SEC. 3.1-195. CONTROLLER.
§ 3.1-195
Persons serving as Prop Q Purchasing Initiators or Approvers for the Controller's Office must disclose their investments, business positions, and income from entities that do business with the Controller's Office under Prop Q; the section lists designated positions within the Controller's Office and their corresponding disclosure categories.
If you work for the Controller's Office and your job involves starting or approving purchases under Prop Q (a city purchasing rule from 1993), you have to tell the city about any money you have invested in, businesses you own a stake in, or income you get from companies that do business with the Controller's Office. This disclosure requirement applies whether you already do this work or might need to in the future. The list shows which Controller's Office jobs must follow these disclosure rules.
- Complex:The section mixes the substantive disclosure rule with a detailed table of positions and categories, and references an external Proposition Q that is not defined here, making it difficult to understand the full scope without additional context.
- Could be simpler:The disclosure requirement could be stated more simply by leading with 'If you initiate or approve Prop Q purchases for the Controller's Office, disclose all relevant business interests and income from entities doing business with the office' before listing the affected positions.
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Official text
Disclosure Category 2. Delegated Departmental Purchasing (Prop Q) Initiators and Approvers. Persons in this disclosure category shall disclose all investments and business positions in any business entity, as well as income or gifts received from any business entity, which does business subject to Prop Q (Proposition Q, November 1993) with the Controller’s Office, or has done business subject to Prop Q with the Controller’s Office within the reporting period covered by the disclosure statement, if the Person was either the Prop Q Purchasing Initiator or Approver, or where the Person foresees the need to be a Prop Q Purchasing Initiator or Approver for the Controller’s Office in the future and is unable to be recused from a Prop Q purchasing transaction that would create a disclosure event.
Designated Positions
Disclosure Categories
Designated Positions
Disclosure Categories
Controller
1
Deputy Controller
1
Director, Accounting Operations and Supplier Management Division
1
Director, Payroll Division
1
Director, City Services Auditor Audits Division
1
Director, City Services Auditor Performance Division
1
Director, Budget and Analysis Division
1
Director, Finance and Administration
1
Director, Office of Public Finance
1
Director, Office of Economic Analysis
1
Director, Systems Division
1
IT Procurement Specialist
1
Manager, Contracts
1
Manager, IT
1
Refuse Rate Administrator
1
Transitional Department Head
1
Departmental Delegated Purchase (Prop Q) Initiator
2
Departmental Delegated Purchase (Prop Q) Approver
2
(Added by Ord. 71-00, File No. 000358, App. 4/28/2000; amended by Ord. 58-01, File No. 001951, App. 4/13/2001; Ord. 73-03, File No. 022027, App. 4/25/2003; Ord. 99-05, File No. 041570, App. 5/25/2005; Ord. 80-07, File No. 070122, App. 4/19/2007; Ord. 93-08, File No. 090199, App. 6/10/2009; Ord. 320-10, File No. 101272, App. 12/23/2010; Ord. 9-13, File No. 120964, App. 2/4/2013, Eff. 3/6/2013, Oper. 1/1/2013; Ord. 256-14 , File No. 141003, App. 12/19/2014, Eff. 1/18/2015; Ord. 278-18, File No. 180934, App. 11/20/2018, Eff. 12/21/2018; Ord. 13-23, File No. 221025, App. 2/9/2023, Eff. 3/12/2023; Ord. 33-25, File No. 240904, App. 3/14/2025, Eff. 4/14/2025)
(Derivation: Former Administrative Code Section 58.185)