Allegations of corruption, and indictments and guilty pleas swirling around city Hall Contracting the city family is plugging along with another enormous bond for this november, much of it which will go to d. P. W. The ethics budget is not an expense. Its an investment that pays dividends and in cost savings and honest government. Thank you very much. If you are joining by the webex Browser Extension, if you wish to raise your hand for this Public Comment and other Public Comments, you may do so by clicking on the raise hand icon. Its located in the participants panel on the lowerright corner. To access that panel, you can click on the navigation bar located in the video screen by clicking on the participants icon. I do not see any additional callers concerning Public Comment. Im going to close Public Comment first, i want to say in response to the Public Comment, to the first specificker who had substantive points of information concerning City Contracting i do hope that the whistlebl
Anytime that im looking at the labor request for the commission is that the commission exercises the power sparingly, and useds a balancing approach where you balance the need for the labor on the one hand with any danger of unfair advantage or undue influence on the other hand. And in cases where you find that the need for the labor outweighs the danger of impropriety, thats when the waiver is proper. Otherwise, the balance of equities is not there and the waiver is probably inappropriate. So in this particular instance, i do recommend a waiver to be granted along the lines of what was requested and what is requested is that mr. Eske be allowed as he sits on the Arts Commission to continue to engage in compensated advocacy, limited to a specific list of city commissions but not all city commissions and City Employees, but the set of commissions that he interacts with now. And to that i would add that he only be allowed to engage in compensated advocacy for clients of his architecture
Notification radius would not have necessarily changed specifically in this case. And, the notification, and this was. This permit was actually in the beginning of the initiation of the program, so there has been some modifications or adjustments based upon what has happened since, and we need to renotify as appropriate and but at that point in eat valuation it did not seem appropriate to notify. That should not effect the notification radius, right . So even though there is modifications in the new legislation, the notification process should still be the same in regards to the radius, correct . That is correct. And then in this case, in the very beginning we will have the list and there was obviously the merchant identified the specific location. Okay . For the reasons and i am not exactly certain the reason, at that location, they requested the merchant to relocate across the street is one possibility and based upon that information, we are trying to determine, we made an internal e
A few though dollars. How many people work at the cart . It is me and my wife. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We are going to hear from the department now. Good evening, commissioners, from the department of public works, a little history behind this permit, on march 17, 2011 we received an application from the permitee in approximately that time we also sent off the 30 day notice through the mailing and the notice was provided to us through the Radius Services. We have a copy of the all of the addresses that this was mailed to and the requestor for the jurisdiction would like to hear that address was not listed on this mailing. And one thing to note, is that the legislation is set up for all of the businesses are notified and so i am not. I am not certain, how the business is defined through the Radius Service and through the affidavit when they make that initial finding. And what happened is that during this 30day period the department did receive the objections from the neig
Because that was when we received notice from the board of appeals that the appeal was dismissed due to lack of subject matter jurisdiction. Okay. And so for that period of time you were not operating . Not there, no. Okay. Okay. How many locations does kettle corn star have . We have two, where is the other one . The other one is further down by coffee bean on Fourth Street and the address is 773, Market Street and so that is like 500 feet away. Okay. So no others in the city . No. Just those two. What was the cost incurred when you got the permit . If you can give me a ballpark . If you know . There were a lot of fees involved. Right. You have to pay the Health Department fee you have a ballpark ago arrogate . A few though dollars. How many people work at the cart . It is me and my wife. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We are going to hear from the department now. Good evening, commissioners, from the department of public works, a little history behind this permit, on march 17