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Wrong, we may have had a different conversation, i dont know the out come of that conversation, but our assertion of the privacy rights was bolstered by the fact that we felt that the alleged injustice was sort of in hand, if that makes sense. And so. Any other questions for miss ballard . Or mr. Warren . If i may, mr. Chair, there have been a number of references to the City Attorneys Good Government guide and the references have been on page 89 of our appendix. And the part relating to privacy...

Gonna set the night on Fire Task Force fire make it happen thank you. applause good afternoon. My name is jeffery king. I am a First Amendment lawyer specializing in [speaker not understood] Government Matters. I am a journalist who is an enthusiastic and frequent utilizer of the California Public records act and the San Francisco sunshine ordinance. A huge part of [speaker not understood] which includes open Government Matters and, of course, im here in my capacity as the freedom of Information...

Somehow ask this of every applicant as well today. Some things im really looking for are what are some of the things youd like to zim proved about our Sunshine Ordinance Task force currently. If you are appointed. ~ see improved. The second question is weve all had experiences with some of the members of the Sunshine Ordinance Task force and i think its important all of us respect the rules of the charter. I know that some folks talk about some changes they make to the bylaws as well. I want to ...

Forward, the [speaker not understood] in the committee were supporting. So, the outcome to bring them back wouldnt make any difference to me and i would not be supporting this amendment because i dont want to put people through something that they dont need to go through. The other thing would be that in regards to several of the nominees, it what just no agreement to put them forward at the time, but the decision to do was not to say that we dont want them. We just needed to have two votes to m...

Watershed for the water we drink it has a national effect her in the bay area were lucky to have two wilderness sites the fair wilderness and the seashore so again, today is earth day we commemorates the passage of this landmark legislation and celebrate the significance of our presently system and look forward to our support and thank you supervisor campos for you support. The last item is very important to my district and its a resolution that i am proud to introduce today along with mayor ed ...

And we never had the deputy City Attorney there. So, we often dont have the benefit of that person. One problem weve had for the past two years is we have not had our own seat number 1 has not been filled so we have not had the benefit of our own member attorney. His opinions would also be important for us nonlawyers to hear. Although we did have former member [speaker not understood] was an attorney, too, and it was often he wasnt in seat 1. He was in another seat, but he was very important as ...

They are still being considered and we still only hope to move along the confirmations at a future meeting. Thank you. Supervisor avalos. I appreciate the work that the rules Committee Members had done on selection for these candidates who are before us today. But i really feel that the process was kind of incomplete and id like to be able to think that we can actually approve the members all together. I mean, the seats, theres enough applicants to fill all the seats. It seems like that could be...

Reversed the rules for these [speaker not understood], the 6vote rule. You know [speaker not understood]. It sounds good on paper. In the back of my mind, thats pretty good. But at the end bottom line it was a violation of city charter. To me it seemed sort of ironic that here we have the sunshine ordinance. In charge of all of these rules and yet you were violating a rule. Whether i agreed with it or not, [speaker not understood], i absolutely would not violate that charter [speaker not underst...

About the diversity of the task force. So, i really wanted to encourage any interested people to apply so that we may continue to further diversify our task force. Thank you very much. Thank you. Supervisor tang. Thank you. And i appreciate supervisor yees comments. Some of them were actually similar ones i was going to make. Unfortunately we only had actually two members of our committee at the rules Committee Meeting and, so, i think to be fair as well as given the number of candidates, we rea...

Put it in the record. And it would seem to me that if you invite somebody in support and somebody comes to you and says, we would like to be invited even though were not going to support you, no, we wont invite you because you arent going to be supporting us. I understand what youre saying, commissioner. Its not a matter of supporting. Its not taking a stance on any given issue. Its simply providing the information that then the commission lib rates on. So, can i ask well, first of all, i want t...