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Rules Committee forwards campaign-finance ordinance to full Board after debate on fund size and notice timing

San Francisco Board of Supervisors Rules Committee · March 29, 2012
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Summary

An ordinance to revise San Francisco—s public financing program (including lowering the campaign fund cap to $7 million and adjusting nomination and disbursement rules) was forwarded to the full Board as a committee report after ethics-commission presentation and public comment over adequacy of the reduced fund and proper notice of amendments.

The Rules Committee considered an ordinance to amend the Campaign and Governmental Conduct Code and the Municipal Elections Code to modify the city—s public financing program. John St. Croix, director of the Ethics Commission, told the panel the ethics commission supports the legislation.

"The legislation before you has the full support of the ethics commission," St. Croix said while summarizing the changes, which include fixing the mayoral spending ceiling…

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