Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Go umass, boy, it is good to be here. So, good afternoon and thank you to the chancellor and the board of trustees for inviting me to be here with you today. Thislly do love visiting campus in seeing the great work that is done by both students and faculty. Lot of u. S. A amherst grads on my staff. I get to see them firsthand, exactly how terrific a Umass Amherst graduation is. I know i hired them. It is terrific. It is also great to see state Senate President Stan Rosenberg your state legislative delegation here. What a great team you have working for you in both western and central massachusetts. For manyaw professor years. This is not my first commencement speech. If i go longer than 20 minutes i know it will be my last. [laughter] senator warren i understand that every extra minute i speak is that much longer before you can hit the bars. [laughter] [cheering] not that some of you need to hit the bars, of course. [laughter] imagine myren surprise las
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Go umass, boy, it is good to be here. So, good afternoon and thank you to the chancellor and the board of trustees for inviting me to be here with you today. Thislly do love visiting campus in seeing the great work that is done by both students and faculty. Lot of u. S. A amherst grads on my staff. I get to see them firsthand, exactly how terrific a Umass Amherst graduation is. I know i hired them. It is terrific. It is also great to see state Senate President Stan Rosenberg your state legislative delegation here. What a great team you have working for you in both western and central massachusetts. For manyaw professor years. This is not my first commencement speech. If i go longer than 20 minutes i know it will be my last. [laughter] senator warren i understand that every extra minute i speak is that much longer before you can hit the bars. [laughter] [cheering] not that some of you need to hit the bars, of course. [laughter] imagine myren surprise las
All present commissioners are accounted for. Turning to item 2, Public Comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda. Good afternoon, commissioner, charlie mark stellar, for the record, i just wanted to alert the commission to a very important post on the kqed news website that i got over the weekend pertaining to linar corporation, and the developments that are occurring both at both locations in the city. Theres a significant and new items that are being reported in regards to the three indictments that have come down, so i did want to alert you to that and if you dont have it, i can forward it to you. Or to your executive director who will forward it to you, okay, i wanted to alert you to that important item. Im bob plant hold, i just wanted to offer comment about what may be change tos the pending whisleblower ordinance that supervisor breed has introduced and because of their [inaudible] may not be heard in committee for some time. Our group, friends of ethics is sug
For the critical work in the community. Next is tiffan marie johnson. [applause] mrs. Johnson is a clearly beloved teacher at Leadership High School in San Francisco, founder of h 2 o production and phd candidate at the universesty of california, berkeley. [applause] thank you all for your incredible advocacy in the community. Next we have liz jacksonsimpson. [applause] the executive director the success center, a long time advokate in reentry in the community and mother of many in the neighborhood. Give a hand for liz jackson. [applause] thank you all for your incredible work. Without this work that you have done, our community would be much less equal and much more poor. Next we move to hrc hero award for organization. Is this better . Thank you. Sorry about that, trying to share the microphone. Move to the hrc award for organization. The First Organization is united playaz, a violence prevention and Youth Development organization that provides a comprehensive range of services to pr
25, 2016 will begin shortly. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the regular july 25, 2016 meeting of the San Francisco Ethics Commission. I will call the roll. Commissioner keane, commissioner hayon, commissioner chiu. Here. We are still awaiting an appointment for a replacement for commissioner andrews, so all present commissioners are accounted for. Turning to item 2, Public Comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda. Good afternoon, commissioner, charlie mark stellar, for the record, i just wanted to alert the commission to a very important post on the kqed news website that i got over the weekend pertaining to linar corporation, and the developments that are occurring both at both locations in the city. Theres a significant and new items that are being reported in regards to the three indictments that have come down, so i did want to alert you to that and if you dont have it, i can forward it to you. Or to your executive director who will forward it to you, okay, i