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Central Market Community Benefit District reports credited with cleaning and safety gains; committee forwards annual reports
Summary
OEWD and Central Market CBD presented annual reports showing program activity, budget allocations and increased non‑assessment funding; the committee forwarded the district’s annual reports and raised past due assessment collection issues.
Office of Economic and Workforce Development staff and the Central Market Community Benefit District executive director presented four years of annual reports and financial statements for the Central Market CBD and the Rules Committee moved to forward the reports to the full Board.
Daniel Hurtado, executive director of the Central Market Community Benefit Corporation, described the district’s programs — community guides, clean streets, public space beautification, arts programming and vacant kiosk reuse — and summarized performance data: community guides engaged with the public thousands of times and made hundreds of referrals to social services; the clean streets team removed needles and hundreds of graffiti instances in 2010. Hurtado said the district’s annual assessment revenue is approximately $535,000 and that CMCBD’s 2011 budget allocated about $404,000 to public space beautification and safety.
Trina Villanueva (OEWD) provided OEWD’s compliance and financial analysis: the district met its requirement to raise non‑assessment revenue (except in 2007), with non‑assessment income rising to 31% in 2010 largely because of a $200,000 redevelopment contract; OEWD noted net assets carried forward and recommended timely report submission. OEWD also reported roughly 15 private property owners owe about $165,000 in past assessments over five years; staff explained assessments are placed on the property tax roll and liens may be applied.
Community board members and neighborhood merchants testified in support of the CBD’s work on Sixth Street and in the Tenderloin/Central Market area. The committee moved the CBD annual reports forward as a committee report for Board consideration.
