You can make the cheque out to me—it's spelled t-a-y-l-o-r—and just leave the amount blank. That's good.
Anyway, I think he knows where I was going.
It's just to give the community advisory committees a bit of independence so they can provide really frank advice to the port authority. The port authority is under no obligation to take that advice, but I think the community deserves to have that voice. Electing their own chair is part of the independence that would allow them to provide honest feedback.