Chair m chair mar good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the thursday, march 5 meeting of the government audit and Oversight Committee. Im supervisor gordon mar, the chair of this committee, and im joined by supervisor matt haney, and supervisor aaron peskin will be joining us shortly, as well as supervi sandra lee fewer. Thank you to this committees clerk, john carroll, and id like to thank sfgovtv. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Please silence your cell phones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and copies of any documents should be provided to the clerk. Items acted on today will appear on the march 10 board of supervisors agenda. [agenda item read]. Chair mar supervisor fewer, thank you for joining us this morning as the sponsor of this hearing. The floor is yours. Supervisor fewer thank you, committee. I call this hearing today after discussions with ifpte local 21 because i am concerned about the use of Civil Service exclusions
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and risked fuelling starvation in poorer nations. the guardian has a photo of the tributes in the south korean capital seoul, where 150 people were killed yesterday in a crush at a halloween festival. let me bring it our guests. good to have you with us. i want to begin with that very poignant photo on the front of the guardian. raphael rashid wrote the article, he quoted, outside it was chaos, i couldn t move. shyama, when you read this story, what are you thinking? i’m story, what are you thinking? i m “ust story, what are you thinking? in just thinking how desperately sad it is. what else is it possible to think? i have children. yesterday shortly after the story broke, i had a 31 year old dressed as a witch, bright red flowers, lace all done up, whatever, going out to celebrate in peckham. halloween has become such a big thing around the world. all of us who have kids, it doesn t matter whether they are three years old or 30 years old, they are out celebrating. the id