Board committee consolidates competing Children’s Fund/PEAF amendments, moves package toward June 19 session

San Francisco — The Rules Committee on June 11 advanced a consolidated draft of charter amendments that would reauthorize and expand San Francisco’s Children’s Fund and the Public Education Enrichment Fund (PEAF), while leaving detailed drafting and technical clean‑up to a follow‑up meeting on June 19.

Supervisors debated two overlapping amendment packages presented in committee: one led by Supervisor John Avalos with a broad community coalition backing and another introduced by Supervisor David Campos with multiple co‑sponsors. Key points that found support across the discussion included a phased increase to the Children’s Fund revenue (the body generally coalesced around a target of 4¢ per $100 of assessed value), inclusion of transitional age youth (TAY) up to age 24, creation of a city‑level Children, Youth and Families oversight committee, a 25‑year sunset for the charter measure, and stronger oversight and allocation processes for PEAF.

Supervisor Jane Kim described the PEAF reforms in detail: she said the reauthorization would remove a 25% trigger provision that had diverted funds from the school district, end a contested in‑kind services arrangement, and dedicate more funds directly to the district for libraries, arts, counselors and other supports.

The meeting included extensive public testimony in favor of the consolidated proposals. Community organizations, childcare providers, youth advocates, and dozens of young people urged increased funding, stronger oversight, and inclusion of TAY through age 24; multiple speakers described long wait lists for subsidized childcare and after‑school services and urged a quick phase‑in where possible.

Several technical debates remained. Supervisors discussed whether the oversight body should have 11 or 15 seats and whether membership and appointment criteria should be placed in the charter or set later by ordinance (some supervisors argued ordinance language gives needed flexibility). The phase‑in period for new revenue was also subject to negotiation: proposals ranged between 4‑ and 5‑year ramp‑ups to reach the full 4¢ level, with controller staff estimating the incremental fiscal impacts on related baselines (Muni, library and parking/traffic baselines would decrease modestly under certain scenarios).

Procedural actions: the committee voted to incorporate Supervisor Kim’s technical amendments into Supervisor Avalos’ children’s fund text, adopt the consolidated language as the committee draft and substitute that consolidated text into the chair’s combined measure. After those substitutions the committee voted to continue the matter to the Rules Committee meeting on June 19 to allow final cross‑checking and ordinance drafting. No final ballot place or full board vote occurred at this meeting; staff and supervisors said they planned additional outreach and technical revisions before the full board considers placing the measure on the November ballot.

Next steps: supervisors instructed counsel and relevant departments to merge the adopted amendments, prepare a single, clean document for review, and return to Rules on June 19 for final technical review before the measure proceeds to the full Board of Supervisors.