This is ktvu fox two news at 730. Hi, everyone and good evening. Im frank mallicoat. This isnt the first time Petroleum Coke dust was released from a martinez refinery. New at 730. If you were issued a late payment fee on a berkeley parking ticket, you might be getting a refund very soon. According to a berkeley side, a parking citation glitch meant 1300 people were wrongly charged. Late fees on their citations. In california, vehicle code mandates late payment notices be sent out before charging a fee. But from 2019 to 2022, the company, berkeley, has a contract with passport court failed to notify people before issuing 1326 late fees. City council memo from wednesday says passport will issue refunds averaging 57 a citation. The total amount of refunds is worth some 75,000. Now, new at 730, the San Francisco coalition on the homeless has filed a new brief in their lawsuit over the treatment of people in encampments. The filing with the Us District Court draws attention to what they ca
All in all, this is a roughly 10 increase over our base operating budget, and this is something that we think is critical to get us in the right structure and setting to keep delivering on the things that weve identified as a priority as a department in the last couple of years. So im happy to answer any questions. Weve basically presented an overview and score card based on the goals we identified two years ago in our blueprint for accountablity, and this reflects our best judgment where weve been able to make some strides and the work we still have to do. The last we talk often about our performance indicators, and how were doing. We hope our work speaks for itself. We have a lot of work to be done, but were proud of what weve done, so one of the things that we have done this year is to make sure that we are closely aligning our individual performance goals each year with the overall organizations top priorities, so we have an annual performance goal discussion with employees, so we
Ordinance identified as 2017 wpo ballot measure, attachment one, and have it placed on the june ballot. I have a clarifying question for staff. I understand that the ballot measure and the ordinance as drafted there are slight differences as between the two. Could you give a summary of that to make sure i understand what is what would be miss from the version that would go on the ballot . Due to the jurisdiction of the authority we had to slightly scale back and narrow what would be in the full legislative proposal. It is 4. 105 to govern the overall scope of complaints whichca raise other can raise other concerns. Those were removed. The other big category were the proposed edits to 4. 107. That would have addressed the Whistleblower Program outsides of the Ethics Commission as well. The bulk and i will let the staff speak to the policy impact. The bulk of the amendments are still there in the ballot measure version. For those provisions excluded from the ballot measure provision, wha
Act to incorporate those or do they just disappear forever . I think if the Ethics Commission were to move forward i am not sure supervisor breed would want to introduce the remainder that is a different Decision Point for her. Comments or questions . Let me express myself. One of the problems voters face is too many ballot measures to figure out. That is why i would just prefer an ordinance especially when apparently ms. Breed is committed to this and president of the board. She ought to be able to get enough votes to get it passed. The other matter is a question. Why is the controller involved in whistleblower complaints . Anybody give me the rationale . The charter designates the Controller Office with the authority to run the whistleblower hot line that is how it is set up. What is the rationale . I cant speak to that. It is versus 311 or the Ethics Commission. Or the Ethics Commission. Or the City Attorney. My understanding from the whistleblower director because of the controller
Is what would be miss from the version that would go on the ballot . Due to the jurisdiction of the authority we had to slightly scale back and narrow what would be in the full legislative proposal. It is 4. 105 to govern the overall scope of complaints whichca raise other can raise other concerns. Those were removed. The other big category were the proposed edits to 4. 107. That would have addressed the Whistleblower Program outsides of the Ethics Commission as well. The bulk and i will let the staff speak to the policy impact. The bulk of the amendments are still there in the ballot measure version. For those provisions excluded from the ballot measure provision, what could the board act to incorporate those or do they just disappear forever . I think if the Ethics Commission were to move forward i am not sure supervisor breed would want to introduce the remainder that is a different Decision Point for her. Comments or questions . Let me express myself. One of the problems voters fac