Emergency and to protect Commission Members to the employees and the public, the meeting rooms at city hall are closed. However, Commission Members and staff will be participating in todays meeting remotely. This pursuant to the various local, state and federal orders declaration and directives. Commissioner members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in a meeting to the same extent if they were physically present. Viewing today and todays Commission Meeting may vary depending on the method used to connect to this remote meeting. Viewers watching, will see only the speaker on their screen while those viewing in web ex will see commissioners and other individuals participating in todays meeting. Public made will be on each item this agenda. You will have sf gov. Org are streaming the dialin number for Public Comment across the screen. You can call in 14084189388. Again, that number is 408 4189388. The access code for this meeting is 1469350205. The access is 1469350205. Followed by the pound sign. And then press pound again to join as an attend. You will hear a beep and you will be muted and in listening mode only. Dial star 3 to raise your hand to be added to the public line and um hear you have raised your hand to ask a question. Wait until the host calls upon you. The line will be silent as you wait your turn to speak. To ensure you are in a quiet location, before you speak make the sound of any criminal around you that is important that you make your computer if you are watching via the westbound link to pre vend feedback and echo when you speak. When this system message says your line has been unmuted, this is your turn to speak. You will hear staff say welcome caller. You are encouraged to state your name clearly. As soon as you begin to speak, you will have three minutes to provide your Public Comments six minutes if you are on line with an interpreter, you will hear a bell go off. 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The point he was making is that if subject comes up that you want to submit additional written comments on during the course of the meeting, that information will also be provided to all the commissioners. With that, i have my trustee u. S. Supreme court souvenir gavel and im going to call the meeting to order. Now, moderator, if you would proceed with item 1, the commission roll call. Please unmute your microphone so you can verbally 2002. The staff has been very, very hard at work and. As a public employee, everyone is required to serve as a Disaster Service worker if called upon during an emergency and some 20 to 25 of that is Commission Staff has been called to the Emergency Operations center to serve in a whole variety of capacity but im sure they and we never anticipated start this meeting in honor of all their service because its a trying time and im prout of the work that theyve been able to do. I came on after she taken the responsibility of chair and for my viewpoint, it was a very substantive, productive time on the part of the commission. 14,2 ther14,2there was accountay perspective that made its way through the commission and the board prior to my arrival but then of course, there was the implementation and regulations for ha important piece of legislation and follow on to that there was a major review and update of the the Public Finance campaign program. K. And try and work through a backlog and i will look to you for guidance and help as we go forward. This is still a lot of important work to do but i appreciate everything that the commission has accomplished to date and i also want to recognize commissioner gray who was with us for too short a time. He had to resign in february because he cant wear two hats with the city and county of San Francisco. He was appointed by the new charged of the Investigations Bureau and a really important policy initiatives on part of the District Attorney and im hoping given his relationship with the Ethics Commission that will strengthen the relationship between the District Attorney and the Ethics Commission as we move forward on various enforcement matters. He was replacing commissioner gray as their appointee. I will add that truly larry bush needs no introduction because he is the founder, really, one of the original charter drafters for the creation dating back to the mid90s when he was in mayor angos senior staff and since that time, he has been a fierce that time, he has been a fierce he was the founder of the friends of ethics. I think i saw in the notes in 2010 so thats a good decade of effort on the part of friends of ethics, to improve the situation here and were looking forward to having him bringing his expertise and his energy to the commission to address the many challenges that were all aware of here in San Francisco and in the country at large. So thank you very much commissioner bush for joining us. We appreciate it and look forward to working with you and with that, i want to get the meeting started. So, im going to call agenda item 2. Although, im looking at this and wondering if no, ok. Public comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda. Members of the public, who are already on the line, and wish to speak, should now dial star 3, if you have not already done so, to be added to the Public Comment line and moderator, can you please proceed with Public Comment, including the directions for how best for the public to participate. Thank you, madam chair. The Ethics Commission is now receiving comment on agenda item number 2. Remotely in this meeting. Each member of the public will have up to three minutes to provide Public Comment. If you join the meeting early to listen to the proceedings, now is the time to get into the line to speak. If you have not already done so, please press star 3. Its important that you press star 3 only once to enter the cue as pressing it again will move you out of the Public Comment line and back into listening mode. When you are in the queue, and are standing by, the system will prompt you when its your turn to speak. So its important that you call from a quiet location. Please address your comments to the commission as a whole and not to individual members. Madam chair, were checking rit now to see if there are callers in the cue. Again, if you have just joined this meeting, were currently on agenda item number 2. Public comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda. You will have throw minutes to r Public Comment and six minutes if you are on line with an interpreter. You will hear a bell go off when you have 30 seconds remaining. I see that we have one caller in line. Thank you. Hello. Welcome to the ethics Commission Meeting. You have throw minutes. You mathrow minutes. I just wt out to the new commissioner, larry bush. Ive known larry since 2013 when we served on the civil grand jury together on the Ethics Committee which was the meeting of the new director, when i served on the civil grand jury in 2015. Larry has been a good Friend Coalition for San Francisco neighborhoods throughout the years that ive been associated with him and before our government and elections meeting and we honored him two years ago at our annual dinner and we will hear him speak again this month. Congratulations. Thank you, caller. Next caller. Hello can you hear me. Yes. Welcome regard ago again da item number 2. Thank you so much. Good morning, everyone. My name is ali. I am failed to see theres been some movement, at least slightly, in the right direction, in San Francisco. What i do want to bring up to your attention is the following. We have been facing issues in the ethical and illegal inaudible in the city and county of San Francisco has been going on continuously in the same direction for the last 20 years as far as i can remember. I am one of the victims of this system. And i can tell you that there is no way, on this earth, that anybody can get a contract fair and square and if they do they will go after you for not playing the game. My humble request to you is the following i dont think any of you underestimate what were facing right now but somehow the city or the system or whatever wants to clean up this system, really needs to go after the contracts that have been executed. I just discovered a commissioner in the city and county of San Francisco that was the president of the commission of the San FranciscoPublic Utility Commission and later on he was a commissioner at this Civil Service commission who had a partnership in a Development Company with one of the primary vendors that worked for harling kelly and d. P. W. And among others, including San Francisco and others. How come this went undetected for years and years and years and no one raised an issue. Why does this vendor continue to get the work and win on every job they submit to. Theres something wrong here. Id love to get feedback from you. And find a way how to resolve this issue and thank you so much for your time and listening. Thank you, caller. Next caller, welcome caller. Good morning, commissioners, its mark sallow man calling from the north mission. I dont think can you do Public Comment by webex and channel 26 is not showing this commission so im not sure this meeting is compliant because you have to have a computer to do it. You want to look into that. Ive done a lot of activism in the city for the past 20 years and on a wide range of issues and i bumped into it qualitative but havent been able to kwan ta fie it but theyre kwan defying the texture of corruption and San Francisco through contracting and the board of supervisors has no idea what to do because their hip deep in the corruption. The City Attorneys clients engage in a crime spree and the City Attorney is investigating their clients crime spree. Is this ethical . I dont think so. This conflicts. The controller was supposed to be the responsible one in the room. How can that be ethical . We need to figure out a way to take this away from the Political Class and create a structure in the community that investigates and concert with the u. S. Attorney and how corruption is wired in San Francisco and device a charter reforms that insulate our government from this on going corruption spree through transparency and shared power. Were in the middle of a pandemic and this government is holy i am capable of delivering basic services to people to make us whole during a crisis and thats because every single god damn contract goes out to a favored nonprofit to do the Service Provision that are d. P. H. Should be doing itself. We have this privatization regime of Public Function being outsourced to private non profits and since were in a paytoplay environment the non profits are in paytoplay as well. There are no progresses here and moderates here, there are those who pay to play and get the gang and those from the game is kept away. The ball kept away and thats the majority of san france. So the commission is one of those who is positioned such that you have some independence and it can really go through and do the heavy lift to figure out how were being corrupts and how to defend against corruption structurally over the longterm. Thank you very much and im so glad that the commissioner, larry bush in place, go larry. Thank you. Thank you, caller. I just want to check the caller had said that we are not available to the public on sfgtv. Is there anyway to verify that we are in fact live and recording presently . Yes, we are live and recording on sf govtv, however, we are on channel 78 instead of channel 26. So, i want today share for the record that that was an error on our part. Ok. Good, im glad we clarified that for those on the computer there are two sfgtv channels you have to chose from when go to the live button. Make sure you check the channel 78 or i think its called sfgtv2 so that you i mean theres not much to look at, such a bunch of commissioners faces staring from their computers but its important you can hear and participate through that mode. Thank you. Are there any further callers. Madam chair, i see no further callers for this agenda item. Ill give them a few seconds. On the assumption that there are no further, im going to close Public Comment and call agenda item number 3. So, agenda item 3 is the discussion of the executive directors report and update of the various program attic and operational highlights of ethics Commission Staff, activities since the commissioners previous meeting including an update by the office of the controller on its june 29th, 2020 report on public corruption and just to be clear, we dont ordinarily take the executive directors report at beginning of the meeting but we are going to do that so she can bring the commission and the public uptodate on all the work that the Commission Staff has been doing while weve been in this covid19 hiatus. And i also want to point out, were going to have presentation from the executive director and then we have the representative from the Controllers Office to present the materials that they have re leased to the public concerning the public corruption investigations that are on going by the f. B. I. And by the city. We will have commissioner comment and questions after the executive director speaks and again after the controllers representative speaks and well open it up to Public Comment and so im hoping any members of the public you can keep tags on all the things you want to raise so that you can bring them up when we get to the end of this item 3. Thank you, very much. Thank you, good morning, commissioners, its very good to see you and we welcome you back to your business. And we welcome the public for joining us as well. This is an opportunity, as you mentioned, chair, to provide you with a brief about the commissioners activities over the last several months. At the top of the agenda. This is highlights since the commissions last meeting and it is an information item only so theres no action required on your part as always, we very much are interested in your feedback and comments and any questions and so, our virtual staff are also available to answer questions that you might have for us. It has, of course, as mentioned, been since february that our commission was last able to meet. And those five months, theres been more change than probably any of us could have imagined at the time. I also on behalf of the staff want to acknowledge former commissioner grays service. We also wish him well and look forward to seeing him at some point in our paths. I also want to echo chair ambrose welcome to commissioner bush. Commissioner bush is not a new face to the issues but were really looking forward to working with him and his new capacity as a Ethic Commission member. During the past five months since the Commission Last had the opportunity to meet, our daytoday operations has continued to be guided by a focus on advancing the best we can and the circumstances are core mission. On the goal of providing excellence in our service to the public. Those things have been challenges in ways we con have imagined five months ago and its a humbling time to be a Public Service and i do want to thank everybody across the city on behalf of our department, for the work that theyre doing on the front lines in support of those in the frontlines and the kind and compassionate to everybody who tried to do that work. There are so many pressing needs that i know everybody is familiar with and they have our gratitude and i know the commission extends its gratitude as well. I also want to thank those who have been particularly engage with our office and over filing dead lines. We can shifted our operations into a fully remote Work Environment and as chair ambrose mentioned, it will be for the for zoo able future. Lastly but not least, the commission, for each who have been supportive in