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Board unanimously renews and slightly reduces Civic Center Community Benefit District
Summary
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously July 23 to renew and expand the Civic Center Community Benefit District for 15 years, adopting a revised management plan that removes a set of parcels on the district’s northwest edge.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on July 23 voted unanimously to renew and expand the Civic Center Community Benefit District (CBD) for 15 years beginning in fiscal 2019–20, adopting a revised management plan and engineers’ report that removes several parcels on the district’s northwestern edge.
The board approved the resolution after Supervisor Brown moved to amend the plan to exclude Parcel 0768-021 through 0768-071, and asked the deputy city attorney to confirm the timing. Deputy City Attorney John Givner told the board the revision was permissible under state law and could be made at this stage of the process. "This is an appropriate time for the board to make an amendment reducing the size of the proposed district," Givner said.
The amended resolution passed by roll call with 11 ayes. President Norman Yee announced the vote total after the clerk recorded each supervisor’s vote. The board then adopted the management plan and engineers’ report with the change unanimously.
Why it matters: assessments created by property-based business improvement districts fund services such as sidewalk cleaning, public safety ambassadors, and marketing in defined commercial areas. The CBD renewal will continue that assessment-based funding for Civic Center while narrowing the district’s footprint to exclude the listed parcels.
Supporting details: Supervisor Brown said she moved to accept the changes to the management plan and engineers’ report and to remove the listed parcels from the proposed district. Supervisor Peskin asked for legal clarification before the vote; Givner said the process is set forth in state law and permits the board to make the amendment at this point in the proceeding. Supervisor Peskin recorded concern on the record that it was “a really weird thing” that state law allows such a change after an election but said he would vote for the amendment.
The board’s action was procedural and limited to the district boundary and the supporting management documents. The resolution as amended directs collection of assessments within the revised district for the next 15 years starting in the fiscal year the district’s renewed assessment takes effect.
Provenance: The transcript records the item and legal clarification beginning when the clerk called item 1 and through the roll call. The first related line begins with the clerk announcing item 1 and the board’s motion to accept the management plan; the final related line is the clerk’s announcement that the resolution was adopted with the revised documents.
