Prop. E was supposed to rein-in mayoral power, instead, it's recommending the opposite.

"People who campaigned for Proposition E, which created the task force, now say that it has gone off the rails. The task force, they say, is taking up matters unrelated to its ostensible mission - and increasingly mirrors the effect of the billionaire-backed effort, Proposition D, it was created to defeat. That task force has, so far, recommended to change over half of the commissions."

"It also recommends taking the authority to hire and fire the police chief away from the Police Commission and putting that authority into the hands of the mayor - and giving the mayor sole power to hire and fire Police Commission appointees. Prop. E's backers, say they only intended a pruning of the city's admittedly overgrown commission system. Instead, they got a task force that is seeking to change how those commissions actually function. So how did it come to this?"

San Francisco's Commission Streamlining Task Force must recommend by February 2026 which of roughly 131 commissions to eliminate, combine, or change. Proposition E created the task force but left broad language empowering recommendations to change commission structure. Campaigners for Proposition E now say the task force is addressing matters beyond pruning and is making changes similar to those proposed by Proposition D. The task force has recommended altering more than half of commissions and proposes transferring authority to hire and fire the police chief and Police Commission appointees to the mayor. The process is public, though critics say implementation was not a focus when Prop E passed.

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