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[gavel] good afternoon and welcome to the july 28 meeting of the San Francisco Ethics Commission. I will take attendance. Chairperson mr. Hur has been excused for personal reasons and calling the other commissioners. Renne. Here. Commissioner andrews. Here. Commissioner keane. Here. Before taking Public Comment on item number 2 i just want to call everybodys attention to the fact that the regular meeting for august has been canceled, and there will be a special meeting on august 18 at 10 00 a. M...

The word we in his testimony hes attempting to influence you as being a representative from the task force when they havent authorized him to come and speak for we. Youve got to figure out how to cut him off on the mic. Commissioner keane my esteem went up for you again. Thank you for adding all three recommendations to your amended motion. I think the point of those would be to start sending a signal to other city departments that they had better start complying with the sunshine ordinance. To ...

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 understanding there was no knowledge of that of the supervisor at that time so in other word...

Members emails was not included in the correspondence provided to the records request, and we would contend its just a non substantive email. In fact i havent seen it so i cant speak to it. That was the crux why it got to the Sunshine Ordinance Task force. Thank you. Can i ask mr. Ringel a question . As you stand here today are there still documents that you believe that the Planning Department has not delivered to you. Absolutely. What are those they complied with the lasted search that he ment...

Public comment . Commissioners, i promised at the last meeting as this comes up every meeting im going to be talking about different area. I would like to talk about area two, investigation and enforcement reports and says at the bottom sunshine ordinance number of complaints and with that is the extent of the sunshine ordinance. Look on your website. Part of your responsibility is enforcing the sunshine ordinance and every time the Sunshine Task force refers a complaint you sit here and kib etz...

Rahaim. He was in receipt of it so to say he wasnt given notice or ability to be heard wasnt the case at all. He cheese people to hand. Handle it and they didnt handle it at all. This is john rahaim. This is from the bay guardian of last year. Planning in San Francisco is a blood sport. Hes talking about war here. The war was to push the project forward and deny me my question is what documents double havent been produced to you at this time . Well, the search terms werent completed in their int...

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 recounting and commissioner keane that helped me. I was going to come at this differe...

Call everybodys attention to the fact that the regular meeting for august has been canceled, and there will be a special meeting on august 18 at 10 00 a. M. In room four one six to consider the report of the civil grand jury and the commissions response thereto. At this time i will take Public Comment on matters of not appearing on the agenda that are within the jurisdiction of the Ethics Commission. Members of the Ethics Commission. Ray hart director of San Francisco open open government. In 19...

Mr. Rahaim responsible he is responsible. No ifs, ands or buts. If youre the head of the department and accept 200,000, whatever salary you get plus another 40 in benefits and take an oath in defend the constitution of the United States and that of the state of california and all of the laws that come there from thats a big responsibility and you cant come back later and say well, because i didnt directly handle this request im not responsible is just a complete denial of anything you know about...

Staff and the proposed regulation states that there should be an itemization of each contributor of over 100 that is given as a result of the lobbyists fundraising appeal. We suggest that the approach be taken that thats not the approach taken but the [inaudible] standard used and instead of listing each individual contributor the date is given so if you do a fundraising event and responsible for 10 people contributing 500 the event shows 5,000 from the lobbyist to the specific candidate. We bel...