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Rules Committee advances ordinance limiting behested payments and narrowings to interested-party definitions
Summary
The Rules Committee voted to send an amended ordinance to the full Board that broadens the city's definition of "interested parties" and bars soliciting behested payments from parties with financial interests, while carving out narrowly defined exceptions and placing one substantive change in a duplicated file for later consideration.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Rules Committee on Dec. 6 advanced an ordinance intended to curb "behested" payments and tighten rules on who counts as an "interested party" in city contracting and grant-making.
Chair Supervisor Aaron Peskin told the committee the ordinance responds to recommendations in the controller's public-integrity review following the Mohamed Nuru scandal and seeks to "address quid pro quo" by preventing city officials and designated employees from soliciting payments from parties seeking financial benefit from the city. Peskin said the change was intended to ensure "you can't be in the business of getting contracts with the city in exchange for giving money to the city."
The amendments the…
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