Thank you. Other Public Comment . As i recall, when these allegations were brought up, i think the staff has provided i dont think it was a memo but it was a letter to the commission that was open to the public and so may i request that if that was still my recollection that we include that in todays deliberation . Staff have communicated over the concerns in which she brought those before the commission and those have not attached any agenda items in the past. But torn attorney chen looks to be expresses concern but effectively if staff have sought to resolve her concerns, and our belief have not received adequate followup from her end. And im happy to provide additional clarification. I remember one of the former commissioners that read into the record a certain aspect of the staffs research. I know that in previous discussions, when the same question has been raised by the public speaker there was comment and im happy to go back and check the records to see what information that was that the commissioner was operating from. Certainly theres communication we provided to the commission well provide it to you as well. So let us do research and get back to you that anything that is available ob on that. Thank you. Commissioner ambrose . Regarding the other public governor were dr. Kerr, i think you raise an interesting question and im not sure how would one could about an audit and thats not what im asking for but the question from the other commissioner about the judicial review of our decisions i think it would be useful for the staff to understand what decisions were made, presumely by staff that preceded you because i know you havent all been here that long. And whether or not those decisions were overturned or rejected or set aside by judicial review and on what basis. So im not asking for a formal report but im recommending that you look into that and if youre not familiar with any Court Decisions you know, finding retaliation where this city had previously found none, then maybe the City Attorneys Office can identify some in the last few years and i think we can get better at what we do with respect to investigations and if there were failings, because it was upheld in court but not administratively then we should learn from that process. And i to thank you for your Public Comments. If you. Thank you. Thank you commissioners. Im pat ford the legislative Affairs Counsel and i have a couple items on agenda 6 on ongoing policy projects and other projects that im working on that arent strictly policy items. And the first one that you see here is the Electronic Filing of form 700 and this project is one that weve been working on for awhile a few updates and this is to have all filers in the city who filed the form 700 statement of economic interests do so electronically. And most file on paper. This project seeks to have all filers file electronically through net file starting in 2021. And the big update for you this month is that we met with five representatives from employee bargaining units and i would say that the meeting was very successful. We had a very constructive dialogue with the Union Representatives and they really engaged with us. They asked a lot of very helpful questions that helped to guide our thinking on what would be helpful to filers. And they were especially interested in the kind of training that our office would be providing both on the efiling system itself but also on form 700 filing generally. What kind of information do filers put on the form and whats best practises for filing this form . And so it seems like theres a lot of outreach that we can continue to do and include the Union Representatives more so than we have in the past. It seems that they want to be included in our outreach and training and thats definitely something well do. That seems like it wont be helpful to employees that they would look to their unions as a source of guidance and any time we find a channel to do that, well definitely make full use of that and that was a helpful take away for us from that meeting. And in terms of the outcome there may be information requests that the unions ask for and they may ask for a list of fuelers or other information. Its not clear at this time, but for all intents and purposes, it appears this was the first and last meeting we will be having with the union. They were fully supportive of the project and said it seemed like a good idea, that they think efiling will be a big step up from paper filing and that they were persuaded that this is helpful both for the filers as well as for the public which is what we were trying to communicate to them and we firmly believe thats true of the project. So we left the room, basically in agreement, that the project was a good idea and that they didnt see any major issues, assuming that we could provide training to the level that they were asking for and were confident that we can. And so at this point dhr sent a followup email to the union reps who were there thanking them for their participation and letting them know at this point we would move forward with the project and so right now, it appears that meet and confer is certainlilyessentially finished and at this point, well move ahead full steam on the project and i will be bringing a set of regulations before you most likely at the january meeting. I think i would like a little more time to really get these flushed out and get them watertight. So i think december might be a quick turn, but january would give us plenty of time to meet that jan1, 2021 goal. Thats fantastic thats wonderful news that it went to smoothly and there was a great meeting of the minds. Please keep us updated on the rollout and we look forward to the regs and also, if you could brief us on the training materials and consider also whether they would be useful for the broader population, as well, as a refresh as this is an annual effort that everyone has to undertake. Absolutely will do. Another thing we discussed at the meeting, which is a good segway into another project, i want to update you on. We talked about the binding code review which is something that happens every other year, in evennumbed years and i have talked about this before in previous meetings. But essential, this is the process in which the city goes back and looks at the conflict of interest code and the lists of employees who are required to file. Essentially just reviews it and updates it and so that it reflects the current state of those lists. So if positions are added or discontinued or if someones job duties change, that list would be updated to reflect changes that have happened over the last two years. I think what the unions would find helpful and what we are more than willing to support them this is to do a little bit more of a rigorous review this coming year. So not just update for changes in job duties or adding or taking away positions but to also help departments maybe take a little bit more thorough look at those list. We heard the union reps express concern about some filers being included on the list that maybe shouldnt be in their opinion or filers that are required to file at a higher disclosure category, meaning disclosing more personal interests than their Union Representatives believe they should and thats not something that would get caught up if the departments were updating the lists for new or changed positions. But they would really need to go back and review their prior determinations. And so i think, in order to facilitate that happening, meaning facilitate the unions giving the feedback to the departments, we may explore next year doing the biennial code review and theres a process that ethics does not message manage and it will involve yard coordination with the citys office and the clerk. We are in the beginning stages of talking about how well potentially move up the timelines and try to involve the Union Representatives at an earlier starch stage so the feedback can be heard and they could be expressing concerns to the department at the time the departments are thinking about the changes. Well do our best to accommodate that. The form 700 Electronic Filing property, it will proceed in parallel and the two are not dependent on each other. Correct. Those are two completely independent projects, two completely independent pieces of legislation, too. The biennial code review will be an ordinance and the efiling for all will be a regulation. And those will proceed independently. But it was important to the unions at this past meeting that we did explore maybe a different way to do the biennial code review or include them in it. So yes those will be separate but kind of related and relevant to each other. I think the unions see the biennial code review in that the filing method will be different. So that is where we are. So good updates Good Progress on that. Another set of regulations that i will be bringing before you soon are a narrow set of regulations to implement the Second Public financing ordinance and that will be going into effect the first of this coming year. And these will be, basically just updates to the regs so that they match changes in the code and so put anywhere in the regulations that discuss the matching rate of 21 or the previous maximum amounts of funding that candidates could receive or the previous starting point for spending limits, those all need to be updated since those were change. So i think theyll be brief basically confined to updating where necessary not really doing anything beyond the scope of that ordinance. And i just wanted to make you aware of it, that thats something need well need to could and hopefully ill have that before you at your next meeting. And would your hope be for us to approve those at the december meeting . Or consider and then take action in january . I will certainly notice them, publically notice them so that you could take action on them. But obviously you can take as long as you need. If you would like Public Comment, you may have feedback or amendments that are appropriate to make during the meeting and i can bring them back to a subsequent meeting but they would be ready if you would like to approve them. From a time be standpoint, the ordinance goes into effect on january 1st . Correct. Of 2020. And then what is the timing for regs to become effective as as well . Once we approve, they go to the board of supervisors and theres a waiting period. What does that timeline look like . 60 days from the time we transmit them to the board they become operative assuming the board does not veto them. This hasnt not happened in the recent past, so typically it means theres a 60day waiting period. And so there would be a period of time during which the new ordinance will be operative but the new regs will not be. So there will be a period of time when the regs dont match the code. I dont think it will be a serious problem. There are numbers that dont match and we can advice people the principles in the regs are still the case, even if the numbers arent syncing up but we want to fix that as soon as we can. Another set of regulations before you, kind of in the same vane, will be to update because of changes from proposition f. As you know, proposition f was about measure that appeared on the November Ballot and it was approved. Souththe code will go into effect ten days after its certified and that should be sometime in early december. And so similar to the Public Finance ordinance since there are changes to the code, we need to update the regs to match the code. If i may. Yes. Regarding proposition f we know what it read and it passed but because it hasnt heard at the commission and went to the ballot we werent able to comment on it directly, i think it would be useful to the viewing public, people who attend the meeting if you can briefly review the provisions of proposition f if in the context of the implementing regulations youll be recommending and i think that would be helpful. As you said the vote will be certified by then so it will be enforced when youre putting out the materials. Thank you. Yes. I could definitely do that and that would be to see what changes of the code theyre based on. No, theyre fairly significant changes and we need to get the word out there. Also, mr. Ford if you can include what some of the opportunities and challenges are as a part of that implementation, as well and i think this may bleed into the executive director report, since this is not funded. And we dont have it in our budget what would the impact be to be able to implement these in a timely and effective fashion. So the regulations you would be proposing in december for proposition f those also have a 60day . Correct. And i think for the sake of efficiency in the meeting i may combine those regulations into one agenda item, if thats not too bizarre. No. Thats ok. I think that might be a little bit more efficient than having them be two separate items. And they are at least kind of in the same realm of updating regulations to match recent legislation, even if theyre not conceptually on the same topic. And then related but not necessarily the same is the communication and outreach portion, going back to some of the themes of this meeting and continuing throughout and how do we make sure that people who are affected by these regulations know what their obligations are and what they need to do to comply and updating us or giving an overview of what that engagement and compliance rollout plan would look like would be helpful as well. We could invite guy 3 tech, along with the regs. Thank you. Great. So the last two items i wanted to briefly mention are that in january i hope to bring the policy priorization plan before you for unupdate. As weve within talking about a number of projects are in their final stages. The efiling for all at least my involvement is reaching its end. And with the finance review, the amendments will be the last step in that project being completed, at least my primary involvement in it and so i think it would be an appropriate time to bring the policy prioritization plan before you and look forward to potentially what could be projects in the near term first half of calendar year 2020 for a spoil topolicy to work on. One that i will be working on is the biennial code review and that will be occupying my time, similar to the efiling for all. And ill be engaged with the department of resources to work with the bargaining units to discuss what i was mentioning earlier. There were concerns about the filer lists and how to get them involved in that process. And i suspect that will most likely be a little bit longer in the meet and greet and could involve multiple meetings, potentially more union reps. I can say from experience last year there were more Union Representatives involved in that meet and confer. So its something to occupy my time and i think it could be one aofficial policy project that i could work on in tandem with that one. So im hoping in january to help facilitate your discussion of that. We look forward to that. The last item is that staff is heading to cogel soon and im sure director pelham will update you but ive been working on a few things to get ready. Ill be panelists. Ill be work wig working with the moderator and the fellow panelists on what to present and getting that material ready. We had a conversation yesterday talking about our opinion and advice regulations and how we developed those and how thats been an improvement for our processes and something that they may discuss at cogel this year. And there were a newspaper of number of publy kegs likepublications like. And i submitted an entry about the Public Financing project about the legislative updates that the commission has done to that program. So hopefully that will be something included in that publication and people nationwide working at the Campaign Finance will be made aware of that project and then, next week, ill be doing one for ethics. So ill be looking at new ethics laws that are in San Francisco and so we have a few of those. So hopefully, well be able to put together information to keep everyone abreast of what were working on here, which is important to have the network of other ethics professionals that we know theyre doing and they know what were doing. Thats a part of our policy, the approach of looking at what our colleagues are doing learning from the experiences and a lot of the work gets done at kogel. And i think thats the end of my updates and i will be glad to answer questions. This is really really valuable and i hope you get a lot out of it and i think you do and the publication, and i think that we have made progress in Public Finance certainly and in other areas in San Francisco and please carry the flag forward over to kogel and we look forward to your report out on what the conference deny, what the team gets out of the conference and what you learned and new ideas to bring forward. And hopefully that can shape a part of our policy prioritization discussion in january as well. Yes we always come back with lots of ideas. Fantastic. Any other questions or comments from commissioners . Public comments on this agenda item . Agenda 7 discussion of monthly staff enforcement report, including a presentation no, we did that, on the citys whistleblower protection. And an update on operational highlights of the enforcement programs since the last monthly meeting. Chair, thank you for the youll tern this turn this over to jeff pearce but we left a reference to mr. Mcclains report but are is no further report on this item and strictly the report mr. Mcclain gave earlier. Thank you for the clarification. Thank you chair chu and commissioners and director pelham. What we hoped would be the main event for this agenda item this month was an appearance from the director of the bureau of delinquent revenue jeff smickel. He did come before the commission about 18 months eightago,to dress address a number of things and given the ongoing work, the Enforcement Division and the bureau to collect those debts it makes sense to bring somebody from the bureau before you to answer the very specific questions that you have about the process that they undertake. Unfortunately, director smickel had a scheduling conflict and was not able to join us. He should be able to join in december if we keep that meeting on the calendar. But he is aware that you have questions and he looks forward to addressing those with you at the next opportunity. Mr. Pearce for the record item number 7 within the 7, the bottom of the chart, Chris Jackson i think this entry has been unchanged since i joined the commission. And so, i would like to understand from the director of the bureau of revenues what are they doing . And what will they do differently in order to lead to a different outcome since the original amount referred 6,601 and theres a balance of 5,100 and it hasnt moved in the last three years . So that would be what i would be interested in hearing. Ill communicate your questions to him. I would also note that the table this month is not updated from what we put in front of you. Because the november meeting falls closer to the beginning of the month and because we had a holiday on monday and get materials sooner than we ordinarily do, the bureau was unable to give us their updates to finalize this agenda item. But i can provide a couple of updates on that table from a communication that we received from them earlier this week and no changes to the Chris Jackson ones. But a couple of other things and one is that the no eval Democratic Club near the bottom on page 3 has now paid in full, the debt that they owed. Youll note from last month they promised to do so and have since done that. And as to San Francisco for democracy, the bureau has mailed to the debtor their a letter notifying them of the intent to file a small claim lawsuit. please stand by . Two works. One is to develop this set of discretionary factors by which the staff can allocate limited enforcement resource sources towards the matters we think matter most to the commission and to the city and county, to the public. We have initiated conversations about what those factors mean and how to apply them both to matters that exist on the current docket as well as new complaints that come through. So we are beginning to implement an understanding of what it means to exercise additional discretion toward the matters for which the commission may have jurisdiction. In addition, we are moving forward with the process to update the commissions penalty policy. This was on guidance that the commissioners provided in a prior meeting, advising staff that we should in fact move forward with that. We have a couple interested persons meetings scheduled for next week. One is on wednesday evening and another is toward it, it beginning of 1 00 next friday. Both meetings will take place in the basement of the building in which the commissions offices sit. We are mindful of commissioner lees request that we host at least one interested person meeting in a nonnot 100 percent sure to say City Building but a building not the commissions offices. The process will include at least two rounds of interested persons meetings. These initial meetings are so gather the scope of considerations that the stakeholders believe that the commission should undertake in revising the policy. Provided for potential participants a list of questions that we think are relevant to these initial meetings. These first meetings will not be to respond to a proposed draft. But instead they are just to seek sort of broader feedback about what this revision process could look like. We are also having meetings interimly endorsement staff are consulting with other divisions to get their input based on their experience to evaluate what their provisions of law might be golferred by a fix governed by a fixed penalty policy. We are moving forward as well with consulting with peer jurisdictions trying to evaluate beyond the Political Practices Commission whether any of our peer agencies treat any of their Enforcement Matters in this streamlined fashion or whether they apply aid schedule of fixed penalties to any particular violations they handle within those jurisdictions. And then the aim is to analyze all that information that we have collected and bring to you, if not by the december meeting, then soon thereafter, a proposed revision for your initial feedback. I say nonaction item. That initial proposal will be really just to facilitate your feedback for the reasons i stated that we will have subsequent interested person meetings to respond to that particular draft. So that process is underway. We welcome any commissioners to participate in those interested persons meetings if you are interested and able. So deputy, we would be limited to two commissioners participating in those interested person meetings right . Im happy to field any questions any questions . Thank you. Public comment . No Public Comment. Agenda item number 8 discussion of executive directors report an updaten highlights of Ethics Commission staff activities since the commissions last monthly meeting. Thank you, chair. I asked our Deputy Director and chief programs officer to join us in jeffs spot because we have a number of items here and wanted to be able to answer any questions you might have about various programs that are underway in our operational planning since my last report to you at the october meeting. As youll see from the report, there are a number of areas where we have been continuing to map out our operations for this year with the resources that we have. Weve completed our goalsetting process within the staff and have a clear sense of what the key priorities are that we are working on and how the different areas of our office are working and supporting the same goals so we can be as effective and efficient as possible with what we have in front of us for the fiscal year. Its quite a daunting task as you know from all the reports youve been hearing from pat and jeff and others. A couple of highlights we provided information on the updated dash boards for you. I would note for those watching or listening that the links to our dashboard are live and the document online. So we want to make it easy for the people when they are reading about election information and Campaign Activity to be able to go directly to the information that provides more data that they might want to look at and explore and ask questions of with whatever they might have on their mind so those links are provided live here. Steven and a broad effort throughout the office of engagement and compliance and electronic disclosure Analysis Team really worked quite diligently over the course of the election to make sure we had information updated feedback was looped back into the process so that we could make sure the data dash boards were as useful as possible. We did have direct feedback from users outside the office that said hey i used to see something there i dont see it now. And we were trying to be as responsive as possible to make sure we could get that information back online so it is continuously relevant and useful for the public. I have a question for mr. Ford. For the Campaign Finance dashboard website for the 2019 election, will all the late filings that come in on the eve of the elections, will those all be posted and available now . Yes. And those will continue to update. Those dash boards will continue to update. So once the committees file their yearend for january, that information will also go in. Is it realtime updating . Its updated every day. So it will take all the last 24 hours of the information. Fantastic. I have a followup question. When you have the final report, do you usually issue like a Public Notice or a General Press release to people will know about the final numbers . No. I dont think weve typically done that no. I would request that we do that. So the request is that when the 460s are due at the end of january yes. That we the final numbers are submitted. Yeah, correct. That we issue a Public Notice just to let the public know that information is available. Yeah. Or would you like to actually have the results with numbers not just that the information is available. I mean, i think it would be very informative to say on prop c this is how much money was spent. The supervisor races, this is how much money was spent and just all the public information. Because very nephew people would actually go into our web very few people would go into our website. It would be picked up by concerned neighborhood groups and the General Press. I think that would be much more informative to the the information as opposed to have it be available to be pulled. Yeah, one thing i realize i failed to mention earlier, which is relevant here so ill bring it up is that we do a postelection report that we give to the mayor and board of supervisors after every election in which at least one candidate received Public Financing. That report does go into the kind of end of election statistics about how much each candidate raised and spent how much financing they got. It does that for candidates. That report does. Only for publiclyfinanced candidates or for all . Publiclyfinanced. Or races in which Public Financing was exactly. But it doesnt cover measures, that report. It would be great if we could include that with the other initiatives. I also wanted to add, you know to consider that suggestion. I wanted to add that we make sure that our home page highlights the campaign dashboard. So anybody visiting our website will be able to easily access them. I understand that we should probably do more outreach in pushing the information out as well but that information is easily available on our home page as a major banner in the election cycle and after. Because i recognize that this is a small but mighty team of ethics staff, that i think if we can start being more proactive with all the information that we have that would be a great way of, you know increasing the Public Awareness of what we actually do. I agree. I think pat ford in his policy report, touched on proposition f so i wont go into that further here but we did start meetings with the last month to identify what implementation and information needs existed to implement that new ballot measure that was proved on november 5 by voters. And a group from the office met yesterday with the Planning Department staff to identify what information and processes are in place over there so that we can make sure we are getting information directed appropriately to the experts what those processes involve. So to your point, vicechair ambrose having that information to provide contacts for the public, we are in the process of pulling that together, so that should inform the report that comes back to you at a near future meeting. We also wanted to provide an update in this report about some of the work thats been done now that we have had a with a very talented person adding to the other talented folks, john kim has been working on the lobbying program and we are hopeful there will be spinoff reports that will come your way, informational reports about what we are seeing in the lobbying program. He is taking a deep dive into how that program is administered, where some of the procedural gaps we have been able to close in getting back to filers and getting filings current and really dusting off that program. So theres been a lot of work to establish consistent time frames now that we have the resources dedicated to the program and i think thats showing in numbers that we see in everything from late fees coming in to registration fees that are timely as well probably see spike in february as is normally the case when people register at that time of the year. But just wanted to highlight that for you as well. Theres been a lot of collaboration with the not just internally with staff but externally with filers and stakeholders about our lobbying Online Filing system. We know there have been hiccups with that over time and that we really now are looking at revising our system working with our net file provider to strengthen that filing system. So thats also a piece of what john has been leading within the staff working with our electronic data folks to identify where we can make improve thes to really strengthen how that information is provided to the public and how filers experience submitting their information to that system for exposure purposes. Weve also put together i think as jeff pierce may have noted that our enforcement process improvements are underway. One of the things that weve pulled in with that is as weve started to lay the groundwork for the streamlined administrative Resolution Program for certain types of cases also looking another pulling and sweeping in the process for late fine review and collections into from all programs into our fines collection officer area of work so that again, we can create consistency across programs and establish clear and expected and predictable time frames for when people can hear from us. I appreciated mr. Lees comments earlier and well be following up with him directly on questions he has about the timing of when he received a response or didnt. Well be on top of that to resolve any issues that might have come up there. We have made progress on our Audit Program. The publiclyfinanced candidates from the 2018 election those are being conducted assessments from our external auditors. We were on the phone with them yesterday and are seeing Good Progress on reports that are coming forward and will be finalized for the public and posted once they have been finalized. And weve completed all 27 Campaign Audits from the 2016 election cycle. There are 14 excuse me. There are additional 11 discretionary audits being collected as we speak with our staff internally and we are targeting completion by the end of the fiscal year to make sure we can stay on top of those. We also are focused on dedicating resources on these audit staff issues to establish a lobbying Audit Pilot Program so that we can actually fulfill that obligation under the law. We have not been able to do that with the resources weve had in the past several years. Director would it be i would find it very helpful and i hope my fellow commissioners would as well, if you could brief us on the Audit Program that as it currently stands, and the resources that we have deployed in this area because audits the publiclyfinanced campaigns as well as the 11 other discretionary audits that are conducted how are those things going, what are the opportunities for improvement, what are the resources that would be needed in order for us to become even more effective and efficient, i think it would be helpful to ground us in what we currently do the scope of the work and where we would like to go, as well as the learning more about what the lobbying audit pilot encompasseses. I think it would be really helpful to have an overview of all that work. And it could help inform, i think the Budget Discussion as well because its always a challenge for resources. I would look forward to doing that at an Upcoming Commission meeting. Thank you. Ive attached this report also a report that i provided i think in mid2018. But its an update from and i see in small print i apologize for that for those of you looking at a hard copy, but a update on our Data Analysis division work, across the range of areas that are impacting our operations our Public Disclosure programs, our filing systems to help people comply with their obligations under the law. And so theres information here about the variety of specific initiatives broken down by area. I wanted to provide that to you and the engagement and Compliance Team is working closely with steven and others on the electronic Disclosure Team are all helping to make sure this stays on track this year. We can certainly provide any more specific information you might be curious about for any of these programs. We are always encouraging steven to do presentations. So if we are needing steven to be here, we are happy to bring him to a next meeting for the highlights and what we have on tap for next year. It is an ambitious project and we need to stay focused on making progress because much of it is funded by money that came in from the city. We are working with our vendor to make sure we have deliverables identified that they can help produce to keep our systems as effective as possible within the constraints we have. So its a lot of information but i think i wanted to present it because it does give quite a flavor for the breadth of work we are doing to fulfill that goal of having our systems not paperbased but electronic. And then we also know from that thats not where the work stops. That the work continues on with guys team on engagement and compliance to make sure the public has the information that we provide in electronic format and that the public knows where to go to get information to your point, that its not something they have to necessarily come but we can push out information in constructive ways. So i think we are looking at how we can be more visible in communities through some of the projects that are identified here in the coming year. I think that commissioner lee speaks frequently about the importance of reaching out to the community. And i would like to throw out the idea of for lack of a better term an Ethics Commission road show to go out to the community to explain what we do and make sure people know who to go to, what they can expect from the Ethics Commission and if they have questions where they can find the answers on these and that theres a treasuretrove of information that steven masse and tyler have really put at our fingertips in a very easy to use and knave gaitable and impactful visual way navigable and impactful way. If we could look to do something i think your team would be instrumental in designing something that would be an overview and meaningful enough for community varying communities of different stakeholders. I think it would be very powerful. I also wanted to highlight and introduce to you the newest member of our staff. I did mention in this report we were already seeing him move on as many of our temporary staff do, he was able to move to a permanent position in the department of public health. He was here for ten months. And again just outstanding work. We are sorry to see him go. But in record time, in only three days later we had our division filled due to much hard work on the part of guy and adam in dhr. Ronald is here. I wanted to ask him to stand in the back of the room. Ronald started with us on november 6 as our new senior clerk and engagement Compliance Team. His is a voice you will be hearing when you contact the office. It is a chipper and energetic voice. We are excited to have him on board and welcome him. He has a tremendous amount of experience having been with the city of denver including at the airport, for a number of years in a variety of capacities. So we are looking forward to leveraging every ounce of that as hes joined our staff. So i wanted to make sure to introduce and have a face with a name. Wonderful. I wanted to say thank you to enrique for his work and his cheerful demeanor on the phone and wanted to wish him the best in his new role in the department of public health. And welcome, ronald. I look forward to getting to know you and working with you in the coming weeks and months. I wont hold it against you with all the times i got stuck at the Denver Airport and lost luggage. [laughter] okay. We wont go there. And i guess two last items maybe three last items. On table 2 youll see the list of position vacancies. More goodies on that front. I believe monday, i think it is monday that we will have the position posted for our investigative analyst in the Enforcement Division. This will be that open investigative seat that we very much are looking forward to filling in jeff pierce dollars team. And because of the thanksgiving holiday we will give you a fourweek period instead of three weeks. We want to get the word out and make sure people can get the information in. Pat ford mentioned kogel. We are determined and aggressive about wanting to use our travel resources our training and travel resources to get employees to places where we can all absorb and learn from our peers and share information as pat and others will be doing on panels this year. So this year we have a good handful of people go into the conference and i think thats an important thing to do for people to keep current and all the issues well learn from best practices and see whats happening in San Francisco because theres a lot of work underway with all the work the commission has been doing the past year. We are likely not to attend in the coming year too. There are conferences that have been established two or threeyears out but some are in cities where there is a notravel policy that are happening in those jurisdictions so we will be following lead on that, obviously. So i think its timely to be able to send employees to this conference in chicago next year there is a conference in georgia, and that is a state we will not be traveling to even if its on our because that would involve city time. So we will learn as much as we can and come back with all that we can to share with our colleagues in the office and with you as well. And lastly i would just note there was a discussion about an audit. After this week i guess it was early this week, i received information that supervisor board president had introduced or requested performance audit of the Ethics Commission. Chair chiu and commissioner lee and i met with them yesterday to have a general discussion about budget and also to learn more about the audit request. And it appears as we understand it at this point from supervisoree that supervisor that as part of the plan for this year the Ethics Commission will be added as a priority performance audit to a list of other high visibility high priority projects. So as we said yesterday i myself come from a background of performance auditing and i think audits are our friends. So ill be reaching out directly to the budget and legislative analyst to offer whatever assistance we can and figuring out timing and scoping and how we can be resourceful and assist them in doing whatever work they have on tap. So we will report pack to back to you whenever we learn more. I got information on that after it went to press as they say. But im happy to answer any questions if you have any or provide any further information as needed. Any questions from the commissioners . No . Public comment on this item . No. Agenda item number 9 discussion and possible action on items for future meetings. Any other things that that the commissioners would like to put on the agenda . Public comment on agenda item number 9 . None . Agenda item number 10, additional opportunity for Public Comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda pursuant to Ethics Commission bylaws article 7 section 2. There being no Public Comment a motion to adjourn . So moved all right. We are adjourned. Shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their business in the 49 square files of San Francisco. We help San Francisco remain unique, successful and right vibrant. So where will you shop and dine in the 49 . Im one of three owners here in San Francisco and we provide mostly live Music Entertainment and we have food the type of food that we have a mexican food and its not a big menu but we did it with love. Like ribeye tacos and quesadillas and fries. For latinos it brings Families Together and if we can bring that family to your business youre gold. Tonight we have russelling for wrestle community. We have a tenperson limb elimination match. We have a fullsize ring with barside food and drink. We ended up getting wrestling here with puoillo del mar. Were hope og get families to join us. Weve done a drag queen bingo and were trying to be a diverse kind of club, trying different things. This is a great part of town and theres a bunch of shops a variety of stores and ethnic restaurants. Theres a popular little shop that all of the kids like to hanghang out at. We have a great breakfast spot call brick fast at tiffanies. Some of the older businesses are refurbished and newer businesses are coming in and its exciting. We even have our own brewery for fdr, ferment drink repeat. Its in the San FranciscoGarden District and four beautiful muellersmixer ura alsomurals. Its important to shop local because its kind of like a circle of life if you will. We hire local people. 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