Have 9 members show up at every meeting and one of the members is the board of supervisors and we have only just recently gotten a board of supervisors on so that meant we were at 16 so if we ended up at 12 or 13, part is the nature of the fact that we have 5 people who are complinets who go through periods where they Mental Health issues and cant show up to meetings and the other is Family Members so they have a client in the family that goes into the crisis on the day of the meeting. Some of the nature of the board but maybe i emphasize we need quaurm too much. I have actually done very well. Terri, a board member, we havent missed quaurm in a year. My apology maybe just me saying we always need to keep quaurm there is 17 members is there a reason the body has to be so large . If you condense oo 7 or 9 . When i arrived in 1999 it was 17. I believe we are acchel the largest membership in the state and so i donti havent been able to find history that explains why we have 17 members. Th
Amount of leave [inaudible]3 4 f1 election to be held on november 3, 2015 i want to start by saying thank you to all my colleagues, all 11 members of the borebd cosponsored this Charter Amendment so just by way of background, back in 2002 the voters adopt the first paid parental leave in San Francisco and im very proud that we took the lead on that and so under the current paid Parental Leave Program employees received 12 weeks or if employees are disabled by pregnancy they get up to 16 weeks of leave after the first adoption or fostering of the chooild so this supplemented state disability, paid sick leave, compensatory time and orelt types of leave. I would like to thank department of human resources. The Charter Amendment we are proposing today we wish we could have done it via ordinance but we have to go before the voters gaen to amendment. [inaudible] allow 40 times of sick hours on the book. Currently city workers must exhaust all sick and vaiication time before beginning paid ti
Word in about toni. Ue gene has also been coming to meetings quite regularly and i dont know the third candidate but it is tough decision but i encourage you to make one so we can continue to have a quaurm. Thank you mrs. Burkes i have a couple questions. In the last couple years i known you you did a lot of good work. Im curious to know, one thing i know is there seems to be a consistent struggle for quaurm. Is there something we can do to help you meet your quaurm . Are we not selecting the persons with the commitment . Is itim just trying to understand better how i can help you we havent had a consistent struggle. We went flow a period where we were down. We have a total membership of 17 members, which means we have to have 9 members show up at every meeting and one of the members is the board of supervisors and we have only just recently gotten a board of supervisors on so that meant we were at 16 so if we ended up at 12 or 13, part is the nature of the fact that we have 5 people w
Approval by the board of supervisors we were able to secure funding for a paid parental leave counselor at dhr. That was a wonderful idea because manyit is very complicated. I learned myself how challenging it is to understand the various layers of federal, state and local policy that a expecting muckter is to put together. I want to thank janey white prom dhr for counseling our staff. With that colleagues i dont know if you have questions or comments . I just want to compliment you and the staff. I think it is fantastic piece of legislation. I was hapied and honored to join you at the press conference i guess a mupth ago. It is a Long Time Coming so that is all ill say and looking forward to the staff presentation i was very eager to find out the [inaudible] and the earliest is about 10 years ago we established the family leave policy here in San Francisco and you are actually building on the work that was done from years ago and it is great we look how to upidate it as well thank you
Winning tickets sold in the 400 million Mega Millions jackpot, one of the largest in history. The cities and stores with reasons to celebrate today, wednesday, march 19th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good to have you with us. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. And it is day 12 of this mystery regarding Malaysian Airlines. It has really captivated the country and the world, actually. So many people with questions. We actually put the call out yesterday right. Online, and said, all right, folks, send us your questions, and were going to convene a panel of experts to answer them. A lot of questions than answers right now. And you can send your question by heading to our Facebook Page or tweeting us with orangeroom. Lets get to the new information, though, coming out of this mornings news conference. It involves the pilots home simulator and files that were deleted, also when the plane act