Or are there some programs that you report on, for whatever reason, are undergoing a cleanup . I mention this because this terminology has been used to question how far along the testing, if you will, or the fixing of our Financial Reporting system is. And since then d. P. W. Is by far the largest department, having the most numbers to actually report, im bringing these questions because we wanted you to share how comfortable you, as project managers and Program Managers, are in looking at the numbers reported from below, and aggregating it to report it to the public and ourselves. What ill say is, i, myself, is not the expert in the financial system, the next time we can have our Deputy Director of finance, and her name is julie dawsen, and she can definitely provide a more indepth analysis of what we are. The term you use, cleanup, refers to us going into each project and trying to assess, i think, some of the labor side, where there has been ongoing effort to true up some of the ove
[applause] thank you all for coming. Thanks to cspan and its important audience as well, my new book, the rise and fall of peace on earth, revolves around a particular question. The question is, what are the prospects for peace . That is a timely question at any point and i will give my answer in the course of my remarks but it does presuppose, another question not often asked but one that is also relevant to the book. That question is, what do we mean by peace . How do you define peace . The obvious definition is, peace is the absence of war. Thats always welcome but its not very rigorous. After all, the world hasnt spent its entire existence in a continual war. War isnt continual if its episodic. So i propose a somewhat regulation or deep peace. As the absence not only of war but of the eminent threat of war. Emergent preparations for war. Its the absence of Foreign Policy conducted under the cloud of war. That is an unusual circumstance. Indeed by my reckoning as i see in the book w
Logistics. So weve gone through the r. F. Q. , where we have short listed four contractors. So the next phase after that is to do a request for proposal. That is based on both a cost criteria and a noncost criteria. And thats currently targeted to be issued in the next month or so with a goal to have a contractor selected by the end of the year. And then have ntp for this contract by the early part of 2020. So youre looking for one general contractor to manage five projects, or multiple general contractors . So we are looking for one general contractor. And how we would deliver the projects would be the general contractor would be responsible for doing what we call the packages or trade pac packages, and we would prequalify general contractors, and they would do the same thing to qualify contractors. And they need a competitive bid on the designed scope for each of the projects. Thank you. Thank you. I have a question. Thank you, mr. Chin. Im pleased to hear that the way youve done you
Jurisdiction that are not on the agenda. Actually, mismcnulty is on it. Mr. Mcnulty . Present. Chairwoman moving on to item number two, opportunity for the public to comment on any members before this jurs jiks that jurin that are not on the agenda . I have a handout. Thank you. Chairman thank you. Just to note, member patoha just walked in. Good morning, my name is jerry drafter, and i served on the civil grand jury excuse me, as a civil grand jury member in 2015 16, and im a retired c. P. A. There are many new members and i thought it would be useful to hand out a copy of appendix with legislature underpining for the City Services auditor, and the department and the position. Seago is charged with overseeing the c. S. A. I allowed two section, sf100 and sf101 that outlines tasks that the c. F. A. Shall perform. And this is important, because there are tasks the c. F. A. May perform and tasks they shall perform. I will address what the c. F. A. Is required to porm and is not performin
Of the availability of contractors to do work now, the issue we heard about from the previous bond report, is affecting them, too. And what they, m. T. A. , are doing is trying to space out their bids, putting their contracts out to bid, so as to not be affected so adversely by the lack of available contractors. One of the problems of this nature manifested itself in the contract for the geary road improvements pardon me, the geary pedestrian improvements, and they got three bids, all of which were over the engineers estimate. They regarde regarded that contract as being so important to pedestrian safety, theyre going to go ahead and award it nonetheless. As a person who lives on geary and is of a certain age, im glad to hear theyre going to do anyway. There were several contracts that i wanted to ask questions about that i didnt get into the detail on until after i had read the report. But generally speaking, we heard that there be no pending major contractor claims on any of the work