Just having read this and having a hard time with the conclusion that it was negligent. Commissioner keane . I dont have any problem voting for this mainly because what this shows on the face of this is this woman is admitting to all sorts of derelections of duty and corrupt action and these are the finding, counts of one and two, influencing a government decision in which the official has a financial interest. That is not jay walking or spitting on the sidewalk, that is a fairly serious finding of guilt in regard to official misconduct. And the second in count three, contracts, sales and purchases made in official capacity. And that, again, is someone who, a member of an agency who was saying that she did that. She is admitting to something to use commissioner rennes term, rather aggregous in my opinion and in count four, she is admitting that she did engage in incompatible activities with her job. And after this stipulation is in effect, voted on by us, and the fppc. And it is a find
City attorney, this question. If we were to find, and i decided if not with this, the agregious conflict of interest by a city official, dont we have the power to determine if there is official misconduct justifying determination . I would have to check the specific language in the code and i am happy to do that and provide you with an answer after this meeting. Okay. Madam chair . So, we were just wondering what the. Is this not the maximum penalty administrative that i see here if you added those up it was 5,000 for count one and 5,000 for the violation and comes to a total of 20,000 was the max . Correct. And you were. When you referenced earlier that you said that it would be much larger than that, and this is the 20,000 that is the max. Right. And it is proposed penalty is not the maximum. No. I understand it. And in addition to the type that the 17,000 has been returned. Okay. Commissioners . Do we have a motion . I am troubled by this case, i must say. And if the settlement were
See the mid year controllers report and i think that our revenues are strong and, im always, nervous when we ask for an increase that it does not fly in the face whaf could be the reality of a crisis and you look like a fool and i dont want us to look look a fool and what we are asking for is modest and it is certainly justified. And i just, i just have a question on the mathematics. You say that the mayors is asking us to do is to cut 1. 4, from the general fund for the next year and 1. 85, and you said that this would mean a cut of 36,752 and then you get down to the paragraph where you say in the current fiscal year it would cut the budget for the temporary staff of 100,000 by 2 thirds. How or why does it, when you are only, being asked to reduce it by 36,000, how does it cut the 100,000 dollars by twothirds . Because, the assumption was that that that is where most of these cuts would come from. And i think that with the budget, staff did was to add those two figures together and f
My opinion, that disgraces this woman and puts her in a position where any further employment, we are not recommending it, but, just, talk and just speaking hypothetically and for anything to continue employing Something Like this i think would be very strange if nothing else and so here, im not troubled by the penalty, as is my colleague commissioner hur, i mean, the fine, and the 5,000, and to me that is, negligible compared with the findings of guilt official misconduct and disgrace, we are saying that you did a lot of bad things here, maam. And i dont know how you, and we had members of the public saying that she is just going to tap dance away from this, and nothing is going to come as a result of it. There is no way, after we make findings like this in conjunction with the fppc, that, a governmental agency, is just going to say, well, we could get a problem, but it is over. We will go back to work and by the way you are due for a raise. That not going to happen and if that does h
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