Good morning Committee Members, im dr. Derek kerr, a whistleblower. An audit of the program is a good idea but it should not be a peer review audit. That would just buy into the biases and weaknesses that all Whistleblower Programs have. It would be important to get to an whistleblower advocacy organization, such as the Government Accountability project in washington d. C. One of the consultants could advise to the standards that a Whistleblower Program should have to meet the needs of the whistleblowers in the public. It needs to be an independent audit and not by the same folks. We heard a lot about the rising quantity of complaints, but i want to talk about the quality or value of those complaints. Since the inception, the Whistleblower Program has been plagued by minor complaints. The 20102011 civil grand jury found that 36 were true whistleblower complaints alleging fraud, waste, and abuse. Then the Whistleblower Program developed a Risk Assessment policy that was designed to tria
My kids have trouble accessing content in the textbook loaded online. Sometimes physics text. Its a good idea to be using online resources, but then it brings into question my concern around access to technology for students who are expected to do their instructional kind of work is loaded on google classroom or their textbooks are uploaded. My kids are sharing the concerns, but i dont know how other than a parent sharing with principal, how that would come back to you and then us. I want to raise a question because were moving online, a lot of the instruction is moving online and that its a funny space because its not a textbook per se, but it is the curriculum materials. Kids dont have access to if they dont have access to Laptop Computers or wifi. Its my understanding that we dont have a Technology Policy around access to curriculum. Do you know about that . Not know about that . Ive asked and it doesnt seem like we have an explicit policy around ensuring students have access to onl
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Flags in san rafael. Its not open until 8 00. But in the next hour youre okay to line up and wait for the gates and doors to open. Also the Sonoma County fair grounds is accepting evacuees. The Petaluma Community center and fair grounds, the reason were still mentioning to them, theyre good meeting places. You can meet with people there and then evacuate together. The finley Community Center was an Evacuation Center and it has now been evacuated itself. Again, if you need a place to stay, yourptions in the north bay are currently the marin County Fair Grounds and the Sonoma County fair grounds. Heres a look at the evacuation map you can see. Look how wide it is. People should be ready to leave. In fact n many parts of Sonoma County extends as far as mt. Stchlt helena to the east as far a south as sew bath i co. Highway 101 in santa rosa and cloverdale are told theyre being reopened right now. They had shut them down in both directions which is concerning if youre trying to get out of t
Public comment. We do have a commentator. This should be one of the chowder judges. Good evening commissioners. I just want to also give kudos to randal and rachel from the Community Benefit district at fishermans wharf. The business there is like a roller coaster ride. Today was completely dead. So events like this help merchants it keeps the vie vibrance. The fact that we are having this discussion, i mean, is great. Theres a Michael Jackson performer. Theres a sinatra performer. They are not permitted performers. They just come up randomly whenever they want so to speak. But having this discussion today, we are ready and we know what we are getting. I commend this gentleman here. Wharf fest is going to be very successful. I think it will be sold out. This is not a first time event. They have a history behind this event. So i just think that this one in particular, the music is going to be really cool this year. So im all for it. Thank you. Anymore Public Comment . Seeing none, Publi