This is 90 minutes. Good morning. I feel like we should vote on something, but were not going to do that. My name is jonathan and on behalf of the Robert Kennedys school of politics and the internet association, im delighted to welcome everybody here and in the virtual world. We are live streaming. At least as far as i know. I would give you the url, but if youre on the lifestream, you party know it. If youre here, you dont need it. We are also being recorded for posterity. Our good friends and neighbors at cspan will be putting this up against the friday night battle between the house of representatives subcommittee on Veterans Affairs and a briefing at the treasury department. I think we are looking pretty good. Be aware. We are broadcasting. We are in the penthouse on the fifth floor of the kennedy school. The school is named after john f. Kennedy. The institute of politics here has been from the start designed to inspire and support the political aspirations and Public Service of y
As the far end of the pendulum it allows everybody to start from a position of we are going to work to keep openness as the basic principle and work act back from there with the exceptions. It sounds like you are saying, congress, keep up the good work. Just to put you on the record. Thanks so much for your enlightened legislation in the internet area. A senator from nebraska ended up being a visionary that he never expected to be. [laughter] you can layer on acceptable use policies, things that in the companys judgment like auctions that are prohibited. Sure. That has been from day one also. That was part of the protection of section 230 and 512 that provided for the ability for companies to exercise judgment and to get rid of things they believe are in the consumers interest. When theres been a conflict and commerce. Fake rolex watches, fake wetsuits watches being sold on ebay, is that settled now . I would say that the great copyright and trademark wars over the internet are not set
I will call these items in the order that they appear on the list. Is that okay . Yes. All right. Thank you vicepresident caen. Shes telling me to move these along. I will go ahead and call for a motion on item no. 9. City clerk would you like to call for Public Comment . I will do that. Thank you for bringing that to my attention. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. I will call for a motion. So moved. Its been moved. I will second as long as we have discussion after my second. And seconded with the caveat that we have a discussion. Lets commence that discussion. Vicepresident caen . I should have pulled it back down to 2 years where the motion fits. I appreciate you getting the line items to me to the departments. In so doing it really focused me on whats the difference bureau s and enterprises are planning to do because its in their request for new projects. I was at first taken by something that we are all very aware of. When you see it in
Debt services are increasing. The proposed changes in front of you as the general manager said we did over 100 reassignments and over 100 substitutions before we had come to this point in asking for what would be a 1 percent change in the authorizing of positions so a lot of movement and changing was done. We came and asked for six new operating positions. So, i think its been a remarkable process. Its been incredible as you have seen in the detailed back up and that being said when you look at the urban water shed positions we have very large numbers in the capital plan for more earlier Implementation Development projects, that 60 million plus, we have over 161 million related to storm Water Management in the Flood Control in the capital plan before you. So weve tried to balance that just as we have with our building inspection permit process on capacity fees by having some folks work over times. While there is 30 cranes on the skyline now, there was one. There wasnt the backlog. You
City clerk would you like to call for Public Comment . I will do that. Thank you for bringing that to my attention. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. I will call for a motion. So moved. Its been moved. I will second as long as we have discussion after my second. And seconded with the caveat that we have a discussion. Lets commence that discussion. Vicepresident caen . I should have pulled it back down to 2 years where the motion fits. I appreciate you getting the line items to me to the departments. In so doing it really focused me on whats the difference bureau s and enterprises are planning to do because its in their request for new projects. I was at first taken by something that we are all very aware of. When you see it in black and white looking at you, its all the mandatory fringe benefits. They are horrendous and you get the salary and benefits. Its something you can put in your mind there is nothing we can do about it but its very s