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Experienced. And that is a good way to describe the people on my right. They have been in congress for a number of years. They are among the more senior members of the Armed Service committee. Thornberry is the vice chairman. They have many interest in congress and want to express appreciation to them. I want to start with congressman larson who was next to the district that suffered the washington mudslides and we want to send wishes to the people of washington state. And people to the good sta...

Of the immigrant rights community, Domestic Violence advocates, the lawyers, all the Community Members and allies, if you can stand, please, and we can [speaker not understood] in the room for your great support for this ordinance just for a moment. Thank you. I just want to say [chanting] [chanting] [gavel] we just broke our board rules. If i could ask, folks, if you could please sit down. And, yes, supervisor avalos is correct, did you break the board rules. That being said, ask folks for the ...

Theyve been doing this for 10 years been tell commuting. One of the themes was Work Life Balance. So to understand battery what this meant we conducted a study and 41 city and county departments responded to that study. Here its on our website id be happy to give you a copy. Before we got started on that study it was a different environment. The city had a structured 8 to 5 you kind of view. We actually lost one of our best analysis people she had a child and left. We were also met with tremendo...

First, i thinkshould be clear that we believe the systems are safe. One of the safest mode of travel we have available to us in this day and age. Real also believe very strongly there are steps that need to be taken in order to address the safety, not just of the general public, but the employees who work for these diseases. There is no question that when youre dealing with an aging infrastructure and the needs that are required to maintain that infrastructure, employees will be working in Hazar...

That you adopted. A lot has been happening. We met with several neighborhood groups and associations and we are teenage up to do up to 700 across the city and well be providing this information. The rate fairness board will be meeting during the last several months and our Financial Planning director who is here who has done a lot of the heavy lifting there along with his staff. The cost drivers on the technical side, no surprise to you, personnel and operations and maintenance are relatively fl...

Though it is very difficult thing to measure we used the income as a proxy, we know that this is a high cost of living in San Francisco and that the federal pofcy are not adjusted so we use a below 200 percent of poverty as a proxy for being at risk for Food Insecurity. And i am going to show you a map right now that just kind of illustrates the number of residents that are at that income level, in each census district and the darker colors are showing the concentration between 2,000 and 3800 re...

Okay with that. But i also think it is important that we look at our existing stock, housing authorities is not necessarily directly run by the city, but there are a huge number of vacant units and the fact that we now have a number potentially to rehabilitate those units and make Homeless Individuals a priority there, especially homeless families which there is a shelter in my district and these with no shower, with no ability for these families to get prepared for school or work or anything el...

Just for expedientcy. Thank you. Congratulations new officers. Thank you. Ill thank you for the opportunity to make a brief statement first of all, i think all our commissioners commissioner melara thank you but in my two years of learning ill be able to carry on our mission to support the commission of the department in the work we have to do. Were very fortunate to have your staff and its only apartment but were going to ask him we ask each of our commissioners to tell us what they want to ser...

Spanish speaking immigrant, somebody cantonese speaking and the anxieties are different between the groups. Were in a tricky situation because according to the lawyers i have spoke with we cant make the promise we wont share information and we might be required to and if a handout goes out and the next day the government says you have to share information so its tricky. I am told by those in the field with folks that if the city could have some proclamation or a letter that went in the paper, so...

We are in open session with the full quorum. Now we are. Okay. We are back in session, please call item 4 b. Occ directors report discussion review of recent activities presentation of the occs 2013 annual comprehensive statistical report presentation of the occs statistical reports and summary of cases received in february 2014 march 2014, mediation of complaints in february 2014 march 2014, and adjudication of sustained complaints in february 2014 march 2014 presentation of the occs outreach S...