also allow the city to change any of the campaign consultant ordinances requirements without further voter approval. ♪ president mazzucco: if you could please stand for the pledge of allegiance one nation under god, with liberty and justice for all. president -- secretary: thank you, we will be calling the world. president mazzucco, vice president marshall, commissioner chan. president, you have a quorum. we have the police department. >> thank you very much, lieutenant falvey. can you please call line item number one, the consent calendar? secretary falvey: item number one, the consent calendar to accept a donation of $1 million from mrs. karen firem. president mazzucco: this is a $1,000 donation. we have a memo from the sergeant in the packet. any questions? commissioner: move to except. president mazzucco: anyone? next item. secretary falvey: the third quarter report. president mazzucco: any questions? commissioner chan: it looks like there is a lot left to be done, as always. i wanted to ask if he were to prioritize one or two of these issues or three of them, what would they be? how can we be supportive? >> yes, commissioner chan. someone is in the audience, and she wil

city is at our best when we stand up for shared progressive values like universal health care, marriage equality, and i hope the right forcible council. this moves us forward on the pledge of allegiance, that we are a country with liberty and justice for all. i have another item i will be submitting. several months ago, i requested our budget analyst to perform a review of changes to contract orders for large construction and professional service contracts. i think we have all heard overtime the phenomenon known as contract creek. when contractors come back to the city to ask for additional change orders -- i have never known until this report to what extent contract crete was occurring. but harvey rose found out is over the past five years we have had $300 million of additional increases to our contract beyond what we approved as a board. half of the contracts involved had change orders. the average increase was close to 10%. however, the average change order for contracts between $5,000,000.9999999 dollars was almost 20%. currently, only contracts above -- between 500 -- between $5,000 and $10,000 was almost 20%. currently, only contract about half a million dollars -- currently, o

city is at our best when we stand up for shared progressive values like universal health care, marriage equality, and i hope the right forcible council. this moves us forward on the pledge of allegiance, that we are a country