Transcripts For SFGTV Ethics Commission 20240713

Do roll call. [ roll call ] agenda number two, Public Comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda. Thank you, Ethics Commissioners and staff of our city. I am a Public Services worker. I am a delegate for Government Employees. I am also the director of Public Relations for the california grand jury association, the San Francisco chapter. I have been coming to the Ethic Commission for the Government Employees in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019. The last time i was here was january of 2020. I came to report issues of possibly government corruption and Election Fraud. As you remember, i was one of the eight candidates for San Francisco mayor in the june 2018 election. I was not allowed to join the forums, debates in Public Places like city hall, Public Library, public parks. I was one of the six candidates for San Francisco mayor for the november 2009 election. I was bullied about the Democratic Leaders and officials that many of them condemn my billboards and illegal removed and many posters were illegal removed and calling me racist. Because i talk about clean up city hall, fighting against San Francisco city hall corruption. I am a conservative republican. I care about my city, and i am coming to you and ask you for your intervention to stop possible corruption within the electoral officials. Ive talked to you about Election Fraud for San Francisco election record. 2018, 2019 we have so many people, more than 119 years old, more than 659 of them still in the voters roll and many of them voted, even 151 years old, 150 years old, 136 years old. I am here today to ask you if the city has more than 12 billion, we should not have anyone sleeping on the street, dying on the street overdose on the street. Our government itself has many problems because we only have one party, democratic party, and we have so many Homeless People that have suffering and dying because of the corruption we are facing. Ethics commission is a department that was set up to stop corruption, and i hope you stand up and do your job and able to do something about reporting to you. Im here to request you to restore law and order and protect the people in San Francisco. For public information, here you go. Thank you. Commissioners, San Francisco open government. Just so we have the report straight, dane dainachiu protects an office. Commissioner yvonne lee protects the office of the mayor. Commissioner fern smith protects the office of the District Attorney and commissioner gray protects the board of supervisors because thats what this commission is all about is protecting the elected and appointed officials of this city. At the last committing we experienced the reality this commission has never and will never act to enact the sunshine ordinance. Thats hypocrisy because for ten years, you sent people to barring on with the Sunshine Task force about coming up with a procedure to enforce that ordinance. And it was all done in purely bad faith. You had no intention and have no intention of ever enforcing that ordinance. The protection of the rights of the citizens of San Francisco to attend Public Meetings and participate in those proceedings is the furthest thing from your minds. All you have to do is look around this room and see what youre starting earlier in the day does, nobody shows up. In fact, someone at the last meeting pushed the panic button and three armed deputies showed up at my back. Arent you proud of yourself . You need three departments to protect yourself from the things i have to say. Thus begins the usual pattern of hostile behaviors exhibited when they dont like what a member of the public has to say. I have been fighting to ensure what i had to say at Public Meetings actually made it into the official record, which are the minutes, and last week, you made it certain that they wouldnt make it into the board of supervisors minutes. Ill tell you win thing about that hearing. It was so dishonest because all that has ever had to happen to prevent the 150 word summaries from appearing in the body of the minutes is for the legal attorney to issue a legal opinion rather than the bs he puts in the Good Government guide which is not the law, and it would have resolved the issue permanently. But i thank you for proving that as far as the sunshine ordinance goes, you are a dishonest body. Thank you. Any other Public Comment . Okay. Agenda item three, draft minutes for the Ethics Commission january 17, 2020, regular meeting. Thank you. We were unable to complete the minutes for this meeting and have them posted in time. We will have them at the next meeting, but we dont have them today. I apologize for that inconvenience. The january Meeting Minutes will be taken up then next month. Agenda item number four, discussion and possible action on Ethics Commission annual budget submission to the Mayors Office for fiscal year 20 21. In the packets that we distributed because an agenda item four, an overview of our anticipated budget submission. As you know, those are due today to the Mayors Office, and we have just submitted it prior to coming to this meeting to the Controllers Office as well and to all the parties that need to have those. We do have for and you on the publics table the commissions transmittal to the mayor that we just submitted today. So im using that as the reference point. There is much overlap between the two documents from the commissions Meeting Agenda last week, but this is the more complete picture of what the commissions proposal is. I just wanted to walk through process first and then get to the substance of our proposal and then answer any questions that you might have or members of the public might have. I will say that we are, as we speak, working to post our transmittal on our own website, on our budget page. It has been posted. If you click on the commissions tab, you can get to the budget page from there. At the top of the list at the bottom of the page will be the transmittal for 21 Budget Proposal were submitting today that we have submitted. As you may recall from the memo that we provided to you in your agenda packets, the commission is has taken a look at what we think is essential to request for our core Operational Services and core program mandates. Against the backdrop of, again, a mayors budget instructions to all departments this year, that given the potential climate that we see ahead, the Mayors Office has asked departments to submit budget requests that conform with a three and a half purchases cut from current fiscal year levels for 21 to a 7 cut total for 22. Of my comments are focused on 21 because in practice, for our department, it is a year to year process of requesting and securing funds. So the focus for our discussion is request for 21. In order for a department to submit its request to the Mayors Office for annual budget request today, the system we enter our proposal into requires a number of documents, but it also requires that the budget we submit reflect the absorption of those cuts. So the documents that we submitted today had to go through an exercise and look at where the commission, if we were imposed, where would they have to be absorbed by the Commission Given our current funding levels. Ill talk about that briefly as we go through the memo. Separate from that, departments are also able to submit transmittals, other information that discusses the impact of those cuts, but that also discusses what the departments believe they need to do, the missions and the mandates they have invented with authority and responsibility to do. Weve done that. As we have in recent years, we have submitted a transmittal to the Mayors Office that explains with as much detail as we can provide at the deadline of submitting our budgets what our request is and why we believe its significant and the impact of not being able to secure the benefits we need to do the job that we have. So with that backdrop, let me just take a bit a moment to explain some of the items that we have and the basis for the items that we are requesting in our budget. Ill be working through our february 21st submission. There are copies on the table for the public and online for those viewing this meeting live. Since the original discussion before this Commission Last month, there have been a number of recent troubling developments with the arrest of a former public works director. This follows on the heels within 18 months of resignations of the citys Public Health director under allegations and concerns of conflicts of interest. Again, these are allegations. We are assuming that everybody is innocent of those allegations or the charges until and unless theyre proven otherwise in a court. But what the 75page detailed charting document did show were troubling allegations of concerning approaches and actions that city officials may have taken or alleged to have taken. I think its true that for most departments, everybody is taking a good second look at how do these kind of things happen . What do we need to do it reenforce the cities practices and policies and procedures and culture to make sure these kinds of headlines stop and that we dont continue to face public crisis and confidence because of a concern that we do not have a strong culture of ethics in the city and county of San Francisco. We know that there are ongoing investigations. Again, the City Attorneys Office, the Controllers Office doing an audit and thats important. One thing we look at in our budget request is recognizing that there is an ongoing cost, a continue cost in the pocket books. The longer we wait to reach out and provide the support that we believe City Departments and city officials need and can benefit from to help them support navigating through the decisions and the kinds of issues that they face. So our budget request takes a very aggressive and clearheaded look at how we pro pros to do that. It comes with a price tag. We think it is a sound investment, considering the costs that come from having to pick up the pieces of a broken confidence City Government. So we do have a specific proposal for what were proposing as an ethics work initiative, a three year limited term process to advance working very closely with City Departments, develop tools relevant, useful resources to put together a team that can go out and support city officials, city leaders at all levels. Some of the things were looking at that we proposed would be, for example, to provide, make sure there is an ethics component in every new employee orientation so the minute they walk in the door, they know theres expectations for how we do our business together. Including that in the regular ongoing employee or generaltation is a starting point and a first step. Another step is to support the city supervisors. Many supervisors, as they move up the ranks, have the opportunity to take whats known as a 24 plus supervisory training session. Its over a series of weeks and it helps people focus on whats expected of you as a city supervisor. Currently, as we understand it, theres not a specific component in that related to standards of ethical conduct and how to navigate through decisions. We think that would be a benefit. We know that the city has a training with new municipal executives. We sent some of our staff to that over the years. Thats another opportunity as people have more significant leadership roles throughout the city, building a component there. Leveraging existing opportunities in the city to implement a stronger and better, more effective focus across the board and more seamless focus. Working with departments to work with tools they find most useful as they assess and we work with them to assess where the hotspots are, whether its related to statements of incompatible activities and help them understand where they might be in conflict and therefore restricted or addressed somehow, but there are a number of existing touch points where we believe if we and the city were able to marshal the resources over a limited three year term period, put together a project that helps partner with departments with existing opportunities to reach out to their workforce, leadership, people in the community that they work with, this would go a long way to reenforcing a culture where ethics is front and center and people feel equipped to have the tools to make practical choices, to make the right decision. This is something that is prominent since the last discussion that weve had before the commission. Its included in our overall budget request. That proposes a team of four individuals that would come into the work effective july 1st, start laying the groundwork and the infrastructure at this point. We dont think we can wait through the citys hiring process to wait a year or two to start this. We think its something that could be accomplished now. So we want to engage in further conversations of how that can be accomplished through limited term positions that are exempt position thats we can start start the fiscal year hitting the ground running. And the it would be a three year limited permanent project because at the end of three years we have a chance to assess performance metrics, whether and how this is making a difference and retooling it at that time to launch it for the longterm. But to really assess what it is that we have accomplished, what has improved, and then retool and establish a program at that time. Its designed to be a three year project. Pardon me. Yes. So that was one of my questions. Additional resources but for three years would function more as a pilot. At the end of three years, youll have criteria against which you can measure the success of the programs and tools that were launched and then you would then come back go back to city hall for an additional funding for more permanent Staffing Solution as well as ongoing support for tools and policies and procedure work. Yes, recognizing that i think one of our core mandates under the charter is to establish an Educational Program to have seminars and assist city officials throughout City Government in supporting a culture of ethics and understanding the rules of the road. We know the City Attorneys Office plays a tremendous role in doing that as well. Our focus is to try to make it tangible and Practical Application of those rules on a daadaytoday basis and so we tk theres a need to do that that has been unmet. Historically the Ethics Commission hasnt had an Outreach Team to my knowledge. I do understand there had been at a time, i think in the mid 2000s where there might have been a department that experienced issues or conflicts in their operations, and following that, there was one person hired at the Ethics Commission to do that. So well look into mechanics of that. But my point is that its just i think headlines like the one weve seen are troubling, but its also that opportunity to say we have to do something different. We cant wait. There are opportunities and there are needs and i believe there are resources, but we have to demonstrates they are effective and targeted and going to make a difference and they meet needs out there. Thats what this project and designed to do. We will be talking with the Human Resources department on monday starting to explore some of this further. But thats something that, again, i wanted to highlight front and center because its different and adds a certain amount to our budget. Our current fiscal year budget is 4. 5 million. With the on going needs weve identified in our february 14th memo, in addition to these, the commissions fiscal year budget for 21 would be approximately 6. 2 million. It would be a significant bump in the first three years. We would evaluate what it would look like Going Forward and whether it needs to go further at that point. The other thing i would highlight as a new item that we believe werent serious consideration that needs Budget Discussion is that we believe that two ensure the commission has a Strong Operational foundation, we believe its time to initiate serious discussions about whether and how we might structure a different funding model or additional funding model for the commission. As you know, our funds come from the general fund. We also know that there are some departments that charge departments for their services, the Human Resources or technology or real estate. I dont think thats quite what were looking at when we think about creating a citywide Integrity Fund, but exploring how we might tap existing resources that, perhaps, speak to investigative work or communications or outreach to really take a hard look at where those functions support employees and city officials in doing good work and understanding the rules that guide our expectations as Public Servants and where can we provide a more stable and longer term Funding Source for the Ethics Commission if year to year. Everything from our Technology Resources that cant be implemented on a dime and take long years of planning, like Capital Projects to be effective, we need to rethink what the funding model might be for the Ethics Commission to supplement the work. As you know from your experience and you no he from reading the charter, our mandate is a broad one. We have not been ever sufficiently resourced to achieve that mandate, and there are costs to continuing to delay our ability to do our job. Yeah. I would agree with that, and i also think that certainly since ive been on the commission every year city has asked us to reduce our budget, whether by 1 , 3 , 7 over time, and then if we never are able to staff to minimum capacity that we are able to get approved through the city hall process, it will be a constant game of two steps forward, three steps back. So i would absolutely be in support of exploring a new funding model. Is it the idea that a portion of the citys budget the commissions budget would come from the citywide Integrity Fund that would be permanent so that only so that 100 or 80 of it would go to support these ongoing critical initiatives that will help develop a culture of practices and procedures of integrity, transparency and ethics in the city and that other parts may be a little more variable . I think thats one of the questions we have to explore with the Mayors Office and the Controllers Office and the board of supervisors is really looking at i know that the city has been creative and effective in establishing ways to support a number of programs that are desperately needed in the city. We know there are a lot of needs out there that the city has to fulfill. We dont take this conversation lightly and we dont pretend to know what all the approaches could be. We dont have budget expertise with years of experience to help guide us at this time. Thats why we want to reach out. We know there are those models out there and i think that with a commitment to making sure that we can prevent corruption in all its forms before it takes roots, thats what were hoping to accomplish. We know there is wide support and commitment in the city to doing that, so that shared commitment were looking for it to become a shared sharing the cost and burden. I think we should move full speed ahead. If youre able to report back, that would be great. I think the rest of the budget is i can take the time to walk through it, if you would like. The positions that we have asked for are identified specifically in terms of a new position that would be dedicated to Human Resources and budget and finance. Those operational issues that the commission has not had and we know that the work as a city Agency Requires us to do that work. Its important work to be done and its important work to be done well. Youll see you know that from our hiring has not kept pace with the needs that we have because the process is both long and we dont have the expertise and the resources and the Time Available inhouse to make that happen more quickly. So thats something that we know we have to be focused on as well, getting those positions filled, having the resources and expertise to work through that process and get our positions filled. We also have identified other critical needs in terms of our Information Systems work, absent funding for these positions, many of the projects will stop or be significantly stalled. The bottom line, i think, as we have looked through our budget requests with a hard eye, focused on impact, we know that that fundamentally, it creates problems for us operation lee, but the real impact is to the public and people trying to understand the rules and comply with them. So during our discussions Going Forward with the Mayors Office and the board of supervisors we really want to help clarify and share that understanding about how what we hear and what we know about how our programs will be impacting stakeholders with complex laws and also impacts this will have to the public and their ability to have information about how government is working so they can exercise their ability to hold us all accountable. Let me pause there and see if anything else that we yes. Let me draw your attention, if i could, to the last section of the transmittal letter dated the 21st. This is the section where, in our communication with the Mayors Office, we identify what the targeted cuts that would require if they were imposed on us. For example, this fiscal year, for fy 21 starting july, the expected cuts for the Ethics Commission totalles 161,000. Thats the 3. 5 . As i mentioned, in order to submit a budget, we had to identify how we would absorb that if we had to. As a small department, were 87 salaries and fringe because the bulk of our work is done by people, not machinery. But we have a very, very low overhead. Were 87 staffing. So when we look at where we would have to cut in order to achieve the targets that have been established for us, that would require us to absorb those cuts in our personnel and salaries Personnel Services account. What that would mean, because the directions, again, from the mayors Budget Office are to focus on delivering these cuts in a way that prioritizes Core Functions and minimizes service impacts, but it avoids layoff, it directs our attention to those places where we would have to avoid layoffs. So the targeted impacts for us would translate to the elimination of the Principal Program manager for audits, which is a position that we had. We were able to fill but weve seen some attrition and has remained vacant since mid 2019. Thats a program that would have an impact particularly on obviously our Campaign Committee audits, our lobbying Audit Program and Public Financing certification reviews. The Audit Program, as you know, is required to do mandatory audits of all candidates and committees that receive Public Financing in their campaigns. We have required deadlines or initiation dates of when those need to happen. We have a mandatory statutory requirement to do a lobbying Audit Program, randomly select an audit once a year. We are non compliant and we have been for a number of years. This is something that having this position was designed to help us with, to both make sure that we have established a lobbying Audit Program thats effective, up and running and makes sense, and that we have also had the strategic day to day management and oversight of our Audit Program to really strengthen how we do audits, to improve the timeliness of our audits, to decrease the complexity where we can, and to produce timely and effective reports that account for how committees did in complying with the law following an election. Some of that work was started, but weve been unable to proceed with it because the positions not been filled. The inability to fill this position and the elimination will mean that the Audit Program will have to be in a static mode. Welcome promise and not be able to move forward with the identified changes we have on the horizon, and bottom line, again, inconvenient to us but more importantly candidates being drawn into city campaigns who choose to participate in the citys Public Financing program, audits can be delayed. The oversight of the money provided to the campaigns and the compliance checks on that would be delayed. That compromises the integrity of that program and the work in that area. It has a meaningful problem for committees where they would have to stay open later than they would otherwise while we finish audits and that if theyve closed, they would have to reopen it. It creates cost for folks who want to engage in political campaigns in the city. We find that very problematic. The Public Financing review process for candidate eligibility and dispersement of funds is out of program. Thats another ball juggled by that team. We have a program of Public Financing that has now just been revamped to expand hopefully its attraction to i larger group of candidates. We are going to see more candidates first time candidates coming into the program. That is happening at the same time we dont have the position or wouldnt have this position to exercise again, administrative over sight, day to day leadership on that program to make sure were operationallizing those changes effectively, consistently for thacks in that process. We see risks that are problematic. The second position thats noted that we would weve identified as on the impacted by this would be the policy analyst position, and this is a position we had filled earlier this year and had attrition. Its remained vacant because weve been unable to fill it due to band with and resource availability. This position is one that clearly provides critical support to this commission, to the public in evaluating, analyzing not just new laws and emerging issues but that is responsible for helping to assess effectiveness of existing laws. So when we know there are gaps in the laws or holes or places where we are unable to enforce the law because the dots dont connect, those are the kinds of things that a policy analyst helps us understand and helps make recommendations on how to close those gaps and how to strengthen the laws so they are sensible, workable, and enforceable. This position is also one that would does provide advice on the most complex of issues that come before us and so not having that position filled with all of the work that it would do in terms of analyzing policy, helping to for the implementation of policy by contributing subject matter expertise to the work that we all do, to get programs up and running once theyve been passed into law, that is an area that would essentially compromise the commissions ability to do its job as a policymaking body with independent voice effectively and were concerned about that. We would have to relook at what of those priorities have continue to be pursued that would result in having to take new projects on to our existing 1823, senior policy councils place and remove others. You can see the Ripple Effect it has when the two positions weve created in a policy unit in just the past several years will now be permanently undercut by 50 . So thats something that will slow considerably this commissions ability to pursue effective changes in the laws we have so theyre stronger, more workable, and effective. I think ill pause there. This is a lot of information. Our memo that we have submitted to the Mayors Office runs 17 pages. There is a lot of detail there, and i appreciate that it can be difficult to wade through. But we wanted to make sure that we could be as clear as possible in our submission about the need that exists in our judgment and the impacts that not funding the commissions essential capacity needs and things like a new ethics at work initiative, what the continuing costs will be in terms of an impact not 0 the city. We know the commissions reach is broader than the 23 fulltime equivalencies we have. We reach an entire city of 31,000 employees and beyond with people engaged in campaigns and lobbying activities. We have a full plate ahead of us and we have a significant but serious proposal for the work that we think we need to do and the work that we think should be funded at the commission. I welcome any questions. We welcome the commissions continuing engagement and support of this process. It will be critical to continue conversations Going Forward. As i was reminded yesterday, todays deadline is actually just the beginning of the budget process. The real work starts today. We look forward to your ep had. I want to acknowledging our programs officer who wears the hat as our chief Budget Officer and she wears it extremely well. So thank you and acknowledge her for that. Its not easy. Let me stop there and see if there are any questions or other information that broke vied to you at we can provide to you at this point. Any questions . I have a few. So just on a process standpoint now that the budget submission is in, what happens next . I know the budget will be approved for july 1st fiscal year, but given the current headlines as well as the ongoing City Attorney and District Attorney investigations, i feel like the need for Additional Resources and programs coming from the Ethics Commission to help create that culture of integrity and transparency is really critical and that asking for a 3. 5 , 382,000 impact cut for this upcoming year and then aggregating to 550 in fy 22 is moving in the absolutely wrong direction. Its not going to help San Francisco restore faith in the people of the city, that Integrity Matters and that we collectively are trying to do a better job and have a culture os so people will blow the whistle when they see something around ethics. If you could report back next month on what the reaction is from city hall, from the Budget Discussions that you have because while this is a significant increase from what our budget is currently, i think that my one question is, is this enough given the nature of the allegations that have been reported in the press . I appreciate your point, director, that everyone is innocent until Proven Guilty, but the allegations are serious and troubling in their nature. The work that is needed to be done is historically the commission has not had a large outreach staff. But we need a large outreach staff. Its not just the elected officials and the appointed supervisors in the Department Heads who need to know, but everyone underneath them need to know if you see something, what do i do . How do i know this is right or wrong . Who do i go to to report it . And do they feel safe enough to report it . I think all that work can be driven and supported by the Ethics Commission. So with i think youve done a great work in detailing out all of this. I guess my only question is, will this be enough . Do we need more given the gravity of the problems that have been uncovered today . Thats a difficult question to answer. Again, i think the answer we know we need more. We know that the city also has a number of challenges that we have to practically address. This reflects our cautious but realistic take on what we could start with and what we could make a difference with if we had resources in place. So things like taking a look at it in the third year to see if ethics work program should be continued or modified, thats something we should be willing to do when weve identified the plan to do that in our initiative that were proposing. But it is also clear that we know that with certainty what the city is investing in the Ethics Commissions work today is not enough and that there will be continuing significant real costs to the city continuing on if we are not more able to do the work that the voters set us up to do. That takes resources as well and, again, i said before, we very well know this is a shared commitment by many offices. But there is more work to be done that weve been able to do. That will continue to play out in terms of not just bad headlines i think over the years but true cost to the taxpayers who then have other programs diverted and have to follow after the scandals have hit and the Public Confidence has been harmed. It takes a lot to repair that. So this investment in more proactive work to prevent corruption in all its forms before it can take root is really something that is the commissions core mission, and i think its time that the commission be able to do that work with effectiveness and with real meaning. I appreciate your sentiments about a shared commitment across the city around this effort to create a different kind of culture within City Government, and i think that the true test of that commitment is what kind of time and resources that the city collectively will put to solve the problem, and so i would very much like to wait the outcome of the discussions with the budget, but i think certainly my message to the city hall is that if city hall is serious about changing the culture, then i think its really important to put the resources, absolutely critical, to put the resources into changing that culture because it doesnt just happen. Hope is not a strategy at all, ever. Commissioner lee. Thank you. I echo the chairs comments. I just want to add that this commission has always been the organization. We take on a lot of responsibilities. It seems like every time when new initiatives are in place, then the staff has to take on new responsibilities without the corresponding resource to support that. So even when you prepare this budget before all these things happened, it was already a very, very lean budget, already a challenge to meet all the existing and new responsibilities. I like to think that, you know, a large majority of our city family, honest people. They respect the process, and they follow the rules of law. But all it takes is just a few bad apples to erode the publics confidence in the integrity of City Government. This is the time for all of us to really look deep and see what are the areas that we really need to strengthen the oversight and i agree with the chair that, you know, many of these new initiatives that you put together are still not enough to really address the critical areas, which is not only to get people to file the necessary forms but to remind them why these forms are important. Who is going to be reviewing them . They dont know. Then a lot of times, when we dont have when we have the carriage and not enough of the sticks, it creates a few bad apples that can really, again, add doubts to the residents of the city that trust in their government. So i hope that the meetings that you would be holding, people would recognize that this budget is not a high in the sky budget. Its realistic, especially in view of whats happening and what is going to happen in the near future. We need to have the resources necessary. I particularly like to explore, we need to look at Additional Resources, even if we dont need to look at the mandatory budget cut, even if we get everything that is necessary, there is still areas that we can really add on resources. One particular area that i really want to explore is the particular Educational Outreach to city contractors and grantees. Theres many of the contractors already have to pay fees when they file for permits and what have you. I like to know whether, you know, its within the Legal Process that we should look at whether we can get a piece of those fees because i know that certain fees are already being channeled to different departments for th the work reld to the contracting work and what have you because, you know, if we need to look at additional revenues already put into the citys coffers, maybe we should look into that. If were taking a Critical Role in educating and outreaching this population, who needs to know about the citys ethics laws and requirements, we should be paid from that pot of money to supplement what we already have. We just already very, very lean. So i hope that the leaders that you will be meeting within the next few weeks understand that youre not going in to ask for more money. Youre asking for the necessary tools to continue what we do as a chair said. Were all on the same page, making sure that we have a clean government with integrity that the public can trust. Lets support it and make sure that the Ethics Commission staff can have the toolses to do the tools to do the work. I would echo commissioner lees comments and just to create perspective, the overall city budget is 12 billion. Were here asking for 6. 2 million which is less than 1 of that. I think that i hope that we will get this and more and well have a productive and fruitful dialogue about alternative Funding Sources that could ensure that there will be resources there for the ethics work to continue regardless of who sits in city hall Going Forward into the future. So we look forward to updates in the coming months and also let us know how we can help with our support in that effort. Thank you. I appreciate those comments. Thats helpful. We will convey that and engage you at every opportunity. Thank you. Call for Public Comments on attend a item number four. Commissioners, this agenda item notes the public announcement of the fbis arrest and charging of San Francisco public works director on federal corruption charges, end quote. Assume that what he did which was federally illegal was also a violation of state law and probably city and county ordinances. Conspicuously absent is the mention of london breeds potential violations in filing her annual statementses of economic interest. One involved her acceptance of a loan from him, her suborder, which is a nono. Youre taking a loan from somebody who works for you, thats the real shaky one. She also had apparently a float in the pride parade that somebody give 12,000 and it was not put on her sei. But innocent until Proven Guilty is the way you deal with it. Right . Lets see. Im sure that im certain the mayors minions have been scurrying around to clean up other mistakes and i use quotes on that before they come to the publics attention. And i will guarantee there are more. I think former commissioner quinton cobb said it best, if i can get this on the screen. I dont think this is a quote. I dont think anyone is afraid of the Ethics Commission who is in competitive political life in San Francisco. The lobbyists have acclimated themselves over a period of 25 years and so have the candidates, end quote. Thats from someone who quit this commission because he was disgusted with it. The only one that was more dramatic was when your president quit in the middle of a meeting he was so disgusted. So what exactly do the citizens of San Francisco get from the ethics minions at an average salary benefit package of 164,000 a year . I hear you saying the words oh, we dont have enough resources. If i remember correctly when the executive director took over, this body got a 30 increase over what it had under the previous ethics director. And very frankly, i dont see any difference today than it was years ago or decade ago. Youre just as ineffective now as you were then. If laughable, i think, that you consider the city and county of San Franciscos taxpayers should give you more money to flush down the drain. Thank you. Other Public Comment . Agenda item five, discussion of monthly stuff, policy reports, including presentation on new laws and resources in place through 2020 elections following the Public Financing review project. Thank you, chair and commissioners for the report and pat ford, i want to devote most of my time today for this agenda item to give you a presentation that i hope will serve as a sort of capstone on the Public Financing project. So before i get to that, i think ill just ask if you have any questions about the policy report thats attached to your with the agenda item five. I think for the Public Financing item, the presentation will give you info about that. I mentioned prop f litigation. Theres a stand alone agenda item for that as well. So i wont go into detail on those here up front. But please let me know if you do have any questions about this, i would be glad to answer them. Any questions . No. Good. Okay. Great. So at this time ill invite rob hodge who is our lead auditor to join me, and we will give you a brief presentation about the Public Financing review project and ill start out by briefly recapping the project for you. Ill go through it quickly because this will be the part that youre most familiar with. Ill just briefly summarize the ordinances and regulations that you approved as part of this project and talk about the process that led to that and at that point, ill transition over to rob and rob will take over and give you an idea of the kind of the behind the scenes work that went on to operationa opere the new laws but undertake a lot of administrative improvements to the program that we hope will make it much more effective moving forward. So without further ado, i will switch over to the projector where weve slides for you and well get started. Thank you. The main goals we were trying to address in this review project were first and foremost to reduce the participant compliance burden. We believe during the 2018 election cycle based on what we were hearing from candidates and treasures, the candidates were having difficulties understanding the requirements of the program and kingdom applying with them complying with them. We tried to make it as efficient as possible for qualified candidates to comply with the Program Rules so they were not spending Public Financing funds merely on compliance, that they were minimizing the compliance cost and using those funds for what they were intended for which is to run a campaign, communicate with voters. But secondly, we heard from stakeholders that they really wanted us to also assess whether the program is meeting the policy objectives and strengthen the program so they better meet the objectives. How we undertook this is first to identify the issues and approaches. As i mentioned, many of the issues were brought to light during the 2018 election which is based on what we heard from candidates. As you recall, there were a number of appeals that candidates brought to the commission and voiced concerns about various features of the program. So that was one of our starting points is what we were hearing from candidates. We went beyond that and we proactively sought to engage with those candidates and many other candidates and treasurers and have phone conversations or email exchanges where possible to just get a sense from them of what their experience was like and how they thought the program maybe could be better from the candidate perspective. We also worked with stakeholders. These would be anybody from vocal advocates to regional organizations to National Nonprofits working on election related issues. We thought having as diverse a group of of voices on this project would be helpful, and i believe that it was. Many of the approaches we recommended to you came from the stakeholders themselves. We also did extensive Data Analysis, and we were aided largely by the edit time, tyler field, on that component. Youll remember all of the charts and data that we brought to you to quantify what we were seeing in the program, whether spending limits were being adjusted properly, whether the amount of funding candidates were getting was effective, et cetera. Another important component of the project was to talk to other jurisdictions that have Public Financing to understand what their experience has been and to see what we might learn from them. The project was divided into two phases. So ill talk about two phases separately. The two phases roughly aligned with the two goals i mentioned up front. Goal one being to address compliance burdens on the participants and i should say applicants generally, and then phase two, trying to look at the more substantive aspects and how we might strengthen to improve outcomes. Phase one resulted in an ordinance and a set of regulations. The ordinance did the following four things that you see on the slide, changing the deadline for the statement of participation,s eliminating the trust account limit, and the contingency account requirement and then the last two bullet points relate to how the adjustment mechanism was changed. The regulations that came through phase one were all trying to clarify processes and requirements for candidates. So the regulations now provide much more detail about how to prove the residency of contributor, which is part of having a contribution approved for Public Financing, to clarify that we will not review qualifying requests until the candidate has filed a statement of participation. Thats a necessary step in the process that we thought needed to occur in that order. We clarified the rules for refiling and resubmission of qualifying requests. Those are two separated process thats were being conflated. So we sought to have clear separate processes there. We also clipped the appeals process creating a standard for appeal and how that process works. Then in phase two, as youll remember, this is much more recently, the ordinance made several changes, but the main four changes were these, increasing the matching ratio from 2 1 to 6 1. No longer matching the full 500 of a contribution but only matching up 150, making more Funds Available to candidates, each candidate, and having higher initial iec levels. So i know that was fast, but these are things i think youve seen many, many times. I dont want to belabor them. So well move now to talking about how those laws were implemented. So Audit Division led a process to update their pros. Ill turn it over to rob. He might elaborate on that more. But also, as you know, net file is an integral part to the Public Financing program. This is the program that candidates use to file all Public Financing forms with our office. So any time the laws change, we have to make changes to that program, too. The team led that process. Likewise, the forms that underlie the Public Financing program also have to be updated. All of the content on our website, compliance materials like the supplemental guides and all of our vice has to be updated. These are updates just to bring these items into compliance with the new laws. This is separate from the rest of the presentation which is actually improving those processes and documents to try and make them more effective. This slide is what was involved as those new laws went into effect. What did we immediately have to do just to be in compliance with the new laws . Ill turn it over to rob now to talk about what we did beyond just these items. Hello, commissioners. My name is rod hodge. Im the lead auditor at the Ethics Commission. I worked closely with pat as well as several other divisions to take these changes that came about, phase one and phase two process and actually kind of make them reality for the candidates, treasurers, and other stakeholders. Continuing on with our presentation, one of the main things that we found coming out of the 2018 election cycle as we entered into the phase one discussion and changes was that there were a lot of ways we could improve and update our existing educational material, not just to incorporate the new changes but also to just make information more accessible to the public, not just candidates and treasurers, but anyone that may have an interest in what it is we do with the Public Financing program. Our first stop place for information is our website. We do have a dedicated page to Public Financing to provide a lot of general facts and overviews of the program and how it works. The audit team does perform a regular review several times a month. Many we kind of go through all pages of our website. Anything that the audit team might touch on, whether its through add its, Public Financing, we are reviewing those pages. Were always trying to find ways,ing something unclear . Can we improve the quality or the content or clarity of the information we present on our website . To incorporate changes that came about from the phase one updates, those are made back in june of 2019. We want to make sure those were out there because we did have that special election for board of supervisors november of last year. The phase two changes were made and incorporated to our website in january of this year. Just to show, this is just an example from our website, this is the immediate landing page of candidates. If they go to compliance, then on the righthand side, the drop down menus, candidate and Public Financing. This page immediately pops up provides them information on the amount of funding they may be eligible to receive. We also have right near the top, unfortunately its covered up by the closed captioning there, but there is a link to the supplemental guides that we create for supervisor and mayor. Ill touch on those in a few minutes. We also took this section, applied for Public Financing, originally this was only about two small paragraphs. We really want to expand on this. Again, as the first landing page where candidates might come, we want to make sure they were gettings enough information to really understand what the program is about and what is involved in participating. Our second effort that we undertook was working with policy directly to update our supplemental guides for Public Financing. We do have two versions of the guide, one for board of supervisor and one for mayor. These are really the primary source of information for anyone that wants to participate in the program. We go into depth and extreme detail on the specific requirements outlined by the laws, what candidates need to do before they can submit the application or the qualifying request, and if they are not approved, what do they do next . If they are approved, what are the next steps . This document initially, i believe, was about 19 to 20 pages. Based on feedback we got in 2018, phase one, phase two changes, weve expanded that and its almost 30 pages now because we wanted to make sure every question that we were getting from candidates, we wanted to present p that information up present that information up front so they could read it and have examples and gain an understanding of it. Then, again, with the website, this is a document we are constantly reviewing. Every election cycle, we go through. We see what can we improve or update . How can we make it better for the public and then the phase two changes that will be applicable for this years november 2020 election, we had those published in january of this year as well, well ahead of when candidates could apply. That information is out there right now for them to be able to review. I wanted to provide you with sample pages just to show you the breadth of updates that we made. All the text that you see in orange is text that was either added or revised to either incorporate changes that came from phase one and phase two or to try to address issues and concerns that we received from candidates, treasurers and the general public. Our goal was to put as much information up front as we could for the public and try to address the common questions we were getting before the candidates tried to attempt to participate. Again, this document that is kind of our primary source. Anyone with questions, thats one of the first places well turn them to and say, well answer your questions, but we want to make sure you have this document saved on your computer or you have a document of this form. Its available on our website but also in our office as well. Finally, in response to comments and questions from the public, we felted it was very worthwhile to develop a form of educational material which was an actual visual presentation. We have a lot of things in writing but we want to be able to have a visual presentation that someone can sit through, kind of get that information in a different approach. It was only intended to augment our existing information, and its really this is a high level overview of what you could expect. We wanted to give people a taste of, hey, there are a lot of requirements. Theres a lot of expectations. So youll need to follow through and review these resources to understand those before you elect to participate. Its only an introduction and in no way do we want to make it another burden or another requirement or prerequisite. It is something thats offered to present the information in a different way than what we already had. We do want to offer this in conjunction with the required candidate treasurer training that all committees, treasurers and candidates for office have to participate in. So well just offer this after that course or that training is presented. Just to give you a few samples, again, looking at things from a very high level view, we didnt want to get bogged down in too many details because we want this to be a very easily digestible presentation for the public. But we wanted to make sure they understood there are a lot of requirements. There are a lot of things that they need to do to qualify to receive Public Financing. So were really hopeful a presentation like this will allow people to understand better what they need to do before they even get their campaign going, before they start filing their first forms or setting up a file account to do any of the filings they need to do, we want to make sure they have an understanding of start to finish what is our expectations so that candidates can qualify. Excuse me, rob. Yes. So this visual presentation, is this an inperson presentation or on the website. Thank you. We will offer it in person. Were going to host it on our website. So if the supplemental guide is a little too dense and too much to read through, this is sort of a very abridged version of the supplemental guide. What i find helpful about this is that if you go back a slide, theres a flowchart, a couple slides. This is a great to give an overview of what the different steps are because otherwise, theres a lot of text to read which is very dense. Yes. And you might not be able to picture in your head, i have to do a and then b and then c and then what happens and if they have additional questions, they have the dense text to be able to go read line by line what is required. So i think this is the more we can do of this, i think the better to make it more accessible to first time candidates, for example, who might be seeking Public Financing. Yeah. That was really a driving factor behind sitting in with guy and rachel from our office when they were spending the candidate treasurer trainings in the last election cycles. I sat in to field questions and we found a lot of folks just kind of needed that very introductory level but they werent ready to bite off the whole i need to read a 30page manual on what i need to do. So we wanted this to be a compromise and allow people to get their feet wet with whats involved. I think this is terrific, and the more of this we can do i think we can make it accessible to more people. Onwards and upwards. Any other questions i can answer about the materials weve developed or anything that was in the presentation . Have you gotten any feedback. We actually just finalized this presentation. So the supplemental guides have been out and available. We have received phone calls from candidates and their treasurers just about general steps and things they will need to do to qualify or to participate and qualify for Public Financing. However, this presentation, we pretty much finalized within the last week or so. We have not had a chance to post it or give a live presentation yet. We do have plans to do so in the future. Yeah. Ill be interested to hear what the feedback is. Yes. Were interested to hear, too, because we want to make this as accessible to the public. We dont want it to be a daunting or scary thing that people dont want to do because they dont understand it. We want everyone to feel encouraged to try and get some assistance to run their campaigns. Commissioners . I dont have questions, but i would like to echo the commendation about the flowchart. Its helpful. I think for the public who wants to understand how to run for anything but wants to know how the process works, its a great tool. I fully agree with that. We hope that will kind of serve dual purpose to educate candidates, treasurers, and the public at large as to the programs were running. And will you have im sorry. I dont recall offhand, but do you have a page that explains how the matching works because it was it used to be 2 1 and now its 6 1 and now its 150. Yes. That can be a little hard to follow the first time around. Make sure to break those out into separate slides. Theres a slide that says the minimum amount you have to raise and what that gets you for an initial payment, what additional matching funds mean. So we really tried to put only one or two talking points on each slide. We definitely highlighted how the matching funds will work both for supervisor and for mayor candidates. This is a good time before the november election because the deadline, i think, to participate would be sometime in june, early june . June. Yeah. So welldone. Thank you. Youre welcome. Thank you. There are no more questions. I think well wrap it up. Ill mention that the 2020 election will be the first major election cycle where both phases of the project, both sets of ordinances will be in place and all of these new materials will be in place. So i think were looking forward to it as the first test case to see, you know, what changes we might see. I think sometime in early to mid calendar year 2021, we would like to go back and take a look at what we saw. Hopefully have contact with candidates and treasurers and maybe do kind of a very abbreviated look back, not a full review again, but just some kind of look back to see what the response was and maybe well find that there are some additional tweaks around the margins on the materials that we can make, but we really see this as kind of a culmination of the project. This is an 18month process that started back in july of 2018, and that now all of the deliverables are pretty much in place and now were wait and see mode looking forward to seeing what happens. And can you remind us, pat, what races are upcoming in the november 2020 election . So the races that are eligible for Public Financing are all the odd numbered board of supervisors seats. There are six of those. I believe there are two open seats now, which historically can generate more Public Financing, not always the case. Sometimes theres none. Sometimes the races with incumbent have more. Hard to say. Its possible we could see activity with Public Financing this year. I think the new materials are going to be very helpful. Well look forward to getting feedback from the people who are actually getting information from them. So look forward to that in 2021. Yep. I look forward to it as well. Thank you very much. Thank you. Public comment on agenda item number five . Commissioners, director San Francisco open government. This agenda item includes another case of rearranging deck chairs on the titanic. Your answer to every single thing that happens in this city is rewrite the rules. And you havent quite caught on to the fact that the people who dont follow the rules you had in the past arent going to follow the new rules either. I was a lecturer for the university of hawaii and Business Manager for 14 years. I found case studies to be very instructive. As determined by the fair political practices commission, the fppc, quote, in the matter of luis herrera, while serving as city librarian for the San Francisco Public Library failed to report gifts received from the friends of the San Francisco Public Library on annual statements of economic interest, form 700, for calendar years 2009, 2010, and 2011. Mr. Herreras original filing included this statement which is at the bottom, quote, i certify under penalty of perjury under the laws of the state of california that the foregoing is true and correct, end quote. You can all look down at your folders instead of looking at me. I dont blame you. And he signed it year after year after year saying he didnt get anything. I brought it twice to the Ethics Commission and both times they simply ignored it, which is why we went to the fppc. Like the federal indictment, nothing this body ever does improves the ethics. It takes somebody outside the city family to do anything. Before proceeding to sacramento, we brought this matter to the Ethics Commission which did exactly nothing. As the best cater of future performance is past performance, realistically, what can the public expect from this Ethics Commission . Ive said it for more than a decade now to the previous commissioners and you, ill say it again, show me anything this Ethics Commission that has done that has improved the ethics of this city. Again, they sit and look down into their labs. I dont blame you. You talk a good game. There used to be a lot of people who would come here on a regular basis and they no longer do because they realize that it really isnt worth the trouble. But dont worry. You have me. Ill be back every month to point out the fact that, again, youre rearranging deck chairs on the titanic. The best definition of insanity is Albert Einstein said is the expectation that you do something for the hundredth time that it will somehow turn out differently than the 99 times before. Thank you. Any other Public Comment on agenda item five . Item six, discussion of monthly stock enforcement and support. Thank you, chair and commissioners. This months report highlights in brief what the that the commission is, of course, following with interest the revelations about public potential public corruption in the city and county of San Francisco. These reports as the executive director highlighted in her budget report, many of those revelations have concerned former public works director. Her report as mine did not include anything about more recent revelations with respect to the office of the mayor. These materials were finalized ahead of those revelations, but i can assure you that the Enforcement Division continues to meet every week with its counterparts, its investigative counterparts in the offices of the controller, the City Attorney, and the District Attorney. As you know, the City Attorneys Office has established a Public Integrity hotline that people can contact if they have concerns or information related to public corruption. We would, of course, invite people to do the same, reminding people that we have complaint process with the Ethics Commission as well. People can call us at the number that weve included in the report. We frequently get complaints over email. We have included the link to our website where the complaint process is described, and i would observe further that i have been working with tyler field who has come previously before the commission. He is one of the members of the commissions edit team, the electronic disclosure and Data Analysis team. The correct director of that time has loaned tyler to me and the two of us are working together to develop an online complaint submission process to make it easier for the public, we have reviewed the online complaint submission processes available among many of our peer jurisdictions and were trying to take the better of the features of those various submission processes and incorporate them into a submission process that would serve the people of the city and county of San Francisco. So we hope to have that underway very soon. I would add finally as the report notes that our division is certainly working with the commissions policy division and counterparts elsewhere to try to identify any vulnerabilities in existing law with respect to government ethics, and we would hope that one outcome of the variety of revelations might be an opportunity for crossdepartmental collaboration to shore up any of those vulnerabilities. A handful that come to mind arise in the arena of gifts, payments, and statements of incompatible activities, but we would intend to bring before the commission at some future meeting more explicit description of what our concerns might entail there. I would note that the list of accounts that have been referred to the bureau of revenue has grown. I did receive a communication today from a member of the public who had a sensible request, which was that in subsequent meetings, we report not only the status of these accounts but the origin of the penalties that the commission assessed against each of these debtors who are before the bureau of delinquent revenue. I did go back and look through the origin of these particular penalties. I believe there are 14 individuals on this list. The vast majority of those, nine, i think, concern late fees assessed from the Campaign Finance context. Across a variety of committee types, general purpose, candidate committees, ballot measure committees and major donors. The five remaining ones arose in the context of administrative enforcement. I would note one of Chris Jacksons accounts arose from an enforcement proceeding; the committee to he electric Jacqueline Norman for supervisor arose from an administrative proceeding, a hearing on the merits in which the Commission Found six counts of failure to file semiannual campaign statements. The account regarding isabel [indiscernible] was not a Campaign Finance late fee but a lobbyist late fee. You will remember that the account regarding Lynette Sweet arose after a hearing on merits in the administrative enforcement context, and that account regards a candidate for the board of supervisors who received Public Financing but whose Record Keeping was insufficient for the commission to have established her compliance with Campaign Finance laws. A fifth, which is not from within the late fee context is the one regarding richard matthews, and you may recall a stipulation that you ratified some months ago in which he agreed to three counts in violation of a prohibition against attempting to influence a governmental decision involving his own a appointment for employment. So we have had a certain amount of conversation around the bureaus efforts to collect these penalties, and we have had substantially less conversation about where the penalties arose to begin with. So i would just note that the request from the member of the public is well placed. I will probably just field questions if you have any, but i would note, again, that as former commissioner cobbs request, we continue to report on a specific subset of statistics in the monthly enforcement report, and that appears at the top of this month in page 2 where we report average numbers regarding the two processes that govern the commissions investigative process, first being preliminary review and the second, of course, being open investigation. So we report every month the number of cases in each of those categories and the average amount of time that it takes us to resolve each step of that process, report the for this month, the prior month, and this month a year ago and i would just note again that about twothirds of the matters before the commission now are in open investigation instead of awaiting triage. The amount of time that it takes us to resolve investigations is Holding Around a year and a half the amount of time that it takes us to triage complaints that come through the door is on a downward trend. Its less than 6 months. Of youll recall last month i stated some goals that the division retains, but i think i will just invite any questions if you have them. I just had one question. That was regarding the online complaint submission tool. When you say its about to get kicked off, is that the development process, or turning it on and making it available to the public . We have to turn it on in the near future, but its still in a developmental phase where were creating some mockups. Well do some testing. We may when we turn it on, we may consider it a pilot because we would welcome feedback from users on whether the interface is serving their needs. So its midway into the development. Great. Well, keep us posted on the progress. Commissioner lee . I have a question. Regarding the online complaint, i assume they are done anonymously. Online complaint process will include all the options currently available to complainants which is a strange matrix of possibilities. An individual can submit a complaint anonymously. We would consider that informal. But they can also submit the complaint with their Contact Information but without attesting to its truth. We would consider that, again, an informal complaint even though we might have their Contact Information. It would, like the current complaint process, it would enable people to submit a sworn complaint in which they provide Contact Information and attest to the information they submit. And also, since the whistleblower is going to be key to a lot of these complaints, if you havent done so already, i would suggest putting, along with the front of the page, protections on the whistleblower because its taking a really, really bad hit the last few months. So i think that it would be good to provide confidence to those folks that what theyre doing is protected under the law so that they should feel confident in filling out those forms. Thank you. Public comment on agenda item number six . Commissioners, ray harts, director of San Francisco open government. I would like to start out my Public Comment on this item with a joke. Quote, the Enforcement Division is consulting internally with policy staff and others regarding any possible legislative or process changes that may be warranted to abate vulnerabilities in a citys existing ethics laws, end quote. Its a joke. Right . What have you ever enforced . You go after the low hanging fruit. People who try to run a campaign, get in over their heads, and cant afford a big fancy lawyer. While the big people get away with bloody murder. As an annual Salary Benefits package of 164,000 a person, i would expect something a little bit disingenuous in what weve been presented with today. Author wrote in her book the ethics of willful ignorance. In brief, the criminal law doctrine dictates someone who deliberately ignores obvious facts is as couplable as a person who knows those facts but continues despite them. As i did in the previous item, i showed you the case against former city librarian luis herrera, which i brought personally to this Ethics Commission on two separate occasions, and you did nothing. We went to the fppc in sacramento. They found him guilty and fined him and forced him to restate those seis. You can have anybody fill out paperwork, but if you do nothing with the paperwork, especially when its violated the law, do you really think these papiermache changes are going to do anything . So where exactly does this put the Ethics Commission and its staff in relation to those Public Officials who file false seis . Havent done anything as far as i have ever seen. And i dont see any indication that it will be any different Going Forward. The greatest vulnerabilities in the citys ethics laws are the members of this commission, present and former. Civil grand jury said it really good in regard to the sunshine ordinance, they say you dont enforce it, so they dont follow it. Same with the ethics laws. Thank you. Any other Public Comment on agenda item number six . Agenda item number 7, discussion of executive directors report. Update of various programatic and operational highlights of the Ethics Commission staff activities since the previous meeting. The report that i provided to you this month provides updates on a variety of programatic fronts. First and foremost, the key milestone our team was able to achieve which is to have all of the updated electronically filed statement of economic interest data from over 500 filers now online from 2015 to 2019 in an open data formatted. And what that means is in addition to the search function weve been able to provide for an individual or interest, this now enables the public to go in and pull down the entire or look at the entire data set across filers and interests so it enables full transparency in ways that people want to look in the information and want to understand the information. So this is the kind of thing we hope to continue to see Going Forward, but we were pleased that was able to be concluded last month. Director, let me interject for a moment. Part of the budget submission for fy 21 would go towards continuing this kind of work . Thats correct. So, again, i just want to make the this the permanent and stationary this is critical we receive the resources to take what were previously single pdfs stored electronically but effectively out of reach and unsearchable to anyone because you would have to look up one by one. Thats right. By person or by entity and its literally an i am upon task if you want to do that across 2015 through the present. So hats off to the edit team for getting this done. I know this was contemplated and its great to see that its alive and available. This is one example i think when you and the public have a chance to go look at the data, see whats there, this is exactly the kind of thing that we had planned to do across Program Areas because it is the place where people can go and look for the things that are of interest to them. So thats something that we will hope to see continuing across Program Areas of the commission. Weve been also initiating our annual filing outreach with our folks on engagement and compliance staff. They have four sessions set up for next month. We know andrew chen has been doing outreach this filing season. We have sessions planned for filing officers, those officials and departments that administer these programs so their current paper filers can get them in on time. But we also do direct sessions for filers themselves so if there are questions they have about the process or why the rules are what they are and what the Disclosure Requirements might be, theyre intended to help provide that information to them. We also updated our landing page on the website that you may have seen that directly links officials who need to file to the resources they need to do that filing. We also i think i may have mentioned we had applied for San Francisco Fellows Program resources. We have our San Francisco fellows now under way working with us for 40 hours on a project to develop some materials and content and theyve been terrific bundle of energy and creativity and insight in our office. Weve enjoyed working with them. I want to highlight they are under way and we look forward to bring willing them to a bringing them this spring so they have a chance to meet with you directly. A couple other quick highlights, the board of supervisors audit performance outsidity of the Ethics Commission that has been initiated by the budget and legislative analyst is now under way. Weve been meeting with and providing information to bla auditors and so that is on going. At this point, anticipated to be completed sometime this spring, but well keep you posted on that. That work is a priority for us to support whatever information they may need from us. One last note here is that we did have, due to a scheduling conflict with the commission, december 2020 meeting date has been changed just for the note for the public. I think we have updated this on our website. If we have not already, we will do that before the end of month, close of business, but it is instead of monday december its been revised to monday, december 14th, at 9 30 a. M. Instead of friday, december 11th. So, again, that information is here just for planning purposes. I think the only other thing i would add this month is that i want to acknowledge last month as the commission elected new officers Going Forward effective march 1st for our bylaws, that would officially make this the last meeting of chair chiu in the capacity of chair. On behalf of all the staff, i want to acknowledge your leadership over the last couple of years in this role as chair for the commission and knowing what a challenging role it can be, we tap the chair on the shoulder quite often as we have done and i very much appreciate your steadiness and that youve been there to engage and be supportive with critical questions, insightful thinking and assistance and direction at every step. So on behalf of the staff, i want to acknowledge for the record, your leadership and thank you for that and for the continuity of operations that you have provided. Apparently so seamlessly, but thank you. Thank you. Its been a real pleasure and a privilege to serve on this commission and also to have the opportunity to work with you, director, and your really talented staff on these important questions that are tough and impactful and challenging. So thank you for your really kind words. I appreciate them. I dont want to leave out department City Attorney chen as well and his support and advice. Its made my job really so much easier and really fun. So thank you for that. Call for Public Comment then on this agenda item, number 7. Commissioners, ray harts director San Francisco open government. While the executive director makes much of Electronic Filing and access to foreign 700 filing through a Searchable Data business, i truly believe it is much ado about nothing. In the case of former city librarian luis herrera, it was there, but i had to spend years digging for it. They chose to remain blind. He was the driving force that enabled the friends of the San Francisco Public Library to run their scam on the public. While raising literally millions of dollars every year to support the library, less than 10 of what passes through their hands actually goes for that purpose. This chart shows in the years indicated that board of supervisors passed an expend agreement for the library in the amount of 750,000, although half of that, approximately, was restricted funding from other sources and what actually came from the friends was about 400,000 a year. If you look at the last column, that didnt even make 10 of what they had in income in a given year. After initially lying on his se is, mr. Herrera subsequently said he received 5,000 a year from this group, the friends. The financial arrangement between the San Francisco Public Library and the friends is legally questionable, at best. When it was taken before the board of supervisors, they refused to approve it because the library was not getting enough. They took it before the library commission, and they have taken a handsoff. We have nothing to do with it. They havent approved it either. What you basically have is a private arrangement between the city librarian and this group to raise money on behalf of the Public Library, and that agreement has not been certified or looked at by the City Attorneys Office. Its a fraud. Telling people that youre going to give money and were going to use it to support the library and then it ends up going elsewhere is a fraud, pure and simple. Not approved by the board of supervisors, library commission, or the City Attorney, why is it allowed to continue . Because people like you turn a blind eye. Why do we have the Department Head of public works federally indicted . Because people like you turn a blind eye. Why do we have things like mr. Herrera filing false statements of economic interest . Because people like you turn a blind eye. And now all of a sudden youve had this epiphany and things are going to change. Im not going to hold my breath. Any other Public Comment on agenda item number 7. Number 8, discussion and possible action on items for future meetings. Commissioners. Public comment on number 8 . Commissioners, ray harts, director of San Francisco open government. The members of this Ethics Commission along with your staff need to have an open public discussion of the purposes for your existence. Ive given you a number of cases throughout this afternoon to show that you basically dont enforce the law. You never have. You go after a few potential candidates for little misdemeanortype violations, and thats the extent of you and the City Government knows it. The city employees, the Department Heads know it. The civil grand jury knows it. I believe former commissioner cobb was accurate in his assessment of the Ethics Commission to this point. Statements of economic interest and other such device are like locks. Theyre for honest people. I believe the question before you was a simple one. Will the members of this body waste the resources entrusted to you, or are you use those resources to move City Government toward more ethical behavior . Some may look at this list and presume my motives to be nefarious. I assure you they are not. I have and will continue to use the sunshine ordinance for its intended purpose, to bring transparency to the operation of City Government. The question is, will you . I can always sense the disapproval because what people do on this commission is they look down in their laps and work on something else. They never respond to any of my comments because there is no response. The things im saying are facts. This Ethics Commission hasnt really done anything that i can experience, and ive asked. Ive said many times, give the public an example of something youve done that actually made the city more ethical . And what do we get . Silence. Because there isnt anything. No matter the fact that the mayor and the Department Head are on the headlines this week, next week it will sink below the waves and like most of the scandals here in the city and county of San Francisco, it will disappear without notice. It certainly will disappear without you doing anything to change the atmosphere. You are here, as i said at the beginning, to protect the interests of the city hall family against the interests of the citizens of the city and county of San Francisco. The simple fact that nobody bothers to come to your meetings anymore is a pretty good indication even those willing to give the benefit of the doubt have given up on you. Thank you. Other Public Comment . Agenda item number 9, discussion and action regarding pending litigation yes on prop b versus city and county of San Francisco, u. S. District court North District california, filed january 28th, 2020. Call for Public Comment on this item. Again, ray harts director San Francisco open government. I love it when you go into these closed sessions because you go in there and talk about stuff and come out and say were not going to tell anybody what we talked about. Ill be honest with you. I dont trust you any further than i can see you. When you go and close that door, i believe you probably have discussions about things which legally youre not supposed to be doing because its out of the sight of the view of public. As i said earlier, you do everything behind closed doors. You formulate all the policies behind closed doors. You let in only those who agree with you. People who are willing to work with you to help improve things. But those people have all sort of gone by the way now. You changed your meeting time so that members of the public wont even come anymore. Why . Because you dont want them here. You certainly dont want people like me pointing out the fact that you dont do anything. And what you dodo is simply shuffle papers. Can i have a job with the Ethics Commission . I can use 164,000 a year to shuffle papers. I think most wobbling to do the job for 164,000 in pay and benefits. But the difference is, i think they would actually do something. Cobb had it right. This city knows you. They know you like i know, which is youre ineffective and are unlikely to ever be effective you dont like hearing that, which is why last week you pushed the button and had the sheriffs deputies show up with their guns in their hand. Why . Because i spoke out of turn. Of course when former commissioner cobb interrupted me during my Public Comment, you praised him and when i took him to the task force and they found him in violation of the ordinance for having done that, you were silent. So i think you go to prove the adage, power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. You are corrupt. Thank you. Any other Public Comment on number nine . I would like to make a motion that the Ethics Commission assert attorneyclient privilege and meet in closed session under brown and sunshine ordinance 67. 10d to discuss pending litigation. All in favor . Aye. Motion carried unanimously. Well take a Ethics Commission is back in open session. I would like to make a motion not to disclose the closed session deliberations regarding the pending litigation. Second. All in favor. Aye. Motion was carried unanimously. Number 10, additional Public Comment. Theres no Public Comment. Move to adjourn. Thank you. [ ] its always a slap in the face to our people and we see that happening all over this country, but always reminded us that as Indigenous People we didnt actually have a place. What we were thought of continuously was as savages and less than, that the white man came to save us. When i first saw the early day statue, i think it brought me back to the time of my ancestors. I think thats where genocide started. That was a time when people were being hunted down and slaughtered and bounties were placed on their heads. Not only were people murdered, our culture was stripped from us. Prior to my lifetime, our families were still in hiding. I think some of the folks do not understand some of the very first laws that were created and what is now called the state of california was extermination laws that legalized the killing of native people. I remember specifically someone had painted in red beneath again side and they put a wine bottle in the hand of the missionaries who was leaning down to hand this bottle to the indian man who was seated on the ground. It was a powerful statement about genocide and the distortion of history and what the true history is. I think that we have to remove all of these stereotypes and strip the world of this racism in order to build it back up with factually correct history and teach people not only native American People behave like this. Were all people, the same as you. We have a 9 00 to 5 00 job. We go to school. Were also different because our history and our ancestors and culture and arts make us different. Public art is very powerful, as we can see for 126 years, the common imagery was upholding white supremacy. Its important that public arts also evolved and what was accepted and appropriate and apparent 120 years ago is not so any longer. I think that its important that the statue went down the way that it did, with Indigenous People coming out from all different walks and different places. That its important for our Younger Generation to see that we can change what history has put up that depicts us. [ ] thats powerful to know that selectivity were able to remove that symbol. We are now able to occupy that space in our own voice. The native american movements that were conducted in the 1970s are extremely important to me because my grandpa was at the forefront of them and he was making the world a better place so that i would grow up in a world where i had one less issue to face and my generation could start from where he worked and continue working from that point. The struggle has been going on for many years to remove this statue, but its only one key in all of San Franciscos history and all of this countrys history about the misrepresentation of how this land was developed and colonized. We have to fight to regain our languages, have access to our lands, to keep our religions from being illegal. That is the legacy, that we are in a continuous struggle. I think those are ways of acknowledging our path so we can move forward together. No one is going home. This has always been our home. How do we learn to live in reciprocity with one another . Thats by acknowledging our histories and moving forward and telling the truth to history. [ ] [ ] cla so today, we have come together for a historic day. Today, we gather to honor 50 years of pride. Yes, 50 years. [applause] this anniversary was hard fought from the days of the Freedom Freedom parade to compton cafeteria riots, to all the work across this country that we continue to do for freedom. And if we look, our theme for this years pride is future of hope. And if we look to the next 50 years, we have a lot to be hopeful for. We look at our past and marriage equality, to the first day at city hall when the first couple was married. We recognize lesbian and lgbtq folks across the city. We remember the work that we have to do across the country as trans kids are being refused access to bathrooms in our schools. We remember the families that standup for them, and we remember the work that we still have to do because this generation is hopeful. This generation will continue to be hopeful, and theres so many reasons why we have this hope. Some of that comes from our elected officials, some of that comes from our own journeys, but we know we cannot do this work without the leadership in our city, and i am so proud to work for a leader in this amazing city whos not only spear headed the work of so many of us and supported so much of lgbt quality here in San Francisco but also is continuing that effort forward, our mayor, mayor london breed. [applause] the hon. London breed first of all, thank you, claire. Thank you to the freedom ban of frisk. Thank you to s. F. Pride and supervisor mandelman and so many elected leaders and Department Heads here in San Francisco to celebrate the beginning of pride in San Francisco, 50 years of what i think has been an amazing accomplishment, so thank you to the Board Members, to the president , caroline. Thank you to our new executive director. Like, so many great things are happening in this city and so many great things are happening with pride. And i know i get really excited, because even though its february and we are not expected to have a number of activities, especially the parade, until june, its going to be so exciting that we have to announce it now. We have to get everybody excited about whats to come because there is nothing that we do better than celebrate in San Francisco. We celebrate our history, we celebrate our diversity, we celebrate what makes San Francisco so unique. And we know that this in this city was the epic center of what has occurred that has led to so much to support our Lgbt Community, and im really proud to be in a position as mayor to help support and carry on some of the many policies that we know are necessary to continue to make sure that there is hope for future generations. In fact, trans home s. F. Has been an amazing accomplishment in this city, and thank you, tony newman, for our leadership. Weve got one of our first buildings, and theres lots more to come, along with Wraparound Services for our trans seniors. [applause] the hon. London breed and in San Francisco, we do celebrate a new record low of new h. I. V. Infections, less than 200 last year. Thank you, dr. Brent colfax, for your leadership in the department of health. We know we will continue to make those investments that well get to zero. We know that we did the count around homeless youth. About 50 of the youth that are homeless in this city identify as lgbt, and we want to make sure that we help the next generation of young people growing up in this community so that they have hope. So many great things but also so much more work to do. And i am really confident in the leadership of this city to really help us move forward on so many different levels. As we think about just the attacks that we have been under. I mean, we just had a visit from the other number 45 here this weekend, and i cant help but think about not only our city being under attack, but also our Lgbt Community, where we continue to fight for things that we shouldnt have to at this point. You know, when i think about just what were celebrating in the month of february, black history month. Black history is American History. Were celebrating lunar new year. Chinese American History is American History. Lgbt history is American History. We are all a part of the fabric of what makes our city and our country so great. So we will not be silenced. We will continue to lift our voices and celebrate what makes us so great, what makes us so unique. And during the month of pride, we will just do it with that much more flair. So thank you all so much for being here. Heres to 50 more incredible years for future generations to come. Thank you. [applause] thank you. Thank you, mayor breed. And one other note im just so proud of, thanks to the mayors leadership, weve invested over 1 million in the next year to seniors. So thank you to the department of aging and adult services, and thank you to all of those in our city who made sure that we were brought to this 50 years and continue to be brought to the right place. So now, a leader that we know will continue to bring us forward in the next 50 years, our new director of pride, fred lopez. [applause] hi. Good morning, everybody. How are you . Excited . S. F. Pride, sfpride50. Before anything else, i just want to convey our sincerest gratitude to the mayor, to supervisor mandelman and all these elected officials today for coming out today to start the celebration right. Every City Department that is present, we want to thank you for your unwavering support for San Franciscos most iconic went. It may cost millions of dollars to produce, but it wouldnt happen without the amazing work of our departments, employees, and volunteers. [applause] as claire said, the theme for San Francisco pride is a generation of hope, and it was originally suggested by pride member larry nelson. That spirit of hope will become visible at the beginning of june when the rainbow flags go up along Market Street, much of Market Street now newly car free. On saturday, june 37, civic center will once again become a site of celebration. All weekend, with crowds in the tens of thousands were expecting. Its going to be a big year, and were excited for it. Then, as clair has mentioned, for many of us, the center piece of pride, the parade, on june 28. 50,000 marchers are expected to be in the parade, all cheered on by more than 100,000 spectators its going to be quite a spectacle this year. [applause] if your organization or group is thinking about marching, we encourage you to register soon because we think the parade might run out of space earlier as it has in the years past, so thats great. For the past two years, our partners at cbs bay area have live streamed the parade so that people around the world can see it live. Wear something cute, and call your mom, because youre going to be on t. V. Thats exciting. Thank you to our friends at kpix. [applause] thats not the only new development for 2020. On april 17, an exhibition entitled labor of love, the birth of San Francisco pride, 19701980 opened at the gobt museum in San Francisco. Itll be up in the museum until january 2021. Further, starting may 7 in the city hall in the north light court, the Historical Society and San Francisco Arts Commission will mount a photography exhibition called 50 years of pride, so make sure to check out the amazing history that we can learn from. Our entire team at San Francisco pride is working hard to ensure that we are ready for this monumental event, and here are some ways in which our communities can help. Applications are now open for our volunteers who provide power during the event. I want to acknowledge that in this room, there are some former Community Grand marshals and honorees, like our board president , carolyn, was once an honoree, and others. If you want to raise your hands, folks who have been honored in the past. Thank you for all of your tireless work. That spirit of tireless volunteerism is at the core of San Francisco pride, and that commitment goes both ways. In 2019, we were pleased to go nate more than 203 donate more than 203,000 to ongoing bay area nonprofits, which adds to our total of more than 3 million since 1997. [applause] finally, 2020 may be the 50th anniversary of pride as a march and a celebration, but San Franciscos pride began way before 1970. The compton cafeteria riots took place in 1966. As we look forward to the next 50 years, lets always remember the valuient struggles of previous valiant struggles of previous generations, and as hectare remilk said, all give them hope. And here at pride, we always will. Thank you so much. [applause] thank you, fred. Were so excited, and we know that pride is in great hands. Thank you. So it is my honor to introduce our new pride chair, carolyn wisenger. Thank you, fred, thank you, mayor breed, thank you to my aunt who has threatened bodily harm if i dont mention them. As fred mentioned, the board is excited about completing our threeyear theme with this years generation of hope. While we are excited about the events leading up to the pride weekend, we are most excited about what that word hope represents. As a community, we are in challenging times, and being in pride, its so different. There is more required now that we are headed into 50. The organizational needs arent the same as they were in 1970, and either are the needs of the community that we represent. Theres more required in the way that we represent community, there is more required in the way that we support our community, and theres more required in the way that we are supported. Now the last leg to 50 is always the hardest leg. Some of you may have been married 50 years, and you know its hard getting to 50. It doesnt get easier as we march in these last months to 50. As someone who grew up in a church thats now 75 years old, i remember in 1995, and how hard that last road to 50 was. I remember the struggles, and i remember the squabbles, and i remember the day it seemed like it would all fall part. We are in a crunch time now, but we as a board continue to believe that it is important to have a celebration that is reflective of the community we serves, and important to be reflective of all of those voices, and to make all those voices be heard. I remember when Bishop Carlton pearson said we have to remind them of the hope, so thats what were going to do, and we ask you to join us for that. [applause] thank you. So 2020 is kind of an incredible year. Also, its not the 50th anniversary, and also, we need to get out there and vote. Every one of you matters, so lets get out there and do that. So now, its my honor to introduce our only out gay supervisor who has been doing some incredible work not only in his district but for the Lgbt Community at large and in San Francisco at large. Please welcome supervisor raphael mandelman. Supervisor mandelman good morning, everybody. It does you know, february does feel like a slightly odd time to be celebrating time, but i will say theres never a bad time for the Queer Community to take the mayors balcony, so we are happy to be here. And madam mayor, i think it is just worth noting the extraordinary collection of queer Department Heads you have, from clair farley at the o. T. I. , and grant colfax at the department of Public Health, and jeffrey tumlin, and sherreen mcspadden. You have a very queer administration, and we are quite appreciative of that. [applause] supervisor mandelman the trustees never get acknowledge them, so im going to acknowledge them now. We have our past president , Alex Randolph of the college board, and our current president , tom temprano of the college board, doing great and important work. You know, as i and then, i also do want to congratulate fred lopez. Thank you, fred, thank you, carolyn. Thank you to the whole board. Pride has never been easy, but it is important, so i this year is particularly important and seems to be particularly challenging, and i know you will get through it, and i am grateful for what you are doing to get us through what will be an amazing 50year celebration, so thank you. [applause] supervisor mandelman i was trying to think about that 1970 gayin, the people who participa participated in that. The next 50 years, what did they imagine it would be like . Did they imagine that in a few years, a gay man would get elected supervisor in San Francisco . And after that, rainbow wave after rainbow wave would come crashing down until the last election when we got a Record Number of gay, lesbian, and bisexual people elected, even in virginia. They would not have imagined the Extraordinary Community response that would come to it. Tom and i were just over at the airport where the quilt is getting brought from atlanta. It is finally coming home, and theres going to be a fantastic rollout of panels of the last ten years on april 3, 4, and 5, and everybody should come. But the resilience of the gay community, responding to that crisis and building an aids movement, they had no idea. And would they have imagined same sex marriage . No matter how you feel about pete buttigieg, would they have imagine that a gay man would be one of the leading candidates for president s this year . And gay c. E. O. S, and so much of what they imagined would have come to pass. I dont think they would have imagined that the mayor of San Francisco would have been an African American woman who grew up in the projects, and i do think they would be particularly amazed and delighted at that prospect, because harvey milk talked about the uses and those who had been left out of the power structure in the 70s, and those who had just begun to imagine that there might be a universe where they can take power. So its amazing with our Department Heads and our mayor i dont remember, San Francisco and our mayor, San Francisco is living up to the hope. I feel like i have generationally benefited so much. And in a lot of ways, the work is about building, acknowledging the institution like the lesbian gay freedom ban. That was a great moment for the city, but some of those other great moments, a second building, and now having purchased a third site and affirming lgbt senior housing. Thank you, mayor, for that. Theres just around the corner from that, the gay mens chorus. They are becoming the national lgbtq center for the arts, and we got some help for them into the budget last year. Again, thank you, madam mayor, and thank you to my colleagues on the board. We have inherited so much, and so i think Going Forward, obviously, the obligations to move forward on that, and to fulfill the unfulfilled promises. In 1970, we knew that people had been left behind, and in 2020, we know that people have been left behind. We need to eradicate the epidemic. We need to reach folks who have not been reached, and so the work of justice which they know we needed to do in 1970 and 80 and 90, and they know the work that we need to do. It was the work of 50 years, so it was exciting, and now, fred lopez is going to come back. [applause] thats a great way to sort of summarize all the Amazing Things that are happening in San Francisco. We are so incredibly fortunate to live in this amazing place and be supported by all of these amazing people and institutions that surround us. I do want to say quickly that i make sure i acknowledge the Board Members of San Francisco pride who are here. Give us a wave. [applause] and San Francisco pride wouldnt happen without a really talented teams of contractors or staff. If youre a contractor or staff, give us a wave. [applause] great work. Finally, as raphael said, it is a little growing up in San Francisco has been way safer than growing up other places we we have that bubble, and its still that bubble that its okay to be whatever you want to. You can let your free flag fry he fly here. As an adult with autism, im here to challenge peoples idea of what autism is. My journey is not everyones journey because every autistic child is different, but theres hope. My background has heavy roots in the bay area. I was born in san diego and adopted out to San Francisco when i was about 17 years old. I bounced around a little bit here in high school, but ive always been here in the bay. We are an inclusive preschool, which means that we cater to emp. We dont turn anyone away. We take every child regardless of race, creed, religious or ability. The most common thing i hear in my adult life is oh, you dont seem like you have autism. You seem so normal. Yeah. Thats 26 years of really, really, really hard work and i think thises that i still do. I was one of the first open adoptions for an lgbt couple. They split up when i was about four. One of them is partnered, and one of them is not, and then my biological mother, who is also a lesbian. Very queer family. Growing up in the 90s with a queer family was odd, i had the bubble to protect me, and here, i felt safe. I was bullied relatively infrequently. But i never really felt isolated or alone. I have known for virtually my entire life i was not suspended, but kindly asked to not ever bring it up again in first grade, my desire to have a sex change. The school that i went to really had no idea how to handle one. One of my parents is a little bit gender nonconforming, so they know what its about, but my parents wanted my life to be safe. When i have all the neurological issues to manage, that was just one more to add to it. I was a weird kid. I had my core group of, like, very tight, like, three friends. When we look at autism, we characterize it by, like, lack of eye contact, what i do now is when im looking away from the camera, its for my own comfort. Faces are confusing. Its a lack of mirror neurons in your brain working properly to allow you to experience empathy, to realize where somebody is coming from, or to realize that body language means that. At its core, autism is a social disorder, its a neurological disorder that people are born with, and its a big, big spectrum. It wasnt until i was a teenager that i heard autism in relation to myself, and i rejected it. I was very loud, i took up a lot of space, and it was because mostly taking up space let everybody else know where i existed in the world. I didnt like to talk to people really, and then, when i did, i overshared. I was very difficult to be around. But the friends that i have are very close. I click with our atypical kiddos than other people do. In experience, i remember when i was five years old and not wanting people to touch me because it hurt. I remember throwing chairs because i could not regulate my own emotions, and it did not mean that i was a bad kid, it meant that i couldnt cope. I grew up in a family of behavioral psychologists, and i got development cal developmental psychology from all sides. I recognize that my experience is just a very small picture of that, and not everybodys in a position to have a family thats as supportive, but theres also a community thats incredible helpful and wonderful and open and there for you in your moments of need. It was like two or three years of conversations before i was like you know what . Im just going to do this, and i went out and got my prescription for hormones and started transitioning medically, even though i had already been living as a male. I have a twoyearold. The person who im now married to is my husband for about two years, and then started gaining weight and wasnt sure, so i we went and talked with the doctor at my clinic, and he said well, testosterone is basically birth control, so theres no way you can be pregnant. I found out i was pregnant at 6. 5 months. My whole mission is to kind of normalize adults like me. I think ive finally found my calling in early intervention, which is here, kind of what we do. I think the access to irrelevant care for parents is intentionally confusing. When i did the procespective search for autism for my own child, it was confusing. We have a place where children can be children, but its very confusing. I always out myself as an adult with autism. I think its helpful when you know where can your child go. How im choosing to help is to give children that would normally not be allowed to have children in the same respect, kids that have three times as much work to do as their peers or kids who do odd things, like, beach therapy. How do speech therapy. How do you explain that to the rest of their class . I want that to be a normal experience. I was working on a certificate and kind of getting think Early Childhood credits brefore i started working here, and we did a section on transgender inclusion, inclusion, which is a big issue here in San Francisco because we attract lots of queer families, and the teacher approached me and said i dont really feel comfortable or qualified to talk about this from, like, a cisgendered straight persons perspective, would you mind talking a little bit with your own experience, and im like absolutely. So im now one of the guest speakers in that particular class at city college. I love growing up here. I love what San Francisco represents. The idea of leaving has never occurred to me. But its a place that i need to fight for to bring it back to what it used to be, to allow all of those little kids that come from really unsafe environments to move somewhere safe. What ive done with my life is work to make all of those situations better, to bring a little bit of light to all those kind of issues that were still having, hoping to expand into a little bit more of a Resource Center, and this Resource Center would be more those new parents who have gotten that diagnosis, and we want to be this one centralized place that allows parents to breathe for a second. I would love to empower from the bottom up, from the kid level, and from the top down, from the teacher level. So many things that i would love to do that are all about changing peoples minds about certain chunts, like the Transgender Community or the autistic community. I would like my daughter to know theres no wrong way to go through life. Everybody experiences pain and grief and sadness, and that all this is the february 18, 2020 Treasure Island Development Authority infrastructure and transportation committee. Call to order. roll call . We have a quorum. Let me just start by saying hello to everyone in the audience, and a shout out to those that are watching remotely and maybe watching later on. Welcome to the Treasure Island infrastructure and transportation committee. Lets move on with the agenda. General Public Comment to allow members of the public to address the committee on matters that do not appear on agenda. General comment will be held on each item. Members may address the committee for three minutes. You will hear a chime with 30 seconds remaining. Please state your name and organization you are representing, if any, for the record. Okay. Seeing none. 3a approving the november 19, 2019 Meeting Minutes. I mea i need a motion. Moved. Second. All in favor. Aye. Four. Parks operations and maintenance projections. For the budget. Thank you, directors. We have been working with cmg and marrand mary mcdo you know n planning for the parks operations manual, a draft which you have at your desk today. We will walk through that a little bit, as well as we have been working on building upon that to develop operations budget projections for the future based on those figures. Or based on the levels of work laid out in the operations manual. The focus right now has been on the stage one parks as we get ready for the first of those to come on line, then building out to a future parks as we go forward. Overall, we have 290acres of parks and pop open space. Right now w we are engaged in major phase one, the boundaries are laid out on the map here. I am going to handoff to chris, who helped prepare this presentation to go forward from here. Welcome, chris. I think bob gave the introduction. We are here for an update on the progress we have been making. The microphone. Sorry. All right. Yes, an update on the progress we have been making on the budget for the parks and open space. Before we hit the budget, though, i would like to give an overview of the process we have gone through and the framework for the maintenance manual. It will include all of the park spaces. This is looking at all of the parks in the first phase. I will walk through the sequence of the current thinking about when the parks will come on line. First, we hav have the first paf later this year and early next. Then the remainder of the parks in the stage one on the island will include the hilltop park, dog park, trails, beach park, and the first set of parks on Treasure Island including city side park and Waterfront Park and building one park. Later in 2223, in the third year cultural park and the plaza would come on line. Moving to the later parts of the phase one, the eastern commons and the Parks Associated with buildings two and three. Stormwater areas associated with that phase adjacent to the sports park and the phase two park in fiscal 2627. A year later, phase three, and then the remainder of city side park and phase four about 10 years out. That is the overview on the sequence. As i shared last time when i was here. The process we have gone through is comprehensive. We are looking at all of the things necessary to maintain the parks, including the engineering, landscape and Janitorial Services. Relative to those we have an approach based on level of service. The idea is a high level of service comprehen civil but different parks will have different needs based on location, scale, complexity of design and intensity of use within each park. The waterfront plaza, for example, where the Ferry Terminal is will have a high level of use. We anticipate a higher level of january torial services. Ja Janitorial Services. The wilds in phase four intended as a very large natural area would have a lower level of landscaping. They are designed to be natural as compared with the building one landscape which would have a higher level of landscape manual. The budget and manual is built around that framework of levels of service in these three major categories. Inturn, working with mjm. Bob you introduced mary and dan drew and we and andrew and we have been collaborating with them. We have benchmarked the costs and needs against the open spaces around San Francisco. For example, mission bay and the east bay as well to understand, what is the right measure of cost both in terms of common spaces and best practices. Also, in terms of prevailing wages and labor in the bay area. What is included in the budget is the engineering tasks. Those are maintenance of utility systems and things like that. Landscape maintenance, Janitorial Services and utility costs and equipment and materials. What is not included are General Administration and management, security services, the capital expenses, and then the revenue from events have not been accounted for at this point in the budgeting process. Again, within each area there is a detailed plan for each park for engineering, and you can see the key things included within that maintenance budget. There is utility systems, paving, maintenance of Restroom Facilities and preventative maintenance for furniture and equipment. For each park we will come back with a detailed plan including a frequency schedule of Tasks Required specific to that park in each of these categories. With landscape, maintenance, water and irrigation and maintenance of trees and plantings and lawn and turf maintenance. Again, detailed frequency schedules for each park to guide the maintenance process. In the janitorial area Restroom Facilities and that kind of thing to make sure that each space has the right level of service. With that, i am going to turn it over to andrew bryan from mjm to walk you there the comprehensive budget. Thank you, christ. I am with mjm management. We have been managing parks in San Francisco for 25 years. I bring that up not just to brag. We have enjoyed that process to say we used that 25 years of experience when we difficult to give you an adequate read on budgets and procedures for managing public spaces to the best use. I want to g to go over the budgt categories. We will go into detail in the next slide. These are the components of building the public space budget. Each contains subcategory res that will be fairly obvious. To go through the Contractual Services will be thinks like landscaping and the Janitorial Services. Under Additional Services it is a lot of Contractual Services like pest control, utilities are a major component and the Management Fees and the contingency fees for any unexpected items. If we can go to the next slide. An example, the detailed budget for hilltop park west. You will see the breakdown on categories. I hope you have a copy. It is difficult to read that. Under the materials and supplies, i think it is obvious what we are including. Contractual services, landscape, landscape oversight. We will talk about that in a minute with the warranties, Janitorial Services and special projects. The parcels will require a series of inspections and setter certifications over the years. Additional services of pest control, maintenance and repair are often here. Utilities, Management Fees to make up the whole park budget. One of the things that i wanted to point out is that we have in the budget as you see in this and the summary budget which we are about to go to. We have considered escalation the prices each year relate to the actual year when they happen. We have taken care of escalation. We hope we will show we have looked at the economy of scale on the management side to keep the budget low while providing the highest level of service. I guess at this time i would like to talk about the warranties. When you look at this budget and then the summary budget, you will see lower costs in the first fiscal year. One of the things that happens with Park Management in the first year all plantings are under warranty for the landscaping. We included a small amount to have management oversight and enforcement of warranties. Those last for 12 full months no matter when the park starts. We have calculated that in so that you get the full months of savings of not having the full cost of landscaping contract. It phases in the first few years as parcels come on line. By the third year you will look at a full landscaping budget as a line item. First year it is a smaller budget. The parks that are managed, as chris and bob mentioned. The stormwater on the island. 258,000 a year. It escalates as more parcels come on line. Second year there are 12 parks coming online in that phase, 1. 3 million budget. Up to year nine when it is up to 6. 5 million, the last year on the budget shows just over 11 million budget because of the addition of the remainder of the parks and that very large swath of land called the wilds. That is the projected budget for that. In this sheet i want to point out at the very bottom of the sheet there are some costs that are anticipated to be paid for by the homeowners associations on the island. You will see the bottom line in a dark forest green, reduction in each years cost. It is anticipated the hoa will be responsible for the costs. With that 10 year budget inn steadof 11. 2 million, it goes down to 10. 7 million. There will be some funding from the hoh for that. A little overview of the analysis we did to produce the budget. As i mentioned. Wwewe managed three parks. We considered parks in the east bay. We looked at labor costs between San Francisco and parks in the east bay t to get a good picture of the labor costs on the isla island. We wanted to also look at parks with similar climates, being near the water on the bay is of a particular impact, both good, from beautiful views, and also the impact of the salt air on plantings. We wanted to take that into account. Mission bay has similar characteristics. We would look at those parks on an overall view how the park was going to be used, specific per square foot costs. We wanted to drill down to give you as accurate picture of the budget as possible. The labor costs, as i mentioned, were particularly important because it is part of San Francisco. We want it to consider the work force programs that might be involved. We want to be sure you have an accurate picture how that could be used in this parcel. From that budget we want to talk about some additional staffing that is recommended and required for these parcels in addition to what is in the budget and how that would work. This is really where we can show the economy of scale. The first year of operations actually the staff will be responsible for most operations. They are overseeing one of the wild parts of the island. There wont be a parcel coming online that needs a lot of maintenance until the beginning of fiscal year two. The staffing will be faced in at the end of 2021 with half time project manager, general manager and fulltime engineer at the end of that year. That will be in the budget. At the start of the second fiscal year the only additional staff recommended is the general manager become fulltime, 12 parcels come on that year. Not until the start of the third year we add property assistance and second utility engineer. We are front loading staffing. It is important for parks to function well as the community develops. That level of staffs is enough to actually stay at that level throughout the rest of the parks phased in. It was important to show you that. I think with that my part of the presentation is done. I would turn it back to chris and we will be available for questions. Thank you very much. We will wrap up with a look at what our next steps are in terms of process. We are refining the budget and maintenance documents in march and plan to complete the detailed Park Maintenance plans for the first phase as drafts. We will bring those back to you in may, and then refining and completing the document at the end of may, depending on the feedback we receive from the board and commission. With that we are open to questions. Okay. Thank you so much. Let me just say thank you to bob for the introduction and chris and brad. Obviously, we are here now. I need to for recordkeeping for those watching that we actually combined items 4 and 5. We can have a robust discussion. Here we are now. Obviously, we have a lot of questions from the commissioners on some of this and i will be asking questions on phase one. Commissioner lai. I am trying to review for the first time. Forgive me if i missed something. I think, bob, did we already select mjm as the operator . No, we havent selected any operators. Mjm is consulting with ticd and assisting. We dont have a direct contract with them . No could you describe ope u mentioned three parks. Mission bay. What are the other two and then the East Bay Parks . We manage union care, mission bear park and the gardens under oci until i switched to conserve conservator in july. I am a resident. I left the city and got involved with the east bay regional park. We looked at the mount and a few other park in the east bay. Great. That is very helpful. It does seem out of the parks you manage, perhaps mission bay is most synonymous. I would argue there are a lot of differences. For Treasure Island there is more diversity, more as a regional system. I am wondering why as part of the budgeting exercise items such as capital security is factored out . Could you speak a little bit to your experience on that . On the subject of the security, i asked to hold back on those numbers. We havent really had a discussion at this board about security operations. There were a lot of assumptions there about levels of staffing and enforcement that were better to have a conversation with the board before we put numbers against them. That makes sense. For my reference, would mgm have relevant experience and advising on these four items not currently part of the budget . Yes, we would. We actually perform a lot of those services in not only San Francisco but another park that we manage is grand park in los angeles. We oversee that whole conservancy. We would be happy to do that if requested. That is helpful. Can you give us a ballpark reference in terms of anticipated percentage of these outside costs that are not part of the current budgeting exercise . I want to know a magnitude. It seems like capital expense could be a huge significant part of the budget as well as ongoing security. I want a reference point. As far as the capital, you wont experience a lot of capital for a while. You are usually putting a small capital research. A lot of it can be handed out of contingency. You have not only the first Year Warranty with the contract or on site, but then after that the warranty sometimes goes up to five years for a lot of what you are going to get planted and installed. After that, you know, i dont know what the process would be. It would be up to the board as to how you are going to incrementally put the funds away for capital program. We can advise on that by looking at the life cycle of things, and when you could expect things to need to be changed out or replaced. I dont think you would need to put too much together right away, probably not until year five. It sounds like the initial Capital Investment would probably last the first five years then just a small contingency. Unless there is a strange occurrence or emergency that something happens. What about security costs . What is that typically as part of the overall budget in terms of percentage . It does depend on the plan you are going to finally determine. It is a significant cost, about a third. Thank you. That is a very helpful reference. I am happy to hear you have taken into account local work force requirements that may influence the budget. It sounds like we are hoping that either we would operate within tida as opposed to out sourcing it to park and rec or other city agencies. That could be discussed. The expectation has been that tida would be responsible for the parks maintenance within the house staff or contracting out for services. We would not lean upon rec and park for the open space. Iit is worth highlighting one of the Economic Opportunities that is discussed under the jobs and eop plan is for rubicon to have a role in the Landscape Maintenance on the island. I was wondering whether or not the renegative budge reflective budget assumes rubicon or some other nonprofit as part of the omm. They have assumed prevailing wages. Great. A few budget specific questions. Is year one fiscal year 2021 . Yes. Why is there a 36 jump between year three and year four . What do we expect to happen there . It reflects the addition of a number of parcels. The entire budget is built on that. I want to address one comment. I dont know that i adequately addressed about staffing. When you looked at the staffing costs you asked for percentage. It is 1. 5 people. Iit might be higher, 10 or 12 . That is front loading. You have that Level Staffing incrementally increasing the first three years. After that it does not increase. When you get to 5, 7, 10, you are looking at a smaller percentage of the budget for staffing because that level of staffing will be able to manage the entire park. The other thing to note is that the staffing for landscaping and janitorial is included in the contract. It is not just four people running the whole park. A lot of opportunities for participation. I will add to the labor comment. When we look at parks to help, we do factor in using the local community. We also look heavily at mentorship and people from the local community to communicate. We did one for Shipyard Point in hunters point. We had contractors agree to apprenticeship programs within their services to allow that type of local training to get people to move to a higher level, even to the point of mentoring subcontractors working on the park who may not have the skill set to do the full landscaping contract but they can provide basic. They can teach them integrated pest management. It is an opportunity be not only for the individual but local Small Businesses to bring them up in the industry. Thank you. I have a few questions, then maybe some comments afterwards. Chris, can you just remind us what we are talking about in terms of the size of the parks that we are going to have coming on board . We have overall it is 500acre on the island, of which approximately 300acres will be an open space in the parks. Do you have the numbers off the top of your head in terms what we are talking about in terms of the acreage of the first few phases. The citywide park, the parks along the cove neighborhood, the parks on the hilltop, the park at the island . What are the size we are talking about . We have those in the overall manual document. If i recall correctly, there is about 20acres coming online as part of stage one in that approximate range. Then in stage two, when the budget goes up, there is a leap up on the budget, which is like 2425, 2526, it gets increasingly higher. Does that reflect additional parks coming online . Incrementally in years two, three and four, there are a few additional parks. Relatively small in terms of total area. Mainly related to the extension of the clipper cove. The phase two and three parks are modest in scale in terms of overall park buildout, and those could come on line in years five and six or six and seven actually. Really, we have the first phase with the fairly significant amount of park space and then much smaller increasements online for a number of years then the larger fourth phase. Did you want to go to slides nine, 10, 11 . They kind of illustrate that . Beyond the first phases, the later phase parks are a group. They arent itemized on this spreadsheet. If you go to slide nine, it graphically illustrates the parks that you were discussing. That was the jump you were seeing there was all parks coming on at one tied. The earlier slide for phase one for the city side parks, culture park, building one plaza and this is coming on board fairly soon, 20212022, right around the corner for us, but very exciting addition to Treasure Island. Very important addition to Treasure Island because it is in some ways the front living room. It is where we face the public and where people are coming on the ferries. This will be the first thing they see which is the waterfront plaza, city side plaza, cultural park. Then, of course, hilltop park east and west are part of the Residential Development that is being dealt. Iit is all extremely exciting to see. I want to make sure we have enough in the budget to certainly take care of what we build. We have it in our capital cost to build these parks. It is so important for us to have maintenance standards which will keep those parks up because we dont have another chance to get the capital that is being used to build it. I am very, very glad to see this operations management, the Operations Maintenance manual, actually this is the first time we have seen the budget that has been part of it. I am there are several things i would ask more about. You assume that the landscaping is going to be contracted out. I know that for basic maintenance that may be the case. I would like for us to think of a larger model, which when there are squares like the gardens or union scare, i or union squa, it makes sense. Here we have a system of parks and open space on the island which will encompass eventually maybe 300acres, and i think that we have to look at it in perhaps a bigger way. Instead of thinking that we are going to contract out the landscaping, i think we should be thinking how we can build this parks and open space in a Sustainable Way but with the idea that it is going to be a boabotanic sustainable model not phone for our region but the country and internationally as well. I would like to see us consider developing a short cultural on staff, to have a gardening staff that is basically focused just on Treasure Island and perhaps grows with Treasure Island as the different parts grow as well. That is something that i think we ought to look at is how can we instead of just simply contracting out for Landscape Services, which is mostly maintenance, but really develop a staff who is going to care about the sustainable biodiverse horticulture garden that we are creating on Treasure Island. That is one point. Mary did you have a comment . In our presentation we focused on the contractor for landscape. That was because when you are in construction you would need to contract out for it to be built and installed. When we were referring to the contract or and the fact that you wouldnt have as much of a call for the landscaping the first year. It was really more about that. All of our properties have all of what you have spoken to, and it is in our spirit and heart to do that, too. We are not prescribing it only be a contractor. I personally agree with you it takes all kinds of diverse disciplines within that world and people that are strong and the greening and the environmental and pest management, all of those things will depart at that point when it comes to the landscaping. You do need the people on the island will be the people working there. I do think that we have to develop a staffing model which looks at how can we continue to manage . It is about soils management, integrated management, how to compost, how do we take the wastes on the system and encore important rate to the soil. There are a lot of things to do. We should look at specifically how can we have the staff that is necessary from a short short. Tural. I dont know if there is money for programs. As we know with so many parks it is important to have that programming and activation and to have that robust so people enjoy the island, that there are activities there that people want to come i dont know if that is in the budget. That is an area to look at. It is an area to provide revenues for us. That is another subject which is governance and trust model that we should look into. Programming and activation, security has been mentioned before, of course, in the bay area, it is such a big issue. We need these places to be safe for families. Then arts management. It is a vision of ours to have active arts programming, to have this be a destination where this is incredible art that people will want to come and see. There are several models around the world where art has revitalized an economy in the areas. Separately, we are doing that selection of artists and hopefully we will have a Robust Program there. The art that is placed on the island, permanent or temporary, needs managed. There should be a place in the budget for that as well. Even in community engagement, and you do that very well. Community engagement is something that can build loyalty to the place, people love to volunteer. It gives them hands on experiences which are very valuable to families and individuals. You have to have somebody manage those volunteers. We all know that. It doesnt happen by itself. Again, it is a staffing position, is that something which is in the contract . I dont know where that is in the budget. These are items that i think should be considered so that we make sure that there is enough of a budget as we go forward to be able to operate the types of park systems that we would like to operate. With that looking at the budget, i was surprised the hoa fees which we are hoping will finance some of this. Only amounts to at the end about 500,000 person year. 500 the 500,000 per year. It will be open space maintenance. Primary obligations passed on to the cfd are maintenance of stormwater gardens, form water flows are originating from private rat parcels. On the island we have central stormwater, not on Site Specific to each parcel, but we have central stormwater facilities. Some of the stormwater coming from the public rightsofway and portions of stormwater from private parcels. It is a proportional share of those stormwater catchments passed back to the hoa, but the homeowners in total are contributing to all of the parks and open spaces through the Community Facilities district financing. So this amount would becoming from this cfd. We go from in the first year of operations and notably it is lower because of the contract fee that we have with the contractors, but as it goes up to as we go out in the future to about 10 or 11 million, what is the source of those revenues . In the very earliest years there is a developer subsidy coming directly from tidc to maintain the parks and open spaces. The cfd Revenue Generation will lag. There is a total of 14. 3 million that is supposed to come from ticd to Fund Early Years of Park Maintenance. At that point the revenues will be coming from the cfd. The specific resources we project out from the cfd . Yes, the expectation is that the cfd will be a capital cfd. During the early years there is plentyful resources. Eventually the cfd is after 100 years is to be converted to maintenance only and then move with inflation. It is the value at which it was meant to convert was 13 million per year in 2,016dollars. That 13 million will escalate to the future within place. Thank you. With the inflation. The income and expense type of model would be helpful to understand where the income flows. How the flows change over time . Yes. I think that there is as we look at the future for Treasure Island and the ongoing operation and maintenance. I think one thing to be considered is what is the overall governance model for these parks . It will eventually be 300acres, bigger than Golden Gate Park, i think. We can look all over the country. There are different models, there are trusts and different cities have done it in different ways, parks have done it in different ways. I think we should start looking at that for Treasure Island. I have been thinking about that as well, what it is going to be the overall structure. Should there be a nonprofit . That has the ability to raise private capital as well and receive donations and do things which a Public Agency cannot do or cannot quickly do. It is something that i think that this board should look at, and i hope to start some conversations and thinking about that. I will say how important the work you are doing is. We are going to be building beautiful places, and in some ways our parks are our most democratic institutions. It is the most important, especially when you have density and we are looking at 8,000 units. Some of those are fairly small. The parks become the places where people meet, where they play. They have to be wonderful and they have to have safe, clean, vibrant, and that is a tall order for us. I am glad to see the first step. This is the first time we have seen this. I hope there will be further discussions and eventually as the parks come on board i hope we are prepared to be good stewards of these places we are creating. It is so difficult to get the money to create them. . Thank you commissioners for your comments. Lets go back. I am glad that mjm is on board and you have a proven record. I am very impressed with the management of the East Bay Park. The East Bay Park is probably the largest of the parks in the bay area. It is across many jurisdictions. It is a model apri and you alsok at parks in la you manage. Did you look at the Golden Gate Park . I know they have a different system. The reason i brought that is for comparisons. We did as much as it has the same as andrew spoke earlier Golden Gate Park and sections of that. We did as far as the design and plantings and what that maintenance would look like, and also what sort of programs in general you would have to put in place to keep Something Like that maintained. We had the privilege to travel to new york, and we looked at the Brooklyn Park and some of the signature parks. What we are leaning towards and need to make that very clear. Treasure island will create a trust and that trust will be in terms of the governance. That is where and i am looking at the schedule. The island in 201 the 2021 the first residents coming in. First parks are 20acres each. It is very important right now to begin to at least parallel to be talking about what the governor is going to look like. I am looking at the framework you have developed, just projections. Now it spans 30 years or whatever. I would like to think that phase one should be a pilot. That pilot to the first opportunity that we have that we can address the governors. The maintenance. When we have in house and we neat to reiterate as part of the Treasure Island development, we are also we have a nonprofit on Treasure Island who was subsidized a great deal for Work Force Development. I am looking at the landscape and janitorial, that is an opportunity for us to expand on the Work Force Development that is already in place, that we have. It is beneficial because all those who took advantage of those are Treasure Island residents and from the San Francisco mainland. We get them from everywhere. When we look at the broader picture when we look at the island and parks that San Francisco are creating, then we can begin from our surf. This obtains to the obtainable. We have a work force to work on Treasure Island. We can train them for the opportunities. We have that. We can lay claim to. Our Work Force Development has about everything right now, the demolition taking place on the island are a constant training, on going to Treasure Island. We have that now. We can expand this opportunities. I think it is a winwin situation. When the trust is on board then we can have this contractual relationship. We want Treasure Island we might feel we need to bring them on. That is a winning situation. The timetable, what i would like to suggest is that we take out phase one out of the program we have now and begin to develop the pilot. What is day one like in 2021 . What programs will we have. All activities in the parks are around the Ferry Building area because of the congestion and all of the activities, and that is already been anticipated. What is phase one going to look like . We can have a pilot and be able to answer all of these other questions with regard to security, happy modeling place, all models can be expanded in phase two. We will have had ample opportunities with the programs and in terms of budgeting it is great 14. 6 million while we figure out the other stuff that we are going to have. This is the time to work in conjunction, and you can help us. If you can bring back, i think we need to begin the exercise, have the stakeholders involved at this point, and the question to you is that how can the work force for the landscape, do we have the capacity . Maybe time to talk to one Treasure Island in anticipation of that for them to be cognizant what is going on and for us to be able to begin to develop those things in house. I think this is time for many of the topics that you and directors mentioned. Both from the maybe questions of when we might want to form a conserve van see or contract out for different types of services or bring Certain Services in house. The time to talk about the directions, ultimate directions and the timing is now we plan to come back with contracting models. We have had conversations with one Treasure Island and rube b bicon. Myself and other tida staff went to visit the facilities that they maintain. They maintain the va hospitals in livermore and pa paloal to ad we toured those to see where they are more programmatic responsibilities on a larger campus than they currently have at Treasure Island. We are having those conversations. We will bring those to the committee and to the board. Yes, that will be extremely very important. Some of this model governance in the east coast. They have the best of parks in the world situated there. Especially some of the ones that we visited and were given elaborate presentation. It would be time to consult with them. They have told us whenever we are ready, they are ready to share information. We also came back with the information. It seems to me right now we need to get these to work in a pilot with mgm absolutely this will be able to, you know, help us to get along. One of the things here that we did not talk about. In terms of security and all of the other, San Francisco has an elaborate local business enterprise. They are ready to assist. Looking at Small Business provisions. We can they can help us. There is a lose infrastructure to tap to, however the governors on that side is the drive to coordinate and drive all of this other missing pieces. Thank you again for the framework. Are there any other comments, commissioners . I have a few more questions. I see you have line item artwork. I assume that meant maintenance and repair. What is steam cleaning for a park . There is a budget item of that. Maintenance of the hard surfaces, sidewalks and that kind of thing. You would need steam cleaning to keep the level of park up. It looks like we are anticipating the electricity to be from the grid so we are expecting 100 renewable sources of electricity for the park system . The ticd and p. U. C. Have recently executed esa, Electrical Service agreement designating p. U. C. As the power provider for the island. That has been anticipated for a long time, but the actual Service Agreement between the parties was just executed in the last month. That is great. We have a big green goal for the island as a whole. Starting with the trust discussion and working back regards. There needs to be ordinance or action to create such an entity. I want to make sure we are allocating enough time to create the body, go through the legislative process and also to the conservancy before the parks come on line . We might be hardpressed before the first parks come on line. I think having a conversation now and developing, as i said, critical masses. We get into the first major phase grouping of parks and have it under our belt. That would be good timing as opposed to the very first park, but we will embark on that conversation and will bring that to you. The last comment totally support what commissioner tsen was saying about a Financial Model to show the funding side of it. When we bring it back if you can clearly show us when the developer of the city runs out probably around fiscal year 2526. It is helpful to see when that switch will happen. Thank you. Thank you. No further comments. From the robust discussion that we have had, it seems to me in terms of priority that we are going to work in conjunction and trying to get an idea what the governance is going to be. It will be great the next time if you will bring us the models that are successful and those from new york. Just looking at what you have done and modeling that. I think we can do that given the expertise that we have working with us. I would again for subsequent discussions to have there pilot making phase one of the pilot. What is it going to be like . That infrastructure we can develop that. It will be significant. It makes all the work down the road better for us. We will have a framework based on the master plan that you have given us today, and we can plug in the numbers and begin to see what the hypothetical escalation of costs will be based on that. What the job force will be like, what the frequency of the activities, the level of programs. We can narrow it down to those levels and modify and be flexible and change. That will give us a road map. Thathat is what we like to see. Thank you all for being here. A question from the audience . Any questions . Comments, please. Thank you. Come in and say who you are and ask your question. The Landscape Division program. We have provided the Landscape Services for ti for many years. I want to say how excited we have. Microphone, maam. I want to say how excited we are to be part of the parks maintenance. We work with a lot of customers and some of them dont always embrace sustainable practices. We try to convert them and influence them as much as we can. We work with many customers that do, like the city of emeryville. We do implement sustainable practices. We look forward to doing that as well on ti. Lastly, i want to say that we work hand in hand with one Treasure Island to provide jobs for residents on ti. We look forward to expanding that rube biconprogram has a long history of providing opportunities for folks with barriers to employment and overcoming other challenges. Thanks so much. Thank you so much for coming and giving us those statements. We look forward to working with you. Are there other Public Comments . Thank you all for your wonderful presentations today and this is very exciting topics. We are going to be creating more parks than the Golden Gate Park. We need to reiterate that for not just San Francisco but for the entire region, the points if destination no one has ever imagine order or seen before. We are all working together to make that happen. Thank you. Item six. Discussion of future agenda items by directors. To follow up on our previous discussion of the steward governance model. I want to be sure in the annual budget this year sufficient funds to either look at the feasibility for stewardship, governance model and to so that we can two years we are going to have the citywide park on board, the building plaza one on board, and it seems like we are almost have to rush to catch up with our responsibilities. If we could keep on top of this and come back to us because i imagine there probably needs to be consultants that we have either directly to the authority or to our design people, but it seems that we need to look at this very seriously and in depth. Yeah, i will take another look to make sure that in our Contract Services we have the capacity to take on most tasks. Thank you. Okay. That ends this meeting here. I am looking at the audience. Thank you for being here. We get all of the great things happening with the parks and trees planting on Treasure Island. Thank you, mr. Beck. The meeting is adjourned. Thank you very much for coming. Im going to let some people filter in here while i talk. My name is joanne im a reporter and anchor at abc 7news. Ill going to be your emcee today for this unveiling of this beautiful refurbished court and i know a little later on well have fun on it. So i just want to start off here we are at onetime sports. If you havent been here, this is a newly Baseball Court where the first time weve laid eyes on it, step on it. Its a great feeling. We want to thank the Warriors Community foundation for doing this and being here and making this all happen. [applause] also, for pepsi as well. [applause] and also creative Sports Concepts. Thank you, very much. [applause] so just to learn a little bit about what were on, what all is here today, the renovation work included a resurfacing of the entire court. Also the new booths and the back boards as well. And redesigned banner. We also have if you see this right here which i know the mayor is excited about. These solar powered lights that are going to be working here, which is really great for a really energyefficient city so this is a step in the right direction. Also here, the sport define features of course some key elements representing the warriors here. We have this Hometown Spirit in San Francisco. This renovation project was made possible by pepsi and creative Sports Concept and its positively impacting the community and were going to see it play out for us today. And recognizing mike taylor, you can raise their hand please. With creative sports, thank you, mike. To let you know that mike is the director of Global Operations and his amazing team and we want to thank them for this Beautiful Court and all the improvements you see here today. I also would like to acknowledge here, mike kits, your Senior Vice President partners. Raise your hand, please. Thank you, mike. [applause] and also yoyo chan. Warriors Vice President of public affairs. First up on our speakers list, please give a warm welcome to mayor london breed. Hello, everyone. You know, im really excited to be here today. Earlier today, we were at rosa parks. Many of you know rosa parks and the pink pallet down the street on connects and westbound ser and we celebrated the rehabilitation of over 200 units there just like we celebrated the units that were rehabilitated here at west side court last year in february. When we talked about rad and rehabilitation because of the many Public Housing units in San Francisco were being neglected and they were in need of refurbishing. No one wanted to do hardly anything and when i became supervisor, we were able to make this happen and but over 3600 Public Housing units throughout San Francisco has been refurbished. Its not good enough. This court, work had not been completely up to par. The nets were not up. The back board did not look like this. And we had so many kids who wanted to play on this court and we had kids who wanted to play when it got dark early. And so, at that time, we made a commitment to do something about it and today, were fulfilling that commitment faster than what i would have thought possible and clearly, you know, with the city and the challenge and trying to get things done in timely manner, the warriors foundation, the Community Foundation stepped in and said we would do it. Theyve done more than a dozen court refurbishing through out San Francisco because they know its important to have these fun, recreational spaces that are the places that create tomorrows steph currie steph cl the other nba players we love. We want to make sure west side court has the Community Resources they deserve. This rehab has been absolutely incredible and im so glad to see so many of the residents out here today. We also know that there are a lot of young people here who want to play and theyre also a lot of our elders who want to play as well. This space will do just that in bringing the Community Together. So im looking forward to the first tipoff. I see everyone has their jerseys on and the basketballs are all over the place. We are hoping that today is just the beginning of an opportunity for so many people to use this space to just develop their memories, have fun, enjoy one another, make that Community Connection and then who knows, maybe one of these kids might end up playing for the Golden State Warriors, you never know. [applause] thank you all so much for being here today and lets play. [applause] thank you so much mayor breed. The wind everyone, who knew. So next up we have here on our speaker listed dr. James mccrae from west side courts housing partnerships llp and he will say a few words for us. [applause] you got it, mayor. My brothers and sisters. I want to thank the city and county of San Francisco, the San Francisco housing authority, related and all of the many others who have opened this possibility up not only for participating as a owner and developer but also from all of the communities to experience the joy of having attention paid to you. The joy of having attention paid to you. We have a simple theme in tabernacle, its seek the welfare of the city for in its welfare you will find your welfare. It is this theme that is driven us over these now nearly 22 years to be involved in seeking the welfare of other communities cities and county of San Francisco from its top to its bottom. This moment is just the further indication that if we join together in seeking one anothers welfare, great things can happen and joy can be experienced. We can come together and feel good about what we have done and said rather than feel disappointment and shame. Thank you, everyone for being out this afternoon. For being a part of this opportunity to say we all matter because were all going to Pay Attention to one another. Thank you. [applause] next up i want to bring supervisor dean preston to the front. From district 5 here. Speak a little bit more about the impacts of this court. Thank you so much. Im going to move over here so im not looking right into the sun. Its really an honor to be here on this Beautiful Day with all of you and to celebrate this new court here in this community. Also, its an honor to be here with the mayor with our former supervisor vallie brown. We have two prior supervisors and the current so three in total here today, which i think signifies the importance of this investment in the community. As we all know too well, in district and an area of the city that has suffered from really decades of dis investment led by the assault at the National Level on our communitys particularly the African American communities in San Francisco and beyond and it is hardening when we see some of that being reversed through investments like the comments investments in the community and refurbishment of housing here and the refurbishment of this court which is so important as a place for recreation, athletics and as a Community Space to really build community that is absolutely essential particularly at this time so im looking forward to the tip off and to getting to know and i know some of you are looking forward to get to know those of you who i havent met before, i just took office a month ago and its just thrilling to be here as part of our celebration so thank you both to the mayor and our former supervisor and the warriors and to accept se pepsid aquafina. Pepsi values its partnership with the warriors and the Community Foundation which is why i would now like to bring up sean king, Vice President general manager West Division from pepsi co. Thank you, everybody. I think im going to try to move over a little bit myself to get away from the sun. First let me say, i am just absolutely incredibly honored and proud to be here today with the warriors, the local community, and of course most importantly the children that are going to be able to be playing on these brand new courts. Pepsi is proud to be a partner of the Golden State Warriors and it is incredibly humbling to be partnered with such a Great Organization that allows us to do events like this and have such a deep impact on the community. This is the fourth refurbishment we partnered in with the warriors and its part of a larger beautification effort across the bay area led by our brands life water and aquafina. Pepsi has deep roots in california. We have been in this state for over 84 years and have hundreds of employees that work within the bay. This is our community. We work, we live, and we are proud to represent the bay. Projects like this mean so incredibly much to our teams and our people and to this community. Which again, its something that all of us are a much bigger part of and wore so honored and excited to be here with this group. I also think its important to recognize the importance of affordable housing. West side courts offer San Francisco residents a chance to improve their quality of life with affordable accommodations and we are honored to help boost their Community Ties with this new basketball court. So again, o mayor breed, the community, the warriors, thank you for this incredible partnership and im very much looking forward to tip off. Thank you. Thank you, we are almost there to our exciting tip off. But first, i want to bring up brandon schneider, warrior chief revenue officer to say a few words for us. Thank you, very much. It is a very exciting day to be here at west side courts. Staring into the sun. As you can tell, we plan today specifically around the trade dead lines. Im sure everybody saw the moves bob myers and team made today. The good news is they spared me, i didnt get traded. Maybe that was just so i could spend the time here at todays events and maybe in the future, we will make sure to plan this after the trade deadline. Thank you to the city of San Francisco and all the residents of west side courts for letting us spend the afternoon with you. And a huge thank you to pepsi for your suppose sort and making this court possible for the community. I also like to specifically thank San Francisco mayor london breed, who we obviously just heard from and her team for their on going Community Impact efforts. This court is another example of her leadership in guidance to include all San Francisco residents access to Community Resources. I would also like to thank and acknowledge supervisor preston for his advocacy and representation of our city and district 5 residents. We look forward to partnering with you. So our goal with the warriors is to compete for championships every year. If joe was here he may not agree with me and the last five years, may tell a different story. Were probably not going to win the championship every year. This year may be an example of that. Well be back next year. I like that. But joes wife, nicole, was a big part of launching the Warriors Community foundation in 2012 and thats to ensure we can be championships in the Community Every year. Our Community Foundation granted over 12 million since 2012 to ensure Educational Equity in both San Francisco and alameda counties and one of the other things were focus on is doing Court Refurbishments threw out the bay area. Today is a huge milestone for us. As its actually our 85th Court Refurbishment weve done here in the bay area. They tell me its 380,000 square feet of playing surface weve done. I wanted to recognize again, lets have another round of applause for mike and his team from creative sports for awful their incredible work on the court tonight. [applause] so playing sports provides such an amazing opportunity for youth and Community Members to create positive change in their community and to build selfconfidence. This court will be an incredible center piece for the west side courts Residential Community and we hope that it instills confidence to those that use and and for you kids here today, we hope you will really take advantage of these new courts. You can truly be anything you want to be. Who knows, maybe one of you will be the mayor of San Francisco one day. [laughter] you stole my line. My other line was maybe one of you will follow in the footsteps of the next speaker who did play in the nba. So you guys may have noticed this tall guy standing over here, i dont know if this podium is going to work for him. The eighth over all pick in the 1997 nba draft Golden State Warriors drafted him. He played for us for 11 years, 1997 to 2007. He actually graduated in 1999 from Colgate University magna kum lad a means he is smart with a history degree. He is founded an Organization Called democracy matters to help deepen democracy and train youth how to run effective grassroots movements. His accomplished career includes his induction to the world sports humanitarian hall of fame first commitment to the community. Its my honor to welcome to the stage this is so awesome. Are you guys ready to hoop over there that doesnt sound con for instancing are you ready to hoop thats much better. I was dropped b drafted by the n 1997 and im still a part of this organization is their undying commitment to our community. As an organization and athletes, we believe that we have a morale imperative to help make our community better. And i think that from the organization from the top to bottom, all of our players embodies that philosophy. For me its a bit more personal. I think that sports is one of those things that give you amazing opportunities to do whatever you want to do. For me, its been about being the first person in my family to go to college. I got an athletic scholarship coming from an island of 500 people. What you guys have is a unique opportunity to learn some of the values that sports presents. Commitment, being selfmotivated, really the desire to compete at the highest level and still be great teammates. Those values are life values. But the thing that i want to leave you guys with before we play some basketball is a few things. One, you dont always have to be an athlete. You can be an incredible student. So the time you just need the opportunity to get into the dough. When i came from the island being the first person in my family to go to college, i played basketball very hard but i also understood that i have an opportunity to become exceptional with my mind as well as my physical body. You guys have that as well. The other thing is, along the way, there would be a lot of people who tell you you cant do things because of where you come from. Dont ever believe them. Theres everything you have within you guys to be incredible, to be great, to be exceptional. Just continue to believe that truth. This court is an opportunity for us to pull our Community Together but more than that, its to mirror values that i believe have been the corner stone of my life. A commitment t to a higher purpe than ourselves. So today, lets get some hoops going lets play i thank everybody for coming. You guys are truly incredible and i thank this community for allowing us to be part of it. Thank you guys so very much. [applause] thank you so much i want to say on behalf of the Warriors Community foundation, a big thank you to pepsi and also aquafina, San Francisco the community and everything here as well as the bay area. Also thank you to the Warriors Community and foundation and creative Sports Concepts for refurbishing this Beautiful Court that we are all on right now and most importantly thank you all for being here today so kids, are you ready to play baseballbasketball come on inside im going to ask the adults to make your way to the sidelines. We can get these athletes out here when he throws it up jump up and hands on 3, 2, 1 we are approving as many parks as we can, you have a value garden and not too many can claim that and you have an Historic Building that has been redone in a beautiful fashion and you have that beautiful outdoor pingpong table and you have got the Art Commission involved and if you look at them, and we can particularly the gate as you came in, and that is extraordinary. And so these tiles, i am going to recommend that every park come and look at this park, because i think that the way that you have acknowledged donor iss really first class. It is nice to come and play and we have been driving by for literally a year. It is kind of nice. All of the people that are here. The new friday farmer his market is in the u. N. Plaza. It features the best of San Francisco. Grab fresh foods and veggies from the heart of the farmers market. Shop from marker local vendors. Engage in free diy craft sessions and grab lunch representing cuisine from around the world. [ ] we offer 60 varieties of organic fruit and 30 varieties of conventional. One of our best sellers so sellers is our manager in. It is super sweet. We sell 600 pounds a week. One of the things they like about the market as i get to see my regulars on a weekly basis. I get to meet their families and kids and it is really good to be here. San francisco won my heart. One of our vegetables that is very popular is kale. A lot of people go for dino kale our mission is to make sure we have access for everybody to get organic foods, no matter your financial status. We make greeting cards, invitations, enamel pins, and we do workshops. I am participating in this market because it is a great opportunity for local makers to sell to a really Diverse Community of people in San Francisco. They partnered with the market here and invited us to come out and reach out to the public. We are going to do a full event of workshops where you get to arrange your own bouquet. We will teach you all the tricks and techniques and you will be able to take home a bouquet of your own. You. [ ] we really are wanting to bring opportunities to the community to introduce these local makers to a larger audience. This is my own pakistani recipe. It goes with rice, chicken, lamb we have a very delicious drink. We have a lots of variety of foods. [ ] we do lots of different curries. We do three different types of wontons. Spring rolls, too. Thats right. It is really great they are bringing out local artists from around the city to participate and really help us making our business more successful. Chair mar good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the thursday, february 20 meeting of the government audit and oversight committee. I am supervisor gordon mar, the chair of this committee, and im joined by Committee Member supervisor matt haney and supervisor raphael mandelman, who is substituting for supervisor peskin, who are unable to be here