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[gavel] good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the february 29, 2016 meeting of the Ethics Commission, which is substituted, or continued our regular meeting which is on february 22 our regular meeting which is on february 22, 2016 get our first call of the role commissioner andrews, here. Cohen here hur, here. Keane, here. Renne, here. All commissioners are accounted for. Turning to item to Public Comment on matters appearing and not appearing on the agenda. Do i have any members of the public who wish to comment at this time . Yes, good evening commissioners and director pablum. Dr. Derek kirk. January meeting for a view expressed resistance to the mayors directive to cut your budget by 3 over two years. It is troubling that your funding depends on the good graces of the same city hall folks that youre supposed to monitor. That inhibits your independence. If ....
Yes, good evening commissioners and director pablum. Dr. Derek kirk. January meeting for a view expressed resistance to the mayors directive to cut your budget by 3 over two years. It is troubling that your funding depends on the good graces of the same city hall folks that youre supposed to monitor. That inhibits your independence. If you like to sharply into city corruption your funds can be choked off because your budget is your leash. There is enough control just by having your appointments made by elected city officials. Compare your funding to that of the controllers City Services auditor program. It also was placed on the ballot and approved by the board and the voters, but its funding is a guarantee 0. 2 of the total city budget. That makes it fiscally independent from city hall. Since you are the cities ethics auditor, why is in your budget sat like this City Services ....
Up for cleanpowersf i think that commissioner courtneys point we want to make sure that every avenue exfoliated to get interpose e people into the program and theyre telling their friends and not get lost in the overall puc program. How long to build a twitter follows they have over 8 hundred formals. Thats been dormant and we have about 13 thousand followers on the cleanpowersf. The hash tag clean power. Right . What. The hash tags will cross the traffic; right . So, yeah that is the request and if you can keep us posted on the piece i think the wanting to do this marketing and activate the social commitment it is important. We have a couple of good things general manager kelly mentions for getting ready for a grassroots using video for signing up and ill be happy to to share that with you. That sounds like great, thank you. Anything else so theres an item action item before you is p there oh. 18 sorry. So next item, please. Item 18 for the general manager to seek the board of supervi ....
Proud of what we do at the Environment Commission. One of the things we want to write out of the gate was to introduce some very special folks were providing translation tonight. So, can we please get around warm round of applause for oscar [applause]. And monica wong. [applause] and julie barrios. If you want to givethank you, joe. If you want to get a quick word maybe starting with oscar here at the microphone. Write up here. Into the microphone. Just like that. Excellent. So, if anybody needs interpretation in spanish, [foreign language]. Thank you. Monica, where is monica . Good evening, monica. Hi. My name is monica wong, cantonese interpreter. If anyone needs help up the back of the room. [foreign language]. Thank you, monica and joy. Good evening. My name is joy audio. Im the teacher of the filipino teacher at uc berkeley. [foreign language]. All right, thank you for everything you do. My name is joshua arce. I have ....