Families. Whichever family it was relevant to. It is a really strange thing because i didnt feel i have to go to the fbi didnt want to go to the fbi because i didnt think wed get to the families. When i went directly to the families, they many times all the time or happy to have the spirit of what are they going to do with the information once you get it. Now how do you operate on it whether someone is saying i know how to make contact with the kidnappers or whether it is information about where people are being held or anything like that. We passed it onto the families but there was always this empty feeling they would not be effectively worked on because of the failure of the government to assist. I think that is a success of the british philosophy in terms of having two diplomats totally delegated to helping hostage families understand what is going on. They dont pay ransom either. Their results are similar to ours up to this point. But at least families such as ours would have conf
Mondejar, sing, rosales, johnson. The vote is 5 ayes. Thank you very much. Next item. 5e thourzing a Second Amendment to the personal Services Contract with twin three Building Maintenance company a sole proceed that extends the term by 15 months to june 30, 2015, and increase the amount. Thank you madam secretary. As you heard in the item introduction this is simply a Term Extension with some additional dollars. The existing contract actually does expire in march and as you know the state department of finance is continuing to review our long range Property Management plan, the latest information that we have that they will approve all the Property Management plans by the end of december of 2014. Certainly we know they are quite busy right now and their review of our obligations payment schedule and the other reviews and this pmp is really at the back of the line. So as you saw in perhaps previous items come before you as a koth contingency matter on the parks with which particular of
Supervisor mar. Supervisor tang. Supervisor wiener. Supervisor yee mr. President , all members are present thank you ladies and gentlemen, could you please join us in the pledge of allegiance. And to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Clearances we have our february 11th board of Meeting Minutes motion by supervisor mar without objection those are approved are there any compulsions. No one. Consent calendar 1 through 8 those are the items to be severed if any member obtains roll call on consent calendar. Supervisor breed. Supervisor campos. Supervisor chiu. Supervisor cowen. Supervisor farrell. Supervisor kim. Supervisor mar. Supervisor tang. Supervisor wiener. Supervisor yee. Supervisor avalos. There are 11 is. Next item. An ordinance to amend the administrative code for the Public Utilities commission are considered local in the local hiring policy projects located within 70 miles of the jurisdictions of San Francisc
The community we said weight be supporting every speekt of our neighborhood and making them property as well we feel this the appropriate thank you. Supervisor tang. Supervisor avalos do you want to add anything to that that sure thank you for your question i want to include the arts they dont get a lot of attention when it comes to our budget process yet i hear a lot of the organizations their struggle as well. I think about the arts organizations they serve as a real economic engine for the city. We look at tourism and hospitality as a big part of our economy but about you as a city we havent been cognizant of the displacement and the costs of doing business her that prevents them from staying in the city and were seeing a lot of arts organizations wondering if theyll be around. In terms of the amount of money it is really based on the work ive done on the budget over the years when weve actually done the increasing weve allocated in some years in 2006 about Million Dollars and its b
This information. And the government as tempt to gag them from sharing even this most basic data or even to admit that they have received foreign intelligence demands at all is clearly unconstitutional. Indeed youll see this prior restraint at work in the room. Even though everyone in this room knows and understands that google has received Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act process, googles representative is the one person in the room who cannot admit it. Third, Greater Transparency is urgently necessary to restore the international communitys trust in the u. S. Government and in our u. S. Internet industry, which is projected to lose tens ifll hundreds of billions of dollars in the face of widespread concern from foreign governments and international users. We must take this opportunity to demonstrate that our surveillance practices are necessary and proportionate and respectful of constitutional and human rights. And if the numbers show otherwise we must take this opportunity to