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Transcripts For SFGTV 20140130

Definitely be ready to listen to anything that you say. We appreciate you coming nonetheless. Not a problem. I dont have any questions. Does anybody on the commission have questions for the budget analyst . Not really, no. Was it mr. Cunningham . I look forward to working with mr. St. Croix and well see where we go. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you. I have a question. Commissioner hayon. When you say there are things that you would like to get done, that you arent to get done currently, what are some of these issues. We have two extremely competent investigators, but we could do more with more. Right now we audit all candidates and random sampling of all candidates and eventually i think we should be able to audit every single candidate. Auditing is one of the most effective tools we have, anticorruption tools. And we want to continue to provide the services to the public in overseeing. The audits that we do right now are taking longer. Were trying to do more, but the mayoral audits, for e ....

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Transcripts For SFGTV 20140130

Not the most el eloquent motion i have ever made. [ laughter ] so moved. Second. Public comment . Hearing none, all in favor . Aye. Opposed . There are none. Mr. St. Croix, can you make the announcements . Finding of probable cause for Ethics Commission complaint 13111013, at its regular meeting of january 28th, 2013, in the matter of ethics complaint 131103,the Ethics Commission made a determination that there is probably cause to believe the following violations of the San Francisco campaign and governmental conduct code occurred and that the respondents committed them. One violation of San Francisco campaign and governmental conduct code section 1. 1 16 subsection a2 for reporting and receiving a loan to his candidate committee in excess of 120,000. Two, one ....

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Discussions and deliberations relating to the matter that was discussed in confidential session, keep that confidential . That is perhaps not the most el eloquent motion i have ever made. [ laughter ] so moved. Second. Public comment . Hearing none, all in favor . Aye. Opposed . There are none. Mr. St. Croix, can you make the announcements . Finding of probable cause for Ethics Commission complaint 13111013, at its regular meeting of january 28th, 2013, in the matter of ethics complaint 131103,the Ethics Commission made a determination that there is probably cause to believe the following violations of the San Francisco campaign and governmental conduct code occurred and that the respondents committed them. One violation of San Francisco campaign and governmenta ....

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Transcripts For SFGTV 20130211

Violation of the sunshine ordinance . I move that we find that the failure to release these documents was not a willful failure a willful violation of the sunshine ordinance. Is there a second . Second. All in favor . Aye. Opposed . Motion passed. I also want to say in response it to a number of the members of the public that i understand the frustration with not being able to see what we get to see, what the Controllers Office sees, and what the commissioner itself sees. These investigations are factintensive. The commissioner spends a lot of time on them, and i would really like for you to be able to know and to prove that to you. We are bound by rules of nondisclosure. We are bound by the charter and state law and there is good reason for confidentialitis, i think as i set at the last meeting. We need to protect whistleblowers and need to protect people who talk to
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Transcripts For SFGTV 20130129

Comment, is someone following with me sorry. Bottom of page 3. Under Public Comment. Mr. Ng stated that he needed clarification, i believe needed would be better. On page 4, Public Comment, towards the top, my comments stated that the term qualification should be included perhaps in the definition, not into. On the bottom of page 4, item 5, the closed session evaluation of director st. Croix i believe that should also reference the brown act and sunshine ordinance provisions that permit such closed sessions. And there was one other one moment. Well there was one another thing and darned if i can find it now. I will try to find it and communicate it to staff, but just minor typographical things. I did try to read the minutes. Thank you. Is there a motion to adopt the minutes as amended by mr. Pilpel . So moved. Second. All in favor . Aye. Opposed . Hearing none, next item on t ....

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