under the behested payment exemption, one of the amendments that the-you propose is prohibit the ethic commission imposing penalty on city officers or employees who violated the ordinance. as you know, the people of san francisco gave this commission a mandate to conduct investigations and impose penalty on violators, so can you give us the thinking behind this and the rational why this amendment was proposed? >> yes, thank you for that opportunity chair lee. the amendments that are before you in the compromise version brought to you by my office and the office of mayor breed includes a provision, implementation provision, a safe harbor, if you will, that ask the ethic commission to timely promulgate regulations within your authority and to do so on or before the first day of january of 2023, but as soon as possible, and during your regulatory rule making that nobody be penalized until those are done january 1 or your regulations which ever comes sooner. really, it is if i may be candid admonition to this body and staff to timely promulgate regulations without anybody held liable during dependenc

technical issue i go through the ethic's commission. yes, i would like to echo supervisor peskin's comments. we and thank supervisor peskin for his help and collaboration on these amendments. and also thank the ethic's staff and the commissioners for their attention to the issues. we it does look like the parties are in agreement on the some of the base said on the feedback from staff. i don't believe there are open issues other than the diminimus exception the thousand dollar threshold that remains in our version. regarding the definition of, payments. and i will say a few words. this is up to the commission. you know, we do believe that it is a useful threshold and we -- for a few reasons one is consistent with the previous behested payments reporting regime in place, which required reporting from parties and amounts of 1 thousand dollars or over. the state regulation guess up to 5 thousand. i think a thousand dollars was a workable number locally and it will help to alleviate the administrative burden in terms of need to vet small do

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the ethics commission ruled that violated the city's prohibition on accepting gifts from subordinatebility for those mistakes and i'velearg mayor and being in office. reporter: the mayor's office confirmed that breed dated him 20 years ago and they remained close friends. some context. at the time of the gift for the mayor's car repairs, he had a city salary of $270,000 compared to breed's $342,000. >> there was a city family of you scratch my back, i will scratch yours and they treated it like a family. it was all in the family. our existing mayor was a part of that family. reporter: he expects to forfeit that custom-built house where he plans to retire and his city pension. he's been receiving $7,000 a month even as the case moves forward. abc7news. dan: remember if you have a story for the abc7news i team, go to our website. ama: more help on the wafer on house people across california. governor newsom announced the creation of nearly 25,000 new housing units. >> we are doing something faster, at scale, leveraging money we could never leverage in the past, and we are demanding tha

the city ethics commission find her $8000 for failing to report $5000 in car repairs in 2019. the two did have a previous romantic relationship. her office told us us in a statement the mayor has fully supported the federal investigation from the beginning, and has encouraged full participation by all city employees. it's critical that those who break the law and violate the public trust are held accountable. we are digging digging deeper into the court documents, we will tell you what what else they revealed, tonight tonight at 11:00. > >> police have arrested residence for a series of armed robberies that targeted cannabis cannabis delivery drivers. a 17-year-old and 25-year-old are now behind bars after recent robberies, here's how it all worked. police say the suspects placed an order and robber the delivery drivers at gunpoint, when they arrived to drop it off, they stole large amounts of of cannabis along with hundreds of dollars in cash, and one of the incidents they actually stole a car. both suspects are facing multiple felony battery charges, police say at the time o

this afternoon, bodine released a statement asking people to join him and calling on the sf ethics commission to investigate the ties between jenkins people in her administration and the recall effort and demand. full disclosure of the funds paid and received to them during the campaign. the centers for disease control and prevention have relaxed some guidelines having to do with covid-19. this includes quarantined for people who have been exposed to the virus. ktvu elissa harrington is joining us here in the studio tonight with more on what health professionals are saying. well, doctors i spoke with said that this is actually the right time to lift these guidelines. they say there's a lot of immunity here in the bay area, and these new recommendations mean less disruption to life school and work. asking social distancing, isolating and testing. these are some of the strategies we've gotten used to the past 2.5 years to prevent the spread of covid 19. but now that cdc is scaling back on some of these recommendations to stream lighting guidance, instead, we had to decide at what point do we ha

the ethics commission ruled that violated the city's prohibition on accepting gifts from subordinatend find her 1.5 times the cost of the gift. >> i take full responsibility for those mistakes and i've learned a lot since becoming mayor and being in office. reporter: the mayor's office confirmed that breed dated him 20 years ago and they remained close friends. some context. at the time of the gift for the mayor's car repairs, he had a city salary of $270,000 compared to breed's $342,000. >> there was a city family of you scratch my back, i will scratch yours and they treated it like a family. it was all in the family. our existing mayor was a part of that family. reporter: he expects to forfeit that custom-built house where he plans to retire and his city pension. he's been receiving $7,000 a month even as the case moves forward. abc7news. dan: remember if you have a story for the abc7news i team, go to our website. ama: more help on the wafer on house people across california. governor newsom announced the creation of nearly 25,000 new housing units. >> we are doing something faste

in our country, the supreme council of justice appoints members of the ethics commission .ficult there, because some strange people appear on the one hand. to what are the questions, uh, they assign omissions that a person represents the party, a servant of the people, uh, it can be seen from the video that he was but he wanted to escape, he offered money uh, to the police who detained him, that is, it 's all on the video, but well, but in fact, you know how they say the war writes everything now well now it's not a loud story well now tell me there trukhin 850 uah to say but who is he where what what forest who went where forget we have a war in us he a child died today in dnipropetrovsk region forget everything we are fighting and just under this noise is happening but yes, in reality, it is not happening, because well, if there is no justice, judges of justice, then it somehow will not get anywhere. i also wanted to show that there is such a magical toggle switch or button, yes, tick, tick , and that's 40 million ukrainians, we need to work to ensure that the system is n

in support of one or the other or a compromised mutually agreed to version or whatever the ethics commission chooses to do, and then hopefully on or before august the fifth, the mayor will withdraw from the ballot, but that's a lot of ifs. we'll see what happens. members, we have discharged our duty to hear this before law. are there any members of the public who would like to comment on this. >> there is no public comment at this time. >> >> roll call, please. >> [roll call] >> the motion passes. >> thank you, mr. young. >> and for those of you who are in the chambers, two things to know if you are here for the land use committee, one, is it takes the clerk's office a little while to change people's computers, and two, not at my request, the chair of the land use committee has taken pity on this supervisor and will allow me to eat lunch. so, the land use committee will convene at 2:00 p.m. >> >> this meeting is adjourned. >> >>

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and secondly, and i guess kim from the ethics commission, the virtual meeting -- san franciscans cannot trust the sfpuc public utilities transportation commission. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. madam chair, we have no more speakers in the queue. >> public comment is closed. i like to make a motion to send this to the full board with positive recommendation. >> i'll actually, madam chair, the proper motion for a release for reserve hearing is to -- is for you to declare the release of the reserve funds and that the hearing be heard and filed. >> okay. i was looking at that hearing. i have never done one of these, thank you. >> certainly. >> then, i would like to make a motion to release the funds and to file the hearing. >> on that motion? to release the reserve funds of $12 million to the spuc and the motion heard. -- supervisor safai? >> aye. >> supervisor ronen? >> aye. >> supervisor mar? >> aye. >> motion carries. >> mr. clerk, can you read item no. three. >> yes, chair. >> item no. three is resolution approving amendment no. 1 to the agreement between crestwood behavior

ethic's commission. we need to note things like that. and i also -- as we consider continue to involve ourselves in negotiations with mea and others overnight behested payment requirements, i would like to suggest this we add a new issue. to those discussions. and that is a requirement that [inaudible] officers must confirm that check and verified the accuracy of what is filed. as it is now, filing officers receive a form 700 for their filers in their department but no requirement that the filing officers review and when not the disclosures are accurate. in kidnap way, shape or form. take no responsibility for doing anything other than in [inaudible]. when i talked to dhr, for example, they point out there is no requirement. this filing officers review that anything filed with them is truthful and accurate. and appropriate for public which strikes me as obtuse. and so, i think that the fact is -- we know that there are examples of form 700 filers who never disclose some of things that were going o. which is why we have criminal trials wi

the ethics commission world that violated the city's prohibition on accepting gifts from subordinate employees and find her one and a half times the cost of the gift. >> there were mistakes paid -- mistakes made. i take full responsibility and i have learned a lot since becoming mayor and being in office. >> the mayor's office confirmed breed briefly dated more than 20 years ago. some context, at the $342 >> there was a city of is that li>> he did cooperate.ne investigators told him to keep quiet about the case. in his letter to the judge, he admits he did warn his friends who were targets of the investigation. the prosecution says that did serious damage to their case. >> if you have a story for the abc 7 team, go to abc7news/i team or call 18840i team. >> new details about a report you first saw on abc7news paired the san raphael police department says a police officer suggested and on house demand head to san francisco. a san rafael police officer dropped off a mentally ill man in san francisco leaving him alone in a residential area with no resources. the same cisco city's attorn

the effort and a statement, boudin asks supporters to join him in quote , calling on the sf ethics commissioninvestigate the ties between jenkins people in her administration and the recall effort and demand full disclosure of the funds paid and received to them during the campaign end quote. former san francisco police commissioner john hamasaki is now planning to run for district attorney in the fall special election, the criminal defense attorney tells ktvu. he pulled the paperwork to run for office. hamasaki was against the recall of chase a boudin. the decision comes as bodine announced last week that he would not run for office in november. now interim district attorney brooke jenkins will also be in the running for the district attorney spot. along with former police and fire commissioner joe ali oto veronese. the former president of the san francisco school board, who was recalled from office has filed paperwork to run for the board. in november, gabriela lopez submitted her candidacy papers yesterday. lopez lost her seat on the board in february by more than 70% of the vote, along wi

of the recall of chasing booty, according to new financial documents were filed with the city ethics commission , the nonprofit group neighbors for a better sent francisco page jenkins that money for consulting work. another group with a similar name called neighbors for a better san francisco advocacy was the main funder of the recall the same billionaires on the board of both groups. jenkins had previously said she was a volunteer with the recall campaign. the payment was first reported by sf standard. we did reach out to the district attorney's office for comment. we haven't heard back yet. but in a statement to the chronicle, the spokesperson for jenkins said, quote my work for the nonprofit organizations focused on public safety and other legal work supporting communities ranging from formerly incarcerated women helping advise the business community on public safety concerns and issues. i compiled legal analysis research reports and provided advice for all of these organizations and their respective issue areas. time is now 705, california lawmakers want to proved the state's response of t

both today, one last thing, we have less than a minute here, but today the canvas governmental ethics commissioned that quote, under current law, text message advocacy about constitutional ballot initiatives does not require paid for disclaimers. is it bigger than that? is there no way to have any accountability about who did this? who ran a ten? to stop it? >> while the good news is it despite of the ethics laws that don't require it, there was some really tenacious news reporters and made now been reported in kansas widely by this afternoon, who exactly is responsible for this. a tech-based company run by republicans as i say, former congressman tim heals camp who lost his primary a couple of years ago is behind it. that information is available to kansans. and it's very clear that this was designed specifically to confuse kansas putters. >> kathleen sebelius, thank you so much for your, time really push ate it. still to come, every once in a while the state does something just objectively good. and of course republicans are gets it. the latest on the republican crusade against clean air and c

of the chase boudin recall effort, according to new financial documents filed with the city ethics commission, the nonprofit group neighbors for a better san francisco pay jenkins that money for consulting work, a different group with nearly the same name neighbors for a better, said francisco advocacy was the main funder of the recall. the same billionaire is on the board of both groups. jenkins had previously said that she was a volunteer with the recall campaign. the payment was first reported by the sf standard. now we did reach out to the da's office for comment haven't heard back yet. but in a statement to the chronicle spokesperson for jenkins said, my work for the nonprofit organizations focused on public safety and other legal work supporting communities ranging from formerly incarcerated women helping advise the business community on public safety concerns and issues. i compiled legal analysis, research reports and provided advice for all of these organizations and their respective issue areas. california lawmakers are working to improve the state's response to the monkeypox outbrea

about the judicial integrity criteria, the supreme council of justice, the qualification commission, the ethicscil, to understand the this confusing list of intricate definitions is not so simple although they are all a combination of those transformations in ukraine to eradicate bribery and corruption and judiciary up to european standards so in the new judicial control project we will untangle this gordian knot of institutional changes and also carefully monitor those who are entrusted with their implementation, the judiciary finally became civilized and really ensured the protection of the rights and freedoms of citizens and our program will have its own traditions we are starting from the news, the ethics council held the first interviews with candidates for the position of a member of the supreme court on august 10, they listened to three applicants from the congress of judges of ukraine natalia kovalenko mykhailo kobel and eduard bondarev, all online interviews took place in closed mode, that is, without live broadcasting on the internet, as it was until february 24. what questions were a

lifeblood of san francisco and a vibrant community >> good morning welcome to the august 12 ethic's commission. >> this private meeting is held pursuant to the 45th [inaudible]. [cannot hear speaker] >> sfgov.org and online at

your notice of recusal with ethic's commission. >> you have 10 days to file your recusal form. i don't hear you. >> sorry. every time you recuse yourself you file a form with ethices and have 10 days you are familiar just to friend low reminder. >> that will place us on item 8. 1015 guerrero street this . is a request to adopt a resolution in support to the national register of historic places. >> good afternoon planning staff. the item before you is an initial register nomination the tim 3 flewinger house at 1015 guerrero in mission. prepared by robert churny proif he wassor at san francisco state university. as a certified local government the city is begin the opportunity rerue and comment on nominations to historic places prior to action by the state resource commission. any comment bunkham this commission will issue forwarded to the historic preservation august fifth state historical hearing the tim 3 flewinger house nomination will be considered. >> the house located on the east side of guerrero eldoverado and 22n't. italianate house single family dwelling. converted to 2

about the judicial criteria of integrity, the supreme council of justice, the qualification commission, the ethicsnd this confusing list of intricate definitions is not so easy. although all of them is a set of transformations that should improve the judicial system in ukraine, eliminate bribery, corruption and bring the judiciary to european standards. so in the new project judicial control, we will untangle this gordian knot of institutional changes and also carefully monitor those who are entrusted with their implementation so that the traditions of the ukrainian judiciary finally become civilized and really ensure the protection of rights and freedom diana and our program will have its own traditions we start with news the ethical council held the first interviews with candidates for the position of a member of the supreme court on august 10, three candidates from the congress of judges of ukraine, nataliya kovalenko, mykhailo kobel and eduard bondarev, all listened the online interviews were held in closed mode, i.e. without live broadcasting on the internet, as it was until february 24, what

concerning about making sure we have an open and transparent with the city attorney's office and ethics commissionnd to take their advice whenever there is an ethics concern. we have regular meetings with our city attorney. we started a dialogue of our staff. they are very proactive in terms of approaching and myself on questions which is exactly the kind of relationship and dialogue that we want to have and we bring questions to our city attorney. that's something that is going to be on going. we did do a senior staff training this summer particularly on rules as well as thick -- ethics rules. >> >> we did complete the city attorney and there was no additional money for attorney time. we will address that issue. but there is no other action to take. the last item which was brought up by commissioner stephenson in that meeting was the scheduled annual ethics meeting before earth month and that is for requirements and sponsorship. this will align with the new reporting requirement that we are going to have on staff with form 700 and annual meeting with staff that align that february march timeframe