Agenda

• Introduction and Ice Breaker
• Matt Haney – Assembly Member CA District 17
• Captain Gerry Newbeck – Ingleside Station commander
• Rafael Mandelman – D8 Supervisor and Board President
• Tatiana Mercier – Community Engagement Coordinator for SF Community Boards
• 2026 Community Goals Review – see the back of this sheet.
• Door Prize drawing – Martha & Bros. Café

Matt Haney – Assembly District 17 – includes all of District 8 

• Elected 2022 – in office 4 years
• Was on board of supervisors
• Served as majority whip and now housing committee chair
• Select committee on downtown recovery, dealing with office vacancy rates and how state can help
• Select committee on opioid addiction and overdose, looking at laws that get in the way of treatment and recovery. Our city is now using new laws to get people into treatment.
• Worked on housing legislation, including office to residential conversion. Housing tax credits to help people fix up their buildings.
• There are 200 assembly bills referred to Housing Committee this year.
• Transit is suffering from reduced ridership. Helped to secure a loan from the state to secure transit systems. There will be revenue measures on June and November ballots.
• He has a public safety bill regarding drug-free recovery housing. This would fix a state law that prohibits funds from going to sober living facilities.
• Working on a fix for the Gene Hobbs issue of court releasing a man who had been harassing and assaulting women.
• Trying to restore funding for homelessness and healthcare.
• So far, revenue is exceeding projections at the state level, so governor will release a revised budget in May. However, the federal government still owes CA disaster relief money.
• He hasn’t engaged yet with the CEO tax proposal. He thinks wealthy corporations should contribute more.
• Need to secure stable funding for transit.
• He and his staff use AI. A lot of the current bills would address specific problematic uses. It’s difficult to legislate because it takes time for the law to catch up with new technology.
• Schools statewide have been getting consistent increases in funding, but everything is more expensive in SF, so it isn’t enough. Hopefully the deal resolving teachers’ strike will help.
• Interested in the idea of a congestion tax on meal delivery services.
• Housing shortage. He’s a proponent of $10b bond for affordable housing construction.

Captain Gerry Newbeck and Lt. Connor Ratan

• Captain of Ingleside since July
• Every 3rd Tues of the month he has an Ingleside community meeting at 6:00
• Chris Faust is on community police advisory board
• They discuss what’s working and what’s not
• Since price of gold is high, there have been jewelry snatches on public transit
• Catfishing scams: e.g., someone asks you to buy gift certificates. Feel free to stop by the station and ask for help determining whether it’s legitimate.
• Neighborhood safety team: Steve Matthias will come out and do an assessment. Suggests knowing your neighbors. You want to tell neighbors you’re away so they can keep an eye on your house.
• Porch lights on a whole block is a deterrent. They prefer darker blocks for checking car doors. They’re opportunists.
• If corner houses have cameras, and they’ll share footage, that makes the whole neighborhood a lot safer.
• Reasonable suspicion is what officers have to detain someone without a crime committed. It’s very helpful to call in potential burglars, so that the cops can get the person on video, and then will have a person to try to ID later if crimes were committed.
• Sheriffs in SF have tasers, but police do not.
• Can SFPD help with dangerous driving? They do enforce traffic laws but are short people to do this. Email to ask them to concentrate on a certain location! MTA can add speed bumps, but its helpful to begin with police complaints. Stop signs should be enforced, but same issue of being short people. They do write these tickets, though. Failure to yield to peds, prohibited turns, red light, and stop sign enforcement are their top driving concerns.
• Ingleside station is Daly city to Mission district.
• Traffic speed cameras – Caesar Chavez and San Jose Ave. These are just MTA fines for you, not points on the license because it’s not related to police. Google maps is warning people to slow down, so this is actually helping.
• Scooters in bike lanes is a big problem. The rules and laws haven’t caught up to the various classifications of these bikes. It’s hard to enforce this because they are everywhere, but we do have a traffic unit that is dedicated to this. It’s a problem across all the districts. We have a lot of trouble figuring out which type of bike they’re using and therefore if they’re allowed in the bike lane.

Supervisor Mandelman 

1. Charter Amendments to go on the ballot – trying to address challenges to being an effective mayor.
2. We make it too easy to get stuff on the ballot. Rival measures, long, confusing, chaotic.
3. Let mayor have deputy mayor and reorganize depts, + allow for firing and hiring department heads.
4. Gives city admin a longer term with broader authority to coordinate contracting, procurement, capital project delivery, etc. Will help with central subway, etc.
5. Prop 1 passed in 2024, and SF has applied for conservatorship beds. We are going to get 100 more locked beds! This will help get people who are cycling thru ER, jail, street.
6. Trying to designate as many landmarks as appropriate to do.

SF Community Boards – Tatiana Mercier 

• Teaches collaborative conflict resolution
• Neighborhood conflict resolution with mediation
• Over 400 trained and certified mediators trained by community boards in our process
• Low cost – $75 case opening fee. But we do it for free if unaffordable.
• 3 mediators and 1 observer.
• Neighbor issues – People parking in your spot, plants growing onto your property, stomping above you, etc.
• Interfamily disputes
• Landlord tenant disputes
• Public issues – ex. Land use, construction
• Large group issues
• Usually lasts 3 hours
• Call, email, or web format available
• Over 85% of mediations are positively resolved.
• Often held over zoom or in their offices by city hall in a neutral space
• 90% of people recommend the service after using it.
• We can’t do mediation if the second party doesn’t want to do it.
• Conflict coaching trained by us can train you how to handle it with the other parties
• Also has wide referral network – ex. to lawyers.
• They do conflict coaching, conflict resolution clinics on different topics, and also basics of mediation, and also tailored versions for orgs or businesses
• Free zoom talk with Kenneth Cloke, one of the founders of mediation movement tomorrow
• tmercier@communityboards.org

2026 Community Goals Review – This item was dropped for lack of time. We will discuss these in May.

1. Next steps in support of our Church Street commercial corridor.

• Community Bulletin Board? Could be funded with existing grant. – location?
• Other place-making features?
• Additional parking meters? Still under discussion/investigation.

Note: UNN offered reimbursement to Church St merchants for the electricity for the decorative lights but overwhelmingly they decided to donate that expense and to continue supplying power. Please thank all of our local merchants for participating in the efforts to improve our commercial corridor.

2. Castro\27th St mural project. A neighborhood initiative supported by UNN.

3. One City Day – Saturday, July 11. Submit details about our volunteer project by May 15.

4. Upper Noe Block Party (NeighborFest) Sept 26 needs a volunteer committee.

5. Fix the Sidewalks – make a concerted effort to prompt DPW into action.

Elections overview
Candidates for Board of Directors for Fiscal Year 2026 (April 1, 2026 – March 31, 2027). All board members have volunteered to serve another term at their present positions.

President:  Chris Faust
Vice-President:  Ryan Patterson
Treasurer: Tony Harris
Secretary: Rebecca Golden
Board Member at Large: Andy Levine
Board Member at Large: Judy Marrocco

Door Prize – Martha & Bros 1551 Church Street was our sponsor this month and donated several gift certificates.

Our Next Meeting: Monday, May 18
Rec center scheduling necessitated moving the meeting from Wednesday to Monday for May.