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Rules Committee forwards SRO Task Force nominees after contested discussion over representation
Summary
The Rules Committee considered nine nominations to the Single Room Occupancy (SRO) Task Force, discussed competing slate and nonprofit perspectives, and forwarded a slate of appointments and several residency waivers to the Board without objection. Supervisors debated adding a Mary Elizabeth Inn representative versus slate candidates emphasizing tenant organizers and LGBTQ representation.
Item 3 on the April 8 Rules Committee agenda was a hearing to appoint nine members to the Single Room Occupancy (SRO) Task Force. Jamie Sambonmatsu, the task force chair and newly appointed chief housing inspector, summarized the task force’s work, including SRO visitor policies and the SRO sprinkler ordinance, and stated the task force serves approximately 20,000 San Franciscans living in SROs.
The committee heard multiple applicants and community endorsers. Christopher Tramica (Christopher Micah) and Randall "RJ" Sloan presented lived SRO tenancy and tenant-organizing experience; Courtney Brown described harm-reduction, mental-health and supportive-housing experience from Tenderloin Housing Clinic; Dionne Roberts, executive director of Mary Elizabeth Inn, described nonprofit-run supportive housing for single adult women and urged the committee to add a Mary Elizabeth Inn voice to the task force. Endorsements from community organizations and tenant-collaboratives accompanied public testimony.
Supervisor Mar moved to recommend Dionne Roberts for a contested seat (seat 4), citing Roberts’ experience serving formerly homeless women and survivors of domestic violence. Supervisor Ronan emphasized the committee’s need to balance different kinds of expertise across the task force and put forward a comprehensive motion listing nominees and residency waivers for several seats. Chair Ronan took the motion without objection and announced the motion passed; the names forwarded included Randall Sloan (seat 1), Shanita Gardner (seat 3), Dionne Roberts (seat 4, with residency waiver), Juan Alejandro Garcia (seat 5, with residency waiver), Clifford Gilmore (seat 6, with residency waiver), Angela Chu (seat 7), Raul Fernandez Perio Zabal (seat 8), and Jordan Davis (seat 9).
The committee’s discussion emphasized the trade-offs between appointing tenant organizers and representatives from nonprofit providers. The Rules Committee forwarded the nominees to the full Board for final action; the transcript records that motions were taken without objection and does not include a roll-call vote in the committee hearing.
