VISION

San Francisco is facing unprecedented challenges including a fentanyl, housing, homelessness crisis, rising public safety issues, slow Downtown recovery, and a budget deficit. And residents are frustrated - a recent poll found that 76 percent of San Francisco voters believe the city is on the wrong track.

San Francisco is failing to meet the moment.

San Francisco’s failure to address these challenges is because of our City government’s broken structure. With voters paying increased attention to elected officials’ actions, now is the moment for a course correction in San Francisco.

Now is the time for critical charter reform that will give San Franciscans the government they deserve.

A measurE to transform our city government

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Streamline the city’s commissions.

Set a hard cap of 65 commissions, putting San Francisco more in line with similar California cities such as San Diego and Los Angeles which have 49 commissions each;
Establish a Commission Streamlining Taskforce to decide which critical commissions are necessary to functioning government;
Re-evaluate all commissions every 10 years, forcing formal evaluation of each commission to check if it still adds value to the government

Here’s what our reforms do:

Fix our commissions system. San Francisco has 130 commissions and over 1,200 commission positions - far more than larger cities like Los Angeles and San Diego.
Un-elected commissions create unnecessary bureaucracy that prevents the government from effectively addressing the needs of residents.
Our reforms will streamline the commission system, merging or eliminating redundant and unnecessary commissions.
Over time, the Board of Supervisors has chipped away at the Mayor’s ability to effectively lead the City.
The Mayor can’t fully hold departments accountable. In many cases, the Mayor can’t actually fully hire or fire department heads.
The Mayor can’t appoint deputy mayors to help manage the City’s sprawling bureaucracy of over 30,000 city employees either.
Our reforms fix this by restoring the Mayor’s ability to have deputy mayors and giving the Mayor the ability to hold city departments accountable by allowing them to hire/fire department heads.