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Attorneys office. Yes. Have you talked with director rahaim about the appearance tonight if. Yes. Hes aware of it. And hes aware that the Sunshine Ordinance Task force made a finding against him that he violated these ordinances. Yes hes aware. Did he tell you any reason why he wouldnt come before us and give us his view of why we should not up hold the sunshine ordinance finding of him having violated an ordinance . Was he busy tonight or was this too insignificant to speak to . No. It was my r...

Out of closed session. We could let me suggest whereas on some Say Commission adapted the budget with the balance of set of provisions including those rates. I have a question would it be appropriate to continue this item when we came back tb closed session and put it into item 13. We could continue item 13 after we come back from closed session. Is that your pleasure. Okay. So well go ahead and do that item 13 well suspend until we come back from closed session any Public Comment on that item ....

Road brings a festival experience around the city and on this final show will feature local performances and art and vendor and food and more. And thats the weekly weekly buzz visit us at the good afternoon and welcome to the special meeting of the San Francisco Ethics Commission we will begin by taking the roll. Commissioner keane. Commissioner renne. Commissioner andrews. We understand that commissioner hayon will be here momentarily first timber item is public agenda that are within the juris...

One is over the years as commissioners we are appointed address serviced they are terms and mr. Synquid and his staff including the lawyers handled all the note to routine activities for which the commission is ultimately responsible for. Those activities included enforcing not compiled task forces with his hostility to open government is well known it was, in fact, quoted in the New York Times and particularly has the task force as one of his objects. So in that roll he has a record of dismissi...

Agenda that are within the jurisdiction of the Ethics Commission. Good evening gentlemen. Some of you know me, im Allen Grossman the original petitioner of the litigation thats a agendized as number 4. I have essentially two comments of a general nature. One is over the years as commissioners we are appointed address serviced they are terms and mr. Synquid and his staff including the lawyers handled all the note to routine activities for which the commission is ultimately responsible for. Those ...

Okay. I dont have anything further. Others . Thank you for your recounting and commissioner keane that helped me. I was going to come at this differently. Would you treat this request the same way . How would you treat the request that came from mr. Ringel . How would the department treat the request today . Its treaty similarly but since i have been appointed we made procedurally changes and added staff in my department to specifically target these types of Public Record well, all record reques...

Matters over timely. Is that correct . We are. In fact so just to sum up then your you are stating to us that the Planning Department violated those sections referenced in the report of our staff . We did not provide some of those materials in a timely fashion, yes. Which was a violation of the rules as reflected in the materials that are put forth in the report of our staff . Youve already said you agree with it . Thats correct. Okay. I dont have anything further. Others . Thank you for your re...

Who did he report to . Director ram. So above him was director john ram. Thats correct. I take it to regard to any things done in violation of any rules or regulation by these individuals who were named in the report that at some point mr. Ram would have been informed of that if the supervisor knew of it and that he would have taken some disciplinary steps . He would have informed if they felt the department wasnt in compliance or the planners werent responding in a timely fashion and to my unde...

Closed session deliberations regarding the performance evaluation of mr. St. Croix. So moved. Second. Public comment . No Public Comment, all in favor . Aye. Opposed . There is none, so the motion passes. Before we move on to the next agenda item, i do want to commend the executive director for his excellent performance this year. We had some trying issues come up and i think we had some real breakthroughs as well in terms of legislation and work we have been really trying to get done. And i thi...

That we may, but need not include findings of fact. I think its a good point. Does it answer a particular question . I think its a good point. We have had had occasions where members of the public have asked for things to be in a certain format and sort of repeatedly demanded that they be in a certain format and when were ambiguous or when were silent, then it leads to confusion. So the emphasis that i think i hear in your comment is that we need not include the findings of law and fact in this ...