they need to know they are hearing from the ethics commission. why was ethics not a party to these issues and why didn't we act under our authority for the violations involving permit consultants? why were we not involved in this? >> sure, so i think the decision to get this matter settled was the most expa dishcious route and try to bring them and handle them fully within the ethics commission. they were pursuing other matters. they were able to have that resolved. >> if i were me interrupting what you just said you stated it wasn't done because of administrative convenance. >> i wouldn't say administrative convenance but just a decision that was made to do it. we could have brought it on our own. >> it was with the city tern. >> i was just the investigator handling the investigation arrest far as decisions on how the matter might have been brought one way it's branded is how it acts rather than watching from the sidelines. that's legally what happens in the cases. i raise that as well as an issue. >> okay, go ahead commissioner, you had your han

and each time a new statement is created or existing statement is amended, approval of the ethics commission is required. additionally, the city must meet and confer with affected employee bargaining units and that has to happen before the commission votes to approve or amend sia. the department of homelessness and supportive housing was created in 2016. this would be a new sia for that department. the department has worked with department of human resources to meet and confer with a number of employee unions. the unions were first notified on april 8th of the new sia and provided a draft of it and on may 5th meeting was held to talk about the sia with the unions and then on june 23rd, meet and confer process was closed out. so at this point, now the next step in the process is for the ethics commission to look at the sia and to vote to approve or not approve it. if it's approved at this point, the sia becomes operative and they can distribute to officers and employees. as you saw in the memo, this sia essentially mirrors the exact same language in most other departments sia's. there are a f

the reason we have ethics commission is because of corruption being addressed. i think if we say we are returning to an ethics culture, we are stating beyond the facts and what the public has come to see about the city. i think we should say it's our goal and aim to establish a more fully ethical culture for san francisco. having said that, there are a number of points in this that i have outlined in e-mails with the executive director to explain my concerns and considerations. i would direct those too the attention of my fellow commissioners, which i will send separately to you. they are the basis for why i'm hesitate to endorse this as it is now. thank you. >> chair ambrose: any other comments from commissioners? let's go to public comment. >> clerk: we are checking. if you just joined the meeting we are on agenda item number 8. if you have not done so, press star 3 to be added to the public comment queue. you'll have three minutes to provide public comment, six minutes if you're on with an interpreter. you will hear a bell at 30 seconds remaining. please stand

staying busy not you have retired from the way and you were appointed ahead of the olympics ethics commission in 2017 the next olympics have controversy coding them on the calls to boycott the games in china over the human rights records. can you give us your thoughts of the future of the olympic games in light of those controversies? >> it may have certain problems. and with those sports and policy should be separated when should not be misused or abused of course if there was some cases where they decided not to participate like moscow. and then there was some sentiment. so i am encourage the japanese government and the ioc decided to carry on. during my time with the ioc to work very closely and have peace through sports. those which can instantly mobilize that energy. we are thinking how we can mobilize to be generated by sports that's my working very closely with the ioc leadership in that every april 6 was generated by international human sports day so on that day to have a meaningful event so the corporation and energy would be used to bring peace and harmony. 's i'm happy to do this w

. >> patrick ford with the city ethics commission couldn't talk about the specifics of the case but said financial disclosures like these are crucial for holding public officials accountable. >> it's an important safeguard so the failure to file those forms or to fill them out accurately creates a danger for conflict of interest. >> prosecutors say sdl merchandising was paid more than a quarter million dollars to provide dpw with shirts and other swag. like these arbor day t-shirts from 2019. but public works did not pay sdl directly. according to public records we obtained last year, the money came from an off-the-books account managed by the nonprofit san francisco parks alliance which was controlled by top dpw officials. like former director mohammed nuru who was one of the first to face criminal charges. according to the d.a., when one public works employee suggested using a different vendor because sdl was charged twice as much, the employee was told the director wouldn't like that. he couldn't be reached for comment. public works officials say they're cooperating with all investiga

. >> chairman: anybody have any questions for the ethics commission? not seeing any. let's move on to the department of elections. >> good morning, supervisors. john armstrong. and the department is in agreement with the budget and the recommendations. members of the committee, our recommendations are on page 67 of our report. our recommended reductions to the proposed budget total $85,000 in the first year of those religioned $10,000 are ongoing and $75,zero are one-time saving. still on increase of $6.3 million or 26% of the department's fiscal budget. unexpended encumbrances. and as the director mentioned, we are available for questions. >> chairman: i had a question about this for the recall election. it's my understanding that since we have that meeting that the numbers were a little bit different than were discussed at that hearing, then we are assuming some level of reimbursement, but still putting aside a significant amount of local costs. or expenditures. is this something that you looked at at all. did you all analyze or do you view that as a

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commission. he's the author of a ethics. he joins us on skype from brussels. mark, great to talk to you again, mark, put this in context for us in different regions in different parts of the world. what's the difference between bias and sensitivity? so one thing, any kind of a i system needs to make a difference between people because that's why you use it. for example, for security reasons to, to pick out potential risky person. so you do need to make a difference. the question is, is the difference, you know, in case of bias of unjustified bias, or is it just part of the function of the system? and the cases you mentioned are clearly problematic case of bias where, where people have spoken out against them because of this, this effect on, on specific groups and individuals. understandably, i guess, as well the american politicians are having a hard time nailing down whether this is an issue of privacy or an issue of the genie being left out of the computerized bottle in as much as if you, for example, have to hire a female nurse to work in only a role that c

commission. he brought a perspective. he brought a work ethic. he was determined to figure things out. a several conversations with him. no violation of sunshine, no violation of the brown act, but if i can help you in any way, please let me know. don't hesitate to call. he never called. we had different conversations at different times and i really came to appreciate his perspective. he was a fine human being and he was dedicated to doing his job to the best of his ability, which was absolutely in every way or in some ways more than others of us could do. i mean he brought a very special perspective. he has a lovely wife with whom i spoken and four daughters, two of whom i spoken to. i am going to thank the chief for the coordination that she has done with regards to friday's services and the length that the department has gone. i just really wanted to recognize that he wanted to do this job and he wanted to get it right. he was willing to do anything that he needed to learn. you know, i apologize to my fellow commissioners for being somewhat obtuse along the way and that was at the r

ethically sound. we have to have standards. we cannot get -- you have a dark cloud hovering over the san francisco public utilities commission and you supervisors have no transparency. we want good people to represent by voting. can we get a good representation from the politicians? let's -- that's the million dollar question. thank you very much. >> supervisor peskin: are there any other members of the public for this item? >> clerk: there are no more people in the queue for public comment at this time. >> supervisor peskin: okay. public comment is closed. colleagues, are we all in agreement we should send this to the full board. roll call please. >> clerk: on that motion. [roll call vote]. the motion passes without objection. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. please read the fourth and final item. >> clerk: ordinance amending the administrative code to add clerk of the board of supervisors and the executive director of the human rights commission as permanent members of the committee on information technology. >> supervisor peskin: that's exactly what this legislation that president walton brought to us would do. the floor is y

commission. he brought a perspective. he brought a work ethic. he was determined to figure things out. i had a several conversations with him. no violation of sunshine, no violation of the brown act, but if i can help you in any way, please let me know. don't hesitate to call. he never called. we had different conversations at different times and i really came to appreciate his perspective. he was a fine human being and he was dedicated to doing his job to the best of his ability, which was absolutely in every way or in some ways more than others of us could do. i mean he brought a very special perspective. he has a lovely wife with whom i spoken and four daughters, two of whom i spoken to. i am going to thank the chief for the coordination that she has done with regards to friday's services and the length that the department has gone. i just really wanted to recognize that he wanted to do this job and he wanted to get it right. he was willing to do anything that he needed to learn. you know, i apologize to my fellow commissioners for being somewhat obtuse along the way and that was at

ethics concerned around hunter biden's art work. he does now plan to meet with prospective buyers even though we were told the sales would be anonymous. we begin with the january 6th commissionn limbo, political fireworks blowing up the panel task with getting to the bottom of what happened in our nation's capitol that fateful day. white house corespondent kevin corke is tracking all the latest developments for us tonight. good evening kevin. >> good evening shannon the house voted to give nancy pelosi ultimate veto power to the members on the committee so frankly it's not surprising she knicksed jim jordan and jim banks both who recently met with president donald trump. and while the speaker did sign off on three other mccarthy picks which i don't think really surprised a lot of people, it was the minority leader who today was really up in arms. he said, listen, we are not going to play this game and if we have to, i will pull each and every single one of the members that were already slated to be on this panel and conduct a probe of our own. that is, of course, if pelosi won't play ball. >> it's a agreeings abuse of power. >> house democrats must answer this question. why

ethical and more inclusive organizations, yet, it also shows that care giving, child care and pregnancy pose a major challenge to womens' professional careers. the board of supervisors and some city commissions and boards frequently meet for long hours late into the evening and without adequate support, parents, especially those of young children and single parents can be excluded from participating in public meetings. the current public health crisis has made it necessary for public meetings to shift into a virtual environment and has shown the government can be even more inclusive and effective in this way. on june 23rd, the commission unanimously voted to support this ordinance and we are also pleased to see the amendments that will ensure regular members are allowed a full time to bond. we thank supervisor melgar and her staff for introducing the critical legislation and we urge you to support it to encourage women's civic engagement. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you, ms. newman for your comments. do we have any other callers in the queue? >> that was the last caller in the queue. >> clerk: thank you, much. madam chair. >> chairman: thank you so much. so i believe -- supervisor m