City Attorney Dennis Herrera has announced a stimulus spending taskforce, which he says will aim, ” to coordinate legal compliance and guarantee maximum transparency, efficiency and accountability for city investments made possible by the federal government’s recently enacted $787 billion economic stimulus package.”
“Our paramount duty is to ensure that this unprecedented level of federal funding is invested honestly and in ways that deliver real value to our communities and our children — we will not tolerate waste, fraud or abuse,” Herrera said in a press release.
“When President Obama signed the recovery and stimulus package into law, he challenged all of us in public life to prove to the American people that their trust in government is not misplaced,” Herrera said.