>> manufacturing in cities creates this perfect platform for people to earn livelihoods and for people to create more economic prosperity. i'm kate sosa. i'm cofounder and ceo of sf made. sf made is a public private partnership in the city of san francisco to help manufacturers start, grow, and stay right here in san francisco. sf made really provides wraparound resources for manufacturers that sets us apart from other small business support organizations who provide more generalized support. everything we do has really been developed over time by listening and thinking about what manufacturer needs grow. for example, it would be traditional things like helping them find capital, provide assistance loans, help to provide small business owners with education. we have had some great experience doing what you might call pop ups or temporary selling events, and maybe the most recent example was one that we did as part of sf made week in partnership with the city seas partnership with small business, creating a 100 company selling day right here at city hall, in partnership with mayor lee and the board of supervisors, and it was just a wonderful opportunity for many of our smaller manufacturers who may be one or two-person shop, and who don't have the wherewithal to have their own dedicated retail store to show their products and it comes back to how do we help companies set more money into arthur businesses and develop more customers and their relationships, so that they can continue to grow and continue to stay here in san francisco. i'm amy kascel, and i'm the owner of amy kaschel san francisco. we started our line with wedding gowns, and about a year ago, we launched a ready to wear collection. san francisco's a great place to do business in terms of clientele. we have wonderful brides from all walks of life and doing really interesting things: architects, doctors, lawyers, teachers, artists, other like minded entrepreneurs, so really fantastic women to work with. i think it's important for them to know where their clothes are made and how they're made. >> my name is jefferson mccarly, and i'm the general manager of the mission bicycle company. we sell bikes made here for people that ride here. essentially, we sell city bikes made for riding in urban environments. our core business really is to build bikes specifically for each individual. we care a lot about craftsmanship, we care a lot about quality, we care about good design, and people like that. when people come in, we spend a lot of time going to the design wall, and we can talk about handle bars, we can see the riding position, and we take notes all over the wall. it's a pretty fun shopping experience. paragraph. >> for me as a designer, i love the control. i can see what's going on, talk to my cutter, my pattern maker, looking at the designs. going through the suing room, i'm looking at it, everyone on the team is kind of getting involved, is this what that drape look? is this what she's expecting, maybe if we've made a customization to a dress, which we can do because we're making everything here locally. over the last few years, we've been more technical. it's a great place to be, but you know, you have to concentrate and focus on where things are going and what the right decisions are as a small business owner. >> sometimes it's appropriate to bring in an expert to offer suggestions and guidance in coaching and counseling, and other times, we just need to talk to each other. we need to talk to other manufacturers that are facing similar problems, other people that are in the trenches, just like us, so that i can share with them a solution that we came up with to manage our inventory, and they can share with me an idea that they had about how to overcome another problem. >> moving forward, where we see ourselves down the road, maybe five and ten years, is really looking at a business from a little bit more of a ready to wear perspective and making things that are really thoughtful and mindful, mindful of the end user, how they're going to use it, whether it's the end piece or a he hwedding gown, are they going to use it again, and incorporating that into the end collection, and so that's the direction i hear at this point. >> the reason we are so enamored with the work we do is we really do see it as a platform for changing and making the city something that it has always been and making sure that we're sharing the opportunities that we've been blessed with economically and socially as possible, broadening thattoday. >> (clapping.) >> i've been working in restaurants forever as a blood alcohol small business you have a lot of requests for donations if someone calls you and say we want to documents for our school or nonprofit i've been in a position with my previous employment i had to say no all the time. >> my name is art the owner and chief at straw combinations of street food and festival food and carnival food i realize that people try to find this you don't want to wait 365 day if you make that brick-and-mortar it is really about making you feel special and feel like a kid again everything we've done to celebrate that. >> so nonprofit monday is a program that straw runs to make sure that no matter is going on with our business giving back is treated just the is that you as paying any other bill in addition to the money we impose their cause to the greater bayview it is a great way for straw to sort of build communicated and to introduce people who might not normally get to be exposed to one nonprofit or another and i know that they do a different nonprofit every most of the year. >> people are mroent surprised the restaurant it giving back i see some people from the nonprofit why been part of nonprofit monday sort of give back to the program as well answer. >> inform people that be regular aprons at straw they get imposed to 10 or 12 nonprofits. >> i love nonprofits great for a local restaurant to give back to community that's so wonderful i wish more restrictive places did that that is really cool. >> it is a 6 of nonprofit that is supporting adults with autism and down syndrome we i do not involved one the wonderful members reached out to straw and saw a headline about, about their nonprofit mondays and she applied for a grant back in january of 2016 and we were notified late in the spring we would be the recipient of straw if you have any questions, we'll be happy to answer thems in the month of genuine we were able to organize with straw for the monday and at the end of the month we were the recipient of 10 percent of precedes on mondays the contribution from nonprofit monday from stray went into our post group if you have any questions, we'll be happy to answer theming fund with our arts coaching for chinese and classes and we have a really great vibrate arts program. >> we we say thank you to the customers like always but say 0 one more thing just so you know you've made a donation to x nonprofit which does why i think that is a very special thing. >> it is good to know the owner takes responsibility to know your money is going to good cause also. >> it is really nice to have a restaurant that is very community focused they do it all month long for nonprofits not just one day all four mondays. >> we have a wall of thank you letters in the office it seems like you know we were able to gas up the 10 passenger minivan we were innovate expected to do. >> when those people working at the nonprofits their predictive and thank what straw is giving that in and of itself it making an impact with the nonprofit through the consumers that are coming here is just as important it is important for the grill cheese kitchen the more restrictive i learn about what is going on in the community more restrictive people are doing this stuff with 4 thousand restaurant in san francisco we're doing an average of $6,000 a year in donations and multiply that by one thousand that's a lot to bylaw. >> everybody, welcome to the regularly scheduled meeting of the ethics commission for november 27th, 2017. i'll now call the roll. vice mayor -- vice mayor. >> i've been elevated. >> actually been demoted. vice chair chiu. >> here. >> commissioner renne? >> commissioner kopp, we expect him at any moment. commissioner lee? so we'll start with matters appearing or not appearing on the public agenda. go ahead, just...yeah. what you do is it'll be at the -- the public comment will be at the microphone, so just after this gentleman, you come on up and have your say. sure. >> commissioners, i'd like to have the slide on the overhead up on the screen. the civil grand jury of the city and county of san francisco 2010-2011 issued a report entitled san francisco's ethics commission, the sleeping watching dog. the report included the following statement: because of the ethics commission's lack of enforcement, no city employee has been disciplined for failing to adhere to the sunshine ordinance. the commission has allowed some city officials to ignore some of the rules of the sunshine task force. the law hasn't changed. you also decide in favor of the city against the citizen. citizens are the complainants, the city are the respondents, and every single time you find for the city; in other words, the city committed no violation. i myself have 37 orders of determination from the task force saying in their opinion, the law had been violated, and every one of those that has been referred to you, you always find in the same manner. now, i don't know how due process works in your lawyerly minds, but to me, due process does not result in always coming up with the same decision against the same party and for the same party, and that's what you do every single time as regard sunshine. the kapuki theater piece, in your last meeting, which purported to be a meeting on a sunshine task force referral displays this body's blatant disregard for the rule of law. in the good government guide, there is a section that i would suggest you read. it's called roles of commissioners. the section mentions things like due process, and direct commissioners when acting in a quasi judicial capacity to, quote, base their decisions on the evidence and the governing law. as the civil grand jury reported in 2010, so it is now and so it shall continue. this body has a responsibility under the sunshine ordinance to enforce the ordinance. you never have. you're dishonest people. you hold hearings that are nothing but farces. that hearing that you held last month was a farce. you always intended to find what you found, which is no violation; and, the interesting thing is that commissioner kopp, who's the only one who tried to justify the decisions, actually picked out three things from miss calvillo's letter to this commission that were dishonest and misrepresented. she said that the advice of the task force had changed. there was never changed. there was simply a period where there were four empty seats on the task force, and they did not find a violation because they needed 6 out of 6 votes. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is audrey leong, a-u-d-r-e-y l-a-n-e-o-n-g. i have been here in san francisco for 26 years, and i spoke to you after witnessing my chinese co-worker who was harassed by a caucasian manager. after this, i started harassment and retaliation by the same caucasian male program manager. i'm here today to thank you all for having department of ethics commission contact me regarding my complaint. thank you. my current job class is 1630. i have been a union steward for more than ten years for seiu 21. i have exercised my responsibility and duty for the city of san francisco employees. my doctor asked me to take care of myself, reduce my stress and stay away from this program manager to avoid harassment. i was advised a year ago to stay away from harassment. now, this year, in june 2017, i was reassigned back to the same program manager. human service agency, hsa failed to apply fair treatment to me. i love my job. i want to come back to work, but i cannot under the same program manager who has a history of harassment -- of harassing and retaliating against me and my co-workers. please, you must investigate this matter. thank you. >> thank you. >> i have a doctor's slip. do you want my doctor's slip, too? >> yes, why don't you give that to our staff and we'll make that part of the tifile on you complaint. >> good afternoon, ethics commissioners. thank you for serving our city. my name is ellen lee zhou. for the purpose of record, e-l-l-e-n l-e-e z-h-o-u. i am a bargaining team memorier for seiu 1021. we had approximately 7,000 seiu members city and county. i am here to support audioly leong who just spoke to you before me, and many public service employees. many of them are afraid of coming here to speak to you today. city and county employees afraid of being retaliated by city and county staff. as you learned, audrey today, her situation is many that we face today within different departments. audioly leong and both exercised our seiu shop store responsibilities and duties. we stood up and testified against harassment, discrimination, bullying and corruption. audrey, myself, and many other city employees from different departments spoke and testified in front of the civic services commission in december 2015, and many times in 2016, we report some of the people pay to get their jobs, while other people who passed the exam and more qualified and make it to the hiring list were never had a chance to be hired? the civic services commission was created to stop corruptions. the mission of ethics commission is to practice and promote the highest standards of ethic behavior in government and promote a work environment that is value health, well-beings, and diversity. the merit system, it's for fair employment and fair hiring practices. director of human services director mickey callahan and achie chief officer susan guard, they acknowledge the problem that we have brought in front of them, and they have said it to the commissioners for the last six years. they agree to change practices and make changes, but nothing happened. as you know, many people have been investigated by federal investigated, the fbi and the district attorney, since 2011 we have brought many complaints to you in different departments, and i have filed many complaints on behalf of many workers to ethics commission, so please investigate the complaints that we file with you, and i hope that you continue to serve our city, and thank you. >> thank you. >> for the purpose -- because the time does not allow me to say the whole thing. thank you. >> okay. >> hello. my name is vivian impuralli. the stronger the rules are to prevent undue influence, the better. let's face it. human beings are vulnerable, and can lose perspective when trying to advance their careers. they rationalize that they're doing nothing wrong. they think that they are the exception to the rule. they maintain they are not influenced by money. they think they cannot be manipulated, but they can be. we need donations to be open and not hidden under the guise of quickly formed committees pretending to be what they are not. we need to know who is supporting whom and what legislation is being pushed. money talks, and people listen. candidates and officials accepted to build a war chest, and war it is; a fight for political survival. big bucks influencing big decisions that have a big impact on all of us. we are here to remind you that in these david and goliath battles, there are many davids who are looking to you to advance reasonable requirements, providing limitations, and transparency. our voices must be heard, and to our credit, cannot be bought. >> thank you. any further public comment? okay. we'll then go to agenda item 3, discussion and possible action on draft minutes for the commission's october 23rd, 2017 regular meeting. it's the attachment -- has the draft minutes. are there any comments or suggestions by members -- members of the commission? >> on the -- i ask -- on the next to last -- page 5, at the top of the page, there's reference to a couple of proposed ordinances, and the last sentence states that chair keane advised that at its next meeting, which would have been the november meeting, that should have been the december meeting. >> that's correct. >> otherwise, with that amendment, i would move adoption of the minutes of the october 23, 2017 meeting on the record. >> and commissioner renne has some observations. >> this may be a silly question, but what is the purpose of the minutes? why are they required? [ inaudible ] >> but for what purpose? the reason i ask is, when i read these minutes, if i were a private citizen looking at these minutes, i would have no idea what the various speakers said. it'll just say -- you look at, for example, it'll say -- let's go to page 3, item 4. discussion and possible action regarding proposed amendments to the ethics commission bylaws to change the time of the commission's regular meeting. it goes down to ray hart, and david leehan all spoke on this agenda. the public had no idea what they said. now, is it that they can then go to the transcript to find out what was said? i'm just curious. i read the minutes, and i said, i would have no idea on any given item, when the speaker's identified, what he or she said. >> if -- if -- the question is whether these are legally sufficient. i think the answer is yes. whether -- but i think it's up to the commission whether to add more detail or to -- you know, to instruct, you know, the staff to put greater detail in the -- in the -- in the minutes. >> i mean, i hate to put a burden, but i assume there's someone who, when they prepare them, is listening to the record and could, if they -- if he or she wished, could summarize -- in fact one of the complaints that mr. hart has always made is that when we do summarize, we misstate, but i just was struck by this set of minutes that almost every time, when it said somebody spoke, i don't know if they spoke for or against. >> if i could commissioner renne, this is a good thing to provide feedback on and for the public to provide feedback on. as josh said, the minutes are legally sufficient, but we know we want them to be more than that, so the public can actually understand what the commission is doing. the balance i was trying to strike is we also have televised meetings that are available on an archive on the website, so over time, i think we're trying to find that balance of how much detail is necessary in the written minutes and how much are we assuming that people will be going to the audio or the video on-line. that said, i think, again, to the extent that your feedback is that these are not sufficient to really understand what the discussion was, we can certainly go back to adding a bit more, so if that's useful to you, we can certainly do that. we want to make sure that they are useful, but we also don't want to provide an exact transcription. we do have somebody literally listening to the audio the next day and can add more detail, if that's useful. >> i want to include on the minutes or something that for greater detail, go to whatever the website is, for them to -- if it piques their interest. >> we'll make sure to add that. >> okay. we have a motion by supervisor -- by commissioner kopp to -- i can't -- i can't figure out what -- where i'm sitting. >> i'll second the motion. >> the motion has been made and seconded. we have public comment in regard to the minutes. >> well, now, you see why i have spent the last ten years fighting to get the 150 word summaries into the minutes. it varies from board and commission. the clerk of the board of supervisors says all you need to do is meet the very minimum the law requires: the person's name, what they spoke about, and whether they were for or against. that's the minimum. other bodies make an honest effort because they want the public to participate and they want what the public's input is to actually be reflected in the official record, and that's what the minutes are: they are the official record. the videotape and any other form are not the official record. in the minutes before you are two 150 word summaries: one by dr. derek kerr, and one by myself. i would challenge any member of this commission to provide any evidence that the responsibility for record keeping minutes has been in some way compromised. for approximately five years, from 2011 to 2016, this body relegated my statements to the status of an addendum. then, in 2016, the summaries began to appear as they are now, quote, in the minutes, unquote. so the sunshine ordinance states, so the task force has for years both rule and direct it be done, and the wheels of government have yet to grind to a halt. i find it truly hypocritical that the only person who expressed any basis for exempting the board of supervisors from this requirement was commissioner kopp who was appointed by the board of supervisors. what was particularly interesting is he happened to pick out several examples which the clerk of the board put into her letter which were dishonest. she said the task force had given conflicting advice. now, there were several cases she mentioned where there was no violation found, not because there wasn't a violation but because the board of supervisors for two years left four seats on the task force empty, and you had to get six out of seven votes to prevail, or in some cases, to get a quorum, six out of six, and every case they failed to find a violation that miss calvillo presented that failed to find conflicting information was a case like this, where i got five out of six or six out of seven votes, so his calvillo was dishonest, and you took it just hook, link and sinker. now, i'm telling you every board has put these 150 word summaries in their minutes. last month, you gave her permission to not do that. based on what, i don't know. she's never discussed it before the board. >> any further public comment on the minutes? all right. we have a motion. it's been seconded. all in favor of approving the minutes, please say aye. the minutes are approved unanimously. what we're going to do next in deference of supervisor kim who has joined us is take a matter out of order, and that is we're going to go to agenda item 8, and we're going to take item 8ha2 -- 2aii. >> i'm sorry, agenda item 2, ii, which is

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