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[gavel] good morning and welcome to the government audit and Oversight Committee of San Francisco board of supervisors im the chairman of the committee arun peskin and joined by supervisor norman yee and by Committee Member and board president to my left london breed are clerk i want to thank the folks at sfgov tv for streaming this session. Mdm. Clerk any announcements yes please make sure to silence all cell phones electronic devices. Complete speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. It...

Speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the december 13 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated thank you. Mdm. Clerk can we take the litigation items five through seven out of order . Yes. Item number five is a resolution approving the settlement of unmitigated comp file by any scott against San Francisco. Item number six is a resolution of the settlement of unmitigated claims byobrien against the city and county of San Francisco and ite...

Yes please make sure to silence all cell phones electronic devices. Complete speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the december 13 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated thank you. Mdm. Clerk can we take the litigation items five through seven out of order . Yes. Item number five is a resolution approving the settlement of unmitigated comp file by any scott against San Francisco. Item number six is a resolution of the settlement of unm...

Additional feedback from various parts of the city and requests for future further amendment which are before you right now. Theto summarize these additional amendment responding to a request from the mta reedit members of the Parking Authority commission as form 700 filers. Even though the mta board sits at the Parking Authority its our preference to not remove those positions from the code altogether. Ive deleted the members of the Produce Market Corporation Board of directors and executive di...

[gavel] good morning and welcome to the government audit and Oversight Committee of San Francisco board of supervisors im the chairman of the committee arun peskin and joined by supervisor norman yee and by Committee Member and board president to my left london breed are clerk i want to thank the folks at sfgov tv for streaming this session. Mdm. Clerk any announcements yes please make sure to silence all cell phones electronic devices. Complete speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. It...

Military nominations, none of which are controversial. Is there any objection to that . If not, since a quorum is not present, but i asked committee to consider the 4,158 pending nominations, of these nominations, 503 nominations are two days short of the committees requirement. The nominations be in committee for seven days, i recommend the committee waive the sevenday rule to permit the nomination of these officers before the senate goes out for the october recess. Is there a motion to favorab...

The senate arm theed Services Committee that he didnt think they should be separate. This starts off with john mccain talking about military nominations. How are you, admiral . I would, since the quorum is not present, but we have pending military nominations, i would ask unanimous consent to waive the requirement for two more members to conduct the routine business for the 4,158 pending military nominations, none of which are controversial. Is there any objection to that . If not, since a quoru...

Before we begin we can get emotion to excuse supervisor mar. Without objection the gavel. Item 1 and one to update the definition of final competition for time and under the San Francisco employees retirement system. And to include in the definition, tatian trouble under the judges retirement system judges retirement system two. Peter b data. Supervisor cohen is the sponsor. Alternate over to our good thing to everyone for coming. Good morning. Item 1, before us is brought to us in attempt to ad...

Also, we have had a strong run of gains for the major averages. Five straight weeks of gains. So now we are sort of hovering. There is a positive momentum as the s p and dow gained slightly. The nasdaq down very slightly. If you look at the s p 500 over the past week, it is not just today that we have seen this. There has not been that much of a change. Down about 10 about 7 10 of a percent. Even take a look at volume again today. If you look at the bloomberg, volume versus the 20 day average fo...

More hostages are being held. The news agency is quoting sources saying at least 18 bodies were found. Reuters quotes a u. N. Official as saying 27 bodies were found on two separate floors. An al qaedarelated group based in northern mali claimed responsibility for the attack on twitter. The hotel is in the center of bamako. Its often used for Embassy Receptions and frequented by foreigners, including airline crews. French prosecutors say a third body has been identified from an Apartment Buildin...