Somebody the other day [indiscernible conversation] good morning, everyone. Yesterday, hundreds and thousands of women and their men poured into the street in hundreds of different cities in the country. The anniversary of the womens march and day one of the trump shutdown, americans marched to call on our government to honor the priorities and values of the American People. I am here to stand with you inth my fellows congress. We sent a letter to the president to say what are the priorities we are fighting for in all this. I just want to Say Something to our men and women in uniform. We in Congress Take an oath to defend the constitution and the American People. We value the service and courage and leadership of our men and women in uniform and we are here for them. We want them to ignore anything they are hearing from the other side, they are not going to get paid. They are going to get paid and we want them to have the resources they need to keep america safe and to keep themselves
Filing a complaint with the federal government. Could we have a system where we would wait 90 days or 110 days . See if anything happens there and then we pursue it. One of the things which concerns me is a duplication of effort by governmental agencies. I think thats right. I think theres the potential of duplication of effort, but, more importantly, theres no requirement in any law that the entity filing a complaint with the state tell us. So we wouldnt know whether or not theyre conducting an investigation into our city. I think thats the concern that people have, the government has, with encouraging people to whistleblow internally so that the Government Agency itself can conduct the investigation. So if somebody filed a complaint with the state alleging misuse of city funds in city aberrations, that would be covered by whistle blower protection laws. And that state would be bound by their own requirements, and they wouldnt be able to share information about it. So it really is bla
Out with the meet and confer, and if we could have this at our next meeting, which would be our last chance, really, to have a vote, get four votes and put it on the ballot for june, i think thats something we really should try our best at doing. Thats my opinion. Commissioner renne . Well, as i understand what staff is asking us first, because we originally had a 2016 version, which is the one we sent to the board. After their meetings, they made some revisions, and theyre now proposing the 2017 version which they want us to use yes, thats the one we want to go forward with or, no, we want to go with 2016. I understand that. So the first vote but ive got some questions. I understand that, but my point is whichever one we decide, whether its the 2016 one or 2017 one, lets move it to get it on the ballot. Absolutely. But i have a couple of questions about the meet and confer. Suppose you meet and confer and the agency says we dont like this, or we want that, and we dont agree to what th
Report. Good afternoon, commissioners. The president did sign a continuing resolution for a twoyear budget framework into law and that will allow us to not have a Government Shutdown until fiscal year 2019. There are specifically in the measure the funding for extending the Childrens Health Insurance Program for an addition four years. Reauthorizing funding for more than 7 billion to Community Health centers that includes the departments dollars for homeless services. It provides 6 billion dedicated opioid treatment and Mental Health service and funding to National Institutes of health and the child Home Visiting program. We are still tracking the 340b issue as well as the fact we know potential of cuts and future cuts in Services Including in cdc, samis a, nih and other areas and keep you informed as we know. Senator scott wiener announced a new conservatorship for addiction and homelessness as part of the definitions. We hope that we are in support of this with the senator and we can
Sufficient funding we wont have to come back for an ask. It will be a process well have to work through and already started with u. C. So that process is going to be some added layers of oversight and collaborative financial management. So well be looking at enhanced process to evaluate whether those need to be refilled. Well be looking at opportunities both now and through the e. H. R. Revenue process and the fees woul offset the need for an affiliation agreement. We are going to be looking at whether theres opportunities to streamline consolidate, identify efficiency in the affiliation costs and the below the line items in the agreement. Theres layers in this but theyll be putting in plis a process well put through the next 18 months and beyond to make sure were including the same level of i guess certainly or oversight in the projections for the affiliation agreement that we are in other items were bringing before the commission and the Mayors Office and fiveyear Financial Planning