Forward with the Public Safety power Shutoff Program where they made Power Transmission lines during certain climate conditions and weather conditions to decrease the ability of fires starting. As noted, the c. P. C. Approved this adoption of the guidelines for this as a preventive measure against imminent and significant fire risk. San francisco is consider add tier 1, which is the lowest risk for fire, but the transmission lines run through the east bay hills and up the peninsula. Those both are tier 2 and tier 3, which are higher risk areas. Turning off either side transmission lines, either south or east could lead to blackout conditions in San Francisco. This loss of power outage could be 24 hours and potentially longer. D. M. And other agencies have been taking steps to manage for the consequences of these potential power outages. Last week, we had over 120 participants from city departments that came together at bill graham, to really sit down and work through preparedness and coordination, looking at impacts of these. Im going the turn this over now to our acting Deputy Director for Emergency Services and he will continue to talk to you a little bit about what weve been working on. Thank you director carol. When we brought everyone together we had three primary objectives. We wanted to gather information on what the potential impact of this may look like and we wanted to make sure we were sharing information among departments so they knew what the consequences might be and what steps they would need to talk and that third piece was form a future preparedness activity for what the city could do. What were going to do is show you a quick video of what actually took place last thursday and ill ill talk to you about some of our learnings and what some of the next steps are. We are here today, we have almost every city and county of San Francisco department represented to prepare for the possibility of power shut downs, complete loss of electric power to San Francisco, as a result of the Public Safety power shut off program. This program is intended to mitigate the affect of wildfires. San francisco is not so much at risk of those fires, but due to the configuration of the electric grid should they do a transmission shut off on east bay or the peninsula, San Francisco can be affected. We have all the major Public Safety departments, and the health department, and all our infrastructure departments, the p. U. C. And Public Safety, and our support departments. The power outage will affect everyone and our ability to perform city services, so it was important to have all the representatives from across city programs here today. We in d. P. H. Are working very closely with the rest of the city to help people prepare. For us in d. P. H. , we really want people to make a plan, and especially make a plan with the people they care about. Its time to reach out to your neighbors, to think about your best circle of people. In a disaster, its trust that saves live and thats why in d. P. H. , were working with all of our partners as fast as we can to put together a network to respond in a diaster. Were having really productive conversations around the table here today. I think one of the most fruitful results is our expanded understanding of the inner dependencies of different departments and infrastructures, for example, communications will be disrupted so how do we coordinate when we dont have our normal mode of communication, fuel, transportation, traffic lights will be out, it will be difficult to get around town. We have a lot of follow up after this meeting and lot more work to do, but this is a great first step for San Francisco. [applause] thank you to sfgov tv for helping us pull together that brief. For mary ellen, a lot of stuff is going to happen and we need to know more about it. Some of the Key Takeaways is the Significant Impact to Public Safety and our health system. Were so dependent on power now. Two of the big agencies that will be impacted, the routine forms of communication, these devices calling our public cell towers, on data systems, theyre all going to be impacted. We also heard about challenges traveling. People dont respect that four way stop when the lights go out. It will be challenging to get around the city. Were also going to have other disruptions because of child care centers. They may not be able to function. Having our own staff come to work, that will be a challenge. There will be some extended operational periods. Were not asking people to come in to work 8 hours, but we may have to expand that. When we dont have power, one of the other things we will rely on is fuel. Fuel for our vehicles and generators. Mary ellen mentioned that were not going to be the only ones facing this. If our power is out, other peoples power is out as well. This will be a bay area concern and one we need to make sure we need to get ahead of. Also, this is one of the learning elements. Power outages will require a time for recovery. Just because the lights and the power comes back on, it doesnt mean that everything will be fine. We need to make sure if there are individuals that may have been specifically impacted, we need to reach out to them. If there are data systems that are impacted by an automatic shutoff, then those are brought up properly. Things wont go back to normal immediately. We looked at whats next, our people, processes we need to have and technology. For people in particular, its working and making sure were extending out to our private sector partners, vendors, an contractors. What are their plans . How are we going to coordinate with c. B. O. S and other groups to make sure neighbors are helping neighbors and theyre checking on one another during and after the event and cross train staff. If transportation isnt working, are there other Staff Members that may be able to provide some of the front line services, which goes along with departments identifying those essential business functions they have, what are the continuity of the plans they have. Thats part of the process, identifying the plans, identifying functions that can be done remotely. Maybe not all the bay area is out. Can someone be at home use their personal devices and Access Systems and process things . Also, should we need to, going back to paper forms. We heard there was a cyber attack in baltimore, they went back to paper form to process things. On the technology and equipment side, we have a lot of fuel in the city, how do we get whats in the ground, out of the ground, looking at ways we can use that resource while were getting additional sources brought in. Also, talking to Capital Planning about why are some investments we can make now, perhaps for solar and storage, so we have some other back ups available and also integrating, if we need to, the replacement of electronics if things go down. Those are some of the initial things we identified from this exercise, but this isnt the only workshop were going to do. Some of the follow up steps will be in the middle of july, were going to meet with our private sector and c. B. O. S from what we heard from p. G. E. And how were going to work together. The frequency of these e. M. S. S may come up. Something that director carol mentioned before, often these types of events doesnt happen in isolation, but when its hot or when theres an air quality event. We heard of all these things were doing. If we have this unfortunate trifecta, this will put a lot of train strain on our resources. These are some of the steps we are taking to make sure that we as a city family can all work together. Director. Thank you, does anyone have any questions or comment . I want to thank everyone who participated. I believe it was a good use of time. Im very cognisant of using all the city salaried people into the room and not wasting our time, but we do have some good followup and we will be meeting with our private sector partners in a couple weeks, and however, we have to be ready to flex at any time. We already had our first heat wave and pg e did implement their plan. We are affected if the conditions are closer to the peninsula on the east bay, which is why we have to be prepared for the trifecta effectiveness. So i want to thank everyone for coming together. One of the im trying to find a Silver Lining in all of this and one of them, ive been talking about this a lot and feeling like im bumming everyone out all the time, but one of the great things about this, and that we will accomplish over this summer is increased preparedness. The data shows when there is an actual event or a truly perceived threat that people take action. So, i think that the call to action for everybody in this room and anyone watching this is a call to action to do something, get your plan together, reach out to your neighbor, think through your mind what would happen if you did not have electric power for one, two, and three days, and take some steps now if you are able to prepare yourself. This will be the most important thing that we can do. Frankly, the conditions that well experience after an event like this are similar and would be worse after an earthquake, so if nothing else happens, my hope is carl the fog stays around all summer. We spend a lot of time getting ready and were just that much further along when the rain comes again. So thank you. I want to open it up to Public Comment, if there is any on this item. Okay, seeing none, oh, im sorry. Please. Sorry, can you use the microphone . Thank you, my name is nick mccoy. So i just wanted to make sure you dont under state the value of the staff, the people that you work with, or the folks that have actually served as the support and done the research, made the calls, put up with the late hours and also put up with people that dont have the same level of knowledge as you may have in your careers, or in your time that you spent on the subject, or you spent in the city. Like none of the ideas, none of the theories would be worth anything without your structural help and processes to put that in place. So thats part of like the integration of what youre talking about in the interagency work. I think working with state partners as well, and other International Organizations who may have some sort of the resources or the stake in seeing how we deal with our upcoming challenges or the things that we already face. I think that opens up new Revenue Streams as well. It also produces an opportunity for us to grow, i think scientifically, as well as just the hypothesis of what could happen. You guys, all of the presentati presentations were sound and like, the information was great. I just wonder if like, the worse case scenario, what is it like if we dont succeed . What will those numbers look like . Are we prepared to have that sort of conversation prior to, with the community at large. Also dealing what is the heart of escape, if we have to vacate a particular part of the city or have to change our strategy in regards to whether or not we go up, down, out, and then like even the scale of like equipment that could possibly be used or need to be used. Where would we store that . You know, that light production, i think there are entities out there that are interested in building cities for their own corporate purposes, so they can build the perfect city. You guys already did that. For hundreds of years, like the work has already been put piece by piece in the place. Anyway, thank you i just look forward to participating in the conversation. Thank you. Do we have any other Public Comments . Okay, seeing none, well move on to number 7, the Disaster Council member round table. If Anyone Around the table have a diaster announcement. Michael. Sure, the San FranciscoInterfaith Council in collaboration with major faith institutions have been posting vigils following terrorist attacks on houses of worship. The mayor has been faithfully attending and offering comfort at each of those vigils and she said that people should feel safe when they go to worship. As a result of that, were responding and taking action. We assembled a Steering Committee consisting of the f. B. I. , San Francisco police department, the sheriffs office, the antidefamation lead, Muslim Community center, the San Francisco human rights commission, the jewish federation, the department of emergency management, the department of public health, the archdiocese, and the San Francisco foundation. Its an Incredible Group of folks and what were looking to do in early september, were going to have a workshop for congregation leaders to provide them with the resource us that they need to keep their houses of worship safe and in the event that something should happen locally here, we taken that initiative. Thank you michael. Thats so incredibly important and thank you for your leadership on that. Is there anyone else . Yeah. About two weeks ago, i got notice from our chief medical examiner that he will be moving on to another county, so today is his last day in the office and as of today, were going to start a national recruitment. In the interim, well have acting chief medical examiner be dr. Amy hart and the assistant acting chief medical examiner erin moffett. Well keep you updated. Thank you. Anyone else . Any general Public Comment we havent already heard . Then we will adjourn the meeting, thank you all for being here. [applause] [ ] in 201,755. 7 million passengers traveled through San Francisco international airport. We have on average 150,000 people traveling through the airport every day. Flying can be stressful so we have introduced therapy dogs to make flying more enjoyable. The wag brigade is a partnership between the airport and the San Francisco therapy Animal Assistant Program to bring therapy animals into the airport, into the terminals to make passenger travel more enjoyable. I amgen fer casarian and i work here at San Francisco international airport. The idea for therapy dogs got started the day after 9 11. An employee brought his therapy dog to work after 9 11 and he was able to see how his dog was able to relieve passengers jitter. When we first launched the program back in 2013, our main goal was to destress our passengers however what we quickly found is that our animals were helping us find a way to connect with our pang. Passengers. We find there are a lot of people traveling through the airport who are missing their pets and who are on their road a lot and cant have pets and we have come in contact with a lot of people recently who have lost pet. I love the wag brigade. One of my favorite parts is walking into the terminals and seeing everybody look up from their device, today everybody is interacting on their cell phone or laptop and we can walk into the terminal with a dog or a pig and people start to interact with each other again and its on a different level. More of an emotional level. I just got off an 11. 5 hour flight and nice to have this distraction in the middle of it. We look for wag brigade handlers who are comfortable in stressful situations. I like coming to airport its a lot of fun and the people you talk to are generally people who are missing their dogs. They are required to compete a certification process. And they are also required to complete a k9 good citizen test and we look for animals who have experienced working with other orgorganizations such as hospits and pediatric units and we want to be sure that the animals we are bringing into the airport are good with children and also good with some of our senior travelers. I think toby really likes meeting kids. That is his favorite thing. He likes to have them pet him and come up to him and he really loves the kids. Our wag brigade animals can be spotted wearing custom vets and they have custom patches. There is never a day that repeats itself and there is never and encounter that repeats itself. We get to do maximum good in a small stretch of time and i have met amazing people who have been thrilled to have the interaction. The dogs are here seven days a week, we have 20 dogs and they each come for a two hour shift. There is a lot of stress when people have traveling so to from these animals around to ease the stress and help people relax a little bit. I think its great. One of our dogs has special need and that is tristine. He wears a wheel around. He has special shoes and a harness and we get it together in the parking lot and then we get on the air train. He loves it. Little kids love him because he is a little lower to the ground so easy to reach and he has this big furry head they get to pet and he loves that. He doesnt seem to mind at all. Probably one of the happiest dogs in the world. Many people are nervous when they travel but seeing the dogs is just a wonderful relief. What i absolutely love most about it is the look on peoples faces, so whenever they are stressed and flying is stressful these days you get these wonderful smile. I am the mom of lilo the pig and she is San Franciscos first therapy pig. Lilo joined the wag brigade as our firs first pig. Wag brigade invited us to join the program here and we have done it about a yearandahalf ago. Our visits last 1. 5 to 2 hours and it does take a little bit longer to get out of the terminal because we still get a lot of attention and a lot of people that want to interact with lilo. I feel honored to be part of the wag brigade. Its very special to meet so many people and make so many feel happy and people that work here. Its been a great experience for me and a great experience for to totoby. Its been an extremely successful program, so the next time you are here, stop by and say hi. It had been rain for several days. At 12 30 there was a notice of large amount of input into the reservoir. We opened up the incident command and started working the incident to make sure employees and the public were kept were safe there is what we call Diversion Dam upstream of moccasin. The water floods the Drinking Water reservoir. We couldnt leave work. If the dam fails what is going to happen. We had three objectives. Evacuate and keep the community and employees safe. Second was to monitor the dam. Third objective was to activate Emergency Action plan and call the agencies that needed contacted. The time was implement failure of the dam. We needed to set up for an extended incident. We got people evacuated downstream. They came back to say it is clear downstream, start issuing problems and create work orders as problems come in. Powerhouse was flooded. Water was so high it came through the basement floor plate, mud and debris were there. It was a survey where are we . What are we going to do to get the Drinking Water back in. We have had several emergencies. With each incident we all ways operate withins dent command open. Process works without headache. When we do it right it makes it easier for the next one. We may experience working as a team in the different format. Always the team comes together. They work together. Our staff i feel does take a lot of pride of ownership of the projects that they work on for the city. We are a Small Organization that helps to service the water for 2. 7 million people. The diversity of the group makes us successful. The best description we are a big family. It is an honor to have my team recognized. I consider my team as a small part of what we do here, but it makes you proud to see people come together in a disaster. Safety is number one through the whole city of San Francisco. We want people to go home at the end of the day to see their loved ones. We dont want them hurt. We want them back the next day to do their work. There is a lot of responsibility the team members take on. They word very they work hard. They are proud of what they do. I am proud they are recognized. My son and i was living in my car. We was in and out of shelters in San Francisco for almost about 3. 5 years. I would take my son to school. We would use a public rest room just for him to brush his teeth and do a quick little wipeoff so it seemed he could take a shower every day. It was a very stressful time that i wish for no one. My name is mario, and i have lived in San Francisco for almost 42 years. Born here in hayes valley. I applied for the San FranciscoAffordable Housing lottery three times. My son and i were having to have a great happened to have a great lottery number because of the neighborhood preference. I moved into my home in 2014. The neighborhood preference goal was what really allowed me to stay in San Francisco. My favorite thing is the view. On a clear day, im able to see city hall, and on a really clear day, i can see salesforce tower. We just have a wonderful neighborhood that we enjoy living in. Being back in the neighborhood that i grew up in, its a wonderful, wonderful experience. Now, we can hopefully reach our goals, not only single mothers, but single fathers, as well, who are living that. Live your dream, live your life, good afternoon. Welcome to the regular session meeting of the San FranciscoEthics Commission. Lets do a roll call. [roll call] unfortunately our newest commissioner, commissioner gray has a scheduling conflict and sends his regards and is not able to be here. We hope you will be able to join us as the newest member of the commission at our next meeting. I would like to move to agenda item number two which is Public Comment on matters of hearing are not appearing on the agenda. Any Public Comment at this time no Public Comment. My goodness. Moving on to the consent calendar. We have three items on the consent calendar today. One is the draft minute, excuse me for the Ethics Commissions may 29, 2019 regular meeting. Second is the proposed stipulation decision and order in the matter of tran16. Complaint number 28. [reading items] i will call for Public Comment in a moment. I just wanted to note that the consent calendar items, the two stipulations raise issues that i think would be informative i be helpful for us to keep in mind to my fellow commissioners as we discussed agenda item number six. They deal with issues of incumbency and the use of city resources as well as the use of personal funds as well as campaign funds. I think that will be helpful to bear those things in mind as we consider what would be enforcement priorities for the commission Going Forward. Now would call for Public Comment on any and all of the consent calendar items. Any comment from the commissioners . No . I would move to approve consent calendar items listed three, four, and five. A second from vice chair ambrose. The motion is passed unanimously. Agenda item number six. [reading items] i would like to continue this item to july, 2018 meeting, because commissioner gray is not in attendance today, and the full commission i think we would benefit from having his input and provide the opportunity for us to discuss this important topic altogether. Unless there is any objection i would like to hold this matter over to the next month. I think that is appropriate and i agree with that. We will hold this over to next month. Public comment on agenda item number six . Item number seven. [reading items] thank you chair and commissioners. Pat ford senior quality analyst. The update for this month are items that you have all seen before, i do have a few updates to share. The review of the Public Financing program as you know at the last eating you approved an ordinance to make several changes to that program. Working together with deputy City Attorney shan, we sent the final version of the ordinance over to the board of supervisors. It sounded city hall for 30 days on a 30 day hold, and since this memo was written it has now been assigned to City Government audit and oversight committee. I know the memo since it is waiting assignment, since it has been out it is now with that committee no hearing date yet on that. I will continue to track it and we will keep you updated as soon as i know. The chair of that committee is supervisor gordon mar who is the sponsor of this ordinance. I am hoping working with his office we will be able to make sure that this gets heard soon. At this point it is not clear that it will be heard before the board goes on recess for the month of august. Mr. Ford, how long is that board recess was on august . I want to say fourweek. Through labor day. That means it is likely not to be heard until after labor day . Yeah, i have not been able to get any confirmation it will be heard before then. If you could refresh our recollections on the process for hearing these matters in committee and getting it to the full board . How does that work and is there some rough timing so we could have some realistic expectations around when it might actually get signed by the mayor . Sure. The chair of the committee generally has discretion to when items are called at committee. I would guess that since the chair of the committee is the sponsor of the ordinance that he would be interested in having it called sooner rather than later. I believe supervisor is on the same page as us having this going to affect the first of the year, this coming new years. Without in mind i think they probably will want to schedule it soon. Once it is heard a committee, the committee hopefully would forward it to the full board with positive recommendation and then at that point, similar process happens to the board where it needs to be scheduled and then it has two readings at the board, and has to be approved twice. Does the committee only meet once on it or do they have to meet twice as well . The committee is just one time. Yeah. Right, if they want to make amendment or have discussion or hear multiple times they could, but they only have to hear it wants. Could you keep us apprised at the next meeting, or as this goes forward, if there contemplating any amendments that we have some early visibility into what they may be . Yes, i will definitely keep you updated. Absolutely. That is all on the ordinance. The regulations that were also approved at the last eating are also sitting at the hall right now. Those have to wait for 60 days before they become operative. If they see anything in the regulations that they want to discuss, so far i have not heard anything along those lines. Usually as it gets close to the 60 day window ending, i get in touch with the clerk of the board to see if anything has happened and then as soon as that 60 day. Expires, that we start working towards implementing those. Looking at the end of july is when that 60 day timeframe ends. No update on those right now. The third policy project is the efiling of the form 700. Helping other divisions leading this project on the labor negotiation and regulation aspects of this project area again, this is to have all filers of the statement of economic interest file that form through an Electronic System rather than submitting it in paper form to a filing officer and their department they would use the same Electronic Filing system that you and the Board Commission members and elected officials use as well. Right now we are still in the planning phase to see what this project entails. What we need to do to make sure that it is done effectively and that everyone has the proper tools and training that they need to really make this effective. In terms of policies on this project right now, i am working with the department of Human Resources to start basically notifying the bargaining units. We have gotten to the point where we have actually met with him yet. Just to notify them that this is a project that is in the pipeline so they can start to become aware of what it is and decide whether or not they want to engage and meet about that. So far, nothing really to update you on other than we are beginning to work with the chair and notify the bargaining units. How many bargaining units are there that would have to work with . I dont think i dont know. That is something hr is determining right now. Please keep us updated as things progress and good luck. Definitely will keep you updated. Outside of the actual policy projects, some other things i am working on, continuing to monitor the sunlight on dark honey initiatives also sponsored by a number of supervisors. Just to recap. For supervisors can sign a piece of legislation, and by doing so place it on the ballot. Five supervisors signed this piece of legislation which makes a few changes, or would make, i should say, the conduct code in particular changes some disclaimer rules. It creates a couple of new filings for certain expenditures and would require new filings, i would also place a prohibition on contributions by certain people who have a financial interest in land use decisions to certain candidates. This initiative has had three different versions, the last version was submitted on the deadline to submit legislation to go on the ballot, so, the final version came in last week. I have been reviewing that there are a number of significant changes from the last version and the main reason we are looking at that right now is that the Controllers Office works to create a Financial Impact estimate to basically be able to put on the voter information pamphlet, how much the initiative would cost if it were approved. They ask of the department who would implement the ordinance, with the financial cost would be to implement it. That is something were working on right now to stack out the different forms that would need to be created. And try to give the Controllers Office a cost estimate. Did i hear you correctly that they changed the text of the ordinance and resubmitted it . That is correct. They did that twice. I assume now the deadline has passed, so this is the final version on the ballot. Has it been through the ballot pamphlet committee, ive already forgotten what they are called now . Ballot simplification. We dont know yet how they have written up the statement for the ballot about the measure . No, we have not seen that. It also hasnt had the hearing that measures have to have one supervisors vote to put it on the ballot. The deadline for that is before or after the boards recess . I would to defer before the recess. In 20 in july there will be hearing . Rights, as you mentioned the deadline to make any changes to that ordinance has passed. My understanding they can take it off, but they cannot change it. So then the thing i was getting at, the comments you are going to prepare, youre not bringing them back to the commission this is going to be a staff comment at the Board Hearing . Yes, because those comments need to be in before the next meetings. From a financial standpoint and term of the budget impasse for the commission. New forms will be created that the commission will have to develop and implement. Since that money is not in our budget for the upcoming year, if this is approved by the voters in the november election, what is the Effective Date and then since we do not have the budgeted with those costs be covered if we would have to go forward . As far as the Effective Date goes, i think it is 30 days after the results of the election are certified, if i recall correctly. 10 days after the results are certified. It would be roughly end of year, or before the end of the year. As to cost, implementation how that is absorbed into the departments budget i would like to defer that question to the executive director. [laughter] if there is no money allocated we would have to absorb it, yes. Excuse me, to be clear we would have to absorb it with our existing budget, yes you get at the next meeting if you have some estimates in terms of what it is going to cost, that would be very helpful. Deputy City Attorney, it although it is certified, by operation of law following an election assuming it is approved, there is a ramp up as a practical matter. What is the legal posture of the commission if we dont have the budget for it and taking resources away. There is a process we need to go through to determine what, if we are going to do this, what are we not going to do . Where does that leave us out a liability standpoint . I guess a couple of responses to that. In terms of any additional need for funding that the commission may need due to legislation, like any other department the commission could approach the board of supervisors for supplemental appropriation. In terms of rampup time in terms of implementation time, they will need to be developed if and when this is rolled out, it is up to the commission as to how they want to approach that issue. It could wait until they know for sure that the voters have approved a measure, you can start that prior to the election itself and get everything ready to go on day one. I would defer to the commission on the staff as to what exactly is the best route there. If you dont mind, i would like to come back to some of the timing issues that commissioner ambrose issued. The july meeting is delayed until the end of the month, july 31. At that point, the requisite Board Hearing on the measure would have artie been held and filed. The Ballot Simplification Committee will likely be done or it could be right in the middle of the process of adopting a digest for this measure. I will be difficult given we are not going to have a commission meeting, for a while. The commission could delegate one of its members to follow up on both funds on behalf of the commission. Just so we dont have to schedule a meeting or do other logistical gymnastics to address those issues. That is up to the discretion of the commission. I am sure the staff can artie do what they need. If the commission does want to follow up and assist in the matter it is up to the commission. Thank you. That is very helpful. Im sorry, one more question. There is no obligation that the commission, in fact im more concerned about the other side of it, but because it is an independent legislative initiative, we have to be very careful about how we weigh in on the subject matter. So, am i wrong, there is no action that the commission needs to take on the ballot simplification, or what would be a purely factual cost analysis of the implementation of what has been proposed. We wouldnt need to bring it to the commission before it goes to the ballot . Of course that is absolutely correct. The commission is not obligated to take any of those steps or be involved in the process. Normally i wouldnt expect any pending ballot measure. Needs to be relatively impartial, whatever speaks on the topic. They can provide facts, it could provide basic background. Certainly the commission can never take a position on a ballot measure. You may recall a few years ago the Ethics Commission put consecutive years a couple of ballot measures on regarding lobbyists. In 2015 and 2016 i believe off the top of my head. An additional one regarding essentially prohibiting contributions from lobbyists, as well. That was a different situation. Those were measures directly put on by the commission. In that posture, this commission, at that time, was a little bit more at the forefront grade the Ethics Commission, for example, for those measures that they themselves that on the ballot. Here since it is a measure and not one that we are putting on as a body, obviously a different situation. The commission would probably be more about clarifying facts, providing background, things which i believe the staff could absolutely handle. Given the gap in meetings, if they want a member to more closely follow it, that would be an option for the body. I would agree with commissioner ambrose, want to make sure that the digest ensures the accuracy of the facts and the law, but also i think at some point certainly earlier alliterations had references to the Ethics Commission. I dont know if there was any ordinance itself, but making sure that the characterization of the ethics mission, what it did or did not approve up previous meetings is correct. Not misdated. If there is any desire of any of the commissioners to work with staff on this . Perfectly happy to have you as chair to be our eyes and ears. Obviously the commission could comment or correct the record even if something happened afterwards. I dont know that we need to take official action as chair. You arty have, under the rules, that responsibility to represent the commission on matters. Go forth and do my best. I will work with you as appropriate on this Going Forward. Just let me know the timing in terms of the deadlines and making sure that we sync up. I will keep you in the loop of all of our analysis and any communications we have Going Forward on this. I dont really have any other updates, those were the big ticket items for now. Answer any questions about these are your general items you might have. Otherwise excuse me, theres a general item for an upcoming meeting, perhaps in august. I think it would be timely with the onboarding of commissioner gray and commissioner smith joining us that we can have a deeper policy dive in terms of exploring not just the one of the items that are here before us today, but also other things that we had previously considered as a commission and can go through what we have been calling the policy prioritization station plan. I think we have done this on a quarterly basis, but looking at the overall portfolio of potential projects, it has been some time. I think it would be a good time to do grounding in terms of all that has come forward and matters before is now, and have a robust discussion of the full commission on where to go in the future both on the short medium and longterm. I think the timing would be good, because as you can see, a lot of these projects are in the later stages right now. The regulations that you approved hopefully, in 60 days will pass and nothing will happen, meaning they will go into effect and i can work with other staff to implement those and get those integrated in terms of materials. Likewise for the ordinance, it will move along, and by that time in august have a better sense and hopefully there will be much i have to do in terms of staff work. Likewise for the hunters project, i hope i august we will make more progress with the bargaining unit meetings. We will have a better sense of how that will look in the future. It could be a really good time to know what the bandwidth will be on the policy front. We would see that up for august then. Just to go back to the Public Financing ordinance, once the full board hears it, in the event they dont adopt what we send over and make changes, it would come back to us and we would need to consider it again and vote by supermajority to either approve any changes that they make . Correct. Once that happens, if that happens, would it then go back to the same committee and hearing process of the board . Andrew is nodding. Because, yes. Unavoidable. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions for mr. Ford . Thank you. Public comment on agenda item number seven . Agenda item number eight. [reading items] thank you. Briefly in the enforcement arena this month, i had occasion to visit the citywide consultants, the department of Human Resources citywide consultant in their quarterly meeting which took place in june. Dhr had assigned proof for that month eating consideration of secondary employment within the city and county. Secondary employment being when an employee of the city and county receives compensation from some outside activity. I do think in the evolving economy that our local tech has partially provided that we have some occasion to reconsider what it means to receive compensation and some outside activity. In general, the conversation turned on instances in which employees have say, a second job, or they are engaged in some income driving project, outside of the city. I attended that meeting with counterparts from the Controllers Office. And the head of the City Attorneys Public Integrity unit. The three of us had occasion to describe for those consultant the kinds of obligations that arise for City Employees who are seeking income in these external ways. Under the Civil Service rules they have to disclose the existence of that secondary employment. They have to seek permission from their department to engage in that activity and theories that form by which they seek that permission. Then it has to get forwarded on, not to their internal hr but to the department of Human Resources which likewise must sign off on that. At every stage those entities have to satisfy themselves that the secondary employment is not incompatible with the responsibilities as a City Employee. So, we talked a little bit with these consultants about the kinds of ethics situations that might arise when City Employees have secondary employment. One is not just that they have to file this form, but that it may create other disclosure obligations on form 700 if the affected City Employee or city officer is required to file a form 700 statement of economic interest. They would have to disclose to the city that there is this outside financial interests because that would enable us to evaluate potential conflicts that may arise and of course that officer or employee, ordinary functioning. And then we talked a little bit about whether investigations may arise for individuals who have outside employment. Both the Whistleblower Program and the Public Integrity unit in our office could investigate whether somebody is outside employment materially impairs their ability to satisfy their obligations to the city and county. There are a variety of ways that might happen, it could be that the second job entails excessive time demands. It could be that they are using city resources to advance their second job. They are absentee in themselves and from work, while claiming to have been at work so that they can operate the secondary employment. We talked about the role that the departments might play, the role that Human Resources might play and the possibility that even in a phase of discipline showed a department wish to impose discipline on an employee, the Ethics Commission could seek financial penalties, irrespective of whatever determinations the department itself might make. I think it was a pretty robust conversation. I think all parties, where a doubt of secondary employment within the city. I think historically it has not been something the departments have either adequately understood or adequately addressed. As i say in the report, i think this signals a renewed commitment trying to bring the citys workforce into compliance with that variety of obligations. Overall i think it was a successful outreach effort by virtue of invitation through the Controllers Office program. An extension of the ongoing collaboration that we have without office, and with the Public Integrity units at these weekly meetings i think are bearing fruit in terms of the Ethics Commission and these other accountability departments work collaboratively to change the overall culture and landscape ethically within the city and countys workforce. I would note that the investigators again have fewer matters and preliminary review, they are down now to 45 from where we were a month ago at 57. The amount of time on average that it takes us as a division to get through this, has bumped up some. We did not discuss today item 6. Item 6 noted one distinction, in these numbers, is that it takes, on average, three months to open an investigation. The number that we see here, roughly 9 month suggests that it takes us longer to dismiss complaint than it does to convert them into open investigations. It is possible that the preliminary investigation for dismissal might be monitored longer than it is when we determined to open a matter, because we always want to make sure that we have checked all theories to ensure that we are not unduly dismissing