Good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the regular meeting march 28, 2016 of the San Francisco Ethics Commission. Commissioner andrews, here. Commissioner hayon, here. Commissioner keane, here. We have a visitor. Commissioner hur. Let me say we welcome you back and particularly in the view the fact well cover the wistal blow rr regulations we passed at the last meeting and i see you didnt bring your plaque that you stethly took away in february. It wasnt given to me but it is reviding in my office. Welcome. I will ask for Public Comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda and believe madam assesser is here to make a few words thank you. Good afternoon commissioners. Executive director pelm. We were in the crowd wondering about commissioner hurs name tag. Glad to hear you have one. Today i want to come here because today is commissioner hurs last day with the Ethics Commission and would prefer to find a way to extend his term but i want to express my gratitude
That made it wrong and youre unwilling to do anything to correct the situation and theres never anything on this report that indicates you ever will. David pilpel again speaking as an idea. The report is good, comprehensive as usual. I think it would be helpful for the next few months up to the november election to include a category here for public financing. I believe there is only one candidate qualified but i think reporting on payments under the finance program would serve the publics interest and if there is anything else to report on the disclosure for november. I anticipate a lot of activity for. Candidates and ballot measures and heightly contested so if you can provide that in addition to the website and the dashboard with all of that that would be helpful. Thank you very much. All right. Turning to agenda item number eight. Items for future meetings . Commissioners have any items that they would propose for future agenda . Well, i am a newer commissioner so hearing from the
Talk about certain things. I was told the same thing by the president of the arts commission. And the Library Commission and they all knew it wasnt true but they did it anyway. Why . Because they got away with it because they knew it would go to the task force and for some reason you want people to believe that the Sunshine Ordinance Task force is a group that doesnt know what theyre doing and youre more clever than they are because you can find a way there is something they did in some way that made it wrong and youre unwilling to do anything to correct the situation and theres never anything on this report that indicates you ever will. David pilpel again speaking as an idea. The report is good, comprehensive as usual. I think it would be helpful for the next few months up to the november election to include a category here for public financing. I believe there is only one candidate qualified but i think reporting on payments under the finance program would serve the publics interest
Recommendation you find or the staff finds a reason to find fault and if you think its at fault and you acknowledge the fact that part of the responsibilities as a body is the enforcement of the sunshine ordinance then i would think that there would be a moral imperative to do something to get together with the task force and come down with something meaningful where you can do something instead of these pointless arguments whether they charge the right person or crossed the right t or. Ed the i and the issue is let them go to Public Meetings and let them speak and i went to the Police Commission and told by the the president youre not allowed to talk about certain things. I was told the same thing by the president of the arts commission. And the Library Commission and they all knew it wasnt true but they did it anyway. Why . Because they got away with it because they knew it would go to the task force and for some reason you want people to believe that the Sunshine Ordinance Task forc
Fact this isnt clear and this isnt clear so when are you going to do something about it . We just did. With all due respect commissioner keane this discussion has been going on for five years, the discussion on who is gets included on the complaint. I did that and i had the task force take that off. The reason is they went through two years of discussion and were the Ethics Commission and according to the sunshine ordinance the only people we can discipline are elected heads and officials and so if you have a complaint against a line employee your response from the staff is we cant do anything, so these things go back and forth and you know. You can say the task force knows what its doing but every single time the task force sends awe recommendation you find or the staff finds a reason to find fault and if you think its at fault and you acknowledge the fact that part of the responsibilities as a body is the enforcement of the sunshine ordinance then i would think that there would be a