Protesters bring budget outrage to the mayor’s door
Over a hundred people assembled Thursday outside Daniel Lurie’s office, in a show of force.
Here’s how to fight for your neighborhood!
The proposed city budget would cut funding to Tenderloin programs and services. You can help ease or prevent the cuts.
City Hall is reducing the budgets of Tenderloin service providers.
Why should that matter to you? Because those services affect life for everyone here. They help people stay healthy, housed, and happy — and if funds are cut, we’ll all feel it.
Time is running out, and June 24 may be your last chance to push back.
Scroll down to find out what you can do. Go here for our flyer, which you can print in multiple languages and give people to increase turnout to City Hall this week.
Want to learn about the budget situation? Find all our coverage here, or you can start with this primer on the known Tenderloin programs under threat. And here are testimonials, from service providers themselves, about what’s at stake.
This journalism was made possible with funding from the San Francisco Foundation.
Show up, speak at Public Comment Day
Date: Wednesday, June 24
Time: 10 a.m.
Location: City Hall, Room 250
Public Comment Day is your opportunity to join your neighbors in person and tell lawmakers directly what you think and feel about these cuts.
You’ll get one minute at the mic. That’s just enough time to say:
- Your name
- Your connection to the Tenderloin — maybe you live or work here, now or previously?
- How the cuts would affect you
Perhaps you care about Livable City’s Sunday Streets event, and want to see it continue operating? Consider describing a happy memory from that event. Or if you’ve struggled with addiction, or know someone who has, then maybe you’ll push for the Substance Use Disorder Navigators program to survive? It’s slated for elimination, which means hundreds of people would no longer get help finding and obtaining treatment.
For ideas about what to focus on, check our list of affected programs, or the Tenderloin People’s Congress’ list of talking points. Organizers recommend picking just one talking point when you give your testimony.
Be prepared: The line to speak could be quite long.
Go here for more information about Public Comment Day.
Don’t have time to show up? Contact lawmakers.
You can call or email elected officials to tell them what you want to see funded in the city budget.
To send a comment to city supervisors working on the budget, email monique.crayton@sfgov.org.
To share your feedback specifically with District 5 supervisor Bilal Mahmood, who represents the Tenderloin, email MahmoodStaff@sfgov.org or call 415-554-7630.
To share your feedback with Mayor Daniel Lurie, email daniel.lurie@sfgov.org or call 415-554-6141.
If you prefer to join an organized letter-writing campaign, the People’s Budget Coalition has created one here.
Join final budget deliberations
Date: Wednesday, June 25
Time: 10 a.m.
Location: City Hall, Room 250
The Budget and Appropriations Committee’s final day of deliberations is an all-day process that tends to go late into the night — earning it the name “add-back night.” City supervisors go through San Francisco’s budget line-by-line and make adjustments, moving funds around. It’s the last chance for advocates to make their case to legislative staff to put money back into threatened programs.
You are welcome to show up! If you do, find the seasoned budget organizers (like folks from the People’s Budget Coalition) and take your cues from them on how to most effectively lobby legislators on this day.
Print and hand out our flyer
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We’re getting flyers out into the neighborhood to increase turnout to Public Comment Day and Add-Back Night.
You can help! Print our flyer and give it to everyone at your workplace, or maybe post one or leave a stack at the entrance to your apartment building. If you need us to print for you, contact us: hello@tlvoice.org
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We’ve been out in this community, helping to mobilize and inform people regarding the budget cuts — and we’re still looking for ways to help the Tenderloin advocate for its needs. We can’t do this work without your support.
Read our coverage on the budget cuts
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Protesters bring budget outrage to mayor’s door
SF workers, residents, and advocates rallied against cuts.
Chad Church
Service providers say: If City Hall Slices, this is who gets hurt
In their own words — not ours — local leaders map the pain that would come with budget cuts.
Noah Arroyo
Budget battle status report: SF’s Tenderloin
See the list of Tenderloin programs under threat and learn what you can do.
Laura Wenus
SF advocates plan actions against budget cuts
Here’s the schedule for June 15–18 at City Hall.
Laura Wenus
Tenderloin rallies against program and service cuts
“Mayor Lurie: ‘Let’s go, San Francisco,’ but please don’t leave us behind!” said one speaker.
Laura Wenus
Pushing back on TL service cuts
Join the June 10 rally to prevent $6.8M in cuts to vital Tenderloin services.
Noah Arroyo
TL budget cuts: How to learn more & push back
Learn what’s at stake and how to get involved.
Laura Wenus