Yes, good evening commissioners and director pablum. Dr. Derek kirk. January meeting for a view expressed resistance to the mayors directive to cut your budget by 3 over two years. It is troubling that your funding depends on the good graces of the same city hall folks that youre supposed to monitor. That inhibits your independence. If you like to sharply into city corruption your funds can be choked off because your budget is your leash. There is enough control just by having your appointments made by elected city officials. Compare your funding to that of the controllers City Services auditor program. It also was placed on the ballot and approved by the board and the voters, but its funding is a guarantee 0. 2 of the total city budget. That makes it fiscally independent from city hall. Since you are the cities ethics auditor, why is in your budget sat like this City Services auditors . So, consider a Charter Amendment to liberate the Ethics Commission. Ask for an automatic fraction o
Recused from this vote as a former library commissioner. I dont want there to be any appearance of a conflict of interest. Kind of should have done that before we he started discussing the question. Oh, okay. So, what does that mean . You can still we would have to have a vote on the recusal. It would have been preferable to do it before, but i think if the commission feels like it is appropriate to recuse you, its better to do it now than not at all. Id move that commissioner hayon be permitted to abstain if she wishes to abstain. Thaictionv. She has to be recused, not abstain. ~ im sorry, recused ~. I second. Public comment . Public comment. Yes. [inaudible]. Because of the fact you commission operate under roberts rules of order, the chair cannot make a motion nor can he second a motion. It has to be first or second by one of the other commissioners. Thank you very much. Is that true . Actually, i dont know. But it sound like there are two there is someone else to second it. Actuall
Discussing the question. Oh, okay. So, what does that mean . You can still we would have to have a vote on the recusal. It would have been preferable to do it before, but i think if the commission feels like it is appropriate to recuse you, its better to do it now than not at all. Id move that commissioner hayon be permitted to abstain if she wishes to abstain. Thaictionv. She has to be recused, not abstain. ~ im sorry, recused ~. I second. Public comment . Public comment. Yes. [inaudible]. Because of the fact you commission operate under roberts rules of order, the chair cannot make a motion nor can he second a motion. It has to be first or second by one of the other commissioners. Thank you very much. Is that true . Actually, i dont know. But it sound like there are two there is someone else to second it. Actually, thats not true. Okay. Well, i dont think that can be right at all because otherwise i dont think that can be right. [speaker not understood]. Okay. Any other Public Commen
Understood] advocates not trusting him and not trusting the friends of the library. I dont go for those meetings, but i read about it. I do not trust the friends of the library. And i see mr. Herrera here taking a position to defend himself unnecessarily, wasting our time. There can be a solution. Thank you very much. Commissioner hayon . Well, first, number one, the comment about holding the public inferior, i definitely would ~, not to say that is our point of view, and i think tonight was a perfect example of how important Public Comment is in terms of swaying a commission and swaying and helping to make a decision. So, i dont think that is what this discussion is about. I do have a question about the wifi aspect. Is that something that is feasible since its so commonplace now. I do think that it may be feasible. We went with the best advice we had from it. Im not trying to draw direct parallel, but i subscribed to mlb premium because i love the giants. And the first night i got it
The commission feels like it is appropriate to recuse you, its better to do it now than not at all. Id move that commissioner hayon be permitted to abstain if she wishes to abstain. Thaictionv. She has to be recused, not abstain. ~ im sorry, recused ~. I second. Public comment . Public comment. Yes. [inaudible]. Because of the fact you commission operate under roberts rules of order, the chair cannot make a motion nor can he second a motion. It has to be first or second by one of the other commissioners. Thank you very much. Is that true . Actually, i dont know. But it sound like there are two there is someone else to second it. Actually, thats not true. Okay. Well, i dont think that can be right at all because otherwise i dont think that can be right. [speaker not understood]. Okay. Any other Public Comment on commissioner hayons request to recuse herself . All in favor . Aye. Opposed . Hearing none, commissioner hayon is recused. You know, i wonder at this point whether the most prod