Legislation

This ordinance reallocates $250,000 from the General City Responsibility fund to the Department of Children, Youth and Their Families to support safety initiatives in District 10. The funding will be used for services at Hope SF sites, violence prevention events, safe passages, school responses, and support for youth and residents affected by violence in the 2025-2026 fiscal year.

Ordinance de-appropriating $250,000 from General City Responsibility (GEN) and appropriating $250,000 to Department of Children, Youth and Their Families (CHF) to support the District 10 safety plan, including services at the Hope SF sites, violence prevention events, safe passages, response to schools, and as needed support to the youth and residents most impacted by violence in Fiscal Year (FY) 2025-2026.

Schedules a public hearing about: Hearing to discuss the cause(s), escalation, response, and impacts of the widespread power outages that began on December 20, 2025, and which have disproportionately affected residents and small businesses in the Richmond, Sunset, Presidio, Civic Center, South of Market (SOMA), and other San Francisco neighborhoods, to understand how a localized substation incident escalated to affect nearly one-third of the City.

Hearing to discuss the cause(s), escalation, response, and impacts of the widespread power outages that began on December 20, 2025, and which have disproportionately affected residents and small businesses in the Richmond, Sunset, Presidio, Civic Center, South of Market (SOMA), and other San Francisco neighborhoods, to understand how a localized substation incident escalated to affect nearly one-third of the City; to assess communication failures and gaps in emergency response protocols; to evaluate economic impacts on small businesses and hardships faced by seniors, persons with disabilities, and other vulnerable residents; to discuss and understand the remedies, claims processes and support being provided to affected residents and businesses; and requesting the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) to report.

This ordinance expands the hours restriction on retail food and tobacco establishments in the Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods, prohibiting them from opening between 12:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m., or 2:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. for those regulated by alcohol laws. It also extends the pilot program's duration by 18 months beyond its original July 2026 expiration date.

Ordinance amending the Police Code to expand the current Tenderloin retail hours restriction pilot program, under which retail food and tobacco establishments in the restricted area are prohibited from being open to the public from 12:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m., or from 2:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. if subject to regulation by the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, to encompass a high-crime area across the Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods; and to extend the duration of the pilot program, currently set to expire in July 2026, to instead expire 18 months from the effective date of this Ordinance.

The ordinance allows the Mayor’s Office to accept a $7 million grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies to support the Mayor’s Office of Innovation from 2026 to 2028 and creates four new full-time positions in the Office of the City Administrator. It also approves the related grant agreement and amends the Annual Salary Ordinance for the upcoming fiscal years.

Ordinance authorizing the Mayor’s Office to retroactively accept and expend a grant in the amount of $7,000,000 from Bloomberg Philanthropies to fund the Mayor’s Office of Innovation from January 1, 2026, through December 31, 2028; approving the associated grant agreement under Charter, Section 9.118; and amending Ordinance No. 120-25 (Annual Salary Ordinance, File No. 250590 for Fiscal Years (FYs) 2025-2026 and 2026-2027) to provide for the creation of four grant-funded full-time positions (4.0 FTE) in the Office of the City Administrator, with one position in each of the following classes: Class 0931 (Manager III), Class 1053 (IS Business Analyst - Senior), Class 1054 (IS Business Analyst - Principal), and Class 1043 (IS Engineer - Senior).