i think it is slowly the slow realization that open government is important for what it does. without that, open government and good government work together, hand in hand. supervisor kim: what criteria did you think should be used to determine who registers as a lobbyist? who registers as a lobbyist? supervisor kim: what criteria should be used? i think anybody who is a hired gun to interface with a political official should register. you have this great area involving managers. i don t think the way that they cloak it should be the difference. i think the rules should be written in a way that anybody who is actually doing that should register. the other thing i think they should do is to make sure that the person with whom they meet should accurately put that into their calendar. supervisor kim: my last question, this has, been several ethics commission meetings it what are your thoughts about televising the commission meetings? sorry? supervisor kim: what are you
issues with youth not being able to get to school because they don t have the money for it. he has been incredibly supportive, opening his doors. he has helped coordinate meetings with the mta board and the different officials and we would have had a much harder time having access to them and having those conversations. as we continue to work on transit issues, it will be very important for an organization such as ours to have a relationship with mtc, so this is really critical for communities like ours, communities of color at low- income families to be able to count on his upper limit to the mtc, and we really hope you will seriously consider that. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you very much for being here. i am also with power. i am in favor of supervisor david campos on the mtc. we appreciate the work he has done part bring with community organizations. this is the first that in making transportation something that is accessible to the san francisco s who depend on i
campaigns, lobbyists, campaign consultants, officials, economic interests are part of overt part of open government. if appointed as ethics commissioner, i would continue to advocate for the public s interest to ensure that the city s ethics laws are enforced early in the ways that the public expressed them to be enforced. i could read from the mission statement of the ethics commission. not necessary. with no political agenda it ties, having demonstrate my interest in good and open government, and very tangible ways, i think i could do a good job. supervisor kim: thank you, mr. grossman. are there any questions for the applicants? i have a couple questions, mr. grossman. you talked about the importance of the ethics commission in being a body that enforces ethics. what do you consider to be the most important charter mandate that is currently not being met by the commission? what it is not doing now that could be done? i think it is slowly the slow realization that open
property related. however, once i retired, i developed a couple of very strong interests. in the city and how it was run and what it looked like, because for reasons i will not necessarily have to get into, i became enamored with the problems of the city s forests, which as we know has been steady decline for years. it has been the subject of reports going to 1992. as a result of that, i had occasion to spend time with people in the various departments and people on the outside, such as transbay urban forest. it led to my involvement in the sunshine because i was looking at work at dpw, and invariably i learned about sunshine laws and that brought me to the whole area of open government. i have been pretty active in both of those fields since that time. i have had, actually, some considerable exposure to the ethics commission. i have appeared many times before the commission. i have interacted with commissioners. i have exchanged memoranda with the commissioners, and i have t