Welcome to the regular meeting of the San Francisco Ethics Commission. Submissioner sierra. Here. Submissioner leeann whiffen. Commissioners rennee have been excused. I want to talk about the decision to hear and take possible action on the complaints. Mr. Chat field who is not here, wrote mr. Shaw in may, the Ethics Commission regularly handles referals from the task force, however it will not ajudd kate these matters, in both complaints. He repeated that in his confidential memo to mr. Shen and to mark kets of the District Attorney office. Because the allegation involves johnson and croy executive director of the commission, the agency cannot handle the matter. Period. The commission is engaged in the discussion with the various outside agency and so forth and so on. That was in august of last year. I did a record search of your files. I just came back from sitting in the commissions office. There is absolutely records of any kind relating to discussions with any other agencies. The
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Thank you. I am so sorry. I am lisa herrick and i was asked to review the referal from the Sunshine Task force, Sunshine Ordinance Task force and i agree with mr. Gibner that i am not sure that there is a Legal Authority under the procedures that your commission has in reviewing these referals from the Sunshine Ordinance Task force to refer that to another adjudicatory body completely. It is one thing to have a staff person to review in place of Ethics Commission staff and you know, conform the analysis, based on proceedings before the task force. I think that it is another to send the ultimate decision to another body. It is actually being transcribed. On the screen. Miss herrick, thank you for your time and i have a couple of questions about your response. Does that mean. Are you aware of whether the san jose Ethics Commission has ever handled either on an advisorry basis or otherwise complaint referal from the different jurisdictional agencies . I have staffed the san jose Election
Found in violation of the ordinance, to date this commission has refused to comply and refused to hear the referal from sotf from ethics, of course what you produced is 134page response trying to justify it which is a load of crap. Why are you so afraid of having comments from the public be presented accurately in the official records of your meetings. Why do you insist on placing the 150 word summaries in an alternative location, substituting in their proper place, in the minutes, your sensored version of those comments . And why have the members of the Ethics Commission advocated their responsibility to the director john saint croy in matters that go to the very heart of the open and honest operation. It is a real shame that a citizen of this city has to actually fight with boards and commissions who have taken an oath to support and defend the constitution of the United States and that of the state of california, who in some cases even have a chance to speak. And this is protected p
Possibility would be that we want to proceed and there may be complicated issues that we will want to know on the merits as well. I am not sharp and final, but i am actually what i am hearing is making me feel that we may have to do it, and there is. And less reason that we cant do it in terms of the direct, you no, do we have a conflict . We ask, you know, with regard to the city officials all of the time, who where the situation is sensitive and we are all working for the city, and we have those kinds of concerns. I havent heard anything that said why we in particular would be unable to deal on the merits related to a member of the staff. Commissioner liu do you have any thoughts on this . Well, i think that was a really helpful discussion, helpful from the City Attorneys Office to get the guidance we did. Because i came in thinking, you know, if there is a way to transfer it to another adjudicatory body that might help with the perception issues, but if there is no mechanism of doin