welcome to the august 9th, 2024 regular meeting of the san francisco ethics commission. today's meeting is live cablecast on sfgovtv two and live streamed online at sfgovtv. org slash ethics live for public comment. members of the public may attend in person or may participate by phone or the webex platform, as explained in our agenda document. clerk can you please explain how our remote public comment will be handled? public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. each member of the public will be allowed three minutes to speak. for those attending in person, opportunities to speak during the public comment period will be made available here in room

400, city hall. for those attending remotely, public comment can also be provided via phone call by calling 14156550001. access code is 26622473534, followed by a pound sign, and then press pound again to join as an attendee. when your item of interest comes up, press star three to raise your hand to be added to the public comment line. public comment is also available via the webex client application. use the webex link on the agenda to connect and press the raise hand button to be added to the public comment line. for detailed instructions about how to interact with the telephone system or webex client, please refer to the public comment section of the agenda document for this meeting. public comment may also be submitted in writing and will be shared with the commission after this meeting has concluded and will be included as part of the official meeting file. written comments should be sent to ethics

commission at sfgov. org. members of the public who attend commission meetings, including remote attendance, are also expected to behave responsibly and respectfully during public comment. please address your comments to the commission as a whole and not to individual members. persons who engage in name calling, shouting interruptions or other distracting behavior may be excluded from participation. thank you. clerk i now call the meeting to order. clerk, will you please call the roll under item one? commissioners please verbally indicate your presence by saying i after your name is called commissioner florez. fang i. commissioner safaí i, commissioner francois i. vice chair. florez fang, with three members present and accounted for. you have a quorum. with that, i call agenda item two. general public comment. yes. good morning. good morning. good

morning commissioners. my name is ellen li jiao. i spell it right there. l l e n l e z h o u. i pledge the allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands. one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all, born and unborn and vaccinated, and unvaccinated. amen i was a public health social worker for san francisco, taxpayer funded, the people government for almost 20 years. i was wrongfully terminated in 2022 due to not accept the covid 19 vaccine shots. there are hundreds of public employees like me was wrongfully terminated, including 200 police in 2021 and 2022. we still have actively in court 32

cases, actively lawsuit against unconstitutional vaccine mandate. we all want our jobs back. the democratic mayor and all 11 board of supervisors and leaders and city attorney failed to settle the cases in court, and they purposely abused public tax funded money to fight with public employees and make sure that they are not able to come back to work. and we feel the workers to come back to work. what kind of demonic children are they? i am here today to urge you and demand you at the commissions department to investigate what's going on at city hall and what's going on with you. your department. i have been working and living in san francisco for more than 38 years. i was nominated to run for mayor in 2019, 2018 and 2019 at the commissions department

has been discriminated. me because of me. my background and retaliate me after i expose corruption in san francisco 2024. i am running for mayor again and i have been discriminated by the democrats, party leaders and city leaders. one party rule, the democratic control leaders that i'm not allowed to go any of the mail debates that we have 13 people running for mayor. the media, the fake media, the sick media has been telling the public only five people running for mayor. you, the ethics commissions, have the duty to investigate election interference. if you're not doing your job, your department should not be exist. i, ellen lee zhou file many complaints officially against tyranny, against unconstitutional government that fire many constitutional workers that stand in the gap for san

francisco. thank you. and this is my public record. thank you. so, clerk, please proceed with any remote public comment on this item. and misao, you forgot your name tag. vice chair fang, there are no callers in the queue. thank you. hearing no further, members of the public wishing to speak general public comment under item two is now closed. i will now call the consent calendar. colleagues, as noted on the agenda, there will be no separate discussions on a consent calendar item unless a request is made by a commission member or a member of the public in attendance, in which event the matter shall be moved from the consent calendar to the general calendar and considered as a separate item. if any commissioner asked, would like to speak on the item, please let us know. does any member of the

public wish to request a discussion of an item on the consent calendar? okay clerk. please proceed with any remote public comment on this item. vice chair. we're checking to see if there are callers in the queue. vice chair. if there are no callers in the queue. thank you. 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 to adopt the consent calendar? commissioner flores. fang, i commissioner. safaí i commissioner francois i. vice chair. flores. fang, with

three votes in the affirmative. you have. it has been approved unanimously. unanimously? great. i now call agenda item five. discussion and possible action regarding proposed stipulation, decision and order in the matter of neighbors for a better san francisco advocacy at j. chang, i'd like to invite our director of enforcement, becky matthews, to please introduce the item. actually, one bit before miss matthews. thank you. before you come up, 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. thank you, vice chair, i wanted to make a disclosure on the record and invite my fellow commissioners to make a motion authorizing me to recuse from this. the reason for that is that before i was appointed to the commission, i made a donation to one of the advocacy

organizations on the campaign in question against the recall of then district attorney chesa boudin. this is not a required recusal. recusal? i have no financial interest in the issue. and this doesn't rise to the level of a due process conflict. i have no doubt that i could fairly apply the relevant factors in reviewing the propriety of the stipulation, but out of an abundance of caution, and to avoid the appearance of any conflict or impropriety, i wanted to suggest that i might be recused from decision making on this issue. and i've been advised by the city attorney that if a motion is made and the remainder of the commissioners decide to discuss it, i should leave the room. while that's happening. so your motion to allow commissioner salahi to recuse himself? yes. i move seconded. miss matthews,

once, mr. salahi. commissioner salahi exits the room. please proceed. oh. that's true. that is a good point. we are actually going to commissioners. we're actually going to continue this to the next meeting so that we can have a quorum, in order to, to move, move this item along. thank you. staff. does miss does commissioner salahi have to be here for the public comment or does it matter as. excuse me, miss dao, give us a second to sort this out. yeah. okay yes. yeah. we're happy to continue public comment. i think the only outstanding question is whether commissioner salahi should be here or can be here. it seems fine for him to be here as long as he's not. okay all

right. does anybody wish to give public comment on agenda item number five? good morning again, commissioners. my name is ellen. that is l l e n l e z h o u. an item number five. you name a person. and that's a chinese person. asian person. my question to you, why would you just investigate only the chinese when you know election interference? it happens throughout the city with all parties. i'm talking about all party means one party, but different locations. san francisco has been controlled by democrat party. one party rule

for the last 59 years. they organize many places throughout the city. for example, chinese democrat aapi democrat, filipino democrat, democrats in district one two, three, four. you know, i'm just giving you an example. the problem is many of these allegations or investigations targeted minorities. people like me, chinese conservative. now, i don't know this person. j but i understand that he's chinese and he's mobilized a lot of people in the chinese community. and throughout the city. 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 commission has been established in 1996 to do investigation on government corruption. i personally have

been discriminated by ethics commission when i run in 2019, and right now we're in 2024 and my case is not yet dropped because you still targeted one of my volunteers, paul taylor, and i noticed that at the commission is not about people's government. at the commission is who you know what you know and how 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 to your 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 because the whole city is controlled by democrat

only, democrats leaders only, or all 11. board of supervisor democrats only the mayor, democrat, the police chief, democrat, the da, the district attorney. democrat. so democrat has been paid and bought into the government up. thank you, miss zhao. anyone in the queue? clark by sheriff fang. there are no callers in the queue. commissioner salahi can return and we can proceed. should we act together as a commission to move this to the next meeting? or can we proceed without motion to recuse and

then you'll decide to continue it? yeah, i think we moved on that already before. commissioner, you did move. i don't believe there was a vote 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, yeah. commissioner salahi. sorry, i was calling commissioner flores. hi, commissioner francois, i vice chair flores fang, with two votes in the affirmative. the motion is. excuse me. commissioner salahi can vote on this as well. oh, sorry, commissioner salahi, i vice chair flores fang with three votes in the affirmative. the motion is approved unanimously. yes. and now we can continue it. now, i'd like to move to move this agenda item to the next meeting where we can have a

quorum. do i hear we can just continue? okay, great. that's correct. fantastic. i now call agenda item six discussion and possible action regarding proposed amendments to ethics commission campaign consultant regulations. i would like to invite our policy and legislative affairs manager, michael canning, to introduce the item. thank you. hello, vice chair, mr. fleming, commissioners, the regulation changes proposed under this item deal with the campaign consultant program, campaign consultants are required to make 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, these reports and filings to be made electronically. that's still the process that's currently in use today, however, in recent months, staff have developed a more streamlined

electronic filing process for campaign consultants, and these new forms are currently being tested and are intended to be ready for january of 2025, the proposed regulations before the commission today would do two things, first, they would specify that campaign consultants are required to file their documents electronically, and it would remove an existing regulation that specified how documents could be filed via fax machine, these changes are excuse me, are intended to allow staff to move forward with replacing the existing system with the more streamlined electronic filing system, which will be more secure and streamlined and would be get this program into alignment with all the other programs that already use a similar electronic filing system. i'm happy to take any questions on those. happy to ask some questions, but commissioners, any questions? no questions. just one question for me, and it may have come up prior, but is it is the commission staff available to

assist the campaign consultant or someone who may not have the capabilities? yes. and within the last couple of months, the commission has also added a computer to the lobby of the commission's office. so anyone who doesn't have access and needs assistance can do that in the commission lobby as well. thank you. okay, commissioners, do i hear a motion on the matte? i move to approve. seconded second. clark, can you please call the roll? on the motion to approve item six, commissioner flores feng i. commissioner salahi i commissioner francois i. and before we move, i do realize that we did not allow for public comment on this item. so happy to allow for that. now.

good morning again, san francisco commissioners. my name is ellen lee zhou. that is e l l e n l e z h o u. i am here to have a lot of questions about your department on item six. about campaign consultants. maybe some of you knew in my case, i ran my campaign in 2018. all volunteers, no paid staff, no consulting, 2019 i ran my campaign. all volunteers, no campaign manager, no campaign consulting. but your department have the guts to take out a needle from an egg. there's no needle inside an egg, but you try to do that to my case. so my

question to you about campaign consulting. i make numerous complaints about money laundering, about campaign consulting, about campaign management, money laundering, and many of the public san francisco voters did not know number one, the money laundering set up by one party rule that if you fund raising certain amount of money, the taxpayer will give them six times of the money ey created for the corrupttem politicians, also called deep state politicians, also called non san francisco politicians. for example, 2024 about 3 to 5 days ago it was published in san francisco in the newspaper that our current mayor and the sole self-identified criminal, five the mayoral candidates they

spent more than $10 million to run for san francisco mayor. and you all know we have 13 people running for san francisco mayor. but the fake media only talk about the criminal five. they spent $10 million to run for san francisco mayor. that's not the problem. the problem is why san francisco taxpayer pay criminals to run for campaign and deceive our public. yes i am a make america great again republican. yes, i am a mother and i am a conservative social worker. and yes, i am a pro-life mother that i stand tall to protect our children. we the people government should not be giving money to whoever is campaigning and hire those campaign

consultant campaign management through a public paying funded government. thank you. your time is up. thank. by sheriff fang there are no callers in the queue. great. should we call the motion again? okay. please call. roll on the motion to approve. item six. proposed amendments to the ethics commission. campaign consultant regulations. commissioner flores fang, i. commissioner safaí i. commissioner francois i. vice chair flores fang, with three votes in the affirmative. the motion is approved unanimously. thank you. clerk. public comment on item six is now closed and we can move on to agenda item number seven. discussion and possible action regarding proposed amendments to ethics commission's regulations on campaign finance. disclaimer

requirements i'd like to invite our policy and legislative affairs manager, michael canning, to introduce this item, thank you, vice chair flowers feng, the regulations proposed under this item deal with the city's campaign finance disclaimer rules, back in 2019, with proposition f, the voters made several changes to the rules regarding what disclaimers need to appear on political advertisements specifically with prop f, it increased the font requirement for print ads from 12 points to 14 points. bolded and established a new requirement requirement regarding secondary major contributors. existing state and local law require top three contributors to a committee to be included in an ads. disclaimers. the new secondary major contributor rule expands this so that if any of the top three contributors is a committee, the top two contributors to that committee must also be included in the disclaimer. this requirement has been the subject of legal

challenges, and in recent years, the commission and the board have made changes to the code to better align it with a 2020 court order from judge breyer. regarding advertisements that are smaller than five by five or less than 30s in length, the regulations before the commission today seek to address potential situations with larger advertisements where additional disclaimers in local law could still cause the disclaimer to occupy a substantial portion of the overall advertisement, the prior court order that i mentioned from judge breyer had stated that a disclaimer requirement that leaves roughly two thirds of an ad's total space for the political message, would be a reasonable outcome when balancing the interest of campaigns against the public's interest in having a robust disclosure requirement. staff used this rationale when developing the proposed regulation, which would allow committees to not include the secondary major contributor information in instances when doing so would cause the total

size of the disclaimer to take up more than one third of the advertisement. if doing so would cause the disclaimer to take up more than one third of the ad. the additional disclaimers aren't required, and it reverts back to what's in the state requirement, this change is intended to allow for greater flexibility in the city's disclaimer rules. while aligning with the rationale presented in judge breyer's order and to balance the interests of committees maximizing their political message with the public's interest in having robust disclosures that further transparency. i'm happy to take any questions on that. is there an assessment of whether the pending writ for certiorari could affect this proposed amendment? the current before the court, with, not clear what the impact of the court's decision could do, i think

there's the potential that the city proactively taking measures to, like this could maybe influence what the court's considering. and we've been communicating with the city attorney's office on, that litigation. so this is responsive not just to the yes on prop 80 challenge that resulted in judge breyer's order, but also the more recent litigation, not specifically, but generally, the concern in both those cases is about the overall, burden of disclaimers on ads. just i don't know, commissioner, if you were wrapped up on that, i had one brief follow up question, just for the public's knowledge, can you remind us where we can find information about the second, the secondary major contributors that are going to no longer going to be on the advertisements themselves, yes. they would be available on the commission's website 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 disclosures on the website, but that information would be accessible there in terms of what committees. and then you'd might have to do an additional step to find out who those committee's top contributors are. i'd move to adopt the proposed regulation. do we need public comment on this? yes. you will need a public. good morning again. my name is ellen li jiao.

l l e n l e z who i am here to express my concerns about ethic, ethics, commission, department. this campaign department supposed to be regulate the government to prevent corruption. i've lived and worked in san francisco for 38 years. i am a taxpayer, which means the public employees pay by me, the taxpayer. if you look around what happened in san francisco for the last 20 years, only 20 years not to talk about 59, only 20 years. i've noticed from the media. about a week ag, there's a huge media talking about act blue, act act blue, blue, blue act blue is a super pac. the website is act blue. com the news reporter reporting

act blue is a super pac for democrats only. they are supporting democrat failed policies only like antifa, blm, asian. hey i'm just to name a few. the news media report this news that you should be concerned. many of the donors under actblue supporting democrat candidates or method ballot measures. many of the donors they don't even know if they themselves, herself or itself donate the money. that means somewhere in between, somebody donate the money by using the donors name and information. now, i also noticed that san francisco we have so-called criminal five mayor candidates that is supported by

all this debate in different neighborhoods that they are supported by ahsha blues. so i'm here to request at the commission your department, if you are really a legit department against corruption, the way that you establish in 1996 to against corruption, i am asking you demand you to investigate many of the money laundering system that corrupted our public funds, lie and cheat 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 donors may not the donors themselves. they jack up the system and they get matching fund from me, the taxpayer. i am here to urge you to investigate election interference and election fraud. thank you. your time. thank you.

clerk will you please see if we have any members in the queue who wish to comment? vice chair for seeing there are no callers in the queue. thank you. do i hear a motion on the matter to adopt the proposed amendments to ethics commission regulations on campaign finance? disclaimer requirements. i make the motion seconded. i second. please call the roll on the motion to adopt the proposed amendments to ethics commission regulations on campaign finance disclaimer requirements. commissioner flores fang i, commissioner salahi i, commissioner francois i, vice chair flores fang with three votes in the affirmative. the motion is approved unanimously. thank you. i now call agenda item eight. staff presentation on campaign finance disclosures. and i'd like to invite senior is engineer tyler field to introduce the item.

good afternoon, commissioners, this last week was the filing deadline for the first half of or covering the filing deadline for the filing period covering the first half of this past year. for all california. political committees. and with that, we see there was a release of information. and i'm here to demonstrate for you. and highlight some very high level stats on the, fundraising and spending in san francisco, elections. so if we can switch over to the presentation computer. i will highlight actually, first

the, dashboards that my colleague mr. canning was referring to. on our home page are a new series of dashboards which highlight. highlight the, donors to committees who are contributing to, candidates, it's a little roundabout way to say this, but, as mr. cannon was referring to, when a committee, receives a donation from another committee, you have to do a little bit of extra work to figure out who that secondary committee's donors were. and this is one of our attempts to highlight that, this, this series of charts, scrapes, the

filings for those committees who donate to committees and, grabs their, contributors and their, expense, expenditures over the past several years and highlights them here in a chart. you can, find a committee you're interested in and click on 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 a committee, you can see their expenditures. this, this top two, are, committees who file with 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 filing officer for multi-jurisdictional committees, or, just state level committees,

the same, same behavior here. click on a the name of a committee, and you can drill down and see that committees, contributors and explore that way, but our specifically to our purposes today, this is oops. this is the san francisco specific, dashboard. and i'm going to, i'm going to choose the mayoral election because that's what everyone is interested in, of course. and i've rolled up, across committees, and let me eliminate public financing since we're speaking about just

contributions. you can see here over $10 million has been raised across all types of committees. so i'll highlight only the candidate controlled committees. over $4 million raised already. and this is 90 days before the, we're actually more than 90 days before the election, just to switch over to the last, election for mayor with several candidates with high, fundraising in june of 2018. and this these are numbers that are, after the election was complete. oops in total, $3 million of contributions raised for the

mayoral election in june of 2018 versus. 4 million already. we can investigate also how those committees are spending their money. and see that already $3.6 million spent by candidate controlled committees only. and over 6.5 million, by candidate controlled and non candidate controlled by third party committees. i also want to highlight our public financing disclosures tab showing the

amount of public financing all of the candidates have received. and i, i guess i will, highlight also that there's a large, participation in the public financing program this year, and already several, board of supervisors candidates have maxed out their contributions, all of this information is available on our website, and, i can say already that, news, news outlets and reporters are, you know, contacting me and contacting our office, very interested in this information. and, i believe they find this useful. any questions? thank you for the overview. i see that

there's no one on site for public comment, clerk, can you check the queue, please? commissioner. vice chair flores, there are no callers in the queue. clerk. public comment on item eight is now closed. and there no motion needed for this item. so we can proceed. i will now call agenda item nine discussion and possible action on items for future meetings. does any commissioner wish to speak to this item? okay, let's take public comment. seeing that no one 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 that there's a

motion needed for this item so we can proceed. under item ten, we provide an additional opportunity for general public comment. there is no one in person for public comment. clerk, please check the queue. vice chair flores, there are no callers in the queue. hearing no further callers, the additional opportunity for public comment under item ten is now closed, i now call agenda item 11. adjournment. i'd also like to take a moment to recognize the passing of a great public servant that many of us had the opportunity to know, mister larry bush, who we learned recently passed, many of us had the honor of knowing and working alongside him, he served on the ethics commission for several years, and we'd just like to adjourn this meeting in his honor. thank you. this concludes

the august 9th, 2024 meeting of the san francisco ethics commission. [music]

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community together like food. having amazing food options for and by the people of this community is critical to the success, the long-term success and stability of the bayview-hunters point community. >> i am nima romney. this is a mobile cafe. we do soul food with a latin twist. i wanted to open a truck to son nor the soul food, my african heritage as well as mylas as my latindescent.

>> i have been at this for 15 years. i have been cooking all my life pretty much, you know. i like cooking ribs, chicken, links. my favorite is oysters on the grill. >> i am the owner. it all started with banana pudding, the mother of them all. now what i do is take on traditional desserts and pair them with pudding so that is my ultimate goal of the business. >> our goal with the bayview bristow is to bring in businesses so they can really use this as a launching off point to grow as a single business. we want to use this as the opportunity to support business

owners of color and those who have contributed a lot to the community and are looking for opportunities to grow their business. >> these are the things that the san francisco public utilities commission is doing. they are doing it because they feel they have a responsibility to san franciscans and to people in this community. >> i had a grandmother who lived in bayview. she never moved, never wavered. it was a house of security answer entity where we went for holidays. i was a part of bayview most of my life. i can't remember not being a part of bayview. >> i have been here for several years. this space used to be unoccupied. it was used as a dump. to repurpose it for something like this with the bistro to give an opportunity for the local vendors and food people to come out and showcase their

work. that is a great way to give back to the community. >> this is a great example of a public-private community partnership. they have been supporting this including the san francisco public utilities commission and mayor's office of workforce department. >> working with the joint venture partners we got resources for the space, that the businesses were able to thrive because of all of the opportunities on the way to this community. >> bayview has changed. it is growing. a lot of things is different from when i was a kid. you have the t train. you have a lot of new business. i am looking forward to being a business owner in my neighborhood. >> i love my city. you know, i went to city college

and fourth and mission in san francisco under the chefs ria, marlene and betsy. they are proud of me. i don't want to leave them out of the journey. everyone works hard. they are very supportive and passionate about what they do, and they all have one goal in mind for the bayview to survive. >> all right. it is time to eat, people.

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