Are within the jurisdiction of the Ethics Commission. Members of the Ethics Commission. Ray hart director of San Francisco open open government. In 1964 and here in San Francisco Barry Goldwater accepted the nomination for president and his brief acceptance speech included items that were boiled down to the following. I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice and let me remind you moderation and the pursuit of justice is no virtue and i want to make it clear that any citizen including myself has the right to come here and tell you stuff that you dont want to hear and talk about your performance as members of this commission and this commission as a whole. And yet the pattern here seems to be that you joke about it and you act when members of the public come to talk to you that theyre being species or anarchistic or whatever and the perfect case when we were talking not too long ago and you were joking well, you think were trying to hide stuff. I dont think
Okay. I dont have anything further. Others . Thank you for your recounting and commissioner keane that helped me. I was going to come at this differently. Would you treat this request the same way . How would you treat the request that came from mr. Ringel . How would the department treat the request today . Its treaty similarly but since i have been appointed we made procedurally changes and added staff in my department to specifically target these types of Public Record well, all record requests really, and so we have a better procedure in place to identify those planner who is are involved with processing materials so in fact for example ben fu and don louis were not the only two planners working on the case but the primary respondents to the records request so as part of that some of the records other than not provided to him because they were not in their possession but of other planners. So youre developing the pot cols but seems there are changes youre making in the department.
Before taking Public Comment on item number 2 i just want to call everybodys attention to the fact that the regular meeting for august has been canceled, and there will be a special meeting on august 18 at 10 00 a. M. In room four one six to consider the report of the civil grand jury and the commissions response thereto. At this time i will take Public Comment on matters of not appearing on the agenda that are within the jurisdiction of the Ethics Commission. Members of the Ethics Commission. Ray hart director of San Francisco open open government. In 1964 and here in San Francisco Barry Goldwater accepted the nomination for president and his brief acceptance speech included items that were boiled down to the following. I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice and let me remind you moderation and the pursuit of justice is no virtue and i want to make it clear that any citizen including myself has the right to come here and tell you stuff that you dont wan
Matters over timely. Is that correct . We are. In fact so just to sum up then your you are stating to us that the Planning Department violated those sections referenced in the report of our staff . We did not provide some of those materials in a timely fashion, yes. Which was a violation of the rules as reflected in the materials that are put forth in the report of our staff . Youve already said you agree with it . Thats correct. Okay. I dont have anything further. Others . Thank you for your recounting and commissioner keane that helped me. I was going to come at this differently. Would you treat this request the same way . How would you treat the request that came from mr. Ringel . How would the department treat the request today . Its treaty similarly but since i have been appointed we made procedurally changes and added staff in my department to specifically target these types of Public Record well, all record requests really, and so we have a better procedure in place to identify
Avalos, campos and mar and yee. This is something that we all believe in but for the sake of figuring out a way if we as a collective can move forward in addressing the goals over the neck he d next two two 22 years that we would refrain from this. I would entertain a motion. I would like to make a motion entertaining the amendments to have this be a motion for order to policy declaration. Supervisor norman yee is there any objection . Seeing none. The amendment passes. Can i just, i forgot the most important for me to thank at least folks in Public Comment have thanked me for the hundreds of hours that i have put into housing balance measure. But there is someone who put in dozens of house, that is april. I want to thank her for the hours shes put in this for the last months. Okay. Can we take a motion to move this for monday july 28. Th. So moved. No objection, motion passes. Thank you very much. Madam clerk, are there anymore items on the agenda . That concludes our business for tod