Commissioner Lee on ECB debt review and Amazon collection success

Since our preliminary budget testimony in March, DOF has advanced several important priorities for this administration.

First, we completed a comprehensive review of the city's collection of ECB debt.

So ECB debt includes unresolved violations issued by several agencies that may have become judgments and have been referred to DOF for collection.

Following that review, the city successfully recovered more than $9 million from Amazon for unpaid vehicle idling violations, an important example of what it means to enforce the city's laws fairly and effectively.

Just as important, this review has given us a clear understanding of how we can strengthen collections going forward.

This includes improving coordination across agencies, using data more efficiently, and identifying cases where enforcement can produce meaningful results.

We'll continue to build on this work, including an ECB amnesty program in FY27 upon authorization by the council.