Okay. Good afternoon Everyone Welcome back to out of recess from our regularly scheduled Budget Finance Committee for wednesday, may 20, 2015, madam clerk call item 14 hearing on the Youth Priorities for fiscal years 2014 and 20162017 and requesting the Youth Commission to report. Okay. Thank you madam clerk this is a tradition we have at the Budget Committee to hear from the Youth Commission i want to thank the commissions to literally i didnt this is my appointee and thank you lilly for your harry reid hard work and looking forward to hearing our priorities and work with the whoever wants to come on and start the examination all right. Thank you for having us here this good afternoon good afternoon. Im micro leigh mayoral appointees on the second year on the Commission Im a seminar the Lowell High School this is a productive year weve worked on the methods from writing resolutions to writing and hosting public hearing for the media and after much hard work the residents and meetings
Thousand plus we show 34 percent is 59 percent higher and sfmta labor rates for the engineer is hundred and 33 thousand plus and again, the 35 percent should be 53. 8 percent to use it new york no sense we make a recommendation to ask the controller to look at the mtas direct and indirect labor rates and make the elements prior to 9 next issuance of the transportation bonds anticipated in may 2016 we believe that is good legislation we recommend all of the two resolutions be approved. Thank you to the mta any questions or comments on the reserve and the recommendation of mr. Roses. On behalf of mta no comments. Okay thanks very much supervisor tang. Sorry to add on to harveys recommendations to items 11 12 and 13 if mta can provide clarity between the difference of public works and mta is calculating. Sure we is have the office of Public Finance to address you on the body as well warmed up to the rates we have third Party Entities that develops our cost plan as development by the state
Have a much higher percentage of the funds that come from federal, state, and local and public works does we welcome the Controllers Office evaluation we can find to reduce our off head well certainly love to do that i focused that on when i was at the public works to be as lean as we need to be theres a lot of complexity and hoops we need to jump through to spend the requests and spend and report on the various funding streams thats part of what might be driving the difference were thankful for the suggestion and welcome anything that the Controllers Office can provide in ways to improve. Ill look forward to following up with the Controllers Office and i know that director reiskin you have the unique situation youve been in would agencies so i know you have that experience how you do things in public works now in mta but moving forward we would like to get more clarity. Okay. Colleagues any more questions or comments. Open up for Public Comment any Public Comment on this item . Items
From the fact that the difference in the complexity between the agencies the diversity of fund sources as well as the requirement that we have a much higher percentage of the funds that come from federal, state, and local and public works does we welcome the Controllers Office evaluation we can find to reduce our off head well certainly love to do that i focused that on when i was at the public works to be as lean as we need to be theres a lot of complexity and hoops we need to jump through to spend the requests and spend and report on the various funding streams thats part of what might be driving the difference were thankful for the suggestion and welcome anything that the Controllers Office can provide in ways to improve. Ill look forward to following up with the Controllers Office and i know that director reiskin you have the unique situation youve been in would agencies so i know you have that experience how you do things in public works now in mta but moving forward we would like
Ahoy, mates. And welcome to tonights great lives presentation on americas pirates. The top is faltered by the Community Bank of chesapeake to whom we are grateful for their generous support over the past several years. And its that kind of commitment that enables it the program to bring to the university and to the Community Outstanding speakers such as our guest tonight. Eric jay dolin is the author of the fascinating book black flags blue waters. The epic history of americas most notorious pirates. Eric grew up near the coast of new york and connecticut. And from an early age developed an interest in maritime affairs. Toward that end, he earned the double major in biology and environmental studies then getting a masters degree in Environmental Management from yale. That was followed by a ph. D. In environmental policy and planning from mit, where his dissertation focused on the role of the courts in the cleanup of boston harbour. Eric has held an interesting variety of jobs. Many of