BCDC Commission Members

Twenty-seven individuals sit as San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commissioners. They represent a wide variety of public, private, and nonprofit sector interests. The Governor appoints the Chair and Vice-Chair, along with three other individuals. County Supervisors represent each of the nine counties that touch the Bay, elected officials represent four bayside cities, and other Commissioners represent state and federal agencies with an interest in Bay issues.

The Commission is composed of 27 members, appointed as follows:

• Five, including the chairman and vice-chairman, appointed by the Governor (Robert Zachary Wasserman, Chair | Rebecca Dianne Eisen, Vice Chair | Raymond Sean Randolph → Lenny Mendonca, Alternate | Sanjay Mahendra Ranchod → Barry Nelson, Alternate | Karl Hasz)
• One appointed by the Speaker of the State Assembly (Eddie Hongil Ahn)
• One appointed by the State Senate Rules Committee (Patricia Showalter → Stephen Lefkovits, Alternate)
• One each appointed by the boards of supervisors of each of the nine Bay Area counties (Lena Tam → Marie Gilmore, Alternate | John Gioia → Federal D. Glover, Alternate | Stephanie Moulton-Peters | Belia Ramos → Joelle Gallagher, Alternate | Aaron Peskin → Catherine Stefani, Alternate | Dave Pine → David Canepa, Alternate | Otto Lee → Yoriko Kishimoto, Alternate | Mitch Mashburn → John Vasquez, Alternate | Susan Gorin → David Rabbitt, Alternate)
• One each from a north, east, south, and west Bay city appointed by the Association of Bay Area Governments (Mark Neal Addiego | Pat Burt → Larry Klein, Alternate | Pat Eklund → Nancy Kemnitzer, Alternate | Cesar Zepeda → Soheila Vahdati Bana, Alternate)
• One from the California Business and Transportation Agency (Dina El-Tawansy → David Ambuehl, Alternate)
• One from the California Department of Finance (Stephen Benson → Matt Almy, Alternate)
• One from the California Resources Agency (Jenn Eckerle → Justine Kimball, Alternate)
• One from the California State Lands Commission (Jennifer Lucchesi → Sheri Lynn Pemberton, Alternate)
• One from the California Regional Water Quality Control Board, San Francisco Bay Region (Dr. Andrew Gunther → Letty Belin, Alternate)
• One from the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers (Dr. Tessa Eve Beach → Tommy Williams, Alternate)
• One from the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (Ellen Blake → Jason Brush, Alternate)

The Commission meetings, which are open to the public, are normally held the afternoon of the first and third Thursday of each month.

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