Responsibility and after six hearings with the sunshine ordinance and quite a long process i can tell you that he was given notice. Absolutely. He sent whoever was in charge of sunshine ordinance complaints to the first hearing and to the second hearing and that was accompanied by the acting Environmental Review officer Sarah B Jones and because i was concerned on time because i needed the files by the last administrative hearing they told mr. Rahaim or thomas de santo mentioned earlier they were to come to the tac what is it . [inaudible] compliance and Amendments Committee and everyone agreed it would be the next wednesday, the procedural notice and they told him so mr. Ionin didnt show up at that hearing and he was taking over lulu wongs position and acting agent for mr. John rahaim. He knew about it all along so the order went to john rahaim. He was in receipt of it so to say he wasnt given notice or ability to be heard wasnt the case at all. He cheese people to hand. Handle it and
Ordinance and also the Public Records ordinance in regard to a City Department having an obligation to turn those matters over timely. Is that correct . We are. In fact so just to sum up then your you are stating to us that the Planning Department violated those sections referenced in the report of our staff . We did not provide some of those materials in a timely fashion, yes. Which was a violation of the rules as reflected in the materials that are put forth in the report of our staff . Youve already said you agree with it . Thats correct. Okay. I dont have anything further. Others . Thank you for your recounting and commissioner keane that helped me. I was going to come at this differently. Would you treat this request the same way . How would you treat the request that came from mr. Ringel . How would the department treat the request today . Its treaty similarly but since i have been appointed we made procedurally changes and added staff in my department to specifically target thes
There was a referral to the Ethics Commission it was pending and they were warned that it would be that exact same search but not for the deleted emails, all emails, anything held within the custody of the Planning Department was my request, and i understand im not a political person. Like i only registered to vote which is weird but i never thought my vote mattered and i want to preface this i dont understand the politics but i understand the Ethics Commission and the relationship with the Sunshine Ordinance Task force. It seems to be strange. Because they didnt want to send the case here. I asked them to so there was accountability on behalf of those at the Planning Department and our faith in government is there is accountability and responsibility and after six hearings with the sunshine ordinance and quite a long process i can tell you that he was given notice. Absolutely. He sent whoever was in charge of sunshine ordinance complaints to the first hearing and to the second hearing
Materials that are put forth in the report of our staff . Youve already said you agree with it . Thats correct. Okay. I dont have anything further. Others . Thank you for your recounting and commissioner keane that helped me. I was going to come at this differently. Would you treat this request the same way . How would you treat the request that came from mr. Ringel . How would the department treat the request today . Its treaty similarly but since i have been appointed we made procedurally changes and added staff in my department to specifically target these types of Public Record well, all record requests really, and so we have a better procedure in place to identify those planner who is are involved with processing materials so in fact for example ben fu and don louis were not the only two planners working on the case but the primary respondents to the records request so as part of that some of the records other than not provided to him because they were not in their possession but
Delivered to you. Absolutely. What are those they complied with the lasted search that he mentioned and the fourth cd i was given and after six hearings knowing there was a referral to the Ethics Commission it was pending and they were warned that it would be that exact same search but not for the deleted emails, all emails, anything held within the custody of the Planning Department was my request, and i understand im not a political person. Like i only registered to vote which is weird but i never thought my vote mattered and i want to preface this i dont understand the politics but i understand the Ethics Commission and the relationship with the Sunshine Ordinance Task force. It seems to be strange. Because they didnt want to send the case here. I asked them to so there was accountability on behalf of those at the Planning Department and our faith in government is there is accountability and responsibility and after six hearings with the sunshine ordinance and quite a long process i