Page 50 - Sunshine Task News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Wanted to bring to your attention before a decision or action is taken. I would specifically like to speak to the issue regarding the actual way that lobbyist fundraising activity would be reported. Right now the recommendation by staff and the proposed regulation states that there should be an itemization of each contributor of over 100 that is given as a result of the lobbyists fundraising appeal. We suggest that the approach be taken that thats not the approach taken but the [inaudible] standard used and instead of listing each individual contributor the date is given so if you do a fundrai...

Recommendation you find or the staff finds a reason to find fault and if you think its at fault and you acknowledge the fact that part of the responsibilities as a body is the enforcement of the sunshine ordinance then i would think that there would be a moral imperative to do something to get together with the task force and come down with something meaningful where you can do something instead of these pointless arguments whether they charge the right person or crossed the right t or. Ed the i and the issue is let them go to Public Meetings and let them speak and i went to the Police Commiss...

So, the first thing i did was get a list of primary counties, mainly the larger ones, los angeles, San Francisco, san diego, sacramento, riverside, and then i conducted like a list of how much it costs per system and a couple other notes as well. And then after that i went on to the smaller counties. So, i believe 40 counties, i believe. Even the smaller ones, ive had to call and make sure they are complete based or so forth. So, the work so far and hopefully goes on to me writing a white paper expressing our desire to change regulation to compliant based here in San Francisco. Great, thank yo...

Fact this isnt clear and this isnt clear so when are you going to do something about it . We just did. With all due respect commissioner keane this discussion has been going on for five years, the discussion on who is gets included on the complaint. I did that and i had the task force take that off. The reason is they went through two years of discussion and were the Ethics Commission and according to the sunshine ordinance the only people we can discipline are elected heads and officials and so if you have a complaint against a line employee your response from the staff is we cant do anything...

Calling the other commissioners. Renne. Here. Commissioner andrews. Here. Commissioner keane. Here. Before taking Public Comment on item number 2 i just want to call everybodys attention to the fact that the regular meeting for august has been canceled, and there will be a special meeting on august 18 at 10 00 a. M. In room four one six to consider the report of the civil grand jury and the commissions response thereto. At this time i will take Public Comment on matters of not appearing on the agenda that are within the jurisdiction of the Ethics Commission. Members of the Ethics Commission. R...