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Laura from [inaudible] San Francisco. I am glad were at this point and moving ahead and i look forward to the Strategic Planning process. Thank you. Good afternoon supervisors. Candace wong from the child care advisory planning council. I think you summarized it commissioner yee and thanked everyone else but i want it to thank you for your leadership and pulling the folks together and the Mayors Office and all members of the board of supervisors, members in the community and the School District ...

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 ...

Good afternoon. Welcome to our special rules Committee Meeting for wednesday december 3, 2014. I am supervisor norman yee and chairing this meeting. I am joined by supervisor tang and supervisor campos. The clerk today is alyssa samara. The committee would like to acknowledge the staff of sfg tv. Who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online, so happy post thanksgiving. Madam clerk are there any announcements . Yes, please make sure to silent cell phones...

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...

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...

So forth to make sure that whatever we ask for in this ordinance that we will be able to accomplish it. The other thing that was asked for amendment was the issue of whether or not the mayors appointment should go through to board confirmation process, and originally when i had put it in there i thought it was a good idea just to bring more bring just highlight the office more, highlight the cac and so forth in a very public way, but after further discussion about this issue and also realizing t...

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...

Good afternoon. Welcome to our special rules Committee Meeting for wednesday december 3, 2014. I am supervisor norman yee and chairing this meeting. I am joined by supervisor tang and supervisor campos. The clerk today is alyssa samara. The committee would like to acknowledge the staff of sfg tv. Who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online, so happy post thanksgiving. Madam clerk are there any announcements . Yes, please make sure to silent cell phones...