Peskin, present. Supervisor yee yee you have a quorum president breed ladies and gentlemen please join us for the pledge of allegiance. [pleage of allegiance] president breed thank you, mdm. Clerk of any communications . Clerk none to report president breed we you please read the consent agenda. Clerk items 1 to 10 are on consent. These items are considered routine of the member objects item may be removed and considered separately. Read see no names on t roster please call the roll clerk items 110 mar absent tang aye yee supervisor there are 10 aye president breed these items are passed on the First Reading and adopted unanimously [gavel] president breed next item be good item 1 administrative code the way the filing fee per bistro criteria for place of Entertainment Permit application in the neighborhood commercial or mixed residential district. Likewise the director of Entertainment Commission to extend the ninemonth deadline for conditional grant entertainment and limited Live Perf
I am, of course, a resident of the city and county of San Francisco and a participant of local government for 56 years. And counting. I serve for 2 and a half years as the grand jury presiding judge of the San Mateo County civil grand juries 11, 12, 2013 years ago i brought a lot of grand jury reports the first point this is probably as well written the court well, analyzed as my grand Jury Committee report and grand jury report as ive ever seen if you havent read it, its understandable reading dont be deferred by the length. Secondly, i oppose the creation of this commission has history records because there was a day when the City Attorney and the District Attorneys offices between them policed the ethnical of local pub officials in San Francisco. Its not necessary its an unnecessary commission with a budget over 2 million which could be conserved or transferred to the zake or District Attorneys office. The District Attorney has speeding called the integrity session that announced tw
Unproductive way to address Something Like the civil grand juries effort in my efforts in this situation thats not how im going to address it. In regard to some of the comments that were made preliminary related to our proposed draft i agree with the comments the draft itself im going to ask it be substantially modified there is in the draft some of the semidoctrine ive talked to be defensive and take on the grand jury about seismic things the grand jury is said thats totally unhelpful im sure youll agree much of your recommendations are things that we can agree and should agree on others well have discussions about the manner but for the most part i want to commend all of you for your work its outstanding. The citizens of San Francisco owe you a great debt and i as a member of this commission and im sure the other commissioners appreciate it very much. Good morning commissioner. Im richard knee a former member of the Sunshine Ordinance Task force when i served 4 years. Recently my rep
Worth examining. Finally going back to our response to finding one f you say the budget process is the primary told them of the Ethics Commission to the city. Maybe it is but there is also the appointment time process your appointed by someone in the city an elected city official whos activities your duty bound to oversee theres an attachment. Any other Public Comment . Hearing none i will commissioner keane you made some strong comments you disagreed with some of the staff recommendations so i guess well start with the recommendation in response to the finding and recommendation number one. Do you or any other commissioners have any comments suggested changes . I have yes mr. Chair yes and go ahead. The finding is that the Ethics Commission the finding by the grand jury is that the Ethics Commission lacks the resources to handle the major enforcement cases goes ton to include examples of misconduct. I mr. Chair, i would strongly recommend that we not use the language in our response w
An assistant dpw Department Head of a depended for years there were two times my department was the topic of civil grand jury reports each time each department is looked at by the civil grand jury there are a couple of responses that sort of incity councils occur one the defenseness that automatically takes place their krisz us theyre saying were bad therefore we have to reopened in some way to show theyre wrong. I think that that is a totally unproductive way to address Something Like the civil grand juries effort in my efforts in this situation thats not how im going to address it. In regard to some of the comments that were made preliminary related to our proposed draft i agree with the comments the draft itself im going to ask it be substantially modified there is in the draft some of the semidoctrine ive talked to be defensive and take on the grand jury about seismic things the grand jury is said thats totally unhelpful im sure youll agree much of your recommendations are things t