Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Supervisor Dave Pine
Supervisor Carole Groom
Subject: Appointments to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Commission
RECOMMENDATION:
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Recommendation for appointments to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) Commission:
A) Steve Disselhorst, member for an initial term ending June 30, 2022; and
B) Dana Johnson, member for an initial term ending June 30, 2022; and
C) Giuliana Garcia, member for an initial partial term ending June 30, 2020; and
D) Carmen O'Shea, member for an initial partial term ending June 30, 2020; and
E) Krystle Cansino, member for an initial partial term ending June 30, 2021.
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BACKGROUND:
The Commission reports and makes recommendations to the Board of Supervisors regarding policies, programs, procedures and legislation affecting LGBTQ individuals in San Mateo County, and provides outreach and support to at-risk and underserved LGBTQ populations within San Mateo County, including youth, communities of color, non-English speakers, older adults, and immigrants. The Commission promotes transgender inclusion among private and public entities in San Mateo County, including access to health care and to gendered spaces such as bathrooms and shelters. It develops initiatives to support LGBTQ families with children in San Mateo County and provides a public forum for input from the LGBTQ community to identify unmet needs.
DISCUSSION:
Steve Disselhorst, along with his partner and daughter, lives in San Bruno and has extensive experience working and leading diversity initiatives at Genentech, Abbott, as a volunteer with Our Family Coalition and the SF LGBTQ Speakers Bureau. Steve is serving a full term for a vacancy by former member Jose Romero-Betancourt.
Dana Johnson, currently with San Mateo County's Department of Probation, has been volunteering with LGBTQ for many years. Dana h...
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