Good morning. Welcome to the government audit and Oversight Committee. I am carmen chu, chair of the committee. I am joined by our cochair malia cohen and david campos. Our clerk today is here and we have sfgtv here. Madam clerk do you have any announcements today . Please silent all Electronic Devices and cell phones and all copies part of the file somebody submitted to the clerk. Each member of the public will be allowed the same amount of time to speak and will appear on the agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you very much. Will you call item number one. Item number one is review of the citizens general Obligation Bond Oversight Committee annual report most recent report by the administrative code. Thank you very much. Good afternoon. I am pleased to be here as the chair of the citizens general Obligation Bond Oversight Committee to give you the annual report. We have a short report for you today basically explaining what this is all about, what our operations have been and we ha
Still new at this, you guys. We are going to move to line 5. Which is an action team. Mayors Disability Council bylaws amendment. Did all you counsel councilmembers receive the amendment . Councilmembers . We would like to know if you have any questions, councilmembers . Heather, would you like to read it if thats okay . Cochair, wilson, if you give me a minute i will get the bylaws so i can read it. I dont have that, im sorry. Mayors Disability Council bylaw amendment, friday september 20, 2013. Note, deleted language is noted by a strike through. Proposed additions are in bold and italic. Original language article 2. Section 4. Attendance required. Attendance are regular mayors Disability Council meetings is required. Official duty a Council Member is subject to dismissal if that person is absent for three meetings out of 12. A Council Member not present for at least 51 percent of a meeting. Proposed language. Article 2. Section 4. Attendance required. Attendance at regular mayors Di
To ask us. As councilmember we are holding an appreciation and get to know your council which is us up here. I think that is it. Very short again. I apologize. And we will move on. The director is not here. Do you want to move to another . Item 5 is the bylaw amendments and after that is followed by the accessibility of the Public Library system. Im sorry, i apologize. Still new at this, you guys. We are going to move to line 5. Which is an action team. Mayors Disability Council bylaws amendment. Did all you counsel councilmembers receive the amendment . Councilmembers . We would like to know if you have any questions, councilmembers . Heather, would you like to read it if thats okay . Cochair, wilson, if you give me a minute i will get the bylaws so i can read it. I dont have that, im sorry. Mayors Disability Council bylaw amendment, friday september 20, 2013. Note, deleted language is noted by a strike through. Proposed additions are in bold and italic. Original language article 2. S
Members were contingent and unsecure with their jobs. Now its over 70 . That trend seems to be continuing. The trend of state legislatures defunding Higher Education gradually shifting the cost from taxpayers to students, thats now a 25 year trend. Trends like that dont always and quickly. I think theres a future for state funding in higher Public Education is not great. Both of those things do not mind mote bode well for maintaining Higher Education. If i were to recommend anything i would recommend the federal government pay for public Higher Education and make it freeforall children come to all americanamerican s. 60 billion a year and a couple of battleships left, we have actually made public Higher Education a genuine public good. I think without some fundamental change the quality is going to erode. Scientists all over the country having to choose the basic research that will bring in the most dollars. Rather they choose the research that will do the most good for the people in t
You call item number one. Item number one is review of the citizens general Obligation Bond Oversight Committee annual report most recent report by the administrative code. Thank you very much. Good afternoon. I am pleased to be here as the chair of the citizens general Obligation Bond Oversight Committee to give you the annual report. We have a short report for you today basically explaining what this is all about, what our operations have been and we have made changes this here. What is happening with the bonds in place, and finally the City Services auditor role that we also play. So the citizens general Obligation Bond Oversight Committee was brought into fruition in 2002 with proposition f when it was passed authorizing this to review and oversee the bond delivery and we make sure that the bonds are on time, on scope and on budget, and we do everything that we can in our meetings to try to make sure that the cost saving measures are put in place that we need, and that of course th