Were going to hear updates from the Controllers Office, Public Integrity assessment process and from the City Attorneys investigations and reports. On monday, the office of the controller released their first Public Integrity review report, focused on contracting procedures that the department of public works, in that report and its findings are the focus of this hearing. There are a myriad, concurrent investigations connected to the scandal. Both locally and federally. Our focus today is not on criminal charge or the fbis work specifically. Our focus here is less on individual bad actors and more on the systems and structures that enabled and empowered them to commit bad acts. And failed to provide oversight, accountability and transparency. And today were looking at public works. How the behavior in the complaints and the structures that allowed them to allowed for them to demonstrate the need for structural reform to preempt and prevent the potential for criminal and unethical actio
Investigation and analysis that needs to be done on these topics . Were learning more information every day, supervisor. Thats the important of the tip line as well as the Public Integrity tip line, and our report will give you a breakdown of the large departments, so happy to talk to you about that as soon as we publish it. Supervisor haney are there specific topics that you identified in this report or more broadly that your office has identified as a need for a lot further investigation . And with that, what are the next steps for your office . I mean, one of the concerns that i have and i understand that we have, you know, recently been through a pandemic, and im sure you all are being pulled in all sorts of different directions. But it has been, i guess, about five months since this process first started, and theres a lot more that needs to be investigated and analyzed and reported on. What are the next steps for your office, and what topics are you going to be working on . How ca
Supervisor mar thank you to this committees clerk, john carroll, and id also like to thank sfgtv for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have anything else . Clerk yes. Committee members will attend this meeting through Video Conference and participate in the meeting through the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda. Cable channel 26 are streaming Public Comment number across the screen. Your opportunity to speak during the meeting will be by calling 4084189388, and enter 1 1 1469339147. Press pound, and pound again. When you are connected, your microphone will be muted, and you will be in listening mode only. To enter Public Comment, press star and three to be entered into the queue. Your written comments may be sent via u. S. Postal service to our room at city hall, 100 carlton s. Goodlett, room 244, San Francisco, california, 94102. I believe youre muted, mr. Chair. Supervisor haney thank you, mr. Clerk. Wi
Beards in berlin its good to have you with us Global Markets fell on tuesday for a 2nd straight day concerns over growing numbers of krona virus cases in europe and asia as well as new warnings in the u. S. Led to lead to major sell off on wall street in particular the major indexes there each losing around 3 percent and the benchmark 10 year treasury note also hitting a record low for investors who are on a bullish run the outlook has suddenly become grim. The rapid spread of the coronavirus has stock markets around the world on edge on monday some exchanges saw their steepest one day decline since 2015 today markets are continuing to slide in the u. S. And in europe the virus is rattling nerves. Thats a very serious thing but we think were in very good shape in the United States weve essentially close the borders to areas where we had to close them the. World Health Organization says the world should brace for a possible pandemic a situation where an Infectious Disease spreads easily
In the event that thats necessary. And to a broader assessment of the citys capacity to respond in the event that there is an outbreak of coronavirus in San Francisco. Reporter again, no cases originating in San Francisco, but today apartments announcement the mayor believes its coming. Reporting from San Francisco, mark matthews, nbc bay area news. Okay, mark, thank you so much. Now here are the latest numbers of coronavirus cases across the u. S. As of today there are at least 57 cases. The cdc has confirmed the whereabouts of 52 of those cases. You can see them on the map. Most of them came from the cruise ship in japan. They are being treated in california at Travis Air Force base, in nebraska and texas. Today we learned two are hospitalized in contra costa county. Seven are in sew llano county. Two are in napa county. And one is being treated in San Francisco county. Its not clear where the other three are. In addition to those cases there are six other cases in northern californi