Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the October 5th, 2026 Rules Committee meeting.

I am your Chair Supervisor Shimon Walton.

I am joined here by Vice Chair Cheryl, and we'll soon be joined by President Mandelman.

This morning's clerk today is Victor Young.

And I want to thank Seuss Inos for making sure that this meeting is televised and that the transcripts are made available to the public.

Mr.

Clerk, do we have any announcements this morning?

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.

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

Email them to myself, the rules committee clerk at VICTOR dot Y O U N G at SFgov.org.

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

You may also send your written comments via US mail to our office in City Hall 1, Dr.

Carlton B.

Goodlit Place, room 244, San Francisco, California 94102.

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

Items acted upon today are expected to appear on the Board of Supervisors' agenda of October 20th, unless otherwise stated.

That completes my initial announcements.

Thank you so much.

Would you please call item number one?

Item number one is a motion approving rejecting the City Controller Greg Wagner's nomination for the appointment of Anthony Rivera to the Public Works Commission term ending July 2nd, 2028.

Thank you so much, Mr.

Clerk.

And I believe Mr.

Rivera is here with us this morning.

And why don't you come up?

Tell us a little bit about yourself and why you want to serve.

Good morning, Supervisors.

My name is Anthony Rivera.

I'm a uh born and raised here in San Francisco.

I'm a uh retired from the San Francisco Fire Department uh over 28 years.

I also worked as a uh liaison to public works, uh PUC.

I served as a commissioner on PUC, and um just as a citizen, I would love to serve on this board to maintain uh transparency, efficiency, and um uh ensure that uh a lot of the uh the work and infrastructure that's going on in the city is done in a proper manner, um, always taken into the interests of the uh citizens of our city.

Thank you so much, Mr.

Rivera.

I don't see any questions or comments from colleagues, so we will go to public comment on this item.

Yes, members of the public who wish to speak on this item, should line up to speak at this time.

Each speaker will be allowed two minutes.

Are there any members of the public who would like to comment on this matter?

There are no commenters on this matter.

Thank you so much, Vice Chair Shiro.

I believe you

have

a motion to

make

sorry about that.

Um quick question.

Yes, sir.

Your experience in the fire department and the interaction with the streetscape.

How how do you see your kind of your experience in accessing the curbside, access to the roadside as a as a member of the fire department influencing your work on public works in the way that they may look at curb cuts or streetscape improvements or any other items like that?

Uh yes, sir.

So I think I have a unique um perspective.

Whereas um, you know,

I

I think that there is uh public access.

There's um, you know, merchant access, commercial access, but public safety is number one, and I think that um we do need to have access for emergency vehicles.

Um our city is uh susceptible to earthquakes, uh large fires, etc.

And um we need to be able to have the ability to access uh areas where we have, for example, large gatherings or maybe a large apartment buildings.

And so I in my opinion, I think that that has to be taken into consideration when uh implementing these uh procedures.

All right, thank you.