chair ronen: the meeting will come to order. welcome to the march 9, 2020 meeting of the rules committee. i am chair hillary ronen. seated to my right is rules committee member catherine stefani, and seated to my left is committee member gordon mar. i d like to thank sfgovtv for airing this meeting. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? clerk: yes. [agenda item read]. chair ronen: thank you. can you please read item number 1. clerk: item 1 is a motion appointing megan wallace to the treasury committee for a term ending june 30, 2021. chair ronen: thank you. megan, if you want to come up? thank you. my name is megan wallace. i just want to share a little bit about my qualifications. first, i ve been a public servant in the areas of budget, finance, and public service for approximately 15 years. in 2008, my family moved to san francisco, and i began my service with the city and county of san francisco in the mayor s office of housing and community development, f
supervisor shamann walton. madam clerk, do you have any announcements? clerk: yes. [agenda item read]. chair fewer: thank you. madam clerk, would you please call item number one. clerk: item number 1, modifying the push side management services with fsp ppm management llc, accept and expend grand retroactive. chair fewer: i requested some more information. i received the information. i want to thank s.f.o. for supplying the information. any questions or comments from my colleagues? seeing none, let s open this up for public comment. any members of the public wish to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. can we move this to the full board with a positive recommendation? seeing no objection, we ll pass the motion. [gavel]. chair fewer: madam clerk, will you please the next item. [agenda item read]. chair fewer: would you please give us a brief presentation. [inaudible] oh, i m sorry. so at the p.u.c., in order for us to participate in the i.
and it appears on the march 10, 2020 agenda unless otherwise stated. mr. clerk, call item number 1. clerk: a motion directing the clerk of the board to initiate a request for proposals process for special investigation services. thank you. supervisor haney, as a sponsor of this measure, the floor is yours. thank you, chair marr, and good morning, everyone. i think that this is, you know, obviously a very challenging time for our city right now with multiple departments who have been implicated in a larger investigation. clearly, you know, charges that have been levied by the u.s. attorney against individuals in government and outside. and it is critical that we do everything that we can to investigate fully, prevent any future fraud or corruption, and to do everything that we can to restore the public trust. this is not a time for business as usual and i think that the public is looking to us as the board of supervisors to investigate fully to make some serious change
place to keep my stuff dry and to sleep safely. and washing up at the gas station, i could make myself presentable, such that it was possible for me to connive a landlord into renting me an apartment even though i was unemployed. that in turn allowed me to have temp work. if my car had been towed during those weeks of living in my car, i probably wouldn t be here today. so i really want to thank the board for your deep discussion on this, staff for your hard staff work, and especially for the public who have been so direct in your storytelling and simply have shown up to fight for a more just san francisco. the next couple of weeks are going to be really hard. this is only through compassion with the public, and particularly the public who have the hardest choices and clarity around your values that you are going to be able to make the tough calls to deal with the tradeoffs necessary to approve a budget that is balanced, that delivers the service that san francisco needs, and
mr. president, all members are present. thank you. i guess this is unusual, but i ll say it. please place your right hand over your heart and would you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. thank you. on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge that sfgtv record each meeting and make the transcripts available to the public online. madam clerk, any communications? yes, mr. president, issue have one. due to the covid-19 and to protect city employees, board members and members of the public, the board legislative chamber is closed for the march 24th, 2020 board meeting upon action made bit board of supervisors to conduct their meetings via video conference call remotely. this precaution is taken on the authority conferred b by the governor s order. the members will attend meeti