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Rules Committee debates proposed code of conduct and closed-session calendar; discussion continued to next meeting
Summary
The committee considered a motion to schedule bimonthly closed sessions on emergency preparedness and debated a proposed Board code of conduct that would allow admonition, sanctions and censure; legal staff advised harmonizing the code with existing rules and the city charter, and the committee continued the item to the next meeting (Aug. 2) for further amendments.
Item 5 asked the Rules Committee to direct the clerk to calendar bimonthly closed sessions of the Board to discuss San Francisco's emergency preparedness and homeland-security activities. The sponsor requested a continuance; the chair declined and opened the item to public comment.
Richard Nee, representing the National Writers Union Bay Area Chapter, urged the committee to reject periodic closed sessions, saying mandatory closed-door meetings "fly in the face of the Sunshine Ordinance and Brown Act." The deputy…
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