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The regular meeting of the San Francisco Ethics Commission will now come to order. I would like to extend a welcome to the newest commissioner, mr. Peter king i was not here for the last hearing and so i just want to extend my personal welcome and glad you are aboard. Thank you very much, madam chair and it is good to be here and i am enjoying on being on the commission and i am looking forward to serving you and the other members as well. And we look forward to you. Any way, roll call. Commissi...

The five year plan is a Strategic Plan and focus on operational activities would be helpful. Find be number 13. There are no consolidated budget and staffing plans. Partially agree. While there are some efforts there is no accountability and its not clear who is responsible if spending decisions are not met. Now lets get to the first category of recommendations. Moving to there were a number of recommendations that came out of the civil grand jury. We were specifically asked to respond to a numb...

The regular meeting of the San Francisco Ethics Commission will now come to order. I would like to extend a welcome to the newest commissioner, mr. Peter king i was not here for the last hearing and so i just want to extend my personal welcome and glad you are aboard. Thank you very much, madam chair and it is good to be here and i am enjoying on being on the commission and i am looking forward to serving you and the other members as well. And we look forward to you. Any way, roll call. Commissi...

Response sponsors and the wellness plan and operating expenditures for the wellness, the work thats done through the Wellness Center. One of the positions, the major part of the two positions is to help focus on other departments and help them with their wellness activities that includes not just reaching out and helping their coordinators but it also includes providing training, wellness training and increasing our eap capabilities and help on an outside basis. There are training and lots of cl...

Evident if you are going to do this type of work, that you will need a permit. I will give him a break because he will wind up spending more money. And he did pay for an appeal, when the permit may or may not have been issued, correctly, at this point, so, we should offset that because there is going to be additional fees here. What the fine was for having done work without a permit, regardless of the work that was done. You are right. It is just that i think that i have a record of never except...

I am particularly want to thank pat and josh for their strong work on this work force component perspective. And despite the federal Housing Finance agencys concerns, we are confident that San Franciscos program now can move forward. Again, weve seen other jurisdictions do this throughout the state of california. And because the fhfa concerns are doing all we can as a city to protect our owners and give them the comfort and certainty they need to participate in this program. Governor brown recen...

Expenses of the ship repair yard and the water basin that is there, they have worked very hard to try to get us reclassified from a federal perspective to be eligible for those grant funds. In 2006 our capital plan showed that we would lose 8 piers. One of those piers was pier 38, we now have a new plan for that. One of those piers was pier 31, we now have a new plan for that, and we continue to work at these things. With but as we went along negotiating the master permits for both the cruise sh...

Storm was fast and furious leading to significant power problems. Among the hardest hit the lincoln oasis. Just before 6 the lights went out of the tollway and throw all the businesses. Forcing them to close. It is an inconvenience. As the snow continued to swirl the oasis had to remain closed for least three hours. Quite an inconvenience for those who rely on this facility. Even the gas stations had to shut down. Some motorists made on schedule stops due to the dangerous conditions this morning...

On the nations debt. The crisis dragged on for 16 days. Sally kidd has the latest. The president says americans are fed up with washington and had some tough words for republicans in congress. Doors are back open, the federal government up and running again. They signed a deal to avert avoid the shutdown. The president told congress to straighten up erie all of us need to stop focusing on lobbyists and focus on what the want. Ty of americans the cost to the economy, some 24 billion, according to...

You get this kind of a surge and clearly that is on the increase. So in terms of Foreign Policy issues and, and i think this gets into some of what erica has been dealing with, we have more and more of these effects of climate, what we think are Climate Change. Were seeing, seeing droughts become more serious. Were seeing storms become more serious storms and how do you see this affecting us in terms of this Foreign Policy . I mean, one thing we have to deal with is often the United States is tu...