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 about that. That said, the extent to additional opportunity to speak and that is needed we are happy to provide that opportunity. I also want to note as distinguished by this report by miss stevenson, this is a resort that report that came out in 2010. The issues have been the subject of discussion for quite some time. We understand and we want to give you an opportunity to present and we dont expect very specific delineation of the things that you have done. But i
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 continue to grow and continue to be the inspiration as i see it above, they must reinstate those process suggested in the controllers report. They need to improve accountability and other interested parties. Conduct businesses with complete transparency as outlined in the documents. Including best practices and exercise best resources before going to outside resources who have no knowledge or experience. There is a perceived threat of retribution o
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. Whether you talk about an organization that is responsible for really this public trust, ensuring the pride parade and festival happen every year. I respectfully disagree with miss oliver in terms of anyones role in commenting on it and having a strong view on the governance structure. This isnt just a private thing. Its not about a private entity and how dare you suggest that they should merge or a Different Group should be responsible for the parade. This is a
Significant recruitment to the board in 1990, the 2011 posted on the website and they refer on their documents to have cleared the deficit and having cash on hand. I can confirm that we have not done any work or revisited any of their finances. I hope thats helpful. Great, thank you very much; miss stevenson. Colleagues do we have any questions of our controller . No questions of our controller. I would like to at this point provide an opportunity to sf pride to come up and make any statement or presentation and because of the rules how they govern, usually these presentations are limited to the 3minute Public Comment period which in this case i would like to allow for 3 minutes for on this item and if there is an opportunity, if there is a need to expand on it, we will go ahead and ask you questions to make sure that you have that opportunity. I would like to begin by introducing the newly pointed president of the board of directors and i know that we have been joined by other members
You think its doing, the organization . Well, the organization brought in a lot of money this year. I think that it had a lot of reasons, one, the economy is improving, two, the marriage issue was a big deal. Prop 8, this is the home where all that started. I do believe that the sponsors realized no matter how to decisions were going to go that this was going to be a Million People in San Francisco. So sponsors did come to us and i have reservations on how sponsor fulfillment was done. I have received a bunch of phone calls from sponsors who were not pleased personally because i know them. Operationally i wish the funds had come in sooner because i might have been able to procure talent early on. By the time the funds arrived, it was hard to book someone. They were already booked in other prides. But we that had litigants from pride that present stars as themselves. I act as a contractor and i make sure that pride understand that im an independent contractor and im not to be directed.