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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...

Support or oppose. They had to do that in 2002. So i drew your attention specifically to what mr. Bush has referred to, and hopefully that will be part of the amendment youre going to make on this section, which i assume youre going to do by seriotum. Yes. Good. Thank you. Any Public Comment by the commissioners before we vote on the amendment . In response to both mr. Bush or stellar, is there any reason why we dont say . Commissioner, could you please step up to the microphone . Is there any r...

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...

Charter amendment in 2001 that did, in fact, say, any advocacy by the City Attorney is prohibited on the year in which hes on the ballot, whatever the provision was. It was on the modification of the election law in setting up the elections commission. So you have to added add support or oppose. They had to do that in 2002. So i drew your attention specifically to what mr. Bush has referred to, and hopefully that will be part of the amendment youre going to make on this section, which i assume y...

We dont include the board of supervisors there. So i will turn it over to the City Attorney. Thank you, pat. This is something that we took a very close comment following a comment from the first budget and finance committee, and also hearing comments others made around the time about that. I think in hearing the questions, there were a number of questions about what is the reaccusal views purpose, and how would we count this 1 trigger for a review, so i just wanted to provide a bit of backgroun...

There a presumption they have to get a card from the donor, making certain representations. I would be happy to accept that as i think it might be helpful if we could have a specific reference to what section or line of the draft the Public Comment is suggesting we amend. 11. 145. For clarification, 11. 145a, thats on the table. B is not on the table, so i dont think that should be part of the discussion. Why is that . Chair keen gave the recommendation that people only talk about what is in fro...

The Israeli Military has described the air strikes it carried out in syria on saturday as probably the biggest of their kind in the last 30 years. A spokesman said 12 sites were hit, including four iranian targets in syria. The attacks took place after an Israeli Military aircraft was brought down. The us and russia have raised concerns, and the un secretary general has called for an immediate de escalation in syria. Our middle east correspondent tom bateman has more. What was left on israeli so...

Advanced fighter jets. It crashed after its two pilots ejected, said israel, amid syrian anti aircraft fire. One pilot was left severely injured. Israel said it scrambled the planes in response to this, a drone allegedly sent by Iranian Forces in syria into israeli airspace. It was destroyed. Israel then hit the site it said the drone had come from, before further strikes against what it called iranian targets in syria. Ive been warning for some time about the dangers of irans military entrenchm...

Conflict in city decision making. What this would create is a system thats parallel to whats been in service in los angeles for a number of years. Each time a commissioner appears on an agenda, there would be tools for the Commission Member to do that. The form would be filed with our office, and essentially, its a one to one relationship. If there are three recusals as listed here, filed within a 365day period, or a 1 of all matters that have been appearing on the agenda, that would be somethin...

Conflict in city decision making. What this would create is a system thats parallel to whats been in service in los angeles for a number of years. Each time a commissioner appears on an agenda, there would be tools for the Commission Member to do that. The form would be filed with our office, and essentially, its a one to one relationship. If there are three recusals as listed here, filed within a 365day period, or a 1 of all matters that have been appearing on the agenda, that would be somethin...