This is true because of the incredible success the Broadband Program has had across the country here and at the Brooklyn Library amazing things. Making Great Strides and addressing the digital skill divide. Many of us are wondering where the additional funding is going to come from . I should take a moment on the Digital Literacy spectrum to talk about the room we are sitting. This is a digital commons. It provides us through an increasingly sophisticated set of tools, faster connectivity. It cost around 34 million and how can we build more because we know the need is there. I am hoping the panel will talk about this. It is my pleasure to introduce the director of Library Services. Susan has done so much in her tenure to elevate libraries in the consciousness and we owe her gratitude and will be sorry to see her go. Susan, please, thank you. [ applause ] i would ask our gentlemen, the two toms if you dont mind joining me on the stage. Good morning, everyone. Well it is so wonderful to
Accountability institutions of the u. N. , there are three of them. There is the Ethics Office, where comes to whistleblower protection. There is an office of internal wersight services, to which referred, the inspector general, and the third is the justice system. Each one of these is broken in some way. Office, if we just look at the evidence, of the numbers, and i get these from the Government Accountability project, which is representing me in terms of advocacy here in washington and elsewhere, and we have the president here in the audience , there have been since the establishment of the Ethics Office in 2006, as i ever been told, 2013, there have been more who 300 whistleblowers and have come forward to the Ethics Office. Of those, the Ethics Office reviewed 99, and they found retaliation in only two cases, two. Mine is not one of those two. They turn down my case for but that is an astonishingly low percentage. 2 or depending on what your denominator is, but it is a very, very l
Having to do with inappropriate conduct. This committee had gone ahead and prosecuted her for those ethical violations under its powers to do so. And had entered into a stipulation with her giving her, and which she accepted certain putsv, which were the extent of what we could punish her for, for these particular violations. So, in that sense, then, our job was over in regard to ms. Ellis. The thought was at the time when we were doing this, and we had none of you all here, nobody was here. The thought when we were doing this, that in regard to these particular violations influencing a government decision, which the official has a financial benefit, thats a fairly egregious ethical breach and the thought was, and we had some discussion, i had mentioned it, this person by admitting these things has really admitted that she engaged in corrupt conduct and has disgraced herself and it would be unlikely that she would continue in San Francisco employment, that she would likely be fired. So
Introducing this resolution. I sat here tonight and ive listened to all of you and ive listened to the message that you sent. Its not just the message thats a powerful message. Its a tsunami in terms of who this woman is and in terms of what you think of her and in terms of her importance, particularly in the minority community. And in the black community ~. And i agree, based upon everything that youve said, that to go ahead and terminate ms. Ellis would be sending a terrible message to the city and county of san francisco, particularly to minority individuals who want to be part of Public Service in san francisco. It would be, it would be miss perceived and it would be underably misperceived. It would be misperceived in the way many of you said. So, in regard to there being some sort of hidden agenda or any sort of racism, van jones had it right. We stepped in it. Thats what happened. And i want to withdraw the resolution. [cheering and applauding] i think there is no objection from
Today. It sounds like this matter had been resolved, but you have chosen to reopen it. I dont know why. And people have indicated that there must be some ulterior motive. And as i sit and i listen, i have to believe that myself. But as president obama said, Trayvon Martin could be his son. Juliet could be my daughter. So, i ask you to stop this. Stop this mistreatment of africanamericans in this city. Thank you. applause thank you for your comments. Thank you for your comments. Sir, please. Yes, my name is sean richard, im the executive director of brothers against guns. I met juliet because she helped us with a second round of young men that we was helping called the Redirection Program with a few with one of my counterpartenerses ken mitchell that we started. A couple young men that was dealing with violence, anger management, conflict resolution, trying to get his life together, help them get jobs. We met her through the San Francisco foundation seeking money. She helped us out and