COUNTY OF SAN MATEO

Inter-Departmental Correspondence

Board of Supervisors

DATE:

March 11, 2009

BOARD MEETING DATE:

March 17, 2009

SPECIAL NOTICE/HEARING:

None

VOTE REQUIRED:

Majority

TO:

Honorable Board of Supervisors

FROM:

Supervisor Carole Groom and Supervisor Rose Jacobs Gibson

SUBJECT:

Appointments to the Commission on Disabilities (CoD)

RECOMMENDATION:

Approve the appointment of Eleanor Lindquist representing Physical Disabilities, Ilana Tandowsky representing Developmental Disabilities, Dustin Weber representing the Community at Large, and Lucy Hupp Williams representing Physical Disabilities to the Commission on Disabilities, each to a term expiring June 30, 2012.

VISION ALIGNMENT:

Shared Vision 2010 #24: Residents accept individual responsibility for contributing to the quality of life of the County as a whole.

BACKGROUND:

After the Executive Committee of the CoD reviewed all of the current applications received, interviews for vacancies on the Commission on Disabilities took place on March 5, 2009. Craig McCulloh, staff to the CoD, and two members of the Commission on Disabilities also sat on the interview panel.

FISCAL IMPACT

None.