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Ethics commission approves revised incompatibility rules for San Francisco Public Library

San Francisco Ethics Commission · February 27, 2012
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The San Francisco Ethics Commission approved amendments to the Library’s Statement of Incompatible Activities, keeping two provisions while narrowing language that could have barred staff from some outside work. Library staff said exhibits are a small part of procurement and stressed the focus is on collections and contracting safeguards.

The San Francisco Ethics Commission on Wednesday approved changes to the Statement of Incompatible Activities (SIA) for the San Francisco Public Library, voting to retain two provisions while removing language the library said risked unnecessarily restricting staff activity.

Miss Singh, a commission staff member, told commissioners the draft retains provisions B and C but deletes certain terms that would bar any library employee or the city librarian from serving as a sales representative, purchaser, publicist or a publisher who sells books to the library.…

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