The report issued Friday details the thin and permeable line that separated Recology, a private company, from the Department of the Environment, which plays a direct role in setting the rates San Francisco customers pay Recology for waste collection.
Debbie Raphael speaks at an event in April 2018. Raphael, then the director of the S.F. Department of the Environment, resigned on Thursday ahead of a report that detailed numerous ethics violations of city policy by herself and her employees.
Raphael resigned from her post as director of the Department of the Environment on Thursday, a day before the report was published. It also shows how SF Environment officials called on Recology for donations to support its initiatives, and how that money was shielded from public scrutiny by stashing it with the Friends of SF Environment.Friends of SF Environment is ostensibly a nonprofit separate from the city, but Department of the Environment Employees have signature authority to disburse funds for the former.
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