Previously, the City officers and employees could make payroll deductions for donations to organizations listed under Article V of the Administrative Code, which included various funds and causes but did not include the Firefighters Cancer Prevention Foundation.

The ordinance proposes to amend the Administrative Code to add the Firefighters Cancer Prevention Foundation to the list of organizations for which City officers and employees can make payroll donations.

This change will allow City officers and employees to donate directly to the Firefighters Cancer Prevention Foundation through payroll deductions, potentially increasing the financial support to the foundation.

The rationale behind this change is not explicitly stated in the document, but it can be inferred that the goal is to support cancer prevention efforts among firefighters by facilitating donations to a dedicated foundation.

The ordinance was acted upon and recommended by the Rules Committee with a unanimous vote by Supervisor Matt Dorsey, Supervisor Shamann Walton, and Supervisor Ahsha Safai. It will become effective 30 days after enactment, which occurs when the Mayor signs the ordinance, the Mayor returns the ordinance unsigned or does not sign the ordinance within ten days of receiving it, or the Board of Supervisors overrides the Mayor’s veto of the ordinance.

The accountability measure seems to be the clear definition of how the ordinance amends the code, stating that it aims to amend only the specific words, phrases, paragraphs, subsections, sections, articles numbers, punctuation marks, charts diagrams, or any other constituent parts of the Municipal Code as shown explicitly in the ordinance.