And then that would be were serving on the same committee. That would be a good notice, tom . [speaker not understood]. Anyway, good form would be to do a good notice meeting, whatever we call it. The Ad Hoc Search Committee of the department of environment the Environment Commission seeks Community Input during our search for [speaker not understood] director. We can share that back to the commission. [inaudible]. Thats good, thats a good one. All right. I just want to add that i think, you know, its great that youre taking this on, josh, and i think, you know, we all really appreciate you putting in all this work and interviewing all the search firms and putting together the plan. I mean, god, doing this right now, it is a huge amount of work, so, thank you for taking that on. Thanks, commissioner. And ive just been looking forward to sharing this stuff because we get ideas about how much we can talk and obviously easiest is do notice meetings and have a conversation. Really, david h
A question about premium pay. Could you go into a little deeper describing what that is . What are the changes that youre proposing, what is currently the status of premium pay for yes, specifically, if were talking about the legislative premium pay for longevity, the legislative aide is working for the same supervisor for a period of four years and the fifth year they are working at the top step and they are entitled to an additional percentage based upon the mou for retention and any special skill the supervisor may feel that they have. The bilingual premium pay, i understand that it is the supervisor who is working with the legislative staff. If the supervisor feels that the number of hours per day the legislative aide is utilizing of the extra language or languages, in some cases, then the supervisor will let me know that the aide is in fact utilizing premium pay and meets the standard of the premium pay requirements. So, we currently have the ability to do that, but just havent en
Remarks and if there are any questions or comments he will be happy to answer. Any questions or comments . Seeing none, we will open item. , did you want to Say Something . I just wanted to mention one last thing that you should be aware of, this is the tenth audit in a row that we have had a clean audit, especially with what happened last year, i had two, and myself and my staff were two new moms and it is great that we were able to maintain a clean audit and i would like to extend a special thank you to my staff and we band together to share and kept everything clean and especially the knowledge and we and kelley, my account ant and without them, we definitely would not have a clean audit this year, thank you. And congratulations. So, we will now open it up for Public Comment on item four, is there any Public Comment . On item four, come forward. Good morning, commissioners we are fellow commissioners my name is jackie sacks and i have been on the Advisory Committee since 97 as you a
Francisco green party and also you might remember a few years ago 2006 and 7 my organization and we are still part of a coalition when when google and earth link were seeing tomorrow today or tomorrow the announcement that the fact that we kept them for actually charging us for wifi is leading to these corporations just giving it to us so thats something thats positive. And im hoping that in 2014 we finally do get scheduled on this item of building a public Broadband Internet network just like building the roads and highways we need in San Francisco im hoping in 2014 well finally get action items on that and doing studies on how we can roll that out. Great thank you very much. Anything else . So not seeing any member of the public commenting this item is closed and i believe that leads us to our next item which is item number 8 but before i do that i want to wish everyone a very happy holiday i hope you have a please ant and safe and joyful Holiday Season and best wishes for the new ye
That further guidelines that the department is interested in seeing be placed in the budget is, in fact, prepared so that when they bring it back to you in january, it will be close to being complete. That concludes my presentation. Im available for questions. Thank you, ms. Covy. Supervisors, any questions . Yes, please. Thank you for the presentation and your work on the guidelines for the clerks budget. A question about premium pay. Could you go into a little deeper describing what that is . What are the changes that youre proposing, what is currently the status of premium pay for yes, specifically, if were talking about the legislative premium pay for longevity, the legislative aide is working for the same supervisor for a period of four years and the fifth year they are working at the top step and they are entitled to an additional percentage based upon the mou for retention and any special skill the supervisor may feel that they have. The bilingual premium pay, i understand that