. >> good morning, chairman breed, supervisors, dave corto, director of contracts for human services. though we agree with the findings that our contract was silent about the closure on holid holidays, we did negotiate with the contractor early on that we would account for these hours by as

. >> good morning, chairman breed, supervisors, dave corto, director of contracts for human services. though we agree with the findings that our contract was silent about the closure on holid holidays, we did negotiate with the contractor early on that we would account for these hours by assigning straight time for those times. the holiday time was clearly not in the rate negotiated. we purposely decided on this term, to ensure that only security officers at that site would receive the holiday pay on the days that the city buildings were closed. >> sorry, i am confused what you said. >> let me explain a little further. so in this type of contract, you have a billing rate. a rate per hour that you are charged for security officers services. the holiday pay required by the ordinance was not paid in the billing rate accounted for the total hours in the contract. we accounted for straight-time hours for the guards for those 11 days. >> so the city was still charged for holiday pay. >> the city was still charged for holiday pay and we authorized each payment. we had a specific method of pa