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Present. Ladies and gentlemen please join us in the pledge of allegiance. [pleage of allegiance] thank you. Before we get started with the agenda i would like to ask for just a moment of silence in memory of the 36 lives lost in the oakland fire at the ghost ship. At this time. I know members of the board will be doing and in memoriam later on during roll call but i like a moment of silence in their memory. [moment of silence] thank you very much everyone. Mdm. Clerk please either any communications . Yes mdm. Pres. Were directed to the public as Board Members are aware did yesterday december 5 22nd museum to communication at approximate 12 15 pm, former member of this body former supervisor scott weiner indicating his resignation from the board of supervisors representing district 8 is a tippy oath of office of the member of the California State Senate which precipitates a vacancy in the office of district 8. Thank you. Colleagues any changes to the october 25 i think 2016 Board Meeti
On methods to reduce gun violence so were discussing the membership and the duties of the task force with the legislation. Also i want to call theres been a lot of reference to the budget legislative Analyst Report which is available today for the members of the public. Its a good read and talks about things that are important. There are three key things i will put into this particular ordinance. First of all this body is defining performance metrics to evaluate Nonprofit Organization and Department Heads using money, general fund dollars. Second, this report specifically calls out that the board of supervisors needs better information on gun violence prevention programming in order to effectively appropriate money. Believe it or not there are 11 departments that receive almost 50 million and there is inconsistencies under the definition of what is violence prevention . What is a Strong Program versus an Inadequate Program . So this legislation will require the Department Head toss com
Thing that i would have a question about and i dont know that this is something that a person that should be a member of the task force per se, but i know something that has been important for us in the violence prevention work that we have done in the mission is how do we bring more than just the usual suspects or the typical players into the fold . And specifically i am thinking about the Business Community because i think i would imagine that some of the recommendations that will come out of this task force will require involvement by the Business Community. Nothing stops a bullet like a job. Well, i think that it would be helpful for us to include some role by the Business Community because i think that gun violence has not only implications in terms of human life but also there are implications in terms of the finances and the business of the city, so that would be one thing, and to the extent that some of these Major Companies and Tech Companies included see gun violence that inv