by KELLY WALDRON : missionlocal – excerpt
“The Task Force Desparately wants the {public to get Involved…”
Eight months after dueling ballot measures promised to take a hard look at San Francisco’s 149 city commissions, it’s happening: Next week, a newly convened task force will vote on whether to eliminate 34 bodies that are currently inactive, the first step in a long streamlining process.
“Obviously we want to do the easy ones first, then we’ll tackle the other groups piece by piece,” said Jean Fraser, vice chair of the Commission Streamlining Task Force, which was formed after voters approved Proposition E on Nov. 5, 2024.
The Advisory Council on Human Rights is slated to be cut; its last known meeting date was more than 15 years ago. Others to be eliminated from the city’s code include the Graffiti Oversight Board, the Delinquency Prevention Commission and the Industrial Waste Review Board. Thirty-two of the 34 inactive bodies have not met in the last year…
If 34 are eliminated next week, the Prop. E task force will have 115 advisory boards, committees, councils, commissions and other bodies left to review. All are generally tasked with overseeing department decisions or collecting public input about department decisions.
The task force largely consists of City Hall veterans: Harrington, who was also on the Prop. E campaign and appointed to the body by the measure’s chief proponent; former Supervisor Aaron Peskin; Sophie Hayward from the City Administrator’s Office; Natasha Mihal from the Controller’s Office; and Andrea Bruss from the City Attorney’s Office…(more)
Please consider how some of the Neighborhood groups might be able to participate in the process. This is the first we have heard about this.
Thanks for letting us know the Task Force that is cutting commissions etc. wants public input. That is sort a vague bit of information. What kind of help and engagement do they want? And how do they want the public to be involved? Are they looking for a lot of emailed suggestions or do they want to reach out to neighborhood groups, or professionals or what exactly do they want from the public. We look forward to hearing more.