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(a) Establishment of Fund. The Sheriffs County Jail Prisoner's Welfare Fund is established as a category four fund for the purpose of receiving all gifts, donations and contributions of money which may from time to time be received by the City and County through the Sheriff for the purpose of aiding the welfare of prisoners confined in the San Francisco City and County jails.
(b) Use of Fund. All expenditures from such fund shall be made for the purpose of providing educational, vocational, recreational, medical, dental, and legal supplies, facilities, and equipment and for costs incurred in providing entertainment to consist of lectures, plays, concerts and similar programs, all for the use and benefit of prisoners confined in the San Francisco City and County Jails.
(Added by Ord. 316-00, File No. 001911, App. 12/28/2000)
(a) Establishment of Fund. The Sheriffs Special Maintenance Fund is established as a category two fund to receive such funds as shall be paid to the City and County by other local jurisdictions (cities and counties) of the State of California for care and maintenance of prisoners of said local jurisdictions in the Jails of the City and County of San Francisco. Into the fund shall also be deposited such funds as shall be paid to the City and County by the State Department of Corrections, pursuant to Section 4016 of the California Penal Code.
(b) Use of Fund. Monies in the fund shall be used for the upgrading of the jail system in accordance with a list of priorities for the upgrading of the jail designated by the Sheriff of the City and County of San Francisco.
(c) Exceptions to Fund Category. Balances in excess of $100,000, remaining in such fund at the close of any fiscal year, shall be deemed to have been provided for a specific purpose and shall be carried forward and accumulated in such fund for the purposes recited herein.
(Added by Ord. 316-00, File No. 001911, App. 12/28/2000)
(a) Establishment of Fund. The Small Business Assistance Fund (“Fund”) is established as a category four fund as defined in Section 10.100-1 of the Administrative Code, and shall receive all taxes, penalties, interest, and fees collected from the Vacancy Tax imposed under Article 29 of the Business and Tax Regulations Code.
(b) Use of Fund. Subject to the budgetary and fiscal provisions of the Charter, monies in the Fund shall be used exclusively for the purposes described in Section 2907(b) of Article 29 of the Business and Tax Regulations Code.
(c) Administration of Fund. As stated in Section 2907(c) of Article 29 of the Business and Tax Regulations Code, commencing with a report filed no later than February 15, 2023, covering the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022, the Controller shall file annually with the Board of Supervisors, by February 15 of each year, a report containing the amount of monies collected in and expended from the Fund during the prior fiscal year, the status of any project required or authorized to be funded by Section 2907, and such other information as the Controller, in the Controller’s sole discretion, deems relevant to the operation of Article 29.
(Added by Proposition D, 3/3/2020, Eff. 4/17/2020, Oper. 1/1/2021; amended by Ord. 94-20, File No. 200420, App. 6/26/2020, Eff. 7/27/2020)
(a) Establishment of Fund. The Status of Women Domestic Violence Program Fund is established as a category two fund into which shall be deposited eight dollars of each fee collected by the County Clerk at the time of issuance of any marriage license or at the time of the filing of any certificate of marriage pursuant to Sections 26840.7 and 26840.8 of the Government Code. Those fees collected by the County Clerk for performing civil ceremonies solemnizing the formation of domestic partnerships (pursuant to Section 62.9 of the Administrative Code) shall be deposited into the Same Sex Domestic Violence Project within the Domestic Violence Program Fund.
(b) Use of Fund. This fund is created for the purpose of providing basic services to victims of domestic violence and their children and for programs designed to reduce the incidence of domestic violence in the City and County of San Francisco, in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 18290) of Part 6 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code. The monies shall be set aside for the aforesaid purposes as provided by the Domestic Violence Act pursuant to Section 18290 et seq. Of the Welfare and Institutions Code and disbursements from this special fund shall be made upon recommendation of the Commission on the Status of Women and approval of the Board of Supervisors. The Commission on the Status of Women shall be allocated an amount not to exceed 10 percent of the total amount of said funds for all necessary and reasonable administrative costs incurred in connection therewith.
(c) Exceptions to Fund Category. Any monies not used by the City and County for the specific purpose described within three years shall be deposited in the General Fund in the State treasury in accordance with Sections 18305 and 18307 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
(d) Administration of Fund. The Commission on the Status of Women is hereby designated as coordinator of the Domestic Violence Program and shall be delegated the following responsibilities:
1. To consult with individuals and groups having expertise in the problems of domestic violence in the operation of domestic violence programs;
2. To prepare and distribute announcements and requests for grant proposals to existing providers of services to victims of domestic violence;
3. To review and evaluate grant proposals and requests of private agencies to receive funding under this program;
4. To hold public hearings;
5. To recommend appropriate action on such proposals to the Board of Supervisors; and
6. To monitor the implementation of the program or programs approved by the Board of Supervisors for funding under this program in compliance with the provisions of Section 18290, et seq. of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
(Added by Ord. 316-00, File No. 001911, App. 12/28/2000)
(a) Establishment of Fund. The Telecommunications and Information Services Cable Television Access Development and Programming Fund is hereby established as a category four fund for the purpose of receiving the 0.2 percent portion of the cable television franchise fee proceeds which is used for development of municipal, educational and public access to cable television and for related programming; and also for receiving gifts and grants which may be offered to the City and County for use in the development of municipal, educational and public access to cable television and for related programming.
(b) Use of Fund. Monies in the fund shall be expended for development of municipal, educational and public access to cable television and for related programming.
(c) Exceptions to Fund Category. The balance of unappropriated funds remaining in the fund at the close of each fiscal year shall be transferred to the General Fund.
(Added by Ord. 316-00, File No. 001911, App. 12/28/2000)
(a) Establishment of Fund. The Tenant Assistance Fund for Hazardous Housing (the “Fund”) is established as a category six fund to receive any monies appropriated or donated for the purpose of assisting tenants displaced from their residences by administrative orders to vacate by the Department of Building Inspection and/or the Fire Department (“City code enforcement agency”), as set forth in this Section 10.100-343. Donations to the Fund are deemed approved for acceptance and expenditure without further approval by the Board of Supervisors.
(b) Use of Fund. The Fund shall be used exclusively by the Director or his or her designee of the Human Services Agency or any successor agency (“HSA Director”) to provide assistance to tenants who are vacating or have vacated their residences to comply with an administrative order to vacate issued within the past seven days by a City code enforcement agency as a result of Building and/or Fire Code violations. The HSA Director may utilize the Fund to assist tenants, or households thereof, so qualified, earning up to 100% of the Area Median Income, and otherwise deemed eligible in accordance with this subsection (b) (“Eligible Tenants”). Disbursements from the Fund are entirely in the HSA Director’s lawful discretion and there is in no circumstance a right to any payment under this Section.
(1) The HSA Director shall authorize disbursements to Eligible Tenants on a case-by-case basis in accordance with HSA policy as adopted pursuant to subsection (c). In administering this Section, the HSA Director shall seek the input of code enforcement agencies and other City authorities as the HSA Director deems appropriate. The HSA Director may revise these case-by-case decisions as necessary or appropriate to take into account evolving circumstances.
(2) For an Eligible Tenant of a residential rental unit that has been occupied by the tenant for at least 32 continuous days including the day an applicable order to vacate is issued, and where the tenant has paid rent, the HSA Director may provide a rental assistance payment of up to 100% of the current established fair market rent for the area, as determined by the Department of Housing and Urban Development pursuant to Section 1437f of Title 42 of the United States Code, as that Section may be amended in the future, plus an amount that the HSA Director determines is sufficient for utility service deposits, less the amount of rent that the eligible tenant was paying in the residence from which he/she has to vacate. The HSA Director may make rental assistance payments from the Fund on a per residential unit basis for up to either (A) two years per unit, or (B) the time when all department(s) that ordered the unit vacated have deemed it habitable, whichever occurs first. The HSA Director shall authorize disbursements to an Eligible Tenant for an initial duration not to exceed six months. At the conclusion of the initial duration for authorized disbursements, whether it is six months or less, the circumstances of the Eligible Tenant shall be reassessed, and continued assistance may be authorized, subject to the durational limits set forth in this subsection (b)(2).
(c) Administration of Fund. Within 60 days of the effective date of the ordinance in Board File No. 170937 creating the Fund, the HSA Director shall adopt a policy for implementation of this Section 10.100-343, which the HSA Director may modify from time to time as the HSA Director deems necessary or appropriate.
(d) Annual Report. The HSA Director shall submit an annual written report to the Mayor, the Board of Supervisors, and the Controller within the first two weeks of July, showing for the prior fiscal year donations received, the nature and amount of such donations, and the disposition thereof, together with a description of the individual payments made from the Fund.
(Added by Ord. 3-18, File No. 170937, App. 1/19/2018, Eff. 2/19/2018)
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