State about security challenges. I want to welcome my panelists up here. Thank you for being to participate in this discussion. Obviously, its the topic day jour for Election Administrators and folks like jeremy in the Computer Science community dealing with election cybersecurity, securing the elections process. Just as a way of background, this topic is the topic de jour coming out of the elections where we saw state actors targeting systems and vendors and sphere fishing attempts in 2016 as well as declaration of elections as Critical Infrastructure. By the department of security. I hope we can talk about the operating environment. S and what steps were looking to secure the process looking at 2018 and how you are. Jeremy gray was supposed to be here from l. A. County and he came down with the flu. We thank him for not coming. We thank him for not coming. I will tee it up to do quick three to five minute opening remarks and then get into the discussion if thats okay. My far right is
Thank you for being to participate in this discussion. Obviously, its the topic day jour for Election Administrators and folks like jeremy in the Computer Science community dealing with election cybersecurity, securing the elections process. Just as a way of background, this topic is the topic de jour coming out of the elections where we saw state actors targeting systems and vendors and sphere fishing attempts in 2016 as well as declaration of elections as Critical Infrastructure. By the department of security. I hope we can talk about the operating environment. S and what steps were looking to secure the process looking at 2018 and how you are. Jeremy gray was supposed to be here from l. A. County and he came down with the flu. We thank him for not coming. We thank him for not coming. I will tee it up to do quick three to five minute opening remarks and then get into the discussion if thats okay. My far right is jeremy epstein, a long time involved in Election Research and member of
Lost through the contracts, that we are look agent 200, 300 . Thank you. President serina any other questions regarding 7b . Any comments or questions from the public . Hearing none, call the question, all in favor . Any opposed . Thank you, the motion carries. 7c. Requesting authorization to enter into a new Grant Agreement with Bayview Hunters Point Multipurpose Senior Services for the provision of Community Services Program Pilot during the time period beginning january 1, 2018 and ending on june 30, 2020 in an amount of 526,075, plus a 10 contingency of 52,608 for a total amount not to exceed 578,683. Thank you, tiffany. Ok, can i do lighthouse first . I think we skipped over that one. Sorry, that was my fault, because i side tracked everyone. President serina yes, of course. Commissioner lang very good. I wanted to set the stage [laughter]. Ok. The first Grant Agreement presented for approval is the standalone adult with disability pilot and it is for lighthouse for the blind and
Well be reporting out on those. The bills where there was no action, they could come up again, but today is the first day to the legislature reconvenes. So we dont know what bills theyre going to bring up or what new ones they may add. Senator weiner has a bill, sb 1103, on bicycle yielding, similar to the legislation we have here in San Francisco where you can yield the rightofway. You can yield and dont have to come to a full stop. The joint ledge committee has been opposed to that and thats in suspense at the moment, so well see what happens there. Today is the first day of the legislative session. Next monday, the budget has to be submitted by the governor. One of the things ive added to my report is what the legislative calendar is by quarter to kind of levelset what needs to be done up in sacramento. The 12th is the last day for the policy committees to hear and report to the fiscal committees and vice versa on anything that came up in the odd numbered years, so thats in the regs
With the next panel. I want to thank you all for coming back, first of all, from the break. I want to welcome my panelists up here. Thank you for being willing to participate in this discussion. Obviously, its the topic du jour, i would say, for Election Administrators as well as folks like jeremy in the Computer Science community, dealing with election cybersecurity and securing the elections process. Just as a way of background, this topic is obviously the topic du jour coming out of the 2016 election, where we saw nation state actors targeting state level election systems or registration systems as well as vendors in a spearfishing attempt in 2016 as well as the declaration of elections as Critical Infrastructure by the department of Homeland Security. So on this panel today, i hope we can delve into some of those issues, talk about the operating environment that Election Officials are in today, share the expertise that you all have, your experiences, and most importantly, what step