The San Francisco Rules Committee met on October 6, 2025, to consider appointments to city boards and committees, review surveillance reports, and discuss ordinances related to fund administration and entertainment zones. Chaired by Supervisor Shimon Walton, with Vice Chair Cheryl and President Mandelman, the committee forwarded several items to the full Board of Supervisors with recommendations.
Good morning and welcome to the October 6, 2025 rules committee meeting. I'm your chair, Supervisor Shimon Walton. I am joined by Vice Chair, Supervisor Cheryl, and President Mandelman. Our clerk today is Victor Young, and I would like to thank Jaime Eschevery from SFGA for making sure this meeting is broadcast for the public. Mr. Clerk, do we have any announcements? Yes, public comment will be taken on each item on this agenda. When your item of interest comes up and public comment is closed, please line up to speak on your right. Alternatively, you may submit public comment in writing in either of the following ways. Email them to myself, the rules committee clerk at VICTOR.yo N G at SFgov.org. If we submit public comment via email, it will be included as part of the file. You may also send your written comments via US mail to our office at City Hall, one Dr. Carlton B. Goodlit Place. Room 244, San Francisco, California, 94102. Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today are expected to appear on the Board of Supervisors' agenda of October 21st, 2025, unless otherwise stated. That completes my initial announcements. Thank you so much. Would you please call item number one? Item number one is a hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending April 27, 2027, to the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force. Thank you. And we are going to be discussing seat four, and I believe Ankita Kumar is here in person. Good morning. Good morning. If you want to tell us about yourself and why you want to continue to serve. Take your time. Hello. It's an honor and privilege to be back here and to talk about why I would like to seek reappointment to the task force. I've been on the task force for over a year and a half. I was appointed in more than a year, almost two years at this point. I was appointed in January 24. Um I started off. I was part of the education and outreach committee. I also attended the complaints meetings. And over the course of DC two years, I have worked on a lot of cases and stood up for the people and contributed towards holding departments accountable for the Sunshine Ordnance. In fact, my work was praised by a lot of members of the public, especially because I believe I hold departments very much accountable to the Sunshine Ordinance. I have gone through the ordinance piece by piece, and I'm one of the few members who speaks up when it's extremely necessary to I and I'm very, very eager to share my opinions. I'm not scared to do that. And I feel there's a lot of work that I can do in terms of archival management. For example, we were at the EOTC meeting last month when I suggested that there are some great examples in departments where they're doing good work. So we should maintain an archive so that when you know the cases come up for certain departments, we can tell them, hey, you know, this department has done great work in terms of archival management, and this is an example of what we can do. So in terms of education and outreach, I have been contributing a lot to the city. And yeah, I just want to continue for another term. I believe there's more I can do. I'm I think what the youngest member of the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force. And I I just turned 33 actually on third on Friday. I'm still the youngest, I'm guessing. So I think more young voices need to be on the Sunshine Task Force, and which is why I want to continue.