in city government, there needs to be an enforcement and penalty added to the powers of the ethics commission, such that even the mayor should be penalized when he fails to take action on a recommendation that has taken years to wind through a hearing of the ethics commission, two years before sunshine task force member sue clausen's case even had a hearing. you may or may not at the conclusion of the ethics commission hearing that found miss gomez had violated the sunshine ordinance, i went to congratulate her being the first person in city history to have been found violative by the ethics commission, in the first

person in city history to being referred to the mayor for removal of office. when i approached her to congratulate her, she flipped her jacket at me trying to strike me. there does not need to be an actual strike to constitute an assault. she is salted meat in the hallway of city hall, and the mayor trying to run for elected office has no business doing so unless he is going to enforce referrals sent to him from the ethics commission. ed lee should not become mayor if he is going to willfully ignored the recommendation made from the ethics commission. thank you. supervisor campos: 6 speaker, please. >> my name is jeff ente.

i was one of the complaints. i want to give you first-hand experience of what that was like. it was my only complaint, and i tried not to do it, but i heard the supervisor talk of that document that did not exist. i filed a complaint to the supervisors and let's see these documents and it was ignored. i want to frank darby. i got an e-mail back from the supervisors that sang perhaps it would delete it. i know about emails and knew they could not be deleted. i filed the sunshine complaint. the supervisor in question ignored the task force. i would go and sit and do my homework and we would be called and i would be there, and the supervisors representative did not show up. finally after nasty letters from the task force, they did show

up and said about the deleted thing and the task force said you should not have deleted them, and you did not believe them, because you can go to the court and get them back, so why don't you do that? from that fit was a bad deal. as i was there i noticed there was not the only one showing up. i remember saying how can this be? how can the city on every page of the website say we were right? he said something very telling, and it applies to previous remarks about being resource- wrapped. it it really was just being resources-wrapped, they would better serve the public by saying we know what the obligation is, we will get to it, but it may not be as quickly and timely or as the row as either one of us look like. perhaps you should look at alternative legal remedies.

instead they did not say anything, and they give members of the public the feeling they will pursue it. for that reason the whole thing fell apart. it went on for literally a year or so for waiting for the supervisor to show up. from the very start people are telling me you are wasting your time. people in the building know they have nothing to fear from the ethics commission on sunshine. i did not believe it. i want up wasting a year or so, and quite frankly, i was the person who believed what i read that came out of this government before that, in my interaction with ethics is now i take -- think everything needs to be verified at this point. this falthank you. supervisor campos: thank you. net speaker. -- next speaker.

>> my name is douglas yelp. if mr. joe lynn was here the ethics commission would be far different and actually accomplish something they would be proud of. if they do not have the money to televise, where does he get the money on the tony hall case? in my opinion that case could have been resolved in roughly 30 minutes of face-to-face negotiation. secondly, mr. lynn mentioned to me that the ethics commission has the ability to refuse to put its findings in writing using different loopholes as he told me over the phone, even joe live in that cannot stop him. of course i had nothing to do after he told me that.

what i feel the ethics commission should be doing is to protect the citizens. in the case that i had mentioned earlier, there were two witnesses committed. i asked the enforcement officer at the ethics commission for a simple yes or no answer. number one, did you talk with the first witness? no answer. no. two, did you talk with the second witness, mr. phil ginsberg? no answer. to this day i still do not have a written answer whether they even talked to the witnesses. obviously if they are not want to tell me they even talk to the witnesses, i can see why the case is still unresolved. you were telling me the city has the money to support an agency like this? -- you are telling me the city has no money to support an

agency like this? it the ethics that fell want to do the job, they are free to go do another job. i hear they're hiring in china, so maybe they can go there, and i am sure they can lose -- learn chinese. back to the ethics commission -- it is not a sleeping watchdog, it is not a watchdog at all. it is basically a lap dog, just like are referred to the local press. that is why there is very little criticism of what goes on in the city and county of san francisco. if you have a lap dog press and laptop ethics commission, obviously the citizens throw up their hands and pray we could vote for new president. thank you. supervisor campos: thank you. any of the member of the public that would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed.

colleagues, we have heard from the civil grand jury. we have heard from the mayor's office. the ethics commission. the public. now we have to take a position with respect to findings 2, 4 and 7. supervisor farrell -- president chu. supervisor chiiu. supervisor chiu: thank you. i think we had a good discussion. colleagues, my perspective on these recommendations, as i stated before, i am comfortable with the board supporting recommendations 2 and 7 with regard to time the hearings and the enforcement action recommendations as well as moving forward around broadcasting meetings on sfgov tv, although a hope we can

figure out how to do that with regards to the budget unsettling. with regards to item four, i am not prepared to support specific recommendations that a laid out in the proposed recommendations. what i might suggest is that of language that states with regards to item number four, we did not take a position with regards to the specific legislation, but we would be open to considering other options to think about the ethics commission could continue to not involve any appearances of impropriety and leave it open for the future if there will be other discussions by the board. supervisor campos: we have a motion by president chiu. supervisor farrell: that is fine

with me. vice thing was listing specific entities. and -- my specific thing was listing specific entities. i would prefer we do not specifically name any organizations here, so that satisfies that and is fine by me. supervisor campos: city attorney. >> the committee should also respond to the findings, as well as the recommendation. i am not sure that was it implied. supervisor campos: i think president chiu to clarify -- does that mean you agree with the findings 2, 4, 7, but have a different take on recommendation 4? supervisor chiu: i am fine with finding membenumber 7.

i would be curious to know what others think about that. supervisor campos: supervisor farrell. supervisor farrell: to be honest, i have no opinion you can take it on face value, but it does weaken the cool, so i am fine with it the way it is. ansupervisor campos: from my perspective i agree with the findings. i think there are maybe differences in opinion as to what some of the reasons maybe, and i think staffing may be one of those issues, but i do have a very real concern about what is happening with respect to the issue and find a number two in the enforcement of sunshine or dance task force actions, and i think that needs further discussion, and i think the recommendation as stated makes sense, which is that all enforcement actions deserve a

timely hearing by the ethics commission. i do not think that it's a radical concept. with respect to finding member four, i again, i think that there is an issue there about the appearance of impropriety. i agree with president chiu, i am not sure the specific recommendation is necessarily the way to go. it maybe there are some elements here that can be emulated. i think what we need to do is to have a larger discussion about what the makeup of the ethics commission should look like, and i think that is something that will take more time, and hopefully more input than only from the civil grand jury, but from the community at large. i think the language used suggested that leads that open

it makes sense, but i think that it is important for us to agree with the finding, and i think an example where the civil grand jury has been very helpful in opening a dialogue that needs to be had. with respect to number seven, i am fine with the findings and recommendation. it would basically be agreeing with the findings and agreeing with the recommendation, except with recommendation no. four as modified by president chiu. we have a motion by president chiu. supervisor chiu: with regards to recommendations #four, it should probably reap the board of supervisors this topic of this is the -- specific position but it is appropriate to consider future options to reduce the appearance of impropriety on the part of the ethics commission -- something like that. supervisor campos: yes.

we have that motion. can we take that motion without objection? again, i want to thank the members of the civil grand jury for the service to the city and county of san francisco. there will be more reports hurt by this committee in coming weeks. i want to thank the executive director of the ethics commission for being here. there may be differences of opinion from different folks on these issues, but i want to reiterate my thanks for your responsiveness and presence and for the work you and your staff are trying to do at the ethics commission. mayor's office for being here. city attorney. district attorney's office, and especially to members of the public who have taken time out of their schedules to be here today. and to those of you watching. madam clerk, is there any other business before the committee? >> there is no other business. supervisor campos: think you.

meeting adjourned. -- thank you.

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our human rights commission director, thank you very much, terese afor being here. it's a large city family. >> dennis, thank you. thank you very much, dennis, for being here. commissioner normandy, supervisor carmen chu, thank you. good morning, everyone. larry, good to see you, great to be out there with the new labor center. wonderful. friends, family, emily, judy, good to see you. everybody, thank you for coming. entertainment commission, of course. thank you for being here. and commissioners, human rights commission, as well. we have 11 commissioners representing eight different commissions to swear in today. and i want to, again, thank each and every one of you for both new appointments and reappointments to our wonderful commissions. this is a very, very proud day for me because we're welcoming

back people who have done great jobs in our city and running our airports and our arts commissions, our civil service, our commission on the status of women, our environmental commission, our entertainment commission, our human rights commission and of course our rent board, something that i grew up with here at city with our rent board. i want to thank everyone here for coming for this wonderful occasion to ask again for a recommitment and a new commitment of our commissioners to serve our city. you don't get a lot of pay, as i understand, from doing this. i get a little pay but i depend upon your guidance and your policy calls for doing such a great job for our departments and also guiding the city and creating jobs and also getting work done with our department heads and that's why so many of them are here, as well. they are working hard to keep,

during these very challenging economic times, a balance of what it is to move the city forward, but also just the opportunity to keep our city together. that's a wonderful thing. and i know the rent board, for example, that whole tension between our landlord and tenants and making sure it's a well balanced thing. and our environment, to make sure we're not only doing the new things, but working with all of our agencies to get the best in energy efficiency and in our look at reducing our co-2 emissions right down to our civil service commission and as you know, we lost a very long-term civil servant in donald casper. we welcome in our new commissioner, as well. on our human rights commission, we have a lot of work to do. and i know that in keeping our city together, we have to also continue to fight obstacles of discrimination but also welcome

in in a proper way small businesses and challenges to all of the obstacles being created that are new to us. i want to welcome in our entertainment commissioners because they have that very, very fine balance that has to do with creating new opportunities of entertainment and dealing with our young community as well as our music entertainment community and balancing public safety. i'm excited with our arts commission. as you know, i've been a great supporter of the arts, all forms of arts, and seeing how it's helping us activate mid market street as well as our new central subways and all the opportunities we have. i want to thank you for stepping up. eleanor, our airports commission. airport is, of course, through john's leadership, one of the driving engines of our economy. we're going to work