20, 2018, and i hope i can count on you all for endorsements as we move forward to the voters. Supervisor safai great. Thank you. Any other members want to make comments . Okay youre done, so i think well make a motion to file this. Okay. Without objection, this is filed. Please call item number three. Item number three is [ inaudible ] who have not filed their form 700 sunshine ordinance declarations or certificates of ethics training from participating or voting on matters before their board. Supervisor safai great, thank you. Supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin thank you, supervisor safai. I know you all have been having a long hearing, so i will be as brief as possible. Thank you for hearing this legislation. As Civil Servants and elected officials and public officials, we are held to a higher standard, and its critical that we are very transparpt, and there are laws around that. The statement of economic interest, the form 700s that we all file, that commissioners file, that Department Heads file, is Public Information that allows members of the public, members of the press, to know what our financial interests are, and unfortunately, there are some folks who do not file them, and while there are penalties, ive come up with something that i think will help incent those who have to file these, to do so timely. I just want to give you a little bit of background information, and i have a handout to pass out to you from the ethics staff, which im passing down. Supervisor safai thank you wendy paskinjordan a. Supervisor peskin and this is a filing of 2017 that was due for the 2016 year, and of course ill be turning in our form 700s by april 1st of this year for the 2017 year. But the good news is that out of 505 folks who were required to file, there were 88 who filed on top, and there were which is about which means about 70 folks did not file timely. Subsequently, 60 folks did file, and 15 never filed. This legislation is very, very simple, which is if you have not timely filed, you will not be able to vote as a board or commission until you file. I hope this will get 100 compliance. I know that supervisor stefani raised an issue with her staff or my staff with problems that folks have encounters getting the appropriate form uploaded from the i wanter net. Im not sure w internet. Im not sure why thats been a problem. Out of 505 people, 90 of them were able to comply. If someone wants to petition the Ethics Commission and show cause for why they were not able to timely file. Ive filed ten of these in the ten years ive been on the board of supervisors , but im certainly open to questions. Commissioner staff aknee stefani, do you have a question . If not, i have a question. So how does someone know that theyre supposed to file. If you look on page 103, this is the campaign and government conduct code, it says that well, theres a couple things here. If you look at page 4, it says in subsection b, the Ethics Commission shall maintain on its website with the names, departments and positions of persons that are required to file form 700, and they have to update that list no later than ten days after the submittal of a statement, and then, youll see on page 3, subsection d, public announcement, if a member of a board or commission has failed to file a required statement at the beginning of each meeting of the commission or board that occurs after the applicable deadline for the submission of the statement, the commission sector any city staff that fulfills that role shall announce that the member has failed to file a statement as required by this ordinance. Supervisor safai no, i see that. So is the Ethics Commission going to contact the secretary of that particular commission . Thats what im asking. They could put it on their website, the person could come in and say ive submitted. I dont know if its been reviewed or not, but its been posted. How is the Commission Secretary going to know im just thinking the mechanics through. Supervisor peskin these things are uploaded in realtime. Supervisor safai no, i get that. What im saying is how will the Commission Secretary of lets say the Planning Commission know . Thats what im trying to find out. Supervisor peskin so that will be a duty of that secretary to make sure that every member of the commission has timely filed . Supervisor safai does it say that . Do we need to file an amendment to say that, through the chair. Supervisor safai thank you for saying through the chair. There are rules here, so appreciate playing nice in the sand box. Deputy City Attorney jon givner. I dont think you need to add it to this ordinance. You could. Many secretaries of commissions are already tracking whos filing and when. Basically, everybody has to file within 30 days of assuming office, and then, therefore, on april 1st, so its basically a once a year thing that Commission Secretaries tiply check on and often assist with. I believe the Ethics Commission currently informs commissions and Commission Secretaries of nonfilers, so i think practically speaking, it works out. You could add it to this ordinance, but you dont have to. Supervisor safai yeah, i understand the practice. I just want concerned that there there might be a step that needs to be that the Ethics Commission would i dont know. But i guess the Commission Secretarys already doing the work to ensure that the members timely in their filing, and if not, then, they follow through. Supervisor stefani . Do i say through the chair to talk to supervisor safai no. Im just joking because supervisor tang corrected when he several times when i was talking. I just wanted to follow up, supervisor peskin, on the issue that was brought to my attention earlier today that when commissioners who are told that they could file electronically, i guess the problem they encountered was the appropriate form was not sometimes uploaded for them to fill out, and theyd reach out for the department and it would take several days to get corrected. I dont know if thats worthy of an amendment or just knowledge at this point, but id like your thoughts on that. Supervisor peskin i mean, this is one computerized everyone use dos the same database. Its all net filed. Ive never heard of somebody having the wrong one. You go onto net file, and it pops up a form, and you fill it out, and then you hit submit. Ive never heard of this before. I dont know if deputy City Attorney givner, if you want to quickly think about some language that, you know, allows somebody to petition for cause to the Ethics Commission because theyve got a compelling story, but again, i mean, out of 505 individuals, all by 15 figured it out for the 2017 year. The Ethics Commission may have some input on just practically how often this happened. If you do want to make an amendment to that effect, id recommend that if youre going to pass this out to the full board, that we work on that amendment to propose at the board or that you continue it today and we can work on it before the next Committee Meeting. Supervisor peskin and i see that kyle is here from the Ethics Commission. If i may. Thank you, committee members. Im kyle krueger with the Ethics Commission. Im our senior legal and policy analyst. So electronic policy particularly in its early stages, has been in place for about five years. I know there were some hiccups with that, but you at the board and the late mayor ed lee have helped us build out better processes in the system. I dont think its going to be a problem going forward. In addition to that, building on our education and compliance team, well be much better able to sort of answer and get back to people, you know, within 24 hours and really be able to rectify these issues quickly. Thank you. Supervisor peskin and supervisor stefani, through the chair, id be happy to work on if we want to send this to the full board and work on some language that could allow the director of ethics under certain circumstances to waive if theres a compelling reason somebody can show cause. Yeah, i dont think theres any reason to delay it here today in committee. Definitely open to looking at this a little bit more, and then you and i working together, if we even feel we need to amend anything. Supervisor safai i have a question, also, supervisor peskin. Or maybe the person from the Ethics Commission can answer the question. Other than posting on your website, who has filed and who hasnt filed, is there anything else that you that you all do in terms of form 700 for commissioners, because were talking about just commissioners today, right, supervisor . It isnt everyone that has to file a form 700. Correct, commissioners, relative to this voting. So i think your question in terms of what other activity do we do to put people on notice, i guess . So we do numerous trainings supervisor safai thats not what i mean. Okay. Supervisor safai if theyve filed or have not filed, do you let people know if they have not filed . Correct. We do a number of follow ups, first by email notification. Usually, its actually two or three email notifications, and then, it goes to calls, but any way, theres a process, i guess, is what im trying to say after they have not filed or actually we notice them if we notice youre coming close to the deadline when you have not filed your thing, we will provide an update to you that you need to get it in or provide that update to the appropriate person in that persons department, and then after that, we will follow up, as well. Supervisor safai and particularly for the commissioners, do you call the Commission Secretary . Yes. Its my understanding, both, not all, people have secretaries, necessarily, but they may have another individual in their office that has that responsibility. Supervisor safai okay. Great. So supervisors, since were going to be adding an amendment, maybe can we just clarify, since the Commission Secretary is going to have to be the one to call out in the meeting that this person isnt going to be able to vote today because they havent filed in a timely manner, can we just amend language formalizing the process in this commission, make that firm contact with the commission sector the responsible party for that particular commissioner . Is that okay . Dpeept city attorn deputy City Attorney givner. That is okay. Supervisor safai supervisor stefani is going to be working on something with supervisor peskin. Just glancing back at the ordinance and the regulations, so the ordinance currently allows the Ethics Commission to require electronic filing, and the Ethics Commission has adopted regulations that require the commissioners to file electronically. One of the regulations that the Commission Adopts years ago allows any person thats required to file electronically to make a written request to the executive director of the Ethics Commission seeking permission to file a paper copy instead, and the Ethics Commission executive director has a certain amount of time to respond to that. I dont know if that fully addresses your concern, because if someone gets in there on april 1st and tries to file and cant pull it off electronically, they might end up having to file it late. I just wanted to throw that out there as a current fix. Supervisor safai okay. So i guess we have to make a motion to amend based on those things, but actually, we can send this to the full board with recommendation, and then youll be drafting. So motion to do we need to take Public Comment . Supervisor safai okay. Any member of the public wishes to comment on this item, please come forward. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Supervisor yee go ahead and make a motion to recommend this to the full board with a positive recommendation. Supervisor safai great. So moved. Without objection, that item is ordered. Thank you, colleagues. Oh, thank you. Please call item number four. Clerk item number four is a hearing to consider one member appointing term ending january 6, 2022 to the housing commission. There is one seat and three applicants. Supervisor safai great. Any initial comments from colleagues . Seeing none, well just go ahead and call up the applicants. Why dont we call up our current commissioner, miss dooley . Please come forward. Good afternoon, supervisors. Kathleen dooley. Im here to hopefully retain my seat on the Small Business commission. You know i feel that this is a very difficult time right now for Small Businesses, and we really need to have folks on this commission who have a full understanding of both legislation process and also the ability to get out there on the street and help people who are having problems in their Small Businesses. I think thats, you know, part of our role is to go out there and help people. Im a longtime florist, so im out and about all the time. I do my best to direct people to where they could best get help, and thats very rewarding for me. I also think its important for a commissioner to have a good background and Community Involvement and, you know, know a lot about the neighborhood they work and live in. Im a Founding Member of the northeast business association, and i know firsthand on a daily basis the problems that go on in our business corridor. Last year, i helped a Small Business open, the person who was opening didnt speak much english, so i just stayed by his side to get through all the permitting for a food business, which we all know is pretty complicated. I also have spent a lot of time with supervisor tang, working with the ada regulations and trying to find a way to rectify the differences between city, state and federal laws to make sure that we both provide the access that we need for our disabled population and also to make sure that the merchants understand and can comply. I have helped several groups of Small Businesses organize so that they would have a little more power to address issues in front of them. That includes the small independent pet stores, and also members of the San Francisco flower market. I worked for a year on a panel with the Planning Department about trying to look at formula retail now, compared to what it was when we first put that into effect to see if we needed to make any changes. Im a current member of the mta Small Business advisory groups which works with mta to try to help with outreach, and working with Small Businesses when they do Large Infrastructure Projects to make sure it hopefully works for everyone. So these are some of the things im working on. Id like to continue my work. Im working right now on helping brand and promote or legacy business to get it out to as many people as possible to let them know what the benefits are. To this effect, im asking for your vote to reappoint me. Thank you. Supervisor safai great. Supervisor yee, did you want to ask a question . Supervisor yee no. Supervisor safai sure. Go ahead. Thank you. Supervisor yee its great that youre on the Small Business commission for a while. You know, i held a hearing recently on a commercial vacancy, and i dont know if you followed that or not, and theres some reports on the vacancy that we see on certain corridors. I dont know if you have discussed it in the at the Commission Meetings at all, but do you have any personal thoughts about how to address this . You mean of vacancies . Supervisor yee yes. Well, weve gone round and round for years now about the idea of some way to compel landowners to actually rent their businesses. Weve done surveys, you know, weve looked for ways, you know, the carrot and the stick, and i have to say weve not yet been very successful. One thing im thinking about i brought this up before with the commission is looking into a program where perhaps some of these Small Businesses could purchase that retail space. Ive seen a few people do this in north beach, the owners retain the residential above, and so i still think that might be a good way, ultimately, of retaining some of these permanent spaces that are just sitting there empty. It is a huge challenge. Ive been working on it for many, many years, and you know im really happy to see anything coming forward that might help with that, and certainly, our commission, that is something that we would want to to help you with. Supervisor yee thats an interesting thought. I would like to discuss that idea with you further at another time. Supervisor safai any other members of the committee wish to ask any questions . Ill ask a couple questions. Youve been on the commission now eight years . Yes. Supervisor safai and are you an active member of any association. North beach business association. Im an active member and been on the board. Supervisor safai and how many years have you participated in that capacity . Roughly about 15 years. Supervisor safai and how do you think that informs your work on the commission . Well, because i think im in my neighborhood in a commercial corridor, not unlike many others, and im just hearing whats going on, what are the things that really of had great importance to the neighborhood. For example, thats why i joined th