(a) The People of the City and County of San Francisco find and declare that major urban school districts such as San Francisco’s serve an ethnically and economically diverse student population that requires more resources than currently provided. In adopting this Tax, the People of the City and County of San Francisco choose to provide additional City resources to complement, and not supplant, City, State, Federal and other funding for the School District.
(b) Consistent with subsection (a), the People of the City and County of San Francisco find that the contributions to and disbursements from the Fair Wages for Educators Fund are discretionary expenditures by the City for the direct benefit of the children of the City, their families, and the community at large. In the event that the State attempts, directly or indirectly, to redistribute these expenditures to other jurisdictions or to offset or reduce State or Federal funding to the School District because of the contributions to and disbursements from the Fair Wages for Educators Fund, the City shall transfer monies that would otherwise be distributed to the School District each year from the Fair Wages for Educators Fund to the City’s Children and Youth Fund established in Charter Section 16.108, or such other fund as the Board of Supervisors may designate, to be spent for purposes which are substantially equivalent to the purposes set forth in Section 3709(a)(3).
(c) The Tax is intended to be in addition to and not to replace any other monies provided by the City to the School District, including but not limited to the Public Education Enrichment Fund (“PEEF”). This Article 37 does not authorize a reduction in disbursements from the City to PEEF.
(Added by Proposition J, 11/3/2020, Eff. 7/1/2021)