. >> so a question, director pelham. the titles that are listed here in this attachment, these are all -- they currently reflect the organizational structure titles as it exists today. >> that's correct. >> including all of the vacant or open positions that you are recruiting for. >> that's correct. this includes the organizational chart as it sits for the staff. there is a biennial code mandate, so it's incumbent upon us to enact changes if necessary based on that review no less than every two years, but departments can certainly review and update those codes at any time. >> okay. thank you. commissioners, any comment or questions? public comment? no comment. all right. commissioner? [inaudible] >> director pelham asked that we -- >> i move that we -- >> and i second that motion. >> all in favor? [voting] >> okay. the motion to approve the conflict of interest code for the ethics commission is unanimously approved. we are just -- agenda item number six, discussion and possible action on proposed ethics commission opinio

>> commissioner kopp: i just have a question as to who's handling this, miss pelham. you are? >> the policy work -- yes, that would be me for today. >> commissioner kopp: okay. have you talk today the department of elections -- talked to the department of elections as to where to put up a sign where to go for public financing? >> no, i have not, but i will report to you at the next meeting progress on that front because i know that's important for the november elections. >> commissioner kopp: okay. thank you. >> okay. >> commissioner chiu: agenda item number eight, discussion of monthly staff enforcement report, including an update on various programatic and operational highlights on the program since the last meeting. >> good morning, chair chiu and commissioners. i'm pleased to report that the investigators have been extremely diligent, but of course so have the public, and so we have a mix of progress on complaints that we had received previously and a number of new complaints. we got 22 new complaints in the two months since we last reported to you. that leaves 87 complain

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director pelham introduced him to you about six months ago, and he's done an excellent job for the commission, learning a new area of law, understanding the requests that we received, applying the law to those requests, and coordinating with staff how to generate and produce the records that the public are entitled to. and he shoulders the bulk of staff time in responding to these requests, so when i say that we spend roughly 12 hours a week on these, i mostly mean thomas. and in addition to his responsibilities on the records side, he, of course, has investigations for which he's responsible as an investigation. >> commissioner chiu: so jeff, is there a -- any way that we can get him more help to -- another shoulder at the wheel to help with the heavy lift on identifying documents, reviewing documents, and then producing those documents? because 12 hours per week is a significant amount of time, and it probably wasn't -- whatever he's doing on records requests is not -- it takes away from the time that he can spend on investigations. >> yes, thank you, chair chiu. historically, the job of pu

you hunkered down in the governor's palace and you were actually able to go back and leave the pelham era terry -- leave the paramilitary side and do intelligence work. >> we were the first demon. i am very proud of that. however -- we were the first team in. i am very proud of that. however, just a few days before, they had been hit by a bomb and it killed a number of people. including two of the people that were with echo team, working with us when i was there, before i got switched over to foxtrot. it wounded everyone else. so they were delayed. hamid karzai himself was injured. so they were delayed a bit. they were there the next day. >> i am giving you a chance to take victory. >> also, i have to say, it was not the cia guys, it was also the special forces. it wasn't just us. there were others involved in that. anyway, you mentioned the compound. >> you got a chance to do some hard-core intelligence. >> headquarters had prepared a list of places they wanted us to raid in kandahar. that was where al qaeda had been headquartered. we were hoping we would maybe capture someone. we ac

the bronx happens to be the home of the two largest parks in new york city -- pelham bay and van cortlandtze, and they trace their ethnic group back to a single slave ship that crashed off st. vincent, and whose freed africans then mixed with carib-indians. where is home for many of the garifuna community living in the u.s.? you guessed it, the bronx. >> baron ambrosia: living in the bronx you're able to, kind of, travel the world without leaving the borough. >> anthony: right. >> baron ambrosia: and, you know, it's like an addiction. when you go to another country, and that first day in the market -- >> anthony: yeah. >> baron ambrosia: and all your dreams, and you smell the diesel, and you're just looking around -- you're like, "where's that one thing i'm looking for?" to be able to do that, really, in your own backyard is -- >> anthony: cool. >> callita: we have a hudutu. that's coconut soup with fish. over here, we had a tapou. >> anthony: oh, that looks good. >> callita: smoked neck bone with, uh, banana, yuca, yautía, malanga, in coconut soup. >> anthony: well, that sounds good. yeah