ARTICLE X: PERFORMANCE AND EFFICIENCY AUDIT OFFICE

 

Sec. 2.92.

Efficiency Evaluation – Plan.

 

SEC. 2.92. EFFICIENCY EVALUATION – PLAN.

   (a)   The Controller shall establish a Performance and Efficiency Audit Office in the Controller's Office to improve the overall efficiency of City government by identifying inefficient operations and functions of departments, agencies, boards, and commissions of the City and County of San Francisco that should be eliminated. The Controller's Office shall prepare a plan that shall include, but not be limited to, an evaluation of expenditures in terms of the effectiveness of the service or product delivered by City departments and utilization of employees and contractual services, and shall include a review of the following:

      (1)   Elimination of inefficient operations and functions,

      (2)   Consolidation of duplicative and overlapping activities and functions,

      (3)   Integration and standardization of information maintenance systems that promote interdepartmental sharing of information and resources,

      (4)   Departmental accounting for expenditure of resources in terms of effectiveness of the service or product delivered,

      (5)   Departmental deployment and utilization of personnel, the City's personnel procurement system, and reforms to enhance the quality of work performance of public employees,

      (6)   Methods of operation to reduce consumption and waste of resources,

      (7)   Departmental compliance with judicial, legislative and administrative mandates,

      (8)   Records available, such as, Grand Jury reports, Budget Analyst audits, previous budgets and appropriations and justifications, and Controller internal audits,

      (9)   An analysis of cost-cutting recommendations from employees and suggestions from users of governmental services.

   (b)   The Controller shall report the execution of the plan described herein and the implementation of recommendations resulting from evaluations of City operations by December 31, 1991. The Controller shall establish a schedule for City departments to report annually departmental administrative and operational changes undertaken to implement recommendations to the Board of Supervisors.

(Added by Ord. 265-89, App. 7/14/89; amended by Ord. 278-96, App. 7/3/96)

ARTICLE XI: CITY ATTORNEY REPRESENTATION

 

Sec. 2.95.

Potential Conflict.

 

SEC. 2.95. POTENTIAL CONFLICT.

   Whenever in the course of the Charter mandated duty of the City Attorney to represent the City and County of San Francisco, or any board, commission, officer or employee thereof, the City Attorney determines that a full and complete representation of the City and County of San Francisco or any board, commission, officer or employee thereof requires an attack upon the validity of any provision of the San Francisco Charter or of any ordinance or resolution of the City and County of San Francisco, the City Attorney shall within five working days of such determination notify the Board of Supervisors in writing of the potential conflict between the City Attorney's duty to uphold the Charter of the City and County of San Francisco or the public enactments of the City and County of San Francisco on the one hand and the City Attorney's duty to provide complete and full representation to the City and County of San Francisco or any board, commission, officer or employee thereof on the other hand. The City Attorney shall make a recommendation for resolving the conflict in the written notification to the Board of Supervisors.

(Added by Ord. 7-82, App. 1/8/82)

ARTICLE XII. PUBLICATION OF NOTICES

 

Sec. 2.96.	Findings.
Sec. 2.97.	Definitions.
Sec. 2.98.	Publication Requirements.
Sec. 2.99.	Review of Proposed Ordinances.
Sec. 2.100.	Regulations.