The essential records and essential records do include among other things, records required for the protection for the rights of individuals. And that could be the individuals within the department or Something Like that. But, i think cha is essential here and what seems to be glossed over because we are focusing on this one narrow issue here. Is a much bigger one that i hope that you take up in some form or another and that is you have clear evidence before you. That you cannot deny in writing. That members of the department, highly paid members of the department directly reporting to the director of the department, basically tried to intercede and prevent the public from meeting and discussing a matter of Public Policy and used the weight of their office and their title to basically try to keep people from meeting and discussing something as a public concern. I think whether or not that is addressable under the particular thing that you are hearing tonight, would i ask you just as a
Has not been forth coming to this body or to any of us. She did not come in and say, gee, olive i have records and deleted them now what i do . She just pretended like they never existed. This is an indictment, you cant ignore it. Thank you. Good evening, my name is nan clark i have never been to an Ethics Commission meeting and i think that you have a really hard job ahead of you and i like to speak to that just briefly. Earlier tonight, in the meeting and i dont know who said it, which side they were on or even whether it came from you, it has been a long evening, it was something to the effect that the reason we have the brown act and the sunshine ordinance the California Public records act is because government activity must be as transparent as possible. And i think that you found tonight and both of the cases that you have heard that the goment transparency is not very transparent. And whether we talk about it in terms of emails or we talk about it in terms of budget and finances
Yeah the Common Wealth club has had gay rights that is one sided i have not seen any right wing people listed. I think that it stands for free speech and exploring a variety of issues and ha is not relevant to your decision but it speaks to the fact that we are trying to have a broader public learn about our issues. I want to repeat that miss ballard did write as an official as the department she wrote in response to a phone call she mentions in the email a phone call. She wrote a one page letter and signed it sarah ballard, director of public affairs, phone number and email address and etc. So this is definitely an official communication that she spent a great deal of time on and should have been provided. The only reason that we had a suspicion that these emails might exist is because the title and panel makeup suddenly out of the blue, changed, it was fine with the Common Wealth club for months and then all of a sudden, we get a call that it is changing if we had not been provided b
Question mark . It is there. They keep it. In their inbox, i dont know why . But they do. They are the only people that dont. And on the second item, mr. Buell reports that the Common Wealth club has other than Golden Gate Park that there are no topics that the club has hosted and i would like to remind him and point out to you that perhaps a case for palestine could be considered a little bit more controversial than Golden Gate Park under siege and this was a title within the time frame topic. Thank you very much. Katherine howard. Yeah the Common Wealth club has had gay rights that is one sided i have not seen any right wing people listed. I think that it stands for free speech and exploring a variety of issues and ha is not relevant to your decision but it speaks to the fact that we are trying to have a broader public learn about our issues. I want to repeat that miss ballard did write as an official as the department she wrote in response to a phone call she mentions in the email a
Old of a nature that will provoke general chaos across the whole country mr. Election observers have witnessed fifty two cases we consider to be major irregularities. This is very worrying because it was a clear violation of electoral what it would mean. You would be categorically reject these results. Following the publication of these results we plead with everyone to show civic maturity and to avoid violence. Also coming up tonight in just two days the u. S. Government shutdown will become the longest in u. S. History but you didnt hear about that today from u. S. President donald trump when he paid of or paid a visit to the border we hope hes going to win the battle of strong borders and no crime as opposed to open borders and crime does it matter because thats what this a crime does it matter. We begin today with two countries two continents and a crisis of legitimacy their leaders have in common im talking about been its way let in south america and the democratic republic of con