Do you swear the testimony you are about to give is the truth to the best of your knowledge . Thank you. Item c, approval of minutes. Discussion or possible action to adopt the meetings for the meeting held october 18, 2017. Is there a motion to approve the minutes . Move to approve. A second . Second. Theres a motion and second. Any Public Comment on the minutes . Are all commissioners in favor . Aye. Minutes are approved. Next item is item d continued appeals order of abatement, 6836, 221 11th street. Don ramon real estate llc. Leonila ramirez, reverse order of abatement. Just for the record, wanted to let everyone know the department will present its case first. The department has seven minutes, the apelant has seven minutes and then Public Comment for three minutes and each side has three minutes for rebuttal. Department, come forward. At this time well just do the order differently. Well have the apelant come forward if theyre ready. You can go ahead. Good morning commissioners, i
Raise your right hand . Do you swear the testimony you are about to give is the truth to the best of your knowledge . Thank you. Item c, approval of minutes. Discussion or possible action to adopt the meetings for the meeting held october 18, 2017. Is there a motion to approve the minutes . Move to approve. A second . Second. Theres a motion and second. Any Public Comment on the minutes . Are all commissioners in favor . Aye. Minutes are approved. Next item is item d continued appeals order of abatement, 6836, 221 11th street. Don ramon real estate llc. Leonila ramirez, reverse order of abatement. Just for the record, wanted to let everyone know the department will present its case first. The department has seven minutes, the apelant has seven minutes and then Public Comment for three minutes and each side has three minutes for rebuttal. Department, come forward. At this time well just do the order differently. Well have the apelant come forward if theyre ready. You can go ahead. Good
Great pleasure to be on this commission, and i have followed your activities over the years. And i look forward to having a very fruitful, and very interesting time, serving with all of you. All right, and at this time, i would, is there any Public Comment on either matters on the agenda or that are within the jurisdiction of the Ethics Commission in yes, thank you very much, commissioners. The corporate way, but the Public Library and dont give money to the friends of the library and i do have a graphic display and i hope that you know that on september 19, the california fair political practices commissioner in sacramento found that the city librarian was guilty of three years of violations for further report of gifts and these are laws that are designed to represent those in the public from representing the interest of those who give them money instead. And in order for the society to protect itself, the city library had to sign, every other year under penalty of perjury that he att
Comments. So every member of the public that appeared before this body and commissioner renne admitted that he said that everything that they said was unfounded. And i have read you before this Good Government guide that the body has to have at least an appearance of being fair and if you start out accepting everything they say is wrong, not fair. This was all followed by a quote from or sorry, the chair then said, thank you commissioner renne and i think that we all heartedly agree with what you said. And i suppose that we should be grateful that you were so candid about regarding Public Participation and comment at these meetings. I am not. I think that it shows the dismissive attitude that you have toward Public Participation and disregard for any opinion other than your own, i find this for one, totally unsurprising and mr. Chafy mentioned earlier, we made dozens of attempt to get the Library Commission to account for all of the money, the 53 million that he spoke about and where i
And many other amendments that came from folks would never had an amendment brought up and discussed, those amendments were discussed in the farm bill. I would say that probably of the 73 that were considered, there were 300 offered and people would get up, they would have their say. They discuss the amendment. They knew probably it would not pass, and they would withdraw it. But they at least had the opportunity to represent their states and their constituents, and we had that opportunity. This years farm bill, was in 73 a maintenance. Voted about 10 times. Senator thune, respected member of the Agriculture Committee, senator johanns, former secretary of agriculture, senator grassley and myself, we all had a total of about 12 amendments. We withdrew those from consideration from the Committee Markup and said well take them up on the floor. Except the majority leader cut it off saying, timeout, no more. None of us got those amendments. As a former chairman of the Agriculture Committee