there are meeting minute requirements that apply to the ethics commission as the target commission. there are requirements such as recording the beginning of the meeting and etcetera. commissioner bush, you are correct. it requires a very brief summary of a public commenters comment. there's no requirement that there be specificity about which commissioner suggest which changes. that's not required. it's up to the commission if they want to proceed with that. >> commissioner bush: it was not intention to call that out. it was whether or not the commission itself was requesting changes or deletions on an item. >> chair ambrose: i'm going to ask for clarification on that. whenever there's a motion to adopt or a motion to adopt with amendments, my understanding that will be memorialized in the minutes and that vote would be roll call and reflected also in the minutes. i want to be clear where we're having a dialogue and building towards a consensus. there's rapid exchange of ideas and comments. i worry about the usefulness of having someone memorialize all of that give and take in the

the role of the commission, the composition of the commission. this is not a group of people that is seeking to perpetuate a particular political process. to do is makeying the political process a better political process to inform the american electorate. one of the things that i've always wanted to see is journalists looking at the work of the commission and learning more about the commission since it was established in 1988. the federal election commission designates that there are only two legitimate sponsors of the debate. that's the media. that's why you see during the primary debates, individual networks that are hosting. or a nonprofit organization. the benefit of the commission has also been that we utilize the white house pool. we make available the debates to everybody. not just a particular network or media outlet. i think the work of the commission has been extraordinary. i would like to see more attention being paid to the excellent work that the commission does. i joined it a year ago. i was enormously impressed with the integrity,

commission. as some of you may be aware, we lost quorum at the last police commission meeting due to technical difficulties beyond our control. so at that time, we had completed the chief's report, the d.p.a. director's report, and line item 1 before we had to adjourn. we're going to pick up tonight where we left off, so it's going to be the presidential report, commission report, and public comment. we want to make sure the public has an opportunity to comment on items from the august 19 agenda. so that's how we're going to proceed, and then after that, we will continue the remaining items on the september 2 and tonight's meeting, and once that's done, we will adjourn that meeting and begin september 2. as always, i'm going to ask public commenters to reduce public noise, turn down the television. if you want to be heard, put your name in the chat. commissioner youngblood, can you please call roll. >> clerk: yes, thank you, commissioner. [roll call] >> clerk: you have a quorum. also here tonight

by a single roll call vote of the commission. there will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission, the public or staff so requests. item 6, case until 2020 2020-001258pta-02. 447 minna street. 556 to 560 scott street, a certificate of appropriateness. and item 8 for case 2019 2019-017-6781 coa 55 hagiwara tea garden drive. certificate of appropriateness. you should take public comment for anyone who would wish to pull of any items off of consent. again members of the public, this is your opportunity to call into the 415 area code number, enter the access code and press star three in order to request to speak. we have one caller. caller, if you would like to comment on the matter, on the project itself, we'll have to remove it from the consent calendar. >> this is catherine howard, i support the certificate of appropriateness. we've sent in a letter from -- >> clerk: right now we're not taking public comment on the matters. >> no. that's fine. i'm happy with it on the consent calendar. >> clerk: t

samantha roberts, a commission of the cyber commission and former deputy national security adviser during the bush administration. the doctor is currently serving as chair for defense democracy, center for cyber and technology innovation. i deeply appreciate her coming to speak with us today and for her incredible contributions to our thinking, continuity of the economy plan. with that, without objection, the witness's full statement will be inserted into the record. i now ask each witness to summarize their statement for five minutes beginning with senator king. senator king, it was a pleasure serving with you on the commission and i look forward to hearing your comments here today. you are now recognized. >> mr. chairman, thank you very much for holding this hearing. it really means a lot to the work of the commission to be taking this next step. i would say that i use this technology every wednesday morning for the senate prayer breakfast and it seems to work very effectively except when we try to sing hymns. i think long we don't sing any hymns today we will be okay. i appreciate your

members of this commission. if we do not implement every single recommendation in this report, shame on us as a government. i mean, it is just such common sense stuff and with everything that is going on right now in the world we see, in this report, why it's so important to implement every single recommendation. congressman gallagher i want to go to you first because it seems to me that there is a constant issue that comes up between the public and private partnership. why is it, you know that it is hard for us to get that right? do you think it's possible for us to continue incentive based public/private partnerships as part of a cyber defense program or is it going to come to congress having to more strongly consider imposing mandates? >> i think the other commissioners would agree the approach we've largely taken in this report was to try and incentivize the private sector to work more closely with the federal government or as we say in the chairman's letter trying and incentivize the private sector to take

the commission discretion will be determine -- future commission meetings. the presentation of the 2019 annual report. >> am i unmuted? can you hear me? >> yes. welcome. >> okay. so i'm going to go to just the highlights of my regular report. a lot of the information is going to be contained in the annual report, and i know that's the longer presentation, so i won't dwell too much on things, but i'll answer questions in-between the current updates and the annual report in case there are issues that folks want to hear about. we are currently at 581 open cases this year. that is up significantly from last year. this time last year we were at 513 cases. in terms of cases that have been closed out this year in 2020, we're at 640 cases have been closed out. this time last year we were at 447. we have 383 pending cases, and this time last year we were at 370. we have a couple of new base productions, one new case, and this is a 1421 information, but that one case was 3,030 pages of an officer-involved shooting file. we have updated the new web portal, so i would e

sure it's the commission.i'm pretty sure that if the chair does it, but i can't remember. i used to have it memorized. >> in any event, we will bring that back on september when we're doing all of the forward-looking work and that's one of the things that we'll look at. well, i just wanted to put that parameters around what that would entail so that we understand what that means to do that as opposed to maybe having volunteers or something. >> and i'm thinking in terms of a specific picture of it, like if we were to discuss commissioners doing fundraising outside of the commission process. >> they would have provided enough information together to be a resource library of where you could go to obtain additional funding. >> i asked the executive director in september to speak to what is involved in soliciting outside funds? in my mine mind, because i've processed a lot of grant funding applications for departments over the years, there is something specific, a deliverable that's associated with eliciting suppor

presentation i will follow-up with any questions from the commission? >> a couple things, i want to thank the members of the department and fire department as well i mean, we rarely think of first responders, you know, in emergencies like this but the truth is, we couldn't exist without them and so, just thank you for the department this is off topic but last here there was a news report that came out and about pain negotiations happening and the commissioner and i expressed some kind of shock about it. can you give us some sense if that includes the department is involved in and i talked about calender for future commission meeting but i'm trying to figure out who the actors are here. >> yes, vice president taylor. that is dhr is in charge of that negotiation. it's my understand tag the departmenunderstanding that then negotiating that. dhr is in charge and that is about as much as i know. these negotiations are happening confidentially as they always are and, you know, just library everybody else, the department is waiting to see the results and hear

commission. mr. sanchez, diego sanchez, from the department of city planning, who is the only person on this call who is wearing a tie, the floor is yours. [laughter]. >> yes, supervisors, good afternoon. diego sanchez with the planning department staff. today i'll present you an ordinance to amend the zoning map to reclassified properties, largely in the m1 and m2 industrial districts to production distribution and repair or p.d.r. districts. and it amends the planning code to clarify the retail limits and to accommodate the submitted permit applications under proposed new zoning controls. supervisors, the industrial districts are the city's oldest industrial districts still in use. these districtsa allow the gamut of industrial uses, including heavy foot traffic, noise generation and nextou noxious emissions. and they allow retail and housing. the question has been there for some time. sensitive uses like offices adjacent to the m districts and the need to balance compatibility and quality of l

so the i say has no standing in the continental shelf commission it's not an observer to the commission it has no right to object to a recommendation of the commission. the commission's recommendations go only to the coastal state that is making the submission and not to anybody else. the ocean compass ever 360000000 square kilometers almost 3 quarters of the earth's surface. and. over 40 percent of this area has been assigned to legal continental shelves. claims on expanded geological continental shelves make up another 10 percent of the ocean. it is now projected that around 57 percent of the oceans will eventually be under the control of the coastal states. in the year 2000 and that's the latest set of figures that we have the international seabed authority which is based in jamaica they came up with an estimated as they saw that governments were starting to work through this more recent component for a lot of the sea for the extended continental shelf they have a figure just just below $12000.00 us trillion dollars is the in-situ estimate of seabed resources in the extended continen

was scheduled to appear in front of the commission so the commission could approve it whether to meet and confer. it was, however, removed from calendar. why? the revised d.g.o. is a substantial improvement over the previous version. represents a significant amount of hard work of many people, including several commissioners. on june 3, commissioners asked for the d.g.o. to be agendized again. three months ago, and it has yet to appear on the agenda. what's the delay? the commission needs to tell us. 5.03 can't get here soon enough. black people represent 35% of all stops and 37% of all searches. those percentages are the highest of all racial groups in those categories. in a recent abc news store ae that analyzed data from 2014 to 2020 found that racial disparities across san francisco have gotten worse since 2014. the report found that black drivers were 4.4 times more likely to be stopped than white drivers. 5.03 is no panacea, but it's a good start. it's time to discuss and move 5.03 forward. >> vice president taylor: thank you, caller. i agree. next caller. >> operator: caller, y

and commission president koppel. aye. so moved, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously, 6-0, and it concludes your proceedings today and i will just make a friendly reminder that we are adjourning in the honor and eternal memory of bob passmore. >> thanks, jonas. good night. >> jonas, you know when i first started working with bob? >> clerk: no, i don't, frank. >> 1982. [laughter] >> clerk: he was the zoning administrator when i was hired at the planning department. >> and i will chime in and said that i started to work with him in 1983. and even then he was, you know, a font of wisdom and a gentleman. a real loss. >> clerk: yes. >> you know, he and i sat down together and we developed a one page d.e.r. criteria. >> still waiting to see that, commissioner diamond. >> i couldn't find it. [laughter] >> yeah, i had my -- i had it on my list to find that. >> we talked about it, david. >> yeah, i know. my opportunity has passed. >> clerk: okay. okay, guys, take care. >> thank you. >> good night. >> good afternoon. this is a meeting of the san f

unfortunately we don't have our full commission. we've been talking about ways to collect and gather data on the small business community. she has made some out reach efforts. with that i'm going to turn it over. >> thank you so much. i have been wanting to do a survey of san francisco businesses specifically all the small businesses actually. i know there have been several studies from the impact force. i feel like that's a lot of great information. i want to see what the entire small business landscape looks like. specifically my goal is to create a picture for legislators as well as our rez department rt our city is going to look like should we continue on this path. and economic impact of what is happening right now. i enlisted the help of the chair of the department of economics at san francisco state university. she is very interested in helping us do an economic impact study specifically focused on small business sector in san francisco. >> item nine, general public comment allows public comment on any item that was not discu

placing us under commission matters. 8, commission comments and questions. commissioners, any requests to speak under item 8? seeing none, you can move on to department matters. item 9. director's announcements. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i wanted to let you know that calendar and informational hearing in early october to give you a presentation and data on the economic impacts of the pandemic and the city's response to the economic recovery task force. we're hoping to have those representatives from the controller as well as the task force to join us during that presentation. and the hope is that this hearing will be a springboard for us to start constructing the long-term implications of the pandemic. i recognize that the impacts, especially the long range, are still being understood, but it's clear to all of us that the crisis will make a mark physically and socially on the city that we should anticipate and respond to. so i look forward to having that discussion with you. i also wanted to let you know that the state wrapped up its legislative sess

commission. and under your commission bylaws, specifically rule 6 of the commission rules of order, when there's a vacancy in the vice presidency, by reason of resignation, rule 6 provides that the commission shall, at its next regularly scheduled meeting, elect a new vice president, who shall serve out the remainder of the term of the prior vice president. in this instance, the remainder of the terms -- on the vice presidency is just until october. so just a matter of weeks, because under your rules of order, as you will recall, you hold your elections at your first meeting in october. and that's when you elect both the president and a vice president and the term of those offices runs for one year. so before you today, under item 3, are two options for your consideration. the first would be a motion to suspend that aspect of rule 6 which would mean that you would postpone electing a new vice president until your first meeting in october, at which point you will hold elections of officers. you ma

unfortunately we don't have our full commission. we've been talking about ways to collect and gather data on the small business community. she has made some out reach efforts. with that i'm going to turn it over. >> thank you so much. i have been wanting to do a survey of san francisco businesses specifically all the small businesses actually. i know there have been several studies from the impact force. i feel like that's a lot of great information. i want to see what the entire small business landscape looks like. specifically my goal is to create a picture for legislators as well as our rez department rt our city is going to look like should we continue on this path. and economic impact of what is happening right now. i enlisted the help of the chair of the department of economics at san francisco state university. she is very interested in helping us do an economic impact study specifically focused on small business sector in san francisco. >> item nine, general public comment allows public comment on any item that was not discu

allows us to give our opinion and to be informed by a free press before the end of the month the commission will adopt the 1st annual rule of law report covering all member states it is a preventive tool for early detection of challenges and for finding solutions i want this to be a starting point for commission parliament and member states to ensure there is no backsliding the commission attaches the highest importance to the rule of law and this is why we will ensure that money from our budget and next generation e.u. is protected against any kind of fraud corruption a conflict of interest this is non-negotiable. but the last months have also reminded us how fragile it can be we have a duty to always be vigilant to care and nurture for the rule of law and breaches of the rule of law cannot be tolerated i will continue to the vendor and the integrity of our european institutions. be it about the primacy of european law the freedom of the press the independence of the judiciary all this sale of golden passports europeans values are not for sale. was. none of our members these values are mor

>> there's was certified by the commission in 2012. the community planning exemption completed in 2017 piggy backed off much the analysis conducted in 2007 through 2012 for the plan area e.i.r. there are no additional impacts being created. there's no impacts caused by the increase. it's a land use category. i don't know chelsea fordham's on the line if she want to el elaborate further but did not find additional impact. >> the other aspect is the meeting rooms. >> the function rooms i think the reliability of the fact that this is problem trip the most transit rich location in the entire city most the assumptions are that folks would travel to locations on foot or by mass transit. >> this is chelsea fordham. can you hear me? >> yes. >> for the community plan evaluation for the project there was a new transportation impact study prepared for the change in land use. that looked at the completely different land use the project had which is all hotels with meeting function room and conference room. there were new mitigation measures requi

commission. as some of you may be aware, we lost quorum at the last police commission meeting due to technical difficulties beyond our control. so at that time, we had completed the chief's report, the d.p.a. director's report, and line item 1 before we had to adjourn. we're going to pick up tonight where we left off, so it's going to be the presidential report, commission report, and public comment. we want to make sure the public has an opportunity to comment on items from the august 19 agenda. so that's how we're going to proceed, and then after that, we will continue the remaining items on the september 2 and tonight's meeting, and once that's done, we will adjourn that meeting and begin september 2. as always, i'm going to ask public commenters to reduce public noise, turn down the television. if you want to be heard, put your name in the chat. commissioner youngblood, can you please call roll. >> clerk: yes, thank you, commissioner. [roll call] >> clerk: you have a quorum. also here tonight

i am going to float this out and let the rest of the commission to weigh in. i just had initial questions to put on the table of how observations and to clarify our assumptions about the project. thank you. >> president koppel: missioner imperial. >> commissioner imperial: thank you. initially i, you know, to keep rents low recommendations, i think that is a d.r. and we're more -- and the commission were more looking at it in the design aspect of the building and whether it's in compliance, but initially i am, you know, i am in favor of taking the d.r. with the staff's recommendations, especially on the setbacks on the patios of which i think that is enormous. i do find it quite, you know, difficult also at the same time when there are issues of tenant space and there are limitations in what the d.r. can do. but i believe that this can be a way of having a further discussion, especially when it comes to the demolition -- that is one thing. and i appreciate that the public, you know, commenters and i know that calling the commission every week about the demo ta

commission member alfred, susa alfred, susan, and commission member catherine and stevens thank you fordevotion to this sip project and secretary of interior, secretary of the transplant - - transportatio transportation, and secretary of education. [applause] . . . . i would alsok the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general mark malley for being with us today. i also want to recognize robert scheer representing the marine corps. and colonel michael who is here representing the 101st airborne division. thank you both for being here. we are also grateful to have the ambassador of the republic of china and the deputy chief of mission from italy with us tonight. thank you for representing your beautiful nations and the support you've shown for this memorial. this one-of-a-kind piece displays the iconic normandy coast line which general eisenhower's troops invaded on d-day. standing at 80 feet high and 450 feet long, there is not another tapestry like this anywhere in the world. on behalf of the commission, thank you for your incredible work. i also want to recognize the senior leaders

susan: senator pat roberts, chairman of the memorial commission, eisenhower memorial commission, membersor me to be with you here tonight, albeit virtually, to add my voice to the many others in expressing my gratitude for all of those who made the eisenhower memorial possible. it is with a heavy heart that i am unable to be with you tonight. coronavirus has upset some and he plans across america, and so many things that we all wanted to be able to participate in and be present for. unfortunately, so many members of my family were unable to be with you tonight. my siblings and i feel a deep sadness that it was not possible that we could be together. in any case, because of coronavirus regulations and other factors come up we are though with you in spirit. i want to make special note of the people who played such a key role, and there are many more. but i want to thank senator pat roberts for his extraordinary leadership. i want to thank robert dole for his never ending help in assuring that the eisenhower memorial be built. i want to thank also frank. there were so many others, including

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commission meeting minute. [roll call vote] >> the vote is unanimous. >> president knutzen: thank you so much. we will move to director's report. welcome executive director shireen mcfadden. >> sorry about that. thank you president knutzen and commissioners. i want to make sure that you can hear me if the quality of the sound isn't good. i can turn off my video. is that okay so far? >> president knutzen: okay. >> it's fine. >> thanks. i will start with the federal landscape. at this moment congress still has the budget and the house and senate has yet to an agreement. other groups asking congress to add money to the budget to support older american act programs especially given all the covid. [indiscernible] [audio breaking]. >> president knutzen: you're breaking up. [indiscernible] [audio breaking] >> can we have everyone else go on mute while she's speaking. maybe we can get better connectivity. [indiscernible] >> president knutzen: i don't think the executive director can hear us either. >> keep talking. >>

and commission president koppel. aye. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6-0 and that concludes your agenda today, commissioners. and we'll be closing in the honor of mr. john stewart. >> clerk: september 9, 2020 meeting of the treasure island board of directors must be adjourned due to lack of quorum. director tsen, do you have any comments? >> can you hear me now? we have two vacancies on our commission, which makes meeting a quorum difficult. with the difficult air that we're having, keep well, mark, and i hope that we kn-- that y all will keep safe and well. are there any callers on the line that would like to make any comments? >> clerk: director tsen, i don't see any callers on the line. >> and then, are there any commissioners that would like to make any comments? >> yes, this is linda fadeke richardson. i apologize to anyone watching right now, and with everything going on out there, we all need to take extra precautions. so we will reconvene, and we will get the ball rolling another time. >>

[applause] commission member susan barnes harris, and commission member catherine ann stevens.u all for your leadership and devotion to this magnificent project. i would like to acknowledge a few other people with us this evening. secretary of interior, david bernhardt. secretary of transportation, elaine chao. and secretary of education, betsy devos. [applause] important pieces of president eisenhower's legacy. thank you for joining us to celebrate this occasion. devosank you to secretary in the education department, in the building directly behind me, for being such gracious neighbors throughout the construction process. pelosi,u, speaker nancy for taking part in tonight's dedication, and for your personal attention, helping to make this memorial a reality. we are grateful that you are here and for all that you have done over the years for this important project. i would also like to thank the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general mark malley, for being with us today. thank you, general. [applause] i also want to recognize brigadier general robert, representing the m

you're saying they are board and commission members, next month, can you tell us which boards and commissions these individuals serve on? if they have resigned and have not filed their leaving office statement, presumably they have given notice of resignation, getting to that point, i like to know how many, if any, of these non-filers are actually active members of existing board and commissions. if so, which boards and commissions those are? thank you. now we're going to ask for comment on this item. sorry, commissioner bush, your hand is up. go ahead. >> commissioner bush: i wanted to associate myself with commissioner lee's comments about greater outreach. my thought on that is that our interested person's meeting now are pretty much reactive where we invite people to come in and give their reactions to proposals from the staff and the commission, the change regulations or laws or so forth. i think it would be very good idea to have an interested person's meeting in which the community came to us with what they think needs to be added to the work of the ethics commission. knowing that we h

stafftire commission these two.tve our thanks and appreciation for their unwavering focus on building this memorial. shannon, chris, we thank you. and from my own staff, i am going to take a little. there are two women in particular i would like to thank, one of whom has been with me and worked with me during the long years and preserving the opportunity at this memorial. to theot easy going house and going in on one knee being a senator. secretly inr chairs bringing this together. thank you for your creative thinking, your loyalty and your diligence. gentlemen, i have just been told, right now, that we have a message coming from cyberspace. right now i direct your attention to the monitors, please. [video clip] good evening senator roberts and honored tests. i am commander of the international space station, only 260 miles above earth. to join you in celebrating the memorial dedication of our nations 34th president, dwight d. eisenhower. under president eisenhower's leadership america created nasa, which brought ou

commissions. the founder and executive director of george mason university's national security institute. the witnesses will be unneeded -- on muted. -- un muted. do you swear the testimony you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you god? >> i do. >> i do. >> i do. >> let the records show the witnesses answered in the affirmative. thank you and without objection, the written statements will be made part of the record. with that, chairman rogers, nice to see you again. you are recognized to provide your testimony. >> thank you. it is good to see so many colleagues i had the privilege to work with and new ones as well. beyond a panel of very distinguished experts, this has been a long journey for me, madam chair, to get to where i would sit in front of the community and say i would sit in asnt of the cyber director two congressmen both reminded me over the years about how i was wrong. they have invited me to dinner under the understanding that they want