constantly and not 57 the burden of how that works and smart money and network and curtains in san francisco joining and leading cities on financial empowerment all over this country. those are some of the programs jose has put together gone beyond what we perceive he's helping us to educate the public and a businesses l about financial responsibility. it's sounds boring to everyone outside the room it's financial stuff but i'll tell you if the cities don't do this and cities dodo this they'll be in trouble trouble. jose thank you and now you're

going to work closely with me and many in the city and a entertain our businesses as and transform from a payroll tax to another tax system and low encourage job creation. he will be asked to step out of the traditional you've got to get it done and how do we help you do get under and city maintain and create jobs in the city. i'm here to say thank you jose to really let everybody you know how appreciative i've been 0 o and lucky to have you as a leader in our financial literacy captain. ooip i've been lucky to inherit a movement gavin was there before me and a visionary and i

still get his council as he goes across california doing great things in education. gavin i say thank you that f in your new really as lieutenant governor everything we've accomplished we get a national and state audience because of the work you've done. with that our visiony and former mayor now lieutenant governor gavin newsom. >> (clapping.) >> thank you. obviously, we have the same speech writer i have nothing else to say about jose wonderful work and thank you for covering the base is. i ran over to college and

wondered what happened to terminate limits that's been 10 damn years you're not over this yet, huh? . i was thinking what was the world would it be like. but it is remarkable to go back in time as the mayor was reflecting on some of the great work. i was thinking jose the other day when jaevent got sworn in how much time we spent that jeanette and she was celebrating at the time the only local no objection create that was initiated by jose and his team and the great work that was being done that was ahead of of its time. resay respectfully they have a

role to play but we could counter balance some of the work they remember doing with regards to those businesses. the mayor is not exaggerating i was at a meeting and bank of d.c. all coming out of the work from jose. success leaves clues and this is a successful city that leaves an remarkable amount of clues. we don't intimate because we're a model and mayor you should be proud of the leadership and everyone here. it's an honor to be welcomed back to the extent i was weekday

waiting for the opportunity to swear jose in i haven't done this in a long time. but payroll a carmen forgot about me i didn't know she was sworn in i'm okay about this this is only on tv this is okay we'll talk later. so jose he lets get you sworn back in for four more years. everybody ready. anybody have any reservation >> all right. i'll say i you state your name. >> do solemnly prestige to defend the sfuks is go and the institution of the state of

california against all enemies for an and domestic that i bear true faith and alliance to the same and i will well and a faifl discharge the duties upon which i'm about to enter and during some time as i hold the position as treasurer for the city and county of san francisco. >> so easy (clapping.) thank you (clapping.) let's hope you remembered that right. close enough; right? thank you for being here i'm privileged and proud to you to

be here the fourth time around and gavin it's an honor to have you here. the first time we did this in september 8th of 2004, i was very appreciative of the trust you put in me to take this position to lead this office and to handle this important 0 responsibility for the city and county of san francisco. i hope you and everyone feels we've done a great job. before i go too far i want to recognize my partner mark for being here (clapping) you all know how partner of an elected official needs to be so i want to put that out there. mayor ed lee thank you for being here and our kind kind words to continue to grow the words 0

both from the clerkors office. i believe it's important work we're doing for the city and county and we're creating a model for many places around the country and with our support we're able to do that. thank you. again. i want to thank ail the elected officials i see a number of the board of supervisors thank you all of you for believing in us and supporting us i'm not going to name names. george thank you. carmen chiu the newly sworn in assessor and recorders. thank you. again my partner in so much important work we do for the city. i want to call ben roman fold

for the hard work between the three of us we handle the lions share for the city and we're proud what we're able to do for the city it's important work but, you know, i don't stand here alone and do the job alone i do it with over 2 hundred folks in the tax collectors office. i want to run detain the great seconds of our office. i want to recognize florence mar who is going to be implementing our gross receipts tax. our bureaucracy of tax she is incredible she's bringing in over $100 million a major to

make sure everybody pace what they on the other hand, and sonya thank you for your work. we process numerous transactions through the mail on line and over the phone and it's our cashiers that bring in the money. our office of financial empowerment mayor we're doing great work. our gross receipts project is led by jenny and that's an exciting project the biggest change to our tax system in the city and we're stepping up. our it groping group is led by richard. our investment portfolio is managed by michelle the average

daily processing is round $1100 million. our project group is lead by rebecca thank you for your hard work here doing a grow job. our property tax group led by phil and thank you for your work. our tax paper group the first line of defense is led by grace and our banking group that's handling the transactions is led by janet. that's the team of managers that run the incredibly important jobs and i sincerely want to thank those folks for they're hard work. i want to recognize my senior management team let me introduce our tax collector david arguing

steno thank you for being here (clapping) our cohesive assistant treasurer pauline (clapping.) our policy and ledge manager greg thank you for your great work. and our deputy director i t and about half of everything we did thank you. (clapping.) i get to stand in front of all of you and get some praise and a attention but honestly, i want to share all of that with this incredible team. many work on the first floor of the city hall that means the world to me. i want to take a minute to help the folks that helped me with my

re-election campaign it was tough thank you folks for sticking with me the guy who (clapping) third time around didn't have an on the but still you put together a great race. i'll bring this to an end but i thank you each and everyone for your energy mr. mayor and a lieutenant governor thank you. i want to invite everyone to stick around and have a bit and thanks to everyonee and thanks to everyone

>> 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 rampant corruption, 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 in the settlement. and anything that is in this department, and if we go. off of the document, and into some details about the investigation, we may have to pull back from there. the bottom line in the settlement is that altogether

there are several findings of violation of state and local law. for the purposes of simplification they have settled with the respondent for $3500 for a violation of section 8986 of the government code and the ethics commission has four counts of finding a violation in here. the first two counts reflect that the same section of the code that has been adopted for the local code and so for the purposes of the settlement, the state portion of the settlement covers the two and for the other two countses, two and three and four where we proposed and the respondent accepted 2500 each for those two and a total of $5,000 local for a grand total of the settlement for $8500 from the respondent and additionally, the respondent has repaid in the figure 17?

>> approximately. >> approximately $17,000 in salary that she received as the acting president of the board of directors green for all during the terms of the violations at least having incurred in the settlement agreement. and so that again, the staff and the city attorney can answer any questions that you might have about this document. >> commissioners? >> yes, thank you, madam chair. i have a number of questions about this. and first, in regard to the way in which this comes before this commission, each of us received a packet, with the information relating to this complaint which are going to go in a minute be considered

adopted by us, at this meeting tonight, unless one of us asked for us to be pulled or to be calendared for discussion. i don't understand that procedure, and maybe someone can explain this to me. i see, a series of rather serious allegations against the high level official in the public utilities commission saying