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Departments, perhaps including agency that were not sitting on the task force but do have a part to play, the ongoing collaboration among the city departments is of utmost importance. We also recommended that if its not already inherent and in permits and Business Licenses and in other city regulations, that the board of supervisors should act to authorize city departments to suspend or revoke permit business he that violate wage theft laws. And finally, information showing this is one of the big challenges we discovered, but that some ways for agencies in the city to coordinate data around bu...

Did, and to this issue and obviously we have to work on many, many leases Going Forward and so we will work on that together and for the budget analyst for addressing that. But in particular, to all of those that are here and they are involved and particularly miss albriegt thank you for your leadership and the impact that this has is incredible and we have heard from so many people about the great work that has been done and so thank you for the leadership in the city. And so with that, the colleagues, if any of the comments that we have the budget analyst recommendation and then the underlyi...

Final report from the Wage Theft Task force. As you know, the task force was created by the board of supervisors on june 12th, 2012. It was charged with making recommendations to the board regarding how the city could best address wage theft in San Francisco. We met monthly from october 2012 to september 2013 and our finding and recommendations were presented in a written final report that was submitted to the board. Id like to introduce the members of the task force. In addition to charlotte, who at the time was an attorney at the Legal Aid Society Employment Law center and is now selfemploye...

The arts is history students. You know me. Im professor april mastin we are very fortunate today to have a guest lecture president of Stony Brook University maury mcginnis. Id like to tell you a little bit about her the title of her dr. Mcginniss lecture as you can see is the shadow of slavery in public life. This topic is relevant not only to our inquiry into how the arts can be researched as a window onto the past. But also how they affect the present or in the words of James Baldwin how history does not merely refer to the past history is literally present in all we do. The research and for...

This topic is relevant not only to our inquiry into how the arts can be researched as a window onto the past. But also how they affect the present or in the words of James Baldwin how history does not merely refer to the past history is literally present in all we do. The research and for this lecture and the lecture itself was inspired by the students of the university of virginia who thought that the university wasnt adequately representing how the labor of enslaved people helped to create that institution. Dr. Mcginnis is a renowned scholar and cultural cultural historian of the relationshi...