Social Responsibility

When city contracts are awarded to larger companies, very little background checking is done to determine if they meet strong social, environmental and corporate responsibility standards. I intend to change that! Nearly 10% of individual investments in the United States are in what are known as ‘socially responsible’ investment funds. In fact, our city treasury is also invested using some social screens. It’s time to bring that same philosophy to the public sector in City Hall.

When I am on the Board, I will introduce legislation to ensure that when a large business wants to receive a contract with our city, they have to meet strong labor, environmental and other corporate responsibility standards as part of the qualification process. Just recently, our Board of Supervisors voted to give a special tax preference to biotechnology companies. If I were on the Board, I would have insisted that certain criteria be built in to make sure that environmentally damaging biotech companies would not be eligible.

This is what should differentiate San Francisco from many other big cities. As your Supervisor, I will work to make our city is a place where all of us can feel a genuine pride that we hold our contractors and ourselves to the high standards. The residents and taxpayers of our city deserve nothing less.

DAN KALB
The Experienced Leader We Need to Make
City Government Work Better for
District 5 Residents and All San Franciscans

DAN KALB for Supervisor 5
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