Support of the office of ece. Thank you. [calling speaker names] all right. Hi i am santa blackman and the executive director of Childrens Council of San Francisco and the vice chair of cpac and i want to thank the supervisors for their support of prop c and commissioner yee in particular for his leadership on prop c and this trailing legislation establishing the office of early care and education. And i also want to express my appreciation to him for including those in the child care and Early Childhood sector with input as we have been defining how the cac should be constituted and i believe it was a good representation of voices from the community, parents, providers, and people with expertise. Theres one clarification i just want to suggest that we look at and i havent focused on this sort of made my reputation for in this case picking but i want to make sure its not clear in the legislation. For each seat they lose it by no longer being in the status and i think it needs to be cle
To follow and today we will hear about some of the work that is happening in california and from the California Association of voting officials and a Nonprofit Agency that advocates for open source Voting System and Good Government and also as cost saving measure. We will also hear about what paths San Francisco could potentially follow to inc. Plement its own Voting System and studying the process currently ongoing in Los Angeles County. Today before the Committee Colleagues is a resolution that expresses San Franciscos commitment to implementing and working with other jurisdictions and organizations to implement an open source Voting System. The resolution requests that lafco studied how San Francisco could implement its own Voting System and we spoke with their staff and they are willing and able to do this if requested by the lafco board and supervisor mar has informed us he is interested adding his name as a cosponsor and carrying that request at lafco which hes a member. These ar
Costs go down capital is freed up to allocate to other areas of elect administration. In addition open Source Systems will increase the transparency another key recommendation of the task force and numerous independent investigation have discovered serious security weaknesses and design errors in widely used equipment. By designing software in an open environment there is increased chance that defects will be identified and addressed. On december, 2013 the California Association of voting officials was launched for the purpose of providing a mechanism for counties to pull resources to invest in the development and use of open Voting Systems per public elections as well as to provide training, education and Management Practices to Election Officials for the effective use of open source technologies. Cabo is a california nonprofit non stock Mutual Benefit corporation and owned by the public for the Mutual Benefit of its members when include individuals, voting jurisdictions, academic and
Nonprofit agency that advocates for open source Voting System and Good Government and also as cost saving measure. We will also hear about what paths San Francisco could potentially follow to inc. Plement its own Voting System and studying the process currently ongoing in Los Angeles County. Today before the Committee Colleagues is a resolution that expresses San Franciscos commitment to implementing and working with other jurisdictions and organizations to implement an open source Voting System. The resolution requests that lafco studied how San Francisco could implement its own Voting System and we spoke with their staff and they are willing and able to do this if requested by the lafco board and supervisor mar has informed us he is interested adding his name as a cosponsor and carrying that request at lafco which hes a member. These are steps to have a more free and accurate Voting System to strengthen the public trust and colleagues if there are no comments we have a few presenters
Now. And welcome back, everybody, to the closing bell. Im mandy drew i sitting in for maria bartiromo. Lots of drama in washington. Congressional leaders have arrived at white house. They arrived there about an hour ago with three days to go before we go over that proverbial fiscal cliff. They are meeting with the president and the treasury secretary timothy geithner, and they are trying to hash out a deal. But reports that the president has nothing new on the table has ended up spooking wall street in a big way just in the last hour, and as bill said we finished down near the lows of the day, down about 157 points for the dow. Settling up right now. Down what, about 165 at the very low, bill . I think so, yes. And the nasdaq finishing down 25 points and the s p off by 15, a fifth straight day in the red. Well, it is the last friday of 2012. Its in the books. Check. Still no deal in sight and no new offer either on the table from the president as eamon javers told us a little while ago