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on this? >> perfectly happy to have you as chair to be our eyes and ears. obviously the commission could comment or correct the record even if something happened afterwards. i don't know that we need to take official action as chair. you arty have, under the rules, that responsibility to represent the commission on matters. >> go forth and do my best. i will work with you as appropriate on this going forward. just let me know the timing in terms of the deadlines and making sure that we sync up. >> i will keep you in the loop of all of our analysis and any communications we have going forward on this. i don't really have any other updates, those were the big ticket items for now. answer any questions about these are your general items you
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might have. otherwise >> excuse me, there's a general item for an upcoming meeting, perhaps in august. i think it would be timely with the onboarding of commissioner gray and commissioner smith joining us that we can have a deeper policy dive in terms of exploring not just the one of the items that are here before us today, but also other things that we had previously considered as a commission and can go through what we have been calling the policy prioritization station plan. i think we have done this on a quarterly basis, but looking at the overall portfolio of potential projects, it has been some time. i think it would be a good time to do grounding in terms of all that has come forward and matters before is now, and have a robust discussion of the full commission on where to go in the future both on the short medium
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and long-term. i think the timing would be good, because as you can see, a lot of these projects are in the later stages right now. the regulations that you approved hopefully, in 60 days will pass and nothing will happen, meaning they will go into effect and i can work with other staff to implement those and get those integrated in terms of materials. likewise for the ordinance, it will move along, and by that time in august have a better sense and hopefully there will be much i have to do in terms of staff work. likewise for the hunters project, i hope i august we will make more progress with the bargaining unit meetings. we will have a better sense of how that will look in the future. it could be a really good time to know what the bandwidth will be on the policy front. >> we would see that up for august then. just to go back to
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the public financing ordinance, once the full board hears it, in the event they don't adopt what we send over and make changes, it would come back to us and we would need to consider it again and vote by supermajority to either approve any changes that they make? >> correct. once that happens, if that happens, would it then go back to the same committee and hearing process of the board? >> andrew is nodding. because, yes. >> unavoidable. okay. thank you. any other questions for mr. ford? thank you. public comment on agenda item number seven? >> agenda item number eight. [reading items]
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>> thank you. briefly in the enforcement arena this month, i had occasion to visit the citywide consultants, the department of human resources citywide consultant in their quarterly meeting which took place in june. dhr had assigned proof for that month eating consideration of secondary employment within the city and county. secondary employment being when an employee of the city and county receives compensation from some outside activity. i do think in the evolving economy that our local tech has partially provided that we have some occasion to reconsider what it means to receive compensation and some outside activity. in general,
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the conversation turned on instances in which employees have say, a second job, or they are engaged in some income driving project, outside of the city. i attended that meeting with counterparts from the controller's office. and the head of the city attorney's public integrity unit. the three of us had occasion to describe for those consultant the kinds of obligations that arise for city employees who are seeking income in these external ways. under the civil service rules they have to disclose the existence of that secondary employment. they have to seek permission from their department to engage in that activity and theories that form by which they seek that permission. then it has to get forwarded on, not to their internal hr but to the department of human resources which likewise must sign off on that. at every stage those entities have to satisfy themselves that the secondary
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employment is not incompatible with the responsibilities as a city employee. so, we talked a little bit with these consultants about the kinds of ethics situations that might arise when city employees have secondary employment. one is not just that they have to file this form, but that it may create other disclosure obligations on form 700 if the affected city employee or city officer is required to file a form 700 statement of economic interest. they would have to disclose to the city that there is this outside financial interests because that would enable us to evaluate potential conflicts that may arise and of course that officer or employee, ordinary functioning. and then we talked a little bit about whether investigations may arise for individuals who have outside employment. both the whistleblower program and the
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public integrity unit in our office could investigate whether somebody is outside employment materially impairs their ability to satisfy their obligations to the city and county. there are a variety of ways that might happen, it could be that the second job entails excessive time demands. it could be that they are using city resources to advance their second job. they are absentee in themselves and from work, while claiming to have been at work so that they can operate the secondary employment. we talked about the role that the departments might play, the role that human resources might play and the possibility that even in a phase of discipline showed a department wish to impose discipline on an employee, the ethics commission could seek financial penalties, irrespective of whatever determinations the department itself might make. i think it was a pretty robust conversation. i think all
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parties, where a doubt of secondary employment within the city. i think historically it has not been something the departments have either adequately understood or adequately addressed. as i say in the report, i think this signals a renewed commitment trying to bring the city's workforce into compliance with that variety of obligations. overall i think it was a successful outreach effort by virtue of invitation through the controller's office program. an extension of the ongoing collaboration that we have without office, and with the public integrity units at these weekly meetings i think are bearing fruit in terms of the ethics commission and these other accountability departments work collaboratively to change the overall culture and landscape ethically within the city and county's workforce. i
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would note that the investigators again have fewer matters and preliminary review, they are down now to 45 from where we were a month ago at 57. the amount of time on average that it takes us as a division to get through this, has bumped up some. we did not discuss today item 6. item 6 noted one distinction, in these numbers, is that it takes, on average, three months to open an investigation. the number that we see here, roughly 9 month suggests that it takes us longer to dismiss complaint than it does to convert them into open investigations. it is possible that the preliminary investigation for dismissal
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might be monitored - longer than it is when we determined to open a matter, because we always want to make sure that we have checked all theories to ensure that we are not unduly dismissing something where there may have been some liability that we ought to have caught. we have a handful more matters under investigation. we are up to 93, twice as many matters under investigation then waiting for our triage. the amount of time that it takes investigators to get through those has either leveled off or begun to decline coming in now at 14.5 months. >> excuse me, mr. pierce. on the preliminary review matters there was some public comment that came in on agenda item number six. i would just note for our discussion next month, and also for your consideration as you
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think about this, the comment had suggested adopting the practice of using warning letters. i would like to make sure that we include that as part of our discussion going forward where it would be - i think it's in between so you are not doing outright just so. it does not lead to a full-blown investigation either. is it a good middle ground that i think is worth discussing and employing - explain the benefit of adopting get >> thank you for flagging that. i am familiar with that public comment. we can speak about it in greater depth at the next meeting. i would just note at least one, and i think more of the ordinances under our jurisdiction indicate our ability to use running letters as a tool of enforcement. i think the ability of the division to use warning letters is certainly implied in the charter, if we can seek penalties. i don't see any
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reason why we cannot issue a warning letter in any instance. i am not sure that we need a regulation. it would define our capacity to do so. i would add that we do in fact issue warning letters. i issued one just two weeks ago. the public would not be aware of those, because we do not publicize them in the same way we do stipulations. we can talk and maybe get advice from the city attorney's office about whether publicizing a warning letter would violate the confidentiality provision in the charter which state that all investigative documents prior to funding of probable cause are to remain confidential. issuing a warning letter on the heels of a dismissal would be prior to a determination of probable cause. it would reveal, for example, the existence of complaint where the investigation - it may be under the law of this jurisdiction were not able to publicize those warning letters.
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it doesn't prevent us from using that tool and potentially from using it more often than we do currently. >> could you please work with mr. pierce, and be able to provide clarity for us next month? that would be great. >> let's see. the commission science collection officer continues to advance her sweep of on late - unpaid late fees. she is conducting a wholesale audit late fee program. she is finalizing another set of warning letters to delinquent filers. i note that since the beginning of her effort, to collect unpaid fees she has collected something like $7000 in previously unpaid fees. that is separate from fees that continue to come in as a result
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of an initial selection letter. that is in response to warning letters that she has sent out to filers who prefer to not be referred to the bureau of delinquent. turning to the bureau, fortunately there are not up dates as to mr. jackson, or ms. norman. one update on isabel or bono is that he or she resides or works in new york. the bureau has decided we do not have jurisdiction to sue somebody who resides in new york area admittedly it has been a while since i have taken civil procedure. i can't recall whether tag jurisdiction would allow us to bring a suit in california. effectively they sought our provision to refer that matter, too. we gave them permission. that is the next best step. >> from that point, i noticed
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that it has now been assigned to an outside collections agency. i think we have been trying to locate mr. jackson, at his place of residence, employment for at least three years now. i have been on the commission. this is been an item that has not regressed in any way, shape or form. >> i will take it up with the bureau. my most recent communications with my contact there, or that mr. jackson and ms. norman, as he put it, live off the grid. i think that might be the thing. if they were to refer to an outside collections
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agency, it is possible that the agency would not be able to locate them either. it may have less to do with who is trying to collect and whether it is possible to collect. it is a fair question and i will follow up with them about that. >> i am assuming when you refer to an outside collection agency that they take a cut? i noticed this position that we have of assigned collection officer, which is great, because obviously somebody doesn't have the responsibility of chasing all of those bits and pieces, and it is hard to, you know, make that a priority. do you also look at how much it costs to go after the money. a lot of times, you can end up spending more money on staff time, and collection agencies than the actual money that you are
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potentially going to recover. if you have been looking for $6000 for three years - >> longer since it was 2013. >> - - you might have already wasted more than that. i know it is the bureau of delinquent revenue. they are a separate entity that you probably have to work order money too. anyway, just something to think about. we are happy to look at a rationale, like every other debt collector, in america, you know, the cost benefit analysis. >> i know that we did get a judgment in the second chris jackson matter. >> it looks like you have a judgment in both. >> oh, i see. okay. >> i defer to you on that. the last one though, if i can ask about. i got your note
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clarifying that the petitioner's request for bankruptcy was rejected and it's out of bankruptcy court. the civil suit that the city and county filed originally now is no longer stayed. that will no longer be calendared and that is what the case conference - the reference in before. when you say negotiations with debtor are ongoing, is that the city attorney's office negotiating that? under the charter, do you have authority to negotiate settlement of litigation outside of the city attorney's or board of supervisors process. i would be surprised to learn that, if we do. >> i have had conversations with tax attorneys in the bureau's office. it may be that those tax attorneys are embedded within the bureau, but that they otherwise belong to the city attorney's office that they are
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vested with full authority to seek settlements in the suits that they have filed. >> i don't know the particular civil suit. the tax attorneys handle tax assessor matters, a lot of times there is a mixed bag of property tax payment and a water bill. out of whatever, inner agency cooperation because the tax assessment and the attorneys are separate. but, in this instant, this lawsuit was filed by the city and county of san francisco - was it only filed to collect a debt? anyway. >> anyway, the bureau fired it. the bureau's own attorneys filed a. - - - it. it is effectively a
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suit that the bureau itself has brought. my understanding is that the suit is to reduce the commission's order to a judgment. once it is a judgment then it can be enforced against the debtor. >> okay. again, you are saying it is the bureau of delinquent revenue that is handling the settlement negotiations? >> we are the client effectively. they are seeking our input into what that settlement might look like. >> okay. i'm curious, because i've always thought of a settlement as requiring board approval and city attorney approval, and government audit committee approval etc. etc. >> does possible and using the wrong word that it is not a settlement per se but some kind of mediated outcome. it is not the kind of settlement that goes before the board of supervisors.
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>> this is my own personal education. thank you. >> i will seek additional clarification. i think, with that, if there are other questions i'm happy to feel them. >> any other questions? >> i have a question regarding the secondary employment training. we have various levels, various rate of employment in the city civil service system. for the training, and the review process, review and approval process, is there a different level of review based on the employees responsibility. for instance if you're in the management level, the scrutiny and the review ought to be much higher than someone at
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entry-level, is that correct? there is no one-size-fits-all. >> i think that is true - >> on and off i have worked with the department of human resources in reviewing the secondary employment authorization so what you say is the general approach. the department of human resources is much more circumspect, much more higher level, management level kinds of folks. in terms of, does the additional appointments actually prevent a conflict of interest? does it take up so much of their time to the actually can't carry out their city duties? those inquiries are much more demanding as you would expect of higher-level folks. as to those who may be our sort of more, you know, outfront who are doing different kinds of things for the city. i would expect them to provide a little more leeway. it is a process that does apply across the board. all throughout the organizational chart. yeah, i think, they do
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take the situation into account. >> is there a dollar figure that triggers disclosure, or anything at all? even if it is a one time consultation during the year. or anything that could be called additional compensation? >> it is established in the civil service rule. it does not provide for any dollar thresholds. it is my understanding, i don't want to speak to botsford dhr. it is my understanding dhr, for example, would review someone who is a freelance consultant who may not have an ongoing gig but have occasional clients and would still need to get this authorization. >> thank you. >> sorry, don't meet to drag this deeper into the rabbit hole. would this be for any work that city employee does whether or not it's during city business
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hours, or on the weekends. as long as they are compensated but not volunteer work? >> that is correct. it applies to any, whether there is actual interference in the regular workday. of course they would look to see if the employment would interfere with a 95 and duties of the person. it really does apply across the board. there is other issues that could be triggered by this kind of process. it could be a genuine conflict of interest issue. it could be a confidentiality issue. it is a process to allow them to vet those parts - concerns. in 20 thank you. >> is it by a committee, decision by committee, or the immediate supervisor of the individual applying for secondary appointment. on the schedule, government level, it's all by committee. there is
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truth, transparency, and there is no subjectivity. there has to be done by a committee of three, or whatever. in this case, the city's case, is it up to the supervisors to follow the rules? >> yeah, so, i hesitate to say too much about the dhr process and certainly we can invite them to come to a meeting and speak about this issue if the commission so desires the my general understanding of the form is that the employees actual supervisor within his or her department actually signs off on the request. and from there it is forwarded to what we call central and main department of human resources. which is actual separate department under the city. there is considered by various staff people. i think the staff at dhr that refuse it
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kind of depends on the employees ask of authorization. request from a high level person probably to a high level dhr for example. it's not quite the formal committee process that you and imagine exist in the committee level. it's a little bit more flexible, i suppose. >> if i may, share to schedule future for us to better understand. this comes into both ethics, whistleblowing and other commission issues. i would just like to know more. >> could you schedule a person from hr to come and do a presentation and to have them specifically address the questions that commissioner lee has raised so far, and anything else that would be helpful. that would be better for us to understand the overall process and outcomes and transparency.
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>> certainly. >> any other comments or questions? public comment on agenda item number 88? >> i have been coming here every month, i am a bargaining team member for [inaudible] we have 52 workforce, a 52,000 employees, i am responding to the item discuss in here. you all know that anybody who makes less than one $20 - one $20,000 it is called poor people. - - - 120,000 people - - hundred $20,000, is called poor people. we have part-time jobs, weekend jobs. i can tell you, i personally, some time ago i have a part-time job because i have a family. okay. according to what i know, we have a contract. we
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mean the city and the union have a contract with hr. they require us to report. unfortunately, management had a lot of side jobs they are not reporting. a lot of things are targeted small potatoes, but not management staff. i am a government employee i am here to report and ask it today to ask of the ethic commissions to restore law and order to protect san francisco. you and i know ethic commission was created to stop government corrections. we have many public employees that have come here many times. i am here to follow up one thing. you as individuals understand that you sign up for ethic commissions. i am telling you right now as a government employee, as a mother, decent employees to file complaint with
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ethic commission department is useless. it weighs a lot of government money because they are not doing the same. i came here - i ran for mayor last year. i was not allowed to so many public forms that is happening, in public building, libraries, recreational parks. i reported to jesse right here, and he said nothing they can do. the problem is, the ethic commission is a an aid to super pack. san francisco is flawless and no rule of law for many years we had democrats only, no matter what you say today, it is not a republic form of government. we the people have no control. that includes public employees. anything related to public and public employees must be addressed with hr. because hr and us have the agreement to meet and confer. so you ethic
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commissions talking in here without the public employees on site is unethical. i am here to ask you to do your jobs before the people take action. we came here i reported to you many times about ethic commission is not ethical at all. thank you. [reading items] >> this month's report highlight some ongoing operations. there is a quick note. of course, we look forward to meeting with commissioner gray. we had an opportunity to meet with him and the office and provide introductory meeting. we look forward to working with him when he is able to join the meeting
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next month as well. the budget update, the budget hearing was held on june 12. we were present to provide an overview the budget committee had asked for civic information to be provided by all departments. we provided a slide deck with all of that information that we have attached to this report. we have been in further conversation with the mayor's office about specific funding that comes through technical adjust in the budget. we may be having some of the items that were not funded through the fy 20 budget made additionally requested may be covered with that. it was stay tuned and provide you with more information on that next. we still think there might have
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been additional items that were not additionally covered in the line item. as soon as we know more things with specificity - specificity and finality. i also want to provide on this report engagement and compliance group. there has been a lot of progress on implementing the reporting disclosure requirement for the anticorruption ordinance, as of this week, all forms are now live and available for people to use for filing. i want to acknowledge the massive team effort and the offer - and what that took putting information together to help the public understand and filers understand what the forms are and how they can use them and where the information goes. our policy shop as well. many hands have been shaping the trade we really appreciate that work. the work
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continues to evolve. materials and guidance continue to be made available. we are pleased to see that we are able to have an online system for these forms. >> i would like to ask, at our next meeting, if rachel gage could do a presentation for us, for our benefit, as well as the new commissioners. i will go in and check the website myself, but i think the public can see, as we have broadcast, and certainly we would have the benefit of hearing a live voiceover, that would be terrific. >> we included information about the status of the public financing. there are two candidate in district - excuse
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me three candidate that participated in the district 5 race. to agree to participate - excuse me three in the may oral race trade all that the chart speak for itself, and obviously stumbling through it. we have been providing information as well. dado visualization for the public financing application and certification claims. those are all online now. this edit team having creative visualization for public financing. campaign disclosure information will be online, as it continues to come in in the coming months. we are officially fully in election 2019. i also provided background on the audit, the status of various audit programs. as you may recall again, we have access external auditors to assist. they worked with us on the publicly financed candidates. we
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have them again assisting us with a 2018 audit cycle of the publicly financed candidates. we have also three audits from the 2016 audit cycle that we are expecting to be finished in the next week or so. we will then be fully in the 2018 cycle. in the 2018 cycle, i wanted to do a quick notes, as we have in the last year or two, we have used an objective criteria method for selecting discretionary campaign audits as we as the law requires mandatory audit for public finance candidates and allows discretionary or targeted at random audits of other committees that were active during the election. historic the committee used random products to select campaigns. we modified that approach because we saw some of the committees that were not selected by random selection were fairly large
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committees. we thought there was a great public interest in being able to audit a lot of the money that is running through the campaign cycle. we did initiate it as this report note, as a way to pick through a standard objective that does not look to who the committee is that is being audited, but looks at to the criteria we are looking to. this year for the 2018 audit we did that same practice and part of this is to make sure there is public reporting on the practice we used two select committee for discretionary audit. in this case we have 11 committees from the 2018 cycle who the recipient committees active in the election in 2018 that were not controlled by a candidate and that reported spending more than $1 million on their campaigns. the data, a figure that i have on chart 1 on page 9 of my executive directors report. just gives you a sense of what kind
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of scope that covers. it is still capturing about 76% of the money. it's only 14% of the committees are active. were really trying to capture and get a sense about how committees are complying and reporting their activity. i just wanted to present that information as part of the support to take a deeper dive into the audits that are ongoing and the status of audits. we are continuing to look at our audit program and improvement as we finish these audits and we look forward to providing more information about that as we go forward. that is something that is ongoing as well. one last note. also as i noted in the 2017 report. we have been struggling to have the resources and focus to do the lobbying that is required. there is a requirement that i select one committee - excuse me one lobbyist randomly to be audited each year. we have not done
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that. we do not have a lobbying audit program to accommodate that requirement. that is one of the things that now with our new principal program manager position. we are devoting specific focused resources to developing audit program for lobbying in the coming year, working with a team to really look at the lobbying program and figure out what is sensible and significant way to go about our lobbying audit program. i think it is important we report back to you as well, we do need to make progress in the area. i wanted to flag that is distinct from the campaign audit that we have been doing and trying to get through over the last year. i think with that i will see if there any questions or more information that you would like. i'm happy to provide that to you. >> on the lobbying audit question do you anticipate that there will be enough resources
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to be able to conduct a randomly selected committee to audit in this current, not the current but the upcoming for year? >> i'm always optimistic. i'm afraid of being overly optimistic and under delivering. we are expecting with our cycle of audit that will we be current and complete with our finance audits by the end of this calendar year. as we complete those, we are also going to be trying to establish what that audit program should look like. it is quite likely that we could, by the end of year fiscal year 20 have completed a lobbying audit. i do not have a program in palacio. i am hesitant to be too optimistic that that is going to take effect. we are going to be mapping out what that looks like, and that is a goal for the program for the coming year. >> i know that we just finished
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this questioning process, and it just got approved by the board of supervisors. as i look ahead to 2020 we would be having three elections in march, june and november. there will be even more audit to conduct as a result as we think about resources needed going forward and it's always very challenging, we have to make do with less. as we consider what our obligations are to conduct these audit and as the case increases what would the staffing need to be in order to right size organization to be able to carry out our mandate. what do we need to do to repair the conversation with the mayor and the board of supervisors to be able to even get the resources that we need. happy to help in any way that i can to fight for the people and the dollars to be able to make this happen. >> my second question goes back
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to the chart on page 2 that is just the public financing. do you know, or could you tell us the last day to submit the qualifying requests if you know that off him. >> it is 100 - i do not want to miss state that. we don't have that date in front of us but i'm happy to get that to you. >> if you could get that to us, just because last year we had a significant number of appeals from executive decisions, then also want to make sure that all of the candidate who have opted to participate in the public financing program know and have clarity around what their deadlines are so that we can avoid as much as possible, any
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confusion, or last minute panic in any emergencies area - - - emergencies. the last date to submit a qualifying request is august 27. thankfully we have this information on our web right [laughter] in bigger font. the last date to submit a qualifying request is august 27. the last date - so then it would be 10 days after that is the final
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date to resubmit? if you could send us an email. why don't we do this, if you can send us an email laying out the deadlines just for our general knowledge so we can - >> i will certainly do that. for the benefit for public or who might be watching this. under the financing program page if you link to that page we have full information which will provide the correct information. it is august 27 which is the last day to submit a claim and then there is the last date to resubmit a qualifying request is friday, september 6. we have that information on our website area we have communicated that with the candidates as well. thank you for the clarification and the computer mr. ford.
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>> thank you. public comment on agenda item number nine? >> my name is ellen. i have heard what you guys are saying. i personally have been through so much discrimination because a public employee stood up for the truth. i have filed a complete with the ethics commission, about six candidates running for mayor, three of them did not complete the paperwork, it is on record, it is still not complete. the form was required but was never there. i also filed the same complaint i was told there is no personal check and no cashier check to pay for the application fee. the ethics commission said it is okay. the election office says it is okay. but it is not okay to me. when i asked i was told no. i also find
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out six other candidates for november 5 election, three of them are not qualified and four of them they are using cash, you're talking about thousands of dollars cash and cashier check a personal check. i'm telling you it is because i'm a victim. san francisco has been run by one party only, democrats only. i was a democrat very many years until i changed the parties. i'm a proud republican. that has nothing to do with the party. it has to do with the people behind our city agenda. we have a lot of people working for the government, i am one of the government representatives for government employee. for the process i am going through, the elections office, i came here and reported to you. san francisco has more than 75,000 voters, they are not supposed to
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be in the voters role because they are dead and they are no longer living in the place. why is nobody taking care of it? i am here and asking for help. ethics commission was set up to help the public to qualify people and enforce the law. ethics commission continues to do a lot of things, ethics commission staff wants to do but not the law it is required to do. i did not notice all of this corruption i'm going through with voter fraud, with super pack, with one party controlling san francisco for 45 years. i did not know we have no public power. i did not know that democrats for 45 years, i did not know that the political power has no people's voice. democrats only. that means we are lawless, we have no rule of law in san francisco for 45 years. the government, the mafia running the government the
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scams, pays 4.16 million for democrats only and continue to operate the same strategy with voter fraud and with unaccountability. i'm here to ask you to do your job as government employees and carry what you sworn in. thank you. for public information here is my - thank you. >> thank you. any other public comment. [reading items] public comment on agenda item number 10? [reading items] public comment? >> first of all i want to thank you all for signing up as the
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ethic commissions. [inaudible] i am also a public employee representing government employees. i have so many complaints about different departments. i have came here, today i came here by myself. he remember i came with a lot of public employees. i filed complaints with public employees for ethics commissions purposely to lose our voice recording, audio recording in the courts about management evaluations. that is illegal conduct. ethics commissioners, you have the duty to follow up and investigate. i have not heard back from any of the ethics commissions to follow-up report that we reported. april 2017, through july 2017. i bought five public
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employee to ethic commission. we met three times and we were told someone will follow-up with us. until today, no one followed up with us. except just in here, except in here, making circles. that means our audiotape, our report from 60 employees is missing. that is why i say the ethics commissions and the department is useless. there is no government accountability i am asking you to table something what are you going to do with the voting fraud we have. it was the judicial watch, out of california including san francisco there is more than 75,000 voters that need to be removed from our voters role. i am not sure if this is the right
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commission, but i am asking you because you are monitoring the public finance. you gave $4.16 million of our tax payers money to support discrimination. i came here many times. i was not allowed to come to city hall. i was not allowed to go to recreational parks, public library to join the forms that are paid and supported by public money, super pack. if you are not doing anything about it, i believe the law says you personally are liable for something that i reported to you but you are not doing anything. like i am a social worker working for public health. if my patient tells me somebody abuse them and i do not do anything i am liable for the information. because i try the best i can to comply as a government employee.
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thank you. do something about it. >> thank you. >> motion to adjourn? >> second. >> we are adjourned. thank you. .
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>> i just feel like this is what i was born to do when i was a little kid i would make up performances and daydream it was always performing and doing something i feel if i can't do that than i can't be e me. >> i just get excited and my nickname is x usher my mom calls me i stuck out like a sore thumb for sure
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hey everybody i'm susan kitten on the keys from there, i working in vintage clothing and chris in the 30's and fosz and aesthetic. >> i think part of the what i did i could have put on my poa he focus on a lot of different musical eras. >> shirley temple is created as ahsha safai the nation with happens and light heartenness shirley temple my biggest influence i love david boo and el john and may i west coast their flamboyant and show people (singing) can't be unhappy as a dr. murase and it is so fun it is a joyful
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instrument i learned more about music by playing the piano it was interesting the way i was brought up the youth taught me about music he picked up the a correspond that was so hard my first performing experience happened as 3-year-old an age i did executive services and also thanks to the lord and sank in youth groups people will be powering grave over their turk i'll be playing better and better back la i worked as places where men make more money than me i was in bands i was treated as other the next thing i know i'm in grants performing for a huge protection with a few
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of my friends berry elect and new berry elect and can be ray was then and we kept getting invited back you are shows got better we made it to paris in 2005 a famous arc we ended up getting a months residencey other than an island and he came to our show and started writing a script based on our troop of 6 american burr elect performs in france we were woman of all this angels and shapes and sizes and it was very exciting to be part of the a few lettering elect scene at the time he here he was bay area born and breed braces and with
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glossaries all of a sudden walking 9 red carpet in i walgreens pedestrian care. >> land for best director that was backpack in 2010 the french love this music i come back here and because of film was not released in the united states nobody gave a rats ass let's say the music and berry elect and performing doesn't pay very much i definitely feel into a huge depression especially, when it ended i didn't feel kemgd to france anymore he definitely didn't feel connected to the scene i almost feel like i have to beg for tips i hey i'm from the bay area and an artist you
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don't make a living it changed my represent tar to appeal and the folks that are coming into the wars these days people are not listening they love the idea of having a live musician but don't really nurture it like having a potted plant if you don't warrant it it dizzy sort of feel like a potted plant (laughter) i'm going to give san francisco one more year i've been here since 1981 born and raised in the bay area i know that is not for me i'll keep on trying and if the struggle becomes too hard i'll have to move on i don't know where that will be but i love here so so much i used to dab he will in substances i don't do that i'm sober and part
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of the being is an and sober and happy to be able to play music and perform and express myself if i make. >> few people happy of all ages i've gone my job so i have so stay is an i feel like the piano and music in general with my voice together i feel really powerful and strong
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>> good morning everybody, is this thing on? i like to call the meeting to order. good morning. thank you for being here and coming to the final quarterly diaster council meeting of the fiscal year. i'm calling the meeting officially to order. my co chair here, mayor london breed, chief of staff shawn. before we start, i like to start the meeting by remembering one of our colleagues and dear friend who passed away last month. i worked with joanna all 15 years, really that i was here. i learned so much fr