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Welcome to our regular rules Committee Meeting for thursday february 21, 2013. I am supervisor norman yee and i will be chairing the meeting. To my right is supervisor london breed and the clerk today is linda wong. The committee would also like to acknowledge a staff of sfgtv who are mark bunch and nona makonian who recorded each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any announcements . Yes, mr. Chair, please make sure all cell phones and Electronic Devices are off, and any documents that are to be included as part of the file, items a...

Unless otherwise stated. Thank you, were going the move an item out of order. Can you please call item number 6. Item number 6, ordinance amending the missal elections code sections, withdraw of canadian das si, change the public Inspection Period for candidate materials change requirements for petition circulated badges to meet the requirement of disclaimer, the board of supervisors argument, incorporate state law provision governing signatures in lieu of filing feels, candidate files fee provisions and make other technical amendments. Thank you. And i would like to welcome supervisor malia c...

I think certainly the public relies on us to some extent for our investigatory work and we want to continue that and certainly not diminish that result of budget cuts, in my opinion. Any other comments . Is there Public Comment on this matter . David pilpel, a number of items starting with memo. I dont know why commissioner renne fell off the letterhead here. I apologize and i hope he is still with us and perhaps its just an oversight. Plus the date should be 2013. This is actually not a lot of detail. Its like no detail. And this is actually a required annual hearing on the budget pursuant to...

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 Commission Investigators and controllers investigators, in order to try to make this system...

Passes and the record should be produced as redacted. As a result of having produced agreed to produces the record as redacted, i think we should address the issue of whether the failure to release these documents was a willful violation of the sunshine ordinance. I think i have given my view that in light of the effort we made to review all of these documents, the discussion we had and arguments we heard with respect to this file and these records, that i certainly dont see willfulness here myself. I will open it up to my fellow commissioners to share whatever views that they have on the matt...