Commissioner hur. Here. Commissioners keane and andrews have been excused from tonights meeting. So everybody is accounted for. Item no. 2, Public Comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda. Does anyone wish to make Public Comment . Seeing no response, well turn to item no. 3. Hearing on the merits in reethics complaint no. 19131115 in the matter of Lynette Sweet and Lynette Sweet for supervisor 2010. Respondents. Chair renne, justin mainardi, acting executive director. This is the matter where the respondent had requested a continuance by 30 days, that you would grant them for next month. All right. So we have taken that off well, you can taken it off calendar, i should say. That will be on the agenda for october 26th . Unless the parties were to settle, that is correct. And even in that case, well, yes. Item no. 4, presentation by Information Technology officer im sorry, Public Comment on i. 3 before you move on. All right. The request speaking as an individual, the request to continue the matter, there werent copies of that made available or the granting of that. Was that done administratively . There is an email sent by the respondents attorney to staff. Staff communicated that to the chair. The chair granted that and there was a response and im not sure if it was done via email or not. Maybe can i get copies at some point . If the regulations dont already provide it seems to me a grant for continuation for that should have been made early on and if it occurred after the agenda was prepared and disseminated that the matter should have been heart on heard on matters. So i think that should be moved up to at least a week before the meeting so things are not put on the calendar and pulled off like that. All right. I think there may be such a rule, but the chair always has the discretion to continue it in the interest of justice. Were in favor of the interest of justice. That is good. On the merits and im sure well im not sure, if we hear it again there will be further opportunity for comment, but it seems to me and i have not reviewed the file on the matter, that the respondent was an elected official on the bart board. Was a serious candidate for the board of supervisors, apparently did not file certain reports and so i think that there is a great Public Interest. Although she did not get elected in it case, i think there is a great Public Interest in enforcement here. I dont think this is one that just warrants a slap on the wrist. Ip hope and im sure that the staff and commissioners are taking this seriously and will in time. Thanks. Thank you. Item 4pt presentation by Information Technology officer Steven Massey regarding pending changes to the commissions website. Steve. Jesse mainardi, acting executive director and i will introduce steven and let the commission know that the one of the real strengths of the commission is its electronic presence and presence online and great info graphics and material that we make available both to folks looking to comply, members of the public just looking for information and then people looking for data about the reports that are filed whether its campaign lobbying, et cetera. One of the challenges though with that is that we have so much information and our current website, which was designed a number of years ago, is a little its a little busy for lack of a better word. So at the beginning of this year, one of the things that staff undertook with steven as the lead is a revamp of the website, with a couple of goals in mind. He will tell you about it, but one is to make it more userfriendly. So that folks looking for information can find it. Folks looking to learn how to comply can find it, and then folks looking for information about particular elections, can find that information. And one of the major things was switching from sort of just a website that had a lot of information stored in various pdfs that people download to sort of a more modern website, where the information appears right on the screen. So he will tell you a little bit about that, but that was started earlier this year and we have goten to the point that essentially the main framework and the majority of the actual content is basically done. We need some tweaking to sort of launch it. So its probably not going to happen immediately, but we wanted to get that out there for you and the public to see. So i will given it to steven. Okay. Again im Steven Massey. So im going to give you a little preview of the website i have been working on over the course of the past year. This is actually im sorry about this presentation on this computer screen. Its sort of like look at artwork on a nitari, but it is what it is and youll have to use your imagination to a certainly extent. This is the existing website sfethics. Org was launched in 2009. And it has at this point over 4300 pages on the site and all being stored on what is now an obsolete Management System and still being maintained by the company that we work with, but not being actively developed and i do have some concerns about the future of the company. Knowing this is a project that would take us easily a year plus to reorganize, we started on this about a yearago to try to move it to a new system. To give you an idea of what things looked like in 2009, when i look back at our data back then, 100 of users were on a desktop pc and couldnt find a mobile user. Most people come to our site to file electronic forms. They are also coming to our site to look at las and advice and downloading paper forms and viewing disclosure forms that were filed. And they were also looking at information about the commission, such as agendas, minutes and information about the commissioners. At the time we had only three Electronic Campaign forms. Were in the process of launching two more. We had optional electronic form 700 filings, so maybe less than 20 people filed electronically and Campaign Finance data was available on spreadsheets and pdfs that would be downloaded. Largely we were what i considered to be a paperbased office and most information was available in our filing cabinets in our office. If you jump ahead to july, 2015, one in ten of our users are on a mobile device. Its lower than rest i would say the general ed community, but its enough if one in ten users are looking at a website, that they essentially cant read on a mobile device, its becoming a problem. The sections popular change over time and still the efiling is popular and the campaign and visualizations didnt exist in 90 and its now the second most accessed section. Still laws and advice and Campaign Financial manuals, lobbyist and visualizations, there wasnt even electronic lobbyists reporting in 2009 and then the lobbyist manuals. Now we have 14 Electronic Campaign forms, which includes the entire Public Financing program. Which is recently switched to electronic filing. That will be in place for the 2016 elections. We have electronic form 700, electronic lobbyist reporting and registration. You can pay settlements. Late fees, registration fees online. We take electronic signatures on campaign statements. So you can actually sign it online and dont have to file paper copies anymore. If you have training requirements, you can complete those online by watching online videos. We have open data sets and programming interfaces for people who want to tap into the databases that we have for their own projects. We have data visualizations and then we have these additional mandates which have come into place in the past six years. For instance permit consultants, electronic lobbyists reporting, major developer reporting. We just sort of tacked it on to the existing site because there wasnt a really good way in the existing content Management System to organize things. So what else is missing on site . Over time we have come to see certain areas to be improved. One thing we dont have on the site, we dont have a section for enforcement. And we only have one page dedicated to complaints, and how to file a complaint. So we wanted to build out that section. We dont really have stepbystep compliance information that includes registration, and filing. So what we provide people right now is a printable manual and list of forms that they need to download, but at this point i think most people expect to get to a website and have a stepbystep in what they need to complete to comply with the various disclosure requirements. We also dont outline the audit process. So we do notify people on the website when their committee has been selected for audit, but we dont detail on website what happens next . And i think there is some value to people understanding if they are going to be selected for audit, what might happen after that . What is to be expected . We also dont have a really clear site navigation on the site, with breadcrumbs and i will go over this in a minute. The result is that when we tack on new features it just becomes very cluttered with a lot of things on the homepage. The last thing that its actually difficult to print for those who still use printers. When we print content on the page, it often cuts off sides of the page. Its very difficult to look at. So we wanted to address that as well. So this is the new page. Again its a little hard to see on this screen. But later you can take a look at it when we have had it posted online. And we have taken away a lot of choices on the page based on data we have collected over the past six years. Often times when were speaking to people on the phone, even when we had them on the phone with us, they often couldnt find the link. So we have reduced the number of choices. So the top we have also tried to make the website perform similar to most websites that you go to. So there is certain expectation of the interface. So we have added a login button at the top to get into our account to file your forms and that appears on every single page of the site. We have reduced the number of site sections to five. We have added the section of the page here, where we can pin something important to look at. So for instance, this is right before the elections. So we have the data visualizations that pertain to this election. You can imagine before form 700 is due, we would pin the information that is relevant to filing form 700 right on the homepage. We have also added the four quick links which i will go over in a second that allow you to jump into sections deeper within the site, that we feel are the most frequently accessed sections of the website. Down here you cant even read it, but it does have on the left is about the commission. In the center we have reduced the new section of our site down from three sections to one. So we only have one place for people to get their news. We have added the interest persons list form, right to the homepage. So you just enter your email address and hit subscribe. That will file off an email to verify that you actually own that account and then you will be on the list. Its about as easy as we can make that. In general, we also have our social media sites linked at the bottom there and most people at this point tend to get their information from our social media pages. There is about, i think about 14 times as many people on our twitter page getting news than our ip list at this point. On the bottom, weve removed the contact page on our site and just added the Contact Information at the bottom of every single page. If you click the address at the bottom of the page and it will actually give you the directions to our office from your current location. Tap the telephone number, it will dial our office. So again, this is a little hard to see, but its one of the internal pages. On the side we have actually added site navigation, which doesnt exist right now, but allows you to see the level you are at on the site. We have a zoomed in version and this is the page for Campaign Finance disclosure and the visualization and forms that we have. While we updated the site, we took the opportunity to update the technical features on the site. None of these features are particularly revolutionary in the it world, but it does bring us up with current technology. One thing we wanted to address was making the site responsive to your device. If you are on a cell phone you can actually read the content, verse if versus if you are on a larger screen. We add the the points and changed the site navigation and built it for a phone and added breadcrumbs and also added the ability to print pages on a letter head. We also reorganized the site and we spent a lot of time not only reorganizing the content, but making sure as much content on the site right now, that the links will not be broken. So most content that is on there, for instance if you had linked to an audit report from five years ago, that will still work on the new site. We also added new enforcement section and we have a complete walkthrough of the complaint process. What happened with that is jesse approached uc hastings and the same professor who worked with the students on the lobbyist fact sheets and they worked on simplified process for what happens when a complaint is filed . That way instead of looking at the enforcement and investigations, regulations document, which is currently available this is a little more userfriendly. We have also detailed the audit process, so you know what to expect if you are selected for audit. We also created complaint walkthroughs and every section of the site, instead of having different ways of organizing the information, every section if you are a lobbyist or a candidate or primary consultant, we structured the content such there is for instance does this disclosure requirement apply to me . What are the Registration Requirements . What are the training requirements . And if there is training requirements we show them the video right on the page. And then we added that interested persons signup on the homepage. So to give you an idea of the device site. Imagine you had a really large screen. Current website would take up just a fraction of the page. Then you end up with all of this wasted space. The result of having all of this wasted space if you look at data visualizations or these sort of spreadsheet content that we have on our site, you are very limited and constrained what you can see at a time. If you are on a small device, like a cell phone, i can tell you that the website is completely unreadable. I dont know if any of you have tried it before, but its microscopic. So now what happens if you go to the site on a cell phone versus a larger device . The site reformats the content and font and you can read the content no matter what device you are using. On this screen its a little hard to see anything, but on the left is the agenda for the august 4th special Committee Hearing and sized appropriately for a cell phone. On the right is the same content, but you would need a magnifying glass to look at it. So these quick entry points we put them on homepage. We took a look at our data and really people come to the site for three main reasons people looking to get guidance such as informal or formal advice, looking at our publications and trainings. That is the first link there. The second link is to file statements. So if you need to efile form 700, campaign reports. The third link is to view the disclosure forms, filed by people and the various data sets that are available. We added a fourth link, and we now have a file a complaint button and you can see the complete complaint process on our website. We have also reduced the number of categories on the site in this sort of table of contents down to five different sections. There is now a commission section. Which has again the agendas, minutes, information about the members of the commission. We have also added a staff page. We know it can be frustrating when you need to contact a Government Agency and you dont know which staff person is responsible for a particular area . So we added a staff page for people to see that. We added a compliance page with all the compliance walkthroughs and added the disclosure section and then we have the new enforcement section, which includes complaints, audits. We have nonfiler information, latefilers, paying your fees. And then the law section with our advice and all of the laws pertinent to the Ethics Commission. And then on the side we have these site navigation menus. So you can see here for instance this person has chosen the candidates page under the Campaign Section and from there they see additional content to read such as running for office. Reporting and Record Keeping and what to do after the campaign because they still have reporting obligations that are are often times overlooked by candidates. We added a mobile menu. You have probably see this when you have used a cell phone, you have seen this on many websites. Tap the menu button and out slides the table of content. We added breadcrumbs that were requested by people that i spoke on the phone and the site hierarchy, so can you jump up a level and have an understanding where you are on the page. And lastly, we have this print you cant see it on here but there is a print sheet of all the contents on letter head. So im just going to pull up the site here. So this is the new site. And again, were now pinning the data visualizations the data visualizations this year compared to the previous years will now scale whether you are on a cell phone, up to a large screen monitor. If you are on a cell phone and interested in this information, you can check it at any time. Were showing here the summary information for all campaigns. We have contributor information. So you can search the contributors. And you can see the different contributionlevels that each contributor is making in comparisons to the other contributors for that particular race. We have maps that are showing the support for each candidate in each zip code within the city. Were also tracking for instance late contributions. This is one of the tools we came up with last year to help cut out the noise as far as late contributions. Because late contributions, you are seeing tens of them every single day. So what this does is lous allows you to pinpoint alarply large contribution that may have come in. In this case there is one contribution in the 4 million range and the other contributions combined are within 100,000 per day. Going back to the homepage, right now on our current website when you click to file a complaint, you could download the form and regulations document. And what we have here is a brief introduction about filing a compliant. Then we have the section here that can you read about the complaint process. So there is the complaint preparation, submission, preliminary review, investigation of the complaint, stiplated orders, including settlements and probable cause and hearings on the merit. So if you click on one of these, we provide people with Important Information before filing complaints. Questions that you should be asking . Such as who do you believe is breaking the law . What laws are they violated . What laws support your allegations . When did the alleged violations take place and so on. Instead of supplying people with the code sections within the jurisdiction of the commission, we write out the different areas of law that can be investigated by the commission in plain english. Just to go over one more section. Filing statements right now, im sure you have gone through the form 700 process. And if you go to register under form 700, there is maybe 20 something links you can browse through. We have distilled this down to a Pretty Simple page to get started you choose the type of filer that you are and that will take you to the registration information. Once you have done that, you go to the selected column, which is to efile and probably the most popular page on our website is to viet reset your password and the third is efile documents for campaign. When were ready to send that out, well do this and happy to take any questions at this time. First of all, great job. I look forward to it actually being operational. But im remembering the presentation that the students made what a yearago . Right. Something like that. So they had great graphics, which they used for the things that they worked on. Now has their work been incorporated into the website . Or is that a completely separate issue, or operation . That was a separate project. We linked to their contents so people could find it. Okay. They actually rely on those application programming interfaces that i talked about. So we have actually added the documentation for each of those programming interfaces right on our website. So that people can easily find them. One of the things when we initially met with them was they had a little trouble finding the information of just how the information is structured and what they should be looking at . So we tried to improve that area of the website. So when this new website is operational, well be able to link to the work that they have done is that correct . Yes. And presumably, those charts are being what continually updated with information that they created, the charts and graphs, all of the graphics that they had . As along as they continue to maintain their site. Does it depend on them, or our own people now updating those graphics . It depends on them. If they want to continue to maintain their site. But we continue to maintain the data that they are relying on. And we keep that uptodate. The graphics that we have on our site are going to be continued to be maintained. Okay. So at some point we might not be when we link to them, we would not its possible that we would not be linking to the graphics that they created is that what you are saying . If they decide they dont want to keep that up or maintain it . Right, they could pull it down at any time. Its really up to them. So we cant depend on them . Right. I would like to echo commissioner hayons sentiments and great work, thank you for doing this. Did you use a vendor to help you do this . We spent a little less than 300 on the project. Welldone. And our time. Of course. Does that come out of our budget . The 300 . Yes. Yes. Maybe talking in future, but have we explored the possibility of getting some contributions from either Computer Companies or hightech people to underwrite all of these changes that we want to make . I mean particularly and possibly even from the city, when they burden us with the website having all of the 700s, it seems to me that maybe we should start thinking about maybe there are sources to underwrite the cost of our website. Are you suggesting that we boost mr. Masseys salary . [laughter ]. Since he did all the work. Perhaps friends of ethics would like to raise friends for the Ethics Commission . It would be nice if we could get some funding for it. I think its tremendous what you are doing, and it will be a great public service. [ inaudible ] im sorry . When will it be operational . I expect sometime early next year. Im not sure if you are aware, but i will be on paternity leave starting in november, so there will be a slight break in the project. When i come back, i expect well get it up. In the meantime, mr. Shen is unaware of this, but he is going to have to read all of this new content on the site before i get back. Congratulations on the upcoming addition to your family. Thank you. Congratulations. I guess any Public Comment on this particular item . David pilpau as an individual i just want to appreciate all of stevens work. You see him every so often at the commission, but he does great work behindthescenes every day. The website, the data, public records, all kinds of things. Steven is one of the great things of the commission. And i would point out as you asked about the money, other city departments have updated their websites and engaged consultants and spent thousands of dollars and done i dont know what; this was basically steven on his own time well, on city time [laughter ] on his own, figuring out what needed to be done and doing it and not spending a gazillion dollars. So i think the commission really is a model for the city in terms of updating its website and he has been very responsive to me on my occasional questions. The one thing i was thinking about in terms of enforcement, the current chart that lists past stipulations is a bit hard to navigate and doesnt show the respondents name. If at a minimum a field could be added to show the respondents name, where there was a matter settled and stipulation it would be easier to figure out what was atissue . Some of the file names with coded, so they are stip0915 and you have to go into the stip, to see who it was and its very difficult. So just adding the field of who the respondent was, if made public, would be helpful. Thank you very much. Hello, larry bush for friends of ethics. If you will provide us with the budget needs well try to see what we can do with friends of ethics to raise money for you. Oh, my goodness. Steven said 300. Well, actually im prepare to offer a million dollars. But its not my money. Its from the controller. I had a meeting with the controller about their ability to create a very robust system of electronic filing. And their ability to tie that into the needs of the Ethics Commission. And i know that he is planning on having a conversation with the commission with chair renne. He was mentioning specifically the ability to Exchange Information on everything from contractors to campaign contributions, to filers, people who are on board, the directors. All of the kinds of things that you would normally be required to review if you were doing an audit or an investigation. And the fact is that the controller has about 2 million a year returned back to the city, because it has not yet been able to identify a legal way of meeting it under the Bond Obligation thing. But they do think that they can do that with this program. So im hopeful that those conversations will go forward and i will take a small percentage of that. When this does go forward, i hope one of the things that you can do is create flexibility so that you can search entertainment and travel and so forth, to see people who are city business and whether they are making payments at the request of an official or travel gifts or whatever else it may be . As was just mentioned in terms of enforcement cases, your system now for 700s allows you to go in and hit a button for nonfilers and you can see who has not filed. The only way you can see who has not paid on a penalty is if you go into the executive directors report and then he will list in there who has got pending charges. But i think if you do have a system where people can search what it is in terms of compliance, it would be very helpful. Thank you. Good evening everybody. My name is jonathan messer. Just a quick comment if wasnt brought up before i arrived. Currently the advice letters are not searchable. You cant search the names, nor the content within them. A search function on that, because now you have to basically go through this list that is on the website, and the description of the title is usually not very helpful. So a search function for advice letters im assuming all the attorneys in this room would very much appreciate that. Thank you very much. Good evening. Eileen hansen. I had one question and it refers to mr. Massey commenting that he had some concern about the viability of the company that you have been working with. So im just wondering if you can talk a little more about that . And address whether we should be working with a company that may not survive and what is our backup plan, if they dont . Just a little more detail on that. Thank you. So the company that were hosting with right now is called tai ped although, they are not called that anymore. It was a San Francisco company that dte was considering contracting with for the entire city website. We piloted the system and then thai ped backed out of the negotiations with the city. We were allowed to continue with them, and it was fine for a while and then they were bought out i think twice. And the company that owns them now still maintains the system, but it doesnt develop it anymore. So this time when we move to a content Management System, we moved to a system that really is portable and can be moved to other vendors, if the vendor that were using right now goes out of business. So it wouldnt take us very long to get the site back up again. I hope that addresses the concern. Seeing no other Public Comment, well turn to item 5. Discussion and possible action regarding commissions activities relating to its expenditure lobbyist ballot measure prop c. There isnt really too much to add other than executive director mainardi and myself have attended a number of meetings since our last commission meeting, and also friends of ethics has been active in responding to invitations for speakers, who can advocate and overwhelmingly at least my experience has been that the various clubs seem supportive of proposition c, as you probably saw over the weekend. The chronicle came out in support of it, and the editorial, i thought answered and responded to some of the criticisms that have been raised by those who are opponents. Any public discussion on 5 . Larry bush for friends of ethics. I would like to note that we now have three current and former mayors who have endorsed prop c, mayor lee, Dianne Feinstein and art agnos and five members of the board of supervisors. One concern that has continually arisjen concerns from the unions and if would be helpful if the commission put together a simple fact sheet that explains how prop c affects unions and that it doesnt affect their ability tot to do collective bargaining and doesnt affect their ability to talk to members and doesnt affect workplace conditions. When i met with the political directors of least one union, and explained it, they said that really allayed their concerns. But since what i am suggesting is essentially a fact sheet and not an advocacy piece, i think if it came from the commission itself, and was provided to members of the board of supervisors, all of them, not just the ones who have endorsed it as well to the Labor Council would be very helpful. Thank you. Thank you. David pilpau speaking again as an individual. Just to followup on what larry was suggesting if you pursue that approach to suggest a similar fact sheet for nonprofit organizations, covering what they would be required to disclose both in member communications, and other communications, not to members, just to clarify their obligations. I think both of these fact sheet ideas could relate to the measure that is proposed now, but ultimate could be fact sheets used for the ordinance, if adopted. Thanks. Thank you. 6, discussion and possible action regarding the commissions search for a new executive director. The Search Committee met on friday of this past week to review the applications that have been received up to the cutoff date of september 11th. And made the decision that they would not reopen that in the week between labor day and september 11th we received a significant number of wellqualified candidates. And that the feeling was that there was not a need for reopening the process. The recruiting the Alliance Associates flagged 11 names that they felt were highlyqualified candidates, and in our meeting on friday, we narrowed down to invitations will go out for an interview on october 14th to five candidates who appear to be the strongest with the hope that out of those five, well be in a position following the interviews to submit to the full commission hopefully by the 26th of oct, but october, but that may be overly optimistic, the names of the candidates and to have those candidates interviewed by the commission with the hope that a selection can be made. Is there any Public Comment on that item . David pilprai again as an individual. You appreciate again your continued transparency on this process. So if i understand correctly you are down to five currently although you could revisit some of the others. What i didnt hear is how many total applications that you received . Im just interested in the number not. It was in the 30s okay. And they were applications from almost all geographical areas in the country. So there was no reason to believe that it didnt get wide, wide circulation. Excellent, im pleased that you are satisfied there was a significant applicant pool and were down to five at the moment. Thank you very much. In this type of process, is there maybe a subsequent essay requirement . In other words, that you might pose questions to the applicants in writing, if later thoughts come to mind . I dont know how the process would work if you would expect on the middle of october to interview by skype, which i understand is the mechanism that you are going to be using. And then you might actually followup with questions to be addressed by each applicant . Maybe about their specific background, or would you plan to call them back on the phone . I dont exactly know how that process might work. The way it is contemplated now is that the applicant will be provided in advance with the invitation. I think three or four questions, which we want them to respond to and were sending them in advance, so that they have plenty of time to give thoughtful consideration to their answers. So that we get not an offthecuff answers and these are questions that call for specific examples of certain areas. So its not the kind they can go out and google and get information right. Its more then we have i think its down to about 13 sort of core questions out of which we intend to interrogate candidates on. Its contemplated at the full commission there will be other questions for the commission. So there isnt necessarily a rehash of what we heard when we first met with them. So your initial interview will be with the committee, or the subcommittee. Correct. To individuals. Right. And then its open to the commission as a body to look at your findings, recommendations and thoughts, and if other commissioners have questions you might get back to the applicant. Is that it . The present process is that the Committee Meets with the five that we have identified as being the strongest candidates. And assuming, following our interview, that we believe there are two or three or maybe even five that we want to leave it to the commission to interview. So we would, in those instances and i think our present contemplation is those will be facetoface with the commission. Our interviews and commercial initial interviews for the five will be by skype or some such process. Got it. Even candidates local will not be interviewed person ally, but in the same way. That is the initial electronic means. Yes. When we get to the meeting of full commission and the Selection Committee presents the two or three or four or whatever it may be, candidates, who they recommend who we recommend they ought so select out of that, there will be personal interviews with the commission, and the commission will then act as a whole. And that of course will be a closed process. Correct. Thank you very much. At an undisclosed location. [laughter ] although, i should tell you that we are required to notice it, and if its at our october 26th meeting, when we go into closed session, well go somewhere else. Are you serious . That is how its going to work . Pardon me . That is how its going to work . Yes. We have been told that for example, our meeting on the 14th will be noticed, its a Public Meeting with a note note cation an indication that well go to closed session. There will be a Public Meeting vote to go to closed session and when we are done with that, to go back to open session and decide whether or not we want to disclose anything. I suggest the top of the mark is very nice. Excuse me. The top of the mark. I like that idea. Would be inserted. So i dont see it slowing down the process. She did indicate a commitment of confidentiality to whoever gets added. In other words, to the same level of confidentiality that we as commissioners have. Good. My reaction to that is that i can see where its coming from. You know, i think one of the reasons we have gone through this lengthy process is to make sure that the public has a lot of say in the types of things were asking and the types of things were looking for . I do think however it is the commissions responsibility to make this hire, and that it would be best for the commission to sort of maintain that. The other thing is the practical concern. I could think of a lot of good people to be that person, but who we choose, other people may not be happy with that and adds a level of complexity that we shouldnt add at this point. Understandable and if coy clarify, i was not suggesting a person or two involved make a decision, just provide feedback so that obviously the commission is the body that makes the decision. Emotionally i like the idea, but practically, it seems fraught. Because the issue is then who are the members of the public that are chosen . And what if the viewpoints are all over the place . And very much in conflict with perhaps what the commissioners or the committee that initially interviews the candidates . I just see that becoming a difficult situation, or creating conflict. Where we dont want conflict. But maybe we can figure out you some way to include some feedback from the public . But im just not quite sure at in the moment what that would look like . I dont see it as someone being on the interview committee, because again, who is that one person that going to be picked . And that in itself would be full of con flict and controversy and if anything, were trying to get to a point where maybe there isnt so much conflict between decisions at the commissionlevel and the public . But perhaps if we put our creative thinking caps on, we might find a way to accommodate at least the idea of involvement on the part of certainly of people who are interested in what goes on at the commission . So sympathetic, but not quite sure how that should be implemented. I appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you. Item no. 7. I just wanted to make one comment, if i dismay may . If you are thinking about something close to the election i would recommend that you make the decision after the election is over, because the election will tell you something about the direction that the public sees the commission going in. It will give you some information that you dont have otherwise and also have an effect on what the responsibilities will be for the new executive director, as well as for the commission . Since its only be another week past october 26th to have that discussion, it seems like its a worthwhile delay. Thank you. All right. I will say, chair renne, if we do schedule it for another day, that we try to get that on calendar as soon as possible, given it will probably take some time and calendars especially in november are hectic. Schedule what . If were going to schedule as mr. Bush suggested interviews to interview the candidates, i would like to do that as soon as possible. Because if i find out october 26th you want to do interviews on november 3rd, that is probably not going to work for me. Oh, no; as i say, well try to do it assuming that get to that point, well try to do it calendared on the 26th. If we dont, then at the 26th meeting we can either decide to wait until november, end of november or to have a special meeting. Great. Turning to no. 7, discussion and possible action on the commissions august 24th, 2015 draft meeting minutes. Any comments or suggestions on those minutes . I havent asked for Public Comment yet. I will wait and see what Commission Members no comment. Hearing none, any Public Comment . David pilpau, two suggestions at this time. Page 2 the third paragraph, ms. Parise comments to clarify to add the two words this year after is the most heated one. It doesnt do much, but it clarify a little bit. I wouldnt make that change. All right. Yes . No . Okay. And on page 4, the big paragraph about the closed session. If there is a way to tie the coming and goings to the three specific matters in closed session. Its not clear, for example, which matters acting executive director mainardi did or did not participate in . So if you do say somehow related to items 2 and 3 and somebody left and somebody came in. All right. Again, im not seeking to determine what occurred. I understand. Thank you. Do i hear a motion with those corrections . I move to approve with the Additional Information about who was present at closed session, but without changing the comments of another public member. Second. All in favor . Aye. Opposed . Minutes are accepted unanimously. Lets turn to no. 8, discussion of the acting executive director as s report. Mr. Mainardi. Thank you, chair renne. I would point out a couple of items in particular, item 1 the commission is disbursing funds in connection with district 3 election. So at the time it was 207,000. That is now uped to 245,000. So that is good. Its good that folks are using the Public Financing system. I do want to jump to no. 10, and publicly recognize mallika alem, our Campaign Finance assistant, who worked at our front desk and was a really wonderful person with very warm and welcoming. She has left to take another position with the city. So i wanted to recognize her for all of the good work and she will be missed. She is a very nice person. And then finally, with out reach and education as chair renne has stated, chair renne primarily, but also me, we have been attending various endorsement meetings. Then we also did send out we have been trying to take into account the comments about our interested persons list. So we have been accumulating emails and we sent out the first of what we hope is a series of emails to political clubs, unions, nonprofits, pacs, that sort of thing. Basically soliciting and asking folks to sign up for the interest persons list. Or to follow us on twitter as steven pointed out. We have over 1400 followers on twitter, which is where a lot of folks get their information these days. We sent out about 65 or 66 invitations, and we had six responses. So six people signed up for the ip list. So we plan to do some more in future. That is primarily it. Im happy to answer any questions. Thank you to you and the chair for going to all of these meetings, and i know its been a lot. And with the whole Selection Process as well for the chair. Its above the call, and thank you. I have a question about all of those presentations . Any color commentary that you would like to share with us about those meetings in the interest of the public . Well, i think they are all a little nonplushed, because most will say commissioner renne is here in favor of the because they always introduce either in favor or contrary, pro or con and i have to always start off and say, no im not here in that role. Im not sure if they fully appreciate the restrictions. But as i say, most of them have been relatively friendly, but because of the restrictions the speech we give at the beginning of what our limited role is, its really not very dramatic. Do you find that people are interested in the topic and want to discuss it with you . Yes. Or are they just being polite and listening . No, theyll ask questions and comments and are interested in the idea of greater transparency. Any Public Comment on the acting executive directors report . David pill pau again and i wanted to also appreciate mallika, a wonderful person in the office. She will be missed. She did accept another city position, so she is not going away too far. The access language, i assume that update is not finalized . Not yet. When it is i look forward to geting it towards the end of this week. Thank you. Any others . All right. Turning to item 9. Which usually is at the very end, but as you may have gathered from the fact that we have changed the order a little bit on this. Because of the item 10 is a closed session, save the public need to stay around for some of these items, but any commissioners or anybody in the public have suggestions for items for future meetings . I had one and i have talked to mr. Mainardi about it. When you look at our enforcement process, when a complaint comes in, the steps that take place make the procedure a procedure that goes for at least two, three months. And when you have an Election Campaign and there is an alleged complaint of a violation there isnt usually time for the commission to act to try to correct either the misinformation that may be out there, because a complainant may have put in material and ross of what their complaint is and because we havent gotten to the process quickly enough, i wonder whether we ought not to take a look at whether there is some way in which we could set up a mechanism that for complaints that relate to alleged violations within say the 60days before the elections, that we have some special procedure to be able to deal with them . Either to correct the misperception or if, in fact, there is egregious violation, that the public knows about it before it makes its vote. I dont know the City Attorney will have to weighin on it, but i think its a worthwhile subject for a future meeting. I agree, chair renne. Actually i wholeheartedly agree that we should think about that and look into it. There are lots of complexities, i think, because an allegation, you know, that we dont have a chance to really fully vet and if it gets out there and we say that we put a parameter around, that we could change an election in a bad way. But i do understand the concern and agree its legitimate and im happy to help working on it. Public comment . Mr. Chair, specific to your thought, it seems some easy advance work could be done in advance of that meeting, where that would be on the agenda. And that is to ascertain if our sister agencies in the United States have ever established such a process or contemplated such a process . And its possible that somewhere that mechanism exists. Bob stern would know, but then you could also check with the individual agencies. And part of the requirements that extend our time are by ordinance. So that we cant do it by regulation. Its just simply a matter and i think that when we talked about it, said that the fppc tends to give priority or accelerate their investigation into it when its an item that might relate to an oncoming election. I just dont know what the limitations are. They may have a procedure and may have flushed out the legal requirements are to be judicious. David pilpall again. I think its worth discussing and there are obviously a lot of complexities to it. One thing you might also consider is the ability to juggle or balance workload on Enforcement Matters . It appears in your closed session that some of the matters are related to past elections and reporting to the extent that those dont bump up against a statute of limitations, putting some of those things off for a month or two in preference to things that are more current might be doable. The public is not aware of the specifics of your complaints and how much juggling staff can do within the statutes of limitations and other considerations . So that might be something to discuss in a future meeting on this issue. Thanks. Larry bush. I would like to endorse what chair renne is saying. Sorry i was late. So i missed the conversation that you had about Lynette Sweet, but that is a case that goes to the 2010 election. And since that time, she was in an election again in 2012. So here we are in 2015, and its five years after the complaint was being looked at. She has already gone through other election and she happened to lose that election, but its a long time to go without a resolution to the questions. As part of your look at, that i would like to suggestion a clearer set of guidelines of when penalties are considered . And whether you consider the past record of the person who is alleged to have violated something . At the fppc, if you have failed to file a form 700, it multiplies the penalty when they finally do it. And i dont know what kind of research or background was done on Lynette Sweet, but she was the subject of a major fbi investigation for misuse of city monies that had to be repaid when she was the board treasurer for the 3rd street Economic Development corporation. I know about that because i was the Public Affairs officer at hud and hud demanded that the city returned the money because it was misspent and she went on to the redevelopment commission. If you look at her history its repeated failures to comply with Disclosure Rules and if you look at your professional experience, she was a banker. So i t know how you weigh these factors . But the fact that those factors exist should be part of what gets weighed. Thank you. Thank you. Eileen hansen. I, too, concur with the recommendation from chair renne. That looks at what happens in the future . We also have a situation right now in this current election, where complaints have been filed that affect the election, or could affect the election. As you know, because it was raised at the last meeting, although i couldnt be here, because i was out of town, i have filed a complaint regarding the election in district 3. I dont know if that complaint is going to be resolved before the election, but its a complaint that if not resolved could result in one candidate not receiving public funds, which obviously create an imbalance in the election. So there is good reason to try to resolve that before the election one way or another. And i dont know if that can be possible now, but i think there are other complaints pending that have to do with this election. And it really does no good to resolve those complaints after the election. Its unfortunate that we are in a situation that takes quite a long time to resolve complaints and elections in past have been determined in part by the amount of money that people received through Public Financing. So to put an idea for the future, i also wonder if there is anything that can be done and maybe not at this late date with a month to go before the election . I would greatingly suggest if at all possible complaints that have a bearing on this election at least be attempted to be resolved before the election. Im intrigued by the idea, if they cant be resolved there is an announcement of some sort there a pending complaint, so people can make a decision in their voting with some full fuller information. So i think its going to take some creative thinking to deal with it in next month, but i certainly support dealing with it in future. Thank you. Thank you. It seems to me that a large part of the issue, if not the entire part of the issue is the way the department functions, and the way the workload is distributed . And i dont know what is involved in reorganizing the office, so that these kind of complaints take priority . These are very important and they reflect on the commission perhaps more than anything else that we do. So i dont know, mr. Mainardi, maybe you have some thoughts about how the workload can be redistributed and streamlined there so this issue gets addressed at least administratively and procedurally . There are other issues involved in it as well. Its really about the workload to a large extent, is it not . Thank you, jesse mainardi. I have many, many ideas on this issue, but i dont want to get too far afield from sort of the topic as to whether this is an issue get to the substance as opposed to raising this as an issue to be identified . Because i think that is probably outside of the scope. But i guess i would just say, i think everybody has touched on a lot of very good points. As chair renne said, there are particular requirements by the charter, and there are some issues to be sort of dealt with in connection with that. But i think these are all great points, and certainly part of a broader discussion on a lot of things. My suggestion was only that we put it on a future agenda wheres its an item and the public can weigh in on it and the staff can give us guidance as to what and what cannot be done . Its may be it awaits the appointment of a fulltime executive director, but just to put it on the back burner. All right. Item no. 10. Discussion and possible action regarding complaints received or initiated by the Ethics Commission and then it lists five we in a possible closed session ill take Public Comment on all matters on this, including whether or not we should meet in a closed session . Eileen hansen, i would just ask if its possible if you go into closed session, if its possible to somehow inform the members of the public, who would like to come back and hear if a resolution is made public, approximately well, when you come back, if there is a way to inform members of the public that you are back in session . I would think if were talking five, i suppose realistically 7 15 probably would be may be optimistic. That would be enough if people come back at 7 15, that would be earlier enough to hopefully be back brush back . Before you are back . I think so. It is usually not a problem for us. Thank you. All right, any comments by members of the commission as to whether or not we should go into closed session or a motion . I move we go into closed session. Second. Any Public Comment before i call the question . All those in favor . Aye. Opposed . Hearing none, the commission will go into closed session. [ gavel ] [ gavel ] all right, records will reflect we are back in open session. Is there a motion as to whether or not we should disclose the closed session deliberations . I move that we not disclose our deliberations during closed session. Second. All right. All in favor . Aye. I also will announce in open session that the Commission Approved a settlement of ethics complaint no. 13100730. And the Settlement Agreement is a Public Document and will be posted on the commissions website. Josh, do i have to read the whole thing . No. It also at the closed session, the Commission Approved a Settlement Agreement relating to Ethics Commission complaint 261001021. And that Settlement Agreement is a Public Document and will be posted on the commissions website. Do i hear a motion to adjourn . Is there Public Comment . Yes, thanks. Im sorry. Thank you. Eileen hansen. The two settlements that you announced, how do those relate to these five complaints that you just discussed in closed session . They were two of the five. Can you say which of the two relate to those numbers . Because i didnt see those on here. They relate to 1 and 2, lines 1 and 2. Okay. And can i also ask your reasons for not disclosing . Are you is the motion not to disclose related to the discussion you had, or to the resolution or lack thereof . All three of those, the discussion and the lack or lack of resolution, or resolution. So can i maybe ask it a different way. It sounds like you resolved 1 and 2. Would it be fair to assume that did you not resolve, 3, 4 and 5 and thus they are ongoing . Its okay to answer yes or no. Yes, i think that whether we may have resolved them, but were not disclosing the resolution at this moment, or they are ongoing. Or they are ongoing. Right. All right. Thank you. Did i hear a motion to adjourn . So moved. Second. All in favor . Aye. [ gavel thank you joan and now were as always delighted to introduce our wonderful optimistic mayor ed lee with us this morning to guide us through his vision for San Francisco and some of his priorities and to outline some changes hes right hand proud of the job growth and the cranes in the air and the San Francisco hub and concerned about Housing Affordability and available so lets see his plans and thoughts to generate enough housing and the right kind of housing to keep our economy please welcome San Francisco mayor ed lee clapping. thank you, mary and joan and structures for putting on such a great vent an opportunity for me to address you this morning ill begin appropriate and like to look at the room and the first people i see are the men and women that served us this morning lets give it up a hand for the great working folks in this hotel clapping. mary tension . What tension . The only attention he know 6 is between the dodgers and is giants thats the tension i want to deal with im excited to be here and in the room that as i briefing look around there are a green Great Developers with who are working not city and designing wonderful Green Office Buildings and residential buildings, art buildings, people Construction Companies who i know by name given my years not only at dpw and the City Administration bayshore but more and more youre not contractors your developers your becoming parent with the city as we open up great institutions like the Veterans War Memorial the other day beautiful places where the history of the city and the future of the city is right at what what we do with our challenges i look across the crowd and see fantastic nonprofits in San Francisco and the east bay coming together this morning everyone i believe knows that what we have done in the city creating collaborations and making sure that what people say and what people write about i look over to the publishes table can always sometimes be stories about tension and about this group versus that group but as the mayor of this wonderful city someone who spent a lifetime struggling some of the very tensions we talk about i am in my life the most excited during this time for the city of San Francisco for its past, present, and future and i know that more and more what were finding is less about a boom i know writers talk about economic booms which means at some point in time the boom deinflates or something happens more and more i think were i dont think were in the middle of a boom but at the beginning of some very Creative Things that world is yet to see and San Francisco wants to be in charge and in the forefront i look at worldclass sdienlz that are allowing to talk about catalytic with the designs we have is contributed to transportation and Community Building and more and more developers whether i say partnerships their finding the links between an Office Development and our need for a wonderful beautiful flower mart that we want to have for more decades in the future i see more and more links between Downtown Development and Affordable Housing i see more and more direct links between a market rate developer and their support for the preservation of Affordable Housing that also exist in our neighborhoods ladies and gentlemen, this is an exciting time for San Francisco we show when we say we want our prosperity to be shared by more people well do vendz those links to share that prosperity thats why im excited thanks for having me again there interest umsz it is a good time for San Francisco people are working and unemployment has dropped inform 3. 6 percent thank you, everyone in the room for contributing this to that clapping. cranes are i think i see them i feel them theyre there whenever there are strong widens im worried about those cremations i want to make sure hundreds of thousands of square feet of new housing are certainly underway and because of our good economy we making records investments in education to transportation to Public Safety and to our historically strong safety net it is hard to believe that just a few years ago City Government was more than 300 million in the red we had a rammedly commissioner pating payroll tax system in the mid block every storefront was empty and a citywide e ethnic housing pace but more alarmingly our residents with respect staring and double digit unemployment well, all of us and certainly we in government we all rolled up our sleeves with our partners our nonprofit and City Government agencies and private partners such you in the room we know we be tabled those challenges and together we got the house in order your city is now doing 2 year bunts they go along with the 5 year Budget Planning and Capital Improvement i was proud to work on deliberately and delivered a budget that made our city safe and solvent and successful weve remofrmd our Pension System we rained in the Health Care Costs working with lash and we were one of the first cities in the entire in addition to do so without the ac anyone that divided other cities and reform our payroll tax i continue i will mark that as previous historic because we literally changed our entire tax system to accommodate job creation and we carved out during that process even more support for the local Small Businesses we brought to this city a Housing Trust fund to voter to keep Affordable Housing production going we spearheaded the Central Market since 2011 has created it transformation we all know and feel and see along the Central Market street we now have scores of new biz storefront businesses arts organization, and we even have companies that located to Central Market and told me and my staff i dont need more do i want our payroll tax im going there because Market Street is the exciting avenue to everything in the future our economy has rebound drastically and because of our focus on Economic Development and the tension from job creation im proud of that now we the city of San Francisco are the center of a fastest rebonding economy in the country and in every sectorer of the economy jobs in construction and health care, hospitality and you tourism and administrative reviews and others we set out to restore Investor Confidence in the city is it so strong we have the highest Credit Rating in the history of our city well perhaps im most approved in my first term overseeing an economic expansion that saw unemployment drop from 3. 6 percent this means over a hundred and 7 thousand new jacobs were created in San Francisco those are real jobs real people and i know people want to focus on tech but there are jobs in health care, there are jobs in our hospitality, there are jobs in tourism all of those are on fire so were not and this is for the economic itself in the room not depending on any one sector but always make sure we have the diverse economy thats the smartness of learning many lessons of past economic fwumz i booms and bursts weve done this because of the resiliency of our recipe and Business Community and now a unique position to make sure that every residents shares in the prosperity of our city i know, i know there are talk about our city changing some people perhaps are fearful that change being too fast for them i believe in change and im supportive of that it is exciting to see so much going on and so much is positive more businesses trooifrl both big and small in the neighborhood corridors and children plaza in the parks than ever before you know what parks are crowded during the weekend and more residents able to share in that very prosperity well with change and prosperity we have challenges far too many people are living on our streets too many too many evictions that result from speculation our city has become very expensive and some of our beloved neighborhoods are also in need ever some stabilizations so our challenge now is to make sure our residents are part of that growth and part of that change and in a positive way that the challenges they see in San Francisco with not leave them behind more give them the feeling theyre being pushed out this is what we need to do and do together part of answers we build balance equitable communities ones that welcome newcomers even those who lived in the neighborhood for a long time i say that because i need all of your help you know people room are some of the most creative people that we have in the entire region i know that because ive had a chances to work with all of you and the spirit i have innovation will make that the difference between things that are strong can deinflate or something grows with anymore people being involved in the shared prosperity well, before we get to what you can do lets talk about what thecy is doing already, were on track to produce in the hundred percent Affordable Housing range over 10 thousand new units of housing, in fact, 10 thousand 7 hundred and 80 for the specific staff calculation in new and rehabbed housing before i 2020 all hundred percent affordable to low income and more to middleincome on top of we have already provided hundred thousand 4 hundred affordable units since 2015 with great promotions like 1184 frothing adversity 2 year the street in the tenderloin or 11 ocean avenue or edward the second in the marina the simpson in north beach all serving hundred percent low income seniors, families youth and transition and formally homeless and our funded are funded road map will get us now affordable units in almost every neighborhood from chinatown to the mission to south of market to selma and to the transbay community we have many more coming by the end of the year with the potrero and boosht and 1500 page street in hayes valley over a dozen projects underway and were not just building our way what to Affordable Housing were preserving them we rehabilitating over 14 hundred Public Housing units through our rent Assistance Demonstration Program and those are the new i did in my effort and i know hopefully yours that we will never see isolated poverty housing again city all of the these these projects home by home will help us reach our goals i want to give credit where credit is due all of you the private sector the Nonprofit Sector are helping us with the housing roles well over three hundred unit were produced through the Inclusionary Program and 7 hundred blasting unit under construction were done 0 through the private partnerships wire on track for Housing Production and thats just part of the answer were advancing several pieces of key legislation to build more Affordable Housing faster preserve Affordable Homes weve already strengthen and neighborhood and protect our long term tenants were changing our Inclusionary Housing Program to make that easier to produce housing through Market Rate Development we know you are all better and faster at delivering units so were hoping that youll partner with our nonprofits and the city and get those Affordable Housing unit quicker in addition our neighborhood preference and displaced tenant legislation will give existing residents or those are are victims of ellis act evictions a priority for Affordable Homes in their own community our Housing Preservation ordinance which is part ever key new legislation will strengthen the citys i am talking about e ability to preserve Affordable Housing that is losing their rent restrictions im committed to combining that with funding to insure the residents are displaced i know weve already read about some of the sites over 25 years ago the follower Redevelopment Agency made good deals to keep affordability in those units surprisingly those 5 years are up and just take place i want to make sure those residents know were going to be there for them not suffering huge gaps and shock that will cause them to be displaced and we have as part of legislation and an Affordable Housing Bonus Program many of you room thank you these and spur and all the others cement in negotiations with us to make sure that we were doing it smart doing that with a true incentives for developers and board of appeals in 2, 3, 4 city were coming up with more incentives for developers to build more Affordable Housing faster and to keep the economics of the Development Strong as well well to create truly balanced neighborhoods where everyone benefits regardless of income i know our residents need more than just housing thats why were improving transit with Historic Development in muni and your entire Strategy Infrastructure in part the because the voters last year voted in a 500 million general obligation transportation bond we are making sure that the vision zero projects of that bond are immediately implemented with over 28 projects throughout the city we purchased through muni new fleets of new light rail and many of them are under production will be showing up very soon we have new buses that already shown up and a in in addition 10 Percent Service increase i didnt say rate increase service increase underway already more to come that we are buildings a Public Infrastructure so it is safer know strong and better we have hundreds of public works like rebuilding our hospital 5 a can you imagine a city at the same time thats why a little bit of congestion is out there 5 hospitals together with many of you in the room and have Small Projects that as i said earlier over vision zero projects that are making the streets safer at the same time well those are not just celebrations of projects that is the future of San Francisco going on roadway thats why i say we are looking forward to because all of this infrastructure and all the building will attribute to a more modern delivery of Good Services again also age embarrassment for people that are here and have strong San Francisco infrastructure to meet that challenge well checkout the transportation that has happened on castro street wailing walk that youll see widened streets and enthusiastic businesses that are thriving you dont have to get naked to get excited in the castro laughter checkout the work on carville street those are great improvements were doing and keeping an eye on everything and expanding tour park systems Park Alliance youre in the room, too i see you were improving 15 neighborhood playground current fund from the 2012 bond and we have more to come 3 new waterfront parks are in progress a new public plaza pier 43 another new park at the Northeast Plaza and crane park at pier 70 we are also making recorded investment in our Public Schools and kg ask the private sector to join in i cant thank more the leadership benioff has led theyve also are going to be great tenant in the buildings your designing but they also lead with their heart and philanthropic donors to make sure that the youth we will have in your city are going to be their present and future talent for all the companies in San Francisco thats why im excited about the city we are doing it in ways in which were connecting up directly that the people and their futures thats why everybody should build movement thats why i resist about the bubble of things we can control and can influence are the very people here and getting them excited and linked to the strength of the city we are investing in social services i know there are far too many people that are suffering is from homelessness in our city welcome thats why i launched the Navigation Center a new model were seeing secret service in that model and ive asked we met with the hotel couldnt a hospital and sf travel and Business Leaders in the chamber a day ago at the Navigation Center they know we need to scale i up to model if were going to exhibit the deep contraction for the People Knowledge over the streets in order to get them off the streets in the right way i share with you and ill continue to say this is dangerous for people to live on our streets dangerous for Health Reasons and Public Safety reasons we need to help them get off the streets well do so together and make the strong commitment last week models of the Navigation Center thats why were also creating by the end of this year 5 hundred additional unit to be freed up and focused on for Supportive Housing for Homeless Individuals thats why ive created a Navigation Partnership Fund to entice and receive private and philanthropic dollars and donations and kind of like the mayors fund for homeless we build, only spend that when we match dollars from the city that means when we are asking the private sector to join us i am making sure we build in affordability for those private dollars as well and this is been the success of the 10 year Capital Improvement and the gentle obligations bonds a obligation like private investments and the work we do on behalf of the public are also held accountable to the highest standards i hope youve heard im working on the investment lets cause i call that the accelerated fund that attracts private and philanthropic dollars for housing for teachers and hospital workers firefighters and Police Officers and with our Financial Support well be sure to launch that this coming spring were creating working solutions to poverty like raising the minimum wage training our local youth our low income workforce for better jobs through our incredibly successful youth Jobs Plus Initiative we celebrated again for a multiple year accumulation do you know that every year everywhere averaged over 7 thousand pacing programs for all our youth that is incredible with your support clapping. im proud of what were doing tests a long list of things were doing i felt this was borrow before i ask you to join you you know what were doing already and doing in this in a direction to make our city for inclusive you know as well as i do government cannot solve our housing crisis but with the collaboration of our private, nonprofit and philanthropic sectors we can certainly make that even more successful all of you are helping by tlifr more affordability in our projects with more onsite and offsite affordable units being built for example, forest city is committed to thirty percent of affordable in the pier 35 and the 5 m project the giants 40 percent on their project that includes low income and middleincome more and more conversations are about how those developments work with the city to incentivize those high numbers but those are great examples for you will have us to share we need you all of you to help us continue the rich San Francisco tradition of diverse inclusive neighborhoods i have 5 asks today if i may support prop a, clapping. the 310 million general Obligation Bonds that does not raise property tax please also support prop b and prop d to support our families and help to build more housing number 2 ask help me fight speculation you know the attribute of going too fast he invite people that continually and dont care about inclusion and stability and neighborhoods traditions of San Francisco help me fight that help us open up thousands of units that are current being kept off the market and help me find the incentives to bring those unite back to increase capacity number 3 help us find sites for Affordable Housing in middleincome housing a help us acquire and long term lease them help us build them and number 4, i think this is a natural for you will you in the room continue pushing us and each other to innovate get out the the traditional things the dialogue with the media sometimes is bust and build and tension filed weve got to have more innovation in the city that is the capital of innovation i want innovation that will help me accelerate the housing i want homes to housetohouse our workforce and want it now why cant we be talking about a higher loop for housing yes, if we can take in transportation terms i can talk about hyper looping unit in the city or modular units perhaps made easier for all of us to go from factory to family in record time and foisting do something more yourself yourself every project has an opportunity to increase pits i its partnering not only with the city but the incredible invention of our nonprofits doing such they can and every project we can work kraefl with us to try something new to create Affordable Housing faster and better and more permanently well, they are a fewa a in which to Work Together to support an incredible city that hesitate has a history of what it was for me when i was invited to come to be port part of the diverse neighborhood i love it here and continue to love it here make sure we join in its commitment to be the most inclusive city this planet can experience was we build and find success ive always asked every youth we help get a job and every person that went through the job training i dont ask for contribution but one thing that you keep the door of opportunity that was opened for you open for someone else i know that is in the heart of good modern design you have opened up the developments to be that much more inclusive to help me build the new first story and cause neighborhood and have more Affordable Housing all of that is think outside the box incredible invitation to do more and be part of the dna north america we love to call San Francisco thank you for your time appreciate it good afternoon and welcome to the San Francisco Historic Preservation Commission Hearing for wednesday, september 16, 2015, id like to remind the public to please silence any devices that may sound off during the proceedings. And when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. Id like to call roll at this time. Commissioner wolfram commissioner hyland commissioner hasz commissioner johnck commissioner johns commissioner matsuda and commissioner pearlman commissioners commissioners, that places you under your before i get started i want to announce people that are interested in the Hunters Point shipyard to a presentation that item will be pushed to the end of the agenda commissioner first
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