for years, san francisco has been controlled and bought. it's about time for you, ethics commission, to stop corruption and fraud. you were elected to stop public elected official corruption. and for the last many years, california has been controlled solely by many of the party, democrats. san francisco is about balanced governments and decent parties. i urge you to do something so our government can be reformed and run a government by the people, but not by the few elite and who bought super pac and paid for the electoral office to be in office. >> chair chiu: thank you. >> and to be the correction, because you obviously do it on purpose, i've never said things the way that it was coded in minutes. i'm going to give it to them for correction. >> chair chiu: thank you. any other public comment? okay. we'll move now to the consent calendar items, which are the draft minutes for the ethics commission. [inaudible] >> chair chiu: oh, okay. >> so i'm here to speak -- i don't see it on the agenda, but i know there's a proposal to eviscerate the matching funds that candidates must follow.

. >>> quentin top is stepping down with his house from san francisco's ethics commission. the retired judge and former state senator made the announcement this morning at city hall. >> resigning from the ethics commission besides freeing some of my not so valuable time provides restoration of my first amendment rights respecting matters of the city and county of san francisco. seki filed a lawsuit against the secret service last august gasoline the agency for not disclosing how much it is spending to protect the presidents son donald trump junior. >>> the white house pushing back against house democrats new investigations into president trump calling him disgraceful and abusive. the house judiciary committee is requesting documents from 81 individuals and entities connected to the president. he let out his frustration on twitter today saying nadler, and the deadheads of the committees have gone stone cold crazy. 81 letters sent innocent people to harass them and he added, quote, presidential harassment. house democrats are expanding their efforts to look into president tru

san francisco. also for his service and contribution here on the ethics commission. second is hous housekeeping mat. i like to note the change and date for the regularly scheduled meeting of the ethics commission next month. we usually meet on third friday. that is start of passover and good friday. we moved the meeting to april 12th. we'll be starting early in this room. we invite the public to come and make any comments that they wish to make. >> thank you commissioners. i'm a government social worker for the last 10 years. our union has more than 16,000 government employees. we are 52% of the workforce for public servant. i have been coming here almost every month. i'm also director of public relations for the california association, san francisco chapter. as a public employee, i'm trained and practice good government practices. i'm here today as a resident of san francisco for the last 33 years. i have been coming to the ethics commission many times in 2016, 2017, 2018. in april, 2017 to april 7, 2017, i still remember, i brought up a lot of bribery and corruptio

for someone who used to work with the ethics commission in san francisco, i will tell you what her answerhat if california evidence codes 1152 and 1154 are cited in a settlement letter to a san francisco citizen from the office of the city attorney? may that person receiving a letter like this from the city attorney thereby still go to the city's recreation and park commission a testified to the substance of the ledger so that you can make good policy. what i was told is this. they are advised to promote good source efforts. to this end, statements made cannot be used of evidence -- as evidence, however, this is the main point, settlement statements are not communications. you may discuss them with others without violating any california law. settlement statements may come up in a public-policy context for instance. they are notably relevant and useful to those public bodies such as this one has to oversee an agency or department that is party to a lawsuit, and finally, she said section 1152 and 1154 could be stated in a letter, who is also a citizen are not to gag orders. they do not pre

san francisco. also for his service and contribution here on the ethics commission. second is hous housekeeping mat. i like to note the change and date for the regularly scheduled meeting of the ethics commission next month. we usually meet on third friday. that is start of passover and good friday. we moved the meeting to april 12th. we'll be starting early in

san francisco. also for his service and contribution here on the ethics commission. second is hous hoee

wanted to reemphasize the public and the reporters in san francisco have come to rely on these as a source of information, and the ethics commission has accordingly started updating these -- and that we update these on a daily basis, and it has become a daily part of operations inside the commission because we want to keep values current and make sure that accurate numbers are always available. we're working on building out the technical infrastructure that makes things like this possible, and so i look forward to bringing more projects like this to your attention in the future. >> chair chiu: mr. field, thank you very much for this. i found that to be a very powerful presentation. i think that the automatetion and the clear and easy interaction of this, it's really stunning to see it laid out there in black and white or full color how many money is being spent in our election. it's shocking that $11 million is coming into our city elections from north carolina. i never would have known that absent your dashboard. and so this goes to a budget question. i think executive director pelham will address later, but do you have the resou