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Dec 6, 2020 · Juliet Ellis is second SFPUC official to exit — also under federal scrutiny. By Phil Matier, Columnist Updated Dec 6, 2020 8:03 a.m. Juliet Ellis, deputy for external affairs at the San...
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Dec 25, 2020 · The company's website boasts testimonials from the likes of former San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, and Juliet Ellis, the former SFPUC Assistant General Manager for External Affairs, who recently...
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Sep 29, 2023 · In July of 2020, I wrote a column called “Friends with Community Benefits,” about corruption within the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) related to a pay-to-play scheme called the Community Benefits Program (CBP), where joint venture boards, made up of firms bidding on large contracts, are “encouraged” to donate to favored nonpr...
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Prior to my CBP exposé and a subsequent reportby the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit in December 2020, media mentions of Jones were few and far between, but his escapades went on under the same four mayors as Nuru’s, and, also like Nuru, it all started with Willie Brown. In 2004, then-mayor Gavin Newsom announced the Communities of Opportunity prog...
In March 2017, Jones appeared with Nuru at a hearing regarding the proposed Recology rate increase. His role? Ratepayer advocate. But on the website ratepayeradvocatesf.org, Jones and his colleagues at RDJ Enterprises did little to advocate for customers, sugarcoating the increase of $5.70 a month for an “average single-family home” by leaving out ...
Despite his connection to Kelly, Ellis, and Nuru through the CBP and Recology ratepayer hike scandals, Jones is still getting millions of dollars in contracts. His biggest is the SFPUC where, despite my exposé and the NBC Bay Area follow-up, he has a CBP consulting contract that runs from August 2011 to September 2026. The contract was originally f...
Jones also has contracts with SFO for “concessions analysis” and a “community outreach” deal, as well as a contract with the city administrator for $95,000 dated July 2020 (the same month my CBP expose came out) through June 2021. When Jones entered his contract with the city administrator, Naomi Kelly was his boss. After Kelly’s resignation follow...
Sources (who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retribution) told me that SFPUC chief strategy officer and assistant general manager of external affairs Juliet Ellis decided which nonprofits would get money, and that SFPUC contractor and close pal Dwayne Jones was her go-to middleman.
Juliet Ellis is the former executive director of Urban Habitat. She is now the Deputy General Manager for External Affairs at the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. To listen to Juliet Ellis on implementing local hire policies visit: www.urbanhabitat.org/sec/localhire/podcasts/ellis.
One of the big issues here is the fact that Juliet Ellis was appointed to serve the public on the SF PUC back in 2008 for a term that expired in 2010. Apparently SFPUC Board of Directors are not barred from seeking employment in the agency they oversee. This is not unique.
