so then is there a motion to amend the thing as proposed with the following recommendations, before an incumbent for the board of supervisors race, there would be an adjustment in the matching funds? and to the adjustment to the one-to-one match from 35,000 to 32,500. whereby an incumbent candidate, they would both be able to raise a maximum of $250,000 subject to the ceiling being raised? with a further amendment and that he may borrow a ceiling at the similarly adjusted to

reflect a total cap of 1.7 $5 million. -- $1.75 million. it would apply to both an incumbent candidate in the non- incumbent candidate for mayor. >> so moved. >> all in favor? >> you have seomthi -- something to day? -- to say? >> i think it should be made clear, i am not trying to influence the vote, but to clarify, the charts here don't take into account contributions that are unmatchable. in practice, the total theoretical matter of 155,000

never really gets achieved unless the itc is raised and there is more contributions because you will always have friends and family from out of town or other contributions that are not natural. some of the other proposals that were looked at in november and december had a line for the type of funds and not subject to match. >> i think we understand that it would be only matching funds. >> if you're going to 1.75 on the mayoral race, what amount is the public fund cap that is now 1.225? that is important for you to make clear. i have not done the math. >> i think it goes to 1.075, but again, i would leave it to the staff to make the corresponding reduction based on the motion.

>> they will figure it out, i am told. >> demotion was seconded, justice of the record is clear. all in favor? opposed? it passes the post. thank you for all of you that came. and we thank the staff and supervisors and all of those that participated. this was a helpful process that we engaged in pretty quickly and godspeed. the next item on the agenda is the budget discussion. would you like to introduce this? >> the recommendation has become somewhat customary for our

commission. the city has had quite a difficult budget situation. at issue, we have been requested to make cuts by the mayor's budget office, and at the same time, the ethics commission is an independent agency that has a slightly different status. because we are moving to a two- year budget cycle, the target was cut 5% of of this year's budget for next year. another 5% for the following year and to provide a 2.5% contingency. the five-year plan of the ethics commission would require more staffing among other things for us to be able to leave the entire mission because of the budget situation. it is extremely unlikely.

out of respect for the budget process and acknowledging the ethics commission's independence, i am recommending we put in a request equal to this year's budget and would allow us to go forwarrd with the same staffing level as they are now. there are no other accounts with insufficient funds to meet the targeted cuts. it would mean an immediate loss of staff for next year and an additional loss for the following year. we would respectfully work with the mayor's budget office and the board of supervisors. >> thank you for our working -- for working very effectively

with the staff, considering the budget cuts. >> i would mention that the budget analyst was here for a while but i guess he had to go. >> public comment on this matter? >> this is a two-year budget. the memo is not so specific. the calendar item is not that specific. there is a public hearing requirement for the budget and the caption is not that clear. if you are intending to act tonight rather than in february since the deadline is prior to your next meeting, i would support the staff

recommendation. i think it is important to include narrative for the transmittal that explains to some extent what the existing resources permit you to do. and what reducing the level of resources would mean in terms of loss of staff. and on the other end, what additional resources would allow you to do. it makes a good argument for the middle position of keeping things roughly as they are. i think that would help. it doesn't detail the existing staff and a non-staff costs. and actually, if you're having to produce a contingency cut, i would immediately offer

televising the meetings as being something to offer. i continue to think it is a bad idea and a waste of funds. as we have seen tonight, everyone is gone. >> but we have no idea the scope of the audience. >> thousands are watching and people, and say every day, i see you on tv. >> perception, david. >> comments or questions from the commissioners on the budget request? commissioner studley: these are tough times, but this is for respect for the city's budget situation. commissioner hur: is there a

motion to approve the city's budget request? commissioner studley: i move. commissioner hur: second? it is approved. minutes from the december 11, 2011 meeting. any comment? >> david. it was actually the meeting of december 12, so it was correct on the draft minutes but not the agenda. i can mark up the minutes if you would like. there were a couple of instances of some other typos, page five, a decision 6, i think that should be executive director st. croix. i think there are some other instances that could be made slightly more clear. the attached 150-word statement, i think that is fine, but i would suggest adding what agenda item each statement was in relation to because there were several from an individual that

do not track easily, just to indicate that that was submitted in connection with the item whatever, and finally, the closed session does not have the detail that is required under the sunshine ordinance as to who was present in closed session, so that, too, could be added. again, i could market up and give it to the staff, but they are just minor. commissioner hur: commissioner studley? \] commissioner studley: i agree, and if they could be referred to by the roman numeral. on page two, there is a were missing. i believe that it should say it to pass the exam, and two

comments were evolving -- involving my remarks. on page 3, third from the bottom. i think it would be a little clearer it said it would allow the commission to provide a $5,000 match to the candidate who raised $5,000 with a larger number of contributors than currently required, or while increasing the number of contributors, something like that to indicate that mechanism, and then if you would indulge me on page 8, items for future meetings, i believe or at least intended my comment under that item to be a suggestion, so the vice chair person suggested that the ethics commission consider that a future meeting whether to initiate, so i was not stating that we should but suggesting that we bring it up for discussion.

thank you. commissioner huyr: -- hur: any other comments with respect to the minutes? commissioner ?s -- studley: i will move it with respect to the revisions. >> what is the requirement with respect to indicating the individuals who appear before us in closed session? i assume that there is no issue identifying the people, but i want to make sure before we do. it is not confidential who appeared in private session proof commissioner studley: if

it is a case of probable cause and that it is found that it is not probable cause, then there is an issue of confidentiality? >> the sunshine ordinance says those appearing in closed session need to be identified except where their identification would interfere with other things, so you may rewrite that to save that it was the members present, staff, the city attorney, and identified or something, but just some language about who was present. that would work. >> if it was legal advisor, i understand it might be different, because situations. >> yes. thank you. commissioner: commissioner studley has made a motion. all in favor?

opposed? it passes. next item, the executive director's report. executive director secory -- st. kohring -- st. croix: i anticipate this being either a daytime meeting or a meeting early in the meeting starting at 4:00 or 5:00, something like that. but we first have to identified the dates that rooms are available and the dates that commissioners and members of the sunshine task force, so it will take a little doing, but now we are in the new year as stated, we will move ahead on that. commissioner hur: thank you.

>> the next as public comment. >> legislative proposals. the toe and legislation that was referred to reegie corona and legislation -- the code and legislation -- cohan legislation. they could apply for and be certified for public financing. does the staff have an intention or need directions about how to proceed in the event that a candidate does raise funds and seeks certification while that legislation is pending, because in theory, they would be subject to the current rules. that was kind of an open question. i suppose it depends in part on when that redistricting task force gets their work done, but,

anyway. thanks. commissioner hur: the next item on the agenda is items for future meetings. commissioners? public comment? public comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda which are within the jurisdiction of the ethics commission. is there a motion to adjourn the meeting? commissioner studley: so moved. commissioner hur: commissioner -- seconded. opposed? meeting is adjourned. [gavel]

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>> good afternoon, everyone. thanks for being here. this is our first disaster council meeting for 2012, and it's been quite a previous year, but again, i want to start out by thanking everybody for working as closely as together as we are. i do feel it's just a higher level of collaboration by our community, our residents, our agencies, our responders and i know that towards the end of last year, we had a number of fires. we had a fairly big one just a few days before christmas in our western district area. i want to thank all of the residents that were out there because there were individual heroes that acted very quickly to get others out, and then, in

those precious minutes, our fire department showed up with not only one but five different divisions which was absolutely necessary, five-alarm. their response was excellent and not only did a good job but immediately there was also the fire commissioners, including the chief. we were there. i want to thank ross mirkarimi, then supervisor, he was out there with me looking out for the residents. several other board members, as well. and we immediately saw not only the residents there but the non-profits that had been there helping out. our faith-based community was there, as well, because immediately, the needs were felt and i think in the context, that there were no fatalities, no real serious injuries, it was just another reflection of the way we're handling serious

disasters, yet response is so thorough, so good. and then to follow up with those needs, not only did the community help out and i think the city started showing immediately our sense of support for the residents there that had lost everything that they had just before the holidays, and good response from our helpful communities to help out, whether they were churches or individuals that would help. d.e.m. also, they made, i think, a very critical call to cal nema to get our city declared particularly at that fire, a disaster, and got the attention of the s.b.a. and the state programs to help out and ind that there are at least six individuals who are going through the process of getting specially handled loans out of

that program. there was good follow-up because people, although not serious injuries, their lives are being put in place with that additional help so i thank the staff for doing that and all the other agencies but i think it's the reflection of the kind of response we want to see in case there is that and while we're doing that, we do everything we can to prevent but when it comes to the winter times, it was something we were all paying attention to and i know sheriff mirkarimi shared this with me, as well, because we had a chance to talk then. we were thinking there were too many fires going on in that district and we were wondering why, trying to make sure we looked at every opportunity, whether our police department and others, to research the backgrounds for all these things to make sure that if they were accidental, we can do something even about accidental better, by better education with all of our residents about how these fires start and where they start and how to prevent them, while we look for any other indications

beyond just accidental. again, i think we're doing everything we can to do that. i also want to acknowledge the work that's going on behind the scenes but now becoming more visible, and that's our america's cup. as we approach that very active event, that inviting event with thousands of people that will be here, a number of agencies are already working together doing the necessary training and i know a number of you are involved in that because there will be so many people and so many activities that are going on throughout the city in anticipation of that and so many agencies that need to have a lot more ability to work with each other and maybe have not had the opportunity to do that. and, then, to, of course, prevent anything from happening that would be negative to the

event and really reach our goals for it. so the exercises that are being led by d.e.m. in anticipation of that, the agencies that will touch upon things that include things that will happen in the air, crime control, e.m.s. fire, park events we anticipate, the people movement that are needed, the general security and the use of the water, both for security as well as recreation, all will be in play so appropriate agencies are being tapped to work through the leadership of d.e.m. to coordinate exercises that will test and need to be tested any assumptions that we are making with our individual plans so we never work in silos. and i want that to be, again, the mantra for all of us. these large events, we have to get out of our silos and make sure we're cooperating and that's been the theme of this and that's why we go through the

exercises so i appreciate this and want to thank people for doing that because when we're doing that up front, we're making every effort to mitigate anything that can happen beyond our individual borders which i know all of you will take care of on an individual department basis, it's really where it doesn't come across as individual departments and effects several of us, i don't want any gray areas to prevent us from doing an excellent job as we go on the world stage with this event. thank you very much for that. i want to single out the -- also the leadership that d.e.m. is doing when it comes to a bay web. that's been in the papers. it's before our board of supervisors and thank you for holding those hearings, members of the board, that we are pushing forward this bay web because we do have very, very clear needs to have better communication, better spread of data. the chief mentioned that during the playoff games at candlestick, as well, some

examples where things could have worked better if we had a bay web approach to our other agencies to promote higher levels of data exchange. we need to get there and i want to signal to the board that our staff, working with d.e.m., will make sure we answer every question about the financing aspects to it that might be of concern and make sure we get through that quickly so we can get on to building a system in collaboration with all the other agencies that are involved in the bay area, all their responders, all their emergency agencies. we need this because we are going to be hosting more events in this great city that command a level of bay area collaboration and with that, we need, then, data and communications that work across our cities. that's important to us and we are also honoring the serious federal funding that had been made because they believe this

is also their goal in supporting us, as well. and finally, again, i want to acknowledge all the members of the disaster council, including the new members from the community and from various agencies we work with, along with all the departments, and the board of supervisors, as well, in paying attention to how we manage disasters and how we prepare for them. things do still make me nervous in my years as public works director and i've already asked d.p.w. as well as the city engineer to begin studying what's happening on the tower and telegraph hill because those slides always leave me some level of uncertainty as there's so much housing up there and visitors that go up there and the tower itself so we're going to get a study going to what the short term, middle term and long

term challenges are on those rock slides and what they're indicating to us. i need the best engineer minds to give us that information so we can go on to higher levels of effort there. i also want to make sure we are all continuing to pay good attention to disaster recovery. that's been my personal interest but i'll tell you, all the things that we're already doing on disaster recovery, i've indicated to many other cities as i go through the conference of mayors and talk to them about what they're doing, they acknowledge that disaster preparedness has a lot to do with recovery planning that goes on now because that leads to a stronger tie with our communities about what mitigation is really all about and where we need to spend our infrastructure money. i want to thank everybody for participating in that. you'll hear reports. every time there's a disaster in the world, if we can get somebody over there that representing our city, not only as part of a humanitarian effort

that we've done like for turkey that you'll hear about today, but if we can bring back that very live experience that people have every single time we come back with a reinforcement that our recovery planning and our disaster preparedness is not only apropos, it is absolutely necessary, and again, i also signal a thanks our fleet week because that is really turning the corner for us. it's no longer the very important celebration of our military, the humanitarian and ongoing training we have with our military in the country about our own disaster preparedness is extremely important, getting everyone involved in that. with that, i just wanted to make that initial report and thank everybody for participating this disaster council meeting. thank you to the board members, again, for being here. >> thank you, mr. mayor. i happily can say the mayor gave most of my director's report so

that's wonderful. thank you so much. i have a nice little presentation for you, mr. mayor, that is a fun way to start this out, i hope. we had a beautiful coat made for you so that when you respond to our disasters we can tell who you are right away. [laughter] >> it is the mayor. anyway. i hope it's all reflective, it's heat resistant, all of that stuff. i hope you enjoy it. [applause] >> we didn't want to be outdone because i know the fire chief gave you a hat after your election. >> i'm hoping not to wear this too often. >> i hope you don't have to, as well. just a couple of quick things that i did wa