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Committee backs ban on delegating mayoral contract approvals to department heads
Summary
Supervisor Matt Haney27s ordinance that would prohibit the mayor from delegating final approval authority for contracting decisions to a department head was recommended to the full Board; sponsors tied the change to recommendations from the Controller's public integrity review after the Nuru scandal.
The Government Audit & Oversight Committee on Oct. 1 voted to recommend an ordinance authored by Supervisor Matt Haney that would prohibit the mayor from delegating final approval authority for certain contracting decisions to a department head.
Haney said the change was aimed at closing a loophole exposed by the Mohammed Nuru investigation, in which a prior mayoral…
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