Pieces of ethics ordinances that require online reporting of lobbying activities, require the Electronic Filing of campaign statements, and updates to our city conflict of interest codes. But in my second term i have a much stronger sense of how influence impacts important and lucrative decisions in our 7 billion plus budget. I have 26,000 Employee Base that we have making decisions every day about how we use public dollars. I regularly hear from constituents concerned about governmental transparency. This legislation is designed to increase Public Confidence in the everyday workings of our local government, shining a brighter light will lead to better and more open decisions by city officials. And while our proposals will effect certain activities such as lobbying and permit expediting, i want to make it very clear that we are not saying with our legislation that these activities cannot or should not occur. We are simply saying that its important for the public to know when they do oc
The everyday workings of our local government, shining a brighter light will lead to better and more open decisions by city officials. And while our proposals will effect certain activities such as lobbying and permit expediting, i want to make it very clear that we are not saying with our legislation that these activities cannot or should not occur. We are simply saying that its important for the public to know when they do occur that there be transparency. As Supreme Court Justice Louis brandeis once said, sunlight is the best of disinfectants. I want to briefly summarize the changes that we have made to the legislation since our last hearing and there are a number of categories in which we have made changes. First and foremost, weve created a distinction between inhouse and contract lobbyists for inhouse lobbyists they qualify if they have more than five contacts in any calendar month. For contract lobbyists they would qualify if they get paid for Lobbyist Services and if they have
They are among the most detailed that weve come across in our research. But we know that we can do better. During my time on the board im proud to have passed several pieces of ethics ordinances that require online reporting of lobbying activities, require the Electronic Filing of campaign statements, and updates to our city conflict of interest codes. But in my second term i have a much stronger sense of how influence impacts important and lucrative decisions in our 7 billion plus budget. I have 26,000 Employee Base that we have making decisions every day about how we use public dollars. I regularly hear from constituents concerned about governmental transparency. This legislation is designed to increase Public Confidence in the everyday workings of our local government, shining a brighter light will lead to better and more open decisions by city officials. And while our proposals will effect certain activities such as lobbying and permit expediting, i want to make it very clear that
Attach our report in. And if not we would be required to modify or withhold our report from this other information document. Our audit plan. Here is a list of the scope of work of those departments, financial audits, agreed upon procedures, and examinations that kpmg is responsible for reporting and testing to, and of course here is the applicable Financial Reporting framework. As i mentioned earlier, that we will follow. In regard to results from prior year in all of these, they are consistent reports with prior year and as carmen indicated, we had a modified opinions and it no significant material deficiencies to report. We also like to disclose in our audit plan presentation Public Offerings and any instances of which the city may have an offering of exempt securities. In these situations, much as i indicated before, we would be required to perform procedures as were required by the applicable standards and this would also consist of subsequent event procedures in order to be engage
Much stronger sense of how influence impacts important and lucrative decisions in our 7 billion plus budget. I have 26,000 Employee Base that we have making decisions every day about how we use public dollars. I regularly hear from constituents concerned about governmental transparency. This legislation is designed to increase Public Confidence in the everyday workings of our local government, shining a brighter light will lead to better and more open decisions by city officials. And while our proposals will effect certain activities such as lobbying and permit expediting, i want to make it very clear that we are not saying with our legislation that these activities cannot or should not occur. We are simply saying that its important for the public to know when they do occur that there be transparency. As Supreme Court Justice Louis brandeis once said, sunlight is the best of disinfectants. I want to briefly summarize the changes that we have made to the legislation since our last heari