Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Michael P. Callagy, County Executive
Subject: Appointment to the Measure K Oversight Committee
RECOMMENDATION:
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Recommendation for the appointment of Tish Busselle to the Measure K Oversight Committee, representing District 2, for an initial partial term ending June 30, 2025.
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BACKGROUND:
The Measure K Oversight Committee was established following the voters’ approval of the Measure A sales tax in 2012 to conduct an annual audit of the Measure A sales tax funds to ensure transparency of the Board of Supervisors approved expenditures. The name of the oversight committee has thus been changed to reflect the passage of Measure K in 2016, which extended the sales tax until 2043.
On February 26, 2019, the Board of Supervisors, upon the recommendation of the Measure K Oversight Committee, adopted a resolution authorizing an increase in term length of up to four years (or a maximum of twelve years) and staggering the terms of service such that the terms of members do not all expire in the same year.
DISCUSSION:
Tish Busselle is being recommended to serve and represent District Two with an existing partial term ending June 30, 2025, a seat formerly held by Sam Hutkins who, after over 11 years of dedicated service on the Committee, has moved out of the County and resigned.
Tish Busselle, a resident of San Mateo, has devoted her professional life to public education starting with focusing on urban education and equitable school finance issues in Texas, then on federal support for education especially for under-resourced students while a staff member assigned to the Senate and House of Representatives' Education Committees. Born in Berkeley, she attended public schools in Vallejo, graduated from Wellesley College (Mass.), and earned a Master’s degree from Tufts University's Fletcher School. She spent the early years of her career working on equity in school financing and meeting the needs of under-resourced students as a consultant to legislative bodies in Texas and Washington, DC. She then returned to California to work in educational policy legislation at the State level with her appointment as Chief of Governmental Affairs for the California Department of Education. Tish was a longtime San Mateo-Foster City School District staff member serving as Assistant Superintendent. After a ten-year appointment as part of the three-person State Administrator's team to bring the Vallejo City Unified School District out of Financial and Academic bankruptcy in the early part of this decade, she was invited to return to the San Mateo-Foster City School District as Advisor to the Superintendent for facilities and new construction planning for over $750 million in bond funds approved by the voters.
Tish currently enjoys an active volunteer life as a long-time volunteer with Samaritan House including being a past president and current member of the Board of Directors, a founding member of the Board of Directors of Leadership Council San Mateo County, a leader at St. Paul's Episcopal Church including being a past board chair and longtime treasurer, and a member of the Executive Council, the governing body of the Diocese of California. She is also an active mother and grandmother of four, all of whom are very fortunate to live in the Bay Area. Tish and her husband enjoy traveling, love to fish for salmon annually in Canada, play games, read, and garden. She is known for her advocacy for fairness, inclusion, and transparency, and her personal skills of facilitation, analysis, and communication--all of which she hopes to bring to the Measure K Oversight Committee.
FISCAL IMPACT:
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