Very real and very much influences how decisions are made in San Francisco. Thank you. Chair ronen thank you so much. Is there any other member of the public who wishes to speak on this item . Good morning, jordan. Thank you. You know, i was not here for is this item. I was here i was not here for this item. I was here for another item, but i wanted to speak on this item. I am a district 6 resident. I did a lot of volunteering on supervisor haneys campaign, and he won, which im really glad he did, but a lot of dark money came in to his opponents. Funny story. You know in district 6, theres a lot of concern about the fate of the streets. Well, our streets were littered with all these glossy mailers funded by god knows who. Im, like, whats going on here, and i would often take pictures of it and postit on facebook, saying, you know, if youre going to litter our streets, youre automatically not fit to be supervisor. And of course, like, there was the other things, like, you know being like, influenced by diagnosed like, who knows, ron conway or whatever . But you know, i kind of, like, took the opportunity to troll some people. I said send some pictures of glossy fliers with bad color schemes. And said pick up your trash. And i want to know where that fucking trash is coming from. This proposition is so fucking necessary. We need to get it on the ballot and get rid of this shit, and if we cant get rid of this shit, we need to know whats littering our streets with it. Chair ronen good morning. My name is vivian torelli. I have been a Campaign Worker since 1985, for art agnos. I carefully choose my candidates in terms of what they can bring to my city in terms of values, organization, and insight, and then, their chances of getting elected are threatened when their opponents have huge war chests to slam us. These are not only designed to affect the outcome of the election but are designed to exert undue influences on the policies of our opponents. A striking example was mayor breed, who in obvious deference to her donors who would be taxed under prop c did not support this strong source of revenue that was the antithesis of what her donors wanted. Yet, then she turned around and said her priority was Homeless Services and lamented that we need money for that. Donations have a loud voice and can shout down candidates who have the moral integrity who refuse to do the same in return. We need your support for the package of Public FinancingCampaign Reform to give admirab admirable candidates a fighting chance against elections seeking control and elected officials. Chair ronen thank you. Next speaker, please. Eileen boken. Coalition for San Francisco. And San Francisco education and action committee. Here on my behalf here in support of the sun light on dark money initiative. This initiative would take steps to level the Playing Field by increased disclosure, limiting contributions, and enforcement to ensure compliance. It would take steps to control some of the excesses created by Citizens United. It would repeal the board of supervisors ordinance from 2015 eliminating certain Disclosure Requirements for independent expenditure committees. It would implement safeguards against paytoplay for that appearance on development decisions. I would like to acknowledge each of the supervisors who have sponsored this initiative. It would move the election process in a better and more equitiable direction. It would make elections more competitive even for those candidates without deep pocket donor base. It would encourage more candidates to run who might not otherwise because of the daunting task of competing with candidates connected to super p. A. C. S, and hopefully this will reign in the endless reporting in the media about which candidate has raised the most money. Thank you. Good morning, supervisors. My name is holda garofalo, and i have served on two grand jurys. The Ethics Commission was one of our topics, but that led us to looking into how nonprofits and super p. A. C. S really prevent present a huge problem in our city. We always here about the swamp hear about the swamp in washington, d. C. San francisco has a pretty murky swamp of their own, and its time we tie up all those loopholes, have a city for the people, not for the lobbyists, the politicians who benefit because theyre totally selfinterested. Its time to start serving San Francisco. Oftentimes, our Public Servants forget Public Servant means serving the people. You work for us. Its time to start doing that without the slime and murk attach tod attached to it. Thank you. Good morning, supervisors. Im charles marstellar, formerly with common cause and certainly now with friends of ethics. I do want to say that at one time, we had a very robust investigative press, and like the rest of the country, weve seen a terrible decline in the ability of the press to fund that type of investigative reporting. Were working our way through that, but right now, theres a deficit that we really need to makeup for, and i think it goes to the law. We need to adjust our law accordingly and now to take action to make sure on this side of the law, we rewrite our laws to deal with some of these loopholes that we hear about and no longer expect the press to address those through robust reporting. They do what they can, but its not enough. And i think the supervisors here saw that in the last election process season that brought them to this body. And i do want to thank them for their efforts and interest because they saw what that means, and the corruption in this town that the press could not pick up the story on. So nows the time to address the law, and i think youve done an excellent job with this bill, and i want to thank the sponsors, mr. Keen and John Gollinger and mr. Ammiano on this, and im glad that eight members of the board are supporting this, a Broad Spectrum of the board, as we are on this issue, a Broad Spectrum of america. Chair ronen thank you so much. Next speaker. Hello. My name is agatha vassilar, and im speaking to you as a regular constituent whose family has been here 30 years. Before the 2018 election, i travelled around the country doing a project called inside out book project, and you know the San Francisco mural thats on display in the sf moma, its the same project thats on the voter registration. I talked to hundreds, if not thousands of people, and the major reason i heard that people dont vote is in a system where a corporate machine drowns out our vote, its very easy to believe that our conversations with elected officials dont matter. This is it. Big money out of politics is that root cause issue, and its my greatest wish to revitalize the culture of democracy in San Francisco and the country, and i think this is such a great step towards enacting that movement, so thank you so much. Chair ronen is there any other member of the public who wishes to speak . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel]. Chair ronen i just want to say that its rare to see such a piece of common sense legislation. Its pretty straightforward. If corporations cant donate to candidates, then limited Liability Corporations shouldnt be able to donate to candidates. If people with contracts before the board or before a Decision Maker who is running for a particular office should not be allowed to donate, then developers with housing projects before that same body shouldnt be allowed to donate. And if a law exists to ensure that we know who pays for campaign propaganda, then we shouldnt allow those donors to hide behind fake names. I mean, thats the essence behind this really common sense lemgs latio legislation. I have shared your frustration, commissioners keen and kopp for the failure of the Ethics Commission to pass something so common sense. I want to thank all of the advocates, thank you so much for your relentless work in this matter for not getting so disenchanted that you stopped pushing and stopped trying and stopped using other methods to go directly before the voters who i agree with you, peter, are going to overwhelmingly pass this measure. And i really want to thank my colleague, gordon mar, for putting this being the leader behind this effort. Supervisor walton . Supervisor walton thank you, chair ronen. I just want to echo the terms of my fellow Committee Members in terms of the importance of knowing who is giving to whom. The Citizens United decision set us back in a lot of decisions in the supreme court. As you know, were going back in a time warp, so any time we have a chance to make a decision in good policy that is really going to disclose some of dark money and some of the things that are happening in our political system, we ought to be able to do that. And i want to thank supervisor mar for stepping up and all the colleagues that supported this initiative or ordinance because it is important for us to know who is giving money toward races, so we can shine a light on whats happening in our campaign. So thank you so much, and again, i appreciate all the Public Comment and everyone for coming out this morning. Chair ronen supervisor mar . Supervisor mar thank you, chair ronen. And i just wanted to thank everyone for being here today and actually for many years, as judge kopp mentioned, this work goes back to the 1970s, and really for standing up against dark money, standing up for transparency and democracy. This is all about us knowing about whos trying to buy our elected officials and votes. We need to ensure our leaders are accountable to the public, not to dark money donors, corporations, or big developers. And with this initiative, we will end corporate contributions. We will end paytoplay policy particulars. And our work doesnt end there, and the board of supervisors will have another public finances ordinance to vote on this coming fall, but this initiative is crucial and a Ground Breaking step forward, so thank you so much for everyone here for all of your work on it. Chair ronen thank you. And with that, i will make a motion to file this hearing. If i can take this without objection . Without objection, that motion passes. Thank you so much. [gavel]. Chair ronen mr. Clerk, can you please read item number 2. [agenda item read]. Chair ronen thank you so much. And weve been joined by supervisor haney. Hello, supervisor haney. You want to start us off . Supervisor haney well, thank you, chair ronen and our rules Committee Members for having me again. And this will be, as required by the when we amend a charter amendment, we have to come back a second time. I just want to reiterate what some of those amendments are which reflect feedback from the department, from the Mayors Office and from stakeholders to ensure better coordination moon the existing advisory bodies. We are also in the process of drafting trailing legislation that will enact legislation among the current advisory bodies. These amendments also ensure that the commission acts in partnership with the committees to comply with mandates from state and federal funding, and they reflect the need to exempt contracts procured under the shelter ordinance from commission approval. That was one of the concerns that the department put forward that we addressed in these amendments. It also changes one of the appointment seats from the board of education to the controller, and it gives us more time to see and start the commission in may instead of march. Im confident that these amendments make this an even better proposal and improvement and will help the city better serve people experiencing homelessness and living in supportive housing. I appreciate the support of this committee and look forward to the commission being on the ballot. I wont go into a lot of details about the commission itself because i think we heard that fully last time around, but im happy to address any questions that you all have about it and hopefully will have your support continued support. Thank you. Chair ronen thank you so much. If theres no comments from my colleagues, i want to open this item up for Public Comment. Any member of the public, if you wish to lineup to my right, your left, youll have two minutes each, and feel free to come on forward. Sean davis. And im speaking on my behalf, but for identification purposes, im in the tenancy, and im kind of a bull dog, and lets face it. Im some support of this. The s. R. O. Task force has had to get involved in a lot of things around the s. H. Portion of the h. S. H. I would say it took 14 days into my Hunger Strike for them to actually admit that the rent issue was a problem. I also had to bring h. S. H. Before the task force when this controversial Wellness Check approximately happened in november, and its just really we really, really, really need this oversight. And ive also just found out that that protocols around Adult Protective Services and the h. S. H. Buildings are kind of a very mixed, kind of very depends on from agency to agency, so theres just a lot of issues that need to be addressed here, and im glad the commission will do this. Im okay with the amendments but i did bring this before the democratic socialists of america homelessness working group, and i will say they are kind of concerned that seven seats are going to be flipped from the board of education to the controller because the controller is also appointed by the mayor, and its just while im still going to, like, support this, im still going to vote yes, im still going to do a lot of volunteering for this. But im worried if this was compromised too much, there may not be as many boots on the ground for it. I think we really need sun light on h. S. H. Hi. My names mallory lynn hill. Im speaking today on behalf of San FranciscoHousing Action coalition. We appreciate the amendments and the Community Input that came with them, and were we want to create as much housing as possible and get as many folks into it as we can, and were concerned that this is going to be a wasteful measure. Thank you. Hello, supervisors. Paul monkay from San Francisco housing services. Last year, mayor breed said in response to proposition c, the city needs to you haudit the million that were spending on Homeless Services and that san franciscan deserve accountability for the money that weve already paid. Mayor breed recognized that the existing oversight structures are not sufficient, that there still needs work to be done on that end. This statement by the mayor is a call to action, and this proposal is a direct response to that call for action. Weve heard concerns that having a commission in place could slow down services, and believe me, we are the last people that want to see delays in contracting because it affects our ability to keep lights on and provide services, but in our community, there is a strong support for the commission because we believe there will identify delays in contracting and help us campaign for the most Critical Issues facing our city now. Good morning, supervisors, but thank you so much for the opportunity. My name is malia chavez, and im speaking in behalf of my role as director of hespa, the emergency providers association. I wanted to point out that this was an opportunity for us to really figure out what the budgetary process it for is for the department . There are a number of budgets that contribute to the overall budget of the department and its unclear what that separate set of budgets look like. And without going through a sunshine request or without asking for more details, the response from the department was that its a separate budget that doesnt actually appear through the board of supervisors process or the mayors budget . And so just again, one more better opportunity to under where all these resources are going . And so i know one of the requests here was around process and transparency and costs that might be able to go to service providers. It would be really great just to better understand what we currently have and be able to have oversight as well as an opportunity to provide feedback around prioritization or requests from a community standpoint, so thank you. Chair ronen thank you so much. Any other members of the public who would like to speak . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. I am happy, if my colleagues have no other comments, to make a motion to forward this to the full board as a committee report. Can i take that without objection . Without objection, that motion passes. [gavel]. Chair ronen thank you, supervisor haney. Mr. Clerk, can you please read item 3 . Clerk item 3 is a hearing appointing one member, term ending november 20, 2019 to the entertainment advisory committee. Okay. First, well hear from mr. Wells. Good morning. Hello. Good morning, chairwoman ronen, supervisor walton, supervisor mar. Very pleased to be here today to be reappointed by my supervisor to be the d10 rep for the bicycle advisory committee. Ive served for a couple of years. Im serving as the vice chair now, and in terms of what were working on, im very proud to say that the sfbac has become more of an active committee for the board. Were working more on being a watchdog on various issues for the city. Each of us are appointed by our supervisors for our districts to combine the needs in every district in terms of not just Bicycle Transportation but safety in regards to vision 2020 and how these pieces all work together. Bayview is underserved in a lot of ways and were looking for ways to take bicycle lanes that are suddenly disappeared, going nowhere and make a network of them so that