Allegations of corruption, and indictments and guilty pleas swirling around city Hall Contracting the city family is plugging along with another enormous bond for this november, much of it which will go to d. P. W. The ethics budget is not an expense. Its an investment that pays dividends and in cost savings and honest government. Thank you very much. If you are joining by the webex Browser Extension, if you wish to raise your hand for this Public Comment and other Public Comments, you may do so by clicking on the raise hand icon. Its located in the participants panel on the lowerright corner. To access that panel, you can click on the navigation bar located in the video screen by clicking on the participants icon. I do not see any additional callers concerning Public Comment. Im going to close Public Comment first, i want to say in response to the Public Comment, to the first specificker who had substantive points of information concerning City Contracting i do hope that the whistlebl
I know. Excited. When we had that big rainstorm last year that was racing down this hill i went out and when there was a break in the weather to make sure that was clear and that was definitely debris that draws down i make sure i have any bathroom we me and sweep that away that makes a big difference sfwrts can fleet floated and every year we were coming home he it was rainey noticed it the water with hill high on the corner and she was in her rain boats so she had fun doing that. I saved our house. So adopt a drain 25 he is a real leader that listens and knows how to bring people together. Brought this department together like never before. I am so excited to be swearing in the next chief of the San Francisco Fire Department, ladies and gentlemen, lets welcome, Jeanine Nicholson. applause . I grew up total tomboy, athlete. I loved a good crisis, a good challenge. I grew up across the street from the fire station. My dad used to take me there to vote. I never saw any female firefighte
Comply with the laws. Johnny started back in 2012. He has had ittervations in his work. I am delighted he will use his knowledge and experience in this new role. The dashboards presentations have been with us. He is now appointed as the Information Systems engineer. This was a created in the budget this year to held us build our dashboards and Campaign Finance level to the next level so we can provide tools for the public to work with the public in a way that is meaningful. He will continue on as the division working with Steven Massey and the team. He will do focused outreach to help Community Groups and others look for opportunities to partner. More Research Opportunities and opportunities to use the data. We will have that next month. We were excited he is filling that role. Let me interrupt. I would love to hear what outreach you would be able to do to the community. Last month there was a reporter had came from the world journal. It is a chinese newspaper. He was interesting in le
Clear that the division has the power to exercise its discretion to do that. There are a number of other issues that we would consider procedural in nature that would be part of the scope of this review process, including whether the division should use warning letters, more frequently than it currently does brady will remember jesse minardi, submitted Public Comment requesting that the division do explicitly that. At the bottom of page four we have set out the policy, or rather the process that we intend to pursue here. Staff have already begun to evaluate what other jurisdictions are doing in terms of a streamlined process. We are also initiating internal conversations, consulting with members of a compliance staff who have ideas about how their own programs are, or are not functioning well and which of the provisions of the programs that they oversee might be suitable for streamline resolutions. Weve envisioned that we would have a first round of interested persons meetings, which i
Benedict. Were back in session and well now go to item nine which is discussion of the enforcement report and discussion on various Program Highlights and various activity since the last monthly meeting. Thank you, chair. We had a productive month. Received nine new complaints. We opened 11 new investigations, and we dismissed 23 complaints which put a significant dent in our outstanding preliminary review matters. The details for which i can oh, no, i have it in here. 58 complaints only remain in preliminary review. So when we started this process, when we were down all investigators, we had almost 190 unreviewed complaints, and were down to 58, so im proud of my staff. Theyre doing a great job. And thanks to everyone in the review chain that has to get through all that information. Its a heavy lift. I also wanted to highlight that youll recall the Sunshine Ordinance Task force received a complaint that this commission violated the sunshine ordinance regarding taking of vote of doing