Okay, thank you. Sorry mr. Rosenfield i can briefly describe these different pieces of legislation. Item number 10, theres a current administrative code allowance allows departments to establish prequalified pools of contractors to draw upon for different professional and General Services. The current duration on those pools is two years. Often times will take it upon six monthsi might even to create apple. So we proposed here were gritty city administrator in the city purchaser, is an allowance that apple could exist for four years provided there is a midcycle reopened to allow new bidders into the pole. We think an efficiency measure per contractors. We do a lot of this kind of conduct and work in office we think more broadly will help manage contracting work in the city. Item number 11, this is a state code requirements. Most counties use consultants to a complex sales tax among other things and requires the board of supervisors authorization to officially designate them as the cons
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Thank you mdm. Personal everybody welcome to the budget season. For this year i look forward to the next week of our deliberations. A few things i want to note before we start off here. In an effort to hear some of the Department Budgets with different ordinance they have attached to them, sometimes will be calling a few things out of order today. Were going to recess at 11 45 am for lunch and we can being approximately 1 30 pm to continue the hearing. Willie taking Public Comment on legislative items. However Public Comment for the budget itself is going to be heard on monday, june 20. Next monday followed by two more days of budget hearings potentially one more day of budget hearings on june 20 and potentially the 23rd. The of to complete our Budget Committee process next to hear this balance, and for a balanced budget to the board for our the liberation set the board on july 12 to there are a number of departments that do not have budget Analyst Reports. I want to spell out specific
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Rest of the world to agree to sanctions that they never had agreed to before. The Bush Administration never even dare to dream about. Now they could agree to it he cuts there was the sense that the United States actually tried. Rouhani is playing the same trick on the United States. He is tweeting Rosh Hashanah greetings to the jewish people. His foreign minister is extremely charming. They are serious about diplomacy. In the last rounds of negotiation, a day was spent on just to decide when and where the next meeting will be. The iranians made suggestions like kabul. Everything was a negotiation. Now it takes about five minutes to decide. The venue is now set, it will always be geneva. There is no excuse. The iranians that has translated into a lot of countries who have agreed to the sanctions and have agreed to them very grudgingly, they do not like to impose sanctions. Several of those countries are in europe. They are now putting pressure on the United States. Because of your congr