Mayor Breed has overseen the steepest decline of San Francisco in modern history. Homelessness is on the rise and she has failed to effectively clear encampments. Public safety is the number one concern of voters, the City’s police department is down over 25%, and open-air drug markets are holding entire neighborhoods hostage. Deaths from drug overdose have skyrocketed to record levels year-after-year and the City’s overdose prevention plan hasn’t been updated in years. San Francisco has fallen short of its housing production goals every year under Mayor Breed’s watch and has become more unaffordable. San Francisco’s post-COVID economic recovery is dead last among major cities and commercial vacancies are at an all time high and growing. The City faces record budget deficits and declining revenues. It is clear that new leadership and immediate action are needed to turn things around.
Farrell’s 100-Day Agenda includes:
Public Safety:
- Hire a new Police Chief from the San Francisco Police Department Command Staff
- Appoint new Police Commissioners who are aligned with Farrell’s vision and priorities on public safety
- If Prop D passes, the Mayor will gain appointment authority of five out of the seven current seats, and can directly remove appointees
- Commit to funding five police academies a year and fully funding our Fire and Sheriff’s Department
- Farrell will not direct public safety departments to provide any cuts in his Mayoral Budget instructions
- Implement Farrell’s Stop AAPI Hate platform and launch a new city 24/7 hotline for attacks and violence against the AAPI community
- Enforce strict park hour closures at the City’s most troubled parks, from sunset to dawn
- Parks are currently closed from midnight to 6:00 am, which has not effectively stopped the City’s growing drug dealing and abuse problem
- Affected parks include UN Plaza, Jose Coronado, Alioto, and other parks neighbors identify that present public safety concerns for their neighborhood and families
- Implement a priority 311 code to address unsafe behavior and tent encampments near schools
Homelessness:
- Launch Farrell’s “Stop the Spread” tent encampment removal team and plan to effectively clear encampments and stop displacement into other neighborhoods
- Launch a new version of Homeward Bound that mandates metrics for tracking individuals connected to family or loved ones and more aggressively offer the service in shelters
- Identify a site for Farrell’s 24/7 Centralized Intake Center that is a one-stop shop for public safety and public health personnel to connect the homeless to shelter, services, detox, and treatment
- Expand access to emergency shelter by directing unspent and unallocated capital funds for permanent supportive housing to dramatically increase shelter capacity
Drug Crisis:
- Declare a Fentanyl State of Emergency to leverage new State and Federal resources and powers to close open-air drug markets with additional law enforcement and expand access to treatment inside and outside of San Francisco
- Mandate treatment-focused detention for people revived with Narcan on City streets
- Examine a reallocation of existing budget to provide more resources for treatment and detox at jail and other facilities
- Welf. & Inst. Code §§ 5150, 5250, and 5270 et seq., the City may detain persons who overdose more than once (as measured by Narcan administration in separate emergency incidents) for up to 47 days for treatment
- Second, if appropriate, after the initIal § 5150 hold, the City may petition for a temporary and/or permanent conservatorship (Welf. & Inst. Code § 5350 et seq.)
- Launch a new City and County of San Francisco Overdose Prevention Plan to save lives
- Mayor Breed hasn’t updated in two years despite record overdoses
- Direct the San Francisco Department of Public Health (DPH) to draw up new plan and strategy that emphasizes treatment and recovery and a full continuum of care
- Initiate a planning process to activate the abandoned Log Cabin Ranch into a drug treatment and rehab facility
- Shift management of the Log Cabin Ranch from the Juvenile Probation Department to the DPH
- Pause and cut city-funded programs that distribute drug paraphernalia for fentanyl that enables further drug addition
- Reallocate money from these programs into treatment-based programs (i.e. residential treatment beds)
Economic & Downtown Recovery:
- Introduce new tax incentives to jumpstart San Francisco’s local economy and downtown
- A tax incentive for new employers who mandate their employees in the office at least four days a week in the Financial District, Union Square, and SoMA
- A tax incentive for new employers who relocate to the Financial District, Union Square, and SoMA
- Introduce a policy to allow sales tax generated in the Tenderloin and Mid-Market to be kept in those neighborhoods and dedicated to public safety infrastructure and services
- Release a Request for information for Farrell’s vision for a new world-class park at Embarcadero Plaza
- Kick-off a new “Market Street Action Plan”
- The plan will open Market Street back up to rideshare vehicles, improve public transit accessibility and reliability, and provide for bike and pedestrian safety improvements and grants to business along Market Street for revitalization
- Launch a new “Corridor Cleaning & Safety Plan” to increase frequency of corridor cleaning and provide more support to small businesses across the City’s merchant corridors
Housing:
- Introduce legislation to increase building heights in the Financial District, Union Square, SoMA, and Mission Bay neighborhoods
- Mandate that the Planning Department and staff’s top priority is providing zoning plans and updates that actually will meet, or exceed, the State-mandated requirements
- Planning Department to make recommendations within six months of being in office on the reduction or elimination of housing impact fees that could spur more development given current cost and financing constraints
- Introduce legislation to reduce San Francisco’s inclusionary requirements to 10% to spur more development and help more projects pencil given current cost and financing constraints
- Introduce legislation to Repeal Supervisor Preston’s 2020 transfer tax increase (Prop I 2020) from 6% back down to 3%
- Introduce an omnibus package of Mayoral Executive Directives from Farrell’s housing platform that will kickstart development and help San Francisco meet it’s housing production goals that have fallen short every year under Mayor Breed
Government Accountability & Reform:
- Pause the signing of any new third-party contracts and begin to centralize all third-party contract (non-profits) under the Office of the Mayor
- Relaunch the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Services
- Farrell will launch his Mayoral “Listening Tour,” a series of community town halls in every Supervisorial District to listen directly to residents and businesses about their concerns and priorities
- Kickstart Farrell’s “Government for the 21st Century Plan” to digitize and make available online all constituent-facing services
- Introduce amendments to the contract with Recology to bring under the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission to provide more oversight and lower-costs
Public Transit & Road Safety:
- Hire a new Head of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA)
- Launch a “Focus on MUNI Services & Safety” plan that reexamines the need for planned capital projects to better focus resources on improving transit operations, reliability, and safety on MUNI
- Install new quick-installation bollards on sidewalks near places like hospitals, parks, and schools that are exposed to more vulnerable road users
- Identify more streets across San Francisco to install protected bike lanes
Youth & Public Education:
- Implement partnership and plan between the SFMTA and San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) to optimize bus routes and times that better align with school schedules to improve student attendance
- Make the “Free MUNI for Youth” program permanent
- Mandate that the Department of Early Childhood’s top priority is to partner with SFUSD to focus on and improve third grade literacy
- Provide universal summer camp access for all of the City’s youth
- Kickstart a public spending plan for Baby Prop C funds to implement Farrell’s plan to deliver universal childcare
