09/03/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 09/03/2024 10:25
San Francisco. CA - Today Mayor London N. Breed and City Attorney David Chiu announced new Good Government Reforms targeting the City's contracting process and partners. These reforms include both new Contract Reform legislation and an Executive Directive to city departments to strengthen internal contracting processes. The legislation is co-sponsored by Supervisor Catherine Stefani.
The Comprehensive Contract Reform legislation will:
The Executive Directive 24-04 will work to meet similar goals by directing Departments and staff on how to implement new laws and strengthen oversight under existing laws, standardizing practices across departments, providing fair processes for selecting grantees, guiding departments in monitoring grantee performance, and retaining records to allow for effective audits and investigations.
"Misconduct from those that would wrongfully take advantage of City resources has not been tolerated during my administration, and these new efforts expand on this commitment," said Mayor London Breed. "With the City Attorney's Office and the Controller's Office we have investigated such activity and have acted swiftly and decisively to bring to account bad actors through enforcing existing laws and regulations and creating new and stricter rules to prevent such abuses. Now, we are putting stronger protections in place and expanding the guidance of our Departments to strengthen the public trust and improve accountability in how our government operates."
"Those who undermine our contracting processes and exploit public resources are not welcome to do business with our City and will be held accountable," said City Attorney David Chiu. "I am proud of our attorneys and investigators who have worked diligently to root out corruption and maintain the integrity of City government. We appreciate the collaboration with the Mayor's Office and Controller's Office on continuing reforms to prevent fraud and the abuse of City resources."
"San Franciscans deserve a city government that responsibly manages their tax dollars and ensures that city services are delivered effectively and reliably," said Supervisor Catherine Stefani. "I'm proud to have authored key reforms to our nonprofit contracting system, codified fair and transparent grant processes, and to now stand with Mayor Breed in advancing these additional good governance policies. This Executive Directive is a crucial step toward restoring and strengthening the public's trust in our city government."
More on the Mayor's Good Government Contract Reform & Executive Directive:
The Good Government Contracting Reform legislation will be introduced at the Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday September 10. The legislation sets out the following requirements:
The Mayor's Executive Directive is effective Tuesday September 3rd. It will ensure that Departments are following new and existing rules, so that all employees have the training and support to meet the goals of the city's enhanced contracting processes. This includes ensuring:
Read Mayor Breed's Executive Directive here.
These efforts announced today build on the work Mayor Breed has done since taking office to reform ethics abuses and create stronger guardrails to ensure transparency, oversight and accountability in the institutions of City government. Since taking office, Mayor Breed has overseen major ethics and good government reforms to prevent actual or perceived conflicts of interest, pay-to-play arrangements and undue influence, and protect against corruption.
These efforts, which have taken the form of legislation, ballot measures, executive directives and administrative actions, include:
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