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(a) Findings. The proliferation of graffiti on public buildings and other public property has created a blight which offends both citizens of and visitors to San Francisco. The removal of such graffiti will enhance the beauty of the City in which we live and will encourage others to visit and to relocate here. Removal will thus both reflect and renew our civic pride and contribute to our economic viability. Providing a source of funds for the promotion of neighborhood beautification projects will support the efforts of local residents and businesses to improve the quality of life for San Francisco residents and the local economy, and assist in reducing the amount of graffiti in San Francisco.
(b) Statement of Intent. The Board of Supervisors wishes to address the above concerns by establishing a Neighborhood Beautification and Graffiti Clean-up Fund which will promote neighborhood beautification projects, including projects designed to improve the environmental quality of neighborhoods, and finance the clean-up of graffiti on public property.
(c) Establishment of Fund. The Mayor's Neighborhood Beautification and Graffiti Clean-Up Fund is established as a category four fund for the purpose of receiving all donations or grants of money which may be collected by the City and County of San Francisco for the purposes noted in (b).
(d) Use of Fund. The fund shall be used exclusively for the purposes enumerated in (b), provided that such expenditures shall include reimbursement to City and County departments for expenses incurred in the administration of the fund.
(e) Administration of Fund. The Mayor shall have the following duties in regard to administration of the fund:
1. The Mayor, or his or her designee, shall be responsible for the administration of the Neighborhood Beautification and Graffiti Clean-Up Fund, and shall have all such authority as may be reasonably necessary to carry out those responsibilities.
2. The Mayor shall promulgate such rules and regulations as he or she may deem appropriate to carry out the provisions of this section. Before issuing or amending any rules and regulations, the Mayor shall provide a 30-day public comment period by providing published notice in an official newspaper of general circulation in the City of the intent to issue or amend the rules and regulations. The rules and regulations shall be approved by resolution of the Board of Supervisors. Such rules and regulations shall include, but not be limited to, the qualifications of applicants and factors to be considered in the award of grants to fund programs to help remove graffiti and promote neighborhood beautification projects, including preference for the following projects: youth programs and innovation, projects that are neighborhood generated, and projects designed to benefit areas of San Francisco that are economically disadvantaged.
3. The Mayor shall submit a semiannual report to the Board of Supervisors setting forth an accounting of the amounts disbursed and the uses for which said funds were made.
(Added by Ord. 316-00, File No. 001911, App. 12/28/2000)
(a) Establishment of Fund. The Mayor's Housing Programs Fees Fund is established as a category eight fund to receive monies from fees earned by the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development in connection with the administration of affordable housing. Such fees shall include, but are not be limited to, fees from single-family and multifamily housing mortgage revenue bonds as issuer or as administrator, fees from the California Natural Disaster Assistance Program, and fees from similar housing programs in which the city earns fees for services provided by the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development. This Section 10.100-117 shall not authorize the levy of fees except as otherwise provided by ordinance or resolution of the Board of Supervisors.
(b) Use of Fund. The fund shall be used for the purpose of supporting the City's efforts to provide affordable housing for persons and households of low and moderate income in the City. For the purposes of this Fund, "low and moderate income" shall mean incomes which are not greater than 120 percent of median for San Francisco, as defined by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. Monies from the Fund may be used for the following purposes:
(1) To pay the costs of the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development for administering housing programs for which administrative funding is not otherwise available from the City's General Fund, federal or state grants, or other sources of administrative funding. Such programs shall include the City's single-family and multifamily housing mortgage revenue bond programs, the first time homebuyer programs, rental housing development programs, and the monitoring of units to ensure their continued affordability.
(2) To the extent that monies are available and not needed to cover current and anticipated future administrative costs described in Subparagraph (1), the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development may transfer said monies to the Citywide Affordable Housing Fund, Administrative Code Section 10.100-49, to make loans or grants for the development of affordable housing in the City.
(c) Exceptions to Fund Category. The Director of the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development shall approve expenditures from the fund.
(d) Administration of Fund. The Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development shall administer the Fund, and in such capacity shall review the needs of the administration of affordable housing programs and the availability of monies from the fund for other eligible purposes. The Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development shall report annually to the Board of Supervisors on the current status of the Mayor's Housing Program Fees Fund as a part of its Annual Report, including the amounts of fees received and to be budgeted for administrative funding, and any recommendations deemed necessary to improve effectiveness of the Mayor's Housing Program Fees Fund in achieving its purpose.
(Added by Ord. 316-00, File No. 001911, App. 12/28/2000; amended by Ord. 186-10, File No. 100705, App. 7/23/2010; Ord. 143-15
, File No. 150568, App. 8/6/2015, Eff. 9/5/2015)
(a) Establishment of Fund. The Mayor's Nuisance Abatement Revolving Loan Fund is established as a category four fund to receive any legally available monies appropriated for this purpose. The monies to be deposited in the fund shall include, subject to any prior legally-binding obligations, principal repayments of loans made from the fund and fees and interest earnings generated by loans made from the Fund.
(b) Use of Fund. Expenditures from the fund shall be for the following purposes: (1) to provide loans to building owners to make repairs and improvements needed to abate violations of the Building, Electrical, Green Building, Housing, Mechanical, and Plumbing Codes; and (2) to pay for expenses incurred in the administration of such loans. Administrative expenses shall be appropriated through the annual budget process or supplemental appropriation for the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development ("MOHCD"), or its successor.
(c) Administration of Fund. MOHCD shall administer loan programs under the fund, and in such capacity shall: (1) service loan agreements; (2) receive payments for, and maintain current accounts of principal, interest, and fees relating to the loan agreements, and redeposit them into the fund; and, (3) allocate funds for administration associated with the operation of the fund, such funds being limited to interest earnings generated by loans, collection of fees and the proceeds of investments of unexpended cash balances from the fund.
MOHCD shall report annually to the Board of Supervisors on the current status of the fund, the amounts approved for disbursement, and the number and types of projects assisted.
The Director of MOHCD may, after a noticed public hearing, adopt rules and regulations for the loan program or programs and for the administration of the fund.
(Added by Ord. 58-16, File No. 151080, App. 4/27/2016, Eff. 5/27/2016)
(a) Establishment of Fund. The Mayor's Performing Arts Loan Fund is established as a category four fund to receive any grants, gifts and bequests from public or private sources for this purposes, any monies appropriated to the County for the fund by the Legislature and any monies appropriated to the fund by the Board of Supervisors, including all principal repayments, fees, charges and other interest collected from participating parties.
(b) Use of Fund. The fund shall be used exclusively for the purpose of making construction project management, capital improvement and acquisition loans to nonprofit performing arts organizations pursuant to Chapter 50 of the San Francisco Administrative Code. The monies in this fund may be appropriated exclusively for the purposes and in the manner designated pursuant to Chapter 50 of the San Francisco Administrative Code. Costs which may be incurred in administering said Chapter may be recovered from interest payments deposited in this fund. Recovered costs shall not exceed 1/3 of the total interest payments received.
(Added by Ord. 316-00, File No. 001911, App. 12/28/2000; Ord. 114-06, File No. 051519, App. 6/1/2006)
(a) Establishment of Fund. The Mayor's Protocol and Host Fund is established as a category six fund to receive all gifts, donations and contributions of money, property and personal services which may be offered to the City and County of San Francisco through the Office of the Mayor for protocol and host purposes beneficial to the City and County of San Francisco.
(b) Use of Fund. Money, property and personal services comprising the fund shall be utilized for those purposes beneficial to the City and County of San Francisco which are in the nature of protocol and/or host expenditures.
(Added by Ord. 316-00, File No. 001911, App. 12/28/2000)
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