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Where we think disciplinary action is appropriate we work with the office of accountability review and we try and get the agency to take disciplinary action. We have several cases in the pipeline now that will involve disciplinary action. We are trying to pin it and focus more on disciplinary action but our First Priority has been getting people back to work. With someone has been fired we want them back to the work and when someone is in the basement we want to get them back. The have been very successful. Ms. Flanz rep. Kuster the sooner you can get to the retaliatory behavior, the sooner yo...

With his case . Ms. Flanz i am not free to speak to the specifics. Are you familiar with all the cases in your department . Ms. Flanz those that involve senior members. Are there other active cases . Ms. Flanz we have 80. Some allegation of retaliation. How many have you closed within the past year . Ms. Flanz we have been operating since july of 2013 and with closed dozens. Only three of those dozens have disciplinary, is that what i am to understand . Ms. Flanz each result in a finding that the alleged misconduct could be substantiated or a recommendation around discipline. Let me ask you ab...

Gained at the expense of Care Provision to the veterans we serve. For example, i had the honor of meeting an 88yearold world war ii veteran several weeks ago. He aryedrived in an electric wheelchair as he was unable to walk. Same for the loss of his left arm and hand and right shoulder. He was unable to see to his right eye due to glaucoma. He was living at the ymca. Thats all he could afford 500 a month special security. He was sent to the y as an answer to homelessness. Years ago he could have called our facilities extended care section his home. But due to yearly mandates reducing the beds ...

Changed my life. It was a course of people as they bid farewell to a man who entered Public Office would such a parade was not possible. 32 years later, he was fighting back tears of his own, probably holding his soontobe husbands hand in the streets of the city that was beaming with love and support and gratitude. Another chapter in that story the following year i was back at the parade again with congressman frank. This time we were joined by my college roommate, Jason Collins. Become theecently first active male athletes to come out as gay in our major professional sports. He was credited w...

[applause] it. Did i am mindful of the fact that when i was at my college graduation, all i could think of was will the speaker ever finish speaking . I will confess that i do not remember a single thing that the Commencement Speaker said at my own graduation. In fact, i dont remember his name. The great honor of addressing you today with a great deal of humility. Its first commencement 44 years ago, this college has opened the doors of opportunity for thousands of students. Some of you came here directly from high school. Others from the workforce. I met some today who came through the trade ...