Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the September 28th, 2026 Rules Committee meeting.

I am your chair, Supervisor Shimon Walton.

I am joined by Vice Chair Stephen Sherrill, soon to be joined by President Mandelman.

Our clerk today is Victor Young, and I want to thank James Kawana with SFGov TV for making sure that this meeting is advertised and made available to the public.

Mr.

Clerk, do we have any announcements?

Yes, public comment will be taken on each item on this agenda when your item of interest comes up and public comment is called.

Please line up to speak on your right.

Alternatively, you may submit public comment in writing in either of the following ways.

Email them to myself, the rules committee clerk at BICTOR.yo at SFgov.org.

If you submit public comment by email, it will be also be included as part of the file.

You may send also send written comments via US meal to our office in City Hall

when

Dr.

Carlton v.

Goodlip place, room 244, San Francisco, California 94102.

Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices.

Items acted upon today are expected to appear on the Board of Supervisors agenda of October 6.

Unless otherwise stated it.

That completes my initial announcements.

Thank you so much, Mr.

Clerk.

Would you please call item number one?

Item number one to hear and consider appointing one member term ending April 30th, 2027, and three members' terms ending April 30th, 2028 to the Animal Advisory Council.

Thank you so much, Mr.

Clerk.

And as you all know, we have four suits available and seven applicants.

And one I just want to thank everyone who is stepping up and put their name in a hat and willing to serve.

Because we have more people than we do have seats.

Obviously, some folks may not get selected, but we continue to encourage you to want to fill out applications and continue to try and serve in other capacities if for some reason you are not chosen today.

And so I will call individuals up by how they appear on the agenda, and we'll just love for you to come up, take a couple of minutes and tell us about yourself and why you are willing to serve.

And so we're going to start

with

Alexandra Porsche Nikolf.

Is

that Porshnakoff?

Yes.

Okay.

Thank

you.

Good morning.

My name is Alexandra Porshnikoff, and I am a San Francisco native and currently a resident of District 10.

And over the years, I have personally witnessed and engaged with the evolution of animal welfare here in San Francisco.

Most recently with saving this board when it was when it was up for decommissioning.

And I worked hard to garner signatures and spoke out in public support of keeping this commission and would love to serve in that capacity in continuing continuing on with the good work this commission is doing.

Over the past couple of years, I've partnered with them on initiatives such as the Glue Trap Ban in San Francisco.

And I am currently a student at University of San Francisco School of Law, where we helped draft the language for the proposed regulation.

Prior to uh this commission being unable to meet due to lack of quorum, I have attended numerous board meetings and have had uh plans to participate in further um initiatives for this commission.

Um I am currently uh externing with the Animal Legal Defense Fund.

And since I've submitted my application, I have had a lot of additional experience in regulatory work, um, specifically with uh responding to the U.S.

uh Postal Service's notice of um live animal shipments and trying to use that to leverage ending cock fighting in the United States.

Um my additional qualifications include being a uh vector ecologist with the San Mateo Um County Mosquito Abatement District, where I was on uh different committees in um forming um educational programs uh for licensing and also working with local animal uh control agencies and always bringing at the forefront animal welfare concerns to give them a voice at a table they otherwise wouldn't have.

Um more recently at school, I am the president of the Animal Legal Defense Fund Student Chapter, as well as an animal justice scholar, and in my leadership capacity, I've been rallying the students to be aware of animal rights issues, especially in those intersectional areas of criminal law and immigration law, um, in hopes that all of the students at the school will be aware of animal welfare um issues and bring that into their con into their careers.

And in my leadership capacity, I've been rallying the students to be aware of animal rights issues, especially in those intersectional areas of criminal law and immigration law, um, in hopes that all of the students at the school will be aware of animal welfare um issues and bring that into their con into their careers.

Um and with that, I hope that you will consider my candidacy for this board, my commitment into attending all of the meetings and partnering with the commission staff into making San Francisco really a forefront of animal welfare.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Next we have Emily Gazardi.

Hi there.

Thank you very much.