Listed what they had done, including spending 300,000 on things that they had no Legal Authority to do so. Charging fees, that they had no Legal Authority and fire the cultural director and replace the head of the commission. The bottom line is if you were a commission and you were in charge of a staff and a staff screws up it reflects on you. You cant sit there and say, oh, if we find our executive director in violation, that has no reflection on us at all. Even though we turnover 99 percent of what we do to them, and in cases like mine, mr. St. Croix has a complaint against him and he gets to dismiss it on his own authority. And you dont call that some sort of a conflict of interest . The bottom line is you are here to insure that this process is an open process, and a fair process. I have heard a number of things here that i find totally discon certaining apparently miss herrick got her directions from mr. St. Croix or your staff. She has had conversationwise mr. St. Croix and the s
Together with our supervisors and Mayors Office have come together and put this program together and we want to announce and launch it today in front of martin lams good will shop here because hes been a real great leader in helping many of the Small Businesses, and particularly those that dont speak english owned by proprietors that maybe english is not their first language. Over the past couple years, supervisor chu and i have been talking about these driveby lawsuits that have been occurring and how shocked some of these businesses are to the sometimes abusive process that are used by litigators to get at them. But in the context of overall our citys willingness to comply with ada, with title 24 of the state, and our own access through our Mayors Office of disability. We want everybody to comply. We dont want them to be victims of irrational and abusive lawsuits. And at the same time, we want to give them the help that they so well deserve. And, so, with the extra monies that we hav
Numbers of women that are served or end the violent homicides or reduce the number of Domestic Violence cases or increase the number of women that serve on our commissions and our departments. Its working in the community constantly having that as our forefront, building strong communities. Again, thank you very much and congratulations to all the honorees. Thank you very much. applause . [ gavel ] good evening and welcome to the regular meeting of the San Francisco Ethics Commission and well begin by taking roll. Commissioner studley . Here. Commissioner liu . Commissioner renee . Present. All members of the commission being present, lets start with the agenda. Public comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda that are within the jurisdiction of the Ethics Commission. good evening dale pillpa, just wanted to comment and perhaps inquire on the election season that has just concluded. I assume that the staff will be analyzing the effectiveness of the matching the Public
Good morning. Welcome to al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy. The n. S. A. Has been under fire for months following Edward Snowdens disclosure of its mass if collection of phone records in the u. S. And around the world. As alan fisher reports a president ial panel is calling for changes in the way the n. S. A. Does its business. A surveillance review report is due to be published but is pushed out by the white house. The highlights the n. S. A. Will no longer keep a phone database, it will be held by the phone companies or a third party. The agency can no longer ask parties to build a backdoor, and the n. S. A. Should not spy on nonu. S. Citizens outside the u. S. Because of their religion or political views. The scope was revealed by whistleblower. He said any changes need strong support. The congressional committees are completely cooptive, worth else and impotent even if they have the incentive to do so. Courts have been onesided. So i think we need gen urine oversight. The other o
And i want to thank the San Francisco gtv staff for the coverage of this meeting. Madam clerk, if you can please call item number two, roll call. Supervisor avalos, absent. Supervisor olague. Here. Supervisor im sorry, commissioner schmeltzer. Here. Commissioner mar. Commissioner pimentel absent. Chairperson campos. Present. Mr. Chair, there is a quorum. Item two approval from the minutes from the regular meeting and november 30 joint meeting with the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. Great. Before we take action on this item i would like to open it up for Public Comment. If there is any member of the public that would like to speak on item number two please come forward. Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Colleagues this is an action item. Can we have a motion to approve the minutes . We have a motion for commissioner schmeltzer. Second by commissioner olague. If we can take that without objection. Madam clerk you can call item three. Item three is review of the Renewable