Is mayoral candidate Aaron Peskin's proposal to establish an inspector general about nixing corruption or getting elected? The answer: Yes.
Board President Aaron Peskin on April 6 officially announced his mayoral run. He mentioned a potential future ballot measure regarding the establishment of an 'inspector general' to confront San Francisco's rampant corruption issues. Photo by H.R. Smith
An inspector general would be a centralized entity focusing on waste, fraud and corruption — and that’s it. The position would have broad powers, but limited scope. This is the singular place to go for a very specific thing.) deal with municipal corruption as part of their much larger missions — the controller , the Ethics Commission, the city attorney, district attorney and the Civil Grand Jury.
And that “how,” in Peskin’s envisioning, would include more power than non-law-enforcement officials now possess. His proposal would give a future inspector general expanded subpoena power: City investigators can already compel cooperation from city employees. But a voter-approved inspector general could additionally lean on government contractors and subcontractors receiving city funds.
Rodgers’ list of best-practices would call for a separate office for the inspector general. Peskin isn’t calling for that; rather, the role would be housed within the controller’s office. This is a bottom-line move for a city facing a fiscal reckoning: It would be folly to ask voters to fund a wholly new layer of government bureaucracy.
Could some benefactors, perhaps public sector unions, see fit to donate to a ballot proposition that could reveal waste, fraud and inefficiency in the city’s practice of contracting out labor to non-union nonprofits? Yes, that’s a possibility.
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