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Committee approves several mayoral appointments and technical items; sends SHARP hiring fix to full Board
Summary
The Rules Committee recommended approval of mayoral nominees to the OCII advisory body, the Rent Board and the Ethics Commission and moved an administrative-code amendment to enable the SHARP office to hire a director. Public comment included both strong support and concerns about conflicts and residency for the Rent Board nominee.
San Francisco — During the same meeting, the Rules Committee considered a cluster of appointments and administrative items.
Item 3: OCII nomination — The committee heard from the mayor’s nominee to the Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure (OCII), who emphasized community-driven redevelopment, transparency and equitable benefits for affected neighborhoods. Multiple community speakers supported the nomination. The committee amended the item to approve the appointment and moved it forward as a positive committee report.
Item 4: Rent Board reappointment — The committee took public testimony on the mayor’s nomination of Dave Wasserman to the Rent Stabilization and Arbitration Board. Wasserman addressed concerns raised in recent media reporting, stating he is not a law partner of a referenced attorney, that he has recused himself where city-attorney advice required it, and that his primary residence is in San Francisco while he also owns property in Marin County (he acknowledged a homeowners exemption on a Marin property). Tenant advocates questioned residency and potential conflicts; landlord and housing-industry groups and former rent-board commissioners spoke in support. The committee voted to recommend reappointment.
Item 5: Ethics Commission nomination — The committee considered Lateef Gray for the Ethics Commission. Gray, a native San Franciscan and attorney with public-defender and civil-rights experience, spoke to backlog reduction, staffing and transparency; community speakers endorsed him. The committee recommended his appointment.
Item 6: SHARP administrative-code amendments — Supervisors moved a technical ordinance to place the Office of Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Prevention (SHARP) as a division under the Human Rights Commission (under Director Cheryl Davis) to correct drafting errors and enable hiring. The committee voted to send the ordinance to the full Board with a positive recommendation.
Votes at a glance: The committee approved committee reports recommending the three mayoral appointments and forwarded the SHARP administrative-code correction to the full Board; specific vote tallies were recorded as "without objection" or by committee consensus in the hearing record.
