the end of the second paragraph there's a reference to ms. blomeoted that bdr attempted an assetb search of mr. chris jackson and the court's investigation determined that there are no assets. is the "court" the right word? do you remember? i didn't think you said court. >> it should be bdr. good catch. >> bdr, okay, may i propose that change, mr. chairman? >> you may. >> then on page 5, above the words "public comment," and maybe should ask what -- how we phrase this as a customary practice, is present tense or past tense? because that sentence says, "the individual commissioners acknowledge" in the present tense. and i'm going to suggest this change: the individual commissioners acknowledged, and congratulated. of the executive director pelham on her election to the governing board of the council on governmental ethics. i have written this out. and then also above that, the last emphasized point in the first paragraph in conjunction with the controller's office, it should be present tense there "develop definitions of the types of activities." no

the end of the second paragraph there's a reference to ms. blome noted that bdr attempted an assetb search of mr. chris jackson and the court's investigation determined that there are no assets. is the "court" the right word? do you remember? i didn't think you said court. >> it should be bdr. good catch. >> bdr, okay, may i propose that change, mr. chairman? >> you may. >> then on page 5, above the words "public comment," and maybe should ask what -- how we phrase this as a customary practice, is present tense or past tense? because that sentence says, "the individual commissioners acknowledge" in the present tense. and i'm going to suggest this change: the individual commissioners acknowledged, and congratulated. of the executive director pelham on her election to the governing board of the council on governmental ethics. i have written this out. and then also above that, the last emphasized point in the first paragraph in conjunction with the controller's office, it should be present tense there "develop definitions of the types of activities."

the end of the second paragraph there's a reference to ms. blome noted that bdr attempted an assetb search of mr. chris jackson and the court's investigation determined that there are no assets. is the "court" the right word? do you remember? i didn't think you said court. >> it should be bdr. good catch. >> bdr, okay, may i propose that change, mr. chairman? >> you may. >> then on page 5, above the words "public comment," and maybe should ask what -- how we phrase this as a customary practice, is present tense or past tense? because that sentence says, "the individual commissioners acknowledge" in the present tense. and i'm going to suggest this change: the individual commissioners acknowledged, and congratulated. of the executive director pelham on her election to the governing board of the council on governmental ethics. i have written this out. and then also above that, the last emphasized point in the first paragraph in conjunction with the controller's office, it should be present tense there "develop definitions of the types of activities."

i ask other commission members here, and of course, the director, and ms. blome and anybody else who wants to offer an opinion on it? the executive director and/or commission. which raises the question of whether the commission has such authority? if it does, then i would recommend that amendment to add those words. if it doesn't, then that's the end of my suggestion. >> yes, the commission doesn't have the authority to initiate an investigation. so you are not informed when an investigation suspension is requested. so i don't think that -- i don't think that is practical. >> it's not feasible? >> right. >> i'm sorry, i'm not following here. >> well, i would recommend, if it's legal, and it's feasible and practical, the executive committee and/or the commission reserves the right to decline any request to suspend an investigation. >> okay, but we're not saying that commissioner kopp's original observation that as to no. 1, that we should add the language "will suspend it's administrative investigation for 90 days," and add the language "will then resume the inves

chairman, of ms. blome. why do you -- on page 2, with the graph refer to non-grant funding? >> thank you for the question. this is a term that is kind of a term of art used in the budget document. that essentially means operating stuff. the grant funding as the budget refers to is allocation for the public financing program in our instance. >> thank you. i learn something every meeting. [laughter ] >> i tend to agree with mr. pilpel and would welcome a motion to endorse the proposals that are outlined in the staff memo. >> so moved. >> second. >> i will call the question. all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? motion is carried unanimously. turning to agenda item 10, discussion of enforcement report, and update from various programmatic and operation highlights of the enforcement program. ms. bloem. yes, thank you, chair. so i'll try to be brief, but i have been busy this month, doing some policy development and some research and analysis, and a little bit of investigating as well, which we'll talk about later. i drafted and researched the suspended investigations and parallel pr

chairman, of ms. blome. why do you -- on page 2, with the graph refer to non-grant funding? >> thank you for the question. this is a term that is kind of a term of art used in the budget document. that essentially means operating stuff. the grant funding as the budget refers to is allocation for the public financing program in our instance. >> thank you. i learn something every meeting. [laughter ] >> i tend to agree with mr. pilpel and would welcome a motion to endorse the proposals that are outlined in the staff memo. >> so moved. >> second. >> i will call the question. all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? motion is carried unanimously. turning to agenda item 10, discussion of enforcement report, and update from various programmatic and operation highlights of the enforcement program. ms. bloem. yes, thank you, chair. so i'll try to be brief, but i have been busy this month, doing some policy development and some research and analysis, and a little bit of investigating as well, which we'll talk about later. i drafted and researched the suspended investigations and parallel pr