Good afternoon, everyone. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the monday, july 27, 2015, regular meeting of the San Francisco Ethics Commission i say regular meeting that was essentially contemplated that this meeting would be cancelled because we school one in july or august but because of the need to have public button the two items on tonights agenda we decided to go forward tonight i will first call roll commissioner hur commissioner keane councilmember glorias and the executive director have been excluded from tonight meeting ill tell you that some the gentleman didnt have to abstain himself well switch the agenda items number 4 will be taken up first that is the ballot measure statement and then well take up the agenda item number 3 that deals with the Recruitment Profile so agenda 2 public items appearing or not appearing on tonight agenda. Good afternoon, commissioners im charley for the record you have my email where i suggested respectfully you might consider amending our bylaws
2013 until december 10, 2014, you served as emergency manager of detroit. Kevyn yes. Brian why did you take the job . Kevyn i have been asked that a lot of times. I was a restructuring professional. Detroit is 83 africanamerican, a city that had gone through several decades of decline. It was a city that needed restructuring. I initially was a little reluctant to take the job. I thought it would be difficult and i was comfortable in my corporate attorney life, my family and i. My managing partner steve and my wife said, look, this could be a call to action. It is important. It is outside your comfort zone, but we have people making the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of their country. This is temporary. And you will still be in an Airconditioned Office in the summer and heated in the winter. Sometimes you have to give back. After some reflection, it seemed like the right thing to do. Brian you are based in washington and a graduate of michigan law school. Do not have anything to do with w
And i was comfortable in my corporate attorney life, my family and i. My managing partner steve and my wife said, look, this could be a call to action. It is important. It is outside your comfort zone, but we have people making the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of their country. This is temporary. And you will still be in an Airconditioned Office in the summer and heated in the winter. Sometimes you have to give back. After some reflection, it seemed like the right thing to do. Brian you are based in washington and a graduate of michigan law school. Did that have anything to do with why they asked you . Kevyn i think it did. I was an undergraduate at the law school at university of michigan. From 1976 to 1983, i lived in michigan. The 1980s were pretty good years. The class of 1982 was rick snyder. 1983 was me. Mike duggan, we all came up in that era. Having a connection to the city and understanding what it was in its heyday, as well as having participated in other cases, the chrysler
Decided to go forward tonight i will first call roll commissioner hur commissioner keane councilmember glorias and the executive director have been excluded from tonight meeting ill tell you that some the gentleman didnt have to abstain himself well switch the agenda items number 4 will be taken up first that is the ballot measure statement and then well take up the agenda item number 3 that deals with the Recruitment Profile so agenda 2 public items appearing or not appearing on tonight agenda. Good afternoon, commissioners im charley for the record you have my email where i suggested respectfully you might consider amending our bylaws for the purpose of having a consistent provision in the law for filings to proceed all legislative and other important types of things which you do including placing initiatives on the ballot to the public has a clear idea why this particular measure or act was taken with that said you can do easily by a majority vote that applies to all the areas in th
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the monday, july 27, 2015, regular meeting of the San Francisco Ethics Commission i say regular meeting that was essentially contemplated that this meeting would be cancelled because we school one in july or august but because of the need to have public button the two items on tonights agenda we decided to go forward tonight i will first call roll commissioner hur commissioner keane councilmember glorias and the executive director have been excluded from tonight meeting ill tell you that some the gentleman didnt have to abstain himself well switch the agenda items number 4 will be taken up first that is the ballot measure statement and then well take up the agenda item number 3 that deals with the Recruitment Profile so agenda 2 public items appearing or not appearing on tonight agenda. Good afternoon, commissioners im charley for the record you have my email where i suggested respectfully you might consider amending our bylaws for the purpose of having