This legislation calls for a public hearing to discuss a special election on November 5, 2024, where San Francisco voters will decide on a proposition to incur up to $390 million in bonds for various healthcare, mental health, and infrastructure improvements. It also includes provisions for landlords to pass on half of any resulting property tax increase to tenants and establishes oversight for the bond expenditures.
Hearing of the Board of Supervisors sitting as a Committee of the Whole on July 23, 2024, at 3:00 p.m., during the regular Board of Supervisors meeting, to hold a public hearing to consider the Ordinance (File No. 240497) calling and providing for a special election to be held in the City and County of San Francisco on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, for the purpose of submitting to San Francisco voters a proposition to incur bonded indebtedness of not to exceed $390,000,000 to finance the acquisition or improvement of real property, including: facilities to deliver primary healthcare services, emergency medical services, skilled nursing services, and services for persons experiencing mental health challenges or persons with substance use disorders; acquire, improve, and seismically upgrade critical medical care and mental health facilities and emergency shelter facilities; and improvements for certain transportation, pedestrian, and street safety related capital improvements, streetscape enhancements and other public space improvements, and related costs necessary or convenient for each of the foregoing purposes; authorizing landlords to pass-through 50% of the resulting property tax increase, if any, to residential tenants under Administrative Code, Chapter 37; providing for the levy and collection of taxes to pay both principal and interest on such Bonds; incorporating review of Bond expenditures under the provisions of the Administrative Code by the Citizens’ General Obligation Bond Oversight Committee; setting certain procedures and requirements for the election; adopting findings under the California Environmental Quality Act; and finding that the proposed Bonds are in conformity with the General Plan, and with the eight priority policies of Planning Code, Section 101.1(b); scheduled pursuant to the approval of a motion made, as part of the action taken for File No. 240497, at the Board of Supervisors meeting of July 16, 2024.
How it got here
This legislation originated from a need to finance healthcare and public safety improvements in San Francisco through a special election.
The Board of Supervisors approved a motion to schedule a public hearing for the proposed ordinance regarding a special election for bonded indebtedness.
The Board of Supervisors held a public hearing to consider the ordinance calling for a special election to incur bonded indebtedness for various public improvements.
The proposed ordinance includes provisions for the Citizens’ General Obligation Bond Oversight Committee to review bond expenditures, ensuring transparency and accountability.
The ordinance adopts findings that the proposed bonds are in conformity with the General Plan and the priority policies of the Planning Code.
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