as a lawyer i did continue with the education this past week about the effects of the citizens united decisions the whole escape in the country was changed by the supreme court and people are rush limbaugh to death over the country evil to hide expenditures and able to hide lobbying as long as it is through not through a candidate to people in corporations address entities are having there will in the city in the united states right now they shouldn't have it in san francisco you have a responsibility and other local governments and california has a responsibility strong laws you are the people that have to state that this

kind of efforts needs to be disclosed you're not the supreme court but the local level the local level needs reporting i listened to xherldz on the radio all the time the past week you would think that pan i didn't see are growing and pick up i didn't see are being held by nonprofit non-disclosed interests oh, i get to stay in the city i can host people and it is at the same time i'm very well aware many of the hosting done in the city is not my neighbor down the block but taking unit after the rental market that's just one example you have a responsibility and you have power you should utilities tour powerful to put that on the

ballot and gives the people of san francisco the right to say their needs to be more disclosure in san francisco it is been taken away at the federal level but we're not the federal government we are san francisco and we can do it right i would ask you to put that on the ballot and be careful of waiting what is before you in this written version don't water it down thank you very much >> thank you. >> good evening, commissioners from pacific islander berry want to make a few comments on the property ballot for the regulation of expenditure lobbyists as i've testified month lobbying is accomplished

through the compensation of people to lobby city officials dribble the category was deleted from the law in 2010 because in part very few entities qualified since it appears that you have decided to move forward with adding back the expenditure lobbyists category to the ordinance i would like to thank commissioner renne and city stiff tar stimuli simplifying the definition of city lobbyist it provide for clarity over the previous versions and is consistent with the terminal in the lobbying laws i want to bring your attention one matter not previous discussion since the term expenditure lobbyists will apply inform any person pa makes payment of $2,500 to urge

others to lobby the city officers this law my a apply to vendors of major projection in san francisco that may file 5 reports with the notification approve or disapprove under the developer disclosures law a major project as a real estate project in san francisco where the planning commission or other lead agencies are certified an eir under the cool environmental ceqa and the estimated construction exceeds one million dollars within thirty days of the eir certification or the adaptation of a final environmental determination the developer must pay the $5,600 following fee and disclosure a nonprofit to whom the developer and others have may donations of $5,000 or more

since the date one year before the environmental application was filed if that nonprofit massachusetts has made more than one contact with the city officers or testified regarding the projections projects they'll file 4 querulously recorded recorded and since the developers are required to file reports it will impose a tremendous burden on developers to file reports as expenditure lobbyists i urge you to exempt from the proposal proposed ballot measures those restraining order who are subject to the developer law and woven finally comment the nonprofit there was a consensus and a at the meeting all individuals and nonprofits had equally quality as expenditure lobbyists and the burden not only on profit making thank you.

>> thank you. >> commissioners with nelson i urge you to continue this great constitution regarding this legislation and not rush to place this on the ballot immediately i have no issue going to it eventually but the meeting shows how important to talk about the law how it impacts different lobbyists commissioner renne you're the legislative body your drafting while i get we shouldn't get catch up in all nuances those are big issues we're discussing with respect to the ballot awhile i get targeting the ubers and airbnb the oneus on nonprofit need not maintains in

the long run those are things we should continue to discuss the implications discussion about the pretty sure lobbying regime we're picking parts from the previous liquor regime and those parts don't fit well, we're hearing issues of double reporting i think in some ways the airbnb that hires hires the big fancy lobbying firm putting those ads and doing this information their filing as contract lobbyists and only closer the conversation for the firm whereas the nonprofit has to itemize all expenditures at one thousand delores we're not on equal footing i urge you to continue the discussion no rush i encourage you to take a few

more months maybe only another meeting and hash outlets put things with work on the ballot or before did board thank you. >> thank you. >> good evening, commissioners my name is chris wright the executive director of the committee on jobs and registered contact lobbyist just to i guess refer to some of the comments before i'm concerned about double report as a contact lobbyist i have to file which is fine i love the net file system it is great i would hope that the commission and the staff are combrrnd in this legislation to make it as seem also as possible not to file another paper reports or have to pay another fee or

whatever it should be incorporated within the net filing system we currently have i also want to point out that an issue on section 2.110 which is payment 11 lines 11 and telephone it refers to the corporations the name of each officer of that corporation that could be a lot so let's say you're a tier one bang have offices all over the gloib want to put two atms under the district you have to file or do a get a conditional use permit having meetings and getting people involved and engaged i'm not sure it is necessary to have all 2 thousand offices to be

submitted to the ethics commission unless you're the head of human resources to be listed there's probably a way to russet that so we know who you are going after this is going to the comments by commissioner hur that plain clothes say you don't want all 2 thesis officers at a bank to go be filed under the initial draft any less closer gloss hurdle it is important to get this done right the first time and i'll ask you review that one portion a comment on the airbnb i know there are a lot of the commercials i'm an attorney but the commercials as played will not be included or covered by this legislation and. >> what would you propose

instead of current language the name of the officer that controlled the expenditure or who authorized the expenditure or the name of the company but you don't need ever officer of a large business. >> thank you. >> good evening i'm sharon agency a form ethics director from 2003 and friends of ethics and in the interest of time commissioners i strongly urge support of this measure for the november ballot ethics commission has the power and i urge you to eye our authority and place the measure on the ballot thank you. >> thank you any other comments

i will call the question and i will say off the record that the reason why seconded why i support it primarily because it only brings us in line with the other local ethics commissions and jurisdictions in california and does reestablish what was the rules in san francisco prior to the simplification of the lobbyists any other comment before - >> just a couple commissioner renne one represents to the proposal that was made i get it i see a lot of sense to a situation you have to put down the names of 2 thousand officers what if we had an amendment to

lines 11 and telephone that limited the officers to the sea level officers you're getting the main officers of the corporation and the people that actually were directly involved the authorities. >> just to clarify you when say sea level i'm not familiar with and like executive liquor the ceo or the cfo or a chief financial officer the fees. >> what would be effective. >> would you recommend putting in the language sea level? we would need something else less parochial >> i apologize.

>> you could do who authorized the expenditure i'd like to put sea level. >> my intent to include both but i'm not sure that sea level will be an appropriate term i am not it that something we can workout. >> well, they're officer is what they are. >> corporate officers. >> corporate officers that's clears enough their corporate officers. >> like ceo or cfo. >> like the directions and officers are generally all the ceo, cfos a corporate officer. >> should we put the joy and

danger each of corporate officer for example ceo, co o, cfo what line your proposing to modify. >> lines 11 and 12 of page 11. >> just by way of suggestion i know generally in terms of california law for corporations i have to have a cfo and ceo and secretary i guess. i don't know if you want secretary but is it could be those 3 for example, and audio in the person that actually was in charge of making the expenditure it wouldn't quality of life you ct o. >> or c i o. >> yeah. i think that makes sense it is maybe the ceo's or

the cfo e.r. secretary and the authorizing officer that authorized the expenditure. >> sure a friendly amendment mr. chair. >> my other question for the group comment i accept what commissioner vice president haney said we can't fix everything or legislation late everybody or everything in the actual ordinances there will be regulations that are implemented but as a direction to the staff and amending the regulation we have to think about how employees of nonprofits and for profits whoever are counted in this clearly that contemplates but

give sufficient direction to for profit and nonprofit how to be counted and 31 how they should count properly. >> call the question, 2013 opposed? hearing none it carries unanimously 5 to 0. >> turn to item number 4 discussion and possible action regarding commissioners responses to the 2014, 2015 civil grand juror reports reporting to whistle blower reporting. >> that report was issued a couple of weeks ago and the ethics commission is required to respond that is fairly 12r5ur8d

the service grand jury is recommending to make improvements to the whistle blower ordinance in the commission adopts the language the draft language i've presented the commission will be xhimentd to taking on this project i expect of we'll have the corporation of 4 departments we will dealer to do this in 2016. >> any commissioners are any comments on the proposed responses that the staffer is prepared to the recommendations? call for any public comment >> good evening commissioners

and mr. sincroy i'm a with his i will blower i brought any complaint and my retaliation complaint in the ethics commission in 2010 all of them were dismissed i sued the city and got a $750,000 and the city had to pay $1.2 million hit for the taxpayers notice of violation records show that whistle blowers claims have been investigated since june of 1995 some 60 retaliation complaints through the notifications not one zero have been substantiated it is for the benchmark issued by the big corporation that studies 8

thousand whistle blower hostile line it is 10 percent internationally here zero percent so this staggering statistics suggests the ethics commission is complexity in the repression of city employees with break ranks in order to serve the public interest this commissioner is a dead end for whistle blowers first of all you whistle blowers have threats not assets your investigations are sfoishl and there's aimed at ex-ordinarily respondent that's the intention instead of being have not you do submit to city its third reading who's duties to defend city officials that are exposes by whistle blowers are that the city attorney is opposed to whistle blowers those your staff is afraid to

substantiate retaliation allegations if they did they would face budget cuts and laugh offends and traded the same things it where in relation he will blowers are treated as threat so nevertheless, if you continue to relocate and buyer retaliation claims the whole operation is unget california and incredible start bid implementing the civil grand jury recommendations we need a change in attitude naming started to view whistle lowers as potential assets instead of liability until that happens i would recommend avoiding the ethics commission and taking whistle blower concerns circle to the public to the media or

the courts thank you very much. >> thank you and i'm patrick shaw i'm hoping the ethics commission will find a way since you passed putting a ballot measure on regarding expenditure lobby that you'll find a way to put a measure to strengthen the whistle blower protection ordinance because my hunch is under the current assignment and at the board of supervisors they're not going to take action i just finished up my menu article that focuses on the you go will i truth to retarlts keep their city employment awhile

those who are wrongfully retaliated against don't i followed up with the city attorney's office dr. curry submitted a records request in 2012 seeking records on prohibited personal practice lawsuits that were filed against the city as time i wrote an article in april of 2012 hundred and 5 such cases in the last 3 years under mayor ed lee it has soared and another hundred and 87 cases have been added for a total of 2 hundred and 92 of those while they have been only 14 wrongful terms cases

between 2007 and 12 there are have been 23rd settled in the last 3 years and 9 outstanding a total of 46 we have an epidemic of wrongful termination in this city you need to do something about this to retarlts shouldn't be coping their jobs awhile dedicated civil servant like - let me find a few names like derrick occur and woman at the police commission that was fired by executive officer lost her job kelly o'hare and then joanne

helping in her over at the city attorney's office you really need to find the ethical encourage to protect the whistle blowers yourself. >> thank you. >> good evening, commissioners alana smith a friend of ethics but the past floor person of the 2014-2015 grand jury not a representative of the current jury i appreciate that the jury that service ended up the 2014-2015 hearing picked up our recommendations to look at the whistle blower and to strengthen it and it's a good step in the right direction i appreciate staffs draft this they presented

in terms of responding to the recommendations and that the responseed seem to be positive responses that you're willing to look at the recommendations and side what you can do it is fairly valuable i want to remind you once you have at represents from the civil grand jury you have a certain obligation to answer with specific the way the penal code reads is that if you are not saying this is unreasonable if you are saying if you're not going to do if you, in fact, are saying you're going to do it the represents has not been implement within a set timeframe so if it has not been implemented you should be responding to have it

implemented by such and such or 3 the recommendations requires further analysis and the agency must done the additional studies needed and the grand jury expects the recorded within 6 months as i read the elements you have in front of you that's basically where you are it needs further analysis you don't have the excuse me. the issues you should be looking at you need to lay out a bit of a game plan to basically respond to the grand juror and the other board of supervisors to say within 6 months this was we're going to be able to do and move forward we'll give you periodic update. >> thank you for the time. >> thank you. >> commissioners charley again

i want to let you know in the past, when the consistent difficulties with the sunshine task force and how this body was going to proceeded to handle complaints from were referred to you by the sunshine finding body what you did was deliberated to commissioner harmon that was the form president and she went to work as a subcommittee won i believe and came up with a set of recommendations for you to as a body how to proceed with dealing with sunshine complaints that have been referred the same could be true with the witnesses he will blower that process can apply you can pollinate a subcommittee person

to take into account what this body does with whistle blower complaints and what i could do better commissioner harmon spent some time on that question of the sunshine task force it may have been a year she the great job i think this is a loose end and now you're about 20 years old we should grow up. >> you've anticipated i'm going to see if i can get a volunteer. >> any other public comment? any further discussion among the commission? i am going to ask if anyone wants to volunteer as

commissioner renne did with the legislation we just discussed but would like to take on as a task to assisted in responding to and prep response to the recommendations? >> you're putting us all on the spot. >> hearing none at the moment i'll see whether or not i can find a volunteer maybe i'll have to take it on. >> achiever i have a question maybe for the city attorney one finding i had a question about number 4 the changing of the burden of proof for the complainant is that something we can implement? >> so my understandin