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Committee reviews recusal rules and options to protect quorum for April budget recommendations
Summary
Controller's office staff outlined conflict-of-interest and recusal procedures—members must disclose conflicts, recuse and leave the room for deliberations and file an ethics notice within 15 days—then the committee discussed omnibus vs. service-area agenda designs to preserve quorum amid known conflicts.
Radhika of the controller’s office briefed the Our City Our Home Oversight Committee on March 27 about conflict-of-interest rules that apply when committee members make budget recommendations involving contracts or organizations with which they may be affiliated.
Radhika summarized state and local prohibitions and the practical steps the committee must follow when conflicts arise: publicly identify the conflict, seek a committee vote to accept recusal as a safeguard, and then the conflicted…
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