Supervisor Aaron Peskin called for a hearing Tuesday amid the swirl of allegations of potential misconduct and ineptitude against the Department of Environment and “pay-to-play” politics in City Hall.
Debbie Raphael resigned as director of the S.F. Department of the Environment following scrutiny of her solicitation of a $25,000 donation from Recology.
Stepping into Raphael’s role on an interim basis is Tyrone Jue, who is the assistant deputy general manager for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and an environmental advisor to Mayor London Breed, who announced the appointment on Thursday. Jue also serves as Breed’s appointee on the Bay Area Air Quality Management District Board of Directors.
Peskin told The Examiner that he would drop his push for a hearing following Raphael’s resignation on Thursday. Raphael, who served as director of the department for eight years, allegedly solicited the donation from Recology to help fund climate change awareness events organized under then-mayor Ed Lee. Simultaneously, the Standard reported, the city was finalizing its deal for trash hauling with Recology.
Peskin also pointed to recent reporting in the Chronicle, which documented the disappointment of recycling advocates in the Department of the Environment’s new SF BottleBank. The mobile recycling program, which ostensibly exists to make it easier for people to return bottles and cans for a deposit, was shaped in part by grocery industry lobbyists.
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