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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 h...

>> commissioners -- im 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 franciscos ethics commission, the sleeping watchdog, reads in part as follows: quote, because of the ethics commissions 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 ...

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 ...

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...

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, comm...

All right. The Ethics Commission is back in session. Were now going to move to the last of the items were dealing with for the amendments to the matter to be put on the ballot in june, and that is behested payment discussion at page six. Thank you, chair. I think i will direct you to the red line version. I think thatll be the easiest way to just look at these, so if youll please look at page 76 in the packet, thats where the first change is that id like to show you. So as you know, the behested...

Members for instance, with a small nonprofit, or that a member of this commission should be a member or friends of the board of another nonprofit, so the law should do exactly what it can do best, separate all those interests so we are required as citizens and as commissioners and as elected officials to reach out to new people. Whats wrong with having nonnonprofit directors becoming elected officials . Isnt that one of the purposes of pop 2k4rd ular government and democracy. One of the virtues ...

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, comm...

Background on that. This language and thrust of this is really a basic tran parency issue. It would provide a way for these who recuse under the law, to do so for a good thing, in order to avoid conflicts. It would give the public a chance to understand repeated recusals, so there would be an opportunity to engage. If there is a repeated recusal, and well get into how this would calculate that, there is a process for the Ethics Commission to review those recusals, and determine if there is a con...

Salary, because George Washington at the time were investing in properties in george down and the district of columbia. They didnt have money, but they had Something Else, and that Something Else was knowledge. They knew a compromise was being made between the north and the south, where the Federal Capital would be. It was those people who had that knowledge and were able to invest in that property who made money, and yet, on its face at the beginning, those connections werent really about money...