This hearing for future date in certain areas. However, having said that, i am here this afternoon to troo try to provide as many answers and respond to questions that im capable of. Those who may not know that since 2011 identify been serving as board i have been serving as vicepresident and as of last week i have been serving as the president of the board. Thank you, mr. President. The one thing i would say in reference to the notice, my office has been in contact with your then executive director for weeks and we have left a number of messages about the fact that a hearing would be held in early september. So i just want to be very clear about that. This is not something where 3 days ago we decided to have a hearing. This is something where we announced that there would be a hearing before the summer and we have communicated through pride through the existing structure which is you talk to the duly appointed executive director and thats what weve tried to do. I want to be very clear
For the organization. Thats just simple me thinking. I just want to put that out there because i dont understand how that happens. I understand. Supervisor wiener . Thank you. Im not going to express a view on the side of the board. I think there are boards of 10 or 12 or 14 that just function 15. But i do want to say that some of the issues that we heard today and this is general comment, you dont need to thank you. In terms of that there are outdated bylaws and procedures that should have apparently been updated a long time ago, havent been. We have the situation which has been resolved thanks to a lot of hard work but probably shouldnt have happened in the first place to have significant turnovers of executive directors which is not just recent thing but happened in the past as well. We see problems and apparent low moral among contractors who make the actual parade and festival work every year. And to me whether the comments whether the structure, its a challenging organization. Wh
Executive director. I think from what i understand, the board hasnt even been trained on its own Decision Making process. This seems to be almost no training on best board practices and i think that is something that could go a long way towards solving the problems. Thank you, next speaker and i have another speaker card and i apologize for mispronouncing it. Good afternoon. My name is joe virginia. Im a candidate on the upcoming board of directors elections for pride. I was also a Community Grand marshall last year and for the past 15 years i have cohosted and produced with donna sash e for the Resource Center and i have board experience with past president and 5 years as chairman and served on various boards from the lgbt Human Rights Commission to the hiv aids planning council. My intent today is to not make anything personal. In fact i dont know most of the people on the board of directors. My criticism of the day is to shed like on the governance of trying to offer my help to the
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Lifting spirits. I have delighted in course with and dogs dressed in too toos. Blessing showered by the two spirit nation people and coaches and drumming and the color guard of the latin men and women and the strutting to the hip hop beat to the African American community. A true representation of the San Francisco melting pot is not outside the San Francisco pride. This year i was able to convince almost a hundred girl scouts and their leaders to participate in the parade for the First Time Ever possibly an international history. And the thank you notes i got that read dear pride parade if you for getting the girl scouts in the prooid parade this year. For me this is what pride parade means and some of the varieties each girl gave. Helping me understand diversity in the lgbt world. Pride acceptance. Let me ask you a question. Let me ask you to complete your statement. Supporting the community, unity and growth, same sex marriage. San Francisco Pride has been ever evolve but for it to