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For supervisor wiener to be here so can we go to item three for now . Item number 3 is a resolution establishing the Gun Violence Prevention Task force and membership and duties. Okay. There has been a request to continue this item to the call of the chair, so before we do that is there any Public Comment on item number 3 . I do have a actually appointee tied suppose monday, wednesday tuesday, thursday, somebody be definitely or tuesday, thursday something, yes, no, alternating something for the...

Good afternoon. I sat on the task force and thank you supervisor campos for that appointment so this is a simple message that the San Francisco voting task force its recommendation is for an open source gpl Voting System so the resolution that were asking to pass is the next logical step and hoping that you support it and thank you as well supervisor wiener and i want to say im a resident in your district. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next is brent turner. Hello supervisors. My name is brent ...

To improving our elections, and also to offer some kind of personal observations ive had about the need for improving Public Confidence in San Franciscos elections. I have been an author of Free Open Source Software learkz related that was used to help verify the results of San Francisco elections and occasion offer places where votes could be corrected and thats been very helpful for people, not only here in california but in other states as well. San francisco elections and director john aroun...

Support of the office of ece. Thank you. [calling speaker names] all right. Hi i am santa blackman and the executive director of Childrens Council of San Francisco and the vice chair of cpac and i want to thank the supervisors for their support of prop c and commissioner yee in particular for his leadership on prop c and this trailing legislation establishing the office of early care and education. And i also want to express my appreciation to him for including those in the child care and Early ...

To follow and today we will hear about some of the work that is happening in california and from the California Association of voting officials and a Nonprofit Agency that advocates for open source Voting System and Good Government and also as cost saving measure. We will also hear about what paths San Francisco could potentially follow to inc. Plement its own Voting System and studying the process currently ongoing in Los Angeles County. Today before the Committee Colleagues is a resolution tha...

The next exigency the next generation so its my honor to join the supervisor today and i especially want to thank his family because when someone makes the kind of commitment and provides the kind of service that michael has provided and has made, its not just they who are making a sacrifice its the family members as well. Thank you. Supervisor avalos. Thank you. I just also want to put in a word for michael bax ter ive known him for a number of years he used to run the Health Clinic at the Balb...

Costs go down capital is freed up to allocate to other areas of elect administration. In addition open Source Systems will increase the transparency another key recommendation of the task force and numerous independent investigation have discovered serious security weaknesses and design errors in widely used equipment. By designing software in an open environment there is increased chance that defects will be identified and addressed. On december, 2013 the California Association of voting offici...

Cabo and our efforts to build better systems. Into the next search the advances should provide the opportunity that everyones vote is counted accurately and securely without being tied to a sing vendor or out dated infrastructure. This will provide us the capacity and certainty to administer elections for this century and keep the promise of our democracy, namely that your vote will always if cast count. Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely cammy foot president cavo. Thank you ve...

Bill 360 allowing counties to develop and own and operate public Voting Systems and opens the door for Voting Technology used to administer elections publicly available and viewable and by following the open source path we can ensure that elections have more integrity than they also have and less opportunity for fraud and more accurate results so this resolution will move us in in that direction by requesting that lafco study how San Francisco could implement its own Voting System and move towar...

Flattered and even when this flatter y is degrading. I remember i was no more than 11 years old and it continued throughout middle and high school and i remember not being able to understand why men spoke to me when i clearly was not of age to be listening to be listening to those types of comments. And it impacts every single female friend that i had. Ben called this reaction what it was sexist and critics wondered why he chose to go back to retrieve his wallet they claimed this would not have ...