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25, 2016 will begin shortly. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the regular july 25, 2016 meeting of the San Francisco Ethics Commission. I will call the roll. Commissioner keane, commissioner hayon, commissioner chiu. Here. We are still awaiting an appointment for a replacement for commissioner andrews, so all present commissioners are accounted for. Turning to item 2, Public Comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda. Good afternoon, commissioner, charlie mark stellar, for the ...

Bundle it to any candidate other than those for which theyve registered, it seems to me we may be missing a chance, we may lose somebody may attack it and some court may say, you should have tattered your bundling, but i would be disposed to try and stop the bundling. So, the rational for preventing in this proposal, direct contributions to the lobbyist to a direct [inaudible] that theyre supposed to o lobby, we think that contribution will allow them to curry favor with the official, make the o...

News website that i got over the weekend pertaining to linar corporation, and the developments that are occurring both at both locations in the city. Theres a significant and new items that are being reported in regards to the three indictments that have come down, so i did want to alert you to that and if you dont have it, i can forward it to you. Or to your executive director who will forward it to you, okay, i wanted to alert you to that important item. Im bob plant hold, i just wanted to off...

Jones, your opening testimony was touched upon where china is north koreas last remaining patron. What would happen if china joined us in the sanctions if were just thinking through and really did cut north korea off . How would north korea respond . Well, china has said that they support fully United Nations sanctions and i talked about some of the signs that the chinese are beginning to take unprecedented action in that direction, signalling to north korea they will pay a price if they dont co...

The environmental rules cannot unduly compromised their reliability. No matter how great the environmental cost . There is a balance that needs to be struck. How do you strike that balance if you dont know whether Climate Change is happening and whether human activity plays a huge role whether the consequences of doing nothing could be dire and expensive which i assume expensive is a word they would fit into that calculus. We look at what the impact on our ratepayers would be in the benefits to ...

Your organizations have contracts with ongoing electrical power . Those costs you dont know how those will be handled . At this point the epa has not conveyed how they would address that particular comment. The conversations we have had with epa have been primarily to get clarification on some of the corrections we pointed out within the proposal itself. Bpa claims of the rules give states flexibility to create their own plans but it appears that overlooks the fact that electricity transmission ...

Actually it is. Its under water. Youll see a bunker sticking up out of the water about 500 feet out. It used to be about 500 feet on the land. Now its 500 feet out in the water. Something is going on here. We dont make this stuff up. The key is for us how can we have cleaner air, how can we address the issues of rising waters . Delaware is the lowest lying state in the country. Its a real problem for us. In order for us to address this, we need to figure out how to do it together. And im not int...

David then conversely say how terrible it is. What you you can have it both ways. In 2009 prior to the passage of the aca the rates paid to Medicare Advantage plans exceeding that traditional medicare but about 18 . The aca required changes to Medicare Advantage payment rate to better align with the costs associated with traditional medicare. These changes were estimated by the Congressional Budget Office disabled a 135 billion over 10 years. So you cant have it both ways. Every time we identifi...

A survey from the Research Center found americans are not interest in typhoon haiyan. The survey conducted a week after the storm hit Shows Americans donating to the relief effort is trailing behind other recent Natural Disasters. 14 made a donation to charities and 17 plan on doing so. 18 of americans contributed after the hurricane last year and 18 planned to donate. A look at the United States funding and this is heard from the asid members. I want to apologize for being a few moments late. W...

Know we will hear from the white house chief of staff Denis Mcdonough who will apologize for the problems with healthcare. Gov. He says the website is functioning better since the october one launch. He spoke at Georgetown University. Former also hear from democratic senator, tom daschle. [applause] , it is nice to see all of you this morning on a wonderful morning to talk about a very important subject about this country. Is achair keith cherokee chief indian once said, timing is everything. Ri...