Shamann Walton
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21 recordings
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 1 Sep
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I want to thank all of the partners, advocates, drivers, and residents who have helped make this program such a success.
Together, we are demonstrating what equitable transportation can look like when we invest directly in our communities.
Colleagues, I respectfully ask for your support of this resolution.
I also want to thank my colleagues who have supported and thank Supervisor Chen as well as Supervisor Fielder for their early co-sponsorship.
Colleagues, I am also requesting the budget and legislative analysts to independently analyze the economic impact of the charter reform measures proposed by Mayor Lurie that are currently undergoing the signature verification process at the Department of Elections.
San Francisco voters are being asked to decide on three charter reform measures this November that will fundamentally restructure how the city operates, including
expanding mayoral hiring and firing authority, as well as reorganization power,
extending the city administrator's term to 10 years while giving that office sole authority over procurement, and raising the signature threshold for citizen initiatives from 2% to 8%.
These are not small technical fixes.
They shift real power away from the Board of Supervisors, independent commissions, and from the residents of San Francisco.
They also come with real fiscal implications that voters deserve to understand before they cast a ballot and not after.
The measure's own language actually makes the case for scrutiny.
The contracting measure states outright that the city spends over $5 billion a year on contracts, that a single procurement can cost $25,000 and take up to a year, and that departments are running five duplicate Microsoft contracts and 20 separate training systems.
If those numbers are the justification for centralizing power in the city administrator's office, we should be able to verify them and see the actual projected savings.
At the same time, the executive branch measure opens the door to new deputy mayor positions with no cap on salary or number at a moment when the city is already citing budget constraints elsewhere and as we've seen in the most recent budget process.
We saw what happens when coordination fails without this structure in place.
The patrol yard example cost us 465 units of affordable housing and led to a billion-dollar muni yard rebuild instead.
But we haven't seen anything showing this measure would have prevented that or what these new positions would actually cost taxpayers.
This is why I'm requesting the BLA complete an independent cost analysis by September 8, 2026,
San Francisco voters, our city officials, the press, and community organizations need this information while there's still time to act on it.
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