Their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibility as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Thank you very much. Item number two, please. Item number two is the opportunity for Public Comment on any matters within the boards jurisdiction that are not on the agenda. Comments specific. To the item on the agenda may be heard when that item is considered. Members of the public may address the board and will be limited to three minutes of speaking time per person and a total of 20 cumulative minutes for this item. We will now take inperson Public Comment members of the public who wish to provide inperson Public Comment on this
Commissioner lowe . Here. Commissioner mcdonnell . Here. Just to remind everyone, we request that you turn off any electronic sound producing devices that could go off during the meeting, so cell phones, if you could please turn those off or on silent. We request that you take any conversations outside. If you would like to speak on an item today, please create a blue card. Unless otherwise nounszed by the president , each person will have three minutes for Public Comment on each item. If there is an item of interest to you that is not on the agenda and is under the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission, you may speak under general Public Comment. That is item 4. It will be heard for 15 minutes and then continued again at item 12. Please address your comments to the commission during Public Comment on items in order to allow equal time for all. Neither commission nor staff will respond. The commission may ask questions after Public Comment is closed. If the fire alarms activate
Thank you, charlie. And have a good holiday season. And while youre in executive session, i hope somebody brings in a box of cookies or something. You were going to bring pizza, remember . Yes, we discussed pizza. And im sure the chair will deep that germane to item 10 on the calendar. Yes. Christmas cookies back in open session for the Ethics Commission, decemb december session. Is there a motion pursuing to what we did in our closed session . I would move that we keep the closed session in confidence. Second . Second. All those in favor of the motion . Aye. Motion passes unanimously. So we then go to item 11. Discussion of possible action of items for future meetings. I think some of the things that have come up tonight indicate things that well be doing at future meetings in record to putting matters on the ballot and just listening to what has been said. I would anticipate that in february we would have agendaized putting on the ballot the whistleblower item and also our ordinance
Here. Just to remind everyone, we request that you turn off any electronic sound producing devices that could go off during the meeting, so cell phones, if you could please turn those off or on silent. We request that you take any conversations outside. If you would like to speak on an item today, please create a blue card. Unless otherwise nounszed by the president , each person will have three minutes for Public Comment on each item. If there is an item of interest to you that is not on the agenda and is under the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission, you may speak under general Public Comment. That is item 4. It will be heard for 15 minutes and then continued again at item 12. Please address your comments to the commission during Public Comment on items in order to allow equal time for all. Neither commission nor staff will respond. The commission may ask questions after Public Comment is closed. If the fire alarms activate, you must evacuate using any exit. Please note tha
At this point, the little door handles that had squirrels and things on them, ed thought it would be so great fort kids to open the doors when they saw the squirrels and other animals. We kept those in the budget and he personally screwed the door handles in himself. So here we are years later, hes the mayor and im the zoo director and hes standing in front of the door handles and he was tickled pink that the door handles was now there, he was mayor and i was zoo director and we were finally somebody. We thank him for that. And a chuckle, thats one of the bald eagles, one of the successful conservation programs and we were explaining to him we had to separate the parents from the offspring to protect the health of the eggs and we used technology to do so. He said i wish id has he that technology with had that technology with the two teenagers in my house. With peace and love. Speaking of programs, there is a product of 300,000 children have gone through the doors now since the mayor cr