Task Force moving to eliminate community oversight of many departments - 48 hills

"This is happening because one billionaire oligarch, Michael Mortiz, paid to put a measure on the fall 2024 ballot that would have cut the number of city commissions in half, and, according to the Bay Guardian, eliminated the Public Health, Library, Human Rights, Human Services, Arts, Environment, Small Business and Juvenile Probation commissions. Then a task force could move to eliminate even more."

"The panel that is looking at consolidating or eliminating city commissions meets Wednesday/15, and a long list of activist groups are lining up to oppose changes that would give the mayor even more power than the city's chief executive already has. Dr. Allen Cooper, a retired physician who is on the Advisory Council to the Commission on Disability and Aging Services, calls it "DOGE comes to San Francisco,""

A panel is meeting to consider consolidating or eliminating city commissions, and numerous activist groups oppose proposals that would increase mayoral authority. Michael Moritz funded a ballot measure seeking to halve the number of commissions and reportedly eliminate Public Health, Library, Human Rights, Human Services, Arts, Environment, Small Business and Juvenile Probation commissions. Under the proposals, department heads would report directly to the mayor and decisions could be made without community input. Proposition E created a task force to review commissions and recommend changes without a mandate to remove community involvement. Some task force members are pursuing broad eliminations, and proposals include giving the mayor the ability to fire members.

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