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Staff proposes auditing top‑spending committees to capture 80% of 2016 election spending
Summary
Staff recommended selecting audits by objective criteria (top spenders by committee category) instead of pure random draws; the plan would audit 27 of 114 committees in the audit pool, covering roughly 80% of reported spending for the 2016 cycle.
Ethics Commission staff on March 22 proposed a revision to the campaign audit selection method that would prioritize committees where the public interest is greatest — primarily those that spent the most to influence city elections.
Director Pelham said the office would target the "top five in each category of committee" and use objective, cycle‑specific criteria to focus staff resources. "We would be auditing in total 27 committees, which reflects 24% of the committees in that pool, but 80% of the money in that…
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