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File #: 24-779    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Memo Status: Passed
File created: 9/30/2024 Departments: COUNTY EXECUTIVE
On agenda: 10/8/2024 Final action: 10/8/2024
Title: 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.
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 workin...

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