Rules committee forwards update to San Francisco conflict-of-interest code

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Rules Committee on Thursday voted to accept amendments to the city’s conflict-of-interest code and forwarded the ordinance to the full board with a positive recommendation.

Deputy City Attorney Andrew Shen told the committee the code lists city employees and officers required to file annual Form 700 statements of economic interests and that state law requires the city to update the code every two years in even-numbered years. The amendment distributed at the hearing incorporated additional department responses received since September — including submissions from the Arts Commission, the Community College District, the Department of the Environment, the Public Utilities Commission and the school district — and restored a section for the successor agency to the redevelopment agency that had been deleted after the agency’s dissolution under state law.

Shen said the City Attorney’s Office and the Clerk’s Office rely on departmental submissions for position titles and organization changes and presented the amendment primarily to add outstanding responses and correct listings. Supervisors who reviewed the draft raised no substantive policy questions during the committee meeting and moved to accept the amendments and forward the ordinance to the full Board of Supervisors with a positive recommendation.

The committee’s action means the proposed changes will be considered by the full board on the December 9 agenda unless otherwise stated. The ordinance’s effective date and final text will be set if and when the full Board approves the amendment.