thank you. >> thank you, ms. jones. are there any other members that would like to speak at public comment? seeing none, we will close this item. i really want to thank all of our members of the public and our staff who waited through a two-hour hearing to speak at this one. it's really unfortunate that we couldn't have a more robust discussion around some of the engineering pieces and how we can better realign some of those processes, a deeper dive into the funding and, of course, into both the enforcement and prosecution piece. but i do want to thank everyone for being here today to do that. you know, some of our morningseses were spent here, but there is a rules committee meeting that's going to be starting soon and both supervisor yee who is chairing that and supervisor mar will have more committee hearings to go through this afternoon. i want to thank [speaker not understood] for your resilience today. just closing comments that i will just make. i'm really looking forward to continuing to push this forward with su

hear back from four that confirmed they received it but didn't solicit it and heard book from one, ms. jones, who did say that she received it but didn't say whether or not she asked to see it. to your knowledge, were any members of the duval delegation, the 13 of you who represent the areas surrounding jacksonville, the feeling that the case has not been presented accurately in the media, therefore you are not clear on the details of the case or you feel the -- they have been misconstrued in the way it has been covered. >> well, there has been no conversation between me and any other member of the duval delegation concerning this case. and it is not the duty of the newspaper to try the case. it is the duty of the state attorney. if she has the facts to try her case in court. not -- in the media nor in a lee-page document in a -- three-paint document sent to legislatures. >> i should note that in the statement sent to us from the spokeswoman for ms. core corey she did mention the governor's office is requesting information. we heard back saying the material had been distributed to legislatur

finkel's book, i haven't gotten around to ms. jones'. it seems to me that the last treatment facility that adam went to was the most successful, yet it was privately funded and as with a lot of problems in this country, money seems to be a factor. do you have any suggestions on what we can do to try to generate money, have our country fund this as as opposed to a private endeavor having to fund it? >> i don't, i'm sorry. you know, i get asked this a lot, different versions of it. not specific to money always, but, okay, so i've read your book, and i'm quite affected by these people's stories, and what do i do about it? the book isn't prescriptive, and i don't know. i don't know what you do except other than, as i said a minute ago, the fact that you're even paying attention, that's a big deal. and then it's sort of up to you. if these people who have opened themselves up, if they continue to reside in you, if now, if they've moved the vague to the specific because of these characterizations, then maybe it'll motivate you to try to figure

ms. brown, arnold townsend, van jones, many other people from the baker senate. what happened in regard to this matter in terms of you're asking for an explanation of it as to whether or not there is some sort of hidden agenda. i can tell you there is not. and let me just go -- give you the history of what happened here. ~ so we can all understand and i can do what i have to do. we had ms. ellis essentially admit to and plead guilty to a couple of things which, one, two counts of influencing a government decision in which the official has a financial benefit. and also another count of violation of a section which prohibits any city or officer or employee from making a contract in which she has a financial interest. and then there was another one having to do with inappropriate conduct. this committee had gone ahead and prosecuted her for those ethical violations under its powers to do so. and had entered into a stipulation with her giving her, and which she accepted certain putsv, which were the extent of what we could punish her for, for these particular violati

ms. brown, arnold townsend, van jones, many other people from the baker senate. what happened in regard to this matter in terms of you're asking for an explanation of it as to whether or not there is some sort of hidden agenda. i can tell you there is not. and let me just go -- give you the history of what happened here. ~ so we can all understand and i can do what i have to do. we had ms. ellis essentially admit to and plead guilty to a couple of things which, one, two counts of influencing a government decision in which the official has a financial benefit. and also another count of violation of a section which prohibits any city or officer or employee from making a contract in which she has a financial interest. and then there was another