clarification. so on page 6 of your amendment, says disclosure requirements for contributions to ballot measure committee and committees on ie is it the intent of what you're asking here that there would be disclosure requirements for elected officials that would be making requests on behalf of ballot measure committees? >> supervisor peskin: that is correct. >> supervisor safai: that is the intent? >> supervisor peskin: that is correct. >> supervisor safai: not just ies? >> supervisor peskin: that's correct. >> president breed: supervisor peskin, would you be willing to adjust this to remove ballot measures specifically?

>> supervisor peskin: no. and again, this is not a prohibition, this is a public disclosure. and i think it's important when a member of the board of supervisors says to a company or individual that they would like them to contribute, make up a number, 5,000, 10,000, 25,000, $50,000 to yes on a, no on b, yes on c, i think the public should have the right to know that. i think disclosure is the least we can do. supervisor peskin has made the motion, it has been seconded. madame clerk, please call the roll. breed aye. cohen aye. fewer aye. kim aye. peskin aye. ronen aye.

safai aye. sheehy aye. stefani aye. tang aye. yee aye. there are 11 ayes, the motion is adopted unanimously. >> president breed: all right, you remove number 3, so we're at number 4. >> thank you, i think that supervisor safai is correct, if you go to the file 180280 section 1.15 give me one second. starting at page 16, go to -- that section should be removed. and we will -- >> president breed: i'm sorry. >> supervisor peskin: the file,

item number 43, which is the file that i just referenced, file number 180, 280, because we're going to table the file ending in 01. so the file that we move forward pursuant to item 50 without committee reference calendar actually has the major donor financial disclosure in it. so supervisor safai is correct. and inso far tt as i said that -- so my amendment number 3 amended this section. what i agreed to do earlier regarding president chiu's collaborative statement that we're going to work this thing out over time and insofar as it would not be place by the june 5th election, i am making a motion to strike from item 43, file number 180280, section

1.158, major donors financial disclosures, even though it saddens me, but we're going to figure it out going forward. so -- and i'm not going to make my amendment number 3, which would have amended 1.158. am i making sense? >> president breed: yes. supervisor peskin made a motion seconded by supervisor safai? without objection, the motion passes. next. >> supervisor peskin: next, i really need the help of supervisors kim and tang as to how we want to handle this. i spoke about the benefits of having it at the beginning. this is not a deal maker or breaker unless the ethics commission decides to make it such, but i will defer to my colleagues, supervisors tang and kim as to what they want to do

with amendment number 4. >> president breed: supervisor tang. >> supervisor tang: first of all, i want to appreciate that supervisor peskin made one amendment to it that i agree with, which is to put the verbal disclaimer at the end of an ad. however, the ration of the ad is where i disagree. i think we should follow state law, if an ad is 30 seconds or less, the disclaimer should be running for 5 seconds and if the ad is 30 seconds for more, than the disclaimer would run for 10 seconds. so i think this is fair. you're going to have the verbal, you're going to have the visual, and again, to prevent confusion, i would like for us to mirror what state law is doing. >> president breed: ok. mr. schenn, do we need that language in order to do it?

do we need to mirror the language of state law? do we need the language or based on supervisor tang's amendment, can we just do it and you'll figure it out? >> if only it were so easy. i think the way to default to state law in terms of the duration, would be to delete the last portion of subsection 5 on page 11, lines 5-9. and it sounds like, please feel free to correct me, you're comfortable with the disclaimer at the end of the ads, it's the duration you want to default to state law? >> supervisor tang: through the chair, i agree with the verbal part spoken at the end of the advertisement, but the duration

would follow state law. >> right, but for video -- if i could clarify through the president, are you also proposing that for video ads the disclaimer would be at the end? >> for the video, it would follow state law which is flexible whether it appears at the end or the beginning. >> at the end of the day, anything we take out of this provision, thank you for the clarification, is going to default to state law. so if all you want is for audio advertisement that the disclaimer be spoken at the end, we would delete the second sentence of that subsection referring to video ads all together and then just default to state law. >> supervisor tang: through the chair to dep city attorney, for audio and video, i would like for the spoken disclaimer to be at the end for both, not just one. and in you have to display the black box taking up the screen,

i would like it to mirror state law, the duration only. so for the second sentence of that dealing with video ads, then we would just end it at the end of the phrase, end of such advertisements. and leave the duration unspoken so we default to state law. i think that would be the simplest amendment. >> supervisor tang: thank you, that is what i would propose. >> president breed: supervisor tang? you want to propose the amendment? >> supervisor tang: through the chair, yes, i would like to propose amendment on top of supervisor peskin's amendment. >> president breed: supervisor peskin didn't make the motion to amend, so we're looking at his amendment number 4 and then the plan is to allow supervisor tang to make the appropriate changes and propose the amendment. >> i would be happy to second the amendment, but through the president to the deputy city

attorney i would like it to reference the state law. so state laws change and i think if it said as set forth by the disclosed act, adopted, blah, blah, blah, that works for me, but i can't -- i don't want it to be the silent. >> president breed: so the question is, is it necessary since state law exists for us to even propose this amendment? >> just to clarify, i'm not sure if that is exactly what supervisor peskin's amendment was. >> president breed: ok >> supervisor tang: through the chair, the beginning part of the section, 1.161 which starts on page 10 references state law and so because the part that we're talking about actually falls under that same section, i believe it achieves what you are intending the reference to state

law. page 10, starting line 2. >> >> president breed: before we move on and continue to discuss this, we're going to lose a commissioner on the ethics commission which means even if we pass this legislation, we will kick it back to the ethics commission and they will need to make the decision at their next commission meeting. that's where we are, unless you want to not introduce any more amendments and kick it back over to them to see if they would pass it or not. so that's where we are. so... >> supervisor peskin: out of curesity -- >> president breed: i'm not going to >> it happened a minute ago, we have five minutes, ten minutes, i see four of you. >> president breed: they're ready to go.

>> supervisor peskin: i've been ready to go since about 3:00 this afternoon. >> well, you're the one who proposed the joint meeting. >> supervisor peskin: live and learn. >> president breed: yes, hopefully. mr. cop, how long do we have? >> ten minutes. >> president breed: we have ten minutes. let's do this. supervisor tang? >> supervisor tang: i put my proposal for second amendment. >> second. >> supervisor peskin: i would like to propose amendment number 5, removing section -- >> president breed: i'm sorry, supervisor tang has made a motion to amendment based on what you all talked about. can we pass that without objection? without objection, number 5. seconded by supervisor tang, can we pass that without objection? amendment number 5 is passed unanimously.

>> supervisor peskin: i would like to move amendment number 7? >> i thought we did that. >> supervisor peskin: we did that. >> president breed: actually we didn't do it and we're going back to supervisor tang's amendment number 3 with the appropriate language. >> supervisor tang: through the chair? ok, i think we have gotten to an agreement which is what i stated earlier to mirror the language we add the phrase on page 16 of supervisor peskin's legislation. perhaps our deputy attorney can repeat it. it's on page 16, lines 15-16, adding the words or received compensation or reimbursement for expenses. >> i don't think that's quite right. my apologies. going back to amendment number 3, i had understood your proposal to incorporate all of the amendment, but for

definition of interest party, adding if such person has financial interest in the decision. >> supervisor tang: if that works for supervisor peskin, i'm ok with that. i'm not sure what was wrong with the other half, but i'm ok with that. >> president breed: does that allow it to be consistent with the rest of the proposed amendment from supervisor tang? you said it was in other parts of the document. >> it says if such person has a financial interest in the decision or receives -- >> is that the difference? >> supervisor tang: through the chair to deputy city attorney and supervisor peskin, i am fine with adding whatever part works, so if such person has financial interest in decision, that is fine with me. >> sorry to belabor the point, but the reference to reimbursement expenses links to the idea of actively support or

oppose. you can't -- >> supervisor tang: we'll move onto the other amendments. >> president breed: that was the end. i'll call in supervisor cohen and perhaps you can work it out. >> supervisor cohen: thank you very much, through the chair, supervisor kim, a couple of questions about the amendments you're proposing. section 1.104 in the definitions, you changed from social media technologies to electronic media technology and i'm curious to know if this definition you have is broad enough to begin to incorporate of think about new future technologies? >> yes. so we had initially written it as social media technology. it was suggested to us that we change it to electronic media technology by the city attorney and yes, we tried to make it broad enough so it includes but not limited to the acts that we

enewsmaker rateded in our -- enumerated in our amendment. i'm looking at the attorney, but he's working on another amendment. >> ok, i'll accept that answer. >> thank you, supervisor. >> no problem. i just wanted to know about the gist of the rationale and the due diligence that went into the thought process. and then on the -- your page 7, section 1.163, member communication. line 15, subsection 4, eligible copy of the communication and you have language that says including any member distributed, does that include screen shots? >> what do you mean by screen shots? >> you have after section 4, you have subsection a if the communication is a telephone call, a copy of the script, the

communication is recorded, then the recording shall be provided, if the recording audio or video, a copy of the script and file shall be provided. >> i see what you mean. if you use social media and you want to print out a copy of the communication, can you provide a screen shot? i'm just trying to offer a little more clarification on the definition, i'm thinking of multiple ways to capture how we communicate. >> so the way we had written this, you could just provide a copy of what the social media statement was on facebook or instagram for example. i guess it could be a screen shot. but we were thinking of mirroring it similar to what the existing law said, communication for audio, video, a copy of the script, you don't have to provide a recording of someone on the telephone call talking to

the member. >> what happens if someone is telling story visually? i know it's late in the hour, but it's something that is very real. i'm just thinking, you could -- >> you could provide that image as a copy. but my guess is that -- actually i appreciate you asking the question, because it's a question of what would be accepted by the commission. whether a screen shot would be an acceptable copy of the communication. and i apologize but i think that is question for the ethics commission staff to answer and because we're returning out of time -- running out of time, i'm will almost willing to drop that amendment to pass something tonight. this is a question to ethics commission staff which is the amendment that i had enumerated,

what would be considered acceptable copy of communication to distribute on social media, supervisor cohen is asking if a screen shot is acceptable copy of communication? we had left that open to interpretation, but i think it's a good question to ask. i'm just worried about the time right now. >> it's actually something we receive now that is common with twitter posts or facebook posts that someone takes a screen shot, van it and submit it to, yes. >> right, so that is a yes. >> should we incorporate that language? >> i'm sorry, i haven't gotten to you yet, supervisor kim. and supervisor fewer is the only person that -- oh, no, you're on there. >> supervisor kim: i was on the roster before -- >> supervisor cohen: so i would like to make a motion that we

just amend that language a little bit, tweak it and i will work on the exact language, just to spell it out. it shouldn't be difficult. i'm just going to put a sentence in there about screen shots. >> i'm totally open to the amendment. i was going to make my motion -- >> president breed: supervisor cohen? one seconds. supervisor cohen. co >> supervisor cohen: i'm finished. >> supervisor kim: i'm going to defer my time. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much, so colleagues, i have two amendments, very simple. the first one is section 1.126, notification, just deletes the value of the desired contract, again, the reasoning for this is having exact value to close causing great harm to the competitive bidding process. this will allow the public to be

sufficiently informed of the contractor doing business with the city and achieving overall goals, because they have to disclose their names, blah, blah, blah and everything else. i make motion a add the amendment. >> supervisor fewer made motion to amend, colleagues, can we take that amendment without objection, without objection the motion passes unanimously? >> section 3.620, we're amending that which would obligate donors to file a report only if the donation is 10,000. the previous amount was 1,000, we thought this was too low. we have ready concerns for nonprofit community about the requirement creating unreasonable filing burden on donors while we believe that donors should still file a report, i believe that the one threshold could be low and cause very much harm to small donors who are not experts in campaign law. i believe increasing this to 10,000 will capture the most

important donors who want disclosures without putting harsh punishment on those making small donations. >> president breed: supervisor fewer has made a motion to amend, seconded by supervisor yee, take that without objection? the amendment passes. supervisor -- oh. supervisor kim has amendments? >> supervisor kim: i want to withdraw amendment number 7, go with supervisor tang amendment to make life simple and fast. >> president breed: i don't remember you making a motion to amend number 7, but ok. >> i didn't, but i wanted to announce that. >> president breed: supervisor kim and cohen -- you need time, because supervisor tang is ready. >> >> supervisor tang: i think mine was to go with amendment number 3. >> president breed: as is?

without any changes. all right, supervisor tang has made a motion to amend, is there a second, seconded by supervisor shi sheehy, without objection, that passes unanimously. we have just one more to take. when supervisor kim is ready. >> supervisor kim: i am now ready. i'd like to move my amendments 1, 2 and 3 for the sake of time. and they are all just cleanup language. and i am going -- i am not going to be moving my amendment number 4. >> president breed: supervisor kim has made a motion to amend. i think she clarified these amendments earlier in the meeting. seconded by supervisor yee. seeing no names on the roster, colleagues can we take that without objection? all three of those amendments

pass unanimously. all right, you got that? everybody good? no more amendments. all right, here we go. so now that this item has been amended, mr. schenn, does that mean we need to pass it and then send it back to the ethics commission for clarity? mr. schenn, just for clarity, so at this time, the goal was to pass -- to take the vote on the amended legislation and then to kick it back over to the ethics commission. >> now in the hands of the ethics commission? >> president breed: i'm asking you just to clarify. >> up to you, do you want a motion to return it?

>> president breed: at this time, we are not going to vote to approve it, we need to forward this item to the ethics commission for review and hopefully approval. so can i take that motion? moved by supervisor tang, seconded by supervisor cohen, can we take that without

objection? without objection, the item is in your hands. >> thank you, madame president. i would like to summarize the amendments that have been discussed so we can all be clear on what the ordinance contains at this point. commissioner cop, >> thank you, madame chair. i recommend that the commission consider the now broadly amended

version at its april meeting. i would not vote for such version tonight. after i have an opportunity to read a final product, and not a summary from the city from our staff. i will be prepared to consider voting for it. >> thank you, commissioner cop. your suggestion is to continue the item until our next regularly scheduled commission meeting. and that would give the city attorney an opportunity to work with staff and the board of supervisors to make sure that the ordinance we're considering incorporates all the changes that we just discussed.

please stand by.

>> yes. madam chair, as i had advised you, that i believe i'm unavailable for the regularly scheduled meeting on the 20th of april, and i would ask if you could check to find another date before that date when we could have the meeting because i'm prepared to vote for this -- this ordinance. >> we do have a may 7th meeting, but that's further out from our april 20th meeting. i would like to ask madam executive director, is there a possibility of continuing it to the call of the chair to a special

and i do so for the following reasons: much of the body of legislation that is being debated this evening was introduced by this supervisor almost two years ago and has languished in front of your commission. much of the amendments that have been discussed this evening were introduced by supervisor kim almost a year ago and languished in front of your commission. i believe with actual desire by you, not for nefarious or malicious purposes, but because the president of your commission who quit in a huff,

had a vision of making a grand change. and rather than actually taking the amendments and the reforms that these supervisors introduced one by one, you decided you were going to have a huge package, which you could not internally agree on. i cou you could not internally agree on giving one of your members by giving the courtesy of a vote, that on this body happens by common courtesy every single meet. it is frankly embarrassing. the notion that you could not find a room in city hall, we will help you find a room in city hall, miss pelham. president breed will do, that myself, supervisor peskin will do that. the clerk will help you do that.

we will help you find a room. this was supposed to be done long ago so it could be in place for the june election. it was not our fault that your president quit. it was not our fault that one of your members was out of the country for the vast majority of the month of march. hence our meeting today, april the 3rd. i would like for the vesecond time to ask commissioner kopp to reconsider. okay. chair to commissioner kopp? >> the supervisor appears to ask me to just vote irrespective of my beliefs. that is a serious expectation, which unfortunately through the chair, supervisor peskin, i cannot honor. >> okay. oh, supervisor peskin. >> supervisor peskin: one last statement, madam president, and to my colleagues on the board

of supervisors and to the four members of the ethics commission. this was setup by whatever genius who's sitting here in the audience as an iterative process. as it should be, this requires a super majority vote, four out of five members of an ethics commission, one of whom is appointed by the board of supervisors, one by the city attorney, one by our assessor, one by our district attorney, one by -- who are you appointed by, yvonne? the mayor? there you go. so this is a multiheaded hiatra. it requires eight out 11 members of the board of supervisors. it requires an iterative process. and of course i am not asking you to abandon your principles,

judge kopp, but i am allowing you to allow this iterative process to continue to work. that is the spirit i dropped process 15158. i'm asking you to not forget your principles, but to allow us to continue to collaborate together going forward. i will, one last time, reiterate my request, your honor. >> supervisor safai? >> supervisor safai: thank you. just a point of clarification through the chairs, if the commissioners were to vote on the package that we send them, isn't it so that that needs then to sit for 30 days, any way? and then secondly, wouldn't there be an opportunity during

that time for all the commissioners to review that package, and if they had additional issues, they could make additional amendments at that time and send them back to us if they were substantive? so in effect, what i'm saying is if the supervisors were to vote on this, there is still opportunity for the ethics commissioners to make changes before and after that 30-day period, is that correct, or not? can someone answer that question? >> mr. hsu. >> so let me see if i can try to answer your question. during this evening, i tried to flag which amendments would be substantive or require a continuance. the only one that was in that category was commissioner kopp's proposal, which failed. the vast amendments that have been considered on the floor

and have been adopted by the commission have not been substantive. if there were a meeting of the minds for those bodies, then we would be done. >> supervisor safai: so through the chair, just point of clarification, if the commissioners were to approve what we had just approved, is there still an opportunity after tonight if they wanted to amend that, or is it done? >> i mean, it's a -- through the president to supervisor safai, i mean, i guess there are all sorts of permanent permutations out there. >> supervisor safai: i guess what i'm saying is, if the commissioners were to vote and approve after we've just done this now, they are going to have a regularly scheduled meeting. at that regularly scheduled meeting, they could make the decision to rescind their vote at that time, make additional

amendments and send it back to this body, or they could make the decision to take no action and just approve what they approved tonight? >> yeah. it's certainly possible. it's certainly up to the commission. >> supervisor safai: so i guess i would just add onto what supervisor peskin has just said. since we've gone through this iterative process, judge kopp, you want to have the opportunity to review that. it sounds like what the city attorney just said to us, you still have the opportunity to review that, you still have the opportunity to change your mind, if you were to schedule this in front of your commission at your next regularly scheduled meeting, and then you could make a final decision at that time. would you consider that, please? >> commissioner kopp? >> commissioner kopp: through the chair, who are we kidding? this isn't going to be

applicable to the june 5th election? the best chance we had is it might have been applicable to the november whatever it is election, but that's gone out the window because it isn't going to take effect until january 1, 2019. who are we kidding? there have been some common sensical comments made about scheduling the meeting, and madam chair woman, i would suggest that the executive director can inform us within the next 24 hours of what's available. commissioner renne won't be at the april 20th meeting, as he has stated, for good cause. that would mean no action until may. let's get an alternative date before april 20th, madam chair woman, and meet then. and at that time, we will be

fully informed with as to what the heck was happened here, and why all of a sudden, it's hurry up and vote this out of these chambers. >> president breed >> thank you, commissioner kopp. i would like to say on behalf of myself, we absolutely are wanting to collaborate and work together to craft this legislation. i think our presence here today is really he have denevidence that i respect my fellow commissioners' requests to take the time to review the ordinance as has been amended, you know, both by us and by you, and it's been a long day, and would like to ask my executive director to please, with all due speed, determine a date prior to april 20th, and would ask all of your help in making the wheels of city hall

turn a little faster so that we can find a room that could be televised so that we can take this up and bring it to a really successful conclusion i think that we're all waiting for, and the city and people of san francisco are waiting for, as well. so i would like to move forward with putting it to the call of the chair, and that we will take this up at the next meeting of the commission as soon as can be practically scheduled. is there a second? >> is there a second? can -- can you call the vote,

please? [ roll call. ] >> clerk: am i correct with three votes of the commission, and with a majority, the vote passes. >> okay. this hearing has been held and is now filed, and would you like to adjourn your meeting, if you -- unless you have other business? >> we have other business. the ethics commission will continue, so for purposes of completing the business today of the ethics commission, we will now recess and recon conveniereconvene on the actions, the commission

will reconvene in city hall room 264. >> okay. so the ethics commission will continue its meeting in another room to finish up its business. here at the board of supervisors, madam clerk, is there any further business before us today? >> clerk: yes, madam president. >> supervisor peskin: can i just make a motion to table item 42. >> we have a motion to take item 42. >> president breed: okay. motion to table item 42, madam clerk, do we have any further busines business. >> clerk: yet. we have item number 43, which should be forwarded to the ethics commission. >> is there a motion to forward

item 43 to ethics commission, made by kim, seconded by tang, so we will forward item 43 to the ethics commission. is there any further business before us tonight? >> clerk: that concludes the calendar. >> president breed: we are adjourned. - working for the city and county of san francisco will immerse you in a vibrant and dynamic city that's on the forefront of economic growth, the arts, and social change.

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are here. there are still a lot of areas that need help at maclaren park. we hope grants and money will be available to continue to improve this park t

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employee who requests parental leave. otherwise a lot of times moms don't feel comfortable asking their boss for lactation accommodations. really it's hard to go back to the office after you have become a mom, you're leaving your heart outside of your body. when you can provide your child food from your body and know you're connecting with them in that way, i know it means a lot to a mommy motionlely and physically to be able to do that. and businesses and employers can just provide a space. if they don't have a room, they can provide a small space that is private and free from intrusion to help moms pump and that will attract moms to working in san francisco. >> if you want more information visit sfdph.org/breastfeedingatwork. ♪

♪ >> it's great to see everyone kind of get together and prove, that you know, building our culture is something that can be reckoned with. >> i am desi, chair of economic development for soma filipinos. so that -- [ inaudible ] know that soma filipino exists, and it's also our economic platform, so we can start to build filipino businesses so we

can start to build the cultural district. >> i studied the bok chase choy her achbl heritage, and i discovered this awesome bok choy. working at i-market is amazing. you've got all these amazing people coming out here to share one culture. >> when i heard that there was a market with, like, a lot of filipino food, it was like oh, wow, that's the closest thing i've got to home, so, like, i'm going to try everything. >> fried rice, and wings, and three different cliefz sliders. i haven't tried the