Please press star 3 to be added to the Public Comment queue. You will have three minutes to provide Public Comment and six minutes if youre online with an interpreter. You will hear a bell go off when you have 30 seconds remaining. Please standby. Once again, if you have joined this meeting, we are currently on agenda item 7. Discussion of monthly staff enforcement report. You will have three minutes to provide Public Comment and six minutes if youre online with an interpreter. There are no more callers. Chair ambrose Public Comment is closed. Thank you mr. Pierce. I will call agenda item 8. Discussion of executive directors report an update of various programmatic and operational highlights of Ethics Commission. That will be executive director pelham presentation. Thank you. Thank you chair ambrose. I wont recap the budget information i highlighted here in case this is where people look for the budget updates. Theres some information there. Quick update on the Public Financing program, since last months commission meeting, as of yesterday, as of september 9th, it was the last day on which candidates running for the november election could be determined to be eligible for the program. As of the 9th, we now have 16 of the 22 candidates who agreed to participate in the program and on the ballot. 15 of those 22 board of supervisors are candidates are now participating eligibly. 68 participating rate, which is good. Thats going to be really interesting to look at overtime if the new Program Provisions that were enacted this year, have helped people get in the program. Together, that group of 15 is now qualified for almost 2. 5 million. We will now turn to continue to mohammad Public Financing matching claims that are coming in. Theres a provision in the law that says if a candidate who is deemed to be ineligible through our review by september 9th date, which is to have that determination appealed theres a process to do that. I dont think i have anything else to report on this item. Im happy to take any questions if you have them for me. Vice chair lee we maybe doing lot of good work there are lot of things that the general public should know about. I would renew my recommendation that we step up on our Educational Outreach activities especially now with remote connections. I think it maybe little bit easy to organize them. Given all the attention the election and Everything Else that the staff would put together ongoing activities. Number one, to really resume our press briefings. One before the election, the second is postelection. To let people know that were relevant and more importantly theres a vehicle for the public to report or to share their suggestions on government and clean election. I would hope to see that we would have the couple of press briefings taking place. When i say press briefing i want to emphasize were talking about neighborhood, social media and ethnic media is really key getting information out to Underserved Community in the city. We talked about the ongoing persons of interest briefings or information gathering. I also felt that we need to expand the definition of persons of interest. It seems like the people on the front line are the ones who really need the information the most. I would like to see persons of interest to include city organizations, political organizations, bipartisan. Those are the ones who may not be the lobbyist, who may not be actually running for office but they are supporting election reform, government reform. They may have a lot more experience and information to share if they were part of these inperson briefings. I would love to see that, yes we have limited budget i think that were already doing these things. Its just a matter of expanding it to be more inclusive so that we can raise the professional profile and get the community energize and get them to know what the city of sa ethics comms and make us more stronger and connected to the people who are impacted. Chair ambrose thank you commissioner lee. I very much appreciate and share that perspective. My hope is that we with Remote Technology as a start, maybe able to do more of that with resources that we have currently. I would look forward to reporting back to you all on that front as well. Chair ambrose those are really good suggestions. Commission chiu, did you have a question or comment . Commissioner chiu executive director pelham, if i can be helpful in any way in participating in the community, outreach community, i will be delighted to do so. I agree, its part of the pandemic shutdown is that the proliferation of online meetings and outreach, digitally or virtually, i think is a real game changer in terms of being able to reach more people. People might not be able to come to a meeting because they have child care or they have to work. The convenience is doing from home on a phone or tablet or laptop, i think reduces those barriers and we can take advantage of that in this time. That will be really great. I had a second question for executive director pelham on the directors report, i see there is a budget item for statement of economic interest filing late fees. If you can report on it next month, id be interested to know the 7 who didnt file, how many still are outstanding and but efforts are being made to get them to file. I believe last week, i understood out of the 18 identified last month as electronic filers, i believe the number last week gone down to 14. I dont have todays current numbers. We have follow up with all filers to give them a 60day notice. Commissioner chiu could we also send a note not just to the filers themselves but to their boss, to their appoint i believe that notice is provided as well. Commissioner chiu i dont know if this was done before, is it possible to publish a list of those who have not filed on our website . Yes. Eir wili will followup once wew how many that is. Unfortunately its ridiculousing cumbersome to find that. We need to make it simpler. We were waiting to see how many filed. We can find place on our website to update that information. Commissioner chiu let the legislative aids know that theyve been called out for failing to file. Most of the people on the list is board of commissioners. Commissioner chiu have we been reminding them they are not permitted to vote . Yes. We shared that information with the city attorneys office. They can also make sure they have that information at the time, should there be an action something might taken. Theres some on the list that left office. They still have an obligation to file. Commissioner chiu if there are commissioners or others who have not filed and has continued to participate in meetings and votes, what actions can we take or what consequences follow from that . Individuals who have not filed one of statements or their certification of training, are disqualified under the provisions of the law from acting and participating. We can come back our advice somebody called their office about whether they should be acting. We would advise them not to take action. Somebody had taken action when they were disqualified under the law, thats something well follow up through the usual channels whether or not a violation occurred and if a penalty should apply and if so what that is. We will follow our normal practices looking into violations have occurred. Commissioner chiu thank you. Chair ambrose i wouldnt recognize the names. Im sure organization they were part of. Youre saying they are board and commission members, next month, can you tell us which boards and commissions these individuals serve on . If they have resigned and have not filed their leaving office statement, presumably they have given notice of resignation, getting to that point, i like to know how many, if any, of these nonfilers are actually active members of existing board and commissions. If so, which boards and commissions those are . Thank you. Now were going to ask for comment on this item. Sorry, commissioner bush, your hand is up. Go ahead. Commissioner bush i wanted to associate myself with commissioner lees comments about greater outreach. My thought on that is that our interested persons meeting now are pretty much reactive where we invite people to come in and give their reactions to proposals from the staff and the commission, the change regulations or laws or so forth. I think it would be very good idea to have an interested persons meeting in which the Community Came to us with what they think needs to be added to the work of the Ethics Commission. Knowing that we have no resources but nevertheless, we do need take a pulse from them about what they see is going on and they would like to see greater activity from. Since thats pretty much a virtual meeting, its something that can be done by sending out questions as commissioner lee suggesting that we do an outreach to communitybased groups that are politically active and others asking them directly, we could have someone develop a series of questions or it can be openended where they give us an essay. We should do Something Like that. I would recommend that we add that to our list for the next meeting. [please stand by] you are online with an interpreter. You will hear a bell go off when you have 30 seconds remaining. Please stand by. Thank you. Once again for the general public, if you just joined this meeting, were on public decision on agenda item 8, discussion of the executive directors report. Operational highlights of staff activity since the commissions previous meeting. Please continue to stand by. Madam chair, there are no callers in the queue. Thank you. With that then i am going to call agenda item 9 and that would be discussion of possible action on items for future meetings. I am going to there is no presentation. If any members of the public intend to offer Public Comment to this item, they can dial in now and enter star 3 to be added to the Public Comment queue. Now im going to ask all the commissioners if they have items for future meetings. All right. And commissioner busch, youre first with your hand up. You can go ahead. Thank you, i would like to add a request that we look at the Redistricting Task force and whether or not its activities are covered by our laws on lobbying. Is it okay or not okay to lobby or give gifts to members of the Redistricting Task force . That will be appointed in the next period of, i think in march according to the law. Also, i like to see us add to the groups like permit expediters and lobbyists, strategic advisors. They are a classic revolving door group. They are often the most senior officials in the Mayors Office or departments that do not engage in direct lobbying of their former colleagues, but provided a vice to accompa comp entity on how to accomplish something at city hall. You can see they advertise themselves as a strategic advisor. This is not a mystery. I would like that to be added. As i just talked about, a community meeting, an outreach to the community on what it is that people think needs to be given priority consideration by the Ethics Commission. We did something similar to this with the general Obligation BondOversight Committee when i served on it, when we did a survey of whether or not people felt what they got with the bond spending was what they had expected to get, which is an after action report. So, i know that the money exists to do those surveys from the controllers office, the general Bond Oversight Committee would often return up to 2 million in unspent funding. It could go back to the city and some of that could be tapped for us to do surveys. Thank you. Okay. So those are i mean in terms of the substantive question you asked about redistricting, im assuming that between director and her staff and the city attorneys office, they will be able to provide an answer to that question when we meet again in october on your proposal to address the strategic advisors. I would ask mr. Ford in your policy staff report next month, in addition to giving us some feedback on what the utilization of advisory committees may mean to the work that you are charged to do, what that legislative effort because that would require legislation to amend the rules to require disclosure of these individuals who hire themselves out as strategic advisors. So if not a proposal, be prepared to speak to that subject and then with respect to the community i. P. Meeting, i think excue executive director, you said improving outreach is on your agenda and its clearly on the agenda of the commissioners to broaden our outreach for commissioner lees point and commissioner bush now with this idea boar rrrowed froe Bond Oversight Committee about tapping into a Community Feedback loop on what they understand we do and what they think we should be doing. Thats yet another idea. So what im getting out of all of this is i know in november, were going to be looking at the plan report on the agenda again. In october, i think we had a general discussion that were going to see a discussion of possible action on this idea of supplemental resources to submit, to support Commission Objectives and that could be both advisory committees, as well as grant funding, requested payments, et cetera. I understand that this is a commission initiated item so im not expecting a fulsome staff report or presentation. We want it on the agenda with enough clarity so that we can brainstorm about all the possible ways that we might enhance, you know, being able to achieve the mission with the limited resources that the Ethics Commission is being given. Then, i also have a note here, im sorry, form 700 answer. Somebody asked a question about form 700 that i thought we were going to try to get answered at a future meeting. Is that triggering anybodys memory . It may have been me raising the question of what extent can the form 700 accommodate a specific San Francisco law, like disclosure of being on the board thats it. So on that point then, not 130, so im assuming our attorney is still there. So you together with ethics staff, can be prepared to explain to us the form 700, the rules, there is also the question about whether or not were being encouraged or directed at a certain date to have everyone file electronically and then the other question about if one wanted to add additional disclosure obligations, would you do that through form 700 or other disclosure. If you can speak about that when we get back together again in october i dont know what the actual date is. The second friday in october. I think thats all i have. Is there anything else that folks think that we need to oh, commissioner lee. You need to unmute yourself. There you go. Thank you madam chair. I just have a quick question for the executive director. Since the november election is expected to be a little bit of a challenge in many ways with mail in and Everything Else. On top of that, our meeting is going to be less than two weeks away from the election. I wonder if we should push back the november meeting to a week if the system is Still Available for us to do the change. Im concerned if staff will be able to have such a short turn around with less than two weeks. Okay, now that i look at a series of holidays, but what does that mean anymore since we cant technically leave our houses. Everyday is a holiday. The next meeting would be october 9th, which is the friday before Indigenous Peoples day on october 12th. Im assuming were all good for that meeting on the 9th. No one is going away for a long weekend somewhere where you cant arent allowed to go. So two, you say election day is on the 3rd, veterans day is on november 11th, and we would otherwise meet on november 13th. Youre suggesting that we push that . We wouldnt meet until november 13th. Not the 6th, just the 13th. Yeah, im saying its still less than two weeks from the election. Right. I dont have any problems moving it back to the 20th. We dont have to take any action now. Why dont we just talk about that again in october and by then everybody will have a chance to look at your calendar and we can hear from staff on that. Does that sound okay commissioner lee . Uhhuh. Okay good. Is there anything else we want to put forward for a future agenda . If not, im going to call for Public Comment. I see commissioners hand up. Sorry, i forgot to take it down. Okay, all right. Then moderator, if you can see if there are any commenters in the queue. Madam clerk, were looking to see if there is anyone in the queue. For those on hold, please wait until it says you have been unmuted. Were on agenda number 9. If you have not already done so, please press star 3 to be added to the Public Comment queue. You will have 3 minutes to provide your Public Comment and 6 minutes if youre online with an interpreter. You will hear bells go off when you have 30 seconds remaining. Please stand by. Once again for the general public, if you have just joined the meeting, were on motion agenda item number 9, discussion and possible action on items for future meetings. Also as a reminder, Public Comment can be submitted in writing and will be shared with the commission after this me meeting has been concluded and will be part of the official meeting files. Written comments should be sent to ethics. Commission sfgov. Org. Please continue to stand by. Madam chair, there are no callers in the queue. All right then, with that im going to call agenda item 10, which is an additional opportunity for Public Comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda pursuant to ethics bylaws article 7 section 2. If you want to have a comment on this idea, call now and press star 3 to be added to the Public Comment queue. Is t