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3 and the Library are a fraud and a scam. He said about

10 percent of the money raised by the Friends actually goes to the Library. Peter Warfield, Executive Director, Library Users Association, said the first time he looked at the Friends'

finances they collected $5.5 Million and had given the library only $498,000, less than 10%. He asked when the Commission was going to look into this. He said there is no competition for President. He said he would like to hear speeches and what the President considers her achievements. He asked if the Library will be held ethically accountable. Marie Ciepiela, Executive Director of Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, said that all of their financial information is available on their website. She said the Friends are excited about the Night of Ideas and will be supporting that. Commission Discussion Motion: By Commissioner Mall, seconded by Commissioner Dunning to approve the nomination of President Wardell-Ghirarduzzi to another term as President. Action: AYES 6-0: (Dunning, Huang, Lee, Mall, Wardell-Ghirarduzzi, and Wolf). President Wardell-Ghirarduzzi asked the Commissioners for nominations for Vice-President. Commissioner Pete Huang nominated Vice-President Susan Mall to serve for another year as Vice-President. Commissioner Wolf seconded the nomination. President Wardell-Ghirarduzzi asked if there were any further nominations. She said seeing none we would go to public comment. Public Comment Ray Hartz, Director San Francisco Open Government, said he does not blame any of the Commissioners besides the current President and Vice- President from wanting to participate. He said the former City Librarian left you with a bag of feces and that is the financial dealings with the Friends of the Library. He said for years the Commission has been promoting the relationship with the Friends. He said he will be going to the Ethics Commission and the Board of Supervisors exposing this fraud. Peter Warfield, Executive Director, Library Users Association, said he has a great deal of respect for the current Vice-President. He said he wishes she would be a little pushier on getting the answers to her questions. He said he would like to know if the library would uphold the ALA'

s privacy policy and not to implement RFID. He said he would like the Commission

4 to have a discussion about the Sunshine Ordinance and it'

s adherence to it. He said he would like to know if the Commission would be interested in discussing the elimination of both fines and fees. Commission Discussion Motion: By Commissioner Huang, seconded by Commissioner Wolf to approve the nomination of Vice-President Susan Mall to another term as Vice-President. Action: AYES 6-0: (Dunning, Huang, Lee, Mall, Wardell-Ghirarduzzi, and Wolf). AGENDA ITEM NO. 3. LIBRARY FINES AND FEES SCHEDULE Michael Lambert, Acting City Librarian, welcomed Commissioner Wolf to the Commission and introduced the recommended changes to the Library Fines and Fees Schedule. He introduced our partners with the Financial Justice Project. He said this has been a highly collaborative effort to assess and reform our library'

s fines impacts on our most vulnerable residents. Randy McClure, Chief Analytics Officer, is with Cathy Delneo, Chief of Branches. He said they are pleased to introduce Joseph Monardo to walk the Commission through his White Paper entitled Long Overdue. He said a tremendous amount of research was done in partnership with the Library and the San Francisco Financial Justice Project in supporting the library'

s position of going fine free. Joseph Monardo gave the report on Long Overdue, Eliminating Fines on Overdue Materials to Improve Access to San Francisco Public Library (SFPL). He explained the overview of the Fine Free Movement, removing fines to support SFPL priorities, the rationale for eliminating fines, SFPL'