I know. Excited. When we had that big rainstorm last year that was racing down this hill i went out and when there was a break in the weather to make sure that was clear and that was definitely debris that draws down i make sure i have any bathroom we me and sweep that away that makes a big difference sfwrts can fleet floated and every year we were coming home he it was rainey noticed it the water with hill high on the corner and she was in her rain boats so she had fun doing that. I saved our house. So adopt a drain 25 he is a real leader that listens and knows how to bring people together. Brought this department together like never before. I am so excited to be swearing in the next chief of the San Francisco Fire Department, ladies and gentlemen, lets welcome, Jeanine Nicholson. applause . I grew up total tomboy, athlete. I loved a good crisis, a good challenge. I grew up across the street from the fire station. My dad used to take me there to vote. I never saw any female firefighte
commissioners i m sorry, can i get the overhead? good afternoon, commissioners. director san francisco open government. a report of the grand jury of the city and county of san francisco entitled san francisco s ethics commission, the sleeping watchdog, reads in part as follows: quote, because of the ethics commission s lack of enforcement, no city employee has been disciplined for feying to adhere to the sunshine ordinance. the commission allowed officials to ignore the rulings of the sunshine ordinance task force. i know this from experience, at least this point in time due to the three dozen orders of determination i hold fighting years of violations without any being enforced. it doesn t mean they were not effective. in most cases i got the things i wanted but we continue to have resistance, and people who just basically say middle finger to the sunshine ordinance. and it s hypocritical because it s on every meeting agenda, know your rights under the sunshine ordinanc
changed by desires of the community and the supervisors and the mayor to think differently about our work for the cultural districts. it is a perfect example of that. this is not on our radar 10 years ago. the first district came up in japan town. we looked across the country for other examples and could not find it. we were inventing the wheel at the time and that has taken off into a much bigger program, but it means a fair amount of work for the department and especially as part of the mirror s office of housing and community development in oewd and all those agencies involved in this. thanks. commissioner fung? last point would be i was going to bring this up under commissioner matters, but i think we should be getting regular status reports on our new home. okay. what is happening there, and at some point i think would be important for the commissioners to see where people are going to be housed, a site visit maybe at some future point. they have been doing ha
Sunshine ordinance not in the bt or state law. It keeps coming up and so attorney can file an action for declaratory relief. Mr. Harts can file a motion to file on this break. Well, the Sunshine Task force can file something. And the Sunshine Task force could. Seems to me that we shouldnt have to deal with the issue. I think theres, as i hear it, theres matter to what mr. Heart is saying. Theres a practical matter so long as you identify it as the subject where that was. It makes some sense. But it seemed like were wasting a lot of time on it and let the Sunshine Task force or the City Attorney get a legal opinion on it. Commissioner im looking at agenda item number 5, page 18 the letter of september 28, 2016 to the Sunshine Ordinance Task force from mrs. Cavillo the clerk of the board, giving a reason why the 150word summary is not included. The clerk can validate whether Public Comment was made like a brief statement in the public section statement the clerk cannot attest to the 150w
Welcome to the regularly scheduled meeting of the San Francisco Ethics Commission. Im going to first start with a roll call, and commission [ roll call. ] and so everyone is present, and id like to congratulate commissioner lee. She has been reappointed to a full term by mayor farrell. Great to have you continuing to be with us. So let keal ae start with Public Comment on matte well start with Public Comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda. Come up, maam. Good afternoon, commissioners. Thank you for serving our city. My name is ellen lee zhou. Thats ellen lee zhou. I represent Public Workers in seiu. I brought five Public Workers who experienced retaliation and skram nation to Ethics Commission between april 2017 to june 2017. We made initial interviews and provide a lot of reports and documents to Ethics Commission staff. I am here today to follow up with you to see if you in your discretion have started yet on the ethic commission. Our records and audio recording