we brought all the evidence to this commission.do you know that they still said it was a conflict of interest. they couldn't do on it because those two agencies were so protected by this corrupt city and county, the cultural centre at the time and i hate to say it because i ain't saying anything bad about our current mayor, but the director at the time was london breed. the lady is a commissioner with the human rights commission. when i bring back my complaint, it will go back a few years right now to where the western edition has been penalized, not by individuals, but one individual and i'm willing to have a debate with him because i got no allegiance to this man. his name is willie brown jr.. now willie brown jr.. i've been waiting for the time for him to raise his ugly head. figuratively speaking, not ugly. he had to get up there and he say it and i'm asking for an investigation. he got up there and said it. i'm the one with responsible for forcing ed lee to be a mayor! he didn't want to be the mayor. no, he did not want to be

want to begin to get feedback from the commission now. are there ways to strengthen this ordinance? do you have concerns? are we missing anything? are there things that we haven't thought of, so we're hoping to get really -- put forth the most robust piece of le legislation that we can around honesty and transparency in our country. i want to thank our community partners. we've held several meetings since july to get feedback from members of our community on how we can continue to strengthen our disclosure on transparency, and for that, i'll open it up for comments if there are any comments by this commission. >> thank you, supervisor kim, and we certainly welcome you and commend you on all those different matters and also have tremendous interest in and are working on, as well. i also want to indicate that i'll be meeting with you on friday with a couple members of our staff to talk further about it. we have an appointment at 10:00 at your office on friday, and we'll -- at that time, i'll be bringing to you any specifics that i have in m

the warren commission. the second item that you requested is lee harvey oswald's address book. so this is a custom made container made by our conservation staff and again this is acid free. this is mylar and got this handy little lift so that you can get it out of its well without having to pull on it. you can see there's a commission exhibit number 18. and it has all of his hand written items, including a map. addresses and telephone numbers. that you would expect. the final item is a map of mexico city. oswald made trip to mexico city prior to the assassination. and brought this map home and this was acquired by dallas police and the fbi and eventually the warren commission as well. on this side of the map you have a smaller map with tourists spots which are identified on the side, which you can tell certain things were circled. it it was like that when we received it. obviously we wouldn't add anything like that. the back side is a larger map. again with several items circled. i have found in secondary s

commission on civil rights. president obama appointed her to a six-year term on the in september, 2016. that may feel like a long time ago. that may feel like yesterday. she also serves as counsel for the national center for youth law. before coming to the commission, she served as the assistant secretary for civil rights at the u.s. department of education. [applause] i am going to walk through time, backward, in a good way. , president barack obama appointed mr. castro in 2011 and elevated him to chair, making marty the first latino chair in the history of the commission. is the president -- i hope you don't mind i use your first names and introductions. marty is the president and ceo of castro synergies, llc, which provides strategic consulting services to organizations that seek to collaborate with and have a positive social impact on diverse communities. marty. [applause] was scheduled to be here today but he had a personal emergency and could not join us. a little bit of background on gerald. appointed mr.

a the october commission meeting, members of the public and the commission expressed interest of having staff look into these proposals and analyze whether or not they could be possible action items for the commission to take. so, as a result, we followed up with anne ravel and we had a meeting in our office on november 20 that commissioners lee and chu were present at as well as a lot of our staff members to look at different aspects of how these proposals could possibly be implemented and this memo sets forth some of the major proposal and what staff believes would be the best way forward on these. starting on page two, the major proposele that staff believes is worthwhile to do further analysis of is a concept of a kind of archive wherein online platforms think of facebook, twitter, and other websites that provide advertising space or other areas for people to spread political communications. these kind of platforms would archive certain data about these paid communications. that data would include not the identity necessarily of the person paying for it, but the amount paid, the con

after some q&a between the commission and the japan town task force, the historic preservation commission ultimately decided to keep the plaza as part of the landmark designation and to move it to the full board for consideration. and, again, that will be heard in the new year and supervisor breed's staff was in attendance and is committed to having some sort of discussion between the historic preservation commission, japan town task force and the rest of the community on next steps forward. so, that concludes my comments unless you have any questions. >> thank you, mr. frye. >> seeing no other reports, we can move on to general public comment at this time. members of the public may address members of the commission. except agenda items. with respect to agenda item, your opportunity to address the commission will be afforded went the item is reached in the meeting. each member of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes. i did have a couple of speaker cards. >> yeah. jerry dratler and georgia sciudice. >> i have some materials to hand out. >> place them there, please.

the commission members have. jeff weaver. >> i move to adopt an amendment that i've submitted to page three, line 39. which everybody has in their pact. happy to explain it for two decades -- for two seconds if people want. people came to this commission with a wide range of views on the appropriate role of unpledged delegates at the democratic convention. we were given a mandate by the convention from 2016, the highest authority of the democratic party, and this commission has worked within that framework, despite the fact that people came to this and still have widely disparate views on unpledged delegates. my view is they should -- they should have no vote at the convention. others have different views. this discusses the range of views that are held by the commission on this point. > i second jeff's amendment. >> discussion on this? seeing no discussion, we're going to put it to a vote. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. it's unanimous. he amendment is adopted. ther amendments? to amendment number sev

of the reform commission to order. i would like to first as the members and those with us to join for the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god with liberty and justice for all. >> thank you. i now ask you to call the roll. >> thank you madam chair. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] >> we are missing a few commission members but we certainly have a quorum and i would like to start today by acknowledged in chairman perez who is here and we are very thankful for his participation. [applause] and more than that for his leadership of the democrat national party so we are really glad to be here. >> good morning everyone. thank you. i want to start off by saying thank you for your hard work. this was a very important exercise it was labor-intensive and came to it with an open mind and with a remarkable set of ideas so i want to say thank you to all of you but i want to say particular things tour cochair. we have be

whereas all the cities' commissions serve the residents of the city, this commission is charged to carry out oversights that impact folks who may not be san francisco residents, but their work impacts san francisco residents. their perspectives and engagement for me is also critical so that as we deliberate policies and other action items, it's good to have all sides' perspectives. i hear folks who want to keep it the way it is. i understand that. but at the same time to really try to broaden up the participatory pull, so to speak, i'd like for us to try this out as a trial run. because as a bylaw, we can always change it. but at least make it available for folks who otherwise could not make it in the evening times so that they can attend, they can add their perspective as we engage with the public. so i would like to make a motion to approve this proposal from the staff. >> chair keane: is there a second? >> second. >> chair keane: i agree completely with commissioner lee in regard to what she said. i'd like to add a couple of owe other things. in regard to the commission, us as commiss

this commission. working together, we have made some excellent recommendations. i had to abstain from them because we will be having a full discussion in the rules and bylaws committee, and i do not want to have prejudged the outcome of that discussion. i believe we have taken the opportunity to learn from each other. it is a long way from where we begin in this discussion. since these recommendations will be translated to the rules and bylaws committee, and eventually the full dnc. on behalf of myself and my cochair, lorraine miller, i want to assure you we take this work seriously. we plan to ask on this swiftly, to begin the incorporation of inse edits where applicable the convention, in the regulation come in the charter, and in the bylaws. these are the documents that govern the process these recommendations impact. in terms of the specific process, i've asked staff to schedule a meeting next year to start this work. dates in late at january and early february. we will make sure commission member

commission. the second item that you requested is lee harvey os wald's address book. a custom made container. and again this is acid free. this is they have this handy little lift. so you can get it out without having to pull. there's a commission exhibit number of on there. 18. and it has all of his handwritten items including a map. addresses and telephone numbers. which you would expect. the final item is a map. of mechanixico city. he made a trip to mexico city. prior to the assassination. and brought this map home. and this was acquired by dallas police. and the fbi and the warren commission. this side of the map there's a smaller map with tourist spots. which are identified on this side. as you can tell certain things were circled. it was like that when we received it. obviously we wouldn't add anything like that. the backside is larger map. again with several items circled. i have found in secondary sources people have written that these some of the items circled were actually the embassie

commission report. in order for something to become a commission exhibit, it would have been discussed in one of the testimonies taken by the warren commission or referenced in the warren report. >> so 50 years later, are there still classified items and how does the declassification process work? martha: that was taken care in -- taking care of in the act itself. the assassination records review board had a unique power. they had the capability of overruling the agencies, even on classification. the only appeal the agencies had was to the president of the united states. while the board was in business, they made a final determination on the records. >> when the board review these -- reviewed these records, we found little reason to continue to protect these records. many of them we found should not have been protected during the 1960's. we do have to remember the era in which this occurred, an era in which national security concerns were heightened. caused a feeling -- the suppression of these importan

book on the commission in 2017. we are concluding our calendar for the year and we will be back on january 10th. it has been a challenging year, it has been a hard year. but we accomplished much and there is still a lot to do. let's work as productively together as we have been able to do in the past. i look forward to working with all of you in 2018. 2018 in one capacity or another. and i thank you for all of your time and attention to the commission and to the goal also of serving the people of the city and county of san francisco. >> i want to thank you and the commissioner for your leadership. it is a difficult year. we do what we have to do. i want to thank you for your hard work. and we hope you get well. >> thank the chief, too. all in favor of adjournment. aye. i will make a motion to adjourn. >> second. >> i vote no. i will go with the majority. >> president turman: all in favor. any opposed. thank you. we will see you on january 10th. extravaganza, celebration. >> sf gov, we are ready to start the meeting.

it varies from board and commission. the clerk of the board of supervisors says all you need to do is meet the very minimum the law requires: the person's name, what they spoke about, and whether they were for or against. that's the minimum. other bodies make an honest effort because they want the public to participate and they want what the public's input is to actually be reflected in the official record, and that's what the minutes are: they are the official record. the videotape and any other form are not the official record. in the minutes before you are two 150 word summaries: one by dr. derek kerr, and one by myself. i would challenge any member of this commission to provide any evidence that the responsibility for record keeping minutes has been in some way compromised. for approximately five years, from 2011 to 2016, this body relegated my statements to the status of an addendum. then, in 2016, the summaries began to appear as they are now, quote, in the minutes, unquote. so the sunshine ordinance states, so the

as i was explaining the commission to some of the other day is that this is a worker's commission. every single person here is putting in the time not just in public meetings but outside of them. to really think about hard sticky topics income up with soft wall ideas and solutions. i think you will see that throughout today and tomorrow but i just want to commend the commission for their participation their passion in what they what they believe in and on behalf of the party and the work here. i'm really confident that what we are going to end up with after it today and tomorrow's going to be a report that will help unify the party but will also bring major reform, greater reform that i have seen in my time doing political work and in a way that is 100% on the mark mandated to be more open and inclusive in thinking about grassroots participation. i'm confident we are going to have a good state but i want to make sure we set the tone and everyone is here and everyone that is tuning and understands the work is behind a team of commission workers. i also wanted to take a moment to tha

focus of this commission. out of those four, you actually did a deeper dive in terms of conversation on opportunities and concerns on three of them. the first topic was sea level rise as a result of climate change. the second was public/private partnership opportunities. the third was municipal banking. the fourth that you chose to not explore any further at least for purposes of today's discussion was level of housing and navigation centers to solve the homelessness problem. with respect to the sea level rise conversation, the opportunities that this commission identified would be that this would be a collaborative effort. lots of public discussion regarding the existing plan. what are the effects of the neighborhood? your commission had indicated that neighborhood flooding is a problem. so an opportunity to explore that. to perhaps look at and enhance a coordinated plan to the creation of a sea level rise adaptation plan. your commission noted that this problem is inevitable. so it will is time to plan and p

of the commission. each member of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes. i will ask those people standing in front of the doorway to please find a seat. in order to remain in the room t sheriffs have alerted us that you must find a seat. i'll see if i can't accommodate for an overflow room. but you can't block the door. it causes a fire hazard. thank you. >> thank you. i have a number of speaker cards for general public comment. if i call your name, you can line up on the screen side of the room and approach in any order. georgia, laura, lisa, daniel and laura. >> good afternoon, commissioners. on october 12, you passed the residential flat policy and i want to thank you for that. and i think it is a good thing you did. i stumbled on this for sale in the caliente quatro between 24th and 25th. it was two units. it's now one. it is selling for $1 million -- can i have the overhead, please? this is my thank you. but i'm going somewhere so you can see there. here's the foreplan. ther

with that i'm going to open this up for discussion to the commission and ask for commission members to begin focused solely on unpledged delegates and if they want to raise amendments or edits they can start the process. >> madam chair, i want to move to amend and this amendment starts on page 3. it is line 33 and to add to the end of the paragraph and decrease the undue influence, real or perceived, the unpledged delegates had on influencing the outcome of the nominating process. >> sorry. discussion on that, thank you. larry for telling me to push my button. [ no audio ] >> makes it a neutral statement the way that the first part of the statement is also neutral. so that's the -- >> i'll second the amendment. [ no audio ] >> senator turner. >> i don't know how we're seconding an amendment that -- we're still on the amendment as i proposed and so while i understand what you're saying there was undue influence in 2016 and the democratic party would do well to confess that there was undue influence in 2016 and my biggest concern in adding this amendment is that this amendment shows that

and this commission should hear this. this poor woman has been through every process getting city permits and stuff. and i get these phone calls, i have to get this permit and they are changing this and this, and i have to sit in the police department for this. but i listen to her, and i will call regina and we will get it done. but you have really endured through a lot of these processes, and i'm proud of you. i remember when you took over the motel and you didn't know and you just started doing it. i think it's awesome what you have done, the renovations, the place looks beautiful. i will end it with this, if you drive up market street during the holidays and see market street lit up with the white lights it was brittany beck that started it at the motor lodge and got the other merchants to put white lights on their trees, between church and castro you could thank brittany for that christmas miracle. we call her miss christmas in the neighborhood. you should see her house. i want to thank you for everything you have don

chair tom perez welcoming members of the commission and talking about why the commission was created and his hopes for the outcome. >> i'd like to start today by acknowledging chairman perez, we're thankful for his participation. and more than that for his leadership of the democrats in the national party. we're glad you could be here with us and look forward to earing your remarks. >> good morning, everyone. hank you all for being here this was labor intensive, everyone came to it with an open mind and remarkable set of ideas. i want to say thank you to all f you. you have both entered this boldprise with a spirit of passion and a spirit of ingenuity and a spirit that understands that this is the most serious stress test on our nation's democracy perhaps in our history and the work of this unity commission is so critically important. larry and jen, thank you so much for what up been doing. it's impossible to overstate the importance of the work that you have been doing. his is -- i come to you both with a sense of remarkable sobriety given what's happening in washington and around t

want to thank all of the commission members. [applause] it has been an honor for me to serve in this commission, and i for that working together, we have made some excellent recommendations. this.l be discussing and i do not want to pre-just the outcome of that discussion. feel we have at the opportunity and a taken that opportunity to learn from each other here. we have moved a long way from where we began in this discussion. so these recommendations will be transmitted to the rules and bylaws committee, and eventually to the full democratic national committee. on behalf of myself and my cochair lorraine miller, and the like to assure you that we take his work very seriously. we plan to act on this with lee and to begin the process of incorporating -- plan to act on and begin the process of incorporating this. in the regulations, and the charter, and in the bylaws. these are the documents i govern the process that these recommendations impact. in terms of the specific process , i have asked staff to schedule a leading early nex

the commission members had electronic members of draft e.i.r. and background reports, including historic resource evaluation and response. the commission secretary has also distributed a handout, which i will refer you to later. copies of this handout are available to members of the public on the table to my left. today we're here to provide the commission to provide public testimony, to discuss and formulate any comments that you wish to submit on the draft e.i.r. i would like to provide with you a brief summary of the draft e.i.r. with historical resources the project site is a 2-story building that housed the metropolitan community church of san francisco and is now vacant. the proposed project would demolish the building, split the lot into two and construct two four-story, 40-foot-tall residential buildings. each would have two residential units and two vehicle parking space. a total building area of 14,441 gross square feet. the 150 eureka street building is eligible for inclusion on the california register of historical places under crite

i want to thank all the commission members. [applause]e] >> it has been an honor for me to serve on this commission, and i feel that working together we've made some excellent recommendations. as you notice i've abstain from any of them because we'll be discussing it, having a full discussion in the rules and bylaws committee at the do not want to prejudge the outcome of that discussion. but i feel that we've had the opportunity and we've taken that opportunity to learn from each other. we have moved a a long way from where we began in this discussion. so these recommendations will be transmitted to the rules and bylaws committee, and eventually tod the full democratic national committee. on behalf of myself and my culture, lorraine miller, i'd like to assure you that we take this work very seriously. plan to act on this swiftly to begin the process of incorporating these edits and the selection rules, in the calls for convention, and the regulations, in t the charter ad in the bylaws. these are thehe documents that government

the commission's job commission were stood down at the weekend.s progress in bringing children out of poverty and providing opportunities for all communities. at the chairman, the former labour cabinet minister alan milburn, resigned, saying he had little hope that the current government could make progress on social mobility because it was too focused on brexit. it gave lib dem leader sir vince cable the opportunity to ask ministers about the resignations in the commons. opportunity to ask ministers about the resignations in the commonslj don't the resignations in the commons.” don't think conservatives have ever claimed to be a party of equality, but they have always claimed to be a party of equality of opportunity, in other words, social mobility. and when the prime minister took office, her first speech set out very clearly the objectives to do everything to help anybody, whatever their background, to go as far as their background, to go as far as their talents would take them. so what does the resignation of the commission tell us about the g

you know, as i was explaining the commission to other day, i said this is a worker commission. we are every single person here is putting in the time, not just in these public meetings but outside of them. to speak with their peers here, to reach out to the grassroots, to really think about some hard sticky topics and come up with really thoughtful ideas and solutions. and i think that you will see that throughout today and tomorrow. but i just want to commend, again, the commission for their participation, their passion in what they believe in, and on behalf of the party and the work here. and i am really confident that what we're going to end up with after today and tomorrow is going to be a report that will help unify the party but will also bring major reform, greater reform than i have certainly seen in my time doing political work. in a way that is 100% on the mark with what this commission's mandate is, to be more open and inclusive, to think about grassroots participation, to make it easier to vote. so i am confidence that we're going to have a good two days. but i want

the commission members -- to all of the commission members. all the materials we received will be scanned. there's no reason why they can't be handed out. i appreciate it. we just had a miscommunication. thank you for sharing your thoughts with us. can we have the commission at their seats, please? if you can just hand them to maureen. hand them out to the commission members. thank you. can the commission members take their seats so we can get started, please? >> ok/ good morning, everyone. thank you for joining us. i'm the chair of the unity reform commission. i'm joined by my friend, vice chair larry cohen. i hereby call the i asked the members to stand and join us for the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. which ite republic for stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> i am now going to ask patrice taylor, i'm going to ask helen .cfadden to call the role the chairs are both your. -- the chairs are both here. floorm going to hand the over to vice chai

the purpose of the federal communications commission open meeting is for the commission to consider the matters that have been duly posted in accordance with the government and the sunshine act. as provided in the commission's rules, members of the public are invited to observe, which includes attending, listening, and taking notes, but does not include participating in the meeting, or addressing the commission. actions that purposely interfere or attempt to interfere with the commencement or conduct of the meeting, or inhibit the audience's ability to observe or listen to the meeting, including attempts by audience members to address the commission while the meeting is in progress, are not permitted. any person engaging in such behavior will be asked to leave the building, anyone who refuses to leave voluntarily will be escorted from the building. additionally, documents presented to the chairman, commissioners, or staff, during the meeting, will not become part of the official record of any commission proceeding. nor will they require further action by the commission. if you wish to c

is that -- that seems to be the sense of the commission, so that's what we'll do. >> the commission isn't required to act. i think we're looking for your policy direction. you've been clear on it, so there's no need to take objection. >> take public comments? >> president keane: yeah, we'll take public comment now. >> i'd say just lastly because supervisor kim is also considering social media-type regulation, i also don't want that train to leave the station without our input. >> larry bush, friends of ethics. a comment on the sunshine task force, one of the things that's going to have to happen is a rewriting of the sunshine ordinance because it calls for one of the appointees of the task force to come from the new american media, and you've just seen in the paper today, they've gone out of business, so they're going to have to have a new formula. >> well, they won't even notice. >> well, i can say about that that i worked a year and a half ago with supervisor campos and several others on a rewrite of the sunshine ordinance task force, because even the people who proposed it released at

i think it would be prudent to have the commission secretary poll the commission as to what days might work just in case we need that meeting. i schedule my travel around these meetings. i've never missed a commission meeting, so i would like to know in advance if, you know -- what days to block out in case it's needed. >> thank you, commissioner covington. >> thank you. >> we'll try to do that. i think we need to put in a future closed session our review of the chief. that has to be on the agenda. >> we still haven't received instructions, well, from the hr and the mayor's -- >> well, put that on the list, and of course, the department physician. we have to do those two evaluations, and i think we'll have the election for commission officers probably the second meeting in january , if that works for everybody. all right. i am going to defer our closed session existing litigation issue until our next meeting. >> we might be able to get it done. >> you think we can get that done in five minutes? all right. well, we'll make an effort, then. is our attorney here? >> item 11, possible clos

and i think it was about getting fresh blood into the commission. secretary went on to defend the government's record. we are seeing standards in our schools rise, and critically we are seeing the attainment gap in schools narrow — this is the difference in outcomes between disadvantaged children and their better—off peers. in the report they found children's life chances vary in every part of england. two thirds of areas where young people have the best chance of success are in london, but many rural, coastal and former industrial areas are being left behind. the midlands is the worst performing region in england. deprived areas registered some of the highest support for leaving the european union. the government is facing criticism that it is so focused on brexit that it is ignoring the reasons which led people to vote for it. jonathan blake, bbc news. earlier i spoke to christian guy, formerly david cameron's special adviserfor social reform in number 10, and previously a member of the social mobility commission, and asked whether theresa may ris