that would be great. >> wonderful. thank you, chair safai, supervisor yee. it is great to be here and thank you to president cohen and her staff for nominating me and malia for those wonderful remarks. thank you. it would be my pleasure and my honor to serve on the board of appeals. i really value and believe in public service and have dedicated my life and my career to public service. after finishing undergrad, i worked as a community organizer in my hometown in michigan. went off to grad school and then served at the city of long beach in the city manager's office there and then moved here to san francisco and served for two-years in our planning department as senior planner and now i'm currently serving as the assistant to the city manager in the city of palo alto. so public service is really what i believe in and something i really value. and now as somebody who is not working in the city of san francisco, i have a