The Weekly Digest (May 19, 2024)

Written By Bill Jackson

Happy Bay to Breakers Sunday, Brionies!

Here’s what you need to know about San Francisco politics this week and beyond:

City Hall

  • Monday, May 20 at 10am: Regular meeting of the Rules Committee (agenda here)

    • Item 4 – Hearing on the quality of services provided at the Sunnydale and Potrero Hill public housing developments. These two developments are owned by the San Francisco Housing Authority and managed by Eugene Burger Management, a private company. A 2023 report found that the Potrero development failed every one of its 95 site inspections in January and February 2023, and the Sunnydale development failed all 70 inspections. Reporting by Mission Local, which is included in the board packet, details chronic habitability and safety issues at the properties, such as mice, mold, lead paint, broken windows, overgrown vegetation, excess trash, and abandoned vehicles. The Eugene Burger Management Corporation and SFHA have been asked to report at the meeting. For further reading on why deplorable conditions in public housing are less the exception than the rule, we recommend this and this. 

  • Tuesday, May 21 at 2pm: Regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors (agenda here)

    • Mayor Breed makes her monthly appearance before the Board. 

    • Item 6 – Resolution approving and authorizing the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development (“MOHCD”) to execute a loan for the permanent financing of 1005 Powell Street, in an amount not to exceed $20,900,000. Borrower Chinatown SROs acquired and rehabilitated 1005 Powell, a 64-unit single room occupancy building, in 2021. The proposed loan would pay down acquisition and rehabilitation costs on the property. Under the loan agreement, 1005 Powell will provide affordable housing to low- and moderate-income households with annual maximum rent and income established by MOHCD.

    • Item 15 – Hearing on the status of the Department of Justice’s recommended reforms for the Police Department. 

    • Item 25 – Resolution urging the Mayor and the Department of Children, Youth and Their Families (“DCYF”) to solicit donations from private entities and philanthropy to restore the recently announced $25 million reduction in DCYF’s funding.

  • Wednesday, May 22 at 9am: Regular meeting of the Budget and Finance Committee (agenda here)

    • Items 7-10 – Increasing grants from the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing to service providers Episcopal Community Services and Urban Alchemy by over $40 million. 

  • Wednesday, May 22 at 11:30am: Regular meeting of the Budget and Appropriations Committee (agenda here)

    • Item 11-13 – Ordinances authorizing the issuance and sale of three bonds by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission: $1,715,671,086 for various capital wastewater projects; $292,825,860 for capital projects benefitting the Power Enterprise; and $1,035,007,350 for various capital water and Hetch Hetchy Water projects.

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