City of San Francisco rules committee please stand by. Please stand by. City of San Francisco rules committee [ gavel ] supervisor katy tang welcome, everyone good morning. Welcome to our april 28th, 2016, meeting. To my left is supervisor eric mar and Supervisor Malia Cohen any announcements . Clerk yes, please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Items acted upon today will be on the agenda unless otherwise stated. Supervisor katy tang thank you very much. Please call item no. 1. Clerk [appointment, commission on aging Advisory Council] hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending march 31, 2017, to the commission on aging Advisory Council. rules committee vacant seat 11, succeeding margie ramirez, term expired, must be a nominee of the district 9 supervisor, for the unexpired portion of a twoyear term ending clerk [appointment, commission on aging Advisory Council] hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending march 31, 2017, to the commission on aging
For seats 6 and 7 and i dont think should be on the Sunshine Task force. There are a number of issues that have been raised here, mediation. Unfortunately weve had secretive process and no public description of outcomes. It is antitheyth cal to sunshine. The City Attorney has often provided ~ absolutely wrong advice to the Sunshine Task force. Open government is important to you as well as supervisors because that is your only way for check and balances to be looking at what the administrative departments are doing. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors. Dr. Derek kerr [speaker not understood]. Two years ago supervisors wiener, chiu, [speaker not understood] lead a campaign to purge the Sunshine Task force. They wanted to get rid of those who determined that a committee of supervisors had violated the sunshine ordinance, while approving the park Merced Development deal. [speaker not understood] a pretext to justify the purge, namely, the innocent merger of the bylaws of the task force
And i think continuing that and perhaps working with the people that have frequently sought out help through the task force and identifying whether the sort of consistent problems that theyve encountered can be almost mediated before they become a conflict to make sure that thing just continue to move smoother on the whole. Thank you. Next person, pixie chopra, chopra. Am i saying the right pixie, pixie. Not here. Allyson washburn. Okay. My name is Allyson Washburn. Good afternoon, supervisors tang and yee. Before i speak, id like to introduce karen clap ton who is a past president of the league of women voters. Excuse me. Its your time to speak and she can speak later in public testimony. Actually, im representing the league and we under the ordinance nominate a candidate for this particular seat for [speaker not understood]. Go ahead. Im [speaker not understood] clap ton, chief Administrative Law judge for the California Public utilities commission. Today i am speaking only in my cap
To appoint. ~ its we bring this up all the time. Im also looking at the, if this is the correct record, of who missed meetings and so forth. It looks like at least for a while, theres always been a quorum so im not sure what people are saying. On this sheet, started 612, 6612, theres never been more than looks like two people that were absent from the meeting. There are some overlaps in regards to the people you named. For seat 6 i would also reappoint david pilpel. Seat 8, todd david. Seat 10 Louise Fischer. On my people that i felt comfortable with would be for seat 1 mark rumold, seat 2ali winston, seat 5 allyson washburn, and seat 9 chris hyland. So, the ones i actually named were all reappointments or they are specific to a group. Thats what i would like to move forward with. So it appears that we are in agreement on three appointments today and unfortunately there are only two of us. So, it looks like david pilpel seat 6, [speaker not understood] fishier [speaker not understood].
Gonna set the night on Fire Task Force fire make it happen thank you. applause good afternoon. My name is jeffery king. I am a First Amendment lawyer specializing in [speaker not understood] Government Matters. I am a journalist who is an enthusiastic and frequent utilizer of the California Public records act and the San Francisco sunshine ordinance. A huge part of [speaker not understood] which includes open Government Matters and, of course, im here in my capacity as the freedom of Information Committee, [speaker not understood] society of professional journalists which i served since 2011. And im here to voice the committee of strong support or strongest support of mark rumold. As you heard from mark, he is an attorney with the Electronic Frontier foundation, a position that he has held for the past four years a a legal fellow and now staff attorney. What he did not tell you is that he was not only qualified for this position. Hes one of the leading open Government Experts in this c