mr. sincroy not send that letter out out. >> is there a second? >> i'll second, that. >> the motion has been made and sect. >> may i comment. >> certainly. >> if the commission were to make the make a decision to approve or deny waiver i think over a certain dollar amount we should we should have that we should actually put a policy in place before we start making decisions without the policy mr. in place abused what it seems like wiener we're about to do is change the policy decision on the fly without noticing the public and fully understanding the scope what is the threshold we'll be approving waivers we should know that i'll say that based on the letter that was drafted to me that i would not approve that because it is contains no rational for why the waiver is being contraband if we're to grant a waiver we fled the rational in the letter that is granting the waiver and certainly i wouldn't want it to be happening my personal view if the statute of limitations applies we should grant the waiver i understand people want officials held account i

mr. sincroy when we raised those issues and you know he's been cooperative and supervisor farrell contacted the commission and immediately starting talking about his position and the implication that even though this committee is closed that supervisor farrell will have to pay that peppering in sum in order to get to the forfeiture in this matter the commission has to apply that provision of law to a situation which is different than any situation in forfeiture before and it has to ask supervisor farrell to pay this money whether it's $191,000 or something else out of his pocket in creativity to the investigation that has completelyes rated supervisor farrell given those facts and those laws - this law we certainly building that forfeiture in any amount is not we're adjourned and we respectfully request the committee agree and wave this, sir if you have any questions, we'll answer them. >> any questions from the commissioners. >> just a couple of questions one putting aside the stauchlts that defense what remedy is there where a candidate sets up his election committee and then set up a ind

mr. sincroy and taking this opportunity to give them. >> correct that's my understanding as well. >> so mr. sutton and the public for coming in with further information providing to use it was helpful. >> anything else from the commissioners next item a discussion on the discussion of random audits of the committees active in 2014. >> well, good evening i am the assist deputy director so before we proceeded to the audit selection i want to summarize what we did in the past year in order to eliminate the backlog of audits staff requested the controller's office assist in conducting audits the controller's office conducted 13 audits and staff conducted the remaining 27 work on all the audits has been implemented and most finalized staff is working on finalizing 4 of the audits and 13 that the controller's office did staff expect those audits had been finalized with that the next few weeks and after today's audit selection staff can begin work on the audits that are selected today as explained in the anti memo we recommend that the commission select 10 campaigns for audit and 4 campaigns it s

mr. sincroy for all the years ever work in a job that is certainly not an easy job and hopefully between now and august we'll have a more appropriate time to give our thanks for your public service with that. >> commissioners and director my name is a presented with the director of finance for the department of human resources i manage contract for the department i'm here to answer any questions about the recruitment or the executive recruitment process dr has a search the purpose a pool that is good for another year until may 20160 essentially dr plays an essential role we recommend that the commission through the d hr with a executive recruiter we have recruiters. >> what's done in the past as far as the prior executive order what was done to get mr. sincroy. >> i would with the d hr, however, recently within the last year or two dr h has assisted a couple of commissions and other departments with their executive recruitment and all of those have been an external executive recruitment. >> commissioner hur for your patience that job the executive director job a a lighting rode and the f

mr. sincroy said forfeiture is authorized by the law in a limit number of circumstances it is when a committee files a report and from the face of that report it is observe the committee accepted a contribution that means it's over the limit of a corporation so the committee files a report which happens all the time why our contribution from abc corporation the committee admitted it accepted and it happens all the time the committee discloses receiving money from sue commissioner president dwight smith and received another money added together over $500 contribution limit as mr. sincroy said no investigation is note in order to reach the conclusion that the committee should forfeit the money and objective we've asked the commission for the forfeiture matters there are one hundred about don't quote me in every single one a corporate contribution that was over the limited that was missing information and important information there was absolutely in question from the face to face of report that the committee accepted a contribution and that's why the city asked to forfeit the money we are here b

mr. sincroy in the director's report. >> thanks under chair mr. sincroy under the enforcement summaries the stipulation that chris jackson entered into will take care of numbers two and three. >> those are an additional. >> only an additional. >> a she means to of violations 235i or fines for filings. >> and number 2 from 2011. >> i believe that's the one from court agreement on. >> okay. >> i had a comment about this document and i know i can't but i want to make sure when we are doing this work particularly in the timeline on all the documents that could. to the commission particularly open any of the complaint that are outstanding and pending in any such documents that find themselves at the commission. >> right. >> sorry by away of theirs we're timely handling those. >> that's correct. >> that's written. >> so just under the lobbyist pro-program in your report it says as of march 15, 19th street 26 are registered on the audit not near one hundred and 26. >> that was from last year i'm sorry could you - so in terms of the chu's who we choose to

mr. sincroy's budget my greetings to militia by the way, i was going to say that's an indication business it up and that it bears time this is a good time to look at the question of expenditure lobbying because my guess we are going to see the whole gamete of lobbying forms now we have so many lobbyists in the city i wanted to mention previously when we looked at a new executive officer you held a prior discussion to public could come forward and make suggestions we have a number of commissioners step forward and mr. steiner for the center of governmental study this is a useful experience you want to keep in mind i'm sure you'll do that as a matter ever course and i also wanted to advocate again something that the previous commission has in fact advocated be done and that's to get a board rule change you have the ability to place our legislation before the board of supervisors under our own authority you mean i mean, you have a unique position on the charter to take your information to the ballot as a result, you should have that before the board carry our own legislation and not get caug

mr. sincroy said forfeiture is authorized by the law in a limit number of circumstances it is when a committee files a report and from