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Supervisors table two special-events ordinances, approve amended hiring step to staff office
Summary
The Budget & Finance Committee discussed creating an Office of Special Events after the controller's study; stakeholders urged placing it in the Entertainment Commission. Committee members tabled two ordinances, amended the salary item to a 0.33 FTE manager post and continued item 3 for two weeks for funding details.
Supervisor Bevin Dufty told the Budget and Finance Committee on Jan. 16 that the city must do more to plan large public gatherings after safety issues forced cancellation of a Castro Halloween event, saying “the entire Bay Area simply doesn't fit into the Castro neighborhood” and that the city needs a better approach to neighborhood-based events.
The committee heard a summary from Monique Smuta of the Controller's Office, whose audit recommended creating an Office of Special Events to attract and promote events, improve permitting, provide a single point of contact and host a public-facing website. "Based on these findings, we recommended that the city create an office of special events," Smuta said, while…
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