All in all, this is a roughly 10 increase over our base operating budget, and this is something that we think is critical to get us in the right structure and setting to keep delivering on the things that weve identified as a priority as a department in the last couple of years. So im happy to answer any questions. Weve basically presented an overview and score card based on the goals we identified two years ago in our blueprint for accountablity, and this reflects our best judgment where weve been able to make some strides and the work we still have to do. The last we talk often about our performance indicators, and how were doing. We hope our work speaks for itself. We have a lot of work to be done, but were proud of what weve done, so one of the things that we have done this year is to make sure that we are closely aligning our individual performance goals each year with the overall organizations top priorities, so we have an annual performance goal discussion with employees, so we know how our work contributes to the overall success of us as an organization, and thats an important and now seriously process engaged in our organization. So with that, i will stop and answer any questions that you might have and happy to provide more information if you dont see it here, but youd like it. Im sure i just have two questions related to the revenue report. Why how do you explain why the Campaign Finance fines are so much higher than what you anticipated and the ethic fines are so much lower than you anticipated . [ inaudible ] sure. You know, its hard to pinpoint or guess what forms people are going to file late and which they are going to file on time, but this year, we saw an uptick in the forms that people filed late in the campaign context, and so fines were assessed at a higher rate than we anticipated. And then, the sei forms came in on time. Thats one of our priorities for the coming year, and with the hiring of guy three, that can be a lot of chief programming officers. Just one last note, as well, that number for receipts in the ethics area may change towards the end of the fiscal year because the annual statements come in in april, so this also may be subject to the unique timing. Commissioner . Couple of questions. I found no mention in your report or any other document about my request for legislation to prohibit candidates for local election using funds that were part of a campaign for a Party Central county committee. We have, in our we reviewed the minutes or im sorry, the video, and you requested that in the independent council memo for march. The march meeting . Right. Thank you. And then, secondly, what happened with that hearing at the Sunshine Ordinance Task force . You know, they havent contacted me and said that theyre going to go forward. All right. So im assuming it died, but we did not participate. Okay. Thank you. Commissioners, any other comments from commissioners . I would just like to comment on the what i believe is really critical that we communicate to the mayor and controller that we have no reductions in the up coming fiscal year, because this has been an ongoing process trying to staff up, and that to curtail that now would be a significant and material critical hit to our ability to be effective, so id really like to emphasize that. And the second question i had was this regard to the Public Finance funds because we are having an interim race for mayor in june, and we have a lot of supervisorories, and we have another election in november , will we have sufficient funds to cover all the Public Financing needs. Based on our analysis of the Controllers Office of the required fund amount, we will be fine for the june election, which carries us through the end of this fiscal year. For the november elections, we were working with the mayor and the elections office. They are aware it will require a significant infusion to cover that election as well as the next election in november of 2019, everybodys its on radar that were working with it. And lastly actually, second to last, on page 15, what a fantastic chart, two of them. Its i think that this that these graphics are incredib incredibly powerful, and this is what makes the story come alive. The show. This is why you are under staffed, and this is why we need the staff to do this work, because when we had zero and complaints hit an all time high of 31, you know, it dropped to less than half in january. Picked up a little bit, but i think this is, if anything, this is a testament to the to the power of hiring the right people and turning them loose and doing what they do best. And i like how the lines cross, where we have more complaints that were actually investigating as opposed to trying to figure out if its actually worth investigating, so i think thats a really great development. And then lastly, i dont think you addressed it, director held hheld held pelham, but you would like to hear from you and staff as to what your recommendation would be. Well, im happy to also have the input from pat ford who was also in the meeting with steven massy and the city hall telephone people. The headline and the unfortunate headline actually is that there are technical requirements that make it impossible for us to have a telephone line currently for the meeting, and this time, in this room. There is technology that the system uses, a hybrid unit. I wont go into the details, but it is something that essentially allows for a party line. Right now its used by one commission, the commission on disabilities, and so everybody kind of cues up on the telephone line and then waits their turn to speak to the commission. Here, that technology would require it prevents the ability, like a radio call in show to be the first cuedin person to speak, and if there is any kind of discussion or disruption among the group, the entire group has to be muted, and it requires a staff person to monitor that during the time of the phone calls coming in. So its i would say its rather archane and probably not the most nimblest of systems. So that, unfortunately, does not look like a terrific option of sort, but if therepat, if t anything to add to that. Icon occur with lees assessment of the folks specializing in this stuff down stairs. This is the only option, and its not a very appealing one. Very inflexible. It seems like the Communications Infrastructure here in city hall. Is not 2018 . Yeah. Its not able to accommodate other terms of technology. Its pretty narrow in terms of not being able to accommodate this way. It would basically be everyone calling in at once, and there would have to be a dedicated staff member to monitor the lines at all times, and theres no way to police it. Literally, you just turn it off and on. Thats it. Commissioner lee . Do you know how much a Simple Podcast costs in. Im sorry . A podcast costs . I dont. Because it seems like a simple thing to do. We have one a week, and we have upwards of 200 people coming in, and all it takes is a staff member to monitor the questionnaires. If you want to [ inaudible ] and then, well just cue them in. They could participate the entire meeting. Right, so my understanding couple hours. From talking to the experts here, that kind of option, which i believe is called voice over ip, rope, vo not available here. It has to be able to be patched into the television system, and its not feasible to do that. The only way to do that is to mount something in the audio system that were all speaking into, and they dont have the voip system patched in that way. The only way would be a voip line, and a conference line, that they call into our office. They call into a conference line just on the actual telephone, so not through voip, like, through the internet. Doesnt work that way. And these are also these are constraints based on the assumption of city hall meetings. We havent researched this, but it is probably the case if there were meetings available in other buildings somewhere else in the city of San Francisco, this technology hurdle may not be the challenge, so in terms of the next steps, to the extent that we can continue in conversation with City Technology people to see if there are other places or other ways where meetings are handled with a little bit more of 21st century technology, we can check on that and report back where and when that might be possible. Ultimately, it might require a decision where city hall is the best location to engage the public in that way, but we can certainly continue to ask and engage and monitor conversations about that. Yeah. My comment would be sort of similar to commissioner lees, and that would be to go back to experts in i. T. For the city. Is there a way to incorporate a feed into the television itself, you know, when you watch cnn or something else, youve got the ticker tape that goes on the bottom that can update with tweets or other comment . It seems very standard for, you know, current media, but it might be much too complex or incompatible with our current city systems, but i think its worth asking the question. Id be glad to reach out to them with that question. Thank you. Any Public Comment . Hi again. Its mark bruno, and the real reason i came tonight was i just wanted to familiarize myself with the Ethics Commission, because i have an ethics complaint that was filed in september. I wont refer anymore with regards to the complaint execute with reference to this executive directors report. I think one of the things the Ethics Commission must consider for the sake of the public, people who might be filing ethics complaints, and in my case, it was a conflict of economic interest at the board of appeals, is that without enough staff and without enough resources, what has occurred in my case and might happen in other cases is that weve gone forward with an appeal to the board of supervisors and now currently before the superior court whats called a ceqa case, and as you all know, theres a very strict schedule of how that proceeds. And when you all doing your best work ethics staff has been incredibly positive. I get a sense of people who are not over worked, but doing a fantastic job of pretending theyre not over worked, and really spending time with people like me, a nonlawyer to explain what the law is, and help put together a meaningful complaint, which they did. Here we now have a superior court judge in department, i believe, 603 is a specialist in ceqa matters, and we now have a settlement conference, i do, next week, with the City Attorneys Office all as a consequence, and i think this is a valid argument before the budget people deciders for you guys. A lot of people have been resourced and spending money, city money because the Ethics Commission is not being given the resources to do a quick job. I realize theres also due process elements when a complaint is made and some things have to take a while, but my sense without knowing for sure, but my sense, with two of the supervisors who are friends of mine and other people in government, is the delay is there are simply not enough resources in your staff, so i think were wasting money but not having enough staff here at the Ethics Commission. Thank you. Thank you. Ill try to be brief. The rules committee met last wednesday and took up mr. Well, the commissions proposal to encumber the vote of someone who has not if theyre a commissioner, who has not filed their sei. I im wondering if anybody could report on feedback from that meeting. Yes, charlie. That was voted favorably to advance to the full board. That was unanimous going forward, so the full board will hear it at the next full board meeting. Great. Congratulations. It sounds like its moving very fast. Im wondering if you are online here on your pcs. I think you are, and if you could designate an email box thats on germane during the meetings, so that people would know that they could send an email with a question or comment on any agenda item that may be sparked during the discussions or the debates of the commission, and that might be the simplest and best way to bypass the complexities of the city hall network. And i did want to say that im very pleased to see such high caliber talent thats attracted because obviously our salary system, the citys salary system is very commensurate, so youve done a great job attracting the funding levels, and obviously strong talent from the agenda, what your report is saying, were doing very well in talent, and i can see it on the staff. But i was going to say, i see youre having oral interviews for the senior auditor. Will they be online within the next two months, three months, hired . And then, thats good, because this year is going to be a busy year, and they need training. The other thing is when you say job posting and development, how much of a lag time is that before the actual staff person would be hired . Is that more like nine months . Our goal is to have those positions filled by the end of the fiscal year so thats an aggressive goal, but we have dhs working with us. I see that, and i think thats a great plan. And im optimistic on the budget, the support for the Ethics Commission budget. And i wanted to also say i found the graphics very useful. I think the public would, as well. And i oh, im sorry. Im running out of time here. I think im done, any way. Thank you very much. Thank you. Any other Public Comments . Okay. Next item, agenda 10 is discuss and possible action regarding status of complaints received or investigated by the Ethics Commission and possible closed session, so i think we need to take Public Comment. Im going to speak tuesday with ms. Blome rather than go into closed session. Any Public Comment on this agenda item . Seeing none, well move onto possiblient ite possiblient possiblient items for future meetings. Yes. I would like to see placed on the april agenda a discussion of a possible Campaign Finance ordinance to either end or limit super pacs and ban foreign influence corporate spending in city elections. Would you restate it, commissioner renne . It would be a proposed San FranciscoCampaign Finance ordinance to either limit or end super pacs and ban foreign influence corporate spending in city elections. And i hopefully before that will provide the staff with some Legal Research and some proposed drafts that are being prepared by a group that is very interested in trying to get San Francisco to adopt such an ordinance, even though it may be over the objection of the City Attorney because as i understand it, the city of st. Petersburg has done that, and it might become important from a litigation point of view. Question for staff on this. Would this be incorporated into the review of cfro that is currently contemplated . I think generally, if there are items that relate to Campaign Finance law, being able to fold it into a broader review of our citys laws that were. [ inaudible ]. Okay. But i well, i yeah, we can follow up offline. Well, i was looking at the policy report on page three, and it had repaview of cfro regulations beginning in april of 2018. Okay. Any Public Comment . Nope. Our last man standing is walking out the door. Okay. Thats and i guess we are adjourned. So i will move to adjourn. Sorry. All in favor of adjourning . We are adjourned. Now, were adjourned. Please contact our chair. 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So i launched this idea call the discover your district, where we go every month to one or two small businesss in district 4 and we have done things such as learning how to make dumplings that were learning today and there are so many different activities that we have exposed our residents to. Today is the very special day, because the city of San Francisco hosting this for San Francisco city