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May i ask the audience to come to order and please have a seat . Good morning everyone. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the november 18, 2019 meeting of the rules committee. Seated to my right is walton, and to my left, mar. Our clerk is victor young. I would like to thank sfgovtv for taping this meeting. [reading notes] can you please call item number one. Hearing to consider term ending february 1, 20202 the parks and recreation and open space Advisory Committee. Come on up. Good morning. Did you want to share any remarks with us . [laughter] thank you very much. Morning. Thank yo...

Youre on it because thats the beauty of this new system. I wish you the best of luck ruling that out. I hope that eventually the difference in what the community identifies and what you knew about should get smaller overnight. Absolutely. Thats the idea. Yes. Thank you. Any other comments . Thank you. Any Public Comments . Seeing none. No Public Comment, we will move on to item number 5. Presentation from the city Service Auditor regarding the Whistleblower Program. These on report of the whistleblower and possible action by the committee in response to such presentation and report. Good morni...

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It is economics. I apologize for the wonky notes. When we had the consultants look at the occurrence, the way they started, they looked at wetland costs today. They looked at what Construction Costs today which is astronomically going up between 515 per year. And they looked at what rents are today. That is how you start one of these things. They came back and they said, office space doesnt work. And we said, that is not a good answer because they are trying to build it. What did you do wrong . They said, what we think we did wrong is we need to understand that these projects have been in the ...

Good morning Committee Members, im dr. Derek kerr, a whistleblower. An audit of the program is a good idea but it should not be a peer review audit. That would just buy into the biases and weaknesses that all Whistleblower Programs have. It would be important to get to an whistleblower advocacy organization, such as the Government Accountability project in washington d. C. One of the consultants could advise to the standards that a Whistleblower Program should have to meet the needs of the whistleblowers in the public. It needs to be an independent audit and not by the same folks. We heard a l...