Disclosure agreement all personnel must sign. Thats clean and clear that would be violation. Lou the department of justice now refusing to provide two of its top officials in the fbi for interviews with the Senate Judiciary committee. One of those previously said james drafted a statement exonerating Hillary Clinton two months before interviewing her. His comments are of interest to the department of justices investigation of the handling of the clinton email investigation itself. The Justice Department citing special counsel muellers russia investigation in its refusal to provide those officials for interview. Steven boyd wrote this. Saying quote. The scope of the committees inquiry has not been deconflicted with special counsel muellers investigation. Therefore to protect the integrity of the special counsels investigation, well not be able to provide them for interviews at this time. The likelihood james comey will be facing investigation. It is clear much has changed in washington
The d. T. Contract management data, manually compiled into a spreadsheet and found it problematic on several fronts. Number one, we could not determine the remaining Spending Authority on the active contracts just by looking at their contract data. And in addition to that, even though it was compiled in a spreadsheet, it was not in a fully functional contract management database that would do things like notify you if a contract was about to expire. So, we noted, for example, there was 35 contracts that had expired but under which services were still being performed at the time of the audit. And we also noted a case where a vendor had to notify d. T. Of the pending expiration and the renewal cost was not in d. T. Budget, so a scramble for resources to make sure the contract was renewed on time, and that there were appropriate funds for the services that other departments were relying on. The other thing ill say about contracts, too, they often lacked cost controls, work, deliverables n
Their processes. Right now there is a meeting going on where the Strategic Plan i shared with you is going into what we call a deep dive, so we are actually working with each one of the divisions and reviewing each individual project and have that dashboard, color coded dashboard to review and im aware where each project is. Thank you for the opportunity to present and i certainly look forward to working with all of you on Technology Projects for the city. So, im happy to answer any questions. Thank you, linda. Colleagues . I do have a few questions. So, thank so much, for presenting today. And it feels like you know, theres quite a bit of work that needs to be done, but im glad that we are moving towards a process of addressing it. I had, i wanted to bring up somewhat separate concern, although related to this audit, which is expense of our licensed Software Usage here in San Francisco and i know i bring this up all the time at the Board Meeting when we have licensed software contract
I am a fellow at the. While liberal arts rule of the divisional world. They had known each other for a little while now. I immediately thought of my freshman year in college. I decided on what i should major in. I love history and Political Science. No one cares to read about. I decided to meet the professional world halfway and major in business. When i read this book and i talked to scott about it made sense because my career like many of yours as well was taken different pivots into turns and i realized that now what i didnt know then which was in many ways the liberal arts in business has applicability to the Technology World even innovation in general. With that i want to turn it over to scott before scott tells you more about his book i know scott from our time in new york. He like myself has spent time in the Venture Capital world also worked for google and facebook. And has the dream resume. He has spent some time as a president ial information fellow. Have the fortune or misfo
Disparagement provision placed be placed on speech itself. It has historically been much more tied to First Amendment values, to the incentivizeation of Free Expression. Part of that seems to me to ignore the fact that we have a culture in which we had tshirts and logos and rock bands and so forth are expressing the point of view they are using the market to express views. I mean certainly disparagement wouldnt work with copyright. Thats a powerful important Government Program. Ret melet me say two or three things before that. Music the slants are expressing views on social and political issues. They have a First Amendment right to do that. Theyre able to copyright their songs and get intellectual Property Protection that way. If congress attempted to prohibit them either have having copyright protection or copyright registration on their music, that would pose a much more substantial First Amendment issue. I was somewhat surprised that in your brief you couldnt bring yourself to say t