neither of the staff or cic make recommendations on pointments. to qualify for appointment applicants must be san francisco residents and appear before the board once. there is a list of 44 applicants for the two vacant positions. they are the result of the term expiration of becky hogue and family obligations. miss hogue is seeking reappoint meant. i hope we have other people to speak to the interest. i will take questions. >> chair peskin: mr. questions for mr. pick ford? >> if miss hogue is here i was going to let her speak first. chair chair i don't see her. >> chair peskin: she has been before the body before. she is not required to testify to be reappointed. >> i will save my comments until after public comment. >> chair peskin: perspective applicants to testify before the commission? please come forward. applican'ts have two minutes. >> good morning. thank you for having me. i am kian. i am seeking to fill the vacancy to number 9. i was born on california street. as an adult i have lived in this great city for the last 15 years. i lived in

. >> the advisory committee reports and pointments? any appointments? seeing none i skipped two because i want to move as fast as we can. item one report from the parent advisory committee. the representative. who is presenting tonight? >> thank you so much. >> thank you. good evening. thank you for having us. i am harry bag on the parent advisory council. the role is to represent the parent voices and perspectives to inform the board of education policy discussions. this represents highlights from the the most recent meeting, response to resolution 1710, 10a1 in support of reducing the assessments. our participation in the planning of the upcoming sfufd data forum. at the meeting on wednesday, november 8th. the superintendent attended the meeting. pac members appreciate the request to provide feedback in the hiring process which we pressed last month. we are grateful to share ideas about the leadership qualities and characteristics for new leader to serve the students with individual education plans and with the responsibility of strengthening the educ

. >> good after, i'm john, and i appreciate your support foray pointment to the second round of this committee to finish the job of updating our inclusionary ordinance to the city and i know the chair is familiar with the work and we want to get it done, thank you. >> thank you for your bev tee and your concise application. [laughter] forty years non-profit affordable housing professional. any questions for mr. eberling? no. i'm make mental against at the end so next speaker we'll call forward is mr. fernando marte. >> thank you, i am with the council of community housing organizations and thank you very much for your consideration for the technical advisory committee i did not serve on the first round but i attended most of the meetings so i feel almost as though i was already a part of it. i think it was a very good process the way it was coordinated by the controller and also the follow-up negotiations that you were involved in and i look forward to being able to work with the set of folks. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> any questions? seeing none. call of our next applican

one, is that there was no indication of foul play at this pointment and that the young man's body was found in a stream at the bottom of a ravine nearly 14 hours after his father first wept to the local police station to find out why his son had not come home. and now 17-year-old navid sepehri also was one of the kids that apparently encountered when they responded to elgin lane saturday night for reports of disorderly conduct and teen drinking and it was 10:30 p.m. and navid sepehri and five other boys were in the street and some in the group scattered and navid sepehri appeared to be under the influence and they confirmed with his friends that he would leave with them. and classmates told "fox5" they lost saw navid sepehri on ban ty ck burn driver seven blocks from party and offered to get him uber and he declined. we also learned navid sepehri father went to bethesda police station at:0 in morning to say his son had not come home. no missing reports report was taken until 12:46 sunday afternoon. they pinged his cellphone when led to wooded area and his body was discovered:58 . all

international affairs at harvard where he hold as joint appointment and if you know harvard, getting one pointment is amazing. to have a joint appointment is nothing less than remarkable and his most recent book "embers of war" the making of america's vietnam will have won a pulitzer prize as well as it frank parkman prize and if you want to learn more, if you havant read embers of war, i encourage you to do that. he's also the it past president of the society of historians for american foreign relation and he's currently writing a biography on john kennedy. i've read a lot but i'm really excited. i can't wait for him to finish his had. so before they come up, there's a 30 second vidio we've been playing that i think we can watch now and then we'll kick off the program. so -- >> never before has man had had such capacity to control his own environment, to end thirst and hunger, to conquer poverty and disease too, banish illiteracy and massive human misery. we have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world. >> come on up, come on up. [ applause ] >> so we're