[reading agenda item 8] >>speaker: pat ford, policy analyst. the memo attached to item 8 give as brief summary of file 170868. this is ethics ordinance that is authored and sponsored by supervisor jane kim who came before the commission at the regular -- meeting. since the november meeting, mr. kunter and i have been working with supervisor kim's staff to review the ordinance, provide them with research about the provisions included in it and to make recommendations to them about what we believe would make the ordinance the best possible ordinance to bring to the commission for prove. through that process, we were able to make several changes to the ordinance and supervisor kim amended the ordinance last week, so the version of file 170868 that is attached here is the way that it currently is pending before the board of supervisors, so if the commission were to approve this today, it would allow the rules committee to consider this and potentially move it on to the full board for a vote. i will give you a quick overview of the different provisi

. >> the folks at uber and ford and whoever else we find out are probably patting themselves on the backd wiping the sweat from their brow. >> right. i also think shareholders could be very angry, and that there should be a shareholder lawsuit to make the executives who allowed this to happen to pay a man $1.2 million in one case, 600,000 for absolutely no value. there could never have been any intended value in his relationship. and whatever he had is certainly now gone because everybody knows he no longer has the ear of the president, which was what he was selling to begin with. so i think there should be some actions taken to say why would you ever have agreed to this contract? and when he saw you had no value, why did you not try to break the contract? because he made a false promise of what he couldn't deliver. >> it's a great point. novartis' current ceo has thrown the previous ceo under the busson this precise point. jill wine-banks, jed shugerman and david banks, thank you for joining me. >>> the swamp olympics. we'll check in that competition ahead. >>> a love-hate-love relation