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All right. The Ethics Commission is back in session. Were now going to move to the last of the items were dealing with for the amendments to the matter to be put on the ballot in june, and that is behested payment discussion at page six. Thank you, chair. I think i will direct you to the red line version. I think thatll be the easiest way to just look at these, so if youll please look at page 76 in the packet, thats where the first change is that id like to show you. So as you know, the behested payment page six . Page 76, correct. Those are the small numbers on the bottom, not the large. Yeah...

Background on that. This language and thrust of this is really a basic tran parency issue. It would provide a way for these who recuse under the law, to do so for a good thing, in order to avoid conflicts. It would give the public a chance to understand repeated recusals, so there would be an opportunity to engage. If there is a repeated recusal, and well get into how this would calculate that, there is a process for the Ethics Commission to review those recusals, and determine if there is a continued conflict that exists for that board or Commission Member, and the commission can recommend th...

We dont include the board of supervisors there. So i will turn it over to the City Attorney. Thank you, pat. This is something that we took a very close comment following a comment from the first budget and finance committee, and also hearing comments others made around the time about that. I think in hearing the questions, there were a number of questions about what is the reaccusal views purpose, and how would we count this 1 trigger for a review, so i just wanted to provide a bit of background on that. This language and thrust of this is really a basic tran parency issue. It would provide a...

Conflict in city decision making. What this would create is a system thats parallel to whats been in service in los angeles for a number of years. Each time a commissioner appears on an agenda, there would be tools for the Commission Member to do that. The form would be filed with our office, and essentially, its a one to one relationship. If there are three recusals as listed here, filed within a 365day period, or a 1 of all matters that have been appearing on the agenda, that would be something that the commission would then review. And in reviewing that, the commission would look to things ...

Conflict in city decision making. What this would create is a system thats parallel to whats been in service in los angeles for a number of years. Each time a commissioner appears on an agenda, there would be tools for the Commission Member to do that. The form would be filed with our office, and essentially, its a one to one relationship. If there are three recusals as listed here, filed within a 365day period, or a 1 of all matters that have been appearing on the agenda, that would be something that the commission would then review. And in reviewing that, the commission would look to things ...