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(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)
(a) Establishment of Fund. The Traffic Congestion Mitigation 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 Traffic Congestion Mitigation Tax imposed under Article 32 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 3208(b) of Article 32 of the Business and Tax Regulations Code.
(c) Administration of Fund. As stated in Section 3208(d) of Article 32 of the Business and Tax Regulations Code, commencing with a report filed no later than February 15, 2022, covering the fiscal year ending June 30, 2021, 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 authorized to be funded by Section 3208, and such other information as the Controller, in the Controller’s sole discretion, deems relevant to the operation of Article 32.
(Added by Proposition D, 11/5/2019, Eff. 12/20/2019, Oper. 1/1/2020)
(a) Establishment of Fund. The Treasurer's Deferred Payment of Settlement Trust Fund is established as a category two to receive deposits of money held in trust for the settlement of claims and litigation which provide for the making of deferred payments pursuant to such agreements.
(b) Uses of Fund. Deposits made to the fund shall be invested and reinvested the same as permitted by law and disbursed therefrom pursuant to agreements for the settlement of claims and litigation which provide for the making of deferred payments pursuant to such agreements. The Treasurer of the City and County shall be the trustee of said trust fund and shall make disbursements therefrom only on warrants drawn by the Controller. Whenever a trust created pursuant to the provisions of a settlement agreement pertaining to a specific claim or litigation is terminated and the settlement agreement provides for the reversion of any unexpended balance in said trust to the City and County, the Controller shall debit the trust in the amount of such unexpended balance and said amount shall be credited by the Controller to the account which was the source of said trust funds.
(Added by Ord. 316-00, File No. 001911, App. 12/28/2000)
(Added by Ord. 194-04, File No. 040737, App. 7/30/2004; redesignated as Sec. 10.100-79 by Ord. 308-06, File No. 061562, App. 12/18/2006)
(a) Imposition of Surcharge. Pursuant to California Government Code Section 26826.3, the Board of Supervisors hereby imposes a surcharge of four dollars for the filing in superior court of (1) a complaint, petition, or other first paper in a civil or probate action of special proceeding, (2) a first paper on behalf of any defendant, respondent, intervenor, or adverse party, (3) a motion for change of venue from another court, or (4) a first paper on behalf of any party in a proceeding under Section 98.2 of the California Labor Code. No party shall be required to pay the four dollar surcharge more than once in any action.
(b) Establishment of Fund. The Trial Courts Courthouse Children's Waiting Rooms Fund is established as a category four fund to receive (1) all funds collected by the City and County of San Francisco, as authorized by California Government Code Section 26826.3, from surcharges on first filing fees and (2) all donations, grants, gifts and bequests from private sources for the purpose of the fund.
(c) Use of Fund. All funds shall be expended to pay any cost, excluding capital outlay, related to the maintenance of the Children's Waiting Rooms at the Hall of Justice and Civic Center Courthouse and the establishment and maintenance of a Children's Waiting Room at any additional courthouse in the City and County of San Francisco, including, but not limited to, personnel, heat, light, telephone, security, rental of space, furnishings, toys, books, or any other item or service in connection with the operation of a children's waiting room.
(d) Exceptions to Fund Category. All expenditure of the funds shall be determined by the Chief Executive Officer of the Court, in consultation with the Presiding Judge of the Court, the Supervising Judge of the Unified Family Court, and the provider(s) operating the Children's Waiting Rooms.
(e) Administration of Fund. The county clerk shall remit the surcharge monthly to the Controller who shall retain the monies in the Courthouse Children's Waiting Rooms Account. The Controller shall maintain the Account and shall record all receipts and expenditures.
(Added by Ord. 316-00, File No. 001911, App. 12/28/2000)
(Added by Ord. 316-00, File No. 001911, App. 12/28/2000; repealed by Ord. 68-22, File No. 211109, App. 4/28/2022, Eff. 5/29/2022)
(a) Establishment of Fund. The Union Square Park, Recreation, and Open Space Fund (the “Fund”) is established as a category eight fund to receive any monies collected pursuant to the Union Square Park, Recreation, and Open Space Fee, or donated to pay for City activities designed to address park, recreation, or open space needs in the C-3-R Downtown Retail Zoning District.
(b) Use of Fund. Monies in the Fund shall be used exclusively by the Controller or his or her designee (the “Controller”) to pay for new and improved facilities to meet the needs attributable to new recreation, park, and open space users in the C-3-R Downtown Retail Zoning District. The City Administrator shall propose specific projects for use of proceeds in the fund, subject to review, amendment, and approval by the Mayor and Board of Supervisor action through the City’s budget process.
(c) Administration of Fund. The Controller shall submit a written report to the Board of Supervisors at least every two years describing expenditures made from the Fund during the prior two fiscal years.
(Added by Ord. 23-19, File No. 180916, App. 2/15/2019, Eff. 3/18/2019)
(a) Establishment of Fund. The War Memorial Maintenance and Capital Improvement is established as a category four fund to receive all gifts, donations and contributions of money which may from time to time be received by the Board of Trustees of the San Francisco War Memorial for maintenance and capital improvements to the San Francisco War Memorial.
(b) Use of Fund. All expenditures from such fund shall be for maintenance, modernizations, additions and betterments of the San Francisco War Memorial, as approved by the Board of Trustees of the San Francisco War Memorial.
(Added by Ord. 316-00, File No. 001911, App. 12/28/2000)
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