Move to adjourn. Thank you. Do roll call. [ roll call ] agenda number two, Public Comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda. Thank you, Ethics Commissioners and staff of our city. I am a Public Services worker. I am a delegate for Government Employees. I am also the director of Public Relations for the california grand jury association, the San Francisco chapter. I have been coming to the Ethic Commission for the Government Employees in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019. The last time i was here was january of 2020. I came to report issues of possibly government corruption and Election Fraud. As you remember, i was one of the eight candidates for San Francisco mayor in the june 2018 election. I was not allowed to join the forums, debates in Public Places like city hall, Public Library, public parks. I was one of the six candidates for San Francisco mayor for the november 2009 election. I was bullied about the Democratic Leaders and officials that many of them condemn my billboards and illegal removed and many posters were illegal removed and calling me racist. Because i talk about clean up city hall, fighting against San Francisco city hall corruption. I am a conservative republican. I care about my city, and i am coming to you and ask you for your intervention to stop possible corruption within the electoral officials. Ive talked to you about Election Fraud for San Francisco election record. 2018, 2019 we have so many people, more than 119 years old, more than 659 of them still in the voters roll and many of them voted, even 151 years old, 150 years old, 136 years old. I am here today to ask you if the city has more than 12 billion, we should not have anyone sleeping on the street, dying on the street overdose on the street. Our government itself has many problems because we only have one party, democratic party, and we have so many Homeless People that have suffering and dying because of the corruption we are facing. Ethics commission is a department that was set up to stop corruption, and i hope you stand up and do your job and able to do something about reporting to you. Im here to request you to restore law and order and protect the people in San Francisco. For public information, here you go. Thank you. Commissioners, San Francisco open government. Just so we have the report straight, dane dainachiu protects an office. Commissioner yvonne lee protects the office of the mayor. Commissioner fern smith protects the office of the District Attorney and commissioner gray protects the board of supervisors because thats what this commission is all about is protecting the elected and appointed officials of this city. At the last committing we experienced the reality this commission has never and will never act to enact the sunshine ordinance. Thats hypocrisy because for ten years, you sent people to barring on with the Sunshine Task force about coming up with a procedure to enforce that ordinance. And it was all done in purely bad faith. You had no intention and have no intention of ever enforcing that ordinance. The protection of the rights of the citizens of San Francisco to attend Public Meetings and participate in those proceedings is the furthest thing from your minds. All you have to do is look around this room and see what youre starting earlier in the day does, nobody shows up. In fact, someone at the last meeting pushed the panic button and three armed deputies showed up at my back. Arent you proud of yourself . You need three departments to protect yourself from the things i have to say. Thus begins the usual pattern of hostile behaviors exhibited when they dont like what a member of the public has to say. I have been fighting to ensure what i had to say at Public Meetings actually made it into the official record, which are the minutes, and last week, you made it certain that they wouldnt make it into the board of supervisors minutes. Ill tell you win thing about that hearing. It was so dishonest because all that has ever had to happen to prevent the 150 word summaries from appearing in the body of the minutes is for the legal attorney to issue a legal opinion rather than the bs he puts in the Good Government guide which is not the law, and it would have resolved the issue permanently. But i thank you for proving that as far as the sunshine ordinance goes, you are a dishonest body. Thank you. Any other Public Comment . Okay. Agenda item three, draft minutes for the Ethics Commission january 17, 2020, regular meeting. Thank you. We were unable to complete the minutes for this meeting and have them posted in time. We will have them at the next meeting, but we dont have them today. I apologize for that inconvenience. The january Meeting Minutes will be taken up then next month. Agenda item number four, discussion and possible action on Ethics Commission annual budget submission to the Mayors Office for fiscal year 20 21. In the packets that we distributed because an agenda item four, an overview of our anticipated budget submission. As you know, those are due today to the Mayors Office, and we have just submitted it prior to coming to this meeting to the Controllers Office as well and to all the parties that need to have those. We do have for and you on the publics table the commissions transmittal to the mayor that we just submitted today. So im using that as the reference point. There is much overlap between the two documents from the commissions Meeting Agenda last week, but this is the more complete picture of what the commissions proposal is. I just wanted to walk through process first and then get to the substance of our proposal and then answer any questions that you might have or members of the public might have. I will say that we are, as we speak, working to post our transmittal on our own website, on our budget page. It has been posted. If you click on the commissions tab, you can get to the budget page from there. At the top of the list at the bottom of the page will be the transmittal for 21 Budget Proposal were submitting today that we have submitted. As you may recall from the memo that we provided to you in your agenda packets, the commission is has taken a look at what we think is essential to request for our core Operational Services and core program mandates. Against the backdrop of, again, a mayors budget instructions to all departments this year, that given the potential climate that we see ahead, the Mayors Office has asked departments to submit budget requests that conform with a three and a half purchases cut from current fiscal year levels for 21 to a 7 cut total for 22. Of my comments are focused on 21 because in practice, for our department, it is a year to year process of requesting and securing funds. So the focus for our discussion is request for 21. In order for a department to submit its request to the Mayors Office for annual budget request today, the system we enter our proposal into requires a number of documents, but it also requires that the budget we submit reflect the absorption of those cuts. So the documents that we submitted today had to go through an exercise and look at where the commission, if we were imposed, where would they have to be absorbed by the Commission Given our current funding levels. Ill talk about that briefly as we go through the memo. Separate from that, departments are also able to submit transmittals, other information that discusses the impact of those cuts, but that also discusses what the departments believe they need to do, the missions and the mandates they have invented with authority and responsibility to do. Weve done that. As we have in recent years, we have submitted a transmittal to the Mayors Office that explains with as much detail as we can provide at the deadline of submitting our budgets what our request is and why we believe its significant and the impact of not being able to secure the benefits we need to do the job that we have. So with that backdrop, let me just take a bit a moment to explain some of the items that we have and the basis for the items that we are requesting in our budget. Ill be working through our february 21st submission. There are copies on the table for the public and online for those viewing this meeting live. Since the original discussion before this Commission Last month, there have been a number of recent troubling developments with the arrest of a former public works director. This follows on the heels within 18 months of resignations of the citys Public Health director under allegations and concerns of conflicts of interest. Again, these are allegations. We are assuming that everybody is innocent of those allegations or the charges until and unless theyre proven otherwise in a court. But what the 75page detailed charting document did show were troubling allegations of concerning approaches and actions that city officials may have taken or alleged to have taken. I think its true that for most departments, everybody is taking a good second look at how do these kind of things happen . What do we need to do it reenforce the cities practices and policies and procedures and culture to make sure these kinds of headlines stop and that we dont continue to face public crisis and confidence because of a concern that we do not have a strong culture of ethics in the city and county of San Francisco. We know that there are ongoing investigations. Again, the City Attorneys Office, the Controllers Office doing an audit and thats important. One thing we look at in our budget request is recognizing that there is an ongoing cost, a continue cost in the pocket books. The longer we wait to reach out and provide the support that we believe city departments and city officials need and can benefit from to help them support navigating through the decisions and the kinds of issues that they face. So our budget request takes a very aggressive and clearheaded look at how we pro pros to do that. It comes with a price tag. We think it is a sound investment, considering the costs that come from having to pick up the pieces of a broken confidence City Government. So we do have a specific proposal for what were proposing as an ethics work initiative, a three year limited term process to advance working very closely with city departments, develop tools relevant, useful resources to put together a team that can go out and support city officials, city leaders at all levels. Some of the things were looking at that we proposed would be, for example, to provide, make sure there is an ethics component in every new employee orientation so the minute they walk in the door, they know theres expectations for how we do our business together. Including that in the regular ongoing employee or generaltation is a starting point and a first step. Another step is to support the city supervisors. Many supervisors, as they move up the ranks, have the opportunity to take whats known as a 24 plus supervisory training session. Its over a series of weeks and it helps people focus on whats expected of you as a city supervisor. Currently, as we understand it, theres not a specific component in that related to standards of ethical conduct and how to navigate through decisions. We think that would be a benefit. We know that the city has a training with new municipal executives. We sent some of our staff to that over the years. Thats another opportunity as people have more significant leadership roles throughout the city, building a component there. Leveraging existing opportunities in the city to implement a stronger and better, more effective focus across the board and more seamless focus. Working with departments to work with tools they find most useful as they assess and we work with them to assess where the hotspots are, whether its related to statements of incompatible activities and help them understand where they might be in conflict and therefore restricted or addressed somehow, but there are a number of existing touch points where we believe if we and the city were able to marshal the resources over a limited three year term period, put together a project that helps partner with departments with existing opportunities to reach out to their workforce, leadership, people in the community that they work with, this would go a long way to reenforcing a culture where ethics is front and center and people feel equipped to have the tools to make practical choices, to make the right decision. This is something that is prominent since the last discussion that weve had before the commission. Its included in our overall budget request. That proposes a team of four individuals that would come into the work effective july 1st, start laying the groundwork and the infrastructure at this point. We dont think we can wait through the citys hiring process to wait a year or two to start this. We think its something that could be accomplished now. So we want to engage in further conversations of how that can be accomplished through limited term positions that are exempt position thats we can start start the fiscal year hitting the ground running. And the it would be a three year limited permanent project because at the end of three years we have a chance to assess performance metrics, whether and how this is making a difference and retooling it at that time to launch it for the longterm. But to really assess what it is that we have accomplished, what has improved, and then retool and establish a program at that time. Its designed to be a three year project. Pardon me. Yes. So that was one of my questions. Additional resources but for three years would function more as a pilot. At the end of three years, youll have criteria against which you can measure the success of the programs and tools that were launched and then you would then come back go back to city hall for an additional funding for more permanent Staffing Solution as well as ongoing support for tools and policies and procedure work. Yes, recognizing that i think one of our core mandates under the charter is to establish an Educational Program to have seminars and assist city officials throughout City Government in supporting a culture of ethics and understanding the rules of the road. We know the City Attorneys Office plays a tremendous role in doing that as well. Our focus is to try to make it tangible and Practical Application of those rules on a daadaytoday basis and so we tk theres a need to do that that has been unmet. Historically the Ethics Commission hasnt had an Outreach Team to my knowledge. I do understand there had been at a time, i think in the mid 2000s where there might have been a department that experienced issues or conflicts in their operations, and following that, there was one person hired at the Ethics Commission to do that. So well look into mechanics of that. But my point is that its just i think headlines like the one weve seen are troubling, but its also that opportunity to say we have to do something different. We cant wait. There are opportunities and there are needs and i believe there are resources, but we have to demonstrates they are effective and targeted and going to make a difference and they meet needs out there. Thats what this project and designed to do. We will be talking with the Human Resources department on monday starting to explore some of this further. But thats something that, again, i wanted to highlight front and center because its different and adds a certain amount to our budget. Our current fiscal year budget is 4. 5 million. With the on going needs weve identified in our february 14th memo, in addition to these, the commissions fiscal year budget for 21 would be approximately 6. 2 million. It would be a significant bump in the first three years. We would evaluate what it would look like Going Forward and whether it needs to go further at that point. The other thing i would highlight as a new item that we believe werent serious consideration that needs Budget Discussion is that we believe that two ensure the commission has a Strong Operational foundation, we believe its time to initiate serious discussions about whether and how we might structure a different funding model or additional funding model for the commission. As you know, our funds come from the general fund. We also know that there are some departments that charge departments for their services, the Human Resources or technology or real estate. I dont think t