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Permit. Thats why people come to dpi. They get lost in there trying to get from one place to another. So, it really what conceptual consultants is to be able to navigate, to get a permit quicker because they know who to go to see, what to say with their with the drawings, sometimes the drawings arent correct. You have to go back and [speaker not understood], so forth. Bottom line, though, bottom line, permit consult atctiontion ~ consultants are not lobbyists. They do not deal with elected officials nor appointed officials. So, i urge you to really reconsider the way the legislation is written...

First. Com we should have done more but we did some good work and the nonprofits are listed in confines today, i replacement some of the organizations the Development Center and the city of refuge were the centers we continue to have serve our neighborhoods. Ill say with mow it requires with advocacy and, of course, our offices but ive been successful in working with mow on teeny good times organizations like the vietn vietnamness association they have a staff of one. 5 but working the way through this is something that the intermediatey he helps with to help people to relocate and share admin...

Pieces of ethics ordinances that require online reporting of lobbying activities, require the Electronic Filing of campaign statements, and updates to our city conflict of interest codes. But in my second term i have a much stronger sense of how influence impacts important and lucrative decisions in our 7 billion plus budget. I have 26,000 Employee Base that we have making decisions every day about how we use public dollars. I regularly hear from constituents concerned about governmental transparency. This legislation is designed to increase Public Confidence in the everyday workings of our lo...

The everyday workings of our local government, shining a brighter light will lead to better and more open decisions by city officials. And while our proposals will effect certain activities such as lobbying and permit expediting, i want to make it very clear that we are not saying with our legislation that these activities cannot or should not occur. We are simply saying that its important for the public to know when they do occur that there be transparency. As Supreme Court Justice Louis brandeis once said, sunlight is the best of disinfectants. I want to briefly summarize the changes that we...

Its a pleasure to be here today to talk about the i. P. Transition. But before we do what i want to talk about is another transition thats been occurring and thats directly related, and thats the transition of our networks from copper to fiber. Of course its generally understood today Everybody Knows that fiber to the home is the best Broadband Network possible and one that many are striving to obtain. When verizon started to roll this out ten years ago it wasnt so obvious and we got a lot of questions about why we were doing this. Who needs 30 megabits per second . But Everybody Knows today t...