The Weekly Digest (November 26, 2023)

Happy Sunday, Brionies!

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

City Hall

• Monday, November 27 at 10am: Regular Meeting of the Rules Committee, (agenda and call-in instructions here): 

• Item 1 – Ordinance amending the Administrative Code to strengthen the Controller’s audit and monitoring responsibilities with respect to nonprofit organizations that contract with the City. San Francisco spends more than $1.7 billion a year on 600+ nonprofits. Supervisor Catherine Stefani’s proposal would bring much-needed accountability to the expenditure of these funds. 

• Tuesday, November 28 at 2pm: Regular Meeting of the Board of Supervisors, (agenda and call-in instructions here):

• Item 18 – Supervisor Ahsha Safaí’s poison pill amendment to Supervisor Matt Dorsey’s Police Full Staffing Act. We oppose Supervisor Safaí’s cynical #coptax for reasons outlined by Supervisor Dorsey in this piece.

• Item 32 – Ordinance amending the Planning Code to encourage housing production by relaxing certain provisions.

• Wednesday, November 29 at 10am: Regular Meeting of the Budget and Finance Committee, (agenda and call-in instructions here):

• Item 8 – Ordinance shifting $39,500,000 from permanent salaries and dependent coverage fringe benefits in the Department of Public Health to overtime pay, in order to support projected increases.

Happenings around town

• SFPD Community Meetings

• Tuesday, November 28 at 5pm,  Mission Station

• Tuesday, November 28 at 6pm, Richmond Station, Golden Gate Park Senior Center, 6101 Fulton Street

• Tuesday, November 28 at 6pm, Tenderloin Station

• Fre-er Speech: Panel Discussion and Short Film with Erica Sandberg

• Tuesday, November 28 at 5:30pm, SF Public Library

• Hoover Institution Book Talk – Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative

• Wednesday, November 29, 4-5pm, Stauffer Auditorium, Stanford University

• Launch Event for the Association for the Advancement of Asians

• Thursday, November 30, 5-8:30pm, 718 California Street

What we’re reading

• S.F. private schools are expanding. Here's how at least nine campuses are changing

• Burglars hit nearly entire block of Oakland businesses on Thanksgiving Eve

• Ann Hsu: Francisco Schools Abandon Student Detentions and Suspensions 

• When Historians Go Bananas 

• In 'toxic' political moment, SFUSD delays $1B school bond measure

• The More Days You Live, The More Things You Know

• The Crisis of Police and Public Safety