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Each department of the City and County shall adopt an annual Customer Service Plan, in a format to be determined by the Board of Supervisors by ordinance. The Board may excuse a department from particular requirements of the ordinance where compliance would be inappropriate or impractical. Each department shall file its Customer Service Plan with the Board of Supervisors no later than February 1st of each year, along with a report on how the department met the previous year's Plan, if any.
(Added November 1998)
(a) The qualified electors of the City and County shall have the right to vote on any Project of the City and County that would place 100 acres or more of fill in San Francisco Bay.
(b) Notwithstanding any contrary provisions of the Charter, the approval of any Project that would place 100 acres or more of fill in San Francisco Bay shall be conditioned upon the affirmative vote of a majority vote of the electorate.
(c) Within three (3) business days of such conditional approval by any department, board, commission, or other unit of government of the City and County, including any board, commission or other unit of government of the City and County of San Francisco established by state or federal law that is subject to the provisions of the San Francisco Charter, of any Project that would place 100 acres or more of fill in San Francisco Bay, the approving entity shall provide written notice thereof to the Director of Elections who shall place the measure required by this Section on the ballot at the first general municipal or statewide election which occurs at least one hundred and twenty (120) days after said notice is received by the Director.
(d) Ballot measures generated and placed on the ballot pursuant to this Section are not exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act nor any other federal, state or local environmental laws and regulations to which the Project may be subject. Before any action is taken by the City and County to approve a Project that is required by this Section to be submitted to the electorate, the Project must comply with the California Environmental Quality Act. If compliance requires the preparation, consideration and certification of an Environmental Impact Report, that process shall be finalized prior to project approval and the information contained in the final certified Environmental Impact Report shall be made publicly available to the electorate for its consideration prior to the election.
(e) The general statement of the ballot measure to be voted on, pursuant to this Section, shall read as follows:
Shall the voters approve (insert name of project) that would fill in (insert number) acres of San Francisco Bay? Yes or No
The name of the Project to be inserted into the general statement shall be determined by the City Attorney pursuant to Section 510 of the San Francisco Elections Code, or any subsequent amended or renumbered version of Section 510.
(f) Definitions. Words and phrases used in this Section shall have the meanings specified in the San Francisco Charter, except that the following words and phrases as used in this Section shall have the following meanings:
"Project" or "Project of the City and County" shall mean any activity proposed, sponsored, initiated, or funded by any department, board, commission, or other unit of government of the City and County of San Francisco including any board, commission or other unit of government of the City and County of San Francisco established by state or federal law that is subject to provisions of the San Francisco Charter.
"Place fill" or "fill in" shall mean to introduce, or cause to be introduced, earth or any other substance or material, including pilings or structures placed on pilings, and structures floating at some or all times and moored for extended periods.
(g) If any part or provision of this Section, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of this Section, including the application of such part or provision to other persons or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby and shall continue in full force and effect. To this end, provisions of this Section are severable.
(Added November 2001)
(a) Positions in the Police Department may only be converted from sworn to civilian as they become vacant. No sworn officer shall be laid off in order to convert a position to civilian personnel.
(b) If the Mayor or any member of the Board of Supervisors proposes to convert positions in the Police Department from sworn officers to civilian personnel through the budget process, the Controller and the Chief of Police shall report on whether the reduction would decrease the number of police officers dedicated to neighborhood community policing, patrol, and investigations or would substantially interfere with the delivery of City public safety services, including services to protect the public in the event of an emergency. In preparing the report required by this subsection (b), the Chief of Police shall solicit input from the Police Commission.
(Added March 2004; amended by Proposition E, Approved 11/3/2020)
[THE PUBLIC EDUCATION ENRICHMENT FUND AMENDMENT OF 2014]
(a) The people of the City and County of San Francisco find and declare that:
(1) San Francisco Unified School District ("SFUSD") schools are one of the City's most valuable public assets and every San Francisco student has the right to a quality public education that prepares them to pursue higher education, be competitive in a diversity of job markets, and ultimately contribute to the future health and vitality of San Francisco;
(2) City funding for SFUSD public schools is an essential and valuable investment in our youth, as validated by San Francisco voters who overwhelmingly passed (by 71 percent) the ballot measure creating the Public Education Enrichment Fund ("PEEF") in 2004;
(3) The State of California is currently 49th in per pupil spending, and without the PEEF, SFUSD would fall to fifth place in per pupil spending among comparable California school districts;
(4) Urban public schools have the greatest need for comprehensive educational programs – including preschool programs, arts and music programs, sports activities, and after school programs – but often have the fewest resources to provide them;
(5) In the last decade, the PEEF enabled all San Francisco public school students to benefit from once-underfunded and diminishing critical programs and services including but not limited to: quality physical education and athletics programs, fully functioning libraries at every school staffed by credentialed librarians, arts and music teachers and programs, wellness and behavioral support staffing and translation and interpretation services;
(6) In the last decade, critical PEEF funding for sports, libraries, arts and music ensured that every San Francisco public school has a librarian, all elementary schools offer art classes and engagement opportunities, physical education courses are equipped and staffed by credentialed teachers, and sports teams have more coaches and officials along with upgraded uniforms and equipment;
(7) The Preschool for All program, initially established by the ballot measure that adopted the PEEF in 2004, successfully served over 18,000 children since the program's creation, with enrollment increasing year to year;
(8) Studies have shown that children who participated in Preschool for All demonstrated significantly higher academic achievement than children who did not participate;
(9) While the Preschool for All program made great strides in closing the opportunity gap for low-income early age children, the current need far exceeds the current level of services that the City is able to provide;
(10) The general education portion of the PEEF enabled SFUSD to triple the number of students enrolled in grades K-8 receiving individual and/or group health and mental health services through student support professionals over the past five years, with the number of high school students receiving five or more counseling sessions at the Wellness Center more than doubling in the last 10 years;
(11) The general education portion of the PEEF enabled SFUSD to nearly double the number of high schools seniors completing two City College of San Francisco courses;
(12) PEEF enabled the Human Capital Support program to recruit and retain a diversity of quality teachers to SFUSD. In the year the program began, there were approximately 46 teacher vacancies on the first day of school, whereas there were only three teacher vacancies on the first day of school in FY 2012-2013;
(13) SFUSD has seen a resurgence in enrollment in recent years and recognition of the opportunities now available to the young people of San Francisco;
(14) The choices businesses make about where to locate are impacted by the quality of public services the City provides, including public safety, transportation and education; a free quality public education can serve as a key factor for businesses to attract and retain workers in our community;
(15) Since 2000, SFUSD has made strong improvements in achievement measures and financial management; and during the past decade, SFUSD has built an exemplary record for effective and responsible management of voter-approved parcel taxes and bond measures. Financial and programmatic reviews of PEEF expenditures conducted by the Controller's Office have verified that expenditures were spent in accordance with SFUSD's spending plans and Charter requirements; and
(16) As the economy begins to recover, now is the time to continue to invest in our children's future to maintain and grow thriving public schools, before declines begin to erode the progress the SFUSD has made.
(b) This measure may be referred to as "The Public Education Enrichment Fund Amendment of 2014."
(Added March 2004; amended November 2014)
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