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Representative be waived onto their Committee Without objection so ordered. Welcome to our hearing on recent developments and i now recognize myself for an Opening Statement and then the Ranking Member. Does the chairwoman wish to have an Opening Statement . I will recognize her with your permission our colleague will also have an Opening Statement. The Postal Service is the crown jewel of the federal i government serving every household every day 630,000 brave individuals at every district and ...

Mail, Committee Members asked witnesses about mr. Dejoys ownership of a company that contracted its services to the usps. The chair would ask without objection that ms. Debbie wassermanschultz i got it right here. Ms. Cooper and representative mary gay scanlon beor waived on the committee. Without objection, it is so ordered. I want to welcome everyone to s our hearings on recent developments regarding the Postal Service and i now recognize myself for an Opening Statement and i will recognize th...

Listed what they had done, including spending 300,000 on things that they had no Legal Authority to do so. Charging fees, that they had no Legal Authority and fire the cultural director and replace the head of the commission. The bottom line is if you were a commission and you were in charge of a staff and a staff screws up it reflects on you. You cant sit there and say, oh, if we find our executive director in violation, that has no reflection on us at all. Even though we turnover 99 percent of...

Any other thoughts from the commissioners on this . In a theoretical file, not the one at issue, are matters such as the timing of meetings, or strictly procedural matters included in the correspondence files of an investigate oral matter. Generally strictly procedural, and for example, when you talk about a meeting time, that is embedded within the procedure process, for instance if i am going to meet with a complaintant and you document your notes, i met with this complaintant at this time and...

Is Holding Meetings on sfgtv in full view of the public it becomes more apparent how much of an enabler this body has been, it enables city bodies and personnel to evade their daoulties under the law and to hide that from public scrutiny. The whistle blower laws are not be used to protect the whistle blower but to protect the target. They are being used to hide the true facts of the investigation and to allow the city agency and employees to evade their actions. They hide the extent and the vali...

What kind of information could be in the file that if we asked the Controllers Office and the Ethics Commission to rereview for potentially nonprivileged documents what those could even entail. Because the breadth of this privilege appears so broad that it is hard to imagine what would not be covered in light of yours and the City Attorneys of San Franciscos description. Sure. And maybe, internal communications about we are going to meet to discuss this at such and such a time. I dont know if wh...

Purposefully misinterpreted to protect the agencies in question but also the ethics staff. As far as you not having a conflict of interest, lets look at the Arts Commission when they got the report from the civil grand jury that listed what they had done, including spending 300,000 on things that they had no Legal Authority to do so. Charging fees, that they had no Legal Authority and fire the cultural director and replace the head of the commission. The bottom line is if you were a commission a...

I dont know if that will be disclog be too much. I certainly would think that the Controllers Office would want to explain why it is. Or should not be disclosed. Any other thoughts from the commissioners on this . In a theoretical file, not the one at issue, are matters such as the timing of meetings, or strictly procedural matters included in the correspondence files of an investigate oral matter. Generally strictly procedural, and for example, when you talk about a meeting time, that is embedd...

San francisco, open government, now that this Ethics Committee is Holding Meetings on sfgtv in full view of the public it becomes more apparent how much of an enabler this body has been, it enables city bodies and personnel to evade their daoulties under the law and to hide that from public scrutiny. The whistle blower laws are not be used to protect the whistle blower but to protect the target. They are being used to hide the true facts of the investigation and to allow the city agency and empl...

Protected confidential. I am trying to understand what kind of information could be in the file that if we asked the Controllers Office and the Ethics Commission to rereview for potentially nonprivileged documents what those could even entail. Because the breadth of this privilege appears so broad that it is hard to imagine what would not be covered in light of yours and the City Attorneys of San Franciscos description. Sure. And maybe, internal communications about we are going to meet to discu...