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Ethics commission endorses controller's recommendations after report on refuse rate setting and Recology settlement
Summary
The San Francisco Ethics Commission unanimously endorsed the controller's April preliminary assessment of the city's refuse rate-setting process, urged implementation of several transparency and oversight reforms and asked staff to investigate how Recology official Paul Giusti was appointed to a city advisory body following FBI allegations and a large settlement.
The San Francisco Ethics Commission on a unanimous vote endorsed the controller's April 14 preliminary assessment of the city's refuse rate-setting process and asked city officials to implement the report's recommendations to strengthen transparency and controls.
The commission's action followed a presentation from the controller's office, which outlined findings tied to the 2017 rate-setting cycle and a related settlement with Recology. Mark De La Rosa, acting director of audits for the controller's office, told commissioners that the Board of Supervisors had approved settlement amounts totaling about $94.6 million for ratepayer restitution and roughly $7.0 million in civil penalties, as of Tuesday, May 11.
The report traces the root of the 2017 error to an omission: revenues from the zero-waste incentive and impound accounts were excluded from the weight application, producing…
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