the city cio or the controller create asset management system for cio equipment. i will state this will be implemented from my understanding in the next six months and this is only prudent. recommendation number 14 is that the city cio and the department of human resources create a data base for personnel to cal log services and operating system. recommendation 14. what i had stated here requires further analysis but i would say i think we agree that would help departments and identifying resources. i would like to work closely with labor and department heads to understand the best way to move this forward. so one more page is findings and recommendations. let's go to finding number 20. find be number 20. there is no effort to gather and utilize comprehensive and quantitative data to track how ict functions and what i stated for this i personally disagree. while there are efforts to see how they function departments don't have incentive to assist in such efforts. finding number 21. the five year ict plan is not a strategic plan. it doesn't calculate how the changes

dt reporting to the city cio. the role of the city cio is to create a clear vision for technology city wide, develop strategies with departments for new projects, and implementing what has been approved. he should be concerned with integrating and cord naided interdepartment activities. dt on the other hand focuses on daily operations that are shared throughout the city. combining these two roles causes confusion, particularly over the role city cio and in combination it's too much for one person to do properly. information -- pardon me for a moment. our report points out specific deficiency in how dat is gathered, organized and presented. one example is reflected in budget reports. while budgets are made on a department by department basis there is not a complete agreement on certain definitions. for example, where does one budget for radio systems? not in technology. as a result the controller presented a city budget for technology of just under $200 million. through our interviews with technology leadership we w

even though i'm the cio i couldn't tell you where we were going to be in five years ago. if you said i was going to do work on my ipad and no phone and it's hard in the moving word of technology to predict things so i think the it plan was certainly a stake in the ground and grew out of a laundry list of the projects that we knew were coming but we tried to put strategic context to it and when we voted we knew it would have to change. we knew we couldn't predict five years out but wanted a stepping stone and that's what the plan did and create a starting point. you have to start somewhere so it's a first draft. it was an attempt to articulate where we were going and the appendix was a lot of projects and and context. how are we going to get there financially? and i have done plans and sometimes they're dream documents on a shelf and ten years later and wonder why i thought we were going there. i think for me as an it professional these strategic plans are more meaningful and revisit them on a regular basis and is it still valid? is this where we want to go? and just like a

wouldn't lead to future success on projects, so there are ways in which we can exert control through the cio review process, through budgeting, through approval of positions, and we're working on that, and we certainly take that authority seriously but are not sure that being punitive is always the way to go. >> which i appreciate as well. i understand how you don't necessarily want to punish departments that aren't doing the right thing, but i don't see incentives also for anyone to be shooting for higher goals, so again i don't know what will push the bureaucracy to change its culture in that five years we're not here and someone else is my seat and supervisor farrell's seat we're not having this same exact conversation again. >> i hear your concerns. >> all right. thank you president chiu. thank you cindy for the presentation and for the department of technology john. john, how are you? we have john from the department of technology and wanted to speak as well and welcome. >> thank you supervisors and thank you civil grand jury for your report and everyone attending. i want to take a few

the lack of a functional reporting relationship between the city cio and the departmental cio's functional weakness for city wide problems and partially agree the city's inability to manage these projects in a centralized function could benefit from reporting relationship between the city, cio and department c cio's. number 11. allowing common ict xurchgzs addressed and performed by department by department basis has lead to duplication and unnecessary spending. for this i agree. addressing by individual departments is the reason for duplicative efforts and spending. finding 12. the plan does not include ongoing operational activities and prior funding. for this i agree. the five year plan is a strategic plan and focus on operational activities would be helpful. find be number 13. there are no consolidated budget and staffing plans. partially agree. while there are some efforts there is no accountability and it's not clear who is responsible if spending decisions are not met. now let's get to the first category of recommendations. moving to -- there were a number of recommendations that ca

next i also agree and it's difficult to move departments in the same direction. 29, department heads and cio's don't grant the authority for them in the administrative code as governing their own plans and actions. for this i agree. finding 30. neither coit or the cio believe in their ability to enforce these policies and initiatives and i patiently agree with that statement. while coit likes to behave they have the authority to enforce policies and initiatives because it's a diffused body there is no one to hold them accountable. the last finding there is no secure or immediate consequences for departments failing to implement in city wide initiatives and meet time lines for compleetion. i agree. there are no consequences for them to meet time lines for completion and the last is recommendation 19 which is the recommendation is that the mayor provide consistent passionate and aggressive leadership in the field of city wide technology fostering progress and garnderring agreement moon departments and cooperative and cohesive culture. the mayor has stated that has been implemented. i would like

would you do you need an approval from the a.c.s. cio they're free to do what they want. they don't need an approval to send their troops to keep their word in the news but they need an approval if they want to join a military alliance or under the new rules a third countries military bases or troops in their territory. recently we had need to representatives on our show and i asked them whether georgia could join . nato any time soon and they said no we have no plans to accept georgia right now we want to see first how the election. does this mean that you and you will soon become a nato member you should really ask nato of course but what do you think i just here would need to say they say that the door for georgia to join nato is not closed and we should we think that any mechanical expansion of this military alliance that was in violation of the understanding we used to have about nato expansion in the one nine hundred eighty s. but if you would be counterproductive to go back up nicely especially in the case of georgia with disputes. once again this is not just russia

board of supervisors if you're satisfied with the implementation of those changes you made to the role of city cio and the five year plan? are you satisfied that these changes are moving technology sufficiently forward within city government? if you are then things will stay the same around here. the office of the mayor accuses the civil grand jury of not knowing much about technology in the city. yes, we start friday scratch but we spent a year learning directly from the leaders within city government within technology units throughout the city. we had some help since two of our five member investigation team are seasoned technology professionals. we interviewed more than 40 employees and elected officials, quite a few several times. we believed there was a good deal of candor in those interviews. not as much in the responses we're sorry to say. we did a great deal and discuss what we found with people in city government. we prepared findings and conclusions in the form of recommendations. every finding in our report was verified with additional interviews with the people providing that informati

the unions have 400,000 people on the street, afl-cio, the head of the afl-cio plemged 400,000 peoplethe street to help. they have already registered 450,000 union households. 68,000 new registrants in ohio alone. >> eric: but that's not voter fraud. they are having efforts to get the vote out? >> i am sure they are having efforts to get the vote out. i am sure -- it isn't all clean cut. remember, we have a union label president. they need him. there is a lot going on in states like new hampshire, california... and states -- and states like new york. >> eric: there haven't been any case or prosecutions that we know of, dealing with the unions. but when you talk about the numbers, you don't hear much about this. afl-cio says they have 128,000 volunteers they are going to knock on 5.5 million doors and make 5 million phone calls. has the union effort now been stronger for this election down to the wire than it has been in the past? >> if you have been listening to the rhetoric, you would think the union effort isn't even there. but what really is is that they know that in the swing stat

full agreement in the solutions but i think we need to spend more time, both at coit and whoever the new cio is to figure out the next steps. it's my perspective and while we're capital of innovation it's really the private sector and i can't say a city government that puts lotus notes on my email system is capital of innovation in the public sector. i think many of the technologies are stuck in 1999 and unless we do this we will -- there will be future supervisors who will have larger binder of folders of additional reports and all the monies wasted and the efficiencies wasted and not taking the opportunity to move into a real 21st century government and i take we take this to heart and really work on, so in a few years we will truly win the seven awards that the department of technology received but we are a model for how we manage the technology for years to come and with that chairman. >> thank you president chiu. i want to thank all the departments that came to respond as well. i couldn't agree with more of the point of this report. obviously we have a lot of work to do. i am one of the

state employees gained gained-- give the money, the afl-cio but the teachers classified it as a public relations. john: it is for their side. media matters says more money for the union. >> the members don't know this. classified as public relations it is like administration and overhead. john: and they seem happy. >> if hey could have the job without part of a. john: tea and wisconsin when they were forced to be a member they left like that. >> is important to give them a voice and a vote. john: the union is not pro worker but pro "shadowbosses". john: you talk about the military i assume that is the exception. >> one-third of the military or civilian and 60% are already unionized there on military bases, filing grievances and be found a grievance union filed when the price of soda went from of $0.50 up at $0.55. >> and they had to fight that. and imagine the taxpayer dollars used. john: border patrol, immigration, fema, e ven the nasa scientist. >> eventhe peace corps. >> at home insecurity we found 62 people getting paid to do work do you know, what they do full-time? just union wor

signing nafta gatt and agreement on tariffs and trades which created the world trade organization of the cio and now we've got nafta calf to show after we you know a whole bunch of them and both parties now since since they started drinking the kool-aid back in the early eighty's both parties have their have their you know have blood on their hands are dirty with this and so the question in my mind is when you know which party is going to step back first because the party of the first steps away from from free trade as the party is going to seriously winning elections it is really interesting to just looking at these tea parties i mean you just pointed out some of the similarities that they have those of course are never focused on because they don't make for as much drama by the mainstream media which sort of likes to at least seems to me to view elections sort of more like a sporting event than anything else i'm going to look forward to your commentary your analysis at tomorrow's debate have a safe trip to chicago thom hartmann host of the big picture here at r.t. once again r.t. america w

and they have been using in small narrow ways by some institutions, the cio, emily's list over the years the obama campaign has this year is a major advance. part of the problem with the way that people have tested messages historically is that you either have a poll that asking somebody who they support, and it they wills them a bunch of information. you see if moves or you ask somebody directly. if i told you romney hadn't paid taxes for x number of years make it more or less likely to vote for them. some people fell you would they move. people telling you they would move is a pretty sort of con ject yiewrl thing. i wouldn't cognitively trust anybody that would do under the hypothetical scenario. they may or may not already know. that's part of the problem with the polls they ask people if you knew of a piece of information you may or may not already know. or in focus groups you bring somebody in and so you a dozen people and show them an ad and you ask them again did everybody change their mind. you're purchasing somebody to change their mind and they're being forced to watch an ad th

the cio that i chair with every week with my senior portfolio managers, our team thinks that the regionalt leg of that to benefit rather than the more direct ways. they've done so well the past few months. that seems a pretty appealing story to me. i also think, following this period of concern we've had about china, that the markets are slowly starting to appreciate that china's going from an era of consulate growth to one of quantity. within that sort of consumer opportunities for, let's call it, income was earned as opposed to derived. so for big u.s. and other global and consumer facing multinational, they look like places to look as well. i highlight those two. i saw they came on. you were talking about energy earlier. i think we're getting a repricing of energy going on, which is a big beneficiary for some u.s. industries relative to the rest of the world as well. i like those three areas, generally speaking. >> and pete najarian, who's sitting next to me, has a question for you. >> i've got a quick one, jim. when i'm looking at the next leg up, if you're talking about 1525 now on t

i think microsoft will have to fight to get the respect from the cio, but i think what's interesting inside of that, they're still moving to windows 7. so they're still getting paid as they go up. and then what gets really interesting is the street has not given them any credit for a great server business. the server business is actually bigger than the windows business but no one talks about it, right? brand new version of the os on the server side, brand new version of the server. whole new product of data bas where they had a 20% plus price increase. i think they're doing a lot of great things. but again, it's so focused on windows 8, there is a bigger picture. this is an $80 billion organization in the windows business today again about $19 billion in revenue. >> so, brent, i think the real question for a money manager or even the investor is has microsoft now been -- is it in essence in income, not a growth story anymore. growth is forever dead? >> it is, it is as i call it more of a value name. what's been consistent is the stock has traded up into the last three major product l

this london whale event and people saying they did try to raise questions about what was going on in the cion says no one brought concerns to his attention in a way that he could hear. >> interesting. >> bethany, i was struck last night by one of the things bl romney said in the debate, and that was that parts of the dodd-frank bill were effectively a big wet kiss to some of the biggest banks on wall street, to the new york banks. do you think mr. dimon feels that way about dodd-frank? >> i do not think mr. dimon feels that way about dodd-frank. you can get into a big debate. i think what mr. romney was referring to was the resolution authority that allows the government to break up big banks and whether you think that's actually just a secret bailout mechanism or whether it will really lead to a break-up of the big banks in the advent of another crisis. my view is we won't know until we test it what it is actually meant to be. but dimon has very clearly been on the side of the big banks, both that they are not too big to fail and that big banks are business an serve our economy in the appro

the afl-cio has lobbyists. a.m.al does. ody has a lobbyist. >> reporter: no one knows the business of washington lobbying better than professor james thurber. he helped write a report on lobbying reform for the american bar association and teaches a course to aspiring lobbyists at american university. give us the crash course "lobbying for dummies." >> the definition of a lobbyist in the united states is someone who advocates for someone else and is getting paid for it. >> reporter: the fingerprints of lobbyists are all over daily life. they defeated plans to cap credit card interest rates. they made pizza count as a vegetable on school lunch menus. they wrote a lot of the health care reform law. thurber estimates $9 billion is spent every year on lobbying and related advocacy, a top lobbyist can make millions the influence of business in washington d.c. is the third largest business after government and tourism. i think there's probably 100,000 people in the industry, not lobbyists specifically but in the industry supportin

the cio of northwest university with our "squawk" endowment series continues after this break.ers... ...with a deeper knowledge of their subjects. as a result, their students achieve at a higher level. let's develop more stars in education. let's invest in our teachers... ...so they can inspire our students. let's solve this. >>> let's get some reaction to those coca-cola earnings. david silver is wall street strategy's equity research analyst. most of the volume was pretty good. pacific was not good. did you notice that david? >> it was only a 3% gain, i was expecting more in the line of 5% to 6% across the pacific. in the quick read through the earnings release it outlined thailand and india which showed me there was a little bit of a problem in china. i'm looking on the screen and looks like coke is down a little bit in the premarket and that could be why. >> that represents a place where the company can grow? >> absolutely. it's a huge growth area all across the pacific, but china specifically and they have been investing billions of dollars over the past few years. i think

i mean so they're learning from academia and you see institutions are a little more permanent the a.f.l.-cio big labor is has been since they spent tens of millions of dollars on campaigns every year and figure out how to be three percent or five percent better next year is of great value to them and in a way that you know mitt romney's not going to put a dollar on to the side for research or set aside a control group in a task for saying that might not yield a lesson until december ok and let's bring up one example that i saw in one of your posts on slate if we could bring up that postcard. a pledge to vote so this is a pledge to vote this is for obama's campaign what is the empirical evidence behind this suggesting it works and does it actually work yeah so lots of these experiments have been done many of them translating things that we've seen in other parts of behavioral psychology to voting and there's been these tests where they get people if you commit gets into. commit often in writing to doing an action or more likely to follow through on it and so this is now sort of ubiquitous in

programs are really the thing and they have been used in small narrow ways by some institutions, the afl-cio, emily's list over the years in certain states in the obama campaign has this year is a major advance part of the way the people have tested messages mr. quaid is you have a poll that asks somebody who they support and then it tells them a bunch of information and asks them again who do you support and you see if anybody moves or you ask them directly. if i told you that mitt romney had not paid taxes for x number of years would make you less likely to vote for him and some percentage of people either move when they hear of the new information or the tell you they wouldn't move. people telling you that they wouldn't move is a pretty sort of conjecture will thing. i wouldn't trust anybody that told you what they would do under a hypothetical scenario learned some information. they may or may not already know. and that is part of the problem of the polls they ask people if you know a piece of information you may or may not already know. and so in our focus groups, you bring somebody in

what are you sensing as you move all over the country and lead millions of members of afl-cio? 've seen a great turnout in early voting. we have people out every day trying to get them to the polls. we see that. we see a growing sense of urgency and excitement among the people on the ground, whether it's in pennsylvania, ohio, wisconsin, nevada, we're a raft of other states, more people are getting excited and they are working to get out to vote. i think you're going to see a good vote because i think people know that you've got a very clear choice here, a choits between an economy that works for every one of us or a throw back to the past and failed policies that brought us the 1%. >> richard trumka and chris, thank you for your time tonight. >> thanks, al. >>> the gop operative was fired from the rnc for voter fraud. so why is he still working for the republicans? and incredible story is unfolding. we'll talk to the man who knows the operative, the former chairman of the florida republican party. jack, you're a little boring. boring. boring. [ jack ] after lauren broke up with

. >> the afl-cio said today it registered 68,000 new voters in the state of ohio.hat's a heavy lift. >> it is. it's the right kind of lift, ed. >> well, okay. so does president obama need to do more in the state, go reaffirm his position with these voters? or do you consider him to still be in really good shape in ohio? >> he's in good -- >> did the debate do anything to him last night? >> the president is in good shape, but come on. i feel like you and chris matthews after that debate. the president is going to have to bring it the way he should and the way he knows that he needs to do it, but he's going to be here in cleveland

we reserve the right to amend, and as things have progressed -- [talking over each other] >> in the cio, what we pointed out is there were other kinds of financial injuries which were not ascertainable at the time the complaint was filed because we were trying to -- >> sequin have done a better job because she went to another university? >> there are differences in costs between what she paid at lsu in which you would've paid at ud. i'm guessing that these are all reserved questions and they don't go to stand that the court made that clear. let me go to another issue that i think i never completed my answer to. where we stand on what we should do is that we recognize that there is an interest which is cognizant -- what we are concerned about, as you see here is that universities like university of texas have no discernible target, no critical mass -- any circumstances reduced to something that can be reviewed. as long as you don't cross to wines, and fix quotas, meaning that you will build this exclusively with whom to be deemed as a representative -- we don't think that's the way it wa

and 23 by some mistake with the afl-cio. i demand a recount. wanted a zero. >> hockenberry: but inglis does accept the scientific consensus on global warming and favors legislation to curb the effects of co2 in the atmosphere. he faced a tea party rebellion in his primary. >> i had a big tent gathering in spartanburg county, a bunch of republicans underneath a very big tent. comes a question to me: "yes or no, do you believe in human causation on climate change?" i had a bad habit of answering questions, so i said yes. "boo, hiss" comes the crowd. i was blasted out from underneath the tent. i mean, there are a couple of hundred, 300 people there. i mean, it was intense. >> hockenberry: he was pounded in commercials and on talk radio. >> it became an oft-repeated theme on talk radio, and that is a major source of information, of course, for republican primary voters. they were hearing, "inglis has left the reservation, he is over there somewhere with al gore." so how are things around here? >> they're slow, how the economy is way off. >> when you

the road map that is going to change thins? i know there are some that hope if and when we hire a new cio will change things and i want to note we had four individuals in those positions in the last ten years and not much as changed. the structure of how we govern ourselves from a it standpoint has not changed significantly and i am eager to hear the presentation from the civil grand jury report and again i thank you for your due diligence and hard work and i look forward to the conversation. >> thank you supervisor chiu for those remarks and welcome back to version two or three of this year. i also want to thank the other departments overing potential response focus we need them and others will speak as well and i would like to invite you up to share your report. >> good afternoon supervisors. on behalf of the civil grand jury i am marty choy and i person on this report and i will turn it over to the chair of the investigative committee. thanks. >> thank you. >> welcome back. >> we always seem to be getting together to celebrate the day after the giants have done something spectacular. it makes it difficult to prepare for these

in ohio the afl-cio will reach out to 2 million voters. that's about double what they did in 2008. have registered democrats outnumbers republicans in five of the six battleground states. how does the romney campaign neutralize that? can they n. >> yeah, i think they can. as you can see, it is an enthusiasm game right now. it is, you know, what you get the base out and then you go after the independents. i think as voter registration shut down in lot of the states this week, you can really look at the excitement level and know what those targets are. and you spend the next 27 days targeting those folks. you have to give the air cover at that time national level, ground game is so crucial and the romney campaign is doing great job in battleground states to attack each one individually. >> i understand we have a communications problem with karen. let me ask you this question on the other side. chip, the -- we know that ralph reid's faith and freedom coalition is making a big push for evangelical voters. they say that they are going to contact 17 million voters who either didn't vote