The regular meeting of the San Francisco Ethics Commission will now come to order. I would like to extend a welcome to the newest commissioner, mr. Peter king i was not here for the last hearing and so i just want to extend my personal welcome and glad you are aboard. Thank you very much, madam chair and it is good to be here and i am enjoying on being on the commission and i am looking forward to serving you and the other members as well. And we look forward to you. Any way, roll call. Commissioner king . Here. Commissioner hur is excused, as is vice chair renne, he is also excused. Commissioner andrews. Here. And with that we have a quorum and we will proceed with the days business. Is there any Public Comment. Are there any matters before we move ahead on the agenda . First up, the discussion and possible action on draft amendment, to the sunshine ordinance regulation 67. 331 director st croix. Expanding the number of ways that folks that have to file the sunshine ordinance declarat
Was not here for the last hearing and so i just want to extend my personal welcome and glad you are aboard. Thank you very much, madam chair and it is good to be here and i am enjoying on being on the commission and i am looking forward to serving you and the other members as well. And we look forward to you. Any way, roll call. Commissioner king . Here. Commissioner hur is excused, as is vice chair renne, he is also excused. Commissioner andrews. Here. And with that we have a quorum and we will proceed with the days business. Is there any Public Comment. Are there any matters before we move ahead on the agenda . First up, the discussion and possible action on draft amendment, to the sunshine ordinance regulation 67. 331 director st croix. Expanding the number of ways that folks that have to file the sunshine ordinance declarations and the state ethics declarations currently they have to be filed at the office in paper fork. We are expanding this to allow them to send fax or email or r
Officials we dont have a paper form and it is on the list of things to do, but we really only one move one a year and so that is a few years down the line and a more Searchable Data base and it will be better for the people to figure out and in the process but in the meantime, it is a tough responsible. And now, i would say, as we learned dramatically in the last month and a half or so, the Government Works slowly, in terms of electronic technology. And so we will forgive ourselves on that note. So, any further discussion on this . I just want to be clear so this is for anything over 100 dollars. And then i am practically just playing out how i in the years past, when i it has been a long 20 years since i was not an executive director and since i was going to the campaign and going to house parties and writing checks. I am just practically playing it out but the particular candidate has or is good friend and throws a house party and he speaks and people pull out their checkbooks and cr
Suspect in many ways you are running that office too and i know that you will be missed and i want to thank you for your service and it is meaningful to the city and county of San Francisco. And the people that reside here. And so thank you. Thank you. Well, i just dont know what this commissioner is going to do without you. And i honestly mean that and i think that when people, you know, throw around disparaging comments about government, bureau crats or government workers it only indicates that they have did not encounter someone like you your thoroughness and your expertise and your skill make all of us stand in awe of what you do, and what you have done for us. So, you will be missed and i wish that i could talk you out of this. But, retirement can be pretty terrific. So, we wish you well, and we are very, very happy for you and this is not your last day though. No. When is your last day. January third. Okay. So, thank you all for the time and i really appreciate working with you,
Move ahead on the agenda . First up, the discussion and possible action on draft amendment, to the sunshine ordinance regulation 67. 331 director st croix. Expanding the number of ways that folks that have to file the sunshine ordinance declarations and the state ethics declarations currently they have to be filed at the office in paper fork. We are expanding this to allow them to send fax or email or regular mail in order to safety that obligation and this will make it easier for folks to file those forms on a timely basis. Additionally, we are authorizing the commission to set up a format for all Electronic Filing in the future. We dont have a platform for the Electronic Filing for these two forms yet. But we plan to at some point. As we generally are moving toward all Electronic Filing for the things that we do. I would just like to say that anything that we can do to make the filing for candidate and their staff easier, i think is an important. These actually effect the city, Offic