Speaker 0: All right. Thank you. Thank you so much for that. And then, councilor, we're going to slide.
Speaker 4: Right into.
Speaker 0: My item. And not my item are item 11, which are my nominations to the Commission on Persons with Disabilities. And I am happy to report that I have three impressive nominees and I just want to give shout out my appreciation to our community. I am just overwhelmed by the amount, the quality, the quantity and quality of applications. I'm getting to all of our boards and commissions. These decisions aren't easy. I'm really touched by people's commitment. They just desire to serve their community, to lend their time and talents. So what I'm doing, my recommendations are that we reappoint two of the incumbents and then appoint a new individual. And so whenever incumbents is Lisa Hall Lisa has a wide range of experience with disability issues, including from a personal basis, from working with a parent. She has done a lot of work with our less privileged individuals for many years, found Christ Episcopal Church as food bank program and does work with our Rantoul community and she has served a term on the commission with persons in just with a commission on persons with disabilities would like to serve in others. She is one of my nominees and the next nominee is us. And this is in no particular order. It's in the order in which they were interviewed. Jennifer Rohloff is another incumbent and Jennifer has a brother. Her younger brother has special needs, lives in a group home in the area. But Jennifer, from a young age, in part because of her commitment, in part because her mother was a teacher in the school district, she was actually called upon and agreed to be a tutor in special ed classes when she was in elementary school. She remembers tutoring in Neil Tam's special ed class, and Mr. Tam is a revered educator. Then the late Neil Tam, his friends and family are still in the that community, but he was a special ed teacher before he became a principal. Jennifer has served on the board of class in house, which trains and provides employees with special needs folks that serve you at Safeway and other other establishments. And she's said she is a very passionate advocate for persons with disabilities. And then my third and newbie appointee is named Katie Beeler. And Katie is well, I'll just give you a little, little background. She actually applied to serve on the library board, but I was so, so taken with the description she put in her her application that I reached out and said, would you possibly consider serving on the Commission of Persons with Disabilities? Arranged for her to meet with Sarah Henry, our public information officer, who also staffs that commission. And so she's Katie Bieler, who works in the publishing industry. In particular, she is project manager on global literacy and education for a company, an independent publishers group, where she oversees publications for persons with reading challenges , whether they're visually impaired, have dyslexia, ADHD. And she says that after 15 years in the publishing industry, my passion for equitable access to information led me to my current role, where I create software products for people with print reading disabilities. She's currently the president of the Bay Area Women in Publishing. She also has a master's degree in Jewish art and in visual culture from the. Jewish Theological Seminary of America, as well as bachelor's degree in History of Art from University of Michigan and another and another bachelor's degree in anthropology from University of Michigan. And she's excited to join this commission. So that's just an introduction. At our next meeting, we'll have a chance to vote on their nominations, but I just wanted to introduce them to you. Thank you, all of you, everyone who applied and those who were nominated. And we look forward to voting on your nominations next week. So thank you very much. And now we will move on to item three. And item three is proclamation, special orders and announcements. And there are two proclamations, one I'm going to read this evening. The other one will will be posted on the website and go in the record. But I wanted to read our proclamation recognizing declaring September 15 through October 15, 2021 to be National Hispanic Heritage Month. So here's our proclamation.
Mayor’s Nominations for Appointment to the Commission on Persons with Disabilities and Housing Authority Board of Commissioners.