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Committee amends Administrative Code to let city departments accept nonprofit disclosures in place of a separate City Administrator filing
Summary
The committee amended Administrative Code Section 10.1 to allow nonprofits receiving City funds to furnish required management and budget information directly to contracting departments rather than filing duplicate annual economic statements with the City Administrator; technical edits ("income" → "economic statement" and filing office) were adopted.
The Budget and Finance Committee approved amendments to San Francisco Administrative Code Section 10.1 that allow nonprofits receiving city funding to provide and update required information directly to City departments as an alternative to filing annual economic statements with the City Administrator's Office.
Linda Young, Deputy City Administrator, said the change reduces duplicative paperwork because "information about non profits was not readily available" when the rule was first adopted in 1998, but "nowadays, this information is readily available and monitored by city departments," including via online sources such as GuideStar. The amendment primarily substitutes the phrase "economic statement" for "income statement" and changes the filing destination from the Department of Administrative Services to the City Administrator in the resolution text.
Public commenters raised concerns that changes to reporting processes should not reduce oversight of nonprofit contracting and urged audits and greater transparency; Carmen Chu and Linda Young clarified departments will continue to require disclosure as part of contracting, and the committee accepted the technical amendments and forwarded the item with recommendation.
Next steps: the amended resolution will be sent forward to the Board of Supervisors with technical edits incorporated.
