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Good morning, this meeting will come to order. This is the regular meeting of the government audit and oversight committee. Im supervisor london breed and the chair of the committee and supervisor tang and supervisor chiu will be joining us now. And i also want to thank sfgtv jim smith and jonathan. Madam clerk, do we have any announcements . City clerk please silence all cell phones and Electronic Devices and please include in the copies into the file to the clerk. Supervisor london breed thank you madam clerk please call the first item. City clerk agenda[hearing implementation of audit recom...

Changes . Any Public Comment on the minutes . Commissioners, ray hartz director of San Francisco open government. I only on these minutes want to comment on item number 2. First i want to acknowledge dr. Derek hur for all that he did and continues to do to raise the ethical level of city government. What dr. Kurr endured sends a large and clear message for the employees of the city, dont report wrong doing and dont trust the Whistle Blower Program and dont trust the people that you work for who are doing the illegal actions that you are trying to report. Follow the example of this Ethics Commi...

Ask the board a few simple questions, just a request for public information. If youd like to remain silent, i can understand. Im going to ask these rhetorically. Are you aware that the city enforces tickets that are voidable because they dont list the last four of the vin. I take my your silence that you know this or youre refusing to answer. Are you aware that your mta gives 21 days to correct parking. And you give a grace period of an additional 21 days giving times to krek the first of these citations. Are you aware that the ssmta issue five such expired citations so they can collect on all...

Excellent. I want to make sure that you have these in front of you. Also f it helps, i would like to. There is a story also in todays San Francisco chronicle that highlights our ongoing reforms on the exorbadant cost that the families who are incarcerated have to pay and this contract before you is step two of an ongoing menu of reforms that my administration is pursuing before this committee. Not that long ago, you all helped make history that we were the first county, Sheriffs Department, in the united states, to dramatically reduce phone rates, even though some attention has been placed on ...

Thank you. Chair, and supervisor tang, and chair, and cohen, and chiu. We are so excited to be here this morning to present to you what we think is a successful model and we know that we thank you all for your leadership on this issue. And we think that this is a model that can actually work and change the tide and equity and inclusion in this city and in particular with the respect of African Americans to participate in the higher wage and growing industries and also, coming out that this has been a cross racial coalition, and we think that it is a model secondly for that, that it is across a...