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Commission schedules late-July special meeting to weigh mayoral and board proposals on behested payments after departments report program disruptions
Summary
Staff urged clarifications to December 2021 behested-payments rules after departments described paused philanthropic partnerships; the Commission set a special meeting for July 27 to consider mayoral and Board-sponsored amendment proposals before the August 5 ballot deadline.
The San Francisco Ethics Commission agreed to hold a special meeting in late July to continue deliberations on proposed changes to the city—9s behested-payments and related ethics rules after staff and department witnesses described operational disruptions.
Acting senior policy analyst Michael Canning summarized the implementation experience since rules enacted in January: the law expanded the definition of "interested party," eliminated prior reporting (because soliciting certain payments is now prohibited), and prompted guidance requests from multiple departments.…
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