Well. Thanks for the great work. Cspans state of the Union Coverage begins at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Now a preview from the Washington Post. Hi, everybody. Thank you for being here. We are eager to talk to kellyanne conway. Were going to talk about starting with the state of the union. A year ago, the president gave first speech to the congress. In the days that followed, or a number of controversies that created a more polarizing. Nvironment im wondering, what can the president do for the deals. President is working the president is working on this speech, its a reflection on the past years accomplishments, but also the accomplishments not as just checking a box, a todo list, but really what is the nexus between what has happened and your own life on to or your own business or your own aspirations and how is that a framework for working together in 2018 . I would point out a few things. Theyre pretty recent. One is about two, three weeks ago now, the president held forth for 55 minutes,
All in all, this is a roughly 10 increase over our base operating budget, and this is something that we think is critical to get us in the right structure and setting to keep delivering on the things that weve identified as a priority as a department in the last couple of years. So im happy to answer any questions. Weve basically presented an overview and score card based on the goals we identified two years ago in our blueprint for accountablity, and this reflects our best judgment where weve been able to make some strides and the work we still have to do. The last we talk often about our performance indicators, and how were doing. We hope our work speaks for itself. We have a lot of work to be done, but were proud of what weve done, so one of the things that we have done this year is to make sure that we are closely aligning our individual performance goals each year with the overall organizations top priorities, so we have an annual performance goal discussion with employees, so we
Regulation are expected to come out of todays white house meeting, President Trump promised tougher background checks and Mental Health screens for gun buyers. His comments came as students stage protest the walkouts across the country renewing your coat demands for stricter gun laws. Reporter the president spent a lot of time listening to families and students about what they went through and also what they want to see lawmakers do. He did not lay down any specific policy during the meeting but he said he would consider and number of things around the same time students at schools across the country walking out of their classrooms. One week after the nations latest School Shooting, hundreds of students and staff gathered at the state capital in florida to demand change. To not change the law in our time of need would be huge disservice to the 17 dead. 13 dead in columbine, 26 dead in sandy hook, 50 dead in orlando, 59 dead in las vegas. This is to every lawmaker, no longer can you tak
Ordinance identified as 2017 wpo ballot measure, attachment one, and have it placed on the june ballot. I have a clarifying question for staff. I understand that the ballot measure and the ordinance as drafted there are slight differences as between the two. Could you give a summary of that to make sure i understand what is what would be miss from the version that would go on the ballot . Due to the jurisdiction of the authority we had to slightly scale back and narrow what would be in the full legislative proposal. It is 4. 105 to govern the overall scope of complaints whichca raise other can raise other concerns. Those were removed. The other big category were the proposed edits to 4. 107. That would have addressed the Whistleblower Program outsides of the Ethics Commission as well. The bulk and i will let the staff speak to the policy impact. The bulk of the amendments are still there in the ballot measure version. For those provisions excluded from the ballot measure provision, wha
Act to incorporate those or do they just disappear forever . I think if the Ethics Commission were to move forward i am not sure supervisor breed would want to introduce the remainder that is a different Decision Point for her. Comments or questions . Let me express myself. One of the problems voters face is too many ballot measures to figure out. That is why i would just prefer an ordinance especially when apparently ms. Breed is committed to this and president of the board. She ought to be able to get enough votes to get it passed. The other matter is a question. Why is the controller involved in whistleblower complaints . Anybody give me the rationale . The charter designates the Controller Office with the authority to run the whistleblower hot line that is how it is set up. What is the rationale . I cant speak to that. It is versus 311 or the Ethics Commission. Or the Ethics Commission. Or the City Attorney. My understanding from the whistleblower director because of the controller