pearson: deputy city attorney ann pearson. >> supervisor safai: and i'm talking about lines 21 and 22 -- >> ms. pearson: subsection a. >> supervisor safai: yeah. >> ms. pearson: there are five different types of individuals who can be interested parties. subsection a concerns people who are appearing in a proceeding, and i think we need to give meaning to that word, proceeding, so it's a proceeding in front of an individual, not just the pulling of a permit. >> supervisor safai: that was it. thank you. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor. >> supervisor safai: that was my main question. thank you, supervisor peskin. thank you, deputy city attorney pearson. it sounds like that's right. it sounds like it's the action that rise to a particular level, not just a permit. if there's a different action that comes before a different body, it makes sense. >> president walton: thank you. and just for my clarity, supervisor peskin, when you talk about the duration when you can solicit funding, if you have a specific contract with the city, is it specific to the city or a specific departmen

pearson: deputy city attorney ann pearson. >> supervisor safai: and i'm talking about lines 21 and 22 -- >> ms. pearson: subsection a. >> supervisor safai: yeah. >> ms. pearson: there are five different types of individuals who can be interested parties. subsection a concerns people who are appearing in a proceeding, and i think we need to give meaning to that word, proceeding, so it's a proceeding in front of an individual, not just the pulling of a permit. >> supervisor safai: that was it. thank you. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor. >> supervisor safai: that was my main question. thank you, supervisor peskin. thank you, deputy city attorney pearson. it sounds like that's right. it sounds like it's the action that rise to a particular level, not just a permit. if there's a different action that comes before a different body, it makes sense. >> president walton: thank you. and just for my clarity, supervisor peskin, when you talk about the duration when you can solicit funding, if you have a specific contract with the city, is it specific to the city or a specific departmen

pearson: deputy city attorney ann pearson. >> supervisor safai: and i'm talking about lines 21 and 22 -- >> ms. pearson: subsection a. >> supervisor safai: yeah. >> ms. pearson: there are five different types of individuals who can be interested parties. subsection a concerns people who are appearing in a proceeding, and i think we need to give meaning to that word, proceeding, so it's a proceeding in front of an individual, not just the pulling of a permit. >> supervisor safai: that was it. thank you. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor. >> supervisor safai: that was my main question. thank you, supervisor peskin. thank you, deputy city attorney pearson. it sounds like that's right. it sounds like it's the action that rise to a particular level, not just a permit. if there's a different action that comes before a different body, it makes sense. >> president walton: thank you. and just for my clarity, supervisor peskin, when you talk about the duration when you can solicit funding, if you have a specific contract with the city, is it specific to the city or a specific departmen

>> deputy city attorney anne pearson. what's before you today as you know is a proclamation of emergency. and if the board approves it, it will give the mayor the powers that are inherent in the mayor when an emergency is declared. that includes the powers to move resources and personnel. so if the board does approve this proclamation, yes, the mayor would have the ability to move money in the budget from one department to another. >> okay. so she wouldn't have to -- when there is not an emergency, we should have to come to the board for a budget supplemental if she wanted to add overtime supplement to the police department's budget. is that correct? >> that is correct. >> so i could never vote for that if this was the case if the mayor planned to do that. i have asked her deputy chief of staff anders power to be here to answer questions about this. are you there, andras? >> i'm here. >> i wish the mayor herself was here. i think this is important enough that it would be wonderful if she had come herself and interrupted h

>> deputy city attorney anne pearson. what's before you today as you know is a proclamation of emergency. and if the board approves it, it will give the mayor the powers that are inherent in the mayor when an emergency is declared. that includes the powers to move resources and personnel. so if the board does approve this proclamation, yes, the mayor would have the ability to move money in the budget from one department to another. >> okay. so she wouldn't have to -- when there is not an emergency, we should have to come to the board for a budget supplemental if she wanted to add overtime supplement to the police department's budget. is that correct? >> that is correct. >> so i could never vote for that if this was the case if the mayor planned to do that. i have asked her deputy chief of staff anders power to be here to answer questions about this. are you there, andras? >> i'm here. >> i wish the mayor herself was here. i think this is important enough that it would be wonderful if she had come herself and interrupted h

>> deputy city attorney, ann pearson. i think there are a couple of different ways to do this.ld potentially divide the question or during the remaining part of the meeting work with the controller's office to see if there is a way to more clearly duplicate the file, amend it so you're moving one part of it forward and keeping the other part in committee. the controller office prepares these ordinances, so i would love to have the time to consult with them to see what the best approach is to capture what you would like to do. >> president walton: thank you so much, deputy city attorney pearson. supervisor preston? >> supervisor preston: thank you. and this comes back on a second reading as well. so i suppose that's another option to use the intervening time if folks prefer to move it forward and to have some of these discussions before a second reading. >> president walton: correct. >> supervisor preston: thank you. >> president walton: supervisor chan? >> supervisor chan: thank you, president walton. i am definitely torn on the very specific portion of the $3.25 million for th

>> deputy city attorney anne pearson. what's before you today as you know is a proclamation of emergency. and if the board approves it, it will give the mayor the powers that are inherent in the mayor when an emergency is declared. that includes the powers to move resources and personnel. so if the board does approve this proclamation, yes, the mayor would have the ability to move money in the budget from one department to another. >> okay. so she wouldn't have to -- when there is not an emergency, we should have to come to the board for a budget supplemental if she wanted to add overtime supplement to the police department's budget. is that correct? >> that is correct. >> so i could never vote for that if this was the case if the mayor planned to do that. i have asked her deputy chief of staff anders power to be here to answer questions about this. are you there, andras? >> i'm here. >> i wish the mayor herself was here. i think this is important enough that it would be wonderful if she had come herself and interrupted h

>> deputy city attorney, ann pearson. i think there are a couple of different ways to do this. we could potentially divide the question or during the remaining part of the meeting work with the controller's office to see if there is a way to more clearly duplicate the file, amend it so you're moving one part of it forward and keeping the other part in committee. the controller office prepares these ordinances, so i would love to have the time to consult with them to see what the best approach is to capture what you would like to do. >> president walton: thank you so much, deputy city attorney pearson. supervisor preston? >> supervisor preston: thank you. and this comes back on a second reading as well. so i suppose that's another option to use the intervening time if folks prefer to move it forward and to have some of these discussions before a second reading. >> president walton: correct. >> supervisor preston: thank you. >> president walton: supervisor chan? >> supervisor chan: thank you, president walton. i am definitely torn on the very specific portion of the $3.25 million

>> deputy city attorney anne pearson.proclamation of emergency. and if the board approves it, it will give the mayor the powers that are inherent in the mayor when an emergency is declared. that includes the powers to move resources and personnel. so if the board does approve this proclamation, yes, the mayor would have the ability to move money in the budget from one department to another. >> okay. so she wouldn't have to -- when there is not an emergency, we should have to come to the board for a budget supplemental if she wanted to add overtime supplement to the police department's budget. is that correct? >> that is correct. >> so i could never vote for that if this was the case if the mayor planned to do that. i have asked her deputy chief of staff anders power to be here to answer questions about this. are you there, andras? >> i'm here. >> i wish the mayor herself was here. i think this is important enough that it would be wonderful if she had come herself and interrupted her time off over the vacation with her fam