San Francisco Behested Payment Waiver Resolutions

San Francisco's dataset contains resolutions adopted by the Board of Supervisors and Mayor granting waivers to exceptions in the Campaign and Governmental Conduct Code for behested payments. The dataset is manually updated when a new waiver resolution is passed. It is published by the City of San Francisco and includes waivers for payments under $1,000 and solicitations under specific city programs.

Use Cases

• Track exceptions granted to campaign finance rules based on waiver resolutions.
• Analyze patterns in permitted solicitations from city contractors based on described ordinance changes.
• Monitor the frequency and scope of waivers granted by the Board of Supervisors.
• Study the application of prohibitions against soliciting from lobbyists and persons involved in administrative actions.

Strengths

• Waiver resolutions are officially adopted by the Board of Supervisors and Mayor.
• Dataset includes waivers for payments less than $1,000 as specified in the ordinance.
• Available in multiple machine-readable formats (RDF, JSON, CSV, XML).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

City of San Francisco

Collection Method

Manually updated when a waiver resolution is adopted.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-22 04:14:28.442681; freshness should be verified.

Geography

San Francisco, California, USA