. >> thank you to the ethics commission. thank you, chair chiu. thank you to the ethics staff. i wanted to offer a comment on the ethics staff report that we're reviewing today, particularly in regards to the set of proposals that supervisor gordon mar is working onto move forward at the board of supervisors. first, i would say thank you to the staff for putting together this report. on the whole, we agree with both the overall analysis and most of the conclusions that were reached in the report for the listed recommendations. there are a couple points of difference that i just wanted to specifically address here. so first, we agree with the fifth recommendation of increasing the initial i.e.c. to 350,000 for supervisorial races and 1.7 million for mayoral races, but we feel it's important that we increase the maximum funds that a candidate can receive, because unless we do that, we're in effect diluting the public funds that an overall campaign could raise. we did request a b.l.a. analysis of our proposals that i will have ready to share with the commission probably next week.

we now have 75 complaints for which the ethics commission has not yet made a determination as to jurisdiction or the merits of the allegations, has not rendered a decision as to whether to dismissory fer. we have 80 matters. some have just been opened by referral to the district attorney. others are in the final statements of resolution with active efforts to settle the matters through a negotiated stipulation with respondepartments. you can see the amount of time it takes the enforcement division is hovering around seven months. we aspire to bring that number down and fully intend to. particularly given opportunities to reform processes which the division will spearhead shortly. you will see in light of the divisions ability to resolve the older matters on the docket we man aimed to bring the amount of time down below 15 months. i am happy to field any questions you might have. >> it would be helpful for me and my fellow commissioners if we could -- i don't know if this is the appropriate time to ask this. to explore ways the commission can them in terms of reducing the backlog or number of

ethics commission was setup to find corruptions in the government. the last time i was here talking to you, it was march 15, 2019. i reported to you we have a lot of possible corruptions within the electoral officers who purposely created laws that welcome criminals and drugs and drug dealers. for example, we have 25,000 drug abusers and users and sellers in san francisco streets. in the last two years, we have more than 400 homeless people die on the streets because we have the laws that created purposely by the elected officers, and we waste a lot of public dollars, we waste a lot of human lives, and we also provide free needles, 6 million a year. we only able to collect back about 2 millions, which means more than half of the needles are floating on san francisco streets. it is illegal, but our government has been doing so freely illegal drugs. so i am here today and ask you to investigate super pacs that has been bought and paid by a few elites election after election and contaminate our good government practice. today, i'm here to request the et

and second to share with the commission and ethics staff our thinking on this topic. but if the intention of the commission is to move forward with an ordinance at the next commission meeting in may, i agree that it probably wouldn't make sense for us to introduce a separate legislative proposal at the board given that both would come before the commission and then the board. >> chair chiu: right. yeah. i mean, that to, me, would make the most sense because we are on track to consider an ordinance based on, you know, staff work for next month, but the idea would be to incorporate feedback and, you know, answer some of the questions that commissioners raised but that we would come back to consider an ordinance, hopefully, we could do that at the next month's meeting. andrew? >> yeah. so just to clarify, we have a variety of outcomes here. we're not excluding any potential outcomes, but in terms of what the commission wants to see at the next meeting, it's clear that the commission wants to see an actual legal text. now is your preference that the proposal will be from s

to that end, the ethics commission initiated a process to review or public financing -- our public financing process. i'm proud of the process that led us here with ethics conducting public outreach over many months to community stakeholders and advocates. proposals have already passed with super majority support from the ethics commission. many candidates in the last election cycle, including most of my fellow candidates in the district four supervisor race, were barred from participating in public financing due to confusion about the statement of participation being due the same day as the deadline to file to run for office. we feel the lack of clarity on this administrative hurdle was unfair to those candidates, and this ordinance will extend that deadline by three days to improve access to the program. initially, ethics raises candidates individual expenditure ceiling dozens of times in a race, sometimes more than once a day. this is both an administrative burden and can be challenging for the candidates campaigns and ethics staff itself. the ordinance increases the increment -- this ord

after our reports, the public ethics commission investigated and urged the city, county and board of commissioners to revamp their policies. today, they did just that. under the new policy, each board member will have access to only five games for community and charitable organizations and they'll have to fill out a report at the the tickets are distributed and the board members have to write to mile the raiders headed to las vegas in the year or two. >> it's going to be diminished with just the a's and concerts being here. >> the policy stresses that under no circumstances are tickets ever to be used for personal or financial benefit. in oakland, christin ayers, kpix5. >>> the city of oakland is working on policies for council members who use free tickets. >>> in oakland, police are investigating a shooting that sent two brothers to the hospital. officers say a 2 _year-old was shot -- a 21-year-old was shot in the chest and a 19-year-old shot in the leg. both were taken to the hospital. the boy who was shot in the leg was released last night. and police say this community is normall

after our reports, the public ethics commission investigated. and recommended changing the rules.ow under the new policy, each board member will have access to five games, or events for community and charitable organizations. the reporting form must be completed and signed at the ticket times the tickets are distributed and board members will be asked to call or write directly to the coliseum authority they hear or see anything concerning. >>>this will ensure, that members are not abusing tickets, and using them for personal reasons or things of that nature. >>>the city of oakland is working on new policy for councilmembers who use free tickets. >>>not one but two oakland girls high school basketball teams or state championship. >> oakland high wildcat and bulldogs were given a walk celebration in the city streets. bernd glenn has a story. >> cats and bulldogs while they have a hero's welcome. the parade kicked off at oakland tech, wound its way downtown with cheers, adulation, and a police escort. the parade ended at city hall. the champions, road and open trolleys, stopped by se

an unprecedented decision to call on the district attorney, the board of supervisors, and the ethics commission to demand that the police commission comply with their finding that the vote to approve tasers was in violation of the brown act and the sunshine task force ordinance. so they are -- they would like some respect, and i think they deserve it after all this time. what i say about unprecedented, apparently they have not declared a vote illegal before. it's been more technicalities, so they don't do this lightly. and half of you did not think there was any reason to give respect and serioustons this decision. when a taser can kill people. remember, tasers are considered nonlethal and police departments don't record the death, but reuters, the news agency, and discovered over studying for months that there's been over 1,000 deaths from tasers. my friend's son was killed by a taser. a young african-american was kill and four people in san mateo county in the last six months. they are reconsidering the use of tasers, so we don't want it snuck by. and now there is going to be serious action.

five government employees because they have been retaliated because they reported bribery to ethics commission. our records was missing by the ethnic commission. that was april 2017 to july 2017. if the city continue to allow as needed and temporary worker we will see the same thing repeated to abuse workers. please help us. thank you. >> i'm here as a concerned citizen i'm a nurse who works for the city of san francisco. i want to cite on may 4, 2012 arbitration was completed. the decision may not use as needed employees to avoid hiring employees in permanent status or so circumvent denial department request to fill vacancies. we heard from d.p.h. head of h.r. that p103 nurses are used for temporary work. the data does not accurately reflect the problem. they are not included in temporary 16 and category 18. the city budget does not reflect the operational need. last year, $17 million were in the budget but $62 million -- >> next speaker please. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. thank you for coming today. >> mr. chair we must give everyone the same amount of time. >> supervisor fewer

for someone who used to work with the ethics commission in san francisco, i will tell you what her answerhat if california evidence codes 1152 and 1154 are cited in a settlement letter to a san francisco citizen from the office of the city attorney? may that person receiving a letter like this from the city attorney thereby still go to the city's recreation and park commission a testified to the substance of the ledger so that you can make good policy. what i was told is this. they are advised to promote good source efforts. to this end, statements made cannot be used of evidence -- as evidence, however, this is the main point, settlement statements are not communications. you may discuss them with others without violating any california law. settlement statements may come up in a public-policy context for instance. they are notably relevant and useful to those public bodies such as this one has to oversee an agency or department that is party to a lawsuit, and finally, she said section 1152 and 1154 could be stated in a letter, who is also a citizen are not to gag orders. they do not pre

the ethics commission has made changes to legislation that requires you, when you need to recruit suggest recuse yourself from certain items, they need to explain, state wide, and they are developing a form that you must then submit within 15 days. that form must be submitted even if you are not present at the hearing, for any item that you could recuse yourself from. so please keep that in mind, and i will try to remind you when the form is generated to submit. >> bring the forms. >> the form does not exist yet. >> but the law does, so doesn't preclude you from it. >> commissioners, i wish to recuse myself from this agenda item because of the fact that my residence falls within the 500 feet to rule. >> i make a motion to recuse the commissioner because her residence falls within the 500 feet law. >> thank you. on that motion to recuse her... [roll call] >> i would like to appoint commissioner will from to be the chair. >> wonderful. >> i can stay here -- >> you actually need to leave. >> get out. >> good afternoon, desiree smith , plenty department staff. the item before you as a recomme

agenda pursuant to ethics commission by laws article 7 section 2. motion to adjourn? okay. we are adjourned. >> good morning, everyone. the meeting will come to order. welcome to the april 15, 2019 meeting. seated to my right is rules committee vice chair shamann walton, and to my left is gordon mar. substituting at clerk is linda wong -- thank you, linda. and i would like to thank jason and jesse at s.f. gov tv for staffing this meeting. >> please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. all documents should be submitted to the clerk. items actor upon will appear on the april 23 border of supervisors' agenda, unless otherwise stated. >> chairwoman: we have received a request to move item four to the top of the agenda. i thought i would therefore take four and five, which are both mayoral appointments to the public utilities commission. first -- is that okay? can i have a motion to move items four and five to the top of the agenda. so moved without objection. that motion passes. >> and can you please call item number four. >> motion approving rejecting sophie maxwell

you are recusing yourself at the hearing, but within 15 days, you have to submit a form to the ethics commissionstating why and so on that form is still being developed. as soon as it is completed, i will forward it on to you. the strict -- the tricky aspect of the recusal law includes that even if you are absent on a day for an item that you need to recuse yourself, you still need to submit -- submit that form. >> can you clarify for us if it is a thousand feet or 500 feet? >> 500 feet. >> but the training went through this morning said 1,000 feet. i'm just checking. >> it has always been 500, unless they changed it. very good then. on that motion to recuse commissioner richards -- and you actually vote on this. [roll call] >> so moved. that motion passes unanimously. commissioner richards, you are hereby recused. you can go ahead. >> good afternoon, again, commissioners. plenty department staff. the project before you now as a conditional use authorization for a change of use from an automotive repair shop to a retail professional service. this is a real estate brokerage doing businesses the a

well meanwhile today the european commission's high level expert group on artificial intelligence published its ethics guidelines for trustworthy the commission's work attempted to establish ethical principles on human rights and really there were four ethical principles here number one respect for human autonomy number two prevention of harm three fairness and for explicit delivery but according to access now the european commission created a clear imbalance in the composition of the commission by appointing a majority of business representatives in comparison to really only a handful of civil society representatives thereby undermining and spend eight to give recommendations on future related policy development on ethical legal and societal issues related to a guy well meanwhile google has now pulled the plug on its advisory board just one week after announcing its creation the move comes after thousands of employees raise objections about the appointment of kay coles james who also happens to be the president of the conservative heritage foundation joining me now to discuss is conservative commenta

well meanwhile today the european commission's high level expert group on artificial intelligence published its ethics guidelines for trustworthy ai the commission's work attempted to establish ethical principles on human rights and really there were four ethical principles here number one respect for human autonomy number two prevention of harm three fairness and four explicit but according to access now the european commission created a clear imbalance in the composition of the commission by appointing a majority of business representatives in comparison to really only a handful of civil society representatives there by an.

well meanwhile today the european commission's high level expert group on artificial intelligence published its. ethics guidelines for trustworthy ai the commission's work attempted to establish ethical principles on human rights and really there were four ethical principles here number one respect for human autonomy number two prevention of harm three fairness and four explicit but according to access now the european commission created a clear imbalance in the composition of the commission by appointing a majority of business representatives in comparison to really only a handful of civil society representatives thereby undermining and spend eight to give recommendations on future related policy development on ethical legal and societal issues related to a guy well meanwhile google has now pulled the plug on its advisory board just one week after announcing its creation the move comes after thousands of employees raise objections about the appointment of kay coles james who also happens to be the president of the conservative heritage foundation joining me now to discuss is conservative commentator s

the european commission has unveiled ethics guidelines for artificial intelligence including for example maintaining human oversight for ai or ensuring the algorithms are biased these guidelines for so-called human centric a.r.e are to be piloted from member states where the central question being can ai really be made accountable. artificial intelligence offers great potential for work mobility and medicine using thousands of x. ray images researchers at stanford university have trained their own homegrown ai to conduct diagnoses or you have to do is photograph and upload an x. ray and wait a couple of seconds for the result. it's a mass and it's this thing over here is a possibly cancerous lesion and i can see that right over her. controls through even apparently under markable data like how a body moves while walking algorithms can use such data to recognize potential signs of conditions like parkinson's signs a doctor could easily miss but caution is advised. much of what we see might be great but it throws up ethical questions which need to be answered alongside the developments we

who remained and were eager to continue receiving commissions in germany ones who then exhibited little of the bauhaus is reformist spirit and ethical principles to coincidence. responded was no exception in one nine hundred thirty four he joined gerber's chamber of culture supported hitler and contributed to nazi exhibitions he just wanted to build regardless for whom enticed by new commissions he emigrated to the united states in one nine hundred thirty yet there he designed iconic structures like the seagram building in new york. nice fonda became a star architect his pandering to the nazis was soon forgotten and hasn't tarnished the boss's reputation to this day still there's little reason to place the bauhaus on a moral pedestal. some of the vile house teaches in students who went into exile became successful in the us our house became internationally famous but it was never a purely german phenomenon teachers and students came from all over the world areas sharon had experience life on a kibbutz and tell us time and brought those ideas with him to disallow later he returned to the middle east and built a legendary white city i

ethical principles. in one thousand nine hundred thirty four he joined the royal chamber of culture and. he was prepared to continue building brick who was commissioning nevertheless by nine hundred thirty eight he had become disillusioned and left for the united states he built iconic structures like this building today he's lauded as an architectural icon his cozying up to the nazis is . the powerhouse reputation has not been tarnished despite some of its adherents going to work for the. have survived. it says it's more important than it's found it would you agree i fully agree because the it's not about institutional it's an idea and the idea of young people and established artists coming together for a future this is more. than it was ever before. professor factor thank you very much for joining us today that's it for this edition of the news from arts and culture don't forget tons more about this subject on our website www dot com slash culture. by. with interest yes it's. been fun. it's crunch time the european elections are just around the corner that's leaving it easy you might ask i said but why should i care what the european market is one o