If council members block the needed reforms, they will give San Diegans yet another reason to be cynical about City Hall
The cynicism that many San Diegans have about how their city government is run is difficult to exaggerate. Many residents assume that there are nefarious reasons — not just incompetence — behind the city's staggering list of screw-ups since the mid-1990s. Many people of all political views assume the city’s 2016 agreement to enter into a 20-year, $127 million lease-to-own deal for a decrepit 19-story office building at 101 Ash Street was the result of bribery or other chicanery.
“Under the current system, the members of the city Ethics Commission are essentially selected by the very mayor and city council the commission is supposed to oversee,” noted Carl Luna, the director of the Institute for Civil Civic Engagement at the University of San Diego as well as a Mesa College political science professor. “Thus the Ethics Commission effectively is neither independent or apolitical.” Elliott's proposal would change this unhealthy norm.
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