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Board amends rules to delegate subpoena authority to oversight committee amid meet-and-confer dispute
Summary
The Board of Supervisors amended internal rules to delegate authority to the Government Audit and Oversight (GAO) Committee to administer oaths and issue subpoenas, drawing extended debate over checks and balances and a required meet-and-confer with the Municipal Executives Association.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted on March 10 to amend its rules to delegate to the Government Audit and Oversight Committee the authority to issue subpoenas and to administer oaths for witnesses, including certain provisions affecting department heads. The change is intended to speed the board's use of its investigative powers following a series of corruption allegations, but it prompted debate about concentrating authority in a small committee and about labor process requirements.
Supervisor Aaron Peskin, sponsor of the measure, said the amendment is designed to make the board's "unlimited power of inquiry" more usable and timely,…
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