welcome to the august 9th francisco ethics commission. today's meeting is live cablecas sfgovtv two and live streamed online at org slash ethics live for public comment. members of attend in person or may participate by phone or the webexs explained in our agenda document. clerk can you please explainomment will be handled? public comment will be on this agenda. each member of the public will for those attending in person, opportunities to speak the public comment period will be made available here in room 400, cityg remotely, public comment can also be providedy access code is 26622473534, followed by a pound sign, and then press pound again

to join as an attendee. interest comes up press star three to raise your hand tod to the public comment line. public comment is also available via client application. use the webex link on the agenda to connect and button to be added to the public comment line. for detailed to interact with the telephone system or webex client the public comment section of the agenda document for this meeng also be submitted in writing and will bewith the commission after this meeting has concluded and will be included official meeting file. written comments should be sent to ethicsv. org. members of the public who attend meetings, including remote attendance, are also public comment. please address your and not to individual members. persons who engage in name oth distracting behavior may be excludedation. thank you. clerk i now call the meetingk, will you please call the roll under item please verbally indicate your presence by saying i is called commissioner florez. fang i. commissioner safaí i commissioner francois i. vice

chair. members present and accounted for. you have a quorum. with that, i callnda item two. general public comment. yes. good morningq?. good morning. good morning commissioners. my jiao. i spell it right there. l l e n tates of america and to theich it stands. one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all born and unvaccinated. amen health social worker for san francisco, tax government for almost 20 years. i was wrongfully 2022 due to not covid 19 vaccine shots public employees like me was wrongfullyncluding 200 police in 2021 and still have actively in lawsuit against

unconstitu mandate. we all want our jobs back. the democratic mayor and all 11 boardsors and leaders and city attorney failed to settle the abused public tax funded money to fight with public employees and make sure that they are not able to and we feel the workers to come back to work. what kind am h you and demand you a department to investigate what's hall and what's going on with you. your department. i have san francisco for more than 38 years. i was nominated to 2019, 2018 and 2019 at the commissions department has been discriminated. me because background and retaliate me after i expose co francisco 2024. i am running for mayor again and i have been discriminated by the city leaders.

one party rule the democrati leaders that i'm not allowed to go any of the mail debates that we have 13 people running for the media the fake media, the sick media has been telling the public onlyg for mayor. you, the ethics commissions, have the duty election interference. if you're not doing should not be exist. i, ellen lee zhou against tyranny, against unconstitutional government that firen the gap f s>w francisco. thank you. and this is my public record. thank you. so, clerk, please proceed with anypublic comment on this item. and misao you forgot your name tag. vice chair fang there are no callers in the queue. thank you.ring no further, members of the public wishing to speak general public now closed. i will now call the consent calendar. colleagues, as noted on the no separate discussions

on a consent calendar item unless a reques commission member or a member of the public in attendance, from the consent calendar to the generalald considered as a separate item. if any commissioner asked, would like to speak on the item, please let us know. does public wish to request a discussion of calendar? okay clerk. please proceed with any remotethis item. vice chair. we're checking to see if there are callers ieue. vice chair. if there are no callers in the clerk. public comment on the consent calendar is now closed. commissioners hearing no further discussion. do i hear a motion to adopt the consent calendar? so moved. seconded. clerk will you please call the roll on the motion tohe consent calendar? commissioner flores. fang, i commissioner. safaí i commissioner francois fang,

with three votes in the affirmative. you have. it has unanimously. unanimously?now call agenda item five. discussion and possible action regarding proposed stipulation decision and order in for a better san francisco advocacy at j. chang, i'd like to invite our direc of enforcement, becky matthews to please introduce the. actually, one bit before miss matthews. thank you i would like to provide an opportunity for any of my fellow commissioners to make any statements that they'd like to make. all right you, vice chair, i wanted to make ais and invite my fellow commissioners to make a motion authorizing me to recuse from this. the reason for was appointed to the commission, i made a donation organizations on the campaign in then district attorney chesaudin. this is not a required recusal. recusal? i h financial interest in the issue. and this doesn't rise to a due process

conflict. i have no doubt that i could faant factors in reviewing the propriety of caution, and to avoid the appearance of any wanted to suggest that i might be recused from decision making on this issue. and i've been #the city attorney that if a motion is made and the remainder of thedecide to discuss it, i should leave the room. while that's. so your motion to allow salahi to recuse himself? yes. i move. miss matthews, once, mr. salahi. comm exits the room. please proceed. oh. that's trueood point. we are actually going to commissioners. we're actu to the next meeting so that we can in order to to move, move this item along. thank you..

does miss does commissioner h be here for the public comment or does it matterao, give us a second. yeah. we're happy to comment. i think the only ou whether commissioner salahi should be here or can be here. it seems fine for him toe here as long as he's not. okay wish to give public comment o number five? good morning again commissioners. my name is ellen e n l e z h o u. an five. you name a person person. asian person. my qu, why would you juste chinese when you know election interference? it happens throughout the city with all parties. i'm talking about all party means one party locations. san francisco has been one party rule

for the last9 many places throughout thechinese democrat aapi democrat, filipino democratcrats in district one two, three, four. you know i'm just giving you is many of these allegations or investigations target. people like me. now, i don't know but i understand that he's chinese and he's people in the chinese community. and and yes he's democrat. i am not a democrat myself. but that's not the concern that i have. the concern i have at the has been established investigation on government corruption have been discr commission when i run in 2019, and right now we're in 2024 and my caseped because you still targeted one

of my volunteers, paul taylor that at the commission is not about people's government. at the commission is who you know what much money that you related to the city. 2024 i personally dig out some information about ethics commissions. i filed many complaints and none of my complaints coming alive department. so whatever the business you hear today at the commission against a chinese person, j. it's not acceptable. if you want to investigate one person, you investigate the whole city is controlled by democrat only, democrats leaders only, or all 11. board of democrats only the mayor democrat, thechief, democrat, the da, the democrat has been paid and bought into the government up. thank you miss zhao. anyone in the queue?f fang. there are no callers in the queue can return

as a commission to move this to the next meeting? or can we proceed without and then you'll decide to continue it? yeah moved on that already before. commissioner, you did move. i don't on that. and you can participate in that vote. on the motion to recuse commissioner flores fang, on the motion to recuse commissioner salahi. oh,. commissioner salahi. sorry, i was calling commissioner floresmm, i with two votes in toner salahi can vote on this as well. oh sorry commissioner salahi, chair flores fang with three votes in theed u affmously. yes. and now wean. now, i'd like to move to move

this age the next meeting where we can have a quorum. we can just continue. fantastic. i now call agenda item regarding proposed amendments to ethics commis consultant regulations. i would like to invite ourolicy and legislative affairs manager michael canning, to introduce the item. thank you hello, vice chair, mr. fleming commissioners, the reg proposed under this item deal with the campaigntant program, campaign consultants are required to mak various reports to the ethics commission, and during the commission's closure, due to the covid 19, pandemic, a temporary process was instituted to allow thesee made electronically. that's still the process that's currently in, however, in recent months staff have developed ampaign consultants, and these new forms are currently being tested and are intended to be ready for january of 20 the proposed regulations before the commission today would

things, first, they would specify that campaign consultants are required to file and it would remove an existing regulation that be filed via fax machine, these changes are excuse me, are intended to allow staff to movestem with the more streamlined electronic filing system secure and streamlined and would be get this program into alignment with all the other pro use a similar electronic filing system. i'm happy to take any questions on those. hap to ask some questions but commissioners, any questions? no qu just one question for me, and it mayut is it is the commission staff available to assist the campaign consultant or someone who may not have the capabilities? yes. and within months, the commission has also added lobby of the commission's office. so anyone who doesn't assistance can do that in the commission lobby as well. thank you. okay, commissioners, do i hear a motion on the matter? i move to approve. second. clark, can you please

call the roll? on the motion to item six, commissioner flores feng";hi i commissioner francois i. and before we move, ie did not allow for public comment on this., san francisco commissioners. my is ellen lee zhou. that is e l e z h o u. i am here to about your department on item s abou. maybe knew in my case my campaign in 2018. all volunteersaff, no consulting, 2019 i ran my campaign. all volunteers, no campz manager, no campaign consulting the guts to take out a needle f an egg. there's no

needle inside an egg but you try to do that to my question to you about campaign consulting. i make numerous complaints about money laundering about campaign laundering, and many of the public san francisco voters did not know number set up byarty rule that if you fund raising certain amount ofe will give them six times of the money the system they created for the corrupt politi politicians, also called francisco politicians 2024 about 3 to 5 days ago it was published in sa newspaper that our current mayor and the sole self-identified criminal five the mayoral candidates spent more than $10 million mayor. and you all knowple running for san francisco mth media

only talk about the they spent $10 million to runmayor. that's not the problem. the problem is why san francisco taxpayer pay criminals to run for campaign and i am a makeamerica great again republican. yes, i am a mother and i a conservative social worker. and yes, i a that i stand tall to protect our the people government should not be givinghoever is campaigning and hire those campaign a public paying funded government. u. you. by sheriff fang there no callers in the queue. great. should again? okay. please call. roll on the motion to approve to the ethics commission. campaign consultant regulations.

commissioner flores fang iií i. commissioner francois i. vice chair flores in the affirmative. the motion is approved unanimously. thank you. clerk. comment on item six is now closed and weem number seven. discussion and possible action regarding pr ethics commission's regulations on campaign financevite our policy and legislative canning, to introduce this item thank you, vice chair feng, the regulations proposed under this item deal with the city's campaign finance disclaimer rules, back in 20 proposition f, the voters made several changes to the rulest disclaimers need to appear on increased the font requirement print ads from 12 points to 14 points. bolded es requirement requirement regarding secondary major contributors. el law require top three contributors to a committee to be disclaimers. the new secondary major contributor rule this so that if any of the top th, the top two contributors to that committee

mu also be included in the disclaimer. this requi the subject of legal challenges, and in recent yearsrd have made changes to the code to better align it with a judge breyer. regarding advertisements that are five or less than 30s in length, the regulations before the commission today seek to address potential situationsements where additionals in local law could still cause the disclaimer to occupy a substantial portion advertisement, the prior court mentioned from judge breyer had stated that a disclaimer"dirds of an ad's total space for the political message would be a reasonable interest of campaigns against the public's interest in having requirement. staff used this rationale when developing the proposed regulation which would allow commites to the secondary major contributor information in instances when doing so would cause the total size of the disclaimer to take up more the advertisement. if doing so would cause take up more than one third of the ad. the additionasc$im to what's in the state requirement, this change isnded to

allow for greater flexibility in the city's disclaimer rules. while aligning with the rationale presented in judge breyer's order and to committees maximizing their political message with the public's inter that further transparency. i'm happy to take any questions on that. is there an assessment ofing writ for certiorari couldroposed amendment? the current before the court with, not clear what the impact of the court's decision there's the potential that the city proactively taking measures like this could maybe influence what the court'sity attorney's office on that litigation. so this is responsive not just to 80 challenge that resulted in judge breyer's order, but a litigation, not specifically but both those cases is about the overall, burden of dis on ads.usi don't know

commissioner, if you w i had one brief follow up question, justwledge, can you remind us where we can finde secondary major contributors that are going to no longer going tthe advertisements themselves, yes. they would b in the data dashboards, you can well it's actually it's a little that actually segue nicely into the next item on the agenda, which will be a overview of some of the disc information would be accessible there in terms of wh then you'd might have to do an additional step to find out who tse i'd move to adopt the proposed public comment on this public. good morning

again. my thics)=hics, commission, department. this campaign department supposed to be regulate the government to prevent and worked in san francisco am a taxpayer, which means the public employeeshe taxound what happened in san francisco for 20 years, only 20 years not to talk about 59noticed from the media. about a week ago there's a huge media talking about act act blue act blue is a super pac. the website is act blue reporter reporting act blue is a super pac for democrats only. they are su democrat failed policies only like antifa, blm,

asn. i'm just to name a few. the news media report this news that you should be concerned of the donors under actblue supporting democrat candidates or. many of thedon't even know if they themselves, herself or it money. that means somewhere in between somebody donate the money by using the donors name information. now, i also noticed that san so-called that is supported by all this that they are supported by ahshat at the commission your department, if really a legit department against corruption, the way that you establish in 1996 to against corruption i am investigate many of the moneyundering system that corrupted our public funds, lie and

the taxpayers about matching funds and matching funds system and i have the same suspicions like what i see in the media about actblue that the d may not the donors themselves. they and they get matching fund from me, the taxpayer. i am to investigate election interference andour time. thank you. clerk will you please see if we ha queue who wish to commentir for seeing there are no callers in the queue. thank you. do i the matter to adopt the proposed amendments to ethics commission regulations oner requirements. i make the motion seconded. i second. please call the roll on the proposed amendments to ethics commission regulations on campaign finance requirements. commissioner flores fang i, commissioner i, commissioner francois i, vice chair flores fang with three votes in the affirmative. the motion is approved unanimously. thank you call agenda item eight. staff

presentation on campaign finance. and i'd like to invite field to introduce the item. good afternoon, commissioners this last week was the filing deadlinest half of or covering the filing d covering the first half of this past year. for all political committees. and with th, we see there was a release of information. and i'm to demonstrate for you. and highlight some very high level stats on the fundren san francisco elections switch over to the presentation computer. i will highlight actually, first the, dashboards that colleague mr. canning was referring to. on our home page are a

which highlight to committees who are, candidates it's a little roundabout way to say this, but,on was referring to, when a committee receives a donation another committee, you have to do a little bit of that secondary committee's donors were. andone of our attempts to highlight that, this, this series of charts filings for those committees w committees and, grabs expense, past several years and hi you can, find a committee you're interested in and click them to drill down and see who that committee's, contributors were. and the same thing for how committees spend their money. if you click on a, the name of, you can

see their expenditures. this this top two, the san francisco ethics commission and then we do an additional, bit of work and grab a data from the california secretary of state, which is a the fil officer for multi-jurisdictional level committees, the same behavior here. click on a the name of and seeco and explore that way, but our specifically to our purposes today, this is oops. this is san francisco dashboard to, i'm going to choose the mayoral election because that's what everyone is interested in, of course. and, across

committees, and let me eliminate speaking about just you can see herelion has been raised committees. so i'll highlight only the candidate controlled committees. overlt $4 million raised already. and this is 90 actually more than 90 days before the election, just t election for mayorral candidates with high, fundraising in june of 2018. and this these are numbers that are, completed. oops in total, contributions raised for the election in june of 4 milli

can investigate also how those committees are spendin and see that already $3.6 million spent candidate controlled committees only. and over 6.5 million candidate controlled by tarty committees. i also want to highlight our public financing disclosures tab showing the financing all of the candidates have received. and i, i guess i will a large participation in the public fina already several, board of supervisorstributions all of this information is available on our website, and, iy

that, news, news outlets and reporters are, you know contacting me and is information. and, i useful. any questions? thank you for the overview. i see that there's public comment, clerk, can you check the queue, please?er. vice chair flores, there are no callers public comment on item eight is now closed. and there no motion needed for. so we can proceed. i will now call agenda itble action on items for future meetin com ssioner wish to speak to this item? okay, let's

take public comment. is in the room. clerk can you please check the queue? vice chair flores there are no callers in the queue. i also don't believe needed for this item so we can proceed. under item ten we provide an additional opportunity general public comment. there is no one in person for publi comment. clerk, please check the queue. vice chairllers in the queue. hearing no further callers, the additional opportunityw closednow call agenda item 11. adjournment. take a moment to passing of a great public servant that many of us had the opportunity to know, mis2fsh, who we learned recently passed, many of us had the honor of knowing and working alongside him, he commission for several years, and we'd just like to 2024 meeting of the san francisco ethics

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community investment and infrastructure successor agency commis afternoon at 1:00 pm., tuesday, july 16, 2024. i'd like to welcome, everyone here in-person guests joining us remotely and guests j may provide public comment in-person at the noticed location or remotely via teleconference (detailed instructions availab the public may also submit their comments by email to: commissioner@sfgov.org; all comments received will be made a ficial record. >> regular meeting agenda: please be advised a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent public comments on each a shorter period on any item staff thank you for today and madam secretary, call the first item. >> the first order of business is one roll call >> commissioner aqunio present. >> commissioner drew of commissioner d