center? >> the silver sneakers is the exercise program on saturday. >> silver sneakers -- >> can you state your name? >> toby. it's an exercise program that contracts with instructors in the area, so it depends on who is available at the time. we'll be starting with chair yoga, for lower mobility clients and working up to zumba and more high energy programs. >> commissioner loo: so they have someone come to the center? >> correct -- >> commissioner loo: and need exercises? >> yes. >> president serina: thank you. any other comments. >> commissioner loo: they come

-- >> the plan is for every saturday, plus once during the week. >> commissioner loo: thank you. >> president serina: thank you. any other comments or questions? from the public? hearing none, call the question, all in favor? any opposed? thank you, the motion carries. item f. requesting authorization to enter into a new grant agreement with north and south of market adult day health dba steppingstone for the were vision of community services program pilot during the time period beginning january 1, 2018 and ending june 30, 2020, in an amount of $413,924 plus a 10% contingency, of $41,392, for a total amount not to exceed $455,316. tiffany? >> ok, the steppingstone grant

agreement is for new community service activity programming designed for the lgbtq seniors and adults with disabilities in an adult daycare setting, also known as adhc. this population is frail and at high risk for placement in a skilled nursing facility and as a result, this grant agreement is distinct and different from the other community service program pilots presented. services provided at adhc contribute to the success of those intending to live independently at home. the service provided will augment the services provided in adhc setting and attract the lgbtq seniors and adult with disability population who have historically shied away from this type of support because of the lack of appropriate and

qualified providers. to assure program is appropriate and staff is well trained, steppingstone will subcontract with open house to staff training and staff that is of interest to the lgbtq community. they will outreach to the open house community, including staff, community members and senior center participants with the idea building a working relationship, trust in the lgbt community. steppingstone will serve at least 36 consumers and provide 1400 hours of service during this grant agreement. i request approval for the grant and if happy to answer questions. >> president serina: thank you, this is a very worth while program, something i've been championing issues along the

lines for the lgbt senior community for the tenure i've had on the commission and i'm happy they will be working with open house. because they do have the expertise, they know how to reach members of the community, they know how to develop the right kind of programming and engender the kind of trust needed. i think this is very exciting and i'll be monitoring this one closely. i look forward to hearing how well it does. >> me, too. >> president serina: any other comments or questions from the commission? any comments or questions from the public? hearing none, call the question, all in favor? any opposed? thank you. the motion carries. item g. requesting authorization to enter into a new grant agreement with self-help for the elderly for the provision of community services program pilot during the time period beginning january 1, 2018 and ending on june 30, 2020 in an amount of

$334,299 plus a 10% contingency of $33,430 for a total of not to exceed $367,729. once again, tiffany. >> thank you. self-help for the elderly new community service activity programming also includes increasing hours of operation that is targeted toward younger seniors and adults with disability who are not accessing services because they're not able to attend during typical community service hours. self-help plans to actively outreach to the meal consumers. nearly three quarters of the champ meal consumers are not enrolled in community service programming and they're at high risk for isolation, because they do not obtain their meal in a congregate setting.

the self-help will take place at the jackie chan senior center located in the richmond district, 3-8 p.m. monday through friday. in addition to the programming, self-help will offer two round trips a day between champ meal sites and the jackie chan senior center to ensure participation and alleviate transportation barriers. self-help will serve an average of nearly 1500 consumers and provide 2700 hours of service annually. i request approval for the grant agreement and am happy to answer questions. >> president serina: thank you. any comments or questions? >> commissioner wallenberg: thank you, the program is a great program. >> it is my understanding there was need for new partners, do we know where we're at in terms of, have those partnerships been

filled? >> i checked in -- i don't think linda is here today -- but i did check in with her yesterday and my understanding, there is one starting next week, is that right? >> yeah, we're opening a third site. we have a second site on noriega, past 19 and the 20 and a third site is opening out in the ex-sellsier district, i think shortly, like the next week or so. >> president serina: thank you. any other comments or questions. hearing none, any comments or questions from the public? hearing none, call the question, all in favor? any opposed? thank you, the motion carries. item h finally. don't you feel as though you've in a production. requesting authorization to enter into a new grant agreement

with swords to plow shares for the provision of community services program pilot during the time period beginning january 1, 2018 and ending june 30, 2020 in an amount of $264,210, plus a 10% contingency of $26,421, for a totalment in not to exceed 290,631. thank you, tiffany again. >> the last grant agreement i am presenting this morning is with swords to plowshares. the new community service program is aimed at seniors and adults with disabilities who are military veterans. this population of seniors and adults with disability do not typically access community service programming offered by other community partners. swords to plow share has extensive knowledge working with military veterans and their expertise will enable them to create community service programming that will be meaningful and impactful to the

veteran population. their new program will take place at their drop in center, where military veterans access health and social services. their new community service program will consist of educational and social activities, group gatherings and a casual lounge area where vets can converse and engage with one another as well as staff. swords to plow share will serve at least 150 consumers and provide 1,000 hours of service annually. i request approval for the grant agreement and am happy to answer any questions. >> thank you, any comments or questions from the commission? just one. will the outreach include in the cases where the veterans are not getting any services from the veterans administration, helping them negotiate that, so they can receive any federal benefit they

may be eligible for? >> you mean in terms of the programming? i think swords to plowshares works, they do that at their drop-in center, that's part of the services that the drop-in center, that includes case management, in-house referrals, emergency housing, assistance with medi-cal, all those sorts of -- >> president serina: i was thinking in terms of the target population, i know many veterans on the streets don't get services from the federal government to which they may be entitled. >> that's one of the key services that swords to plow shares provide and michael might want to address that. the executive director is here. >> thank you. yes, since we started back in the day, mid 70s, we've always

recognized the need for veterans with honorable discharges there are five kinds of discharges, honorable, general, undesirable, administrative, like a plea bargain and two other punitive, one is called bad conduct and d dishonorable. it's the middle that is a source of a lot of -- it denies as united states said, your eligibility for health care, any kind of care from the v.a. it serves as a barrier to getting a job, et cetera, et cetera, it's a lifetime stigma. so we've always addressed that and we would focus on that as we have with the outreach in the homeless encampments and where housing is geared to those not eligible for some of the v.a. programs, it's a separate subsidy. but that's been a big sort of

unmet need. we would continue that. >> president serina: thank you very much. any other comments or questions. any comments or questions from the public? hearing none, call the question all in favor? any opposed? thank you, the motion carries. thank you very much, tiffany. i think she deserves a round of applause. [applause] >> any general public comment? none. any announcement? >> i have an announcement. that's our very own tom nolan, who is the special project manager overseeing the lgbtq senior task force recommendations, but also was a long time member of the commission, is being honored on thursday by mta, they're going to unveil a plaque in his honor at the castro station, 4:00 on thursday, mezzanine level. hopefully, people will be there

to support him then. >> president serina: thank you. anything else? >> i just would like to invite the commission, the staff and the broader community to an office warming, our new office is located at 1663 mission street, suite 525, to locate that, it's across the street from the department of aging and adult services. we're planning office warming for the 25th of january from 4-7 at that site. this kind of marks the transition for us. we're celebrating the 10th anniversary this year and we're trying to lay the groundwork for the next decade, so we're very excited about the new space and we hope you'll come see it. i wanted to mention as board member for the seniors disability action, who had graciously shared space with us, they're also planning a party on the 19th, at their office, which is getting spiffed up, since we left. they've been able to clean it up and make it more available to

everybody. so their party is on the 19th for 4-6. so please come on down. >> president serina: thank you very much. any other comments from the public? hearing none, with great regret i ask for a motion to adjourn? >> may i just following up on director mcspadden request, and appropriate request, i look around this room and i see so many people who had relationships with mayor lee. and we are in a season of grief right now. and we're trying to navigate ourselves through the grief. he was a very special man, a gentleman. and a friend to many here. and he will be greatly, greatly missed. i had the very distinct pleasure of being one of his first commission appointments to the human rights commission and i

was his last to this commission. i've always thanked him for his trust. had the great privilege of working with him in my capacity with the interfaith council. he entrusted us with a donation to navigate the first center and we worked with him on immigration and sanctuary to our friends who wanted to come to chrissy field and the city's response to that. and i don't think i've met a public servant who has so selflessly, and so tirelessly served his community as mayor lee. i am very confident that history is going to be kind to his legacy and i think those of us who were privileged to serve under his administration ought to be very grateful for the privilege. and with that, mr. president, i would ask if we might close with

a moment of silence. >> president serina: thank you, of course. [moment of silence being observed for mayor lee] >> president serina: thank you very much. meeting is now adjourned.

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benedict. >> we're back in session and we'll now go to item nine which is discussion of the enforcement report and discussion on various program highlights and various activity since the last monthly meeting. >> thank you, chair. we had a productive month. received nine new complaints. we opened 11 new investigations, and we dismissed 23 complaints which put a significant dent in our outstanding preliminary review matters. the details for which i can -- oh, no, i have it in here. 58 complaints only remain in preliminary review. so when we started this process, when we were down all

investigators, we had almost 190 unreviewed complaints, and we're down to 58, so i'm proud of my staff. they're doing a great job. and thanks to everyone in the review chain that has to get through all that information. it's a heavy lift. i also wanted to highlight that you'll recall the sunshine ordinance task force received a complaint that this commission violated the sunshine ordinance regarding taking of vote of doing -- yeah, taking a vote of something that wasn't on the agenda, and the task force decided that you did not violate the law. the sunshine ordinance committee has decided to repope that complaint even though it was decided in december with the final issuance of that order, and we have declined to participate in that process. so i sent them a letter at that we had fully complied with our obligations and provided all

the facts and arguments that were available to us regarding the incident previously in the first hearing, and i asked them for a citation to hearing that allows them to reopen the adjudicated matter, and i have not heard back. the additional statistics regarding the open complaints are on page two. we now have 63 open investigations, and that caseload is growing as we get through the remaining 58 complaints, we'll have more and more investigations, but we're also working towards stipulated resolutions in several of them, and you'll have some findings of no probable cause and findings of probable cause coming before you over the next couple of months, as well. and you can see the matters that are with the bureau of delinquent revenuer, and people are keeping up on their papymet plans, so with that, i'll answer any questions. >> commissioners?

any public comment on that? >> i'm bob planthold. as a veteran of the sunshine ordinance task force, i want to comment on that. some weeks after the hearing where the decision was you didn't violate, i contacted the administrator for that body to s say what's the basis and what's the timeline for any appeal and reconsideration. you folks haven't mentioned that in here. there was a timeline, a relatively short timeline after the decision is made for reconsideration. i believe that timeline is long passed, so even if there was grounds for somehow taking the

d.a.'s decision into account, they missed the deadline, and that hasn't been stated in here. maybe it's been stated in the letter. it just bothered me that suddenly the task force seems to be saying well, somebody else differed with us, so we'll go along with them. and that's why the procedural issue of the timeline, it can be as important -- and i'm m t mystified why the task force said somebody else's decision made after is a different analysis? because my understanding, they can only reconsider a different understanding of the fact, not a different analysis. who knows who's going to go to the media and paint the picture their way, unless you can go to them and quickly say, it's not new facts and they missed the

deadline. thank you. >> thank you, mr. planthold. >> i have to say that my one experience with the task force they continue to underwhelm me by what they do. yes, sir. >> my name is douglas whepp, and i would like to thank the commission and its staff. i think they're doing a wonderful job especially compared to the old regime. i'm making a prediction that this is going to turn out to be another #metoo movement. when the public is convinced that there is enough momentum that their complaints will be seriously considered and correct correctly handled, there's plenty of people sitting right

now, watching the tv, waiting to be convinced, and all of a sudden, those complaints will come one, two, three, because most of them know who the obstructionists are. some of them will be exposed, and ultimately, the ethics commission up in the sky is going to be issuing more penalties. and maybe, if we're really lucky, if we're really lucky, there'll be some death sentences handing out to some deserving people. >> as an opponent of capital punishment, i don't like you to keep saying that. any further public comment? all right. we'll move, then, to agenda

item ten, discussion of executive director's report. >> thank you, chair keane. my report provides some information on some significant operational developments. i won't go into a lot of the details, but kyle kundurt's report mentioned that with the new year, we have new tools to help people comply with some of the new requirements that took effect january 1. we have now information on-line, new tools for lobbyists to register on-line to comply with prop t that was passed november of 2016, and some other refinements for the lobbying program. i do want to note that we are getting a lot of good feedback from our engagement and compliance team from filers who are working through the system as we identify any hiccups or bugs, we are working with our i.t. staff quickly to try and resolve those things. so we do appreciate the candid feedback that we're getting

from people, as well as the filing comments. that's something that steven massey and other team members in his office put a lot of time in. obviously folks that have to file with these mechanisms are also going to be giving great feedback. also as you know the election called for the mayoral race called for june 2018, we've done a significant and unplanned ramping up of our activities. we did have a first session for candidates focused on the 2018 june mayoral race, an information session that we had about 20 attendees and we're updating information and supplemental guides to help that process. we will be doing that more as we move into the eligibility and we have started that with our staff, as well, and we will

he arepo report on that as we go forward. i do have a significant note that is unusual and not a frequent occurrence for us, but as i also report in my report, this week -- actually, last week, on january 11th, we were -- papers were filed in superior court by one of the mayoral candidates, angela alioto for mayor, and angela alioto for mayor 2018 committee, seeking to enjoin public financing for the mark leno for mayor 2018 committee. those papers were filed in an initial hearing held last friday in superior court department 302. we were represented as a named party by the city attorney's office, and this morning, after a subsequent hearing and subsequent papers filed this week, the judge issued a tentative order denying injunctive relief.

and i'll leave the details for the city attorney to provide you with, but i just want to convey our appreciation and thanks to andrew shan in particular for really getting some terrific papers in and being she soliticious -- very soliticious of us i'll turn it over to andrew. >> i'll be very brief. i just wanted to clarify, even though the document is titled a tentative order, the judge did adopt it as the final order from the bench as this morning's hearing. i also want to thank on behalf of my office, i want to thank the staff of the ethics commission for being so readily available. as you can imagine in a tro context, you do need to collect information very quickly, provide information very quickly to the court, and so they were always very helpful and responsive and quick to answer amy question so thanks o

them. >> commissioner? >> what was the issue? >> the sole cause or complaint in the petitioner's complaint was mark leno's campaign was violating the campaign ordinance by not defining what constitutes a matching donation for the purposes of the financing program. >> congratulations, andrew, and thank you for that. we had hoped to have an initial presentation about the budget today for this agenda. the budgets will be due to the mayor's office february 21st, i believe, and that does follow our next submissiocommission mo we will have a full packet of information before that was submitted to our office. we are keeping an eye of all cuts, but we will come forward with items that we know that we need to continue the work that

has been started through legislation as well as operational changes at the commission over the last several years. finally, i do want to introduce you tyler field who is our newest new guy. a mantle no longer worn by the policy staff. tyler joined this office this week as our new information systems business analyst. he's working with jared flores are and steven massey to continue to develop or filing systems for operational need and access to electronically filed disclosure information -- [ inaudible ] -- i think we've got a good -- we've got a good team that

we're putting together here. he's also got experience related to coding and other campaign related data, so it's a terrific fit. we're really delighted he's joining us, and i wanted to introduce him to you today. >> very impressive. good to have you, tyler. >> lastly, we are continuing to work with the department of human resources on our remaining hires. we have two positions that have been through -- actually, three that have completed or virtually completed the oral interview phase, so we have three other positions that are going to be posted, but we are continuing to work with the department of human resources closely to make sure we can be as aggressive as possible to get the remaining seats filled in the next number of months. so again, i'm happy to answer any questions that you have for me. >> one comment i would make in connection with your comments on the mayor's office having to

do with the new budget. since we have a new mayor, i think it would be good to remind the mayor and the mayor's budget people what we emphasized with mayor lee, that we have the power, and we would think very strongly of doing it, of putting on the ballot taking away the mayor's authority to set our budget if they were to cut us in regard to our needs because all of those years when mr. st. crois was here and never asked for anything, and everything went down and went down. we're finally getting up to speed and we're seeing people like tyler and the rest of you. it's working right well. we would not welcome any kind of cuts, nor would any kind of cuts be in any way deserved given the history of the commission and the fact that

we're finally in a position to get the commission running as it should. so i -- i hope that in either a diplomatic or as undiplomatic a fashion as you can that you bring it to the mayor's people when you petition for the budget that we want to keep. commissioners? >> well, i would appreciate it if you would sort off enlighte the other commissioners and the public that we're setting up a telephone system -- >> thank you for that question and my oversight. we have a meeting set with january 24th next week with the administrative and technology people in this building. it is the case that there is apparently only one meeting room that allows for a telephonic input by people remotely, and that is a meeting

that happens at the same time this one does, so there is not currently technology that we can use in this room to simply sort of patch in public comment by phone. we are meeting with -- we've started understanding the issues. we're meeting with the technology folks to identify what would it take to enable that to happen, whether it's through new technology that they can need, or whether it's something we can do through the voip computer technology to get folks in on conference calls or something of that sort. so we're going to identify what it would take to accomplish the goals that the commission mentioned in establishing the meeting days that we have, and that our plan will be based on that to fully make a request through our budget as necessary to try and make that happen. >> thank you. any public comment? >> hi. charlie marceller for the

record. i'm wondering if we could maybe switch rooms with the other people? nope? and i also noted you have two auditor positions coming up since oral interview have been completed. and i imagine they might be hired in the first half of this next calendar year, which is probably because we are obviously going to have some draw on the public financing. so for the emphasis of concurrent and proceactive aud and enforcement, i think it would be good to go full blast as we can on the auditors, so we don't lose those resources within house. and it would be a good training opportunity i think as well. and i'm wondering if there's any moneys that are given to

the department or involved with the special election process. is there any discussion about the special election and the department of ethics receiving additional funds? >> i would like to say i wish, but not that i'm aware, no. now one clarification is there is a provision in the law for a public financing program that does require when there is a vacancy in the mayor call an and election call that an additional $8 perresident be accounted for in our election campaign fund. and so we communicated and confirmed with the controller's office that that level of funding does exist in the current funds balance, so for example if all mayoral candidates, the six who have qualified to be on the ballot and have indicated that they want to be public financing participants, if each one of them wanted to receive the full

financing of $975,000 for their campaigns, the fund would be able to withstand that draw, but come november 's election, there may need to be additional put in based on the language that's in the charter, but based on our ad stiff cost, based on the election call, there is not a provision that does that for us particularly. >> i would imagine that doe gets special consideration because they may have to setup poling stations and pay workers. and also, how many candidates have filed for public financing so far? do you know? >> well, there are -- in terms of what we mean by filing, there were eight candidates in the mayoral race that were qualified for the ballot. six of those eight filed statements of interest to participate in the public financing program, and i believe out of the board of supervisors race for june of

2018, there were three candidates that qualified and two i believe expressed an interest in participating. i may be off on the board of supervisors race, but six of the eight in the mayor's race have filed to participate. as we came to the meeting today, there have been no requests by any mayoral candidate to actually be certified or to receive public funds yes. >> oh, so certification is still yet to come for those six, so that number may not be the full six. they're keeping their options open at this stage? >> no. to be clear, the candidates when they filed their nominating papers to be on the ballot, they were required to also submit a statement whether they intended to participate in the program. so six of the eight candidates filed statements. each of them indicated they wanted to participate in the program. the next step would be the candidates requesting certification to be eligible to receive public funds from our office. and then, the next step after