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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. ...

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...

I fully admit that has not been ideal. And Going Forward i will make a stronger effort. I dont feel it was a lack of effort. It happened to be a set of odd circumstances this past year that [speaker not understood]. Okay, thank you. Anything else . Thank you. Sure. Last applicant, Rodman Joseph martin. Im the last one. Good afternoon, supervisors. ~ yee and tang. Thanks for having me here. My name is rodman martin. A little bit about myself. Im thankful to participate in this and considering me. Ive lived in San Francisco now for about four years. I grew up in the bay area, went to cal poly fo...

City attorneys interpretation of the ordinance, visavis the city charter is a red herring. First, interpretations of roberts rules of order is hard to get [speaker not understood]. Second, the city has settled over 21 million in payments paid out over the last six years to settle various lawsuits involving discrimination and wrongful termination that involved a quoteunquote advice from the City Attorney [speaker not understood] proved to be mistaken. Even though the City Attorney [speaker not understood] makes mistakes in interpretation of the law. Third, consider doing contract talks that jus...

In the next year is looking at stream lining the process and it is nice to have this user interface where we have the portal now that is the single goto place for the Business Owners but we as a city need to look at the processes that are involved for our business whens they deal with the permitting and licenses. There is, yeah, i cant say enough that you cant just throw technology on top of a flawed process. You want to look at, you know, i am sure that we could just study what we have now and map it out. And identify some of the efficiency gaps, and maybe making the smallest of changes could...