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Mayor’s office adds housing adviser and keeps community-safety advisors as FY26 staffing focus

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Summary

The mayor’s office presented a small, personnel-focused FY26 budget that adds a senior policy adviser on housing (to be incubated in the mayor’s office and likely transition to SEDO later), retains community-safety and OPC implementation advisers, and shifts some hours and support positions to coordinate cross-departmental policy work.

Erin Jacobson, chief of staff, presented the mayor’s office FY26 budget on May 28, describing a compact office that will add an adviser focused on housing policy while maintaining several specialized policy adviser roles on community safety and OPC implementation.

Key elements: The mayor’s office plans to bring Sarah Russell, the city’s special assistant to end homelessness, into the mayor’s office and to hire a senior policy adviser on housing; that housing adviser position…

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