Yes, good evening commissioners and director pablum. Dr. Derek kirk. January meeting for a view expressed resistance to the mayors directive to cut your budget by 3 over two years. It is troubling that your funding depends on the good graces of the same city hall folks that youre supposed to monitor. That inhibits your independence. If you like to sharply into city corruption your funds can be choked off because your budget is your leash. There is enough control just by having your appointments made by elected city officials. Compare your funding to that of the controllers City Services auditor program. It also was placed on the ballot and approved by the board and the voters, but its funding is a guarantee 0. 2 of the total city budget. That makes it fiscally independent from city hall. Since you are the cities ethics auditor, why is in your budget sat like this City Services auditors . So, consider a Charter Amendment to liberate the Ethics Commission. Ask for an automatic fraction o
Unchanged at near 0. Fed chair janet yellen cited the likelihood of further downward pressure on prices. The leaders of e. U. Countries meet next week in effort to find ways to cope with a huge number of migrants and refugees. Turning heads at the tokyo game show. Gamers get into gear as competition keeps up in the world of Virtual Reality. Opposition lawmakerings are making last ditch efforts to block vote of japans selfdefense forces. The coalition is acting to enact the bills on friday. Opposition leaders submitted a no confidence motion against the cabinets against shinzo abe, and lawmakers in the lower house will put it to a vote. It takes priority and forces voting on security bills to be pushed back. The legislation would allow japan to exercise the right to executive selfdefense on conditioning, permitting sdsl to defend countries in a close relationship with japan. The democrats entered a motion against abe. Upper house lawmakers voted it down. On thursday, the governing camp
The meeting time is this meeting is being televised soon to be live tonight and the Small Business commission thanks sf govtv staff for televising this meeting. Please turn off your devices. The Public Comment during the meeting is limited to 3 minutes per speaker. Speakers are requested but not required. Completion of a speaker card while optional will help ensure proper spelling of speakers name of the meeting. Applies fill out speaker cards before approaching. Additionally there is a sign in sheet to be added to the mailing list. Mr. President , i will start with item no. 1. Its call to order and roll call. Commissioner adams, here, commissioner dooley, commissioner dwight, here, commissioner Ortiz Cartagena and commissioner white and commissioner riley is absent. Mr. President you have a quorum. Shall we move to item no. 2. General Public Comment lets do it. General Public Comment allows the public to comment on matters on todays purview and not on the agenda and for future conside
The meeting time is this meeting is being televised soon to be live tonight and the Small Business commission thanks sf govtv staff for televising this meeting. Please turn off your devices. The Public Comment during the meeting is limited to 3 minutes per speaker. Speakers are requested but not required. Completion of a speaker card while optional will help ensure proper spelling of speakers name of the meeting. Applies fill out speaker cards before approaching. Additionally there is a sign in sheet to be added to the mailing list. Mr. President , i will start with item no. 1. Its call to order and roll call. Commissioner adams, here, commissioner dooley, commissioner dwight, here, commissioner ortiz cartagena and commissioner white and commissioner riley is absent. Mr. President you have a quorum. Shall we move to item no. 2. General Public Comment lets do it. General Public Comment allows the public to comment on matters on todays purview and not on the agenda and for future conside
Amend the professional Services Agreement with the cmo for the 11. 2 Million Dollars as an interim basis to cover the fiscal year so theres Uninterrupted Services from the cmo to cover source inspections and increasing their Contract Total to 57. 18 Million Dollars. If theres any questions . So the contract currently goes through 16 . It goes through the end of june of 2016 so this is an amendment only for dollars, not time yet. And the amendment is happening because we dont foresee having enough funds now . The current contract, the contract halves back in july, that was only financing through the end of september. That was at the time was assuming we would have a budget at the time. Now the budget process has modified since then actually proposing to go through amending their contract for the whole fiscal year at this point, which can be covered by other soft costs. One. Questions i asked steve, this is always modified contract as a fixed fee contract that has gone from 38 million to