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Committee backs Noe Valley Community Benefit District renewal, sets public hearing
Summary
The Audit & Oversight Committee unanimously forwarded a resolution to renew the Noe Valley Community Benefit District for another 15 years, approving ballot and notice steps and approving an assessment budget of $246,750. The Board will hold a public hearing Jan. 28, 2020.
The Audit & Oversight Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors forwarded a resolution to renew the Noe Valley Community Benefit District (CBD) and approved the administrative steps needed to place the measure before property owners.
Chris Korgas, senior program manager at the Office of Economic and Workforce Development, said the Noe Valley CBD was one of the first districts formed under Article 15 of the Business and Tax Regulations Code and was originally established in 2005 for a 15-year term. The resolution authorizes the Department of Elections to begin ballot proceedings to renew the district for an additional 15-year term and sets a public hearing for Jan. 28, 2020, at 3 p.m.
Deborah Neiman, executive director of the Noe Valley Association, described the services paid for by the assessment: daily cleaning and greening, hot-water sidewalk cleaning (she said sidewalks are cleaned up to 10 times a year), graffiti and handbill removal, needle abatement, and ongoing planting and maintenance. Neiman said the proposed assessment budget is $246,750 and the district’s total budget would be $255,000. She described a map adjustment narrowing the district’s boundaries and estimated typical assessment rates, saying commercial properties of a standard 25-foot frontage would pay roughly $1,200–$1,500 per year; a residential figure was referenced in the presentation but not completed on the record.
The committee sent the resolution to the full Board with a positive recommendation without objection. The record shows no public commenters on the item during the committee hearing.
The Board’s scheduled public hearing on Jan. 28 will include the management district plan, engineers’ report, assessment ballot and the required environmental findings and notices.
