Talks about us policy in the region and the recent confrontation between the us and iran. Watch booktv this week and every weekend on cspan2. If i could have everybodys attention we would like to get started. I am brian anderson, editor of city journal and i want to welcome you on behalf of the Manhattan Institute. It is with great pleasure that i introduce john tierney, a contributing editor at city journal and coauthor of the fascinating and useful new book the power of bad how the negativity effect rules us and how we can rule it. It is on sale outside the room here. John has long been one of the nations leading voices on the intersection of science and Public Policy and make no mistake, no matter how calmly, reasonably expressed, his is a very contrarian voice. It was johns New York Times column the big city which ran from the mid90s until 2002 that first made me a fan of his work. There he took on any number of prevailing this about cities from rent control to the root causes of h
[inaudible conversations] if i could have everybodys attention we would like to get started. I am brian anderson, editor of city journal and i want to welcome you on behalf of the Manhattan Institute. It is with pleasure that i introduce john tierney, a value contributing editor of the journal and coauthor of the fascinating and useful new book the power of bad how the negativity effect rules us and how we can rule it. It is on sale outside the room here. John has long been one of the nations leading voices on the intersection of science and Public Policy and make no mistake, however calmly, reasonably expressed, his is a very contrary and voice. Ons New York Times column the big city which ran from the mid90s until 2002 that made me a fan of his work, he took on any number of prevailing miss from the efficacy of rent control to the root causes of homelessness to environmental policy. One remarkable column was born from johns irritation that Rosie Odonnells ruling was public or schism
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 contracts that come before the board. And its really not a criticism on each indivi
Celebrate the completion of our new office of chief medical examiners facility. [ applause ] just to acknowledge a couple of people that are joining us today i see the fire chief. His wife is here. I see commander laz is r is here, along with commander ewing from the police department. Of course, our sheriff, sheriff hennessee, who will be actually providing security at this facility, tom dewey, the director, and the office of occi. The office of Community Engagement and involvement. Yes. And, of course, all of you. I just again want to say thank you. What a tremendous project this is. It brings me great joy to welcome this new addition to the citys infrastructure to Hunters Point the neighborhood the prom has been in the works for a while. Were glad to have it in bayview. Not only is this facility a worldclass facility, its this facility has been delivered in a very fiscal matter and timely. I think, for me, one of the most important things that we like on a job and it happened on thi
Have ever seen. I think it was, we dont want to put in first of all, theyre confidential. We dont want to put in anything that would restrict participation in or reporting of information but i have never understood so closed does not speak to the merits of the number of complaints received. Im wondering if theres a reason and i think there is, but if you could tell me again, i would appreciate it. You are correct. Because the complaint is closed doesnt mean it was substantiated. We evaluate the complaint, the investigation determines if theres a factual basis for the allegations and then if the allegations are true, if the alleged conduct would violate city criteria, policy and procedure or city code does that answer the first part . Substantiated or unsubstantiated are both inside the closed category. And in the quarterly and annual reports it breaks down it breaks out by department. Theres a table in quarterly reports or chart showing which percentage of complaints closed led to Depa