Since the inception, the Whistleblower Program has been plagued by minor complaints. The 20102011 civil grand jury found that 36 were true whistleblower complaints alleging fraud, waste, and abuse. Then the Whistleblower Program developed a Risk Assessment policy that was designed to triage the complaints and sort them out into low, medium, or high risk complaints. For example, the medium risk cases involved potential losses of 10,000 to 50,000 or they implicate a mid level manager. The medium and high risk cases are not represented in the whistleblower reports. Instead, we get a preponder remembers of cases of low level employees who use Work Computers for personal business, who leave work early, or show up late, who gamble or sleep on the job, or who smoke in city cars and park them inappropriately. Preventing these abuses is worthwhile, but wheres the beef . We dont hear about the big money violations or mid to high level official misconduct. Why not . If the Whistleblower Program d
Welcome. Next thing on the agenda, please. Number 2. General Public Comment. Are there any Public Comment . I see none. Next, please. Three Consent Agenda approving the minutes of the june 18, 2019 meeting. I move approval. So moved. Second. All in favor. Item 4. Ybi ramps project update. Hopefully you can hear me. Eric cordoba with the San Francisco Transportation Authority. I will give you an update where we stand with improvements. I have a slide show and then we will get into questions. First a little context. The Transportation Authority led the ybi westbound ramps project. We opened in october 2016. That was approximately 100 million in total primarily funded with highway Bridge Program seismic retrofit funds as well as proposition 1b seismic funds. Something we are proud of in that regard. What we are starting to move towards is the south gate road realignment which i will get into more details as well as the west side bridges project. Very happy to, frankly, announce we have re
The materials. I guess i want to highlight, my kids were moving online. A lot of content i think its good because we used to have to carry 50 pounds of books in our backpacks, so moving things online is good. Id be interested in hearing from the high school students. My kids have trouble accessing content in the textbook loaded online. Sometimes physics text. Its a good idea to be using online resources, but then it brings into question my concern around access to technology for students who are expected to do their instructional kind of work is loaded on google classroom or their textbooks are uploaded. My kids are sharing the concerns, but i dont know how other than a parent sharing with principal, how that would come back to you and then us. I want to raise a question because were moving online, a lot of the instruction is moving online and that its a funny space because its not a textbook per se, but it is the curriculum materials. Kids dont have access to if they dont have access
Item number 6, Consent Agenda, all matters listed here are considered to be routine by the Authority Board and acted upon by a single vote the Authority Board. There will be no separate action in which event the matter shall be removed from the Consent Agenda and considered as a separate item. 6a, approving the minutes of the september 11th, 2019 meeting and authorization the execution to lease nur 1183 with Life Learning Academy incorporated a California Nonprofit Corporation to provide additional charges credit for sewer repairs at building 229 Treasure Island San Francisco and 6c resolution the execution of a Fourth Amendment to the recommend dumb of agreement between the Treasure Island authority and the San Francisco county Transportation Authority to com ben sate the cost relating to your vista point operations, maintenance, traffic security and Shuttle Services for the period from november 1st, 2019 through june 30th, 2021. Resolution approving the execution of a fivemonth lease
Good morning, everyone. I would like to welcome everyone, especially those that are up this morning and watching remotely. Good morning. Thank you again for being with us, and also to my colleagues in the audience. Welcome. Next thing on the agenda, please. Number 2. General Public Comment. Are there any Public Comment . I see none. Next, please. Three Consent Agenda approving the minutes of the june 18, 2019 meeting. I move approval. So moved. Second. All in favor. Item 4. Ybi ramps project update. Hopefully you can hear me. Eric cordoba with the San Francisco Transportation Authority. I will give you an update where we stand with improvements. I have a slide show and then we will get into questions. First a little context. The Transportation Authority led the ybi westbound ramps project. We opened in october 2016. That was approximately 100 million in total primarily funded with highway Bridge Program seismic retrofit funds as well as proposition 1b seismic funds. Something we are pr