Balboa high school. One of the things i have been involved in they have all been the same s. R. O. S out of ingleside station at june jordan , at academy soda, i struggled with a young man with a loaded pistol, and then this here at balboa. The other two incidents impacted me, but this issue this year, it was my son. It totally impacted our family. It impacted me, my relationship with the School District, and it impacted the way that a look at things differently. So i ask you to pleas hold people accountable to when things like this happen. We have been fortunate that nobody has been killed. Please be ready for when it does one of the things that i do ask as we do better training for staff, for line staff. I have been in the district 20 years and i have never been trained. The con the people that get trained are the administrators. I administrator trained as last year but now she is leaving. So now we need to keep continuing making sure people are trained correctly. When the incident happened at balboa, they said that there were councilors in Mental Health nobody was sent out for six days i had the emails communicating with the department of health lady at the clinic. They were sure to go on the news and say there was councillors there, but there was no therapy there. I was in the back. We need to do a better job of that. We also need to have a check off list so when this does happen, it ministry theres no what they need to do, and make sure all parties sign off every year that they read and understood the m. O. U. It is not fair that for people to have to deal with kids and not know what is expected of them. So with that, i thank you guys for this and hopefully we will create some change to make our schools safer. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, good morning. My name is deirdre. I am a teacher librarian at Malcolm X Academy and also a parent of a junior at Burton High School and who my son frequently gets into altercations and i feel fortunate to say he talks to me quite a bit about his life, and i know that when he does get in altercations with other students , the last person in the world that he would ever want to go to, or have involved is a Police Officer. I know that we all understand what i mean when, you know, when i say we have to consider Police Conduct in our communities, particularly black and brown communities a Public Health issue because too many people are harmed. Our black and brown people, our community members, are harmed. What i want to say is that the Community Needs more opportunity to look at this memorandum of understanding that is being presented today and have opportunities to give feedback. Thank you. Thank you so much. Next speaker. Good morning. My name is annabella. Im an attorney would Legal Services for children. We represent young people in it dependency court, immigration matters, guardianship, and expulsion proceedings which frequently run parallel when there is an incident on campus that requires Police Involvement two things, first, this issue, of course, is incredibly visible right now because of the incident at balboa, but i want to flag that this extends further than that. We had an m. O. U. Pass in 2014, it has been five years now, and we are still trying to figure it out. I want to highlight this is an issue the Community Knows very well and that we should appreciate there has been some involvement there of trying to get that Community Voice into this. I also want to talk about the question about court involved youth and the notification requirements. In particular, i would suggest the involvement of contacting h. S. A. Social workers. Each dependent has a social worker assigned to work with them and has a trusting relationship. In particular, it is great to contact resource families if a young person is any family where there is an adult who is able to respond and we could have young people who only have social workers is a constant in their lives. They also have quote courtappointed attorneys. I would also recommend involving those people as well. I want to highlight the agreements like the m. O. U. Are only as good as they are being honored. Is much as i appreciate the willingness to listen to the community and the willingness to have a complaint process, ultimately, there are no guarantees that a complaint these complaints could result in any changed behavior. On behalf of the young people that we work with, i am requesting more robust measures of accountability in the event of violation of this m. O. U. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. I am tracy. Im here today as a parent and im here to talk about what happened that day at balboa. There are clearly a lot of things that we can learn from, but i also want to point out that there was an incident at june jordan where things were handled so well. Apologies were made, students had community circles, there are some great ways of how to address this. In the balboa incident, it just did not happen. There was no restorative circle with the family. As a matter of fact, when i went back to take the student to school, we were told that we couldnt have a restorative circle, or reentry or the principal and administrator was there. I know from experience of the incident at june jordan had the Community Reaction that we needed. The way we want to see things happen in the community and in the School District. If we are really about restorative practice, i want to say for the record, the harm has not been restored. This happened almost a year ago. There was never an apology by the School District. Although, Board Members and commissioners have apologized, nothing from the School District there was nothing for the students to say, hey, this was not the kid that was portrayed all over the media. Hey, im sorry your kid was looking like he was a criminal all over t. V. There was none of that that happened. We need more training for teachers and other administrators, the police. I agree with a lot of the recommendations, and lastly, the s. R. O. S, like, what are there schedules . Can they work more games in the evenings . We want to be able to have an m. O. U. That works for everyone and we need more Student Input. Theres a captive audience of students, and you only have 100 people give input is really just not acceptable. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good morning. My name is lydia. Diego is my son. I have several recommendations on this m. O. U. , but i would first like to address the fact that i believe there was a lack of Community Outreach in the sense that having 100 people comment on this issue is a little disturbing to me, being that there are so many schools here and so many parents would love to be able to provide feedback. I also would like to note that the schools where the Community Meetings were located at were not a neighborhoods where more of the kids affected by this m. O. U. Live. So that is an area of concern for me as well. The other thing is, one of my recommendations is i would like for this m. O. U. Or the children s rights to be addressed in some type of assembly to kids at the beginning of the year so that every year, they can be explained their rights, so they know in the event that something happens, what to do, and what their rights are. Second, a big thing for me is i want staff, if there is an event that another traumatic incident happens, that the staff involved are required to take some type of Mental Health training or counciling to help them cope with their feelings about what happened because i can guarantee you that my son was mistreated throughout the rest of the year that he was at balboa and any little action that they felt required discipline was completely taken out of proportion. Any disciplinary action that was taken was not in line with disciplinary policies. I believe that that stemmed from whatever feelings where, you know, still impacting them. Those are two things i would like to see, but i would love to thank each and every one of you for being here and being part of all the conversations that are happening, specifically supervisor safai who has been a tremendous help to our family, supervisor walton, and also supervisor ronen in proceeding with the ordinance. [indiscernible] thank you so much. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors, commissioners, and trustees. Im here today wearing many hats im a grandmother of a child in an sfusd school, i care about what happens at her school. I am a mother of a former student at thurgood marshall, and we have a huge Police Incident which prompted the redo of the m. O. U. That you are now looking at. It has been revised quite a few times since that incident in 2002 and im here today wearing my essay sciu hat for the San Francisco unified San Francisco unified School District. I want to know and appreciate the comments made by some very specific groups. Huckleberry youth, they gave some really good outstanding comments. Advocates, take these comments seriously. If you have forgotten some, go back and review the tapes. The Youth Commission also had great comments and there were many folks also from other groups, patty, here as well from the public defenders office. All of these are so necessary and need to be put into this document. City College Needs to have a joint m. O. U. So we can create a network all across City College Campuses that are mirroring what is happening in our sfusd school sights. They need to be included in this process more robustly. I also appreciate that the department of Police Accountability is here with materials so that one of the things they also want to say is kevin truitt is retiring if i am correct. Who will take over this legacy of work now that he is leaving the School District . I am hoping this person is on board right now so can start transferring that work over. It is deep and it is a lot of history that we will lose when he leaves, you know, nothing against kevin, there were ups and downs around this, but we need to make sure that think hes a much. Any other members of the public who wish to comment on this item please come forward. Seeing then, Public Comment is closed. I just want to think members of the public for their patients today. I know we had a lot of presenters. This hearing was a number of months in the making, so i appreciate your patience. I also appreciate all the different departments that came out with my staff and supervisor walton staff to put this together. Just to respect everybodys time , if we have any followup comments or questions, i just want to keep it about the m. O. U. I think theres a lot of things we could dive into today based on the data, based on the conversations that we are having , i think we learned a lot today. I want to thank specifically the families coming out and sharing their story. I know this has been a tough year for them, but i would like to say i think there is some light at the end of the tunnel. I think there are some really good, positive conversations happening, and i think this m. O. U. Is better because of that incident, because of your engagement, because he didnt walk away, and you insisted on making sure that your voice was heard, and the voice of your son was hurt, and i think we are all going to be better for it. I would just like to summarize a few things that i heard. Having, in terms of the recommendations, first i want to know, maybe from the sfusd and people that are in charge of that, when they are planning on having the m. O. U. Finalized, what other opportunities will there be for the community to be involved in the process of ensuring this m. O. U. Is finalized in a more inclusive way, as much as we can. One of the really strong recommendations is they are all strong recommendations, but having private space for interviews when and if an incident happens. I think thats really, really important. Having the students explained their rights at the beginning of the year in an Assembly Type of environment, i think that is important. Training for administrators, as well as frontline staff. That was kind of the point that i was trying to hit in terms of you have gone through this document, youre talking about training, how does that trickle down to others that are involved it is not just the principles, it is frontline staff as well. That was a good recommendation. I also like to the point that Mental Health, after incidents, is an important aspect of it. Not just for students, but for staff. I think putting a time limit on that, that there will be a requirement of one Mental Health services have to be provided, we often will use the term of 2448 hours, but knowing that that deadline is there, and it has to be met, i think that would be an important piece of putting that into the m. O. U. So that we have something to hold everyone accountable to. The question about the s. R. O. In terms of when they work, and can they work after hours, i leave that up to the board of education and the Police Department to negotiate and negotiate hours of when they work and the Work Schedules i would just say that the board of education and the sfusd and the Police Department can come together on that, it makes sense to me that if you have things after hours and on weekends, like Football Games or sporting events, or whatever they might be that draws people, having presence there, if you look at the statistics again, if that is what the community wants. I dont want to make that assumption, but i heard that today, and and what accountability is built into the m. O. U. If the m. O. U. Is not followed . What consequences are there, if any . Those are a number of things that we heard today along with a whole host of things, but all i would say is there a reason we would want to continue this item to the call of the chairs we want to have a public setting where the board of education, our trustees, and the board supervises come back to see the progress that was made and finalized this and i want to thank the sfusd, as of p. D. , and all the Community Advocates that have been involved in this, and community members, and everyday parents. It sounds like there is a call for more inclusive process to expand the number of people that can have input on this document, and i think that would be important. So we are about to go into our august recess, so maybe we can work with the chair, and maybe sometime in the fall we can reconvene. I would like to ask mr. Truitt to come back up if he can just give us an idea of what the process is Going Forward in terms of what the idea to finalize the m. O. U. , and what other processes will be made based on what you have heard in terms of spending the opportunities for involvement. Sure. Right now the m. O. U. Is being reviewed by sfpd. We have not received their comments yet. Our legal office has taken the first pass through the m. O. U. We got a number of all the comments and feedback that the community gave us, it is probably comprised of well over 300 pages of notes. Everyone received those comments we try to incorporate as many of them as we can, gave that to sfpd. They are going through their legal team and it comes back to us with their comments. Our plan has always been that this would go to our own board of education to review as the superintendents recommendation. The superintendent superintendent would review it. The chief would agree and say yes, this is ready for my signature. We then put it on the agenda at a Board Meeting as a superintendents recommendation to approve the m. O. U. And it was our intention that that would happen at the Board Meeting in the second one in august the beginning of the school year. Okay. My office will summarize those and send them over to you. Im sure you guys there has been a lot of information going on, but we can send you that information. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner collins . I wanted to thank you for the list of questions. They were my list of questions, i think it is important that there is followup and the big picture is, what i am hearing, is also being specific. Time, who is doing it, time limit. When is it happening, and what we are seeing also is there is an accountability. We are focused on this m. O. U. , but theres also responsibility for the School District in terms of Training Staff or in terms of providing support or coordinating with social services. I would love to work with commissioner cook or president cook and others to also outline a list that has come out of this meeting of actions we need to take as a district in terms of staff, the work we need to do with staff, with the work we need to do with providing emotional support or supporting schools because those have also come out. I also heard one more, which is educating students, how do we do that best, checklists for staff on what they are required to do, and also, i do believe that we deserve the june Jordan Community and specifically the family deserve an apology from the district. I would also like to work on, in order to repair harm, you have to acknowledge consequences. I think in order for that community to move forward and for us to acknowledge what should have happened or what we would like to happen in the future, that is something we have to work on is well. Thank you. Any other trustees or commissioners want to make oh, trusty selby . Thank you. I will be very brief. I want to say that i really appreciate the that you guys are having this conversation. I apologize for coming and in in in the middle, but as you know, i im sure you have Police Officers unarmed at city college in one of the things that might be interesting is to have them in my opinion is that they are experts of deescalation because they dont have firearms and they do manage maybe there is a way can Work Together to have Police Officer that or an armed and be able to participate in some way, partner in some way with this. The other thing i wanted to say is that you may have already mentioned this, but theres a book called the end of policing. I thank you guys are all touching on this right now, but Police Officers are not necessarily also social workers, they are not also im not going to belabour this. I think we all know this. I think sometimes that what we are asking our Police Officers to do could be done by other trained professionals, be the social workers or the Mental Health professionals or whatever i dont know if that is in the scope of this m. O. U. I think it possibly is, but just thinking a little bit about whose role is what role is it worthwhile endeavor. Thank you, president cook. Thank you. I especially want to thank everyone who came up and spoke in Public Comment. And also the former commissioner involved in the comments at the end. One of the big things that i took away that i think is important that we revisit is the amount of Student Input on the m. O. U. I heard you mention that we only had 100 people that participated and i am wondering who can come up to talk about how we can increase that number so we can have more voices in the process. Can you speak to that . One of the strategies that we had his we created a facilitator s guide and we provided people we didnt count the number of people who participated with coal and aunt the Youth Commission did their own session. They provided us all the feedback. So any agency, any c. B. O. Can have their feedback session. We provide them the materials to you and you can give us that feedback. We had the front for Community Meetings which provided a ton of responses, and like i said, this opportunities for any of the Community Group c. B. O. His to do their own self facilitated session. We provided the materials for that. The alliance for girl says here. They did a session, also. I dont know how many people are included in theirs. Are you requesting that we have another Community Meeting . Im suggesting that we find every opportunity we can up until the august vote to continue to engage publicly around what they want to see out of our partnership. I think it is important and the other thing i wanted to say was related to just the execution of these incidents as they happen because i know that there is a longstanding career in different who spoke from sfpd, how much they care about doing this the right way, but when we are in the moment, things play out in ways that dont always reflect what we write down and, you know, we had the father who we apologize to personally and he talked about never being trained, or we have constant incidents that we hear about on campus where teachers are saying , you cant come on campus , and then they say, well, actually, they have to. So the disconnect and information. That is not what you will necessarily speak to. It is, when stuff happens, either people dont know, they forget, things get complicated, and people over react. I was a student at their good martial the day that a Major Incident that was referenced several times today, i a ton of overreaction. So, you know, it is one of these things that it is hard to say that we are going to be able to prevent overreactions, but hopefully, through the learning process over time, we can put people in place that intervene in the appropriate way. That is a process and committed to figuring out with all processes involved because like he said, once a gun is pulled on somebody, that is permanently imprinted on their mind. I know we all care about having that happen. We never wanted to happen. That would be the opportunity for feedback. They were previous sessions that we have had and those have been on the current m. O. U. The next iteration, once we get the comments from sfpd have had a chance to come up with an actual draft language then the next time that would be a Good Opportunity for us to have more Community Meetings or us to look at the new one. Thank you so much for having this hearing. I think i and others at city college share how this might involve us, but i think that the conversations today i think there is a need for us to be engaged on this, especially as were having a large number of students come into the city college in the San Francisco campus. I will be following up with our staff and sfpd and maybe your staff and others can see how we might want to make sure that students are protected when they are taking class on our campus. I would add that little piece. Im just making sure the city college either through joint m. O. U. Or a separate one, whatever process is the process is to make sure that students who are attending classes at our college have the same rights and protections that the m. O. U. Students have. I dont want to have a loophole where they are in classes at our campuses and dont get the privacy of protections or partnership with sfpd that they are afforded if they go to school at the same time during the day. Great. If you could send something over , i will try to put that into words. Thank you. I know were also joined by commissioner lopez. Thank you. I will actually have kevin come up because i need some help here i appreciate the work that is being put in and everybody being here, but i think we need to highlight that this is yet another policy that the number of people who have to implement it will have no idea it is in place. I say that as a teacher who is pretty active in the district. I didnt realize there was an m. O. U. Until i became a commissioner. Thankfully i have the skills and the heart to support my students if an incident arises, but there are a number of people who dont have that and i think we also need to point out the adults that are part of the escalation that get our students into these situations. I guess i really want to understand, what are we doing to the people who have to notice this information is it familyfriendly . Is it available in multiple languages . As part of the administrative training, the security guards are trained in the m. O. U. And also active shooter increases response. All of our paraprofessionals are not. It is not part of their training it is not part of their teacher training. There is all the administrators that are trained and there is there are the important parts of the m. O. U. That talk about, you cant call the police for disciplinary reasons. Those of supposed to be reviewed with the teachers during the opening p. D. Days. So if you are saying you have it , i think it bears messaging and strengthening that message that what are the things that we do have to inform the teachers of . We build it into the teacher training because our p. D. Schedule is so jampacked right now. So we need to think more about that but i hear your message that people, our line staff, where people who are interacting with students and not aware of the m. O. U. Itself, so what parts of that to be need to review . How do we best do that . Somebody mentioned making sure the whole entire m. O. U. Is in the handbook. I have said to many people that i dont think the handbook is the answer because the handbook is becoming a phonebook and people are not reviewing it. I dont know what the best communication tool is for us to get that message out. The m. O. U. Has been translated in the past. It is accessible in different languages. It is not a very popular document. So how we emphasize that, it definitely needs some more attention and strengthening of that message. I agree with you. Thank you. Thank you for joining us today, commissioner lopez. I will wrap up by saying i think the summary of the items that i have listed out we will send over to you and to sfusd and we will follow up. We think it is important to reiterate for the record that there be more Community Involvement and that many of these recommendations be incorporated into the final document and we will continue this conversation and we will ask the site and be continue to the call of the chair. And as we hear more updates in terms of the progress on the m. O. U. , then we will reconvene, but hopefully we can move forward and finalize this document so that we have some clarity, and also ready to go, as you said, mr. Truitt, the training can be there for the beginning of the school year, including maybe some other recommendations like having assemblies and having students know their rights and some of the other things we talked about today. I want to thank everyone for coming out today. Thank you do all the departments thank you to all the Community Advocates and students and parents and the Youth Commission for their involvement working with our staff and supervisor waltons staff and sfusd for their help in terms of working with us and sfpd for helping to work with us to move this conversation forward. Thank you, mr. Chair, and thank you for everyone to come for coming out today. Thank you, supervisor safai and supervisor walton for calling this hearing and thank you to all of the commissioners and the trustees and the departments who are here. I think this is exactly why we have this committee. This is, of course, something that is incredibly important to the safety and wellbeing of our students but it is also an interdepartmental issue and one i think by bringing us all together we can hopefully get to some solutions. I do want to know a couple things. Positive note, i am happy to see the number of students arrested and detained has been going down the last few years. I hope the thing is we are doing , the parts of this m. O. U. Would that have been working that we continued to make sure we do those things. I have seen, in some cases, when i was a schoolboard member, that we would see things moving in the right direction and then something would change and it would stay going to the bag so i just hope that for the School District and for all of us that we really recommit to make sure we continue this trend because ideally, we would like to get down to zero, no students being arrested on campus because we are doing all the right things in terms of deescalation and supporting them on campus in other ways. I like the trends here, but at the same time, we know when we dont get it right or when there are gaps in our m. O. U. , or the way that we are implementing it, that it can have very damaging impacts, so i want to underscore also some of the recommendations that were made, and also the ones that were here from the Youth Commission. I think these are ones that we should really take very seriously and including. And when i say we, this is more for the School District now at this point. It is up to you all. I do think that they have made some really good recommendations here. Finally, i think it will be great for us to continue this conversation and who few months for an update and that we will be capable to get you back to that point and i want to appreciate everyone he was here. I think our m. O. U. Has been viewed as a model in many ways. When i was a School Board Member i could contact other School District and say we want to do Something Like that, and they dont have anything like this. It was clearly something that was wanted by the community and really pushed for. I want to give a huge shout out to the coleman advocates and getting to this point. We could always make it better. We can always improve on it. Theres a lot of things that we can do to even improve on what is already something that is critical to the way we operate as a School District and as a city. With that, we will revisit this again in a few months with some updates and again, i want to appreciate you, supervisor safai , and all of the folks here who really engaged with this conversation in such a serious way. With that, with nothing else, this meeting is adjourned is there a motion . Can i have a motion . And take that back. There is a motion on the floor by supervisor safai. Do we have a second . Second. Motion is taken without any objection. We will continue this at the call of the chair. The meeting is adjourned. Thank you. 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One is the draft minute, excuse me for the Ethics Commissions may 29, 2019 regular meeting. Second is the proposed stipulation decision and order in the matter of tran16. Complaint number 28. [reading items] i will call for Public Comment in a moment. I just wanted to note that the consent calendar items, the two stipulations raise issues that i think would be informative i be helpful for us to keep in mind to my fellow commissioners as we discussed agenda item number six. They deal with issues of incumbency and the use of city resources as well as the use of personal funds as well as campaign funds. I think that will be helpful to bear those things in mind as we consider what would be enforcement priorities for the commission Going Forward. Now would call for Public Comment on any and all of the consent calendar items. Any comment from the commissioners . No . I would move to approve consent calendar items listed three, four, and five. A second from vice chair ambrose. The motion is passed unanimously. Agenda item number six. [reading items] i would like to continue this item to july, 2018 meeting, because commissioner gray is not in attendance today, and the full commission i think we would benefit from having his input and provide the opportunity for us to discuss this important topic altogether. Unless there is any objection i would like to hold this matter over to the next month. I think that is appropriate and i agree with that. We will hold this over to next month. Public comment on agenda item number six . Item number seven. [reading items] thank you chair and commissioners. Pat ford senior quality analyst. The update for this month are items that you have all seen before, i do have a few updates to share. The review of the Public Financing program as you know at the last eating you approved an ordinance to make several changes to that program. Working together with deputy City Attorney shan, we sent the final version of the ordinance over to the board of supervisors. It sounded city hall for 30 days on a 30 day hold, and since this memo was written it has now been assigned to City Government audit and oversight committee. I know the memo since it is waiting assignment, since it has been out it is now with that committee no hearing date yet on that. I will continue to track it and we will keep you updated as soon as i know. The chair of that committee is supervisor gordon mar who is the sponsor of this ordinance. I am hoping working with his office we will be able to make sure that this gets heard soon. At this point it is not clear that it will be heard before the board goes on recess for the month of august. Mr. Ford, how long is that board recess was on august . I want to say fourweek. Through labor day. That means it is likely not to be heard until after labor day . Yeah, i have not been able to get any confirmation it will be heard before then. If you could refresh our recollections on the process for hearing these matters in committee and getting it to the full board . How does that work and is there some rough timing so we could have some realistic expectations around when it might actually get signed by the mayor . Sure. The chair of the committee generally has discretion to when items are called at committee. I would guess that since the chair of the committee is the sponsor of the ordinance that he would be interested in having it called sooner rather than later. I believe supervisor is on the same page as us having this going to affect the first of the year, this coming new years. Without in mind i think they probably will want to schedule it soon. Once it is heard a committee, the committee hopefully would forward it to the full board with positive recommendation and then at that point, similar process happens to the board where it needs to be scheduled and then it has two readings at the board, and has to be approved twice. Does the committee only meet once on it or do they have to meet twice as well . The committee is just one time. Yeah. Right, if they want to make amendment or have discussion or hear multiple times they could, but they only have to hear it wants. Could you keep us apprised at the next meeting, or as this goes forward, if there contemplating any amendments that we have some early visibility into what they may be . Yes, i will definitely keep you updated. Absolutely. That is all on the ordinance. The regulations that were also approved at the last eating are also sitting at the hall right now. Those have to wait for 60 days before they become operative. If they see anything in the regulations that they want to discuss, so far i have not heard anything along those lines. Usually as it gets close to the 60 day window ending, i get in touch with the clerk of the board to see if anything has happened and then as soon as that 60 day. Expires, that we start working towards implementing those. Looking at the end of july is when that 60 day timeframe ends. No update on those right now. The third policy project is the efiling of the form 700. Helping other divisions leading this project on the labor negotiation and regulation aspects of this project area again, this is to have all filers of the statement of economic interest file that form through an Electronic System rather than submitting it in paper form to a filing officer and their department they would use the same Electronic Filing system that you and the Board Commission members and elected officials use as well. Right now we are still in the planning phase to see what this project entails. What we need to do to make sure that it is done effectively and that everyone has the proper tools and training that they need to really make this effective. In terms of policies on this project right now, i am working with the department of Human Resources to start basically notifying the bargaining units. We have gotten to the point where we have actually met with him yet. Just to notify them that this is a project that is in the pipeline so they can start to become aware of what it is and decide whether or not they want to engage and meet about that. So far, nothing really to update you on other than we are beginning to work with the chair and notify the bargaining units. How many bargaining units are there that would have to work with . I dont think i dont know. That is something hr is determining right now. Please keep us updated as things progress and good luck. Definitely will keep you updated. Outside of the actual policy projects, some other things i am working on, continuing to monitor the sunlight on dark honey initiatives also sponsored by a number of supervisors. Just to recap. For supervisors can sign a piece of legislation, and by doing so place it on the ballot. Five supervisors signed this piece of legislation which makes a few changes, or would make, i should say, the conduct code in particular changes some disclaimer rules. It creates a couple of new filings for certain expenditures and would require new filings, i would also place a prohibition on contributions by certain people who have a financial interest in land use decisions to certain candidates. This initiative has had three different versions, the last version was submitted on the deadline to submit legislation to go on the ballot, so, the final version came in last week. I have been reviewing that there are a number of significant changes from the last version and the main reason we are looking at that right now is that the Controllers Office works to create a Financial Impact estimate to basically be able to put on the voter information pamphlet, how much the initiative would cost if it were approved. They ask of the department who would implement the ordinance, with the financial cost would be to implement it. That is something were working on right now to stack out the different forms that would need to be created. And try to give the Controllers Office a cost estimate. Did i hear you correctly that they changed the text of the ordinance and resubmitted it . That is correct. They did that twice. I assume now the deadline has passed, so this is the final version on the ballot. Has it been through the ballot pamphlet committee, ive already forgotten what they are called now . Ballot simplification. We dont know yet how they have written up the statement for the ballot about the measure . No, we have not seen that. It also hasnt had the hearing that measures have to have one supervisors vote to put it on the ballot. The deadline for that is before or after the boards recess . I would to defer before the recess. In 20 in july there will be hearing . Rights, as you mentioned the deadline to make any changes to that ordinance has passed. My understanding they can take it off, but they cannot change it. So then the thing i was getting at, the comments you are going to prepare, youre not bringing them back to the commission this is going to be a staff comment at the Board Hearing . Yes, because those comments need to be in before the next meetings. From a financial standpoint and term of the budget impasse for the commission. New forms will be created that the commission will have to develop and implement. Since that money is not in our budget for the upcoming year, if this is approved by the voters in the november election, what is the Effective Date and then since we do not have the budgeted with those costs be covered if we would have to go forward . As far as the Effective Date goes, i think it is 30 days after the results of the election are certified, if i recall correctly. 10 days after the results are certified. It would be roughly end of year, or before the end of the year. As to cost, implementation how that is absorbed into the departments budget i would like to defer that question to the executive director. [laughter] if there is no money allocated we would have to absorb it, yes. Excuse me, to be clear we would have to absorb it with our existing budget, yes you get at the next meeting if you have some estimates in terms of what it is going to cost, that would be very helpful. Deputy City Attorney, it although it is certified, by operation of law following an election assuming it is approved, there is a ramp up as a practical matter. What is the legal posture of the commission if we dont have the budget for it and taking resources away. There is a process we need to go through to determine what, if we are going to do this, what are we not going to do . Where does that leave us out a liability standpoint . I guess a couple of responses to that. In terms of any additional need for funding that the commission may need due to legislation, like any other department the commission could approach the board of supervisors for supplemental appropriation. In terms of rampup time in terms of implementation time, they will need to be developed if and when this is rolled out, it is up to the commission as to how they want to approach that issue. It could wait until they know for sure that the voters have approved a measure, you can start that prior to the election itself and get everything ready to go on day one. I would defer to the commission on the staff as to what exactly is the best route there. If you dont mind, i would like to come back to some of the timing issues that commissioner ambrose issued. The july meeting is delayed until the end of the month, july 31. At that point, the requisite Board Hearing on the measure would have artie been held and filed. The Ballot Simplification Committee will likely be done or it could be right in the middle of the process of adopting a digest for this measure. I will be difficult given we are not going to have a commission meeting, for a while. The commission could delegate one of its members to follow up on both funds on behalf of the commission. Just so we dont have to schedule a meeting or do other logistical gymnastics to address those issues. That is up to the discretion of the commission. I am sure the staff can artie do what they need. If the commission does want to follow up and assist in the matter it is up to the commission. Thank you. That is very helpful. Im sorry, one more question. There is no obligation that the commission, in fact im more concerned about the other side of it, but because it is an independent legislative initiative, we have to be very careful about how we weigh in on the subject matter. So, am i wrong, there is no action that the commission needs to take on the ballot simplification, or what would be a purely factual cost analysis of the implementation of what has been proposed. We wouldnt need to bring it to the commission before it goes to the ballot . Of course that is absolutely correct. The commission is not obligated to take any of those steps or be involved in the process. Normally i wouldnt expect any pending ballot measure. Needs to be relatively impartial, whatever speaks on the topic. They can provide facts, it could provide basic background. Certainly the commission can never take a position on a ballot measure. You may recall a few years ago the Ethics Commission put consecutive years a couple of ballot measures on regarding lobbyists. In 2015 and 2016 i believe off the top of my head. An additional one regarding essentially prohibiting contributions from lobbyists, as well. That was a different situation. Those were measures directly put on by the commission. In that posture, this commission, at that time, was a little bit more at the forefront grade the Ethics Commission, for example, for those measures that they themselves that on the ballot. Here since it is a measure and not one that we are putting on as a body, obviously a different situation. The commission would probably be more about clarifying facts, providing background, things which i believe the staff could absolutely handle. Given the gap in meetings, if they want a member to more closely follow it, that would be an option for the body. I would agree with commissioner ambrose, want to make sure that the digest ensures the accuracy of the facts and the law, but also i think at some point certainly earlier alliterations had references to the Ethics Commission. I dont know if there was any ordinance itself, but making sure that the characterization of the ethics mission, what it did or did not approve up previous meetings is correct. Not misdated. If there is any desire of any of the commissioners to work with staff on this . Perfectly happy to have you as chair to be our eyes and ears. Obviously the commission could comment or correct the record even if something happened afterwards. I dont know that we need to take official action as chair. You arty have, under the rules, that responsibility to represent the commission on matters. Go forth and do my best. I will work with you as appropriate on this Going Forward. Just let me know the timing in terms of the deadlines and making sure that we sync up. I will keep you in the loop of all of our analysis and any communications we have Going Forward on this. I dont really have any other updates, those were the big ticket items for now. Answer any questions about these are your general items
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