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Rules Committee advances broad MTA charter reforms including Inspector General, funding split and budget response
Summary
The Rules Committee advanced a package of charter amendments aimed at restructuring SFMTA oversight: creating an Inspector General with audit authority, clarifying the controller's retained roles, imposing a budget-response requirement for the MTA board, and proposing a property-tax set-aside conditioned on voter approval; final language will return to committee.
Supervisor David Campos, chair of the Board of Supervisors Rules Committee, moved July 12 to advance a package of charter amendments aimed at overhauling governance and oversight of the Municipal Transportation Agency (MTA).
Campos framed the changes as a comprehensive response to longstanding operational and accountability problems at Muni, saying, “this system is broken,” and proposing an independent Inspector General to conduct management and performance audits, review management practices and monitor agency performance. He said the measure is designed so the controller’s office retains core functions — technical assistance, whistleblower investigations and consumer satisfaction surveys — while the Inspector General would…
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