Sunshine ordinance and of the brown act and as a result shouldnt be included. Now, the other thing i would like to mention sort of irrespective of this were talking about lobbyists meeting in private with employees of the city and we can have discussions about levels and all this other stuff. Why are they having private meetings anyway . Why dont they submit a memorandum to explain the ideas so members of the public can put a request in to see what theyre arguing and see what is a counter argument . I dont see why there is a reason for private conferences. Citizens dont get private conferences with these folks. Why should the lobbyists firms gets them . I know they want it because they make money on t if they convince somebody to buy a contract or do what they want they come out ahead but where does the public come out . They dont know what is being discussed by whom, when . And many of the employees will make recommendations to the senior officials were talking about in the ordinance
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 public how often we talked about the commission and the Sunshine Ordinance Task force is talked about this referral process i am wondering if we
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 and if there is anything else to report on the disclosure for november. I anticipate a lot of activity for. Ca
Funding wasnt continued. Some of the money that we had anticipated to use for the position wasnt used last year. Public comment . Commissioners, i promised at the last meeting as this comes up every meeting im going to be talking about different area. I would like to talk about area two, investigation and enforcement reports and says at the bottom sunshine ordinance number of complaints and with that is the extent of the sunshine ordinance. Look on your website. Part of your responsibility is enforcing the sunshine ordinance and every time the Sunshine Task force refers a complaint you sit here and kib etz and talk about the 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 t
The biggest challenge we have at the moment is the current. We are Still Holding out with guarded optimism but we are to be clear in a race against time. Sandra phil keating has elites on the spur miami. Today is day number five from this growing search and rescue operation which is critical as a coast guard captain put it bluntly. It is a race against the clock and every hour and data go by only make it more daunting. Last night the latest coast guard map was released showing the grid zone of the atlantics card so far by air and by sea which cover the waters off of florida, georgia and now the carolinas. It has expanded to the whole Southeast Region is that gulfstream and drift patterns had up the coast. If the boat with the firefighters were in the water it would be heading that way. Day five of the search begins at sunrise and tuesdays search was the largest yet. Jacksonvilles fire chief said nearly 200 people and 70 volts and ten aircraft search the ocean. All that in addition to t