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May 2026 Community Meeting Summary

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This May 18 meeting was held on a Monday due to a schedule conflict with rec center programs.
Our next meeting will return to our usual 3rd Wednesday of the month on July 15.

Tony started us off with a fun icebreaker.

Agenda

  • Nathan Stalnaker – SFMTA Public Relations Officer
  • Renil Bejoy – District 8 Legislative Aide, attending in lieu of Supervisor Mandelman
  • 2026 Community Goals Review
  • Door Prize drawing – Taffi’s Café

 

Nathan Stalnaker, SFMTA
We invited Nathan to us understand how the budget process and November ballot initiatives will affect service for the J-Church and local bus lines.
nathan.stalnaker@sfmta.com        415-798-0089
View Nathan’s presentation here

  • Muni accounts for half of all daily trips, vital to city
    • Ridership is down, primarily routes going downtown
  • COVID era investments are paying off
    • Transit infrastructure, safety, customer information, cleanliness, maintenance, employee mentoring
  • Initiatives to make the Bay Area’s transit systems feel like one system
    • Fare payment integration
    • Uniform signage
    • Schedule coordination
  • Transit funding primarily comes from local jurisdictions, not the state
  • FY 26-27 and 27-28 budget plans
    • Regional revenue measure
      • SF: 1% sales tax
      • Other Bay Area counties: 0.5% sales tax
      • Will raise about $1 billion per year
    • Local revenue measure
      • “Muni for All” parcel tax will raise $150 million per year
      • Single family residential: $129
      • Multifamily: starting at $295
      • Nonresidential: $799
    • Agency efficiencies and revenue
      • Cost reductions
        • Eliminate vacant positions ($170 million per year)
        • $30 million from eliminating one-time investments
      • Fare compliance measures
    • Without this funding, SFMTA will need to:
      • Cut up to 20 Muni routes
      • Double wait times
      • End regular service at 9pm
      • Cut historic service (e.g., cable cars)
      • Timeline for service cuts: outreach and decision making, and then implement cuts in fall 2027
    • Muni satisfaction is highest in 25-year history of surveys
    • Fares make up 8% of Muni’s operating revenue or 1/3 of the cost
      • In the past, it’s been as high as 20%
      • Bart has been up to 70%. This made Bart more vulnerable to ridership drop off.

 

District 8 Aide Renil Bejoy
His portfolio is transit, land use, and environmental issues

  • Current issues for Supervisor Mandelman
    • Charter reform
      • It received its last major revisions under Willie Brown
      • If Board of Supervisors agrees, this will go to the ballot
      • 126 changes will be proposed tomorrow:
        • Modernization and cleanup – Many agency rules have been added to the Charter, which makes it harder to adjust as time goes on. Some will be moved to the Administrative Code instead.
        • Delivering city services
        • Some commissions will be disbanded
      • Budget
        • $600 million deficit
        • Concerned about LGBTQ, public safety, and other nonprofits. Some drug activity is getting pushed out of SOMA and into our district
        • Mayor Lurie will announce budget proposal June 1
        • Doubtful there will be add-backs this year (at least there will be fewer)
        • Renil offered to share information about the budget as it develops

 

 2026 Goals

  • Avenue Greenlight grant of $50,000 provided banners and string lights. About $8,000 remaining
  • Ideas – Chris asks members to think of ideas and provide feedback
    • Community bulletin board. Lots of support for this but there to put it/them?
      • Martha Bros.
      • Accessible stop at Day & Church
        • At one of the main access points to the park
        • At gateway to the neighborhood
      • On the wall across from Taffi’s
      • XO
    • Flower baskets, plaques on sidewalk
    • Fill empty tree-wells
    • Mural projects
      • UNN is discussing a 27th & Castro mural with DPW, neighbors, and artists
      • Existing Day Street mural needs some maintenance
  • Events
    • One City Day: July 11 – a city-wide volunteer day. Sign up to help decorate tree wells at https://www.mobilize.us/onecityday/event/963587/
    • Upper Noe NeighborFest (formerly Upper Noe Block Party) on September 26 from 11am to 3pm.(formerly Upper Noe Block Party) . Volunteers are needed to make this fun event spectacular! Upper Noe businesses, schools and institutions can reserve a table now. email:  hello@uppernoeneighbors.com
  • Friends of Upper Noe Rec Center has signed an MOU with SF Public Space Collective for fiscal sponsorship and collaboration to enable events and activities again.
  • Parking meters proposal under consideration for Church Street north of 29th Merchants are concerned that people are parking there for weeks at a time.
  • Sidewalk repairs
    • Advocating to DPW
    • Construction is imminent on 30th Street sidewalks near On Lok Senior Center
    • Members should identify sidewalks that need work and let UNN know

 

Door prize!
Thank you Taffi’s Café for two certificates. Our winners were Zoe and J.D.

 

 

 

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