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Patients and staff are able to function within the confines of our Delivery Services so thats a real key piece. The last piece is as an equity issue, Disaster Preparedness is key because we know that population thats suffer from the greatest health and equity of chronic diseases are the most at risk in disaster for Poor Health Outcomes so dr. Gurly has been a real champion across the department. I want to thank her and her team for that leadership and thank you in terms of how we have moved from a less frequent execution of these duties to a frequent one. Ensuring the department and the commission is aware of these and that we prepare accordingly. Thank you. Thank you. Next item, please. Item 11 is other business and the counter is before you and its just a reminder the august 20th meet be will be held at the chinatown ymca at 5 00. Anything else . We can move on to item 1. The report back from the july 9th, 2019jcc meeting and i believe commissioner green attended. Yes, the laguna honda hospital the committee discussed the following items. We heard the administrators report discussion of the patient incidents and change of hospital leadership. We reiterated our sadness and our commitment to support current leadership to ensure the safety and quality of care of patients at laguna honda hospital and necessary changes are made. We heard the Regulatory Affairs report. We heard about their ethic implementation which was fantastic and they in deed had a lot of green dots that were red a week earlier. Added congratulations to you and we approved a policy and procedure manual that was quite extensive and very well done with a lot of great updates. A consider for close the session. I have not received Public Comment for that item. Is there a motion to go into a second. Second. All in favor aye. Well go into closed session. Thank you, consideration to disclose are not disclose. Consideration. Motion to not disclose. Is there a second. Second. All those if favor. Aye. Any consider for adjournment. Looking for adjournment. So moved. Is there a second. Second. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Meeting adjourned. Thank you, everyone. We spoke with people regardless of what they are. That is when you see change. That is a lead vannin advantage. So Law Enforcement assistance diversion to work with individuals with nonviolent related of offenses to offer an alternative to an arrest and the county jail. We are seeing reduction in drugrelated crimes in the pilot area. They have done the program for quite a while. They are successful in reducing the going to the county jail. This was a state grant that we applied for. The department is the main administrator. It requires we work with multiple agencies. We have a community that includes the da, Rapid Transit police and San Francisco Sheriffs Department and Law Enforcement agencies, Public Defenders Office and adult probation to Work Together to look at the population that ends up in criminal justice and how they will not end up in jail. Having partners in the nonprofit world and the public defender are critical to the success. We are beginning to succeed because we have that cooperation. Agencies with very little connection are brought together at the same table. Collaboration is good for the department. It gets us all working in the same direction. These are complex issues we are dealing with. When you have systems as complicated as police and health and proation and jails and nonprofits it requires people to come to Work Together so everybody has to put their egos at the door. We have done it very, very well. The model of care where police, district attorney, public defenders are communitybased organizations are all involved to worked towards the common goal. Nobody wants to see drug users in jail. They want them to get the correct treatment they need. We are piloting lead in San Francisco. Close to civic center along market street, union plaza, powell street and in the mission, 16th and mission. Our goal in San Francisco and in seattle is to work with individuals who are cycling in and out of criminal justice and are falling through the cracks and using this as intervention to address that population and the Racial Disparity we see. We want to focus on the mission in tender loan district. It goes to the partners that hired case managers to deal directly with the clients. Case managers with referrals from the police or city agencies connect with the person to determine what their needs are and how we can best meet those needs. I have nobody, no friends, no resources, i am flatout on my own. I witnessed women getting beat, men getting beat. Transgenders getting beat up. I saw people shot, stabbed. These are people that have had many visits to the county jail in San Francisco or other institutions. We are trying to connect them with the resources they need in the community to break out of that cycle. All of the referrals are coming from the Law Enforcement agency. Officers observe an offense. Say you are using. It is found out you are in possession of drugs, that constituted a lead eligible defense. The officer would talk to the individual about participating in the program instead of being booked into the county jail. Are you ever heard of the leads program. Yes. Are you part of the leads program . Do you have a case worker . Yes, i have a case manager. When they have a contact with a possible lead referral, they give us a call. Ideally we can meet them at the scene where the ticket is being issued. Primarily what you are talking to are people under the influence of drugs but they will all be nonviolent. If they were violent they wouldnt qualify for lead. You think i am going to get arrested or maybe i will go to jail for something i just did because of the Substance Abuse issues i am dealing with. They would contact with the outreach worker. Then glide shows up, you are not going to jail. We can take you. Lets meet you where you are without telling you exactly what that is going to look like, let us help you and help you help yourself. Bring them to the Community Assessment and Services Center run by adult probation to have assessment with the department of Public Health staff to assess the treatment needs. It provides meals, groups, there are things happening that make it an open space they can access. They go through detailed assessment about their needs and how we can meet those needs. Someone who would have entered the jail system or would have been arrested and book order the charge is diverted to social services. Then from there instead of them going through that system, which hasnt shown itself to be an effective way to deal with people suffering from suable stance abuse issues they can be connected with case management. They can offer Services Based on their needs as individuals. One of the key things is our approach is client centered. Hall reduction is based around helping the client and meeting them where they are at in terms of what steps are you ready to take . We are not asking individuals to do anything specific at any point in time. It is a Program Based on whatever it takes and wherever it takes. We are going to them and working with them where they feel most comfortable in the community. It opens doors and they get access they wouldnt have had otherwise. Supports them on their goals. We are not assigning goals working to come up with a plan what success looks like to them. Because i have been in the field a lot i can offer different choices and let them decide which one they want to go down and help them on that path. It is all on you. We are here to guide you. We are not trying to force you to do what you want to do or change your mind. It is you telling us how you want us to help you. It means a lot to the clients to know there is someone creative in the way we can assist them. They pick up the phone. It was a blessing to have them when i was on the streets. No matter what situation, what pay phone, cell phone, somebody elses phone by calling them they always answered. In officebased setting somebody at the reception desk and the clinician will not work for this population of drug users on the street. This has been helpful to see the outcome. We will pick you up, take you to the appointment, get you food on the way and make sure your needs are taken care of so you are not out in the cold. First to push me so i will not be afraid to ask for help with the lead team. Can we get you to use less and less so you can function and have a normal life, job, place to stay, be a functioning part of the community. It is all part of the home reduction model. You are using less and you are allowed to be a viable member of the society. This is an important question where lead will go from here. Looking at the data so far and seeing the successes and we can build on that and as the department based on that where the investments need to go. If it is for five months. Hopefully as final we will come up with a model that may help with all of the communities in the california. I want to go back to school to start my ged and go to community clean. It can be somebody scaled out. That is the hope anyway. Is a huge need in the city. Depending on the need and the data we are getting we can definitely see an expansion. We all hope, obviously, the program is successful and we can implement it city wide. I think it will save the county millions of dollars in emergency services, police services, prosecuting services. More importantly, it will save lives. Thank you all for being here today and for your patience. Im london breed, mayor of San Francisco, and i am joined by president of the board of supervisors, supervisor norman yee as well as the director of the department the department of Public Health, dr. Grant pulled koufax and other members of the department of Public Health. We are here today because there was a very unfortunate situation that has occurred at laguna honda pick laguna honda hospital is a place that has taken care of so many vulnerable residents, people like my grandmother, were so many years. My grandmother suffered from dementia and she was at laguna honda for many years before she passed away in 2016. I want to say that the chair and the support and the compassion from so many of the employees at laguna honda meant a lot to me personally and meant a lot to my family, but these particular acts that have occurred, by few individuals will be addressed. Dr. Colfax will provide some of the details in terms of what has happened and we are already taking swift action to address those issues and i want to thank him and his department for being steadfast in the work to address these issues, in addition to providing new leadership to make sure that this doesnt occur again. We are better than this. We are committed to restoring the trust of the families and the patients of laguna honda and we thank you thank you all so much for being here, as well as, as i said, many of the folks who are part of laguna honda, we have work to do and we are committed to making sure that situations like this that have occurred dont happen again. At this time, i would like to ask president of the board of supervisors, norman yee to say a few words. Laguna honda is located in his district. Thank you, mayor. Im kind of speech list when i found out about this situation and im super i am super outraged with what has occurred. Like mayor breed, this is personal to me. I have had family members who stay there. I still have friends whose parents are being cared for. So for this to occur under our watch, i dont have the words to express how upset i am. When people send their loved ones there, they trust, they would like to be able to trust that they will have the best care. For the most part, at laguna honda, i would say that they have received that, but for these few Staff Members that have perpetrated these incidents , i am with dr. Colfax, this is a very quick, quick reaction, not only to find out what happened, but what is more important is that we really need to figure out how to prevent Something Like this from ever happening again because again, when one sends their loved ones there, they want to feel comfortable. They care. They do care what happens, and they have to trust us, and we should do the best we can. Because of that, we are going to call for a hearing at the board of supervisors to find out what exactly happened and what are the measures that will guarantee that this will never happen again. I want to thank the mayor for acting quickly and i want to also thank dr. Colfax for what he has done so far. Thank you very much. Thank you president yee and now dr. Grant colfax to provide more details about what has occurred. Good afternoon. Thank you madam mayor and thank you president yee and thank you all for coming today on such short notice. We are here to report something difficult, disturbing, and disappointing to the people of San Francisco. In february of this year, while investigating and unrelated Personnel Matter, the department uncover the possibility of patient mistreatment at laguna honda hospital. We immediately started an internal investigation and found evidence to substantiate our initial submission suspicions we contacted the San Francisco City Attorney to help us conduct a more formal and comprehensive investigation. We reported our evidence to the California Department of Public Health and to the San Francisco police department. And we just we dispatch the quality and safety Team Together all the relevant facts and to make recommendations. We know want to the people of San Francisco to hear directly from us about our findings and what we are going to do about them. We discovered that 23 residents were affected, dating back to 2016. Six Staff Members were involved in they are no longer employed by the department of Public Health. The misconduct we discovered included sexualized conversations with residents, verbal and physical abuse, neglect, privacy violations, medication errors, and the administration of nonprescribed substances to some residents in an attempt to pacify them. This behavior is not something we will tolerate. This behavior is not something i will tolerate. As a caregiver, i am outraged and heartbroken. There are patients that our patients were treated this way. I apologize to them and to their families. In response to our findings, we have immediately taken steps to ensure patient wellness and safety. We have removed the chief executive officer and chief quality officer of laguna honda hospital. We have notified all affected patients and their decisionmakers or their conservators. We have thoroughly examined all affected patients to make sure to ensure their health and wellness. We have informed all relevant regulatory Law Enforcement agencies, we have retrained staff in prevention and preventing patient abuse and we have improved drug security, dispensing, and testing practices. There is no evidence that these abuses continue to pass january of 2019. An extensive investigation and interviews with staff confirm that these abuses were limited to two units of the hospital and to a minority of patients in those units. Today, we are confident that laguna honda continues to be a good place for patients. Especially in the areas the patient care and safety. We want to ensure it continues moving in the right direction, so these circumstances never occur again. Our acting c. E. O. Will lead to the process of recovery from these incidents and we will fully engage our hospital staff and recommending and recommitting to our mission, values and work. We will continue to work in close collaboration with the California Department of health and our cooperate and are corruptly cooperating fully with their investigation. Additionally, the Health Department wonder take a turnaround plan for laguna honda , informed by external experts in longterm care and working in partnership with the community, patients and their families and Health Department leaders. Well submit our plan for moving forward to the mayor, to the board of supervisors and to the Health Commission within 60 days anyone with concerns about patient care or staff conduct is asked to call the Confidential Department of Public Health compliance hotline at 8557296040 855 7296040. Now, the director of the San Francisco Health Network and i will answer a few questions as there are still ongoing investigations, we may be limited in what we can say at this time, but we thought it was important the community hear from us directly and that is why were we are here today. Thank you. [indiscernible] all six employees have been removed from employment. There is an Ongoing Police investigation. [indiscernible] they have been removed from those positions and we have a new c. E. O. It is a Personnel Matter and i cant specify any further than that they are removed it from their positions as of today. [indiscernible] as i mentioned, we first became aware of these issues in february of this year, february of 2019, in one of the things that concerns me is that, as a culture, within the context of which these employees were working, that there was a culture of silence and thats why we need to make this change. We need to move from a culture of silence to a culture of safety. [indiscernible] we have reinforced medication prescription and security and i will let mr. Pickens provide you with more details. Thank you dr. Colfax. Im roland pickens, director of the San Francisco Health Network in answer to your question in terms of medication management, there are medication rooms on each of the patient units at laguna. Those rooms have computerized medication cabinets that hold the drugs. There are also or medication carts that are used to bring medications out of the room and onto the patient units. Obviously the persons the systems in place at that time did not catch what happened in terms of some of the inappropriate medication use. As dr. Colfax said, we have taken steps to remediate that right away and are continuing to analyse the process. There has been an increased monitoring and oversight by pharmacists at laguna honda. They have doubled their checks going from once a week to once a day, and they will continue as we bring in consultants to really help us analyse what has been the gaps that led to this behavior and what do we need to do to fill those gaps. [indiscernible] yes, thank you so much for asking the question. This is all about keeping our patients safe. Twentythree occasions patients range in ages from 30 to 100. [indiscernible] im sorry, say that again . [indiscernible]. Again, these were patients on what north one and north to and those two units specialize in dementia care. [indiscernible] controlled substances are available, so it is a mixture of controlled and noncontrolled substances. [indiscernible] thank you all so much. We really appreciate it. We really appreciate it. Thank you. Working for the city and county of San Francisco will immerse you in a vibrant and dynamic city thats on the forefront of economic growth, the arts, and social change. Our city has always been on the edge of progress and innovation. After all, were at the meeting of land and sea. Our city is famous for its iconic scenery, historic designs, and worldclass style. Its the birthplace of blue jeans, and where the rock holds court over the largest natural harbor on the west coast. Our 28,000 city and county employees play an Important Role in making San Francisco what it is today. We provide residents and visitors with a wide array of services, such as improving city streets and parks, keeping communities safe, and driving buses and cable cars. Our employees enjoy competitive salaries, as well as generous benefits programs. But most importantly, working for the city and county of San Francisco gives employees an opportunity to contribute their ideas, energy, and commitment to shape the citys future. Thank you for considering a career with the city and county of San Francisco. Chair ronen mr. Clerk, can you please read item number one. Clerk prior to that, id like to make an announcement. Please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Documents referred to in presentations should be submitted to the clerk. Item number 1 is a hearing to propose the submitted ordinance to members of and candidates for the board of supervisors, the mayor, and candidates for mayor, the City Attorney, and candidates for City Attorney and the controlled committees of those officers and candidates. Chair ronen thank you so much. And i just wanted to note that we have quite a front row crowd in the audience. We have two former supervisors and a judge. We have former supervisor tom ammiano. We have the former chair of the Ethics Commission, tom renne. I will turn this over to supervisor mar. Supervisor mar thank you so much, chair, ronen, for allowing us to hold this informational hearing today, and im proud to be this sponsor on this dark money measure. Its earned the support of eight of my colleagues. Im also proud to share that it has all been endorsed by a number of important organizations, including represent us, friends of ethics, the harvey milk lgbtq democratic club, sf league of conservation voters, San Francisco berniecrats, San Francisco tomorrow, district 11 democratic club, d6 democratic club, and several former Ethics Commissioners. To work towards a more democratic and equitiable future, we must start at the root. If we want to ensure just policies, if we want to ensure just outcomes, we need a just system. Those in Public Office are entrusted to represent the public, and yet the money that fuels our elections is in large part private and fuels our super p. A. C. S who funnel large amounts of dark money in an attempt to buy elections. My constituents experienced this in district 4 last year when over 700,000 was donated by an Organization Called progress San Francisco, and they tried to influence the Mayors Office and other supervisors races last year. This is why ive made electoral reforms one of my priorities in office. While we strive for racial, economic, and gender equality, we must remember that political equality is at the root and intersections of each of these struggles. The path to a fairer, more equitiable and just city is one through a stronger democracy, where neither the color of your skin nor the amount of money in your wallet determines your ability to be represented and heard. When we have enshrined in our constitution the notion that all people are created equal, when corporations are determined to be people and people are not determined equal, in this fundamental inequality has real consequences in the policy of our city and our country. With political spending reaching record highs as trust in government reaches record lows, the issue of faith in our Political Institution is at a crisis point. There is little question of the cause of this disillusionment. When for profits donate to political causes, this is not a kind donation. This is an investment, and they expect returns on their investments, and these returns are real and draw the line between political inequities and racial and economic disparities. We are caught in a vicious cycle in which the rich pour money into election, secure political power and write rules that keep themselves wealthy and the rest of us struggling to get ahead. This is a cycle that builds upon itself in a dangerous feedback loop, and its a cycle that freezes out people of color and entrenches existing hierarchies in centuries of racebased oppression. Solving it is a remaining issue of the civil and Voting Rights movement. The study goes on to say that the government is sharply more responsive to the preferences of the wealthy than those to the average voter. In role of case policy whe including expansion of incarceration, and our stagnant National Minimum wage. So the question we must ask ourselves is not the issues is not the issues at hand, but what we can do about them. Corporate contributions, paytoplay politics, and dark money contributions are all places that bear no place in our democracy and have real consequences. The sun light on Dark Money Initiative addresses all three of these issues. First, it will ban all corporate contributions to many committees. Many are banned under existing law, but there are exceptions depending how businesses are incorporated. But eliminating these loopholes, we can take a clear stand against the appearance and instances of corruption. Second, it will ban paytoplay donations from Real Estate Developers from donating to candidates for elected offices that could play a role in improving those matters. Finally, sun light on dark money will create the strongest dark money disclosure law in the nation. Last year, the supervisor races were the most expensive in recent history. The race for mayor was the most expensive in recent history. Too often, independent expenditure committees are a local version of super p. A. C. S are funded by statelevel committees with nice sounding names like progress San Francisco. Sun light on dark money would change this by requiring i. E. C. S to include disclaimers on political ads listing their top donors and the amount of their donation, and if one of those donors is another committee, the top donors to that committee. Citizens united decided these donations are free speech. While we cant stop this money, we can bring it out of the dark. Even in authoring the majority opinion in Citizens United versus f. E. C. , Supreme Court Justice Kennedy stressed the value of strong disclosure laws, writing, prompt disclosure of expenditures can provide shareholders and citizens with the information needed to hold corporations and elected officials accountable for their positions and supporters. Shareholders can determine whether their corporations political speech advances the corporations interest in making profits, and citizens can see whether elects officials are in the pockets of socalled money interests. Voters deserve to know whos trying to buy their vote. The public deserves to know that our democracy is not for sale, our politics are not for sale, and our city is not for sale. Before inviting up our presenters, i want to note that in addition to the report and Supreme Court decision i referenced, ive also introduced the following into the record for this hearing. Number one, a civil grand jury report from 2013, requesting the city should require resolutions to require disclosure you ares and that the Ethics Commission should look again at the regulations from proposition j. In 2000, proposition j was placed on the ballot by Citizen Initiative and passed by the voters of San Francisco in a landslide. It regulated behavior of public officials, barring them from receiving a personal a personal or campaign advantage from anyone who gained a Public Benefit by action of the public official. This was later repealed by proposition e in 2003, which sought to recodify conflict of interest laws out of the charter, amending some of them and making nonvoter amendments possible in the future, though the repeal of proposition js regulations went undisclosed. If passed, sun light on dark money will enact the civil grand jury recommendations. Number two, a report from the Brennan Center of the citys 2013 effort to ban paytoplay contributions from Real Estate Developers which mirrors some of the language in this charter and which never went into effect. And number three, a study entitled the appearance and reality of quid pro quo corruption and empirical corruption, ensuring that contemporary politics. To be sure, while real instances of corruption exist and will be spoken on further in this hearing, addressing the potential appearance of corruption is cause enough to justify the provisions of this initiative. Now id like to welcome up former chair of the Ethics Commission and coauthor of this measure, peter keen. Thank you, mr. Chair. Supervisors, id like to commend you for putting forth this measure. Its a measure thats really desperately needed in our democracy, in any democracy. Theres a big vacuum. Supervisor mar, you mentioned Citizens United. One of the things i did in my former life, i was a constitutional law professor for many year, and looking at what the Supreme Court of the United States did in Citizens United, i can equate it with a couple of other rulings which i think Citizens United will have a similar history. Pre plessy versus ferguson, and the ruling in precivil war, saying that black people are not citizens, those were two great mistakes that the Supreme Court of the United States made, the two greatest mistakes. The third one in my opinion is Citizens United in terms of the effect upon democracy. And as some point we, as our history has shown, comes together as a democracy and says this is simply not right. This goes against the whole framework of democracy. And there will come a day and im no profphet, but the Supreme Court will confine Citizens United to the same file that did dredd scott and plessy. As you mentioned, supervisor mar, one big allowance that we can still take care of in terms of people being sure that government is not totally bought, and that is disclosure, that even though money can be given by anyone, the people that are giving it, the u. S. Supreme court has said unanimously all along, disclosure of who these people are is something thats fine. It does not fall or fly in the face of the First Amendment or anything else, and even the other courts that have been proCitizens United. Well, we dont have disclosure. We have minimal disclosure. Disclosure is virtually nonexistent. Ive been watching the political process in San Francisco for about the last 50 years in various things as chief assistant public defender, dean of a law school, and members of two commissions, Ethics Commission and police commission. And one of the things that i see, and particularly i saw it with great vividness on the Ethics Commission i think senator kopp will echo me on this, when things would come to the Ethics Commission, these people are behind these measures and its not disclosed anywhere, and there wasnt a darn thing we could do about it. We tried, senator kopp and paul renne and i tried for a year and a half to get a measure like this through the Ethics Commission. And i was the chair, and i had two very well known individuals, paul renne and senator kopp, and we thought we had it through. For the Ethics Commission to put something through, it requires four votes. We thought we not only had four votes, but we thought we had the four votes. We had the assurance of the fourth vote. And then, on the day of the vote, it was just the three of us. Me, commissioner renne, and senator kopp. And it was just a blunder bust im not an impulsive guy, but when i announced the vote, saying the measure fails, these four votes, measure fails by three i said the measure fails, i resign, and i walked away. Im not someone who is dramatic for the sake of being dramatic. My family will tell you im a rather dull guy. But when i did that, after i did that, John Gollinger and tom ammiano and i said lets go as directly as we can to the voters. The voters want this, because theyve been frustrated on so m many levels. And you, supervisors, have put it on the ballot for november. And i, someone who was not a pr who is not a prophet, it will win overwhelmingly. So i want to thank you very much. I want to add one other person to the long list of individuals who you indicate thd that have endorsed it. I think former mayor art agnos should get noticed. Hes backing it, as are many people as we go along. Thank you very much for this measure that you made. You have made a Wonderful Service to democracy by doing it. Supervisor mar thank you so much, peter. Any questions . Thank you. Now, id like to welcome up election law teacher and attorney John Gollinger. Good morning, supervisors. Chair ronen. Im John Gollinger. I actually cut my teeth on these issues as a community organizer. I spent four years being an attorney for Good Government and environmental issues. I learned the role of politics, and i was involved in a 1996 statewide ballot measure on these very issues. I will just add, my only other credential, ive been in this city a couple of decades working in and around these issues in many capacities, but i decided to go back to school and earn my law degree about a decade ago at golden gate, and was fortunate enough to have peter keen as my law professor, and now, as i said, i teach election law there. I want to drill down on the specifics of the measure. First, i also just want to mention by way of process. I am delighted that i think this measure will be a very good indication of how the process can work in multiple ways to get things done. As was mentioned, there was a log jam in the city hall version of how to get things done, so were going to the ballot. But i will mention as peter said, tom ammiano, he, and i sat down last summer. We started it as an initiative petition, and some, if not all three of you signed it, and then we collected a couple thousand signatures, and then, there was an election, and we were delighted to have supervisor mar and walton support it. I i want to drill down through the first three sections of the measure, and ill give you the legal justification for the third. The first component of the measure as ill describe it is closing the corporate money loophole. What the initiative does is amend section 1114 of the campaign Government Finance code by simply adding to the definition of corporation two other versions of corporation that have emerged since the original corporate ban was adopted. So originally, the board of supervisors adopted a flat ban on corporations donations for elected office. For over a century on the federal level, the federal government has banned direct corporate contributions to candidates for federal office. Whats occurred in recent years in particular is that other forms of corporate entities have emerged really having nothing to do with Campaign Reform law but specifically limited Liability Companies and limited liability partnerships, known as l. L. C. S or l. L. P. S. These have become common ways of doing business for a myriad of small businesses, law firms, etc. So what happened on the local start this started about a decade ago, i suspect crafty corporation lawyers advised their clients they could do an end run around the corporate donation ban by doing that. I said, isnt that the same thing, and they said youve got to change the law. I think thats pretty straightforward, so closing that contribution loophole. Second transparency, and this has been mentioned by presser keen and supervisor mar. But i want to give you a couple of conditions of what the dark money disclosure does. It amends section 1. 61 of the government and Campaign Finances code. This is specifically not about candidate committee disclosure. Our laws relate to the offices you and your competitors ran for were pretty good. People know when shaman walton, gordon mar, hillary ronen, run an ad, you have to put at it paid for by you. There are very few ways you could hide that or minimize that from voters. The same is not true for expenditures, also known as super p. A. C. S, and evdonation committees. Locally, San Francisco has the glorious notion of being the worst local proprietor, if you will, of dark money, invented expenditure money in our local politics. So if you feel like theres tons of dark money in our politics, youre right. Its occurring elsewhere, but San Francisco is off the charts in both volume and common frequency. As ive said, a few committee have made this common practice. In last novembers elections, in both district 4 and district 6, progress San Francisco spent more money on the campaign than the actual candidates, which is only the second time thats ever happened. So what were really doing here is going after what voters know. And as was said, the Supreme Court within the bounds of Citizens United said transparency and disclosure, fine. I have a few examples. This was a district 6 mailer, and the video at the bottom of an internet mailer ad, paid for by a committee, clean and sunset. Major funding by progress San Francisco. And the district 6 version said paid for by san franciscans for change, major funding by progress San Francisco. I think all of us in this room know who are behind that committee, but most regular people would have no reason to know. Two big things. Number one, it will require the dollar amount of the donors to be listed, so that voters get more than a name and an actual piece of data that they can use to say to ask if they wish, whos really behind this and whats their agenda. And more importantly, it pierces the shell of fake name committees like that by requiring that progress San Francisco in this example, the top two donors to that committee would also have to be listed, and the amount of money they gave to that committee. In addition, the font will have to be bigger and some other cleanup things that make it easier for voters to know. Again, were trying to give voters information and ensuring they really know whos behind the Shell Committee and how much they gave. Only other thing ill say on that component and ill get to the last one is some may ask, well, arent the clever election lawyers going to find some other way to hide, and im sure they will. And to that i would say, were going to do that the same way you would eat an elephant, one bite at a time. And i think this will become the strongest in the country and a model for other cities. So at the end, i want to submit some materials, and supervisor mar has the same if you wish to share, is the paytoplay division, which prohibits not just the developer, which is already prohibited, but the top executives associated with that developer from giving to any city official running for the board of supervisors, mayor, or City Attorney or sitting in those offices for the entire time that the measure is pending or for 12 months its approved or after its done. We tried to narrowly craft it, so were talking about big projects, not someone renovating their house. Big developments, 5 million or more. What i submitted for the record in terms of the basis for this is a series of articles. You all are well familiar with the f. B. I. Sting on a couple of former city officials and employees, one of whom said we pay to play in San Francisco. Were the best in the biz to an f. B. I. Informant who posed as a developer, what were trying to prevent, and a series of related documents. I would ask the clerk, if you would, to pass around these three i gave you a copy for the record, but give it to the supervisors. So and ive come across this over the years, and then, over the weekend this is what i do with my weekend, i went and downloaded and organized for presentation from the Ethics Commission theres one specific developer who stands out i think its a really good flash bad example about how theyve done an end run around the corporate ban with a myriad of city officials at city hall. T. M. G. Officials is a big office developer. Theyve been one of the lead developers at 88 bluxome. So for the last 13 years, t. M. G. , top executives of t. M. G. , the same mostly dozen ten to 12 people have given on the same day, in the same amount, to the same person, Campaign Contributions to people running for mayor, supervisor, City Attorney. And ive got, what, 11 pages of this because it started in 2006, and the last data i have it for this last he is for this last election. This is about the interest, this is not about the politicians. There are other laws and other things, but certainly about the developers attempt to curry favor and make it look like their project should get approved, and they should have the inside track. So t. M. G. Partners in the last dozen years, their executives gave 327 contributions to 37 campaigns totaling over