standing water that is low risk not condos with you know you have been impacted this is what being at risk you're talking about. >> i think we completely agree with you trying to minimize the amount of impermeable surfaces with with respect in a process we can influence have an influence so our stormwater management ordinance trying tries to do that looks at managing the onsite and you know that kind of gateway that a project has to go through before approval we are trying to make an impact on that has made a big

impact citywide. >> and the other thing we've tubed when we come to you with our new rates structure we are definitely considering san francisco entertainment commission fee that leads to the square of our area at risk material. >> uh-huh. >> i think that is great and we'll talk about that piece of work but says here san francisco entertainment commission run off from i am partially areas when it comes to flooding as we continue to understand what those are i mean there is an opportunity to reduce the size of the i am partially site. >> i think it depends on the

intensity of the rain if you have a green infrastructure is won't help but green infrastructure you have time the soil can absorb the water if it quickly becomes saturated this is why it is important to model this we can spend money for the green structure but a lot of the short duration and you know the amount of rain it will have an impact that's why we want to look at the dollars. >> we talk about the impermeable surfaces we have to of the mechanism we can influence and so we have the short-term management and the renovation but the portable the

grants program we do m if someone wants to drain the water oilth we have grant programs for that we can we're making impacts but which we cannot control the land itself we have to get creative how we can influence property owners to do that on their property. >> that's right it's not just about that but the impermeable surfaces and minimize this. >> questions or comments commissioner vice president moran. >> the investment in the various sets are prioritized by value the projects the capital investments are designed to

remove high flood risk in a neighborhood experiencing high flood risk a project put in place to provide storage or provide something that's risk is determined by dollars. >> that risk is kind of like anorexic scorisk score. >> to understand the benefits so let's see - >> let me give you an example where it question was leading one of the areas we keep on talking about is 17th street and fulsome that is pretty much industrial i don't know how it stacks in terms of dollar values of flood cost and i'm curious as

to whether that area gets attention in terms of the investment and infrastructure improvements or whether the economic value is low enough maybe it didn't get that full. >> so we didn't prioritize each area and rate them we felt this the reason is that we should make a citywide policy than that for the areas that don't need it prioritize the city to come to that standard that was our thinking. >> but i will is that 17th street and fulsome area showed up as a high-risk area because it is changing rapidly and there are residential and commercial enterprises there and their subject to a lot of structure

densely populated area so a lot of structural risk to property damage and things like that that play into it being a high flood risk designation. >> the approach is very rational and just make sense but the couple of areas were there are noteworthy and local impacts there is considerable community interest already organizing and expressed we need to know added what level of investment how those folks do in terms of flood risks so i think the citywide approach is right but we also need to be able to tell some specific

places like what this will do for them. >> that also lead me to an observation we talked about no matter how much money there will be flooding and things we may want to do to help safety net i assume those things cost money i don't know those costs are incorporated into the costs benefits or not. >> we're trying to establish a fair standard for the city that everyone sort of gets an equal level of a ratepayer an equal level of protection but a long list of additional measures we're talking about not capital

in nature not cost a lot of money capital dollars wise they're problematic so thinking about you know changing the brad is one example we can superintendent carranza flood zones vulnerable to flooding and require that any new construction or major renovation has to incorporate flood prove construction techniques and over time the areas will be protected has we develop another example the flood insurance a lot of confusion about flood insurance if i called our flood insurance agent they'll tell you you're not eligible but worked with fumbled to clear up the sources of confusion and partnered with fema for a training for agent to help them understand that flood insurance is available for

everyone like an earthquake you know you can pay a certain amount of construction dollars to booster our home but if you get a bigger one may want to have earthquake insurance you don't know what will come >> my point if we approach a policy with long term ongoing costs for survivalist north or medication those costs should be in the sidewaltuation. >> so if i'm understanding the two questions for clarification most of the flooding is caused by combined water; correct? >> not. >> no so generally, we think

about flooding on the street in most areas of the street is it so stormwater it is stormwater run off by in certain areas that are low lying like mission 17th street and fulsome is an example we can have storms i don't know if you remember the profile of that neighborhood there is a bowl right there and water rises to the lowest point as the system gets more and more full and water can come out of the system the other thing i want to point out it causes flooding is the catch basins that is something that caused a lot of flooding that's why we're out asking the dpw to clear a lot of the capture baselines that didn't has nothing to do with with the capital capacity of the sewers

but water can't get into the sewer system so which ties to the definition that that is san francisco entertainment commission but now we're talking about well, if it operationally is able to get into the system the system didn't have the capacity to hold it so what can get sweet spot system flows to the low lying areas but before there are certain areas or areas where water comes through the pipe and pressure through the system. >> on that note in terms of the bowl to understand this is like a trumpet like a horn it is an opening to get do in a storm no matter what is available not able to empty the drain quick enough; correct? >> the bowl on 17th street the graphic bowl. >> so there's a combination

had the system is so full it starts of pressureries you can have water coming out of the system into the bowl and stormwater that can't get into the system so you'll end up flooding out the bowl from two systems the stormwater coming downed the hill off of twin peaks as far as what we can do to affiliate /* alleviate but to move water au from the area but, either move water away quickly or store a place for the water to go. >> and the thing i'd like to point out that a lot of the solutions although it is you know small pocket of area of the city but you will have to

actually have pipe along to. >> a mile and a half. >> a mile and a half to relieve the pressure so the impact won't be just to the area but impact to that the solution in as well. >> and would echo commissioner morans with the people that live in those areas like you stand an intense problem where were you live right there and difficult situation but i think hearing more information on the medics of predicting i guess the insistent rainy struggle with el nino right here in the middle so

will happen climatic change and sea level rise is a complication i'll glad you're work working with you. >> and berkley. >> that's a good thing thank you. >> commissioners? i would like to look at the model again which is slide 12 >> so as i understand the duration of our history on the different models the only difference the increase in the model; correct? >> i'm sorry which slide and 12. >> page 12 slide 12. >> oh, i'm sorry you're right. >> i guess that will be 24. >> 24. >> the slide. >> the cow part of that.

>> 23. >> yeah. >> one before that. >> okay so any question is this objective obviously the 3 hour period my question is there, there any other issues 3 should be brought into the models. >> with respect to the rainfall. >> i'm trying to figure out how to express this when i was at 3u7 39 there are other factors that come into the model my questions are those the only factors or other things that should be in here. >> the hydraulic model is a

representation of our physical system and it has any pipe or manhole or pump station is represented in the model and we - can use it to either rap indicate or propose a new project and what happens with the new project we apply a rainfall this chart is showing you different design storms that would be applied as an input to the model we have all the pipes built into the model and see how the water flows and can't get in that kind of analysis. >> well carrying that forward i would think that in this model there should be what kinds of of

surface and yeah. yeah. >> in your models themselves. >> sorry. >> uh-huh. >> but not broke down in a certain way it is we have our existing conditions and then we can simulate a different scenario you might have more permeable - but the model has a recommendation open the ground and propose changes on the ground and see what changes that happens during a rain forest. >> okay. my feeling is that our system would handle thing differently depending on the surface. >> so the modeling we do account for assumptions about

would like for example, impermeable areas of certain sub watersheds are accounted for we simulate in the future we look at assuming that the development happens at a certain pace and the stormwater patterns are followed by the vrpdz and in parking lots and buildings they have to manage their short-term onsite that projection is accounted for that in the modeling scenarios. >> thanks. >> anything else commissioners, thank you for your presentation and take public comment on this item. >> one card here. >> blaine bachelor. >> good afternoon

good afternoon. >> i get 3 minutes; correct? >> correct. >> thank you for the opportunity to speak today you know me i live in the mission terrace and hundreds of folks that are effected by this sewer failure with the excrement in businesses like to show you a video from december 14th i'm sorry 2015. >> that's 7.4 inches of rainfall that's what it accident i applaud after all you that have been asking questions about the cost and solutions i feel like today is the first die many residents have been heard commissioner moran you mentioned this as difficult situation that is an absolute nightmare

we bought our home in san francisco we want a place to raise our family sorry i'm - very emotional and it's been a nightmare 3 months before the flood happened twice and to think we've been trying to raise a single-family in a home we don't know from the rainfall is going to bring poop into our basement has been nothing short oath crisis so i applaud you for kg intelligent questions i'm the only person that made it to the meeting i want to underscore it effects hundreds of people across district we are aware the issues of the costs costs and no fancy graph to talk about the costs we have to deal with this every time is rains if that flooding will happen again 72

hours not flooding but sewer an infrastructure not a top graphal issue not unfixturesable but ignored at the cost of too many people we had a neighbor is close to divorce over this situation i appreciate you guys to look at solutions and again, i've gone off of script but i want to thank you for the work you've done and thank you for the studies but i want to emphasize that it is time to stop with the outstanding and start action i know that solutions are not for 3 years off this is way two along to continue this i'm available for comments you have my e-mails happy to provide any

more information i can and thank you, again, for the time to speak today. >> thank you very much speaking we appreciate that. >> thank you. >> one question you've been here before i remember but where is your property. >> other corner of cayuga if i could get thirty more seconds the public health is a huge concern the city comes out with workers to clean up our stuff hazmat and to think miff any dr told me to get tested this is like hiv and other things but the mayor is coming out and we're still dealing was that this the end of our street as

you can see that is the end of cayuga avenue on december 3rd, 2014. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> thank you, again time. >> any other any public comment on this item? >> hello, my name is silvia johnson. and i think we need entering challenge on this to work on this you know area to - i have already heard a lot of these areas that put in water diseases grow i want to make it more able to see this isn't move forward

interchanging need to be moved and the public needs construction work to keep the area - i wanted to put a new construction building control to where they have beams when this slide goes and they can go up and that the surface can disappear if there's any problems in this area. >> and i think we need you think the cost of this probably wouldn't be as much i explained how i like this done in this construction flood area and it would probably go a

little bit more in some areas and a little less others. >> thank you very much for your comments. >> any other public comment on this item? thank you and we look forward to continue this conversation and really getting more information science and data what our opposite with mostly next item, please. >> item 10 the consent calendar calendar, are considered to be routine and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. there will be no separate discussion of these items a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests removed from the consent calendar and considered as a separate item at this or a future hearing. 10 a approval of the

authorization of the increase of agreement and b an increased in the contract costs contingency in the amount of $490,000 and increase to the existing contract duration contingency up it to two hundred plus calendar days and authorize modifications to the contract for a total contract amount of one hundred 90 plus and a duration up to 2 thousand 25 ken active calendar days in award of the contract amount off $6 million plus, to the lowest qualified responsibly and responsive bidder manipulative and authorize a memorandum of understanding with the rec and park department in connection with the construction

on the lands owned or occupied by s f p r d e approve the execution of adapttion for the public utilities commission 2016 disclosure report. >> is there a request to remove any of the items. >> the rec and park item. >> what number is that or letter. >> c. >> c we will remove item 10 c from the consent calendar anything else can i get a motion to approve the rest of the consent calendar. >> so moved. >> second. >> item? consent calendar. >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> that motion carries okay. let's goes to item 10 c.

>> can i get a short report. >> 10 c. >> yeah. >> general manager is there somebody that can speak to 10 c. >> kathy howe. >> this project is the fattens of our peninsula pipeline we did phase one and phase two under the water system improvement program and this last pieced is most of it operationally is in san francisco it is to repair values and replace some pipeline this is out of old steel pipes. >> is this mou natural gases or egress.

>> thank you kathy i move. >> a second any public comment on this item? >> hello, my name is silvia johnson. and he was talking about this pipeline in emergency basis pipeline and how - to approve it for the construction these are - i apologize for my inclines and emergencies for tariffs when the processes this

line in pipeline that maybe connected to the bureau pipelines sometimes because they need entering changing in a different process and how my. >> thank you further >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? next item, please. >> that motion carries. >> item 11 discussion and possible action to adapt a san francisco public utilities commission strategic plan 2020. >> good afternoon good afternoon julia atm for external foyers i'm presenting the 2020

strategic plan for the requirement of our charter i presented an overview of the plan at the commission meeting in march poeblt and today, i'm walk you through through the plan again in your packet and talk about the alignment with our current agency and next steps as we shift into implementation. >> so i want to take a moment to look at the purpose of strategic plan in march general manager kelly was the driving force and felt we needed a high-level agency wide road map to prioritize our efforts across the agency not an operating plan but a high-level strategic plan and looking at looking at to go align our work with a watering that functions as an organization and an opportunity

to you improve to look at best practices nationwide to share information across the departments and approving the efficiency nationally and the mayor this past year required all departments to provide a strategic apparently that works welling well, we embarked on the properties in this request and lastly we want to commend build on the sustainability plan the executive team began this essentially firmly our existing value so as you recall our mission statement to provide our customers with high quality and reliable water and services and in a manner that values the environmental interests and our

future focus we are an initiative stewardship the volumes are unchanged, however, our core values the bedrock of what we stand for and supporting those are felt it is easy to remember and describe no leads or changes but an important place to start and leading us to closer to our vision with that, i'll jump into the goal areas. >> so this slide lays out the 6 goals we decided to focus on i'll spend a lot of time on the details on each one so the first goal around reliability and assess this goal maintaining the service level to our customers and perform our core communications as efficiently and a as possible

and apply the asset practices consistent so we can manage the risk or failure and make the decisions in a cooperated and strategic fashion and obviously about make sure the sfpuc can provide for urban certainties as we think about major priorities we don't call out the capital improvement and the water system in the plan those infrastructure projects are under this goal as we upgrade our system the water enterprise is a way in addressing obviously one with the level of goals and obviously forbids the service our organization of excellence addresses how to

institutionalize and approve the efficiency we want to consistently look at the best practices and areas that are prioritized are health and safety and customer service both core values for the technology to approve effectiveness much of the work is underway with the customers and a strategic plan the technology strategic plan and executive workshops we'll had to increase and approve and expand the health and safety protocols the next is the effective workforce for the sfpuc to have an engagement in a workforce we are facing challenges as a significant workforce nears retirement and those objectives focus on suhr the future employees require the skills and experience to continue to

provide a high-level of service we want to create stronger pathways in the agency and develop a culture of high performance again, some of the work is underway the workforce division under the leadership of within person has a competent model for clarifications and with our human resources are looking at the employee orientation and working at the employee orientation with commissioner courtney we we'll come back at the end of july the next area is financial sustainability the utilities is capital intensify and require ongoing funding of not only operations and maintenance but significant capital investment this area is about backbone the organization and critical for

making sure we have financial foundation for each the goals and be able to keep the mission for example, our ability to weather the drought and revenues without reopening the rate is in the financial planning that happened years ago and in the strategic plan that goal focuses on at loernlt financial plan with the costs if this fair and provided more comprehensive methods and the stewardship entrusted to our care- the replacement project is a major endeavor that effects the enterprises the business services that are also look to build on the work of asset management to refine the process we're really proud the sfpuc got a bond upgrade from the s&p that was raised to a did you believe

a with millions of dollars it is critical as we embark on the multi billion dollars funding of ssip the upcoming rates to prepare for the new rate package is good. >> the next goal the stakeholder and community interest that speaks to the values of services we are seeking proactively for the communities to understand the needs and concerns and implement the changes and also striving to build a stronger relationship with the stakeholders so as we move forward with future rate changes allies to understand the needs for investment in this system through our work in the southeast around the improvement program and community facility with the roll from cleanpowersf and end with the neighborhood

impacts we are exploring and testing new methods for the community and lastly this goal is improving the internal consumption as we grew up into the strategic plan other major initiated will be implementing new ways of engaging with our employees go such internal surveys and use of share point which is like salesforce and increased subcontractors between the staff this work will help to support our workforce and gave me us with our mission as well our last goal is viral stewardship the stewardship is one of the core values that addresses management and adapting to climate change and go pro-active in national resources for the operations

through ssip we're investing in new temp for preservation and providing green infrastructure and while sanborn map is not specifically called out in the - will provide customers to be one hundred - all 3 enterprises will continue to address climatic change and last but not least as we move forward we'll be readvancing our sustainability at our last preservation presentation there were questions about the agencies priority and the matrix that is in all the packet on the table connects our top priorities across the combridz that enables

the priorities that are strategic plans and parenthesisal plans that support our higher level goals we want to commend give a quick several examples to talk about the enterprises priorities and the overall strategic plan and thank commissioners that asked for the exercise we asked for all the enterprises and bureaus to make those connections with the work in the bureau connecting the agencies so the first example is around cleanpowersf the prelims of cleanpowersf is one of the agencies top priorities and a business plan for the implementation you've seen and approved cca as we build relationships with supplies and provided venues with on the clean power and make the

stewardship goal for the 100 percent green house gas emissions free san francisco with the watermelon and infrastructure with the sewer improvement project is guided by levels of service goals and we will be working towards the reliable service and - through ssip we'll be supporting our stakeholder with interested goals with the outreach to the community as well our viral stewardship to have more improvements in research recovery as well as the green infrastructure programs underway and fenlt in the wastewater in the water system improvement program we'll also allow us to have a level of reliability and this is with our service goals around the service reliability and water supply clearly drought management is a priority for our agency and will

continue to be in the coming years our water enterprise findings is around the maintenance of our water supply and alternative water sources and commercialism that support our stewardship goal as part of financial sustainability goal we'll be analyzing this to influenced our plan last but not least we must support of efforts a number of objectives in financial sustainability with the excellence and sfrrld and community interest addresses investing in the analysis and demonstrating our effectiveness in public support and capacity rates to sustain sour system again, the nature has a bunch of priorities and really a request for the enterprises and bureaus to antiapartheid top priorities and make the connection and part of this conversation is it in strategic process but the higher

levels of road maps in the operating plan not specifically identified and called out through cleanpowersf ssip, etc. or the rates campaign. >> so as we look at the next steps we're working with the communication team on developing strategies for sharing this internally and extraordinarily and thinking how - we presented the draft plan at the advisory committee and this summer focused on building the structures to implement the plan and outreaching to and originating new staff members responsible for that the action items to support the objective and supporting consulting for the priorities identify two performance indicators and the

work plan and put in place to monitor the share quarterly update with the executive team with that, i'll stop and take questions that you may have. >> commissioner. >> i hate to do this in my two hours identify taken office but this issue i'm going to raise you mentioned at the end of july i'm proud to sit here and say if not for you're good work and general manager leadership we wouldn't be where we're at in rigorous and readable and successful apprenticeship program but talk about is real workforce program and the needs for the utility the 4 that percent or whatever had are

retiring. >> huge conversation and hard for me to gaufrmd i'm concerned about who is engaging this conversation and experts and community input we're getting if we're going to get this is thirty thousand feet it is great product but something that is a sign off by the end of july i'd like to have stakeholder and people like somebody now running i think that dj i want to meet with folks that understand the language and how important it is you know, i i get it the track retain bias but the development piece that burn all of us those careers especially in the public sector those careers last for decades and when you just kind of convert that into a monetary value we're talking about an incredible amount of money

sounds like i'm being an aggressive advocate with respect to our part actually our part is coming up done really well, you have to recognize the design the mayor's prelims of the fix it program last week, i think he rent-controlled housing that out something we should pay attention and that's the need the city has to the citizens that were today to make sure we're working with one another and i don't see that cross the line not relationships with public works and rec and park rec and park have this beat system like their frigging bible it ties their hands i'll give them this credit when it comes to apprenticeship you look at the strategic plan they at least

have a commitment to closer that and planning to engage a long heavy road harlan you know about the contracts one line item is about making sure there that's our bad do union saying you know don't use this and do this and that but i guess that's the problem but there's two pieces julia i want to participate fully engage in this is substantive number one and physique we have a quorum and obviously number 3 and processes that go into that because if you bring in 200 folks under the guise of some programming the question how many are we will id and who will make that determination right now we either dedicate and not ongoing

the mechanisms or assigns those folks to come back and i feel for them sometimes some of them are really good but signed up for a career in a particular trade whether electrical or plumbing or labor and all of a sudden their assigned this workforce piece this social piece you will; right? and then you either embrace that and execute or don't and too many times it is not embraced by current staff so there are mechanisms that we can consider in a collective bargaining agreement i know that tommy has good relationships with the stationary engineers but mechanisms where those folks what volunteer and be identified as a smell to mentor those population of individuals and that's from the public segment side before we get into the tip

off i want to let you you know uniform available and really, really, really for or important for me the great work we're the leaders; right? rec and park with the apt and mta they have to follow suit in the presidential election one 0 hand is a burden and on the other hand, for all of us to succeed and do right by the workforce. >> thank you. >> a couple of things i would want to add in the workforce it is definitely complicated i mean, you have city forces, contractor, you have workforce and you know trying to work with the trade unions and just the professional staff which you know for us we're also very

concerned about so to try to put this together and look at it opportunity for a chain analysis you look at everything we touch in the jobs so we're taking a deeper dive so as we do that labor information and a lot of opportunities to make a difference as we look at workforce because we're spending - we'll spend $7 billion we'll spend a lot on jobs and opportunities. >> thanks harlan. >> like i said your leadership and ellis and tommy too it is great work up here the questions are we're going to close ourselves to a greater burden and you know my ask another that at this point in time to be fully involved and engaged there are folks we know that are doing this work that i think should be involved ♪

conversation if we attempted to have like i said hard to put words in a box those words have pages and pages of matt haney; right? so i'd like to meet with young developers and ralph do have and those folks and we're targeting a particular community and other folks because it is not rights to include the other populations in san francisco and how do we do that so thanks harlan >> we'll definitely engage i appreciate your feedback everything behind the word on all the page it is so complicated and a shout out to the general managers and head of h.r. andlipid and others and i did that. >> i know you did that i see tommy in the back and kathy and

steve richie i'm forgetting people barbara hale i said. >> barbara hale. >> i would all the cloufz have engaged around this issue and have been talking about this opportunity stand point and talking with the utilities companies as an opportunity to really on the construction side and the permanent job site. >> and my understanding is this is i mean this is thirty thousand feet; right? i'll imagine there needs to be a work plan and a set of tests my hope the champions have been identified and the agency wide opportunities and programs the devil is in the details; right? so working groups will convene around every single goal and executive team members and folks that will be part of this you're

completely right the next step is a originating people on the committee because people actively worked on this and go with that group around the indicators and coming up with a work plan that had been for each of them this is what you can expect and who we partner that. >> through the chair. >> my goal to make sure whatever we without the possibility of parole with we tell the other departments this is right; right? why as government would we have the same conversations ero and over and over again about the consistent workforce in the very exact clarification performing the exact same task so it is like on one hand you know this is what we do this is our burden but a lot of things to get it

right you change lives >> okay other comments is there a motion to approve the strategic plan. >> so moved madam chair. >> any public comment on this item? >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? that motion carries thank you ma'am, eirs next item, please. >> item 12 approval the selection of award contract number - and authorize a cpmc amount up to $244 million plus i'd like to note that the contract amount was changing from from what was overflow room in your packet there was a contribution of the contract amount and the correct amount is what you have new copies provided for the public at 200 and $44 million plus.

>> great. >> good afternoon, commissioners the purpose of a new headwork facility to build a headwork facility at the southeast plant for grit removal and sure the operational reliability and seismic reliability on july 14, 2015, the commission authorized the general manager to be issue a request for qualifications and subsequent for the cpmc methodologies the r f q was advertised in 2015 and requalification packages were received on october 13th from pc l construction, simon with the construction and sun with wavls sfpuc prequalified

them and permitted them to synonym proposals we alleviated the proposals on miracle 25 of this year and conducted oral interviews this year based on the results of the cost proposals and community proposals and interviews the sfpuc staff recommend watching and joint venture loose the contract is for 200 and $44 million plus we are asking the commission to authorize $3 million plus for preconstruction services we will return to the commission upon completion of the environmental review for the authorization to approve the

construction. >> thank you. >> is there a motion to approve. >> so moved. >> second. >> any comments on this item public comment. >> corin. >> i have made comments about the this form of contract that is something relatively new to the city and ultimately total puc identify spent a lot of time talk to puc staff and others about the challenges of doing this kind of contract and i'm convinced of the merits of doing this contract, however, it has it presents particular issues as well i grew up in the era of design bid build contracting and that feels good because you

have a public process where ever we can stage of the crack an analysis by the staff for action impacts and of him implications that gives us a very public process and give us the feeling of oversight and control i say feeling that oversight and control is real so the benefit, however, it is public you get a see a lot of the bidding process and one of the aspects of this kind contracts less we didn't know who the contractors are and i think that makes the process and the integrity of the process subject to both reporting and auditing this is something the staff had conversations with the

controller's office as well but i can't emphasis the importance of making sure this precedes in a way that that is every bit as transplant as other forms of contract and that if parties or rate payers or contractors feel the process is making that known and if there are any concerns that we have about some of the product of contracting process in terms of fairness or financial efficiency that we have a chance to address those so the staff develops is reporting processes i will be looking at those closely to make sure that process is met there was a memo back in march that explained why this contracting was appropriate this particular bit of work i think that was a

convincing memo i think that should be needs to be part of public record i don't remember a couple of the concerns but it should be and that ever point we're making decisions that effect the public value of contract and the public interest in the contract those decisions are made clear and justified as well so between auditing and reporting i think we have a high standard to meet we have a great history in our audit program with the capital plan it is open and executive we have a good record and that kind of contract presents challenged so i have no problem with that but want to take the opportunity

to say that about transparency. >> we hear our message and agree every bid package will be pubically bid and make sure we have at least 3 bids and also be cpmc will work with us to establish the goals for those. >> good. >> the other thing because you know dpw in the dpw but public works mta is doing a lot so we are working with the other departments to kind of see those so we'd like to go probably bring those as other projects are you know using the same delivery method. >> i was pleased to see that the controllers all of questions they want to look at are identified all the agencies as far as i'm concerned, so this is something i think we have our

eyes open. >> and then the last thing i want to point out for your information my maybe eileen, speak to is one of tt admin cod more complex and you know cpmc. >> let's not talk about that now (laughter). >> you know we're you know pushing it out there and using more delivery methods and traditionally methods. >> thank you. >> other comments on this item? >> public comment? >> yeah. my name is silvia johnson. on this issue i will put emergency response and

disadvantage control and management assisted with the areas what major procedures do in for you know mainly terrorists emergency and more border history and sensitive works in management and other process pours poufr /* /- power controls and murphy tax for safety for our children and that more processes as we proclaim

we'll know how building in the infrastructure and if different areas that we can have all maps in public and sickness and this is really serious matter and thanks for - >> thank you in favor of approving item 2012. >> opposed? that motion carries. >> next speaker, please. >> approve the terms and conditions between bayview plaza and, llc and the city and county of san francisco at at initial rate of thirty thousand plus per month. >> second. >> public comment? >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> that motion carries thank you, mr. carolyn.

>> next speaker, please. >> item 14 authorizes the second amendment to the memorandum of understanding between the public utilities commission and alameda county district for an amount of invited $3 million plus. >> move it. >> second. >> public comment? >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? thank you mr. richie that motion carries. >> next speaker, please. >> 15 and 16 together please. the second stepgz 24/7 the city and county of san francisco and this turlock irrigation and item 61 approval the second extension the witness the city and county of san francisco and the modesto irrigation district. >> i'll move both >> second. >> public comment. >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> that motion carries unanimously we will now go into closed session can you please read do closed session items.

>> item 18 unmitigated games and item 19 urban mitigated people of the state of california versus the sfpuc and item 20 that pair et al versus the san francisco board of appeals 6 appellant district and irrigation restore the hetch hetchy of the san francisco and items 2 it through 28 will not be heard today. >> thank you is there a motion to public comment on closed session items. >> is there a motion to assert. >> session. >> okay. we're now out of

closed session and back into open session 18 and 19 about settles were approve a motion to disclose any discussions from closed sessions. >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? we will not disclose any other in any business hearing none, this meeting is adjourned (music)

>> herb theatre,open rehearsal. listen to the rehearsal. i think it is fun for them, they see our work process, our discussions, the decisions we make. it is good for us. we kind of behavior little bit when we have people in the audience. msk (music) >> we are rehearsing for our most expensive tour; plus two concerts here. we are proud that the growth of the orchestra, and how it is expanded and it is being accepted. my ambition when i came on as music director here -- it was evident we needed

absolutely excellent work. also evident to me that i thought everyone should know that. this was my purpose. and after we opened, which was a spectacular opening concert about five weeks after that the economy completely crashed. my plan -- and i'm absolutely dogmatic about my plans --were delayed slightly. i would say that in this very difficult timefor the arts and everyone, especially the arts, it's phenomenal how new century has grown where many unfortunate organizations have stopped. during this period we got ourselves on national radio presence; we started touring, releasing cds, a dvd.

we continue to tour. reputation grows and grows and grows and it has never stopped going forward. msk(music) >> the bay area knows the orchestra. you maybe take things for granted a little bit. that is simply not the case will go on the road. the audiences go crazy. they don't see vitality like this on stage. we are capable of conveying joy when we play. msk(music) >> any performance that we do, that a program, that will be something on the program that you haven't heard before. string orchestra repertoire is pretty small. i used to be boxed into small repertoire.

i kept constantly looking for new repertoire and commissioning new arrangements. if you look at the first of the program you have very early, young vibrant mendelson; fabulous opener and then you have this fabulous concerto written for us in the orchestra. is our gift. msk(music) >> and then you have strauss, extraordinary piece. the most challenging of all. string orchestra work. 23 solo instrument, no violin section, now viola section; everybody is responsible for their part in this piece.

the challenge is something that i felt not only that we could do , absolutely could do, but i wanted to show off. i can't tell you how aware i am of the audience. not only what i hear but their vibes, so strong. i have been doing this for a long time. i kind of make them feel what i want them to feel. there is nobody in that audience or anywhere that is not going to know that particular song by the fourth note. and that is our encore on tour. by the way.

i am proud to play it, we are from san francisco. we are going to play that piece no matter where we are. [chain saw whirring] [growling] listen, you are extremely terrifying-- just the scariest undead thing on tv, and i really mean that. i am worried that you could give my kids nightmares if they see you, so i'm gonna have to block you. [sighs] so, that's it. oh, and tell the zombies they're blocked, too.

ethics commission for may 23, 2016. i will call the roll. commissioner hayon, here. commissioner andrews, here. commissioner keane, here. commissioner chiu, here. all present and accounted for. item number 2, public comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda and make the same caution that if you intend to make a specific comment on a specific agenda, i appreciate if we hold those

until we get to that agenda but you are free to do as you wish. >> i'm bob [inaudible] i'm leer as a member and also spokes person for the informal association known as friends of ethics. last week a public polling of california completed a polling about ethics commission and potential ethics matters happening in the city. i want to give you brief summary of some the results. it was a simple bakers dozen of question squz people can say yes, punch 1, 2, no, 3, i don't know or 4, i don't care. the one i want to mention that i think stands out is there is a ballot measure drafted that will ban lobbyist from contributing to officials which you support or oppose.

out of 521 people, 60 percent said yes they support. only 14 percent said no. i want you to understand you seem to be on the right track with the public at large. there are other questions if a ethics measure would put on the ballot who would you have most confidence in based on the agency putting it on, ethics, a petition drive or officials that can put it on the ballot. it was that rank choice order. people felt most confident if a ethics measure is put on by you folks they are more likely to vote for it. the second is petition drive, more likely to vote if it is a petition drive than elected officials. i want you to understand the cofds and expectations you

folks have that erned from the general public. there are other ethics questions about whether there should be restrictions on developers and other seeking financial benefit. when we asked these questions about, do you think this or that type of activity ought to be regulated or monitored, there was strong support. we then ask if a candidate for supervisor supported some of these same concepts or restricting or regulating these activities are you more or lez likely to vote. 60 percent said we are more likely to vote [inaudible] i encourage you to keep pushing ahead with looking at where you have regulatory power, see if those regulations can be

amended, adapted to include some of these additional concerns. you got strong public support, not just from we few, but from across representative sample. >> thank you. >> mr. planthold, i have a couple questions. what was the methodology used in the poll? >> a recorded voice mail so there wasn't a change in voice tone inflection or slurring of speech. >> secondly, you said that you had 500 plus-521 so that is out of a population of all most 850,000 people, how statistically significant? >> the confidence ranges plus or minus 4.3 percent. 521 is

approximately the standard size for many quick polls, not related to a actual ballot measure but a opinion type poll. plus or minus 4.3 percent. when i mentioned 66 percent or 60 percent you will add or subtract 4 percent. >> so, it is significant to a degree of 4 percent, is that what you are saying? >> yes. the cofsds interval is what it is called in statistics. >> is that considered high or average? that sounds small to me. >> it is a professional standard that is used not just in public polling but other areas as well. >> okay. thank you. >> it cost more if you want to get furter refined and we use our own resources. >> right. thank you.

>> ray [inaudible] i handed my second complaint against city librarian luis her era and [inaudible] violated my rights under the sunshine ordinance on 7 specific occasions. denying or interfering with my public comment not representing the public comments accurately in the official minutes of the meeting or denying access to public documents some of which were the documents that got mr. her era in violation in sacramento and with held the documents as long as he could. they have dozens if not hundreds of such violations. you can only file so many. the friends of the san francisco public library is a group of private individuals who have been allowed to raise and expend funds in the name the san francisco public library and the city of san francisco. this

group has sinss the year 2000 had more than $80 million pass through their hands and not appeared before the library commission for more than 40 months so tell me how much of a fiducialiary responsibility. they have been allowed to do so without oversight from the library or any other city agency. luis heraa and sue blackman engaged in the group as you don't tell and we dont ask. from december 2012 until earlier this year more than 40 months passed without the friends appearing on the library agenda. we have a group sold as a private public partnership and the public knows nothing where $80

millions as gone. you try to get documents from the library and they spent more than a year withholding the documents. i petitioned the supervisor of record with the city attorney to produce the documents or send to the district attorney and petitions were denied twice so the point where the city attorney turned down both of those petition was found in violation of a the sunshine ordinance of a city body trying to with hold public records. mr. hurarea is a liar. he took 5 thousand dollars each and every year from the friends under the table and filed statement of interest where he denied getting anything and got a $200 fine. a $600 total fine and $15,000 worth of free stuff he lied about. this group every time he asked he says it is all fine and has nothing

to base it on. >> thank you. any other public comment at this time? turning to item 3 , this sadis cushion and possible action to elect the vice chair to serve for the remainder of the coming year due to the pending resignation of commissioner vice chair brett andrews. i regret deeply this item has to be an ajnda item, but i was advised by commissioner andrews this month that for a number of reasons that is known to him, but also part of which he shared with me that he felt it necessary that he resign his commission seat as of the end of this meeting, so he is still sitting when we elect a new vice chair that vice chair won't take his or her seat

until after tonight. but, commissioner andrews, i want to express my great gratitude and thanks for the work and assistance and wisdom you shared with the commission in the years you sat on the commission and it is with sadness that we won't have you sitting next to us next month. with that, any commissioners have discussion concerning-- >> yes. i like to just echo what you said mr. chair. commissioner andrew, you have been a great colleague. you have a wonderful demeanor, calm as opposed to some of the rest of us. deliberate, great sense of humor, tremendously ethical professional individual. we will all miss you. i think the commission is suffering a great loss with you going and understand you need to be out in termoffs

the ventures you are going on and wish you a lot of luck and sure you will bring the same assets to those verchers that you brought to t >> i would just like to say, please don't go. we really enjoy your presence. >> i like to echo that, there is only one meeting we worked together but would like more. >> i hear a motion on this item? as to the election of a new vice chair. >> are we making nominations now? >> i would like to make a nomination and like to nominate peter keane to be

vice chair. >> i accept it, thank you very much commissioner hayon. >> before we vote, public discussion? >> commissioners [inaudible] open government. as you deliberate filling the position of the vice chair i would like you to keep in mind all the discussion of the budget. the fact the budget was flat for a number of years was remarked upon by the former executive director. pen her, paul renne and beverly hayon constituted a majority of the commission during that period. as documented by the current executive director these budget choices resulted in serious deficiencies in how the commission operated and serious backlogs of complaint

particularly relates to a serious backlog of complaints and related investigations. while john st. croix proposed the budget. keane and hayon in my opinion have forfitted their right to serve in a leadership position. you can sit and moan about the fact the budget was flat for 6 or 7 years, but mr. st. croix only proposed that budget. it was the mu jorlt of inmbs of the ethics commission that approved the budget and let that budget flatline and as a result we saw from the past executive drether report all the inconsistencies and all most 70 cases backlogged now and find out one of the investigators is leaving which means they will not have one half time investigator and god knows how long it will take to

fill that position. with your comp titian going on with supervisor fairm who is chairman of budget and finance committee and don't think there is a snow ball chance in hell you will get the money you ask for, the 30 percent increase. if you do hallelujah but think it is slim to known because mr. farrell will abuse the position to take prisoners or retbution against anybody found against him which you have. very frankly, commissioners hayon and renne were here and a significant part the cuball in my perspective that kept the budget flat and if there is a problem with all the backlog the new executive director has gotten they have

to take their share the responsibility. just like the police commission is doing is scapegoating greg suhr and denying what occurred was on the backs of [inaudible] >> charley [inaudible] commissioners. good afternoon. i was just going to say i do want to thank mr. andrews for his service. i think you have had a very moments tenure and glad you were there. we navigated a number of things very successfully just recently the appointment of a executive director which was a outstanding pick and now prop c which you worked very hard on and particularly mr. andrews and mr. renne worked on those as a

joint subcommittee of the commission, so i wanted to thank you for that work. and i wanted to say we are about to aopponent mr. keane as vice chair which i look forward work wg him so want to thank mr. andrews on behalf of friends of ethics for his exemplary service. >> thank you. >> seeing no further public comment i'll call the question, all in favor of the motion to or nomination of commissioner keane as the vice chair effective after tonights meeting. >> aye. >> any opposed? the record should reflect the selection of commissioner keane was unanimous. number 4, possible discussion and request to waver from local post

employment restrictions submitted guy julienne christensen recollect a former member of the boferd supervisors. is mrs. christensen here? >> thank you. mrs. christensen was notified and expected she would be here. i don't see her in the room but understanding she ptded to attend. as we speak. >> your ajendsa item was called and just asking if you were here and looked around. welcome and the staff recommendation i'll let mrs. [inaudible] articulate what the staff recommendation is and then be happy to hear from the former supervisor. >> thank you chair renne. the memo under item 4 outlines request

we rereceived from mrs. christensen for waver for post employment restriction in campaign and governmental conduct code. there are 3 provisions at issue. one is a ban on former officials from communicating with former departments for board of supervisors members that ban extends to more broadly in the city. there is a restriction for employment with parties that contract with the city. both of those issues are laid out in the memo and the procedures the commission must consider and determining whether to wave those. we outlined those on the first couple pages. i left the details of mrs. christensens request and let her address those but this is request to wave both of those restriction tooz be considered for part time employment with a organization newly formed, the dogpatch and northwest potrero hill green benefits district. there

are specific provisions the commission must consider in waying whether to grant the waver. in the first instance the question is, the compligz can wave the one year ban communicating with forming agency or agencies if they make a finding granting such a waver will not create potential for undo influence or advantage. there are factors on page 5 the commission is directed to. also, the consideration of the waver the employment restriction for having employment with contracting to contract with the city, the commission may wave those restrictions if they determine imposing the restriction will cause extreme hardship for the former city officer. in this regard the commission shall not approve request for waver unless it makes a findsing that

imposing the restriction will cause extreme hardship. it lays out the factors to consider making that determination. on balance as we looked at the information provided by mrs. christensen and the job description and factors that the commission is required to assess, the recommendation that we are making to the commission this evening is that the one year post employment communication ban not be waved but we are recommending that the commission not deny mrs. christensen from the restriction regarding employment with the contractor for the city. happy to answer questions or leave it at that and turn to mrs. christensen mpt >> mrs. christensen, we will hear from you. >> i think i can do that. got a lot of

practing being brief. good evening commissioners. thank you. i am grateful for your effort. i can tell from my experience it is a labyrinth out there and appreciate the clarity all of you bring. in this case i have to say it is a litm difficult for me to understand some of the barriers to the employment i'm seeking i want to be clear i have not gotten this position, i am merely put my name in contention for the position so i don't want to have a negative influence on the efforts of the search for this important position. just to clarify that. i should say, i became a supers visor not for political interest or be a yes person or tip the political spectrum, i became a supervisor because i care deeply about my district at the grassroots level and want to make sure

those 234 interests are represented. in december 2014 people that were considered for the position didn't live in the district. one lived in the district but didn't reside there most of the time. there were a lot of people that were interested in the position but non that i felt w were the kinds of people i wanted to work with as a neighborhood advocate so when asked i said yes. as you probably know that came at considerable sacrifice last year to my personal life and health and business. as a supervisor i got units of senior housing on the books and police station which is worst in the city on had books for replacement. i added other metheds for gaining housing and repaired the [inaudible] alley stairs. i had 60 requests for street signs and cross walk improvements for pubhook safety. i tried to focus on those

things which are the things i care about. when i came out of office and people asked me was it a good idea and good thing that you did this, my answer is i will know when i find the next thing. the gbd is a unique organization, one that i think we all want to nurture and it calls aopinion my odd twnt years of experience in a unique way so it seems like good fit should they choose to have me take the position. as i understand, the ethics question and all of you can tell me how this works, buts as i understand it, the question is will the knowledge i gained as a supervisor give unfair advantage in this position. i do not plan to use the knowledge i gained as a supervisor in this position. i came into the roll of supervisor with 20 years as very hard work as a community activists

rchlt those are the pieces of information and the knowledge i plan to apply. rather than helping me, my 11 month tenure mayanktually in some ways turn out to be more of a disadvantage. the other thing is i don't want to be supervisor of district, i don'ts reside in the district and has a excellent supervisor already. the roll is a different one. influence, the budget for the organizations are fixed. there is a certain level of taxation and that is the amount of money they receive for the budget so no amount of begging or lobbying will change it base budget. i will say there may be a oewd grant for a commercial strip or some kind of public works program or something, but the vast bulk of the funding is already determined and i can't

influence that. i can seek outside funding, i have brought over $4 million in private sector funding to city park projects in district 3 over the past 15 years, but that doesn't apply in this case. this is not a entity that will enrich anyone, certainly not the executive director. the influence i have wonets change the basic financing of this organization and it is my experience as a nairpd advocate i would plan to apply. one of the other things that is hard to understand is i can work part time for the city now without coming before the commission. i can take a part time job with the city and assume have all the communication that i wanted, but i am not allowed to take a part time position with a non

profitentsty with the contract with the city. the other thing is the naich orthf contract, this isn't garbage or security or street sweeping contract, this is formalized mou which this gbd says to the city, i will take your money and spend it this way. it is done under the scrutiny of the city as a supervisor i had to review the annual reports of a number of gbd's so the brown act applies. these are organizations that come under a great deal of scrutiny. the codes of conduct say you can take into consideration the nature the communications that i would have with the city. i would be talking to the police department about a homeless encampment and talking to rec park about a dangerous tree. i would talk to public works about the need to step up street cleaning in a

certain area. again, it is difficult to understand how that shows any undo influence and can tell you i had every department head on speed dial before i became supervisor and founds some of them more responsive at that time. i ask to be able to continue my public service and my question is the interest of the city better served if i'm forced to go back into the private sector or will it be better served by my being allowed to continue offering myself to the citizens and to the needs of the city and i hope you will agree i still have something to offer and i very much appreciate your help and being allowed to do that. i'm grateful the staff recommendation i be allowed to take the position if it is offered but have to say being able to take the position and not communicate with the city

basically vendsers me a non candidate so need both of those wavers or i'm not a good candidate gr for the job. we are talking 6 months remaining in the waver so that means being able to talk to people 6 month earliers. all the restrictions sunset december 8. i hope i can continue service and very much appreciate your consideration in allowing me to do that. >> commissioners have any questions of mrs. christensen? >> i just wanted to talk about-i know we have a staff recommendation and i want to reconcile the staff recommendation with how mrs. cristcon son could actually do the job without having one without the other. the funding comes from the city. >> no, technically the funding comes from the taxpayers, so what it is it is

the taxpayers, the businesses or residents agree to tax themselves an aadditional amount and that is processed by the city and returned to the benefits district. >> so those dollars sit in a particular department? >> with the assesser. >> with the assesser. then you would have communication with-you need to have communication with the assesser? >> one presumes reporting and request for dispersements, yes. >> would you also be meeting occasionally with supervisor cohen? >> one would presume that would be desirable. i see this role as extection or augmentation of her directors and intentions. >> the staff recommendation was to not honor the waver of communication but honor the waver of employment with a entity that contracts with the city and you see where i'm headed? that

entity has to have consistent communication. >> it is the nature of the job. >> that is what is in front of me as i think about it and how do we approach that? >> so mrs. christensen, i noticed in the materials that you would be the only employee? >> for at least the near future. it is not-union square has a $4 million year budget for business improvement district sethis is a tiny start and so initially not only would i be the only employee, i would not be full time. it is 60 percent position to start. if i can just give a example, in communication with the board members of the gbd and found the planning department used the gbd green space map, the places they created, the street ends and merges and cal

train side yards as a visual for community meeting on the dogpatch and not invited the gbd. i'm sure that was just a administrative oversight but think it is the job of executive drether to remedy a situation like that as quickly as possible. >> i'm always reluctant to grant wavers to former city employees and particularly somebody at the level of a board member. board of supervisor member and looking at the primary project responsibilities in the job description, only one of them looks like it requires you in the next 6 months to have to be in communication or dealing directly with the city officials or city agency. it says lead, motivate and develop the board and that is speaking of the board- >> the gbd.

>> gbd. develop to accomplish the mission and goals including managing the election process which i assume this is something that you will be the first executive director that they had? >> yes, if i was offered the position i would be. >> part of the first job is going it be to sort of get organizational things going. >> absolutely. databases mpt s >> work with the board to develop a annual work plan and budget based on the gbd management plan. which i think can be performed without violating the restrictions in the code. insure compliance with all federal, state, local and regulations which emphasis on the brown act. again, to do that would

you have to contact any- >> no. >> you wouldn't have to contact the city attorney, you provide the board the information that it needs to comply. and then the last one is the one i think probably raises the question. advocate for gbd at city hall, build strategy relationshipwise san francisco public works, sfmta planning, sfpuc, sf recreation and park, district 10 supervisors and other city and county of san francisco agencies. it is clear that restriction would preclude you from performing that job responsibility but it is that very job responsibility that the regulation that exists in the ethics laws is to say, we don't want people being the supervisor or being an elected

official walking out of office and the next day advocating their colleagues for something. it isn't a question so much it would be financially rewarding, but the whole purpose of the statute is to say we want to put restrictions on the ability of individuals who take a job such as yours at the board of supervisors for a period of 12 months to not be advocating and much as i think you have a wonderful record of public service throughout putting aside the time you spent in the board of supervisors, but the 20 years before and there is no doubt you bring great experience to this organization and think you would be a great hire for them, but is it your belief

that you could not perform your job without having to violate the ban up to december 8? >> the job description runs 4 pages. >> yes >> and there is maybe a third of one page that involves communication with the city. but because the gbd is very fledgling organization, the neighbors have been working really hard for 3 or 4 years on this and have a lot of graund work done. what they are hoping for is someone that will guide them to the next level. my understanding is they have a few good candidates t. why would they select someone who is muzzleed for half a year when they are trying to get off the ground? i think it effectively makes me a non candidate. it is like being the symbol play r in the symphony, you

don't play in every movement but when you are needed nothing else will do and think they are looking for someone to tutor them. if i took a job with a lobbying firm i could work behind the scenes and write reports and papers and advise clients and tell somebody else what to say. i didn't want a job like that, i wanted one where i could roll up my sleeve jz be involved. i guess the short answer to your question i think if that stays i think they will not have a reason to have me as a candidate. i'm sympathetic to the intention of the regulation but as i was told when i first applied, the reason wavers exist is because sometimes they are deserved and hope this is one of those cases and appreciate the commissions

dedication to the letter oo thf law. it just seem thrz are so many things about my situation that are not normal. thank you all very much, commissioners. >> commissioner keane. >> yes, mr. chair, i like you am very reluctant to grant wavers for someone who had been in a position of city government and position of power like the board of supervisors to go into a job which there is relucktdance about using their knowledge and power in order to gain advantage as opposed to just a regular person coming in. but in this situation i'm convinced mrs. christensen should get the waver because we are not talking

about someone who is the main concern of this type of prohibition, someone who will leave the board of supervisors or some other position in city government, become a lobbyist, work for developers, be involved in big money deals and be able to use their influence. here commissioner christensen comes to us with 20 years of really good neighborhood service in green belt type park activities and other kind of activities, basic activities concerning libraries and streets that this job calls for and that will enhance our city. she has all of this knowledge, this 20s years of knowledge an

enormous amounts of knowledge most don't have. in that sense she would be a fine candidate and we are only talking about something for a few more months. if we were to remain in place--assuming this job would open up 6 months from now she would chbt have a problem and can dance right into it. i agree with her last statement, it is there a waver type of mechanism then the equity should be looked at as to whether that waver should be granted on a case by case basis and think she meets all the equities and i will vote in favor of it. >> make a motion. >> i move that we wave both of the prohibitions. >> i second. >> the motion is made and

seconded. i call for public comment. >> bob planthold, i acknowledge former supervisor christensen has extensive experience and roots in the bog patch area but want to point out the staff memo seems inconsistent in the logic as the approach by vice chair andrews. i want to go further on this and base it on the text in page 7 of 12, the third and 4ict paragraph. the director is responsible for funds raising. funds would normally be from taxes the people pay. they could seek money from grants from public works, rec and park, commission on the environment potentially, my points is that

would involve making a proposal and budget and sending it to those agencies. i think that is a say where you can work but can't communicate is inconsistent. what if the controller doesn't audit the entire gbd program? this group is included. how can you prevent the only employee from communicating? it seems the logic in this is inconsistent. that is where i think either pass this motion for both or you should turn around and say, no employment and no communication watt watt what so ever. what if there is a problem with the communication or proposal put in? and there is a question from the agency? they will call this gbd, this one person. if this one person

can't talk they lose out on the grant. it just seems like saying yes to one part and no to the other doesn't make sense. i'm going to say you need to rethink the memo and say yes to both wavers or no to both wavers. >> any other public comment? before we vote mrs. christensen can i ask you one other question? could i ask you one other question? who are the members of the board of gbd? >> they are residents and business people from within the district. >> are any of them what would be called developers in that district? >> there is a young man on the board who works for a developer but there are no corporate members. these are people elected by the members of the

gbd. >> thank you. i'll call the question, all in favor of commissioner keanes motion which is grant a waver of both sections of the communications and the job, all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? the motion is carried unanimously. thank you. good luck. turning to item number 5, which is the discussion and possible action on proposal regarding a possible november 2016 ballot measure to restrict lobbyist ability to provide gifts to the officer or make campaign contsbutions to local candidates and bundle contribution. staff prepared a detaild memo which i appreciate

and i will let mrs. pelumgive a general overview and have discussion. >> thank you. this is on the heels of the two interested persons meeting the commission asked us to hold april 25 meeting. may 11 and 16 the ethics sthaf had very productive and useful meetings with individuals to talk about the proposed ballot measures. friend of ethics and others from the regulated community and lobbyist were there and think it was a good conversation to consider the issues we noted in the interested persons discussion. so, this memo it does at the outset make a general recommendation that if the commission can continue to center discussion this evening and take additional pub luck comment and provide

with the policy direction howia would like to see ballot measure and components you want to see if you want to see them and what they would look like, we propose it is uptmal to come back at the next meeting for that language for the commission to take final action. i want to raise that as a possible and alternative in order to make sure we have the opportunity to flush out issues that are in the room this evening. i also would point out as we get into the memo under general discussion we provided under the 3 proposals a general staff alternative for the discussion this evening to get reaction from the commission as well as the public. those alternatives are listed to the right of the proposal we received. we had a modified proposal from the proponents after the second interest persons meeting may 18 so that proposal is slightly different from