kawa? public speaker: hi, i am steve kaba from the mayor's office. i would say i'm happy to be here tonight, i don't know those are accurate words. i do think it's going to be informative, not only me but the other 30,000 city employees. this issue was brought as a complaint by mr. pet trellis regarding my calendar to the sunshine task force. yes, i have been in the mayor's office for nearly 20 years and city hall for 25. i take my job quite seriously, and i take my obligations quite seriously. every year we have a session with the city attorney's office regarding records retention. one issue that comes up every year is calendar. i'm sure you are aware about prop g calendar where the issue came with the sunshine task force because i was a department head. i'm not a department head. i'm not covered by prop g, i'm not an elected official. i'm not covered by prop g. so they morphed it into another issue. what will we retain because we will retain it. when it comes to mayor's calendars, prop g for mayor's calendar, not staff calendar. so it is my practic

kawa? public speaker: hi, i am steve kaba from the mayor's office. i would say i'm happy to be here tonight, i don't know those are accurate words. i do think it's going to be informative, not only me but the other 30,000 city employees. this issue was brought as a complaint by mr. pet trellis regarding my calendar to the sunshine task force. yes, i have been in the mayor's office for nearly 20 years and city hall for 25. i take my job quite seriously, and i take my obligations quite seriously. every year we have a session with the city attorney's office regarding records retention. one issue that comes up every year is calendar. i'm sure you are aware about prop g calendar where the issue came with the sunshine task force because i was a department head. i'm not a department head. i'm not covered by prop g, i'm not an elected official. i'm not covered by prop g. so they morphed it into another issue. what will we retain because we will retain it. when it comes to mayor's calendars, prop g for mayor's calendar, not staff calendar. so it is my practic

so, the sunshine ordinance task force has found that steve kawa, the mayor's chief of staff, to be in violation of the sunshine ordinance for deleting his calendar, his electronic calendar and not producing it to the requester. and found that finding and normally you would hear that case. staff not recommending you walk away from that obligation. but we did notice in the file there was a city attorney had written a memo to the task force and we predicted the attorney would be writing a letter to this commission and wanted to provide you our best recommendation, our best analysis andon the matter. a notice was sent prior to the notice and i didn't include the arguments into the memorandum after the fact. what the attorney is arguing that the electronic calendar was not at all a public record and there is no violation of the sunshine ordinance nor a violation of the policy. whether or not there is a violation of the record ordinance, is not relevant to the inquiry. neither of the task force nor this body has any enforcement authority over the record retention ordinance. unfortunately or

kawa? public speaker: hi, i am steve kaba from the mayor's office. i would say i'm happy to be here tonight, i don't know those are accurate words. i do think it's going to be informative, not only me but the other 30,000 city employees. this issue was brought as a complaint by mr. pet trellis regarding my calendar to the sunshine task force. yes, i have been in the mayor's office for nearly 20 years and city hall for 25. i take my job quite seriously, and i take my obligations quite seriously. every year we have a session with the city attorney's office regarding records retention. one issue that comes up every year is calendar. i'm sure you are aware about prop g calendar where the issue came with the sunshine task force because i was a department head. i'm not a department head. i'm not covered by prop g, i'm not an elected official. i'm not covered by prop g. so they morphed it into another issue. what will we retain because we will retain it. when it comes to mayor's calendars, prop g for mayor's calendar, not staff calendar. so it is my practic