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ethics commission to investigate government practices there. my colleague in my employment group is handling that. our firm is well aware of the importance of open government and good government. so the second reason i applied is because i have always believed in the importance of serving in my community. as you know from my application, i was a longtime member of the community services committee of the asian-american bar association. i was on the committee about eight years and i was co-chair of the committee for four of those eight years. we ran a legal clinic for low income san fr...

campaigns, lobbyists, campaign consultants, officials, economic interests are part of overt -- part of open government. if appointed as ethics commissioner, i would continue to advocate for the public's interest to ensure that the city's ethics laws are enforced early in the ways that the public expressed them to be enforced. i could read from the mission statement of the ethics commission. not necessary. with no political agenda it ties, having demonstrate my interest in good and open government, and very tangible ways, i think i could do a good job. supervisor kim: thank you, mr. g...

property related. however, once i retired, i developed a couple of very strong interests. in the city and how it was run and what it looked like, because for reasons i will not necessarily have to get into, i became enamored with the problems of the city's forests, which as we know has been steady decline for years. it has been the subject of reports going to 1992. as a result of that, i had occasion to spend time with people in the various departments and people on the outside, such as transbay urban forest. it led to my involvement in the sunshine because i was looking at work at d...