In a mayoral race full of City Hall insiders, Gina Ortiz Jones stood out from the crowd by railing against the secretive nature of the city’s Project Marvel negotiations.

While council members say she unfairly characterized the way the deal went down, on Thursday they agreed with her new guidelines for how tools like non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) will be used by the city going forward.

Jones said Wednesday that she asked City Manager Erik Walsh and City Attorney Andy Segovia to develop an administrative directive for how city staff uses the tool — part of her “continued effort to make City Hall more transparent.”

The changes are aimed at addressing the public backlash to Project Marvel negotiations, Jones said, which city staff carried out for roughly a year before the project was

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