you. let s keep moving through the recommendations. supervisor chu: just a quick thing, are there any other departments that want to respond to recommendation b1? for the controller s office, this subject matter was in last year s report and there was a fair amount more detail on where we think the city s controls are in this areañr. it is true that this practice, if exists, which we don t think is a major issue here, but it is long and costly, and there is no underlying this agreement with the concept that is represented here. although we are not offering it auditing this specific issue, we have a zero audit program will be solid job classis, the departments, or functions on a regular basis and look at the appropriate payment in terms of premiums, whether or not they re being treated correctly by way of pay code, correctly included with pension compensation, that kind of thing. we have an audit program that addresses appropriate treatment of pay in that way. supervisor
getting pension-able lump-sum vacation pay out and things like that. i have already addressed this allowing employees from drawing two simultaneous pensions from different jobs. i m not clear on what is meant by the term pension pyramiding. if that means to jobs? that is not clear? supervisor mar: is there any reason why the pension income was from the department of health and not other departments? because they have trouble getting nursing supervisors, and you have to have nursing supervisors on duty. if somebody is willing to work extra hours, and we have rn s, too, with a full-time job, then have a separate appointment, may be working on the weekends extra shifts. and we need them because we have to provide care. that is really where it comes from. it is likely because they were asked to do it. it supervisor mar: okay, thank you. let s keep moving through the recommendations. supervisor chu: just a quick thing, are there any other departments that want to respond to reco
to the board of supervisors. each of the seven, they are exactly the same responsibility. they have a soul and undivided loyalty to act in the best interests of the members and their beneficiaries. there are no public interests members. secondly, there were a number of vacancies on the boardñi of, and the mayor hasñi subsequent to ts report filled them. we nowçó have seven full positions. the third thing that was mentioned, it is not as detailed as it was in some of the underpinnings, are the efforts of our board members, in addition to the monthly board meetings which they reflect, there was absolutely no recognition or acknowledgement of the fact that our board, but the board of supervisors, has a huge committee structure resulting in probably double the amount of meetings on top of board meetings. there was no reflection of any of theñi work or efforts at the committee s undertake doing the board s work as well, and we wanted to point that out to you. supervisor mar