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Ethics staff: NetFile can’t be updated before election; manual audits will cap matching at $150
Summary
Staff warned that the city’s free filing system, NetFile, cannot be reconfigured in time to implement Prop F’s lower $150 match cap before the next election, so staff will allow $500 matching requests this cycle and manually audit matches to ensure payment does not exceed $150 per contribution.
Staff told commissioners that technical limitations in NetFile mean the free filing system will continue to populate $500 per contribution on matching requests and cannot be changed by January 1, 2020. Pat Ford said the NetFile code is hardwired to place the full $500 on matching requests and that NetFile would…
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