kevin johnson has withdrawn for consideration, mclowden has already presented, sandy sherman was doubtful whether she would be able to make it today. rose hillson -- is rose -- here she is. >> good afternoon, supervisors, i brought my public comment letters with me. i didn't want to kill trees but then i provided a package to you, at least the things that i got. you may have gotten electronic emails other than what i have. so those are all my letters and emails. i'd like to say that i was originally recommended, i'm trying to reapply here, originally recommended for the community seat on the urban forestry council by supervisor mar to serve out another member's term and subsequently supervisor farrell, my district supervisor, recommended me. i've been the chair of the landmark tree committee since 2012 and i worked on firming up language in the legislation for landmark trees to ensure that the most worthy tree specimen makes it becoming landmark tree. to assist with staff i also created a matrix as an aid for not only the landmark tree committee but the full council and also for the publi

, she is a district 11 resident. >> may i speak on -- i'm a little concerned about supporting sandy sherman she did miss several meetings and not reaching out to the office. you heard me ad nauseam about this. it is easier for me to support dr. meg loman >> i did mention last year she had some health issues and that has now passed, but she -- that was the reason for her absences. i can't speak about her outreaching to offices but generally there's a lot of applicants and our offices could be engaged in meeting with people over and over again and not get any other work done if we were to do that, but i know it's really important we connect with people who are coming forward. i take it both ways, meet people here in the hallway, on the street or in my office, whatever way we do it. let's go down and just check the seats we have. we have all but six, i think. one, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7. one, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7. that's six seats. i made this matrix, this piece of paper i can't seem to find but hillen is only up for one. i would -- we only have 4 and 5. my recommendation is that we go with hillen for 1, sher