Board adopts successor-agency ordinance on first reading after amendments amid calls for added oversight

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved, on first reading and as amended, an ordinance creating a separate successor agency commission to wind down enforceable obligations left after the state dissolved redevelopment agencies. The measure lays out the commission’s narrow role — completing surviving obligations connected to major project areas such as Mission Bay, Transbay and the Hunters Point Shipyard — and addresses governance, staffing and fiduciary procedures under the amended state dissolution law (AB 1484).

City Administrator Naomi Kelly opened the Committee-of-the-Whole discussion with a summary of the legal constraints placed on the city after the state’s redevelopment-dissolution statutes changed in 2012. Tiffany Bohi, director of the City’s successor agency office, told the Board the ordinance creates a focused commission to complete long-term affordable housing and infrastructure obligations that remain in the recognized obligations payment schedules (ROPS) and to coordinate with the existing Oversight Board and the State Department of Finance.

The Board’s deliberations centered on the balance of executive and legislative authority, representation from project-area communities, the commission’s delegation powers and transparency.…