Reversed the rules for these [speaker not understood], the 6vote rule. You know [speaker not understood]. It sounds good on paper. In the back of my mind, thats pretty good. But at the end bottom line it was a violation of city charter. To me it seemed sort of ironic that here we have the sunshine ordinance. In charge of all of these rules and yet you were violating a rule. Whether i agreed with it or not, [speaker not understood], i absolutely would not violate that charter [speaker not understood]. So, lets see. All of these thing you heard from kit. We missed several meetings, thats problems we had. We only had 9 out of 11 members. Im not going to go through our statistics again. But i want to mention the good news that many of our complaints [speaker not understood] many of the complaints are solved by the administrator and dont even come to us in front of the task force. And if i can anticipate your next question, though are some of the things that i would like to focus on if i we
Attorney. Im a Community Organizer with the harvey milk democratic club. As an attorney much of my practice focuses on freedom of expression and in many instances my clients have benefited from use of the California Public records act, use of the brown act as well. Which mandates open public hearings. In my experience on the harvey milk club, i participated in Public Comments before the board of supervisors and various committees. Ive also provided forums for public comment. I have myself admittedly grappled with occasional member complaints about incidental failure to post agenda in advance of a meeting and im very familiar with dealing with and addressing complaints. To put on my advocacy hat just a second, i think the importance of open government is twofold. On the one hand citizens have more trust in the government when they know what that government is doing. It is as simple as knowing how many potholes local government fill in a year. I believe truly showing in the past Harvard
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Does provide us with [speaker not understood] in the cases. And he we would like to continue to have a City Attorney. We would like maybe a slightly bigger budget so that they could sit with us for the last hour. Usually 9 oclock is when theyre cut off. So, its not something we can push forward. Wed certainly appreciate it. And as mentioned also, it would also be quite helpful to have them in our committees. Given a choice, yes, in the full task force, if thats all we can budget [speaker not understood], if there is a maybe an up and coming junior attorney that could use some more exposure, we would love to have them on the committee because we have similar issues come up and we could use that guidance there as well. That would be my thoughts on that. Okay, thank you. Thank you very much, supervisors. Next person, bruce wolfe. Good afternoon, chair yee, supervisor tang. Appreciate your time. My name is bruce wolfe. I served on the Sunshine Ordinance Task force from 2005, summer of 2005
City [speaker not understood]. Thank you. Okay. Any questions . Great. Again, just for all the reappoint ease, wanted to ask your thoughts about operating within the parameters of the Sunshine Task force in terms of your role in conjunction with the City Attorney and confines of operating within the city charter. Absolutely, the City Attorney was invaluable. Like said before, he or she does provide us with [speaker not understood] in the cases. And he we would like to continue to have a City Attorney. We would like maybe a slightly bigger budget so that they could sit with us for the last hour. Usually 9 oclock is when theyre cut off. So, its not something we can push forward. Wed certainly appreciate it. And as mentioned also, it would also be quite helpful to have them in our committees. Given a choice, yes, in the full task force, if thats all we can budget [speaker not understood], if there is a maybe an up and coming junior attorney that could use some more exposure, we would love