Roll call. Commission members please respond when he call your name. Commissioner ellington . Present. Commissioner [speaker not understood] . Absent. Commissioner sen . Here. Vicechair rowal he is . Present. Madam chair johnson . Here. Commissioner mondahah is absent and all other commissioner are present. Two announcements, a, please be advised a member of the public has up to three minutes to make personal Public Commentses on each agenda item unless the Commission Adopts a shorter period on any item. It is strongly recommended that members of the public who wish to address the commission fill out a speaker card submitted to the Commission Secretary [speaker not understood]. The next order of business is item 3, report on actions taken at previous closed session meeting, if any. There are no reportable actions. The next matter of business is item 4, matters of unfinished business. We have no item. The next order of business is item 5, matters of new business, first can consent jed i
Commissioner mondahah is absent and all other commissioner are present. Two announcements, a, please be advised a member of the public has up to three minutes to make personal Public Commentses on each agenda item unless the Commission Adopts a shorter period on any item. It is strongly recommended that members of the public who wish to address the commission fill out a speaker card submitted to the Commission Secretary [speaker not understood]. The next order of business is item 3, report on actions taken at previous closed session meeting, if any. There are no reportable actions. The next matter of business is item 4, matters of unfinished business. We have no item. The next order of business is item 5, matters of new business, first can consent jed item 5a, approval of minutes, regular meeting of november 5th, 2013. Madam chair . Thank you very much. Is there any Public Comment on the minutes . I have no speaker cards, madam chair. Okay, thank you very much. I believe we have one su
Public . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Chairman . Thank you. Mr. President , and thank you, for the very thoughtful conversation and suggestions and the work in the written presentations is excellent. And very, very helpful, i think to all of us, certainly to me. I would like to comment on something that a couple of people have said and i totally agree with the one size does not fit all. I have used my role as a commissioner here to look at and look out for the entire city in terms of transportation, that is the charge. And the same time being mindful of neighborhoods and groups and individuals, and circumstances that are around the city, i can assure you that it is an extremely difficult job and for us it is going to be getting much more difficult in the coming year because the transit effectiveness project will be coming out and that does involve some or one of the speakers mentioned removing some bus stops and changes. And so there is going to be a lot of opposition to it a
And finally, other recommendations by the committee, im happy to work with the committee as well as members of the board over the next several weeks to ensure 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 add
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 it is the supervisor who is working with the legislative staff. If the supervisor feels that