To wish all of my fellow commissionerers a happy new year, it is kind of the end of january, but it is still the beginning of the year and we have not seen each other for quite some time and i hope that you had a Great Holiday and it is good to see you again, and happy new year to all of you in the audience as well and we are glad that you could join us today. Roll call . Commissioner renne . Present. Commissioner andrews . Here. Commissioner hur . Here. Commissioner keen, n here. Are there matters that we are going to be discussing or do not appear on the agenda at this time . Good evening commissioners my name is dr. Derek kur a whistle blower, please note bill 496 that took effect this month has expanded protections for whistle blowers and it prohibits anticipation retaliation, whereby the employers retaliate because they believe that an employee may disclose information to authorities. It reminds us that retaliation sometimes proceeds the actual whiesle blowing, the employee finds
Is unreasonable. We will hear from Richard Martinez whose son died in sant a bash a shootings last week. Thanks for being with us. The american soldier held cantniv afghanistan for the last five years has been freedom. The white house announced not a long ago that sergeant bo bergdahl is coming back to the United States. Randall pinkston in washington d. C. Can you give us the history on Sergeant Bergdahls case . An interesting history and great day for the administration, no the to mention bo bergdahls family. First word of his release came from the white house from president obama. The 28yearold was the longe longestheld pow in the afghan and iraq wars. Five years ago, bo bergdahl was a private first class. He had only been in afghanistan about two months when he was captured in june, 2009, by Taliban Forces. Freedom came at 10 30 eastern time this morning. The u. S. Military official says a few dozen special Operations Forces with support from multiple helicopters and overhead certa
The title is up, go ahead. Okay. The january, meeting of the San Francisco Ethics Commission will now come to order. First thing that i would like to wish all of my fellow commissionerers a happy new year, it is kind of the end of january, but it is still the beginning of the year and we have not seen each other for quite some time and i hope that you had a Great Holiday and it is good to see you again, and happy new year to all of you in the audience as well and we are glad that you could join us today. Roll call . Commissioner renne . Present. Commissioner andrews . Here. Commissioner hur . Here. Commissioner keen, n here. Are there matters that we are going to be discussing or do not appear on the agenda at this time . Good evening commissioners my name is dr. Derek kur a whistle blower, please note bill 496 that took effect this month has expanded protections for whistle blowers and it prohibits anticipation retaliation, whereby the employers retaliate because they believe that an
Prohibits anticipation retaliation, whereby the employers retaliate because they believe that an employee may disclose information to authorities. It reminds us that retaliation sometimes proceeds the actual whiesle blowing, the employee finds information, collects it, and then gets a layoff before they can file the complaint. I would also like to acknowledge your unprecedented finding of a conflict of interest by a city official, even though she happens to be a good person. Previously, such complaints were routinely dismissed and complainants were thrown under the bus, it took you over two years to adjudicate our complaint former Health Director dr. Mitch cats, for two years he collected over 10,000 annually from Health Management associates, a for profit corporation, working for his department, with his approval. You dismissed that complaint and our retaliation complaint, it took a lawsuit to get vindiation and 150,000 settlement which cost the city an additional 450,000 in City Atto
Going to work closely with me and many in the city and a entertain our businesses as and transform from a payroll tax to another tax system and low encourage job creation. He will be asked to step out of the traditional youve got to get it done and how do we help you do get under and city maintain and create jobs in the city. Im here to say thank you jose to really let everybody you know how appreciative ive been 0 o and lucky to have you as a leader in our Financial Literacy captain. Ooip ive been lucky to inherit a movement gavin was there before me and a visionary and i still get his council as he goes across california doing great things in education. Gavin i say thank you that f in your new really as Lieutenant Governor everything weve accomplished we get a national and state audience because of the work youve done. With that our visiony and former mayor now Lieutenant Governor gavin newsom. clapping. thank you. Obviously, we have the same speech writer i have nothing else to say