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San Francisco supervisors order charter amendment to place "Free City" college fund on 2019 ballot
Summary
The Board of Supervisors voted to place a charter amendment on the Nov. 5, 2019 ballot to create a Free City College Fund and require annual appropriations; the board also appointed Supervisor Jane Kim as president pro tem for the special meeting.
San Francisco supervisors voted Dec. 18 to order a charter amendment to be submitted to the Department of Elections that would establish a Free City College Fund to defray certain costs for City College students and require designated annual appropriations; the item is slated for the Nov. 5, 2019 ballot.
Supervisor Jane Kim, presiding as president pro tem for the special meeting, told colleagues the proposal grew out of a 2015 effort and the passage of Proposition W, a luxury real estate transfer tax measure she said generated an estimated $20 million to $44 million in revenue and produced $27,000,000 in the first year. "We realized that we could make San Francisco the first city in the nation to make City College free for all of our residents regardless of age, income, or any type of GPA prerequisite," Supervisor Kim said.
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