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San francisco, open government, now that this Ethics Committee is Holding Meetings on sfgtv in full view of the public it becomes more apparent how much of an enabler this body has been, it enables city bodies and personnel to evade their daoulties under the law and to hide that from public scrutiny. The whistle blower laws are not be used to protect the whistle blower but to protect the target. They are being used to hide the true facts of the investigation and to allow the city agency and empl...

The question before you isnt whether these documents can be ordered disclosed, it is whether these officials have committed a violation of the ordinance. And that is itself, wrapped up into this analysis and im sorry i cant help you any further. I hope that does something to help. Thanks. Commissioners, ray heart, San Francisco, open government, now that this Ethics Committee is Holding Meetings on sfgtv in full view of the public it becomes more apparent how much of an enabler this body has bee...

To be prepared in writing and submitted inform the board of supervisors and the mayor and hope youll port that concept the ethnics Commission Tips to previously prepare this report once again we called for revisiting some of the concepts that were in proposal j that were feuded in part of the rewrite of the ethnics laws. Those dealt with the concept of people seeking Public Benefits from the city and regulating how members that vote on the benefits then get employed are work for the people that ...

Alice and so those of you on the commission who are here i note that there are only three. You know me, my name is paul curior and i am passionate about open government and i am passionate about things being done by the book. And when you have people like the District Attorney and the mayor who are committed wholesale felonies, i really need they need to be prosecuted. And i dont know if this is the forum for that. But this is the forum to discuss things like the integrity of the process. And th...

Is beyond the investigatorry file itself and may include correspondence about the handling of the aspect and not the file itself and to the extent that any such records might exist, they to me, to my read might be subject to disclosure, albeit in a redacted form. I dont know if they exist, but that is my view on that with regard to any closing memo, if there was i dont know what the language of a closing memo offered by the Commission Staff regarding this complaint refers to. Again, if such a th...

Ongoing process and if the program were expanded to include all 17 years old regardless of income to include 18years old in the program and then to survey and get results on the impact on ridership and other benefits from the program. I will give you a quick summary. The full report i believe has been provided to you and is available on our website as well. This first slide shows participation we looked at the first 3 months to march 2013 through may. And the program continued on after that but ...

Continuing the program on, on ongoing process and if the program were expanded to include all 17 years old regardless of income to include 18years old in the program and then to survey and get results on the impact on ridership and other benefits from the program. I will give you a quick summary. The full report i believe has been provided to you and is available on our website as well. This first slide shows participation we looked at the first 3 months to march 2013 through may. And the progra...

Previously prepare this report once again we called for revisiting some of the concepts that were in proposal j that were feuded in part of the rewrite of the ethnics laws. Those dealt with the concept of people seeking Public Benefits from the city and regulating how members that vote on the benefits then get employed are work for the people that sought the benefits. The third area we loopthd was restructuring some of the activities of the ethnics commission itself. We called for a reaffirmatio...

Public comments i want to thank the members of the grand jury for your work the civil grand jury knows our office has offered 4 pieces of ethnics legislation of ethnics reforms i want to thank our colleagues who supported it which helped to tight rules around biologists and other clarifications there was a number of topics address raised under the civil grand jury report i believe that San Francisco needs to be a leader on transparency and neglected for the public to trust in what we do we need ...

This because i know hes watching carefully how we are handling the bicycle strategy. With that, thank you for putting all of this information together for us. Okay. Thank you. Supervisor mar and thank you for the opportunity. Before jumping into presentation, i support all of what you said and i do want to acknowledge we had a really strong showing from senior and disability action and community tenant association. There has been a lot of free muni for Youth Coalition and a lot of very strong pu...