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Board approves District Attorneys acceptance of donated office furniture after ethics debate
Summary
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 10-1 to authorize the District Attorneys office to accept roughly $26,000 in donated design services and furniture after extended discussion about whether the gift required a different state disclosure form or additional local reporting.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on May 14 approved a resolution authorizing the District Attorneys office to retroactively accept donated interior design services and furniture valued at about $26,000.
The vote to adopt the resolution was 10 in favor, 1 opposed (Supervisor John Avalos). The measure authorizes acceptance of the donated goods and places the donation on the public record via the resolution and the disclosure forms the office filed with state regulators.
Why it matters: Supervisors spent nearly two hours debating whether the donated furniture should have been reported on Californias Form 801 (a disclosure for gifts that bestow a personal benefit on an official) rather than the Form 803 the District Attorneys office filed. The discussion raised larger questions about consistent local practice for accepting and reporting gifts to offices that serve the public and whether the Board should set a city-level rule going forward.
The debate and legal advice Deputy City Attorney John Giffner told supervisors that state law and…
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