The measure would reduce the number of boards and commissions in the City Charter and require the Commission Streamlining Task Force to meet every 10 years to review existing bodies. San Franciscans voted in 2024 to create the Commission Streamlining Task Force, which provided a list of recommendations to the Board of Supervisors on where to merge duplicative commissions or eliminate inactive bodies. Passes with a majority vote.
Yes Argument
Proposition A is the result of the Commission Streamlining Task Force that voters approved in 2024 to reduce cumbersome bureaucracy. It would remove inactive city bodies and clean up the city’s charter based on recommendations approved by the Board of Supervisors to go before voters. Prop. A would also move nine commissions from the charter to the municipal code, allowing the Board of Supervisors to make changes to them without going to the ballot.
No Argument
The measure removes oversight and necessary checks and balances in government by striking voter-approved commissions and boards from the City Charter.
Key Supporters
In Support
- Chyanne Chen, supervisor, San Francisco
- Matt Haney, California Assembly member
- Daniel Lurie, mayor, San Francisco
- Rafael Mandelman, Board of Supervisors president, San Francisco
- Scott Wiener, California state senator
In Opposition
- Connie Chan, supervisor, San Francisco
- Coalition on Homelessness
- Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council
- Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club
- Small Business Forward