advise on those projects. that's what i want to see and that will going a along ways to getting compromise if that's what we're doing on a lot of the issues. again, this is not an action item for today. we will be more activity involved in the negotiations so if there's no future questions or comments and a >> yeah. i like the design but at the same time i don't want to lose the space for the children. >> i agree. >> next item is the item of any public comment on non-agenda

items. oscar james. >> good afternoon again oscar james pr two things. first of all, i want to thank you guys for coming out to bayview hunters point it's been a a long time since i've been out here but the community is pleased you guys come out. the other thing i want to talking about moscone center. a lot of people's both filipinos and mexican-american and blacks out of the most moscone center when they were first building

it. a long time ago i worked at a the veterans administration where the people areing there. i don't know if they got certifies of preference this is something this agency should look into they should have gotten certifies and also no stipends from that. the other thing the first moscone center i had a trucking company that ran 3 hundred trucks and i had 13 people into the trucking from the down payment from the trucking company i own but that was the first big project that was done we ran 3 hundred and 13 trucks.

thank you >> mr. washington. >> listen i just want to reiterate i hope you ail don't get the notion i'll just pound on you all i'm trying to get you to realize i have no point out by to seek legal action to try to get y'all's attention. i've been coming up here as a activist i'm rode now to regulate. you guys are brand new you guys are controlled by the state or jerry brown and you have our board over you the successor board has has been missing for meetings in city hall in their

inception whether their case it is. but i'd like to notify them to your community since i won't come i want to come before our board to have a workshop on the western edition since you wouldn't come and let me testify. you guys will have to do that sooner or later. you talk about stakeholders and i want to give a shout out to ms. reynolds i pound on her, she doesn't deserve. the point out of the matter i'm beyond her what is you guys motion in this ocean. if the ocean was in the situation you have you've got problems are michael johnson.

by the way, i've been back and forth to the board of supervisors but the thing about it i want to say we need an update on fillmore center sporadic. right now. right away. you guys are in the correspondent procures & i called michael the other day and he hung up on me. i'm going to have to do something that is going to bring eyebrows to everybody i'm going to file an injunction. the city as disrespected fillmore. it ain't no mystery why don't you say ace if you put a workshop together i'll come.

anyway, i want to say that the impact on fillmore is no mystery. hopefully, i, come before you with more than 3 minutes >> thank you very much. are there any other speaker cards >> okay. next item please and the next item of business is the report of chair >> the next is the report of the madam director. >> commissioner you have in your informational memoranda in our packets there's a report from our yerba buena gardens a consultant as part of the transmission of those sixth assets from the city whether the recommendation for the public ownership similar to pikes place we can scheduled further meetings on that topic if you

want to discuss on a ongoing basis the yerba buena have been meeting to continue the dialog and conversation primarily through the city's administrators office but it's a convening through the arts commission who may have opinion the department of real estate and public works really the umbrella to con videotape we're continuing to participate and the last meeting was last week on the potential ownership model and the next stage we're pending the department of finance review open is property management plan is role for the implementation mode how to take the data we've provided and take the research

and really take it to an implementation mode one that the city can accept with our recommendations and the compounds recommendations. we'll continue to keep you updated and posted. the second piece of information we did receive feedback from the state department of finance recommended to a narrow portion of our housing project. as you recall the state denied the millions for 200 and 6th street and the hugo hotel on the fact there was no funding in place. the city took that would be that on step we have a global inclusive recommendation and the judge pointed out the total debtor on our recognizing rocks is $2 million. the recent letter we received is

to deny again, our final clefs for 200 and 6th street $2 million but the chair identified a determination of the several billions of that's identified on the rocks but they choose not 0 address that in their letter so we're continuing to work with them to try to better understand is this something we do building and they've held firm to the contract standard as they had in previous raps statutory & they said they do excited and this is a specific obligation as certified by the state. we're not there what all the implementations mean by the way, they didn't opine with the rest of it. but it certainly has impacts on

our program so we'll continue to keep you posted on that matter. that concludes my report >> thank you very much madam clerk. >> this is commissions questions. >> madam chair. >> thank you very much. i don't think does anyone have any other questions or matters. one question i have been 0 moscone item. yeah. i didn't ask this was the general timeline i know they've sent ata out a preparation of the eir i forgot to ask >> well, yeah i guess i don't know. i guess this is a question as to what is the extent of our authority to impact the design and the

implementation of the project in the manner that's been brought up you. two responses president fong in terms of the timeline i'm reviewing this to spring or april of 2014 that the moscone team will publish the eir and as was in the presentation moscone north the additionally agency issued the revenue bonds to build it which is leased to the city but the agreements provide and they're paid for by moscone revenues. the sources of revenues is the moscone receipts. it's expected that the bonds on

moscone north will be paid off but because of the initially financing there are may the record show payments that are did you for a few more years but the city will own the moscone north where the radiance are north even if howard street the city will own moscone north if the bonds are paid off. we don't know did timing when that will be or that nicole there's no permit it enter or lease in that case the city - it's a city facility. so your entity on the captains of moscone north so what is not

yet a city facility is the cafe spaces the property beyond the north. there will be various agreements that will be noted in order depending upon the construction timeline we're expecting the approvals that will be note for the commission whatever you own at the time in the winter of 2014. we're during this trial down the the scope of the drizzling it's complicated we'll work with the team. their construction is scheduled to start quickly thereafter after asking you the approvals necessary from the commission and the completion is in the

summer of 2018. so it's on fast track >> i don't have to answer it but i'd be interested if the board jurisdiction that we have to impact any of the concerns that have been raised by the members of the public. >> is it approved honk will it take to complete that. >> presidential 4 years for construction. i'm looking the mayor's office staff to confirm >> hi, the construction schedule will be api for a dark period over the holiday period at the end of this calendar year to do the first phase of the work under howard street.

one of our many challenges on the construction is trying to keating keep the center in continuous revenue generating. so this goes into the summer of 2018. we'll pay off the bonds in july. the antiquestion is the remaining lease payment that the director mentioned i believe is a two year roughly 2 and a half million dollars demolition we're looking for the authority to solve our goal. it's to make everyone's life easier and have it be a city asset by july so prior to the beginning of construction but it's not yet revolved >> what's the total

expenditure. >> we've issued $2 million in bonds through two revenue sources which the moscone dissected on hotel rooms and the public-private industry in the hotel industry and some expiating general payments to moscone. so the hotel assessment is about 2/3rd's of the assessment sources and the remaining third is through thank you funds >> definitely i have the same question that commissioner rosales has. i don't have any double we'll get but what does that mean if we don't agree. i have that same question >> at my house can i delicate.

>> you're either the lessor or the prosperity owner so it's your house today. can we determine that in the future >> (laughter). >> i guess that's kind of to be determined. >> hopefully on a more day to day. >> i move to adjourn. >> thanks see you later we're adjourning in a second. >> the next order of business closed session. and the next order of business is adjournment. thank you very much we're adjourned at the

>> the title is up, go ahead. >> okay. >> the january, meeting of the san francisco ethics commission will now come to order. first thing that i would like to wish all of my fellow commissionerers a happy new year, it is kind of the end of january, but it is still the beginning of the year and we have not seen each other for quite some time and i hope that you had a great holiday and it is good to see you again, and

happy new year to all of you in the audience as well and we are glad that you could join us today. roll call? commissioner renne? >> present. >> commissioner andrews? >> here. >> commissioner hur? >> here. >> commissioner keen, n >> here. >> are there matters that we are going to be discussing or do not appear on the agenda at this time? >> good evening commissioners my name is dr. derek kur a whistle blower, please note bill 496 that took effect this month has expanded protections for whistle blowers and it prohibits anticipation retaliation, whereby the employers retaliate because they believe that an employee may disclose information to authorities. it reminds us that retaliation

sometimes proceeds the actual whiesle blowing, the employee finds information, collects it, and then gets a layoff before they can file the complaint. i would also like to acknowledge your unprecedented finding of a conflict of interest by a city official, even though she happens to be a good person. previously, such complaints were routinely dismissed and complainants were thrown under the bus, it took you over two years to adjudicate our complaint former health director dr. mitch cats, for two years he collected over $10,000 annually from health management associates, a for profit corporation, working for his department, with his approval. you dismissed that complaint and our retaliation complaint, it took a lawsuit to get

vindiation and 150,000 settlement which cost the city an additional $450,000 in city attorney fees. your inadequate investigation and habitual dismissal of whistle blower complaints is a type of official misconduct, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> commissioners, my name is fransico dacosta and i have appeared before you before, and i too want to state to you very clearly that when a ballot (inaudible) was put to create

this commission san franciscans, and we are still here wanted the right thing to be done. and so in adjudication given to you, we some of us whistle blowers, some of our advocates, some of us who have experience are retrained and work for the department of defense, serve three generals, so we know from experience the good, the bad, and the ugly. we saw this with the hearing, linked to the sheriff which in

the end, was adjudicated in his favor. but i am here to state to you categorily that there is corruption in some city governments rampancorruption, the empirical data and you and others who can do the right thing do the wrong thing. you and others instead of looking at it and setting a standard, you let down the constituents of san francisco. so today, we will hear about a case, it is a very clear-cut case. and this case is so convaluted

that some people are so arrogant that defying ethics that defying morals and defying standards, what we are saying is, it will be working until we get our benefits, until we get our pension. this type of arrogance is uncalled for. and this type of arrogance commissioners, is something that cries to heaven for justice. thank you very much. >> any other comments from the audience? >> good afternoon president and commissioners, i'm dr. sandra mendis and i am currently the president of the california healthcare foundation but served many years in the city and county of san francisco in

the department of public health culminating in the director of being in the direct of the public health and i left there and went to the san francisco foundation, where the foundation runs a program that is really focused on cultivating multicultural leadership for public service. and you going to hear a case this afternoon on item three. about an employee of the puc who i have known for more than 15 years, miss elli, and she was a very successful candidate through the multicultural follow ship where i worked with her. and i watched her send in her work, really on behalf of the very disenfranchised community running the community development program and she then left the foundation and went to work for a not for profit where again she was quite successful in her leadership work and i watched

passionately and i feel like the violations of ethics that were committed were ones that were in fact done not out of malic and really not fundamentally out of self-interest, but out of a passion and a drive to serve a very under serviced community. and she has melt a extraordinary meeting at puc and i think that the staff has done an extraordinary job of trying to be fair and assess this i come here in support of her and staff. this is a dedicated and dedicated public service who made a number of violations for which she has tried to enumerate for the best of her ability and i hope that you take the recommendation of staff and understand that you have a committed and talented

employee. and she will learn from these missteps,ty. >> thank you. >> good afternoon and, happy new year, i was not going to speak. i was going to wait on your decision. until she started talking about julia, and you know, it is sad that we in bay view hunter's point and that is what i represent, and the problems that and i am talking about julia ellis and in the 70s we had the expansion of the sewage plant and there was mitigation because of the expansion of the sewage plant where we were able to get the city to build a community college and it is called south east community college. now, when this commission was

set up, it was set up with the fact and my understanding is that was to take care of the pipes that is breaking and the funds that we the voters voted for and the first time it went on the ballot, i told, the director that i was not going to support it because the city had been lying to my community. and there is no sewage plant in any other community. the community benefits. i felt it was a conflict of interest but i supported it because of the fact that she

supported local hiring. i thought that she was going to be a good individual for the community and then it all started and she tried to take control and still trying to take control of the south east college and the areas that we came together and did a mitigation about and i am tired, and i am 80 years of age and i have been coming to these meetings at city hall for 50 years and i will be going to the puc commission meeting tomorrow morning at 11:00. and where i was not going to say a word because i just want to see where you all are going to do your job, that you were supposed to do and so i just came here and to just to see, what you were going to say, about this case, and you have to deal with the case, whether she commit it or not. and that is your responsibility. and not mine. and not any of us in the audience and talking about how good, someone is. and if you did wrong, you paid the penalty. and if it was me, i would have gone to jail, thank you.

>> any further comments from the public? >> if not, we will proceed to our first item, which is in fact, the juliet ellis and >> and you have the settlement gret before you and the stipulation document and a couple of notes about this, this is a joint settlement and so there were three negotiating parties and the respondent and the two enforcement agency and because the fppc has heard and accepted the settlement agreement in a public session, we are in an unusual situation, because our regulations require that this is things be debated in closed session and however since it has been debated publicly, the city attorney has advised us to do the same. and so the staff and the city attorney will represent any questions that you have about the document