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We have to have a response 24-7,” he told reporters ahead of his speech, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020422/san-francisco-mayor-elect-daniel-lurie-launches-political-career-cable-cars-chinatown-market-prayer\">riding a cable car down Powell Street\u003c/a> with his family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie, who has made efforts to connect with the incoming and returning members of the Board of Supervisors since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013464/daniel-lurie-clinches-victory-become-sfs-next-mayor-unseating-london-breed\">his November election\u003c/a>, said that the package of emergency ordinances will go before the board on Tuesday and with an expedited approval process, could go into effect in about a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If passed, it would expand his and certain department leaders’ emergency powers to roll out drug and homelessness initiatives without the regular policy approval process, which can take six to 12 weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12020422 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250107-LurieInterfaithCeremony-23-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The package will ask supervisors to waive certain rules around executing contracts and grants and speed up approval of contracts and leases for behavioral health, substance abuse and shelter services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is truly a new era of cooperation and mutual respect between City Hall, the Board of Supervisors, law enforcement, and the thousands of city employees working on the front lines,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A career philanthropist, Lurie is also asking the board to authorize the use of private funds for public initiatives to address the fentanyl crisis. The ordinance would grant behested payment waivers to designated staff members, allowing them to fundraise and pre-authorize the city’s acceptance of private gifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn’t unheard of — Breed fundraised privately to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989335/sf-mayors-bid-to-raise-25-million-for-pandas-spurs-skepticism-amid-budget-crunch\">bring pandas back to the San Francisco Zoo\u003c/a> last spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the board approves the package, it would also increase the city controller’s ability to transfer or repurpose funds and, together with the city administrator, to regulate and review the ordinances as a whole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020863\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020863\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInaugurationDayQuick_BL_00005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInaugurationDayQuick_BL_00005.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInaugurationDayQuick_BL_00005-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInaugurationDayQuick_BL_00005-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInaugurationDayQuick_BL_00005-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInaugurationDayQuick_BL_00005-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250108_LurieInaugurationDayQuick_BL_00005-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie celebrates with his family having taken the oath of office on Inauguration Day at Civic Center in downtown San Francisco, California, on Jan. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie plans to lean heavily on the Police Department in his early days, launching two new police units in the coming months. In the spring, the Crisis Stabilization Unit will begin operating a 24-hour drop-off location where police can take people struggling on the streets who don’t need to go to the emergency room or be taken to jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD Chief Scott said the unit would help the department deal with the volume of calls that it gets daily and can’t keep up with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12020420 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-17-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You see people that need help, and jail is not always the appropriate solution, the emergency room is not always the appropriate solution,” he said. “You need a place for those [people], and we don’t have the capacity right now to handle the volume of people that need help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie will also create another police-led team dedicated to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017695/san-francisco-wants-to-make-it-cheaper-for-developers-to-build-housing-downtown\">revitalizing the downtown corridor\u003c/a> in a bid to make it more welcoming to tourists, businesses, and the city’s workforce. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> will be inaugurated as the 46th mayor of San Francisco on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A political outsider with deep San Francisco roots, Lurie’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013464/daniel-lurie-clinches-victory-become-sfs-next-mayor-unseating-london-breed\">election in November\u003c/a> punctuated residents’ desire for a City Hall shakeup following the city’s slow pandemic recovery and corruption scandals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After unseating incumbent Mayor London Breed, Lurie now faces the real test as he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020409/a-lot-can-go-wrong-san-francisco-mayoral-transition-i-would-know\">takes over the mayor’s office\u003c/a> in Room 200. But not without some festivities first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a walk through the Tenderloin and ride on the city’s iconic cable cars, Lurie’s official ceremony begins at Civic Center at 11:30 a.m., followed by an open house at City Hall and later a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13969982/sf-edm-star-zhu-to-headline-daniel-luries-free-inauguration-party\">special night market in Chinatown\u003c/a> featuring San Francisco-born electronic music producer Zhu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things are moving fast. Here’s a refresher on how we got here.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>San Francisco’s newest ‘City Hall insider’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Born and raised in San Francisco, Lurie attended the elite Town School for Boys and University High School before heading to the East Coast for college and later to work for the Robin Hood Foundation. He founded the anti-poverty nonprofit Tipping Point Community, which has given out grants for work in housing, health care and other social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie has never worked directly in government or held an elected office. He did, however, work with the late Mayor Ed Lee on hosting the 2016 Super Bowl and worked with city agencies through Tipping Point on issues like homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020591\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020591\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-03_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-03_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-03_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-03_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-03_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-03_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-03_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie greets volunteers at Manny’s in San Francisco on Jan. 5, 2025, before a trash pickup in the Mission District, part of a weekend of service before his inauguration on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An heir to the Levi Strauss fortune, Lurie ran the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010904/whos-pouring-millions-into-san-franciscos-expensive-mayors-race\">most expensive mayoral campaign\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s history, topping nearly $16 million. Almost half of that came from his own wealth, and his mother, Mimi Haas, donated $1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That financial boost afforded the political outsider plenty of advertising space in mailers, social media ads and television — even more so than opponents who raked in millions of dollars from wealthy tech donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12020575 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241108-LurieVictoryPresser-29-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s wealth tied him to older San Francisco institutions, but he ran a campaign focused on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014282/bay-area-voters-embrace-political-outsiders-in-historic-mayoral-shake-ups\">bringing a fresh perspective\u003c/a> to local government that resonated with both frustrated and open-minded voters. He regularly blamed so-called “City Hall insiders” for government inefficiency and problems like homelessness and street safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while he trailed opponents in early polls, he remained consistently voters’ second choice in a simulated ranked-choice ballot. By November — after a grueling election season that brought out new scandals, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012419/sf-mayoral-candidate-mark-farrell-pay-largest-ethics-fine-citys-history\">largest campaign ethics violation fine\u003c/a> in the city’s history against opponent Mark Farrell — Lurie was polling highly as both voters’ first and second choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This city is poised for greatness, so let’s all come together,” Lurie told a room full of volunteers in neon vests on Sunday at a neighborhood cleanup in the Mission District. “It’s a new year. It’s a new mayor. New supervisors. Let’s get to work. Let’s roll up our sleeves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new mayor’s policy platform, however, doesn’t stray dramatically from his predecessor, a fellow moderate Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie has vowed to build new emergency shelter beds within his first six months of office and has said he plans to issue a state of emergency around the city’s overdose crisis. He’s also going to have to prove he can move the needle on building the thousands of approved units that are stalled in the city’s development pipeline to meet a state housing mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A changing City Hall\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, Lurie vowed to usher in a renewed focus on accountability and ethics, but a few of his early picks have already raised some eyebrows. That included\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014714/san-francisco-mayor-elect-daniel-lurie-taps-openai-founder-transition-team\"> naming OpenAI CEO Sam Altman\u003c/a> to his transition team, a temporary and largely symbolic group of advisers, while the artificial intelligence company is actively lobbying City Hall for tax breaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his long-term staff, Lurie appears to be trying to strike a balance by holding on to City Hall expertise that he’ll need to rely on while also bringing in some outside experience and perspectives on longstanding issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020509\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020509\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-53.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-53.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-53-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-53-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-53-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-53-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-53-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie and his wife Becca Prowda pick up trash in the Mission District in San Francisco on Jan. 5, 2025, during a weekend of service before his inauguration. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In one of his first acts as mayor-elect, Lurie announced that he would have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017698/lurie-unveils-major-shakeup-san-francisco-mayors-office\">four policy directors\u003c/a> as well as a chief of staff reporting directly to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018617/lurie-taps-ex-twitter-exec-tackle-sfs-housing-shortage-economic-rebound\">Ned Segal\u003c/a>, former Twitter chief financial officer, will be chief of housing and economic development; former SFPD commander \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020118/lurie-names-sf-first-chief-public-safety-tapping-former-police-commander\">Paul Yep\u003c/a> will oversee public safety policy; Alicia John-Baptiste, former CEO of the urban policy research and advocacy organization SPUR, will take the lead on infrastructure, climate and mobility; and Kunal Modi, a partner at management consultant McKinsey & Co., will direct health, homelessness and family services. Former Giants executive \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017884/sf-mayor-elect-daniel-lurie-taps-former-giants-executive-lead-staff\">Staci Slaughter\u003c/a> will be Lurie’s chief of staff.[aside postID=news_12020409 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/BreedLurie02-1020x680.jpg'] Unlike some of his opponents, Lurie hasn’t yet promised to fire and replace specific department heads — but he’ll soon have to tap someone to direct the Municipal Transportation Agency after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018056/san-francisco-public-transit-boss-jeffrey-tumlin-to-resign\">Jeffrey Tumlin’s resignation\u003c/a>. Lurie also told voters that city department heads would essentially have to re-interview for their jobs, and he said those conversations are ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, the day after his inauguration, Lurie plans to meet with all of the city’s department heads, he told reporters on Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know they’re working hard, and as much as that work is continuing, they also understand that things aren’t working and that they need to be held accountable, and they’re excited about that,” he said. “The focus is on accountability and change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several new members of the Board of Supervisors will also be sworn in on Wednesday, including Danny Sauter (District 3), Bilal Mahmood (District 5), Jackie Fielder (District 9) and Chyanne Chen (District 11). The new board leans slightly more to the center after the November election, and Lurie, a moderate Democrat, will have to work with the full cohort to achieve those changes he promised voters in areas like homelessness, overdoses and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone uniformly agrees that what is happening downtown on 6th and Mission and 6th and Market is unacceptable,” Lurie said. “Every supervisor I’ve talked to agrees we need more mental health beds. We need more drug treatment beds. Everyone agrees on that and I agree on that. And that’s going to be my push.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a walk through the Tenderloin and ride on the city’s iconic cable cars, Lurie’s official ceremony begins at Civic Center at 11:30 a.m., followed by an open house at City Hall and later a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13969982/sf-edm-star-zhu-to-headline-daniel-luries-free-inauguration-party\">special night market in Chinatown\u003c/a> featuring San Francisco-born electronic music producer Zhu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Things are moving fast. Here’s a refresher on how we got here.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>San Francisco’s newest ‘City Hall insider’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Born and raised in San Francisco, Lurie attended the elite Town School for Boys and University High School before heading to the East Coast for college and later to work for the Robin Hood Foundation. He founded the anti-poverty nonprofit Tipping Point Community, which has given out grants for work in housing, health care and other social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie has never worked directly in government or held an elected office. He did, however, work with the late Mayor Ed Lee on hosting the 2016 Super Bowl and worked with city agencies through Tipping Point on issues like homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020591\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020591\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-03_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-03_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-03_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-03_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-03_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-03_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-03_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie greets volunteers at Manny’s in San Francisco on Jan. 5, 2025, before a trash pickup in the Mission District, part of a weekend of service before his inauguration on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An heir to the Levi Strauss fortune, Lurie ran the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010904/whos-pouring-millions-into-san-franciscos-expensive-mayors-race\">most expensive mayoral campaign\u003c/a> in San Francisco’s history, topping nearly $16 million. Almost half of that came from his own wealth, and his mother, Mimi Haas, donated $1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That financial boost afforded the political outsider plenty of advertising space in mailers, social media ads and television — even more so than opponents who raked in millions of dollars from wealthy tech donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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By November — after a grueling election season that brought out new scandals, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012419/sf-mayoral-candidate-mark-farrell-pay-largest-ethics-fine-citys-history\">largest campaign ethics violation fine\u003c/a> in the city’s history against opponent Mark Farrell — Lurie was polling highly as both voters’ first and second choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This city is poised for greatness, so let’s all come together,” Lurie told a room full of volunteers in neon vests on Sunday at a neighborhood cleanup in the Mission District. “It’s a new year. It’s a new mayor. New supervisors. Let’s get to work. Let’s roll up our sleeves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new mayor’s policy platform, however, doesn’t stray dramatically from his predecessor, a fellow moderate Democrat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie has vowed to build new emergency shelter beds within his first six months of office and has said he plans to issue a state of emergency around the city’s overdose crisis. He’s also going to have to prove he can move the needle on building the thousands of approved units that are stalled in the city’s development pipeline to meet a state housing mandate.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A changing City Hall\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, Lurie vowed to usher in a renewed focus on accountability and ethics, but a few of his early picks have already raised some eyebrows. 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"content": "\u003cp>In the final days before his inauguration, San Francisco Mayor-elect \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> announced his final two picks for policy director positions as part of his ongoing redesign of City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Lurie named Alicia John-Baptiste, former Municipal Transportation Agency chief of staff and head of an influential urbanism nonprofit, as the city’s first-ever chief of infrastructure, climate and mobility. On Tuesday, he tapped Kunal Modi, a management consultant from McKinsey & Co., as the city’s first chief of health, homelessness and family services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These choices rounded out Lurie’s roster of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017698/lurie-unveils-major-shakeup-san-francisco-mayors-office\">four close advisers\u003c/a> tasked with streamlining accountability within the city’s vast bureaucracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John-Baptiste and Modi will act as intermediaries between the mayor and the city’s 56 agencies, along with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020118/lurie-names-sf-first-chief-public-safety-tapping-former-police-commander\">former SFPD commander Paul Yep,\u003c/a> who will lead public safety and emergency management efforts, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018617/lurie-taps-ex-twitter-exec-tackle-sfs-housing-shortage-economic-rebound\">ex-Twitter executive Ned Segal\u003c/a>, who will oversee housing and economic development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new deputy positions are intended to tighten the chain of command by reducing the number of the mayor’s direct reports. The idea behind the cabinet came from \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/sites/default/files/2024-09/SPUR_Designed_to_Serve.pdf\">recommendations \u003c/a>published last year by SPUR (the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association), the city-planning group John-Baptiste has led for the past six years as CEO and three years as deputy director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020592\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020592\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20220422_MediaPreviewBatteryBluff-09_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20220422_MediaPreviewBatteryBluff-09_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20220422_MediaPreviewBatteryBluff-09_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20220422_MediaPreviewBatteryBluff-09_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20220422_MediaPreviewBatteryBluff-09_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20220422_MediaPreviewBatteryBluff-09_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20220422_MediaPreviewBatteryBluff-09_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alicia John-Baptiste speaks during the Battery Bluff’s opening celebration, a private event hosted by the Presidio Trust, on April 22, 2022. Jean-Baptiste is the president and CEO of San Francisco Planning Urban Research (SPUR), a member-supported nonprofit organization. She was tapped by Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie as the city’s first-ever chief of infrastructure, climate and mobility. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Amaya Edwards)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I am thrilled to be returning to government service at such a critical time for the future of San Francisco,” said John-Baptiste. “I’m also excited to directly implement a recommendation from SPUR’s good government work by joining the newly-created team of policy chiefs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her new position, John-Baptiste will help Lurie coordinate between a large portfolio of departments: the SFMTA, the Port of San Francisco, the Public Utilities Commission, the Department of Public Works, the Environment Department and the Recreation and Parks Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alicia brings extensive expertise in shaping bold, transformative policies, and whose leadership will enhance communication and transparency as we pursue a more sustainable, connected, and resilient San Francisco,” Lurie said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to her time at SPUR, John-Baptiste worked at City Hall for about 16 years, moving between the SFMTA and the Planning Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12020409 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/BreedLurie02-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are thrilled to partner with a leader in the transportation space that really understands our organization from the inside out,” Erica Kato, a spokesperson for the SFMTA, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency is rebounding from a brutal period for public transportation in every American city. Lurie has yet to announce who will fill the vacancy left following the resignation of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018056/san-francisco-public-transit-boss-jeffrey-tumlin-to-resign\">former SFMTA director Jeffrey Tumlin\u003c/a> in December after steering the agency through \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014573/sf-muni-dire-need-funding-without-cuts-could-be-devastating\">one of its worst fiscal crises\u003c/a> in recent history. Despite recent improvements in ridership, SFMTA is facing a nearly $300 million deficit starting in 2026 after state and federal relief is exhausted — a major challenge for both the incoming director and mobility policy chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a worrying increase in traffic deaths last year has led to widespread calls for the city to intensify its street safety efforts, as well as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020110/sf-speed-cameras-coming-march-will-they-help-cut-traffic-deaths\">criticism of the SFMTA\u003c/a> for falling behind on its “quick build” program to improve conditions at hundreds of locations by the end of 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jodie Medeiros, executive director of advocacy organization Walk SF, was encouraged by Lurie’s pick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alicia is a problem-solver and public servant who understands that safe streets and sustainable transportation are crucial for San Francisco. This is a great choice for the city’s future,” Medeiros said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s housing advocacy community also celebrated the news of John-Baptiste’s appointment as a victory for the movement to change city zoning regulations to encourage building housing at all income levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020020\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020020\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/12/GettyImages-2174968250-e1736293413905.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco City Hall in a photo from November 2024. \u003ccite>(James Carter-Johnson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Corey Smith, the executive director of Housing Action Coalition, a group which he said spun out of SPUR 26 years ago, said John-Baptiste uniquely understands the “nitty-gritty” of policy while also maintaining “a big picture idea of what the future could hold for San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alicia is an expert in her world, in urbanism. She’s been in the advocacy space for a long time, but she’s been in the machine and knows how it works. It’s a good combination,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Modi, who will lead policy on public health and wellbeing, is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mckinsey.com/our-people/kunal-modi\">partner at McKinsey and \u003c/a>also served on the board of directors for \u003ca href=\"https://larkinstreetyouth.org/impact/who-we-are/meet-our-team/board-of-directors/\">Larkin Street Youth Center\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.stanthonysf.org/about/team/\">St. Anthony Foundation. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12018617 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/NedSegalGetty-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.stanthonysf.org/about/team/\">He\u003c/a> will oversee eight departments that collectively administer some $6 billion in public funds, according to Lurie’s office. Modi is charged with streamlining operations across those departments to ensure greater coordination and accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kunal has a track record of delivering results in some of the most complex and critical areas of public service,” Lurie said in a statement on Tuesday. “His leadership will be instrumental as we act urgently and compassionately to address homelessness, strengthen behavioral health systems, and ensure that all San Franciscans — especially our most vulnerable — have access to the support and services they need to thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At McKinsey, Modi helmed the company’s global social responsibility initiative and led its community service efforts in the Bay Area. As part of his work there, he co-wrote \u003ca href=\"https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-sector/our-insights/great-expectations-how-us-government-agencies-can-meet-public-demand-for-better-service\">several\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-sector/our-insights/the-call-to-rethink-government-customer-experience\">papers\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-sector/our-insights/are-states-ready-to-close-the-us-digital-divide\">focused\u003c/a> on improving customer experience within government services and two that looked specifically at how best to \u003ca href=\"https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-sector/our-insights/the-ongoing-crisis-of-homelessness-in-the-bay-area-whats-working-whats-not\">address homelessness\u003c/a> in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/social-sector/our-insights/homelessness-in-the-san-francisco-bay-area-the-crisis-and-a-path-forward\">Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford Professor Keith Humphreys, who served on the St. Anthony’s board with Modi, said he is a good fit for his new role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has a strong management sensibility … but he’s not a mirthless bean counter,” Humphreys said. “He’s also someone who just cares deeply about the most vulnerable citizens in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That management sensibility will be especially helpful if he hopes to wrangle the dozens of organizations that serve the city’s more than 8,300 homeless residents, Humphreys said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have all these different outreach teams scattered across departments, different nonprofits doing this and that, and it’s literally impossible to figure out what everybody is doing and are they all working in concert?” Humphreys said. “That is a really big management challenge, and he’s exactly the kind of person who can handle that challenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John-Baptiste and Modi will act as intermediaries between the mayor and the city’s 56 agencies, along with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020118/lurie-names-sf-first-chief-public-safety-tapping-former-police-commander\">former SFPD commander Paul Yep,\u003c/a> who will lead public safety and emergency management efforts, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018617/lurie-taps-ex-twitter-exec-tackle-sfs-housing-shortage-economic-rebound\">ex-Twitter executive Ned Segal\u003c/a>, who will oversee housing and economic development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new deputy positions are intended to tighten the chain of command by reducing the number of the mayor’s direct reports. The idea behind the cabinet came from \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/sites/default/files/2024-09/SPUR_Designed_to_Serve.pdf\">recommendations \u003c/a>published last year by SPUR (the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association), the city-planning group John-Baptiste has led for the past six years as CEO and three years as deputy director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020592\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020592\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20220422_MediaPreviewBatteryBluff-09_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20220422_MediaPreviewBatteryBluff-09_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20220422_MediaPreviewBatteryBluff-09_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20220422_MediaPreviewBatteryBluff-09_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20220422_MediaPreviewBatteryBluff-09_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20220422_MediaPreviewBatteryBluff-09_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20220422_MediaPreviewBatteryBluff-09_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alicia John-Baptiste speaks during the Battery Bluff’s opening celebration, a private event hosted by the Presidio Trust, on April 22, 2022. Jean-Baptiste is the president and CEO of San Francisco Planning Urban Research (SPUR), a member-supported nonprofit organization. She was tapped by Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie as the city’s first-ever chief of infrastructure, climate and mobility. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Amaya Edwards)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I am thrilled to be returning to government service at such a critical time for the future of San Francisco,” said John-Baptiste. “I’m also excited to directly implement a recommendation from SPUR’s good government work by joining the newly-created team of policy chiefs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her new position, John-Baptiste will help Lurie coordinate between a large portfolio of departments: the SFMTA, the Port of San Francisco, the Public Utilities Commission, the Department of Public Works, the Environment Department and the Recreation and Parks Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alicia brings extensive expertise in shaping bold, transformative policies, and whose leadership will enhance communication and transparency as we pursue a more sustainable, connected, and resilient San Francisco,” Lurie said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prior to her time at SPUR, John-Baptiste worked at City Hall for about 16 years, moving between the SFMTA and the Planning Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are thrilled to partner with a leader in the transportation space that really understands our organization from the inside out,” Erica Kato, a spokesperson for the SFMTA, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency is rebounding from a brutal period for public transportation in every American city. Lurie has yet to announce who will fill the vacancy left following the resignation of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018056/san-francisco-public-transit-boss-jeffrey-tumlin-to-resign\">former SFMTA director Jeffrey Tumlin\u003c/a> in December after steering the agency through \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014573/sf-muni-dire-need-funding-without-cuts-could-be-devastating\">one of its worst fiscal crises\u003c/a> in recent history. Despite recent improvements in ridership, SFMTA is facing a nearly $300 million deficit starting in 2026 after state and federal relief is exhausted — a major challenge for both the incoming director and mobility policy chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a worrying increase in traffic deaths last year has led to widespread calls for the city to intensify its street safety efforts, as well as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020110/sf-speed-cameras-coming-march-will-they-help-cut-traffic-deaths\">criticism of the SFMTA\u003c/a> for falling behind on its “quick build” program to improve conditions at hundreds of locations by the end of 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jodie Medeiros, executive director of advocacy organization Walk SF, was encouraged by Lurie’s pick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alicia is a problem-solver and public servant who understands that safe streets and sustainable transportation are crucial for San Francisco. This is a great choice for the city’s future,” Medeiros said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s housing advocacy community also celebrated the news of John-Baptiste’s appointment as a victory for the movement to change city zoning regulations to encourage building housing at all income levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020020\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020020\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/12/GettyImages-2174968250-e1736293413905.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco City Hall in a photo from November 2024. \u003ccite>(James Carter-Johnson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Corey Smith, the executive director of Housing Action Coalition, a group which he said spun out of SPUR 26 years ago, said John-Baptiste uniquely understands the “nitty-gritty” of policy while also maintaining “a big picture idea of what the future could hold for San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alicia is an expert in her world, in urbanism. She’s been in the advocacy space for a long time, but she’s been in the machine and knows how it works. It’s a good combination,” Smith said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Modi, who will lead policy on public health and wellbeing, is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mckinsey.com/our-people/kunal-modi\">partner at McKinsey and \u003c/a>also served on the board of directors for \u003ca href=\"https://larkinstreetyouth.org/impact/who-we-are/meet-our-team/board-of-directors/\">Larkin Street Youth Center\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.stanthonysf.org/about/team/\">St. Anthony Foundation. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.stanthonysf.org/about/team/\">He\u003c/a> will oversee eight departments that collectively administer some $6 billion in public funds, according to Lurie’s office. Modi is charged with streamlining operations across those departments to ensure greater coordination and accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kunal has a track record of delivering results in some of the most complex and critical areas of public service,” Lurie said in a statement on Tuesday. “His leadership will be instrumental as we act urgently and compassionately to address homelessness, strengthen behavioral health systems, and ensure that all San Franciscans — especially our most vulnerable — have access to the support and services they need to thrive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At McKinsey, Modi helmed the company’s global social responsibility initiative and led its community service efforts in the Bay Area. As part of his work there, he co-wrote \u003ca href=\"https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-sector/our-insights/great-expectations-how-us-government-agencies-can-meet-public-demand-for-better-service\">several\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-sector/our-insights/the-call-to-rethink-government-customer-experience\">papers\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-sector/our-insights/are-states-ready-to-close-the-us-digital-divide\">focused\u003c/a> on improving customer experience within government services and two that looked specifically at how best to \u003ca href=\"https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-sector/our-insights/the-ongoing-crisis-of-homelessness-in-the-bay-area-whats-working-whats-not\">address homelessness\u003c/a> in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/social-sector/our-insights/homelessness-in-the-san-francisco-bay-area-the-crisis-and-a-path-forward\">Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford Professor Keith Humphreys, who served on the St. Anthony’s board with Modi, said he is a good fit for his new role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has a strong management sensibility … but he’s not a mirthless bean counter,” Humphreys said. “He’s also someone who just cares deeply about the most vulnerable citizens in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That management sensibility will be especially helpful if he hopes to wrangle the dozens of organizations that serve the city’s more than 8,300 homeless residents, Humphreys said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have all these different outreach teams scattered across departments, different nonprofits doing this and that, and it’s literally impossible to figure out what everybody is doing and are they all working in concert?” Humphreys said. “That is a really big management challenge, and he’s exactly the kind of person who can handle that challenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> ran a successful campaign for San Francisco mayor by leaning into his status as an outsider, going so far as to say of Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/london-breed\">London Breed\u003c/a> and his other opponents, “Look where all their experience has gotten us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Lurie takes the oath of office Wednesday afternoon, he will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013667/daniel-lurie-san-franciscos-next-mayor-what-will-that-look-like\">be the \u003cem>chief insider\u003c/em>\u003c/a> — inheriting responsibility for a city government with a $16 billion budget and sprawling bureaucracy with some 34,000 employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It means firing department heads who don’t align with your priorities — or inviting them \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018056/san-francisco-public-transit-boss-jeffrey-tumlin-to-resign\">to leave\u003c/a>, hiring new ones, filling dozens of city commissions, meeting with new and old members of the Board of Supervisors and just plain getting to know the people who will be reporting to you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent decades, transitions from one mayor to the next in San Francisco have happened following assassinations, the election of a mayor to higher office, the sudden death of a mayor and the removal of the acting mayor for someone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This \u003c/em>transition is pretty orderly by comparison. But even routine transitions can be rocky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10741235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10741235\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/7323_transform.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/7323_transform.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/7323_transform-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/7323_transform-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/7323_transform-1440x959.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/7323_transform-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/7323_transform-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos. \u003ccite>(Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1988, I worked for Art Agnos when he took over as mayor for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/dianne-feinstein\">Dianne Feinstein\u003c/a>, who somewhat reluctantly left office due to term limits. Agnos and Feinstein were not allies or even friendly, and it showed in the transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She really had a tough time with it,” Agnos said this week. “And she cleared out the office. All the furniture was gone when we got there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No desk. No conference table. Fortunately, Agnos kept some Feinstein staffers, like unpaid protocol chief Charlotte Mailliard-Swig, who helped Agnos find furniture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months, Feinstein and Agnos had a very public argument about the $180 million deficit he inherited from her. That was not helpful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie will have a place to sit in his new office, but almost immediately, he’ll face \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998404/breed-signs-15-9-billion-sf-budget-that-boosts-police-funding-cuts-from-public-health\">a massive city budget deficit\u003c/a> of more than $800 million — and he’ll be working with the people in charge of his predecessor’s spending plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002541\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240722-SFKamalaHarrisRally-08-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240722-SFKamalaHarrisRally-08-BL_qed-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240722-SFKamalaHarrisRally-08-BL_qed-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240722-SFKamalaHarrisRally-08-BL_qed-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240722-SFKamalaHarrisRally-08-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240722-SFKamalaHarrisRally-08-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240722-SFKamalaHarrisRally-08-BL_qed-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor London Breed speaks during a rally at City Hall in San Francisco on July 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They kept all of Mayor Breed’s budget staff, including her budget director,” said Sean Elsbernd, Breed’s chief of staff. “And I think it would have been a disaster to try to bring in someone new this fiscal year. Hiring, budgeting analysts — just through the regular process ain’t easy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may well change once the new mayor submits his first city budget to the Board of Supervisors. But for now, that continuity will save time and minimize disruption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Lurie will certainly put his own imprint on the city government he leads. He’ll do that by his appointments, staff, public comments and visibility, and simply responding to inevitable crises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s an old expression in politics that “you campaign in poetry and govern in prose.” It suggests that running for office requires inspirational speeches and grand ideas that captivate voters, while actually running something requires less exciting qualities like practicality, compromise and accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986424\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986424\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/230926-DANIEL-LURIE-MD-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/230926-DANIEL-LURIE-MD-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/230926-DANIEL-LURIE-MD-13-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/230926-DANIEL-LURIE-MD-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/230926-DANIEL-LURIE-MD-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/230926-DANIEL-LURIE-MD-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/230926-DANIEL-LURIE-MD-13-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Lurie when he announced his candidacy for Mayor of San Francisco at the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House in San Francisco on Sept. 26, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Candidates can make promises or policy plans — as Lurie did — without knowing the limitations they’ll face from pending litigation they don’t have knowledge of due to attorney/client privilege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Lurie said he wanted to increase the use of ankle monitors to keep tabs on people awaiting trial for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008970/its-maddening-addiction-experts-cry-foul-at-mayoral-candidates-push-for-drug-arrests\">drug-related charges\u003c/a>. “I mean, that’s, in concept, a wonderful idea,” Elsbernd said. “But there is a whole load of litigation about those right now that are significantly hampering Sheriff [Paul] Miyamoto, who’s responsible for that. The mayor is not. The sheriff is. And the judges of the Superior Court are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New mayors can make all the plans they want, but as Agnos often said, “When you’re mayor, you don’t choose the issues. The issues choose you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An obvious example: earthquakes or some other natural disaster that strikes unexpectedly. Lurie’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014714/san-francisco-mayor-elect-daniel-lurie-taps-openai-founder-transition-team\">transition chief\u003c/a>, Sara Fenske Bahat, said they’ve been in touch with the Department of Emergency Management for weeks “to make sure that the team going in is connected to that team before tomorrow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020497\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020497\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-17.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-17.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-17-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-17-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-17-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-17-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-17-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie speaks at Manny’s, a restaurant and events space in San Francisco, on Jan. 5, 2025, before a trash pickup in the Mission District, part of a weekend of service before his inauguration on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fenske Bahat was working under New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani when Michael Bloomberg took over. She says it’s important for change, which Lurie is promising, to be “in the spirit of the culture of this place, right? This is a place that embraces change. This is a place that embraces outsiders. That wants to innovate. This is a place that wants to be respected for the uniqueness of the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Cretan, Mayor Breed’s press secretary, noted that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12019956/how-daniel-lurie-will-balance-the-need-for-insider-knowledge-with-outsider-perspective-2\">push for change\u003c/a> should be balanced with continuity for the sake of the thousands of civil servants who will continue working with the city once Breed leaves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be pushes for new ideas,” Cretan said. “But the key thing is to make sure that the incoming administration understands all the things that are happening in the city … and so a lot of that [transition] work is making sure people are set up for that work to continue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cretan said a lot of the transition is making sure Lurie is “aware of what he will be facing and what his team will be facing. But I don’t think it’s our job to be like, ‘This is how you need to do your job.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12020118 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240819-DanielLuriePresser-03-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being a relative outsider to city government comes with one big advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t owe anybody anything,” Lurie told KQED. “And so, I walk into that office unencumbered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a mixed bag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It means he can balance the budget by touching sacred cows that, for example, city unions might not want to see cut. At the same time, Elsbernd said, there are downsides that come with that fresh set of eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The benefit of being inside the building,” he said, “it’s not only do you see around corners, but you see around corners … and you see where the land mines are because you’ve landed on those land mines of the past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as former Mayor Agnos notes, the toughest issues will find you “like heat-seeking missiles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it’s bad news, everybody ducks, and it comes straight into the mayor’s office and Room 200 [the mayor’s office at City Hall] and hits you right between the eyes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie may or may not enjoy a honeymoon in the coming months, but either way, he’ll soon be held accountable for all the issues he promised to fix, including homelessness, drug overdoses and revitalizing downtown. He’ll need all the luck and goodwill he can get.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jan. 8: A previous version of this story misstated the year that Art Agnos took office as San Francisco mayor.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> ran a successful campaign for San Francisco mayor by leaning into his status as an outsider, going so far as to say of Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/london-breed\">London Breed\u003c/a> and his other opponents, “Look where all their experience has gotten us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Lurie takes the oath of office Wednesday afternoon, he will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013667/daniel-lurie-san-franciscos-next-mayor-what-will-that-look-like\">be the \u003cem>chief insider\u003c/em>\u003c/a> — inheriting responsibility for a city government with a $16 billion budget and sprawling bureaucracy with some 34,000 employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It means firing department heads who don’t align with your priorities — or inviting them \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018056/san-francisco-public-transit-boss-jeffrey-tumlin-to-resign\">to leave\u003c/a>, hiring new ones, filling dozens of city commissions, meeting with new and old members of the Board of Supervisors and just plain getting to know the people who will be reporting to you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent decades, transitions from one mayor to the next in San Francisco have happened following assassinations, the election of a mayor to higher office, the sudden death of a mayor and the removal of the acting mayor for someone else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This \u003c/em>transition is pretty orderly by comparison. But even routine transitions can be rocky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10741235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10741235\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/7323_transform.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/7323_transform.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/7323_transform-400x266.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/7323_transform-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/7323_transform-1440x959.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/7323_transform-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/7323_transform-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos. \u003ccite>(Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 1988, I worked for Art Agnos when he took over as mayor for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/dianne-feinstein\">Dianne Feinstein\u003c/a>, who somewhat reluctantly left office due to term limits. Agnos and Feinstein were not allies or even friendly, and it showed in the transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She really had a tough time with it,” Agnos said this week. “And she cleared out the office. All the furniture was gone when we got there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No desk. No conference table. Fortunately, Agnos kept some Feinstein staffers, like unpaid protocol chief Charlotte Mailliard-Swig, who helped Agnos find furniture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months, Feinstein and Agnos had a very public argument about the $180 million deficit he inherited from her. That was not helpful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie will have a place to sit in his new office, but almost immediately, he’ll face \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998404/breed-signs-15-9-billion-sf-budget-that-boosts-police-funding-cuts-from-public-health\">a massive city budget deficit\u003c/a> of more than $800 million — and he’ll be working with the people in charge of his predecessor’s spending plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002541\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240722-SFKamalaHarrisRally-08-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240722-SFKamalaHarrisRally-08-BL_qed-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240722-SFKamalaHarrisRally-08-BL_qed-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240722-SFKamalaHarrisRally-08-BL_qed-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240722-SFKamalaHarrisRally-08-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240722-SFKamalaHarrisRally-08-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240722-SFKamalaHarrisRally-08-BL_qed-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor London Breed speaks during a rally at City Hall in San Francisco on July 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They kept all of Mayor Breed’s budget staff, including her budget director,” said Sean Elsbernd, Breed’s chief of staff. “And I think it would have been a disaster to try to bring in someone new this fiscal year. Hiring, budgeting analysts — just through the regular process ain’t easy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That may well change once the new mayor submits his first city budget to the Board of Supervisors. But for now, that continuity will save time and minimize disruption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Lurie will certainly put his own imprint on the city government he leads. He’ll do that by his appointments, staff, public comments and visibility, and simply responding to inevitable crises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s an old expression in politics that “you campaign in poetry and govern in prose.” It suggests that running for office requires inspirational speeches and grand ideas that captivate voters, while actually running something requires less exciting qualities like practicality, compromise and accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986424\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986424\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/230926-DANIEL-LURIE-MD-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/230926-DANIEL-LURIE-MD-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/230926-DANIEL-LURIE-MD-13-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/230926-DANIEL-LURIE-MD-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/230926-DANIEL-LURIE-MD-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/230926-DANIEL-LURIE-MD-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/230926-DANIEL-LURIE-MD-13-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Lurie when he announced his candidacy for Mayor of San Francisco at the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House in San Francisco on Sept. 26, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Candidates can make promises or policy plans — as Lurie did — without knowing the limitations they’ll face from pending litigation they don’t have knowledge of due to attorney/client privilege.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Lurie said he wanted to increase the use of ankle monitors to keep tabs on people awaiting trial for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008970/its-maddening-addiction-experts-cry-foul-at-mayoral-candidates-push-for-drug-arrests\">drug-related charges\u003c/a>. “I mean, that’s, in concept, a wonderful idea,” Elsbernd said. “But there is a whole load of litigation about those right now that are significantly hampering Sheriff [Paul] Miyamoto, who’s responsible for that. The mayor is not. The sheriff is. And the judges of the Superior Court are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New mayors can make all the plans they want, but as Agnos often said, “When you’re mayor, you don’t choose the issues. The issues choose you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An obvious example: earthquakes or some other natural disaster that strikes unexpectedly. Lurie’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014714/san-francisco-mayor-elect-daniel-lurie-taps-openai-founder-transition-team\">transition chief\u003c/a>, Sara Fenske Bahat, said they’ve been in touch with the Department of Emergency Management for weeks “to make sure that the team going in is connected to that team before tomorrow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020497\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020497\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-17.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-17.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-17-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-17-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-17-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-17-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250105-LurieInaugurationCleanup-17-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie speaks at Manny’s, a restaurant and events space in San Francisco, on Jan. 5, 2025, before a trash pickup in the Mission District, part of a weekend of service before his inauguration on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fenske Bahat was working under New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani when Michael Bloomberg took over. She says it’s important for change, which Lurie is promising, to be “in the spirit of the culture of this place, right? This is a place that embraces change. This is a place that embraces outsiders. That wants to innovate. This is a place that wants to be respected for the uniqueness of the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Cretan, Mayor Breed’s press secretary, noted that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12019956/how-daniel-lurie-will-balance-the-need-for-insider-knowledge-with-outsider-perspective-2\">push for change\u003c/a> should be balanced with continuity for the sake of the thousands of civil servants who will continue working with the city once Breed leaves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be pushes for new ideas,” Cretan said. “But the key thing is to make sure that the incoming administration understands all the things that are happening in the city … and so a lot of that [transition] work is making sure people are set up for that work to continue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cretan said a lot of the transition is making sure Lurie is “aware of what he will be facing and what his team will be facing. But I don’t think it’s our job to be like, ‘This is how you need to do your job.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being a relative outsider to city government comes with one big advantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t owe anybody anything,” Lurie told KQED. “And so, I walk into that office unencumbered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a mixed bag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It means he can balance the budget by touching sacred cows that, for example, city unions might not want to see cut. At the same time, Elsbernd said, there are downsides that come with that fresh set of eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The benefit of being inside the building,” he said, “it’s not only do you see around corners, but you see around corners … and you see where the land mines are because you’ve landed on those land mines of the past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as former Mayor Agnos notes, the toughest issues will find you “like heat-seeking missiles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it’s bad news, everybody ducks, and it comes straight into the mayor’s office and Room 200 [the mayor’s office at City Hall] and hits you right between the eyes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie may or may not enjoy a honeymoon in the coming months, but either way, he’ll soon be held accountable for all the issues he promised to fix, including homelessness, drug overdoses and revitalizing downtown. He’ll need all the luck and goodwill he can get.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jan. 8: A previous version of this story misstated the year that Art Agnos took office as San Francisco mayor.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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