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
Supervisor mar thank you to this committees clerk, john carroll, and id also like to thank sfgtv for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have anything else . Clerk yes. Committee members will attend this meeting through Video Conference and participate in the meeting through the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda. Cable channel 26 are streaming Public Comment number across the screen. Your opportunity to speak during the meeting will be by calling 4084189388, and enter 1 1 1469339147. Press pound, and pound again. When you are connected, your microphone will be muted, and you will be in listening mode only. To enter Public Comment, press star and three to be entered into the queue. Your written comments may be sent via u. S. Postal service to our room at city hall, 100 carlton s. Goodlett, room 244, San Francisco, california, 94102. I believe youre muted, mr. Chair. Supervisor haney thank you, mr. Clerk. Wi
Supervisor mar thank you to this committees clerk, john carroll, and id also like to thank sfgtv for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have anything else . Clerk yes. Committee members will attend this meeting through Video Conference and participate in the meeting through the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda. Cable channel 26 are streaming Public Comment number across the screen. Your opportunity to speak during the meeting will be by calling 4084189388, and enter 1 1 1469339147. Press pound, and pound again. When you are connected, your microphone will be muted, and you will be in listening mode only. To enter Public Comment, press star and three to be entered into the queue. Your written comments may be sent via u. S. Postal service to our room at city hall, 100 carlton s. Goodlett, room 244, San Francisco, california, 94102. I believe youre muted, mr. Chair. Supervisor haney thank you, mr. Clerk. Wi
I want to start by expressing my sympathy for the Defense Department contractor who passed away this saturday after contracting coronavirus earlier this month. Our thoughts go out to his family and friends as they mourn his tragic loss. Over the weekend the department of defense continued to take aggressive action to surge personnel, capabilities, and equipment in support of trumps whole nation response to the covid19 pandemic. On the frontlines of this fight are over 7,000 National Guardsmen, operating across all 54 states, territories and the district of columbia who continue to assist state and local authorities in their response efforts. In new york, washington, and california, the president has approved mobilizing National Guard troops under title 32 status, which provides them full access to federal resources, but still allows them to be managed by the state government. To be clear, this is not a move towards martial law as some have erroneously claimed. Our great National Guard
Without the sort of checks to make sure there are no and unwarranted executive compensation, and right now, democrats are really ofusing on the amount disclosure of some of those funds. Right now, the language in the bill prevents americans from where those funds are going for a full six months in stabilizeof trying to the markets. Any discussion under way that that . Icans would give on so Chuck Schumer said last progresst there is the senate hasnt reconvened yet, theyll do that at noon and a couple of procedural votes in hopes of this package forward but there are negotiations ongoing not just with mcconnell and schumer, but nancy pelosi the backer of the house, flew from San Francisco over the weekend to be a part of these talks. So everybody says that they are progress. The question of whether they can make up these final few inches or yards depending on how you see them in the next few hours. This there language in proposal that would prohibit corporations from buying back stocks