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Ethics Commission finds Board president Norman Yee did not violate Sunshine Ordinance in show-cause hearing
Summary
After a contested show-cause hearing over placement of 150-word public-comment summaries, the San Francisco Ethics Commission voted unanimously that President Norman Yee did not violate Administrative Code sections 67.16 and 67.31 and that the code does not require those summaries to appear in the body of minutes.
The San Francisco Ethics Commission voted unanimously that Board of Supervisors President Norman Yee did not violate the city’s Sunshine Ordinance over the placement of 150-word public-comment summaries in Board minutes.
The finding came after a show-cause hearing on a referral from the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force. Complainant Ray Hartz argued that his 150-word summaries — a mechanism he uses to preserve the substance of his public comments — were relegated to an addendum rather than placed “in the body of the minutes,” which he said made them harder for the public to find and undermined…
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