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Government Of San Francisco
The government of the City and County of San Francisco utilizes the "strong mayor" form of mayoral/council government, composed of the Mayor, Board of Supervisors, several elected officers, and numerous other entities. It is the only consolidated city-county in California, and one of only thirteen charter counties of California. The fiscal year 2019–20 city and county budget was approximately $12.3 billion. Organization San Francisco utilizes the "strong mayor" form of mayoral/council government, composed of the mayor, Board of Supervisors, several elected officers, and numerous other entities. San Francisco voters use ranked-choice voting to elect the mayor, supervisors, and other elective officers. Mayor The Mayor of San Francisco is the head of the executive branch of the city and county government. The mayor has the responsibility to enforce all city laws, administer and coordinate city departments and intergovernmental activities, set forth policies and agendas t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connie Chan (politician)
Connie Chan (; born October 3, 1978) is an American politician serving as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for District 1 since January 8, 2021, after defeating Marjan Philhour, who ran for the seat in 2016, in a narrow race. Chan is generally considered a progressive. Early life and education Chan was born in Hong Kong and migrated to San Francisco at the age of thirteen with her mother and brother. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Davis. After graduating from college, Chan participated in various forms of social activism, serving as a community organizer in a youth center, and working in a legal outreach program. She worked for the San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department. In 2006, Chan was recruited to be an aide to Supervisor Sophie Maxwell and later served as an aide to then-District Attorney Kamala Harris, followed by Supervisor Aaron Peskin in 2016. San Francisco Board of Supervisors After incumbent Supervisor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brooke Jenkins
Brooke Jenkins (born 1981/1982) is an American lawyer serving as the 30th District Attorney of San Francisco. On July 8, 2022, Jenkins was appointed interim district attorney by Mayor London Breed following the successful recall of Chesa Boudin, for which she actively campaigned for. She was elected in her own right to fill the unexpired term the following November. Early life and education Jenkins grew up in Union City, California. She was raised by her mother because shortly after being born, her father had to leave the country due to his student visa status. Her father is from El Salvador. She received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley and a Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago Law School. Career Jenkins previously worked in corporate law. Jenkins’ clients included domestic automakers and foreign car parts manufacturers, including Honda and Takata. Her firm, Bowman and Brooke, was named "Law360’s 2018 Automotive Groups of the Year". Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Attorney Of San Francisco
The City Attorney of San Francisco is an elected position in the City and County of San Francisco, California. While city-county consolidation resulted in the unified government attaining both a city attorney and a district attorney, the two positions are separate and serve different purposes. Whereas District Attorney office is, as is the case throughout the United States, charged with prosecuting crime (i.e. has the equivalent function of a Prosecutor's Office in other legislations), City Attorney provides legal services to the Mayor, Board of Supervisors, and the rest of the city and county administration, examines surety bonds, contracts and ordinances and represents the city and county administration in civil claims, formally as a representative of People of the State of California. The City Attorney is assisted by a number of Assistant City Attorneys. History The present City Attorney position was created in 1899, when the former offices of the City Attorney and County A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Chiu (politician)
David Sen-Fu Chiu (, born April 2, 1970) is an American politician currently serving as the City Attorney of San Francisco. Previously, he served in the California State Assembly as a Democrat representing the 17th Assembly District, which encompasses the eastern half of San Francisco. Prior to being elected to the Assembly in 2014, Chiu was the President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and Supervisor for District 3, encompassing the northeastern corner of the city, including Chinatown, Nob Hill, North Beach, Union Square, the Financial District, and Fisherman's Wharf. Chiu was the Chair of the Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee, a position he has held from 2016 to 2021, and the former chair of the California Asian & Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus. He was the first Asian American to serve as District 3 supervisor, the first Asian American to serve as board president, and the first supervisor elected to three consecutive terms as board presi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahsha Safaí
Ahsha Safaí (born 1973) is an American elected official in San Francisco, California. He serves as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors representing Supervisorial District 11. District 11 includes the neighborhoods of Excelsior, Ingleside, Oceanview, Merced Heights, Ingleside Heights, Mission Terrace, Outer Mission, Cayuga, and Crocker Amazon. Early life, education and career Safaí was born in Iran in 1973, and moved with his mother to Cambridge, Massachusetts at the age of five. He attended Northeastern University, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in political science and African-American studies. He later went on to receive his master's degree in city planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In San Francisco, Safaí served as political director for the janitors union local. San Francisco Board of Supervisors In 2008, he ran for the District 11 seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors against John Avalos, losing by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shamann Walton
Shamann Walton is an American politician from San Francisco. He has been a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors since 2019, representing District 10, and was elected President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on January 8, 2021. Walton earlier served on the San Francisco Board of Education and was its president immediately prior to his election as supervisor. Early life Walton was raised by his mother in Vallejo, California. His teenage years were often troubled, having been expelled from the Vallejo City Unified School District and served in juvenile hall numerous times. Walton graduated from Morris Brown College in 1998. He received his master's degree in public administration from San Francisco State University in 2010. San Francisco Board of Supervisors Walton was elected supervisor for District 10 on November 6, 2018, receiving 9,550 first preference votes (41.22 percent of all valid votes). After allocation of preferences from eliminated candida ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hillary Ronen
Hillary Ronen is an American politician and attorney serving as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from District 9, which includes the neighborhoods of Mission District, Bernal Heights, and Portola. Early life and education Ronen's father immigrated to the United States from Israel in his twenties. Her mother was a school teacher. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, San Diego and her Juris Doctor from University of California, Berkeley. Career After graduating from law school, she moved to the Mission District, where she joined La Raza Centro Legal. She worked as an immigrant rights attorney. San Francisco Board of Supervisors Ronen was a legislative aide and chief of staff to Supervisor David Campos. As an aide for Campos, she defended his proposals to prohibit the construction of market-rate housing in parts of San Francisco. She succeeded him on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors after winning election in the Novemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafael Mandelman
Rafael Mandelman (born October 17, 1973) is an American attorney and politician currently serving on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, representing District 8. Prior to his election to the Board of Supervisors, he served on the City College of San Francisco Board of Trustees. He was a deputy city attorney in Oakland, California in the Redevelopment, Real Estate & Rent Unit in the Advisory Division of the City Attorney's Office. Mandelman has served as a commissioner on San Francisco’s Building Inspection Commission and Board of Appeals, a member of the Bay Area Jewish Community Relations Council, president of the Board of Directors of Livable City, and Co-Chair of the San Francisco LGBT Community Center Board. A past president of the Noe Valley and Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Clubs, Mandelman has been an elected member of the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee since 2006. He joined the Equality California Institute Board in 2020. Early life Mandelman g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myrna Melgar
Myrna Melgar (born March 17, 1968) is an American politician currently serving as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for District 7 since January 8, 2021. Melgar is the first woman elected to represent District 7. Additionally, she is the first Jewish Latina to serve on the Board of Supervisors after the implementation of District elections in 2004. Biography Myrna Elizabeth Melgar is an American politician from San Francisco, currently representing District 7, which includes over 30 separate neighborhoods West of Twin Peak. These diverse regions include several college campuses, attractions, and other public facilities, such as SF State University, SF City Colleges’ main campus, UCSF Parnassus, and the SF Zoo. Melgar resides in the Ingleside Terraces neighborhood with her partner, Environmental Attorney Sean H. Donahue, and three daughters. Early life and education Melgar was born in El Salvador. Her family fled during the Salvadoran Civil War when she was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Dorsey
Matt Dorsey is an American politician and communications professional. Dorsey has served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors representing District 6 since his appointment by Mayor London Breed on May 9, 2022. He previously served as the Head of Communications for the San Francisco Police Department. Career Dorsey worked strategic communications for San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera for 14 years. Dorsey worked for the San Francisco Police Department from 2020-2022, where he served as Head of Strategic Communications. In that role, he faced criticism for promoting what is sometimes referred to as "copaganda" in trying to make the police department look good and cover up legitimate problems with the San Francisco Police Department. He defended the police department for its controversial decision to withdraw unilaterally from a highly-effective Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the District Attorney's Office, which allowed for the DA's Office to investigate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dean Preston
Dean E. Preston (born ) is an American attorney and member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He founded Tenants Together, a California tenant advocacy organization. In November 2019, Preston won a special election to finish Mayor London Breed's term on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, defeating incumbent Vallie Brown (whom Breed had named to replace her) to represent District 5. He was re-elected in the November 2020 election. During his tenure on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, he has worked to delay and block numerous development plans and legislative proposals to increase the supply of both market-rate and affordable housing. Early life and education Preston was born in New York City. His parents were refugees from Nazi Germany during World War II. Their family owned a co-operative apartment in Greenwich Village. Preston attended Bowdoin College, where he met his future wife, Jenckyn Goosby. He graduated in 1991 with a major in anthropology and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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