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Supervisors consider several November revenue options, including sales tax, parcel tax and stadium naming rights
Summary
The Budget & Finance Committee discussed multiple measures to raise revenue for San Francisco — a half‑cent sales tax (option to reduce to a quarter‑cent), a Recreation & Park parcel tax, and an amendment to allow stadium naming rights with half the proceeds for Rec & Park directors — and sent some items forward while continuing others for further refinement.
The Budget & Finance Committee spent a substantial portion of its July 15 meeting considering several potential revenue measures that could appear on the November ballot, along with a proposal to permit naming rights for Candlestick Park in order to fund recreation staffing.
Supervisor John Avalos introduced an ordinance to add article 16‑8 to San Francisco’s business and tax code to impose a transactions (sales) and use tax of one‑half of one percent for three years to support health, human services and public protection. Controller Ben Rosenfield estimated the half‑cent would raise roughly $60–63 million annually; Avalos and others proposed as an alternative a quarter‑cent that would raise…
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