mr. d'amico. with that let's take public comment. does anyone in the room in the gallery wish to make public comment on this item? seeing none. mr. clarke, will you check if there's any one on the line? >> chairman there are no callers in the queue. with that i move to adopt staff's recommendation on item number seven seconded. >> with that you have a clerk at your at your leisure on the motion to adopt staff's recommendation on item number seven. chair high commissioner flora fang commissioner salahi i. commissioner so i can live with four votes in the affirmative. >> the motion is approved unanimously. >> thank you sir. that closes item number seven now call item number eight presentation and public hearing and possible action on ethics commission budget proposal for the fiscal year 20 2526 and fiscal year 2627. mr. director thank you chair for lot of good morning commissioners i may have brought up a slide deck for you real quickly . great. you should be able to see that now. i think we only have this one screen in this room that f

mr. d'amico seems like a great effort. i'd be particularly interested in anything relating to the hearing process after the hearing we did a few months ago which i think went well but there definitely room for improvement and things that we learned a lot of takeaways from that but no other comments from me at this point at this time yeah i agree with jeff and live thank you i'll take up public comment does anyone the room thank you mr. d'amico anyone in the room wishing to make public comment. seeing none. >> mr. clerk, would you check if there are any colors? chair friend that we are checking to see if there are callers in the queue. >> sure. if there are no callers in the queue. oh caller thank you mr. clerk that closes item ten a now call item 12 items for future meetings. i have nothing personally colleagues anything for future meetings. does anyone in the room wish to make public comment on this item? seeing none mr. clerk would you check if there are any callers chair friendly there are no callers in the queue out of

mr. d'amico. with that let's take public comment. anyone in the room in the gallery wish to make public comment on this item? seeing none. mr. clarke, will you check if there's any one on the line? >> chairman there are no callers in the queue. with that i move to adopt staff's recommendation on item number seven seconded. >> with that you have a clerk at your at your leisure on the motion to adopt staff's recommendation on item number seven. chair high commissioner flora fang commissioner salahi i. commissioner so i can live with four votes in the affirmative. >> the motion is approved unanimously. >> thank you sir. that closes item number seven now call item number eight presentation and public hearing and possible action on ethics commission budget proposal for the fiscal year 20 2526 and fiscal year 2627. mr. director thank you chair for lot of good morning commissioners i may have brought up a slide deck for

mr. d'amico today would be his position and another position that's filled by a board attorney. these are people who lead the legal elements of our enforcement matters. they engage in settlement negotiations with respondents, councils and the political bar in san francisco. they draft charging documents, subpoenas. they present oral arguments to you, hearing briefs to you. these are very specialized and and nuanced skills that i want to make sure we're really breaking into our org chart that these are distinct from the other investigators who provide critical work in fact finding doing interviews, gathering documents but that those are different types of work investigating versus administrative prosecution for lack of a better word are different. i'd really like to break that in because it has been so effective and that's why in part why you have seen so many good cases come before you in the last couple of years. >> in order to do that we would also need to reclassify the director of enforcement under city civil service rules. certain classifications cannot supervise other clas

mr. d'amico. with that let's take public comment. e in the room in the gallery wish to make public comment on this item? seeing none. mr. clarke, will you check if there's any one on the line? >> chairman there are no callers in the queue. with that i move to adopt staff's recommendation on item number seven seconded. >> with that you have a clerk at your at your leisure on the motion to adopt staff's recommendation on item number seven. chair high commissioner flora fang commissioner salahi i. commissioner so i can live with four votes in the affirmative. >> the motion is approved unanimously. >> thank you sir. that closes item number seven now call item number eight presentation and public hearing and possible action on ethics commission budget proposal for the fiscal year 20 2526 and fiscal year 2627. mr. director thank you chair for lot of good morning commissioners i may have brought up a slide deck for you real quickly . great. you should be able to see that now. i think we only have this one screen in this room that faces away