>> vice chair kopp: i have a question. >> chair chiu: commissioner kopp? >> vice chair kopp: that pending senate bill 71, does the staff have a position as to whether the commission to make a recommendation to the mayor or board of supervisors in support of the bill? >> not at this time, no. >> vice chair kopp: could you have such a recommendation by next month? >> i could, yes. >> vice chair kopp: i'd request it. >> chair chiu: okay. thank you. agenda item number seven, agenda on enforcement report. >> thank you, chair chiu and commissioners. this report reflects a few changes in light that commissioner kopp made at the last meeting. we've provided additional statistics to those that the department usually provides. i'll remind commissioners, this is with a staff of four. that would be me and three investigators. you'll see, if you compare those statistics to the -- this -- the prior month and this month and the prior year, we do have now fewer matters in preliminary review than we had a month ago, and i think what counts in part is the executive director

thank you. >> vice chair kopp: thank you, your honor. i will not. >> chair chiu: and i would like to ask commissioner ambrose to reconsider. >> commissioner ambrose: i will say yes, i will consider accepting the post. i feel a little sort of new to the commission to be in that position, but under the circumstances, i think i could happily learn the responsibilities. >> chair chiu: okay. wonderful. director pelham, could you -- let's see...so commissioner ambrose is now nominated, and since there are no further comments -- nominations, we'll take public comment. okay. there being no public comment, director pelham, could you take roll call. [roll call] >> chair chiu: agenda item seven, informational presentation on information campaign disclosure dashboards. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is tyler field. i am an analyst with the electronic disclosure and data analysis division or edda. i'm here to show you the analysis of the dashboards, and be happy to take questions at the end of the presentation. [inaudible] >> when people c

kopp. dr. kopp: yeah. just to add on to that, there is a wide range of approaches you can take from expanding forests, which is slow, but we know works. to a variety of technological approaches, as i said in my opening remarks, new and you tested. i think one thing to keep in time the amount of warming we have is pr portional to all the co-2 we emitted. if we want to reduce warming by co-2, we need to talk about building infrastructure that's of a scale comparable to that that we're currently using to put co-2 into the atmosphere. so first use of these technologies are going to be -- as dr. mahowald mentioned, areas where it's hard to get the co-2 out. if you talk reducing, using technologies that are still really to be developed. mr. bera:. right. any last comments, please. dr. francis: one last comment that you said at the beginning. students are so excited about the possibilities of working in this area. students want to contribute to the solutions. they want the training. dr. ebi: so they can be part o

kopp? >> vice chair kopp: miss, what is it that you pay? $10? >> they want $10. >> vice chair kopp: have you made $10? >> no, because i'm not late. >> vice chair kopp: all right. that's all i asked. >> all right. thank you. >> vice chair kopp: through the chair to miss pelham, what is the $10 for? >> we communicated incorrectly, as it turns out, with miss bassen about a $10 one-day-late fee for filing. we did not take into account the extension because of a holiday. we were wrong, and -- >> vice chair kopp: all right. is the $10 cancelled? >> the $10 is cancelled -- has been cancelled, and she will be receiving a letter to that effect. >> vice chair kopp: all right. there is nothing pending, and for the record, i do not believe the ethics commission of the city and county of san francisco is out of control. thank you, madam chair woman. >> chair chiu: thank you. other public comment? >> good afternoon, commissioners. john avalos. i'm here to speak on the consent calendar, item number four,

kopp received his ph.d. in geobiology from the california institute of technology. our third witness, dr. jennifer different sis, a senior scientist at the woods hole research center. dr. francis' research focuses on

commissioner kopp. no. (roll call). >> that motion passes on a 4-1 vote with commissioner kopp in the descent. thank you. >> next up is for staff to incorporate the ordinances into a single ordinance and transmit it that to the board of supervisors. i would propose a 10 minute break. we regroup and come back for the balance of the >> welcome back to the san franciscoth chicks committee meeting. we are on agenda item 9, discussion of the staff monthly report.

kopp mentioned. there were several major scientific conferences that occurred during the shutdown and a large number of government employees were just unable to attend and present the research that they'd been working on for literally years which is a huge detriment to their careers. also several field programs that were supposed to occur could not. in some cases those field programs maybe won't happen ever or at least they'll be delayed for a year or many because there's a lot of planning and logistics that have to be lined up to make those field programs work. there was also a big delay on processing reports on research and proposals for research and all of that delays the progress of science. >> to add to the other comments, everything you've heard about climate change is driven by data and those data need to be collected. squimt not perfect as we saw and someone needs to fix equipment. saw and someone needs to fix equipment. there are things to take place to make sure you continue those data seri

i have been working as a -- >> vice chair kopp: [inaudible] >> i am also the director of public relations for the california krisk grand jury association, the san francisco chapman they are. i am trying to practice good government practices. as a resident, i have been coming to you, report to you about abusive powers within the electoral offices. who purposely created laws to welcome criminals and support illegal activities to raise our public dollars, such as sanctuary city and sanctuary state. we are no longer a people government. i was one of the eight candidates to run for mayor for the june 5, 2018 election. i went through the election process, and i found many holes

the tab i want to get doctor kopp in with my remaining time. >> we leave this hearing to take you live to capitol hill, the senate meeting for a brief pro forma session. the presiding officer: the clerk will read a communication to the senate. the clerk: washington, d.c., february 15, 2019. to the senate: under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable benjamin e. sasse, a senator from the state of nebraska, who will perform the duties of the chair. signed: chuck grassley, president pro tempore. under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned >> the senate gambling out after a brief pro forma session, the next pro forma gathered tuesday. they will return for legislative business monday at 3:00 pm eastern. you can find live coverage of the senate on c-span2. we take you to the house hearing

this case to be mostly positive with informed observers impressed by the price mr kopp was able to pay for g.e.'s biopharma unit. and for more on g.e. and other market moves we are pleased to once again be joined by danielle sherry of simpler trading welcome back danielle. thank you how are you there today i couldn't be better and i'm really pleased that you're here because i want you to tell us about what you think about this movie about g.e. they are making so many different moves themselves off loading things throwing things overboard is that going to make them a better company and what do you think about them as us as a buy. i definitely do think it will make them a better company because i think what g.e. needs to do is they need to focus they really need to focus on their power aviation and especially if there are new or new it will energy segments of their business and i think that's what they're looking to do and this cash infusion is going to help them really reduce their debt and work on their balance sheet issues so while i look at the you know you look at it in two differen

mathias cop spokesman for the german bishops conference is that thing peter square in the vatican mr kopp we just saw cardinal law not monster president of the german officials conference listening to survivors of sexual abuse at a meeting of the human rights organization and clergy abuse but listening is not longer enough when will these perpetrators be punished. but first of all it was very important that cotton mark swings to those people on the friday to understand to listen and to hear and i think now it's a question and he would put it on this speech is on the saturday what is the kind of transparency and the boy is a question of zero tolerance and we had a discussion yesterday for the question of zero to zero tolerance what does it mean and there are different meanings of that's what's mean is different it's zero tolerance so we try to look for a solution in those days in rome i hope there will be a result on sunday morning. how can there be different interpretations and then term zero tolerance there should be no tolerance when it's the lions as children of

commissioner kopp. no. (roll call). >> that motion passes on a 4-1 vote with commissioner kopp in the descent. thank you. >> next up is for staff to incorporate the ordinances into a single ordinance and transmit it that to the board of supervisors. i would propose a 10 minute break. we regroup and come back for the balance of the >> welcome back to the san franciscoth chicks committee meeting. we are on agenda item 9, discussion of the staff monthly report. >> thank you. item 9 is staff's monthly policy report. it is fairly brief. i will not go through it and just make me self available for any questions you might have. you will see that the review of the public financing program is on here and a couple of other items. >> the only question i have is if form 700 filing deadline that is april 2? then thet the ethics commissiond sunshine filings are due on april 1st. >> april 1 or 2. >> we have to update our filings shortly? you will remind us. >> engagement and compliance division can help you with that. >>

former bart board member quentin kopp is pointing to the route that could have taken bart straight down the peninsula. he says the path, now used by caltrain was originally railroad line with a built-in right of way. so why didn't it happen? kopp points to powerful business interests who feared it would suck their business north to san francisco. >> that would have been the most economical way to proceed. it didn't happen, again, because of the commercial pressure from the major shopping center developer in san mateo county. >> with the silicon valley boom still decades away, semi rural santa clara county also pulled out of the expensive project. and when engineers objected to tracks over the golden gate bridge, the original dream of a system running from novato all the way through san jose laid out in this 1960s map was over. >> you have the third rail. >> but transportation rider ethan elkhind believes other options might be viable. >> bart was perceived as a way to bring professionals from the suburbs into downtown san francisco, downtown oakland. so they wanted a nice comfortable ri