>> yes, deputy city attorney job gintner. the ethics commission, at that meeting there was a version of the ordinance amended and sent back to the rules committee, the ethics commission met on april 18th and adopted a few additional amendments on top of those that are in the board file, the amendments that the ethics commission adopted are largely technical. they change some of the references to electronic media communications, fixed some cross-references, other clean-up language. they sent a new clean version to the board. it's in your file today. as you know from the april 3rd meeting, the board must pass exactly the same ordinance that the ethics commission passed so if you intend to pass this out today you should first amend your ordinance, amend the document to accept ethics amendments and then pass it out to the full board. >> supervisor safai: great. can we do the amendment or do we have to take public comment first? >> public comment. >> supervisor safai: any members of the public wish to speak, seeing none, public co