News website that i got over the weekend pertaining to linar corporation, and the developments that are occurring both at both locations in the city. Theres a significant and new items that are being reported in regards to the three indictments that have come down, so i did want to alert you to that and if you dont have it, i can forward it to you. Or to your executive director who will forward it to you, okay, i wanted to alert you to that important item. Im bob plant hold, i just wanted to offer comment about what may be change tos the pending whisleblower ordinance that supervisor breed has introduced and because of their [inaudible] may not be heard in committee for some time. Our group, friends of ethics is suggesting that there ought to be added a requirement that there be mandatory training for all City Employees. Right now, department heads, certain levels of managers, commissioners have to get training in ethics and sunshine, the kurntd draft of the whisleblower seems to requi
Ins this measure would still be within your purview. Thank you. Thank you. Thats c3 6799 c3 69911. Im david, im a member of represent us and i would like to very much thank you guy, thank the commission for taking into consideration this action to try and bring some conference back to government, we formed our group about a year back, this is our first full reign trying to see how Government Works and how we can make our mark on it and attempt tog make sure that every person in the city of San Francisco has an equal voice and no one is given preferential treatment because of the amount of money they can contribute, in what way and what manner and what rules they circumvent is important to us, weve been working to make sure that peoples perception of government which is currently rock bottom both in the city and the state and nationally in terms of corruption and in terms of undue influence of money, we seek to curtail that, and we are very glad that you are helping us in trying to pass
Sure that its clear, with regard to the Campaign Contribution prohibition, this is page 13, subdivision e, line 4, it says no lobbyist shall make any Campaign Contribution and it says if that lobbyist is register to city elected afflicting or have been [inaudible] in the past 90 day, expenditure lobbyists do not contact officials directly, they will never register to contact an official director, a small technical cleanup that miektd provide more clarity to the law, its also more noting that there is a corporate ban on contributions in San Francisco, so most expenditure lobbies cannot make contributions to begin with as well, thank you very much, i appreciate your time. Thank you. Hello again, michael petrelis, i would like to see this move forward and i am really concerned that if the matter goes forward before the voters and its approved, it doesnt make effect until 2018, thats what im reading in your documents, okay, and i think that is a reason why you need to move this forward now
and then engage the, the complainant to find out exactly what it was all about, to get a full understanding of the particular complaint. i think after having a full understanding of the complaint, caucusing and meeting with the commission to have a better understanding if it has merit, full merit and if indeed it does, then engaging the proper parties individually, collectively, in order to gain other sides of the story. i suspect there s probably more than even two sides of the story. so they have a full understanding of it. and then pursuing it to its end. and if it means engaging other bodies and other authoritative bodies, we would seek to do that as well. okay. and i think also you mentioned in your comments that you don t have a legal background either. i don t have a legal background. okay. a lot of times a lot of the discussion ~ around ethics really is centered around an interpretation of the law. so, and for full disclosure i don t have a law background either
commissioners and mr. st. croix and other members of his staff. um-hm. so, i feel that the commissioners should be a little more authoritative in their role. okay, thank you. i have no further questions. but i would like to speak to mr. brett. mr. brett andrews. thank you, sir. sorry, you re not going to get away yes. i m warmed up now. i see that. okay. so, you know, i think a lot of my questions are very similar to what i was asking the previous speaker. i would like you to describe to me your methodical approach to, to ethics complaints. how do you begin how would you approach to begin to resolve these ethical complaints? well, first, there is a procedure in place. so, it s important to make sure that the procedure for filing that complaint was filed properly. a lot like in managing an organization, there is a procedure for filing a complaint and that would be in written form. we would make sure that, again, it was filed properly. and then engage the, the