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Supervisors Fund Participatory Budgeting to Community Ambassadors in 2021-23 City Budget

The District 7 and 11 supervisors funded a variety of projects and programs in the 2021-2023 city budget.

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After some 30 hours of negotiation, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors finalized the city’s $13.2 billion two-year budget.

The city’s eleven supervisors allocated funding for a range of projects and programs citywide and across neighborhoods. Each supervisor was also free to allocate $1 million as they saw fit through a process called “addbacks.”

District 7 Supervisor Myrna Melgar and District 11 Supervisor Ahsha Safai, whose districts cover the greater Ingleside neighborhood, funded many projects and programs, the two-year city budget shows.

District 7 Budget Items

The supervisors budgeted $355,230 over the next two years to increase affordable housing on the west side of the city in Districts 1, 4 and 7.

Melgar allocated her $1 million of addback funds on the following:

District 11 Budget Items

New community ambassadors and continuity of service for the Filipino community were two major budget items allocated for District 11.

The supervisors agreed to spend $317,012 to continue funding services for immigrant, transitional age youth, workers and families in the Filipino community, concentrated in Districts 6 and 11, but also throughout the city over the next two years.

The supervisors agreed to spend $4,692,000 over the next two years for community ambassadors for high-need areas not covered by Mayor London Breed’s ambassador plan. District 4, District 5, District 9, District 10 and District 11 will have ambassadors.

For his $1 million in addbacks, Safai allocated funds to the following:


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Alex Mullaney

Alex Mullaney

Alex Mullaney founded The Ingleside Light in 2008 during the peak of San Francisco's great tradition of neighborhood newspapers. He is the publisher and editor.

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