Signature Delegation
To legally sign a contract for DSH, your authority must be granted in this format, not just assumed by having a high-ranking job title.
What is in writing (or written delegation)?
The standard state contracting path requires vendors to do this against the open market to win the state's business.
What is compete (or competitive bidding)?
DSH has special statutory contracting powers specifically designed to secure housing and treatment for these individuals.
What are patients?
The California Constitution prohibits giving away state money for private benefit, a rule known as this.
What is a Gift of Public Funds?
If you or your family stand to make money from a state contract you helped draft, you have this type of conflict.
What is a financial interest?
While they monitor the day-to-day work and approve invoices, this specific employee is explicitly barred from signing the contract itself.
What is a Contract Manager?
Even if a contract is exempt from bidding, the exemption only removes competition, it does not remove this fundamental requirement to document the decision.
What is accountability?
DSH's special authority creates uniform rules across all of its facilities, which currently number this many hospitals.
What is five?
To legally spend public money and avoid a constitutional violation, the expenditure must primarily serve this kind of purpose.
What is a public purpose?
If an executive has a conflict of interest in a contract, the contract immediately holds this status from the outset, meaning the work may go unpaid.
What is void?
This external state department delegates purchasing authority limits to DSH, which are tracked via the PAAL.
What is DGS (Department of General Services)?
When competitive bidding doesn't apply, this specific written document must be approved before the contract is awarded.
What is a justification?
DSH frequently partners and contracts with these local government entities to develop pretrial diversion programs.
What are counties?
State resources, including your compensated time or state vehicles, can never be used for personal reasons or this type of political activity.
What is campaign activity?
To comply with the Political Reform Act, designated executives are required to disclose their financial interests by filing this numbered FPPC form.
What is Form 700 (or Statement of Economic Interests)?
A contract manager is strictly forbidden from signing a contract form provided directly by one of these external parties.
What is a contractor (or vendor)?
A contract awarded to only one vendor without competition is known as an NCB, which stands for this.
What is Non-Competitively Bid (or sole source)?
DSH uses its authority to provide medical and evaluation services for people in county jails who have been found "IST," which stands for this.
What is Incompetent to Stand Trial?
Misusing public resources can cost you heavily, with civil fines reaching up to this dollar amount per day.
What is $1,000?
A willful violation of the state's main conflict of interest law regarding contracts is not just an ethics violation, it is this level of crime.
What is a felony?
According to Warren Buffett, you should do all your thinking before you do this to a contract, because it is impossible to undo.
What is sign it?
Contracts awarded during an immediate crisis, like a natural disaster, fall under this specific type of exemption lane.
What is an Emergency contract (or Exempt by Law)?
DSH is required to establish a statewide independent panel to evaluate patients for placement in this specific community reintegration program.
What is the Forensic Conditional Release Program (or CONREP)?
In addition to daily fines, officials who misuse public funds can be forced to repay up to this multiple of the value misused.
What is three times (3x)?
If convicted of a willful conflict of interest regarding a state contract, you face this permanent professional penalty.
What is a lifetime ban from holding California public office?