Requirement. Chair keane just to add a couple of things to what you said, those friday meetings in the first quarter, the one on january 12th and february 89th would be at 10 00 in the morning. Thats correct. Chair keane and on friday march 16th that would be at 1 00 p. M. Correct. Chair keane all the rest after that a tuesdays at 10 00 a. M. Those would be special meetings and adopted if you took this approach. The bylaw change would refer to a second tuesday meeting that would be as a regular matter a second tuesday at 10 00 going forward. We presume the dates for that would be available into 2019 if the commission were wr to take this approach. Approach. Chair keane commissioners, your thoughts. Im for it. Chair keane commissioner p kopp is for it. Commissioner lee. Thank you mr. Chair and i want to thank the staff for the diligent work in putting the full schedules together. I was one of the commissioners who asked the staff to look into possibly finding other meeting times for fut
Its defined getting page nur you. That is page 29 of agenda item. The payment that is made at thet of an officer or agent thereof s made principally for a legislatr government or charitable nature. We did create what i think is an important exception. You can see on the next page, ts for public appeal. Public appeal is a request for t when such request is made by mef television, radio, billboard. The distribution of 500 or more identical pieces of printed matr a speech to 500 or more individ. There is an exception in this rg system where if an official maka request, via public appeal, then disloashedisclosurethendisclosu. This came up and we tried to crs exception so the appeal would ne caught up in this because its e kind of conduct that staff belie commission was looking at when s looking at 3. 2784 when it instrs to create a disclosure testimon. Indeed we publicly said thate time. Right. So this is an idea contained in, i wanted to highlight that to st idea has been carried over and
Commission is charged to carry out oversights that impact folks who may not be San Francisco residents, but their work impacts San Francisco residents. Their perspectives and engagement for me is also critical so that as we deliberate policies and other action items, its good to have all sides perspectives. I hear folks who want to keep it the way it is. I understand that. But at the same time to really try to broaden up the participatory pull, so to speak, id like for us to try this out as a trial run. Because as a bylaw, we can always change it. But at least make it available for folks who otherwise could not make it in the evening times so that they can attend, they can add their perspective as we engage with the public. So i would like to make a motion to approve this proposal from the staff. Chair keane is there a second . Second. Chair keane i agree completely with commissioner lee in regard to what she said. Id like to add a couple of owe other things. In regard to the commissio
All right. The Ethics Commission is back in session. Were now going to move to the last of the items were dealing with for the amendments to the matter to be put on the ballot in june, and that is behested payment discussion at page six. Thank you, chair. I think i will direct you to the red line version. I think thatll be the easiest way to just look at these, so if youll please look at page 76 in the packet, thats where the first change is that id like to show you. So as you know, the behested payment page six . Page 76, correct. Those are the small numbers on the bottom, not the large. Yeah, its agenda item 4, co come comma, amended item, page 76. Go ahead. Okay. So as you know, the behested payment reporting system that would be created by this ordinance has been narrowed such that disclosure would only be required if a person makes a behested payment and such person is an Interested Party, visavis the city official who is asking them to make the payment. So this version of the ord
Background on that. This language and thrust of this is really a basic tran parency issue. It would provide a way for these who recuse under the law, to do so for a good thing, in order to avoid conflicts. It would give the public a chance to understand repeated recusals, so there would be an opportunity to engage. If there is a repeated recusal, and well get into how this would calculate that, there is a process for the Ethics Commission to review those recusals, and determine if there is a continued conflict that exists for that board or Commission Member, and the commission can recommend that maybe this commissioner should be sit in that role. Its a transparency tool and a way to avoid significant conflict in city decision making. What this would create is a system thats parallel to whats been in service in los angeles for a number of years. Each time a commissioner appears on an agenda, there would be tools for the Commission Member to do that. The form would be filed with our offi