, the work was done exclusively by the commission on information and in 1963, the exchange commission produced the first report on education and cultural exchanges. and then, the 1977 amendment to the 1948 act merged the information and exchange commissions and maintained the statutory authority. shortly thereafter, it became the advisory commission on public diplomacy. so, if we go back across the years the inning with 1949 to look at these reports, and by the way, they are all available online on our website. we are slowly updating our website to make these reports more accessible. if you go back and look at them, what you realize is that they represent, really, a very interesting overview of the evolution of public diplomacy in part of our foreign-policy activity. what i have done in going over all these reports is come up with about six areas where the recommendations seem to fall. there was certainly across the years a real interest in resources, funding. but also, very early on, and i will take you back to the 1950's and show you this, a concern about research and evaluation. th

commission. >> good morning. miss armstrong brings a wealth of information overseeing our child health program, particularly for our african american families. in the coming years, we're hoping to bring other initiatives into even greater alignment. there's also several exciting opportunities coming down from the state in home visiting so we're hoping to explore those together, so really excited about the work ahead of us, and again, just really strongly encourage you to support miss armstrong's nomination to our commission. thank you. >> chair ronen: wonderful. thank you so much. >> chair rone is there any public comment before i hearing a motion on this? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> chair ronen: is there a motion on this item? >> supervisor stefani: i would like to forward this to the full board with a positive recommendation for -- let's see -- i should put my glasses on -- ellie armstrong. >> chair ronen: thank you. we can do that without objection. [gavel]. >> chair ron

i'm the lead auditor at the ethics commission. i worked closely with pat as well as several other divisions to take these changes that came about, phase one and phase two process and actually kind of make them reality for the candidates, treasurers, and other stakeholders. continuing on with our presentation, one of the main things that we found coming out of the 2018 election cycle as we entered into the phase one discussion and changes was that there were a lot of ways we could improve and update our existing educational material, not just to incorporate the new changes but also to just make information more accessible to the public, not just candidates and treasurers, but anyone that may have an interest in what it is we do with the public financing program. our first stop place for information is our website. we do have a dedicated page to public financing to provide a lot of general facts and overviews of the program and how it works. the audit team does perform a regular review several times a month. many we kind of go throu

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>> ethics commission is back in open session. i would like to make a motion not to disclose the closed session deliberations regarding the pending litigation. >> second. >> all in favor. >> aye. >> motion was carried unanimously. >> number 10, additional public comment. there's no public comment. move to adjourn. thank you. >> do roll call. [ roll call ] >> agenda number two, public comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda. >> thank you, ethics commissioners and staff of our city. i am a public services worker. i am a delegate for government employees. i am also the director of public relations for the california grand jury association, the san francisco chapter. i have been coming to the ethic commission for the government employees in -- 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019. the last time i was here was january of 2020. i came to report issues of possibly government corruption and election fraud. as you remember, i was one of the eight candidates for san francisco mayor in the june 2018 election. i was not allowed to join

i have to say that were many other items that the youth commission is requesting. however, we only brought forward those issues that pertained to the supervisor's question. the next slide provides the budget request which i just discussed a moment ago and you can see the total that we're providing is at 13,851 -- $35,000.251 for the proposed amount and if we go to the next slide, that does talk about overtime pay. i had an inquiry from the member of the board who was curious about overtime pay for the administrative assistants and i wanted to put that information upfront. titen administrative assistants are on board and have clocked in. and on average, they're working 7.92 hours of overtime per aid, per pay period. so there's other detail there, but just wan wanted to put that. some administrative assistants are being paid overtime pay. while others are earning compensatory time. one has actually reached the fiscal year cap and so there is the blend that's occurring and the union rules allow for that to occur. it's 120 hours. so if there aren't any questions about

mission members yourself chair commission.>what is >>so we take our responsibility very as you know an entirely volunteer commission board has been meeting for the last 2 and a half years. we do not take this responsibility lightly all which is why it's taken us a while to get to this point where we have decided that there wasn't enough. the leadership and so that we need a new edition come. i know so assistant chief will be in an acting position until the in consultation with myself can identify an interim and then move forward with a full long search. so we a new chief to build community trust. address the disparities that still exist to diversify and grow the department. >>all to the level of respect our officers and our community deserves. i'm not sure that we have the luxury of trying to identify whether or not it's difficult we need to forge ahead. and we certainly hope that ah there will be significant interest in oakland and certainly no fun we have some outstanding leadership for him and i'm sure there's also some exc

naturally, that would concern this commission. i think what i'm wondering, how does the code typically -- are there provisions that the code where you can only take advantage of some zoning or code provision if you're a small business as defined by the law. i'm just wonderin wondering whag la stor-- regulatory opportunits would be. >> the key is number of locations worldwide. there's a consistency of look, feel, signage and product so you can really tell whether you're going to detroit, san francisco, toronto. you're walking into the same business. i think to your point, which is sort of -- along the lines what we're asking about and not related to this hearing on wednesday. in terms of we have online retailers who may or may not be venture capital backed but really grow and grow their market and decide they want to open the flagship store. i have been asked by -- i think this question did come up at the presentation around vacancies. one of the valencia street merchants asked if they will be looked at given consideration. to your

members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction and are not on today's agenda. >> president caen: so i have two speaker cards in front of me. the first mr. pecasa. >> commissioners, my name is francisco de kosta. one of the positions i had in my life is i was six army and procedural san francisco congressional liaison. when i did that job, i had to interact with congressmen and senators from this great nation. i learned a lot. you know, my heart is heavy because as a citizen, i come here to monitor some of the projects as best i can. i'm not paid to do it, nor will i receive remuneration for that type of work. but it saddens me that in the southeast sector of san francisco, people are suffering. the san francisco public utilities commission profits a lot from what is happening in the southeast sector. there are designs that are brought so that housing can be built, recreation centers can be built, a lot of money spent on art while our children die. our children are dying. our elders are dying. some of them are pushed to live on the

must still provide advice to the arts commission before the arts commission can approve the mural in situations where no certificate of appropriateness is needed. the arts commission must review any mural that is on public property or uses any type of public funds, regardless of the property's historic status. if it's determined that a full certificate of appropriateness is needed for a new mural, according to the planning code, the arts commission must give advice to the historic preservation committee before the h.p.c. can approve the mural. exchange of advice between agencies does not occur with article 11 buildings. that was a lot. so the bottom line is to always check what type of building that a new mural is proposed for and to have good communication between the city departments and property owners. the information map created by planning can be used to check the historic status of any property in san francisco. the only time planning or the historic preservation commission gets involved in murals is for any building in an article 10 or 11 district, including non-contributors.

with the small business commission, the small business commission was a commission that was created in the year 2000. but then a ballot measure was put forward, and the voters approved it as a charter commission in 2003. the legacy business program originally was an ordinance but a ballot measure was put in place to establish the legacy business preservation fund. the small business assistance center came about, and the creation of that office, which created a more full office before it was just a commission director and the commission secretary, was created through a ballot measure in 2007, approved by the voters and opened in may of 2008. so there's much of the kind of remind that the creation of our office and the work that you do has been affirmed much by the voters. then we have two other case managers. they share the case manager carol cheng, that is shared with martha yanez, so newsletters. the business portal used to be managed by the commission of technology but has now come back to the office of small business where we are managing the content, and caron does the data. and th

if it goes to the commission then there's a commission finding. so the commission -- so commission or department has to make a finding in order for it to be sustained. >> all right. >> cases don't have facts. >> hang on. i just wanted to ask that in most reports it would be good towards the staffing. i know there was some funding for s.b.-1421 and having staff on board, so that would be good to hear. >> i can give a quick update on that now. so we finally got the funding to bring on board the legal assistance. we finished interviews with those people last week, and we will be making offers to two legal assistants shortly. that's great. we have one full-time attorney who will be working on sb-1421, another attorney who will be devoting 50 percent of her time to it and a volunteer attorney who is starting in a couple weeks who will be doing 100 percent 1421. >> thank you. anything else from the d.p.a.? next line item, please. >> we have not heard that. i would like to introduce the 810 audit by our award winning director of policy, samr a marion. >>

>> i'm calling the commission on the environment to order. thank you all for being here. >> good evening, this is the meeting of the san francisco environment. the time is 5:03 p.m. a net that the ringing of cell phones, pagers and similar devices are prohibited. please turn your devices off. there will be public comment, as well as comment for items not on the agenda and this is item number 4. we ask that you fill out a speaker card at the table and hand them to me and i'll hand them to the president and the president will call folks in the order we receive them. we will call up folks after they receive the cards if you would like to speak anonymously. (role call). call (commissioner chu is(role. >> we have a quorum. >> great. good evening and thank you for coming out to this very important meeting of the commission on the environment. as is normal for our january meeting, we do more administrative items like reviewing and approving the department budget, reviewing and approving the annual report and officer elections. before i get started,

i did not realize that thentire commission felt so. upset that they felt that she can no longer this job oakland city council president rebecca kaplan is behind a new measure that would give the police commission ev more power. >>councilmember cobb says he wouldn't go that far if anybody. >>anybdy wants to remove the mayoral appointments. i ablutelyoppose yeah i oppose it because we have to have thatshared responsibility and i do not want to get rid of thos haaz madyun kron 4 news. kland >>alsin the east bay police in hercules are looking for a missingirl tonight, 13 year-old briana holiday was last seen in berkeley yesteay.she was wearing brn floral pants white t-shirt with the red and bl nasa logo on the front and her hair was in ponytail if you have any nformation about her or if you see her hercules police are asking you to give thema call. >>terrence cisco is movg closer to opening safe injection sites kron four's maureen kelly talk to the mayor who believes encoaging add extra shoe dru. indoors will help prevent fatal overdoses w

and prior to commissioner yekutiel, commission sharkey and huie, we have had extensive discussions with the commission about the ballooning obligation, potential ballooning obligation, especially around the business assistance grant. so with the rent stabilization grant, when a property owner applies for the grant, they can apply for it either up to ten years or let's say there's three years left in a lease and they extend it out for seven years, and they can apply for seven years. we are not -- the way the proposition j was written, again, is how much funding is there and so it will be allocated proportionally, though, with the rent stabilization grant, we are to do our best to fully fund the earlier grants before we take on new grants. so we will be having future discussions, because in the next year to two, we will be meeting, if we are to fund new grants, new rent stabilization grants, then we will be exceeding the $1 million. but that's a future discussion to have. >> so that introduces another question. so last year we had the $500,000 add back. when there's more money to distribu

with the small business commission, the small business commission was a commission that was created in the year 2000. but then a ballot measure was put forward, and the voters approved it as a charter commission in 2003. the legacy business program originally was an ordinance but a ballot measure was put in place to establish the legacy business preservation fund. the small business assistance center came about, and the creation of that office, which created a more full office before it was just a commission director and the commission secretary, was created through a ballot measure in 2007, approved by the voters and opened in may of 2008. so there's much of the kind of remind that the creation of our office and the work that you do has been affirmed much by the voters. then we have two other case managers. they share the case manager carol cheng, that is shared with martha yanez, so newsletters. the business portal used to be managed by the commission of technology but has now come back to the office of small business where we are managing the content, and caron does the data. and th

members of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes on any matter within the commission's jurisdiction and does not appear on the agenda. speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department personnel. the lack of a response by the commissioners or department personnel does not necessarily constitute agreement with or support of statements made during public comment. >> thank you very much, madame secretary. welcome. please identify yourself, thank you. >> i'm nancy. a community activist, a 55-year resident of the city and part of the open space. i'm happy to welcome new commissioners feinstein and rodriguez to the fire commission to augment those to protecting our lives and property. i wish to remind all the commissioners that the city charter empowers you with specific powers and duties you shall perform. for me, your most important duties and powers are that you formulate, evaluate and approve goals, objectives and programs and set policies consistent with the overall objectives of the city and county as est

if it goes to the commission then there's a commission finding. so the commission -- so commission or department has to make a finding in order for it to be sustained. >> all right. >> cases don't have facts. >> hang on. i just wanted to ask that in most reports it would be good towards the staffing. i know there was some funding for s.b.-1421 and having staff on board, so that would be good to hear. >> i can give a quick update on that now. so we finally got the funding to bring on board the legal assistance. we finished interviews with those people last week, and we will be making offers to two legal assistants shortly. that's great. we have one full-time attorney who will be working on sb-1421, another attorney who will be devoting 50 percent of her time to it and a volunteer attorney who is starting in a couple weeks who will be doing 100 percent 1421. >> thank you. anything else from the d.p.a.? next line item, please. >> we have not heard that. i would like to introduce the 810 audit by our award winning director of policy, samr a marion. >>

members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction and are not on today's agenda. >> president caen: so i have two speaker cards in front of me. the first mr. pecasa. >> commissioners, my name is francisco de kosta. one of the positions i had in my life is i was six army and procedural san francisco congressional liaison. when i did that job, i had to interact with congressmen and senators from this great nation. i learned a lot. you know, my heart is heavy because as a citizen, i come here to monitor some of the projects as best i can. i'm not paid to do it, nor will i receive remuneration for that type of work. but it saddens me that in the southeast sector of san francisco, people are suffering. the san francisco public utilities commission profits a lot from what is happening in the southeast sector. there are designs that are brought so that housing can be built, recreation centers can be built, a lot of money spent on art while our children die. our children are dying. our elders are dying. some of them are pushed to live on the

council is now considering expanding the powers of the police commission. that will be debated at a council meeting next week. in oakland, andrea nakano, kpix5. >>> also tonight opd has temporarily tweaked its new use of force policy, specifically a section requiring expanded data collection and written reporting requirements. the department says it's too labor intensive causing a backlog of calls for service, so it's on hold. opd says in a statement, "the policy will be revisited to meet the department's intended goal of robust and transparent data gathering in the documentation of uses of force." >>> tonight a suspect is under arrest in connection with the disturbing attack on an elderly man collecting recyclables. 20-year-old dwayne grayson is facing elder abuse, robbery and hate crime charges. police say grayson recorded and posted the video of the attack that has since gone viral. it shows the asian man getting robbed of his cans, struck on the head and taunted with racial slurs. a community rally was held today near the scene in bayview. police are st

commission and the staff and whole d.b.i. as a whole and the research he does and he's really understanding of complex pross s here. we will be here next month. mr. commissioner lee did you want to add anything? that concludes my president's announcement. thank you. >> thank you. is there any public comment on the president's announcement? seeing none, item 3, general public comment. the b.i.c. will take public comment ton matters within the commission's jurisdiction that are not part of the agenda. seeing none, no public comment. our next item is item 4, election of the b.i.c. president and vice president. we have the nomination last month and we supposed to be doing the vote today. >> president mccarthy: if there's any questions, i open this to the commissioners, if not i call the question. >> i respect the time and the knowledge of the two nominees. i did want to reflect on commissioner walker's comment at our january meeting about the importance of having a balance between the mayoral appointees and board of supervisors p

did the release of 3 different papers 3 different documents through which the european commission is making its wars heard on what its current vision is and how to tackle this challenge. i'm going to come to you because as we were saying this this big ai paper was released this week and broadly the e.u. doesn't really have a reputation for being a leader in ai we've seen the u.s. with its tech giants leading the charge china because the government there is pressing for for technological advancement there is this the e.u. trying to catch up i see that chinese and u.s. firms can account for 86 percent of ai related patents globally so can the e.u. catch up. the way i understand the vision here is not exactly to the. economy catching up with work with business development behind ai but rather and regulator a key governing body on the on the on able to respond to risks and threats generated by ai so you want it simply to speed up growth related to the sec knology and in that sense compete we've chinese or u.s. based companies i would say that would be a failure what we expected and what

commission to commission meeting and the focus is on migration peace and security jobs and climate change for their os the europeans made by commission president. taking a record sized delegation to that meeting for the lion who is just 3 months into the job has put africa at the top of her agenda. good morning to you commission president on the lion share the importance of africa for europe by traveling to addison during her 1st week on the job she's now traveling back to address with her entire commission a symbolic move the african union is a part of i count on and i look forward to working with in the spirit of a true partnership of equals. dick chairperson. today i'm not here to present some grand plan for africa i am here 1st and foremost to listen. patmos you have equals the e.u. has been criticized for not pursuing nice in the past but found a lie and says that she now wants to move the relationship between europe and africa in a different direction from a focus on development an aid to cooperation based on investment and respective interests and intention that seems welcome from

to protect private data will bring in a guest in a moment but 1st let's hear what the european commission had to say. we want to boost european artificial intelligence by attracting more than $20000000000.00 euros per year for the next decade. artificial intelligence is about big data data data and again data and we all know that the more data we have the smarter our algorithms this is a very simple equation and therefore it is so important to have access to data that are out there this is why we want to give our businesses but also our researchers and the public services better access to data. here europe is not just following there's a real potential of taking the lead we have strengths when it comes to business to business technology and lot of industrial high quality data is being produced right now to be able to put that together to make the most of it that gives us a sense of urgency the battle for industry stopped now and europe will be remain better for we always prefer so through a drill going on showgrounds done of course regulation but of course. if so i don't find your way to

for equal time neither commission nor staff will respond, commission may ask questions of staff after public comment is closed. if you have an item not on the agenda under the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission you may speak under general public comment in item 4. please note if the fire alarms activate you must evacuate the building. if you need assistance make the way to the closest area across the hall in the men's rest room. there is a speaker box. press it and the city hall security will answer. they will assist you. we are on item 2. president's report. >> i will be brief. i like to read e-mails that talk about the parks. this is to the general manager. i wanted to say thank you. i love my neighborhood parks. the san francisco park and rec department does a fantastic job. i love how there is a park nearby no matter what neighborhood. you have worked hard to make that happen. i know maintenance challenges are daunting you do an amazing job of keeping up. every employee is helpful and professional if i am getting exercise or enjoying the lovely trees and flowers, your d

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is investigating, and we don't know if the ethics commission is investigating. that is because all of those parties have to do so with a degree of confidentiality, and the board of supervisors isn't any more apprised of what those investigatio investigations encompass than the members of the public. i've had constituents ask me -- word of corruption has been there at city hall forever, and why haven't you done anything about it? and it's frustrating to us that we don't have more power to do something about it because, you know, as someone who believes in government's basic ability to take care of people who cannot take care of themselves, we cannot have the faith of people if there is low level or high level corruption happening at all times. unfortunately, it's become such a part of the culture in this city and county that we must use all the power at our disposal to root it out once and for all. that is why i have changed my mind on this piece of legislation, so much so that i am now a cosponsor of it. having said that, it makes perfect sense to me that city e

commission commission commissioner zouzounis? >> commissioner zouzounis: dianda's, you're there at everything. i'm proud to see three generations on the registry. it's great to see a corner store on the registry. >> president adams: commission commissioner? >> i'm very happy to see dianda's being honored today. d >> president adams: any other comments? i just wanted to say thank you, everyone, for being a legacy business. each and every one of you, as one of our speakers said, is part of the fabric of this city. it's such an honor -- this is one of the funnest things that we get to do up here is hear about all these businesses. today, we have three distinct businesses, and each one of them plays a very important part in the one each one of them are at. so with that, do we have a motion to approve our three legacy businesses? >> i'll move. >> i'll second. >> president adams: who wants to second? >> i'll second. >> clerk: motion by commissioner dooley to approve all three businesses as legacy businesses, seconded by commissioner zo

i am the commission president.a member of the public and would like to speak, there are speaker forms you can fill out that are located upfront or you can come up when we call you for public comment. we do ask everyone turns off their cell phones are put some on silent, including commissioners and staff. i want to thank san francisco government tv and media services for sharing this meeting with the public. we will start with a roll call. [roll call] >> all right. the first order of business is general public comment. this is public comment for any item not listed on our agenda. do we have any public comment for nonagenda items? seeing none, public comment is closed. let's get into the regular agenda flow. the next item is number two which is approval of the minutes for january 7th, 2020. do we have a motion to approve the minutes? >> i moved to approve. >> second. >> is there any public comment on the minutes? seeing none, public comment is closed. [roll call] >> the minutes have been approved. the next item is a