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Rules Committee backs ordinance to prohibit undated resignation letters for appointees
Summary
The Rules Committee voted to send an ordinance to the full Board to bar appointing authorities from requiring undated or preemptive resignation letters from people under consideration for city boards and commissions; the motion passed with one dissent.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Rules Committee voted Jan. 30 to send to the full board an ordinance that would bar appointing authorities from requiring undated resignation letters from candidates for city boards, commissions and other bodies.
Supervisor Dean Preston, who sponsored the ordinance, said he introduced it after revelations that the mayor's office had requested undated resignation letters from several commissioners. Preston cited Police Commissioner Max Carter Overstone's whistleblowing and a City Attorney memo as the basis for proposing a formal city policy that would make seeking such letters a prohibited practice. "There is no reason we should be leaving the decision whether to resign up to the whims of any appointing authority,"…
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