Over 2 twentytwo seasons with the new york and San Francisco giants and the new york mets the beloved say akid with 660 home runs won 12 gold glove awards and two mpv awars and played in 24 all star games. 1979 in his first year of eligibility he was elected to the Baseball Hall of fame. Willie mays is one the greatest to ever play the beautiful game of baseball but equally impressive is his cairth. He is president of ceo of say afoundation. Provides ecass to education, health care and safe communities. He also workwise institute on aging here in San Francisco. Many bigitaries recognized willie for generous contribution tooz the society, most recently president obama awarded with medal of freedom. Willie mays name is synonymous withsuch giants baseball every game day 40,000 fans [inaudible] greeted by a larger than life statue oof mr. Mays flanked by 24 palm rr trees. The namesake speaks volumes about the franchise and todays event [inaudible] speaks volumes what willie means to the th
Impact citywide. And the other thing weve tubed when we come to you with our new rates structure we are definitely considering San Francisco Entertainment Commission fee that leads to the square of our area at risk material. Uhhuh. I think that is great and well talk about that piece of work but says here San Francisco Entertainment Commission run off from i am partially areas when it comes to flooding as we continue to understand what those are i mean there is an opportunity to reduce the size of the i am partially site. I think it depends on the intensity of the rain if you have a Green Infrastructure is wont help but Green Infrastructure you have time the soil can absorb the water if it quickly becomes saturated this is why it is important to model this we can spend money for the green structure but a lot of the short duration and you know the amount of rain it will have an impact thats why we want to look at the dollars. We talk about the impermeable surfaces we have to of the mech
Appreciate if we hold those until we get to that agenda but you are free to do as you wish. Im bob [inaudible] im leer as a member and also Spokes Person for the Informal Association known as friends of ethics. Last week a public polling of california completed a polling about Ethics Commission and potential ethics matters happening in the city. I want to give you brief summary of some the results. It was a simple bakers dozen of question squz people can say yes, punch 1, 2, no, 3, i dont know or 4, i dont care. The one i want to mention that i think stands out is there is a ballot measure drafted that will ban lobbyist from contributing to officials which you support or oppose. Out of 521 people, 60 percent said yes they support. Only 14 percent said no. I want you to understand you seem to be on the right track with the public at large. There are other questions if a ethics measure would put on the ballot who would you have most confidence in based on the agency putting it on, ethics
Chiu properly asked some examples. How does this work if im raising funds for my kids school or some other nonprofit . Some examples of members of boards and commissions served as executive directors of nonprofits, commissioner andrew sue was on this commission served by things still serves as the head of a nonprofit. Tom nolan was on the mta board when appointed was that a project open hand. I believe rich hillis on the Planning Commission is the head of thefoundation it anyway, theres been others. So its not uncommon for the heads of nonprofits to serve as members of boards and commissions. I think the comment was also made this members of boards of directors of such entities. So, the point is having a proposal that is narrow and workable i think make sense having disclosure is a good idea generally but figure how to make this work within a complex web in San Francisco will take some time. So, i think having the Staff Reports back next month on the cost and implications of this and m
Hayon, here. Chiu, here. All are present and accounted for. Churning to item 2, Public Comment. On matters appearing or not appearing under the agenda. I would as we have a very long agenda, which i anticipate comments, hopefully the comments will be limited to something other than this on the agenda. Thank you. Good evening commissioners. On Charles Stella with friends of ethics. We have been in discussions with board president on the question of the whistleblower amendment. Theyve asked for some guidance in our opinion on how to organize the hearing. So, i will send the Commission Executive director a brief memo on that so that she will see what we have suggested. Commissioner board of i think i have to warm up herems. Breed and her staff and they were actually talking about generating a bit of a crowd or notifying the public in general, which we can implead you for thatfor you but you have your own contacts with as well. But there was some thought by the board that this should attra