Allegations of corruption, and indictments and guilty pleas swirling around city Hall Contracting the city family is plugging along with another enormous bond for this november, much of it which will go to d. P. W. The ethics budget is not an expense. Its an investment that pays dividends and in cost savings and honest government. Thank you very much. If you are joining by the webex Browser Extension, if you wish to raise your hand for this Public Comment and other Public Comments, you may do so by clicking on the raise hand icon. Its located in the participants panel on the lowerright corner. To access that panel, you can click on the navigation bar located in the video screen by clicking on the participants icon. I do not see any additional callers concerning Public Comment. Im going to close Public Comment first, i want to say in response to the Public Comment, to the first specificker who had substantive points of information concerning City Contracting i do hope that the whistlebl
Anytime that im looking at the labor request for the commission is that the commission exercises the power sparingly, and useds a balancing approach where you balance the need for the labor on the one hand with any danger of unfair advantage or undue influence on the other hand. And in cases where you find that the need for the labor outweighs the danger of impropriety, thats when the waiver is proper. Otherwise, the balance of equities is not there and the waiver is probably inappropriate. So in this particular instance, i do recommend a waiver to be granted along the lines of what was requested and what is requested is that mr. Eske be allowed as he sits on the Arts Commission to continue to engage in compensated advocacy, limited to a specific list of city commissions but not all city commissions and City Employees, but the set of commissions that he interacts with now. And to that i would add that he only be allowed to engage in compensated advocacy for clients of his architecture
Been at home and now Steve Paulson forecasting from the we and its cold out you guys. We dont have to tell you that. Some 40s and 50s. Rain has moved through. Livermores 47 theres been some measurable amounts here. Temperatures in the 40s and some of that rainfall adding up. Santa rosa. 06 and novato also now with a. 04 and were just getting started. This is the leading edge. You can see some of that kind of hit and miss over san pablo bay. South of that, not much. The coldest air still has to rotate in. Highs will be well below average. Time is now 6 01. New this morning at least one person is dead just south of los gatos. Weve been talking about it all morning. Several cars crashed just before 3 00 a. M. And, at one point, all of the southbound lanes were blocked to traffic so far, they havent said what led to this crash. San Francisco Mayor london breed is warning she might shut down city parks if people do not start taking the social distancing rules seriously. Many ignoring the 6
Us . Seeing none, closing. Clerk announcements. Item 2, the planning staff report in announcements. Ill mention that commissioner melgards last day was january 30th. Shes resigned her post as a Planning Commissioner. And board president norman yee has nominated a replacement. She went before rules on monday or tuesday and was forwarded unanimously to the full board for their consideration. Thats all i have. Anything . Okay, great. Clerk president s reports and announcements. None. Clerk item 4, consideration of adaption of draft minutes from january 15, 2020. President hyland back to the commission. Clerk on that motion to adopt minutes for january 15, 2020, commissioner black, commissioner foley. Commissioner johns, commissioner pearlman and commissioner so and commissioner mcspadden. That passes 70. And item 5, comments and questions. President hyland any comments, okay, none. Clerk commissioners, consideration of items proposed for continuous. You have one item number 6, 2019022536d
They are also coming from distant countries where they have experienced hardships. They are older adult students. Many of my Child Development students work fulltime and full time and they also have spent years to get their degree so they can provide my name is janet. I teach ceramics. I think its time we took a magnifying glass to the way this administration spends money because we share your concerns about the money. We had and i think we need to go to the highest levels to look at this. So we are told students of color will be helped by these cuts, but we have been hearing that is not the case. When i look across my classroom, which is always full, i have 25 students in a small ceramics studio, and i turned away at least that many that wanted to take the class. I see a lot of black hair. I mostly see black hair when i look out across my classroom, and some grey hair. We are an ethnically Diverse College and we know it. Nobody needs to even prove that. We know that is true, and yet t