Before meeting of august 17, 2023. At this time. Hey, just give me one second here. Get me organized. Im doing my survey. All right. Okay welcome, everyone. Thank you for all the participation on the board level and im madam secretary. Do you want to call the roll, please . Thank you, commissioner. Commissioner connor. Present mr. Thomas. Present. Present. Helfen. Present mr. Driscoll. Here mr. Gandhi. Present commissioner bridges and commissioner servais is not in attendance today. We do have a quorum right. Thank you. Can i ask you, madam secretary, to turn your volume up a little . Can you do that . Its sort of. Is that better . Better better. Item number two, communications. We welcome the publics participation during Public Comment periods. There will be an opportunity for general Public Comment at this meeting after closed session and there will be an opportunity to comment on each discussion or action item on the agenda. Each item each comment is limited to two minutes. Public c
And slowly, and turn down your tv or radio. Please note that city policies along with federal, state and local law, prohibit discriminatory or harassing conduct against City Employees and others during Public Meetings and will not be tolerated. Moreover, Public Comment is permitted only on matters within the jurisdiction of this meeting body. We thank you for joining us on. Thank you for before calling the next item and id like to do it later on the agenda. But i do want to have an Opening Statement to make before we go into closed session. And thats for thanking supervisor. So safai, thank you for leaving the house in order and my taking the gavel and appreciate it. Its been great working with you and hopefully i can fill your shoes. I dont know how bigger. So second. Okay lets. Madam secretary, do you want to call the next item, please . Yes item number three, closed session. At this time, we will be moving into closed session. Item three, a Public Employee performance evaluation imm
And slowly, and turn down your tv or radio. Please note that city policies along with federal, state and local law, prohibit discriminatory or harassing conduct against City Employees and others during Public Meetings and will not be tolerated. Moreover, Public Comment is permitted only on matters within the jurisdiction of this meeting body. We thank you for joining us on. Thank you for before calling the next item and id like to do it later on the agenda. But i do want to have an Opening Statement to make before we go into closed session. And thats for thanking supervisor. So safai, thank you for leaving the house in order and my taking the gavel and appreciate it. Its been great working with you and hopefully i can fill your shoes. I dont know how bigger. So second. Okay lets. Madam secretary, do you want to call the next item, please . Yes item number three, closed session. At this time, we will be moving into closed session. Item three, a Public Employee performance evaluation imm
Will be an opportunityortunityor general publicl publ comment cos meeting afterg af closed sessiod therell be anll be anll be anlo comment on each discussion or action item policy agenda. Each comment is limited to two minutes. Please note that city policies along with federal, state and local law, prohibit discriminatory or harassing conduct against City Employees and others during Public Meetings and will not be tolerated. Moreover, Public Comment is permitted only on matters within the jurisdiction of this meeting body joining us president s of fine yes. Please call the first item. Thank you. I dont number three is closed session. Three a conference with Legal Counsel pending litigation. Right . And we will. We will need a roll call vote to invoke the Attorney Client privilege and enter into closed session for a conference with counsel. Okay, so, um. At this time, well be moving into closed session with Legal Counsel pending litigation before moving into closed session. We will take
for democrats it s full steam ahead and working in a rare saturday session. the process is very lengthy. we ll see it kick off tomorrow afternoon and stretch over the course of the weekend because the rules would tell you once they go on the motion to proceed, the first process in order to get on to this bill, they then have to go through 20 hours of debate at least and then there are other things that republicans can do to try to slow it down before this so-called vote-a-rama period, an unlimited period of amendments and then they could ultimately pass it. we re only here talking about that because of senator kyrsten sinema, who was able to get the changes she wanted on the bill. they, contrary to what schumer and manchin may have wanted. i believe strongly in the carried loophole and i pushed for it to be in this bill. senator sinema said she would not even move to proceed unless she took it out so we had no choice. they re going to do lots of amendments. we don t know wh