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Ethics staff propose one‑time lifting of public financing ceilings and CPI‑adjusted contribution limits
Summary
Staff recommended replacing frequent incremental adjustments to individual expenditure ceilings with a single, race‑level threshold; proposed raising the city’s contribution limit from $500 to $900 with future CPI adjustments; commissioners took the presentation under advisement
San Francisco — Commission staff proposed significant changes to how San Francisco administers its public financing program at the Ethics Commission’s June 13 meeting, recommending a streamlined, single‑event approach to raising expenditure ceilings and an inflation adjustment to contribution limits.
Michael Canning and Ryan Abusa presented the staff memo and said the current individual expenditure ceiling (IEC) process — used for candidates who accept public funds — requires auditors and campaigns to file and review many threshold statements during an election cycle. Staff noted the IEC mechanism can be adjusted repeatedly during a race (in $50,000 increments for…
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