Is the vice chair and to my left is supervisor norman what is wrong with me, gordon mar. Excuse me, gordon. Our clerk is victor young. Id like to thank matthew and michael at sfgov for staffing this meeting. Mr. Include, do you have any announcements . Clerk silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Speaker cards and any documents to be included in the file should be submitted to the clerk. Can you please read item number one. A hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending november 30th, 2020, to the Ballot Simplification Committee. Supervisor ronen they have. I believe lauren is here. If you want to come up and say a few words. Girardin. Supervisor ronen thank you. Names this morning. Its a hard name. Any time anyone gets it right, im more surprised than anything. Im laurie green awe girardin. Im in district 9. Thanks for this opportunity to be considered for the league of women voters seat on the Ballot Simplification Committee. Im a selfemployed Communications Consul
[gavel] good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the november 4th, 2019, meeting of the rules committee. Im supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. We will be joined shortly by supervisor shamann walton, who is the vice chair and to my left is supervisor norman what is wrong with me, gordon mar. Excuse me, gordon. Our clerk is victor young. Id like to thank matthew and michael at sfgov for staffing this meeting. Mr. Include, do you have any announcements . Clerk silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Speaker cards and any documents to be included in the file should be submitted to the clerk. Can you please read item number one. A hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending november 30th, 2020, to the Ballot Simplification Committee. Supervisor ronen they have. I believe lauren is here. If you want to come up and say a few words. Girardin. Supervisor ronen thank you. Names this morning. Its a hard name. Any time anyone gets it righ
I agree with what my fellow commissioners have said. I think that during the time im here the staffs work has given me no doubt that if given discretiona discretionary power, you would [ indiscernible ] from anything the commission intended. I think for the investigation unit, the two driving principles have always been the public trust and transparency. So as long as it is guided by those two, whatever actions you take are then the public will understand. And at the same time, when you look at the enforcement efforts, its largely serving to deter future ill activities. Sometimes when people look at these cases that have gone on for five, six, ten years and with nothing happening, it doesnt give the public much trust. So i think that it is really important to look at the cases you take. And the second thing is there are other cases that come to you that may not fit into the clearly defined areas that we would like to support. Maybe those are innocent cases that may expose some deficien
Me no doubt that if given discretiona discretionary power, you would [ indiscernible ] from anything the commission intended. I think for the investigation unit, the two driving principles have always been the public trust and transparency. So as long as it is guided by those two, whatever actions you take are then the public will understand. And at the same time, when you look at the enforcement efforts, its largely serving to deter future ill activities. Sometimes when people look at these cases that have gone on for five, six, ten years and with nothing happening, it doesnt give the public much trust. So i think that it is really important to look at the cases you take. And the second thing is there are other cases that come to you that may not fit into the clearly defined areas that we would like to support. Maybe those are innocent cases that may expose some deficiencies that we should look at so that we can look at policies to close the loopholes. So they may not fit into the rea
Me no doubt that if given discretiona discretionary power, you would [ indiscernible ] from anything the commission intended. I think for the investigation unit, the two driving principles have always been the public trust and transparency. So as long as it is guided by those two, whatever actions you take are then the public will understand. And at the same time, when you look at the enforcement efforts, its largely serving to deter future ill activities. Sometimes when people look at these cases that have gone on for five, six, ten years and with nothing happening, it doesnt give the public much trust. So i think that it is really important to look at the cases you take. And the second thing is there are other cases that come to you that may not fit into the clearly defined areas that we would like to support. Maybe those are innocent cases that may expose some deficiencies that we should look at so that we can look at policies to close the loopholes. So they may not fit into the rea