Christmas million optional museum, here in washington d. C. Its just over an hour. So its absolutely a thrill to see so many people here for this kind of a program, my name is johnny gray, and i have the wonderful privilege of being the director of your National Museum of American History. Particularly on nights like tonight, and which we really can look at American History in unique and unusual ways. We are really honored to be joined by tonight panel Supreme Court justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg applause Supreme Court Justice Sonia sotomayor, applause catherine fit, applause and Supreme Court Society Publications director claire kushner, applause it is now my privilege to introduce the 13th secretary of the smithsonian institution, doctor david horton. Hes on Board Certified cardiologist a jazz musician, and doctor scorching with most recently the president of cornell university, and previously served as president of the university of iowa. Doctor gordon has interest in learning as wide
The meeting comes to order, the august 19th, rescheduled budget and appropriations meeting. Im sandra lee fewer and joined by the Committee Members, supervisors walton and mandelman and ronen and norman yee. Our clerk is miss linda wong. I thank sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. And also, supervisor walton will be joining us a little later. Can we have a motion to excuse him for the first beginning part of the meeting. So moved. Chair fewer thank you very much, can i have a second, please. Second. Chair fewer could i have a roll call vote please. Clerk yes, on the motion. [roll call] there are four ayes. Chair fewer thank you very much. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements. Clerk due to the covid19 health emergency, the City Employees and the board of supervisors legislative and the committee room, and the members will be participating in a meeting remotely. This is for the local and state and federal orders and declarations and orders. The meeting is through Video Conferenc
Also wanted to read for the public, due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect commissioners, the employees and the public, the building inspection hearing room is closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting it remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant to the stayathome order, and all proceeding and proceeding local and state and federal orders, declarations and directives. Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference or by telephone, if the video fails. And participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. Both channel 78 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming the number at the top of the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments or opportunities to speak during Public Comment period are available via phone by calling 408 4189388, 146 632 7982. Best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and tur
The new system and we have a staff update on this this morning. So looking forward to that. In short, d. B. I. Is still fulfilling its motion on behalf of the his. I want to thank you to our hardworking and dedicated professionals for their absolute terrific jobs they are doing and have been doing. Under the enormous stresses caused by this virus. This continues to require multiple adjustments in very reduced timeframes and under challenging conditions. And we are all deeply impressed with our staffs achievements to date. On top of Everything Else, the entire department is moving its offices to 49 south van ness. The move will start on july 23rd and take place over two weekends. It will mean that the Curbside Services are unavailable for a few days and again staff will provide more details on this later in the morning. The city, as you know, is keeping a very close eye on the resurgence of the deadly virus. Well keep you updated as changes occur and we have steps that are designed to k
Were going to hear updates from the Controllers Office, Public Integrity assessment process and from the City Attorneys investigations and reports. On monday, the office of the controller released their first Public Integrity review report, focused on contracting procedures that the department of public works, in that report and its findings are the focus of this hearing. There are a myriad, concurrent investigations connected to the scandal. Both locally and federally. Our focus today is not on criminal charge or the fbis work specifically. Our focus here is less on individual bad actors and more on the systems and structures that enabled and empowered them to commit bad acts. And failed to provide oversight, accountability and transparency. And today were looking at public works. How the behavior in the complaints and the structures that allowed them to allowed for them to demonstrate the need for structural reform to preempt and prevent the potential for criminal and unethical actio