woman and puts her in a position where any further employment, we are not recommending it, but, just, talk and just speaking hypothetically and for anything to continue employing something like this i think would be very strange if nothing else and so here, i'm not troubled by the penalty, as is my colleague commissioner hur, i mean, the fine, and the 5,000, and to me that is, negligible compared with the findings of guilt official misconduct and disgrace, we are saying that you did a lot of bad things here, ma'am. and i don't know how you, and we had members of the public saying that she is just going to tap dance away from this, and nothing is going to come as a result of it. there is no way, after we make

findings like this in conjunction with the fppc, that, a governmental agency, is just going to say, well, we could get a problem, but it is over. >> we will go back to work and by the way you are due for a raise. that not going to happen and if that does happen, i would be the first one to complaint about it. and so in that regard, here, i see we as an agency, our staff has done a good job and in terms of it, i would defer to their findings related to things like credibility, and whether or not they are saw intent and deliberations and stuff like that, they were there, and they interviewed the witnesses and they interviewed her and i didn't, none of us did. and i think that we should defer to them, on those matters, unless it is clearly erronious what they are doing, and i don't think that it is.

and we should go ahead, and the fppc which is an agency that has considerable repaout and clout and they are saying that they find the same thing and we are joining together in an alliance with a sister agency and saying, that this bad stuff was done. i think that is not a bad night's work for us. >> do i hear a motion? >> so moved. >> i move that we adopt the findings. >> second. >> all this favor? >> aye. >> those opposed? >> i, oppose. >> and i, oppose. >> okay. there are three ayes if favor. >> and we have the motion passes. >> we approve the stipulation

and the decision along with the fppc. and we will communicate this action appropriately. >> okay. so, now we come to the budget. always a favorite topic of the commission. >> okay. >> and mr. st. croix, where are we with the budget? >> you have a blessed evening. >> you too. >> so, for years particularly because the city financially was doing poorly, as was the statement, contrary, the directions from the mayor's budget office has always been all departments to find a certain percentage of cuts in the budget proposals. and the ethics commission, is a little bit unique in that we

are an independent agency from the rest of the city, and we don't quite function in the same structure. and so, although we are politely acknowledged the budget instructions and we usually have declined to follow them in just submit a static budget of the same budget that we had the prior year. last year the commission decided that things have improved sufficiently enough that we should ask for a little bit more because we have the vacant positions that were vacant for a while. and so we did ask for a modest increase and that is what the commission adopted. following that, line, for this year, we did get a mild increase from the mayor's office and we have it back from the board of supervisors which did increase our budget and we have filled the empty, educator position and we have funds this year for an investigator, but, those increases that we got, last year, are only for this

year. and they don't translate on to next year. and so what i am proposing is that we request a budget that actually keeps those increases in place. and that will allow us to fill that one remaining staff position. and at that level, and then i am also proposing a very modest, $22,500 which reflects the increase in our net file contract and then this year, of course, the first time it is increased since we have had it and so basically acknowledging the fact that there is still some budgetary consideration that the city faces in terms of shortfalls, and we are not asking for the moon and stars. but we are asking for something more or less to keep us whole. and we are almost whole instead of just getting us to where we want to be. >> commissioners? >> any other ideas or comments. >> let me say one more thing if you don't mind because we have the new commissioners that were not here. there are two components to the

budget and the election campaign fund that we use to give the financing to candidates that is an independent fund that we manage and by statute every year there is a percentage deposited on the fund based on the city's population and so it is $1.9 million every year goes into that fund and it is capped at 7 and a half million and so if it reaches that point, then the deposits to that fund will stop temporarily and then the rest of the money that is the operating budget. >> administrative. >> and the overwhelming majority of the budget is for salary and fringe, and all of the other costs are minor compared to those two big ones. >> the funding on the second

page because i am not familiar with the specifics of it and it seems rather fascinating for me in terms of the large increases of funding that occurred and $157,000, and 05 and 07, it is one million, and 328,, and jumps to 8 billion and then goes down to three, what is going on here? >> there was not a separate fund and so the mayor had to do an annual appropriation for the program back to 02 when it was first initiated and so that was not included in our budget and it was just a separate line item in the budget and when that fiscal year of 06 and 07 kicked in, the board created mayor financing and we only had for supervisors before, and so

part that have creation was to put a boost and create that election campaign fupd and put the money into it and so we followed the numbers down the column, if you shift to the number in parenthesis, that is the logical follow of the column above. and in terms of what our operating budget is and our administrative budget, and so those big jumps in the first column, there was a lot of money in the fund and then at some point, the administration, borrowed some of it and so there was not as much and then it has and, over time they paid it back. and then the second time, the money was borrowed from it and that was slowly paid back and the fund was kept at 13 million and then the board decided that we will never use that much and we don't need that much and there are so many other needs and so, that is why these numbers have jumped around so much, over the years and most of them are big fluctuations in

that campaign finance. >> how does the mayor office gets to borrow money from the budget? >> i did the budget for 20 years and by god we never let the mayor's office take a nickel from us. >> and well, because the election campaign fund is a weird thing, and budget numbers are kind of fungable and the public defender's office is headed by an elected official who is elected in his own right who does not report to the mayor and neither do we, that is kind of why we don't necessarily follow the instructions. but, the, the. >> and even, he says that i need a loan. >> well, we don't really have any authority to say yes or no. and because the mayor and the board control all of those purse strings. and so if the mayor's office decides and the board concurs, that is basically what happens. >> okay. >> thank you.

>> yeah. >> a couple of things. and just, as a note, i am not sure when the mo was drafted and i just want to have the consistency on the letterhead. of the commissioners. and particularly the memo on january 22, 2013, still. it is just not updated and i want to make sure that if all is using it,... >> yeah, >> that they are using the same one >> i beg your bar par don. >> what i did was i pulled last year's memo and i used that as a template and so i did not have to retype all of these numbers. >> i figured as much and. >> what is what i did wrong. >> let me under score that you are indeed a commissioner. >> and that is helpful.

and at least on one of commissioners, so. >> i beg your par don, i will fix that. >> and then the election, fund in the middle of this memo and the election fund and 1.903559 and then in the and a halfive the 1906395, are those the two same funds that you are talking about? they have two different numbers, are they the same fund? >> yeah, and i will apologize for that too. our budget person after i drafted this gave me new figures. and i believe that the 1903 is actually the correct one at this point. >> okay. >> and then, just my last would be a comment on this state of the city, which i'm generally going to be in support of this modest increase and i have been a part of the city budget process for 11 years and we have seen the mayor's budget instructions being double digit

numbers and so, i mean just the 1.4 and the 1.95 for the second year of our two year budget, is great. and i think that it is very good and it goes to show that the economy of the city is good. and it would be interested to see the mid year controller's report and i think that our revenues are strong and, i'm always, nervous when we ask for an increase that it does not fly in the face whaf could be the reality of a crisis and you look like a fool and i don't want us to look look a fool and what we are asking for is modest and it is certainly justified. >> and i just, i just have a question on the mathematics. you say that the mayor's is asking us to do is to cut 1.4, from the general fund for the next year and 1.85, and you said that this would mean a cut of 36,752 and then you get down

to the paragraph where you say in the current fiscal year it would cut the budget for the temporary staff of 100,000 by 2 thirds. how or why does it, when you are only, being asked to reduce it by 36,000, how does it cut the 100,000 dollars by two-thirds? >> because, the assumption was that that that is where most of these cuts would come from. and i think that with the budget, staff did was to add those two figures together and figure out that is what they would and where they would go. >> over a ten year period? >> yeah. >> do we use, do we use 100,000 of temporary? >> well, we will this year. >> and we didn't in the... and we used most of it, i think last year or the year before, and we were kind of husbanding

it against a later in the year. and we got that was a year that we had to do the mid year cuts. >> what is the nature of the temporary staff? i mean, what... is it across the board? and different functions? >> we usually have someone during parts of year where it is very busy and like in the election time when you try to get the person in front of the desk and we have a special project that we are doing and we are moving almost all that we are doing to electronic filing and so we are work oning converting those systems to all electronic and working on the training and the out reach that we need to do to let people know. and how to do this and make sure that they are up to speed, on these processes, because electronic filing, is something that campaigns are used to, but the city officials have not used the electronic filing systems as much and so we have to make sure because we are going kind of cold turkey we

are not easting into it, everything is going electronic and someone is work og that and we also get someone for six to eight weeks or a couple of months to help out. and sometimes we have backlogs of basic clerical work, and that is someone that is just making a few dollars a hour and frees up the staff to do the other things. >> thank you. >> i have a question about going to all of the electronic filing and will that eventually reduce our staff >> the need for the amount of staff that we have? >> it might in the long term, because, once the people who are able to do we may not need as many people, although, as the time goes by, we have also learned that either through the acts of the board or the ballot measure things we get the additional responsibilities and sometimes the state law, you know we have to function to

fill those and so as there are additional laws and requirements in, and sometimes these things expand as well. and so there is going to be some back and forth of the balance of how many people we need. , maybe there is less clerical help and maybe we could get more auditing help and one of the long term goals would be to audit every single campaign instead of a public finance and a exampling of others and there are other things that we could be doing that we don't do as much of and in those terms and we will want to be able to expand the investigation capability. and so there are things that we want to do that we can't now that might free people up to do do i hear a motion? >> any further discussion? >> public comment on the budget?

>> i move that we adopt the budget. >> second. >> all if favor? >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> motion passes, unanimously. >> minutes from the last meeting, do we remember the last meeting? >> any corrections or changes on the minutes? >> i have none. >> do i hear a motion, is there any public comment on the minutes? >> if not, do i hear a motion to approve the minutes?

>> i move. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> aye. >> motion or the minutes will approve. >> executive director's report? >> okay. just two things that i want to mention. the first is, i have mentioned one or twice we have a new auditer, and she decided that she would like to come by and see the commission in action and so we welcome her. >> welcome aboard. >> okay. >> and the only other thing that i want to highlight is, and this is back to sort of budget discussions. if you look at our revenue report, which is item four, it is low, and we have done some projection and we expect this year that we are only going to pull in about 75 percent of our

anticipated revenue. the lobbyist, are filing the deadline for the year, is at the end of this week and there will be a lot of last minute filers and we actually expect to pull in more lobbyist fees than we anticipated and the number of campaign consultant fees is down, a lot of those folks will not reregister until they start working on the campaigns in the fall. but that will be after the start of the fiscal year and so there will be lower numbers there. and then we expected. and the campaign finance fines, and we have found our way down, which is a reduction in the revenue, but is good news which means that there is less violations occurring, so ultimately, i think that is a good thing, the other thing is, that is indicative of this is just about since we have been here we have had a backlog in assessing fines and waiver and we are completely caught up for the first time since i have been here and so we don't have

a backlog fines from the years coming in any more. >> great. >> and congratulations. >> yeah. >> and mr. st. croix, so you are the 100,000 dollars projections you think that you could capture a quarter of tha. >> we are projecting 73 and change. >> and that 73 and change, is of the $100,000 that was to balance your budget, right? >> we are not a revenue, department, and so, the, anticipated revenue does not impact our budget, like i am forgetting the words, the departments that are... >> okay. >> revenue, and the departments which are revenue producers, we are not. >> and so that does not impact our budget, and just as a point of information, too, when we do our budget, revenue projections for next year, we will probably turn them down to that 77, 75

change. >> what is the reason why those things are not being paid? we have it with the enforcement? >> under the city law, once a revenue is more than 70 days old, we refer it to the department of the revenue and they pursue this in court and what i will do is for example chris jackson was making payments for a while and then stopped and so that was referred over to those folks.

the bdr can get a judgment in court but it is tough to enforce. >> any other questions or comments? >> thank you. >> public comment? >> public comment on the executive director's report? >> hearing none, we move on to items for future meetings, which we touched upon earlier in the meeting. commissioner keane do you want to propose something? >> what i would like to do is i would want to give a thought and madam chair and maybe put something in writing and transmit it to mr. st. croix, and would that be the way to do

it? >> and then, it could be calendared for our next meeting, or there are a couple of procedural changes that i would like to suggest. but i don't want to just come out with something off of the top of my head. >> okay. any other commissioners? >> items for future meetings? >> okay. any public comment? on items that we have discussed? or that are not on the agenda? >> hearing none, i think that we can move to adjournment, do i hear a motion to adjourn the meeting? >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> aye. >> the january, meeting of the san francisco ethics commission is here by adjourned good night

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