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Committee forwards campaign finance ordinance to full board without recommendation
Summary
The Rules Committee sent an ordinance to the full Board proposing to combine two partial public financing programs and to raise the expenditure ceiling for supervisors' campaigns to $140,000; the committee sent the measure forward without a recommendation after at least one member expressed opposition.
The Rules Committee on Tuesday forwarded to the Board of Supervisors an ordinance to combine separate partial public financing programs for mayoral and board of supervisors candidates and to raise the expenditure ceiling for supervisors' campaigns to $140,000.
Clerk Gail Johnson read the ordinance text to the committee, which proposes amendments to sections of the Administrative Code and the Campaign and Government Conduct Code to merge the two partial public financing programs and increase the supervisors' expenditure ceiling to $140,000. After no public comment, one committee member said, "I am not supportive of the item," and the committee agreed to send the ordinance to the full board as a committee report but without a committee recommendation.
The ordinance will proceed to the Board of Supervisors and to the Ethics Commission for consideration (the Ethics Commission was noted on the calendar). The committee did not record a roll-call vote in the transcript, and no detailed amendments or sponsor arguments were recorded during the discussion.
Next steps: the ordinance will appear on the Board of Supervisors agenda for further consideration and possible amendment by the full board and the Ethics Commission.
