"The SF Standard broke a story Wednesday that a vendor with connections to Lurie got a pricey contract, despite a better-rated competitor offering the same service for millions of dollars less. Permit applications and approvals should be straightforward. That's why we are working with OpenGovto transform San Francisco's permitting system. Instead of filling out the same forms over and over, you'll enter your information once and it will go to every department you pic"
"There was a very specific pattern to SF City Hall corruption scandals under Mayor London Breed. Department heads would spend lavishly on themselves with city money, or funnel that money to certain nonprofits who would in turn lavishly reward that department head. In these cases, it was the City Hall officials or the nonprofit heads who were seemingly on the take."
Daniel Lurie's administration awarded a pricey contract to OpenGov, a vendor with connections to Lurie, over a cheaper, higher-rated competitor offering the same service for millions less. The contract funds implementation of PermitSF, a new permitting system promoted in a late-August tweet featuring Lurie and Housing and Economic Development head Ned Segal. Segal is a former Twitter executive who sued Elon Musk for unpaid severance. The previous San Francisco permit system was convoluted, onerous, and associated with permit fraud scandals. The OpenGov award has prompted questions about preferential treatment of tech millionaires and potential conflicts of interest in city contracting.
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