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For seats 6 and 7 and i dont think should be on the Sunshine Task force. There are a number of issues that have been raised here, mediation. Unfortunately weve had secretive process and no public description of outcomes. It is antitheyth cal to sunshine. The City Attorney has often provided ~ absolutely wrong advice to the Sunshine Task force. Open government is important to you as well as supervisors because that is your only way for check and balances to be looking at what the administrative departments are doing. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors. Dr. Derek kerr [speaker not understood...

Gonna set the night on Fire Task Force fire make it happen thank you. applause good afternoon. My name is jeffery king. I am a First Amendment lawyer specializing in [speaker not understood] Government Matters. I am a journalist who is an enthusiastic and frequent utilizer of the California Public records act and the San Francisco sunshine ordinance. A huge part of [speaker not understood] which includes open Government Matters and, of course, im here in my capacity as the freedom of Information Committee, [speaker not understood] society of professional journalists which i served since 2011. ...

Reversed the rules for these [speaker not understood], the 6vote rule. You know [speaker not understood]. It sounds good on paper. In the back of my mind, thats pretty good. But at the end bottom line it was a violation of city charter. To me it seemed sort of ironic that here we have the sunshine ordinance. In charge of all of these rules and yet you were violating a rule. Whether i agreed with it or not, [speaker not understood], i absolutely would not violate that charter [speaker not understood]. So, lets see. All of these thing you heard from kit. We missed several meetings, thats problem...

Attorney. Im a Community Organizer with the harvey milk democratic club. As an attorney much of my practice focuses on freedom of expression and in many instances my clients have benefited from use of the California Public records act, use of the brown act as well. Which mandates open public hearings. In my experience on the harvey milk club, i participated in Public Comments before the board of supervisors and various committees. Ive also provided forums for public comment. I have myself admittedly grappled with occasional member complaints about incidental failure to post agenda in advance o...

Reference, you know, specific areas of the sunshine ordinance has really been its going to be a big loss to the task force to not have him there. So, i wanted to start with those two things. I think one of the things that i feel that i bring to the task force that maybe is different than other people is that im a parent of three Young Children and its a different point of view than a lot of other members have. Im not sure how many of the other Task Force Members have children of Elementary School age and of kindergarten age. So, a lot of times when issues come before the task force, i can thin...