Ballot Simplification Committee Information – November 6, 2018 Consolidated General Election
Ballot Simplification Committee meetings for the November 6, 2018, Consolidated General Election are scheduled to begin Monday, July 30, 2018.
The Committee must complete its work no later than 85 days before the election, which is Monday, August 13, 2018.
For any correspondence with the Ballot Simplification Committee members, contact Barbara Carr at (415) 554-4375 or by e-mail at
publications@sfgov.org
Meeting Notices and Agendas
Agendas are posted at least 72 hours prior to each meeting, as mandated by the Sunshine Ordinance. Other meeting materials are made available as early as possible. All materials are posted in reverse chronological order (most recent on top).
Information About Local Ballot Measures
Seawall Earthquake Safety Bond
- Final digest (PDF)
- Request for Reconsideration, Starchild (PDF)
- Request for Reconsideration, Supervisor Peskin (PDF)
- Approved digest (PDF)
- Draft digest (PDF)
- Seawall Earthquake Safety Bond Report (PDF)
- Legislative Analyst Report (PDF)
- Legislative digest (PDF)
- Legal text (PDF)
Partial Allocation of Hotel Tax for Arts and Cultural Purposes
- Final digest (PDF)
- Suggestions, Supervisors Tang and Peskin (PDF)
- Draft digest (PDF)
- Legislative digest (PDF)
- Legal text (PDF)
Additional Business Taxes to Fund Homeless Services
- Final digest (PDF)
- Request for Reconsideration, San Francisco Chamber of Commerce (PDF)
- Request for Reconsideration, Starchild (PDF)
- Request for Reconsideration, Our City Our Home, Coalition on Homelessness (PDF)
- Request for Reconsideration, Supervisor Fewer (PDF)
- Request for Reconsideration, Supervisor Ronen (PDF)
- Approved digest (PDF)
- Suggestions, Supervisor Fewer (PDF)
- Suggestions, Bevan Dufty (PDF)
- Suggestions, Supervisor Ronen (PDF)
- Suggestions, Our City Our Home, Coalition on Homelessness (PDF)
- Draft digest (PDF)
- Department analyses - Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development, Department of Public Health (PDF)
- Title and summary (PDF)
- Legal text (PDF)
City Privacy Policy
- Final digest (PDF)
- Request for Reconsideration, Supervisor Peskin (PDF)
- Request for Reconsideration, Jimmy Chion (PDF)
- Approved digest (PDF)
- Draft digest (PDF)
- Legislative digest (PDF)
- Legal Text (PDF)
Additional Tax on Cannabis Businesses; Expanding the Businesses Subject to Business Taxes
- Final digest (PDF)
- Request for Reconsideration, Nick Smith, Chair, Libertarian Party of San Francisco (PDF)
- Request for Reconsideration, Supervisor Cohen (PDF)
- Request for Reconsideration, Starchild (PDF)
- Request for Reconsideration, Jimmy Chion (PDF)
- Approved digest (PDF)
- Draft digest (PDF)
- Legislative digest (PDF)
- Legal text (PDF)
When Information Becomes Available
Information about each measure will be posted before the meeting scheduled to draft the digest for that measure. Any materials that result from a meeting will be posted as soon as possible after the meeting. Timing varies depending on when the materials are available to the Department of Elections.
Information posted before a meeting
At minimum, the information will include:
- Legal text of the proposed ballot measure
- Draft digest provided by the City Attorney’s office, which serves as a starting point for the Committee’s work during the meeting.
Other information will be posted as available, such as:
- Legislative digests for measures submitted by the Board of Supervisors
- The City Attorney’s title and summary for initiative measures
- Department analyses of proposed initiative measures required under San Francisco Municipal Elections Code Sec. 350
- Correspondence directed to the Committee related to the digest of the measure
Information posted after a meeting
Information will be posted as available, such as:
- Approved digest, with the deadline for Requests for Reconsideration
- Correspondence shared with the Committee during the meeting related to the digest of the measure
- Requests for reconsideration of an approved digest
- Final digest that will be published in the Voter Information Pamphlet