Shamann Walton

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San Francisco Board of Supervisors · BOS Board of Supervisors - Regular Meeting - Jan 27, 2026 · 27 Jan 2026 meeting

I believe in fresh, different leadership opportunities for everybody to serve.

And I'll be the first one to support this happening for all elected officials if the intent is truly about allowing people the opportunity to serve and

I don't think that's the case.

I think this is more political.

So I want to move that my amendments be accepted into this legislation.

Thank you, President Mandelman.

I do want to just clear up one thing for sure, because my proposed amendments do not take away the need for the specializations that exist for any certain office.

None of those qualifications change with the addition of my amendments.

I do want to say, though, that

Special qualifications for positions do not equal the ability to be good administrators just because you have a law degree or some kind of special certification that makes you fiscally qualified for positions.

But we have over 800,000 people in this city.

And surely those specialized skills exist with the 800,000 plus pool of people.

It is very large.

In fact, I know for a fact that in some of our city departments currently right now, that specialization exists and we have people who will never get an opportunity that work for these departments year in and year out, will never get an opportunity to grow

in serving any of these positions, people who we all work with on a daily basis that have those qualifications because their boss is not termed out.

And so if this is about allowing opportunities for people to be able to serve, even people with specialized skillsets should have those same opportunities to serve.

That is not what this legislation is about, but we do have term limits in place right now

And we also have appointees that get appointed to positions that have zero experience in their office when there's turnover.

And they're given the opportunity to lead and gain that experience, even over people who may have been in those departments and have done those jobs and function at a high level for a very long time.

So that complete absence of continuity

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