The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Rules Committee on Jan. 12 voted to advance the mayor's nomination to reappoint Carmen Chu as city administrator to a five-year term, forwarding the nomination to the full board without objection.

Chu used her time before the committee to thank the mayor for the nomination and to summarize accomplishments since her last appointment, saying "public service in my mind is a privilege." She listed pandemic response work, procurement and contracting reforms, Prop B implementation in partnership with the Department of Public Works, updated rate processes with Recology, a restarted Community Challenge Grant program, renegotiated financing at Treasure Island, and improvements at the medical examiner's office, including regained accreditation and upgraded lab standards.

"None of this success happens without you," Chu said of her staff, listing several division directors and deputies in the room and crediting them for operational improvements across city departments. She also cited efforts to expand local business enterprise (LBE) contracting rules, streamline domestic partnership certification so turnarounds take days instead of years, and a focus on technology and unified data platforms for the coming year.

Public comment included a series of endorsements from neighborhood and business leaders. George Willing, a neighborhood advocate, said: "Carmen Chu is the best person for the city administrator job." Miguel Galarza, chair of the LBE Advisory Committee, and other business and arts leaders praised Chu's outreach to small businesses and arts organizations. One commenter, Lehi Rogers, asserted Chu's office has "generated over $3,000,000,000 in annual revenue" and noted the administrator oversees 25 departments and over 1,000 employees; that figure was presented as public comment and was not verified during the meeting.

After discussion, Chair Supervisor Shamone Walton moved to forward the committee report recommending Chu's reappointment to the full Board of Supervisors. The committee recorded "aye" votes and advanced the nomination without objection.

The full board will consider the nomination at its next scheduled meeting.