November 2024 SF Voter Guide

This is a nonpartisan analysis of the local measures on the San Francisco ballot for the Nov. 5, 2024, election.

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Voter Guide Index

Prop A | Prop B | Prop C | Prop D | Prop E | Prop F | Prop G | Prop H | Prop I | Prop J | Prop K | Prop L | Prop M | Prop N | Prop O


Proposition A — Bonds to Improve SF Schools

A school bus parked in front of Mission High School in San Francisco.

Proposition A would let the San Francisco Unified School District borrow up to $790 million to upgrade, repair and retrofit its campuses and other properties, and to build a facility that would produce high-quality meals for students.

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Proposition B — Bonds to Enhance Health Care Facilities and Public Spaces

A woman walks out of the Chinatown Public Health Center.

Proposition B would let San Francisco borrow up to $390 million to carry out infrastructure and other projects, like upgrading health care facilities, creating homeless shelter, repaving roads and renovating Harvey Milk Plaza, the Castro neighborhood spot honoring the city’s first openly gay supervisor.

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Proposition C — New Inspector General Would Fight Local Corruption

San Francisco City Hall at night.

In the wake of years of FBI probes and ongoing scandals, Proposition C aims to fight corruption in San Francisco by creating a local inspector general position for investigating government fraud, waste and abuse of city resources.

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Proposition D — Eliminate City Commissions, Empower Mayor

A member of the public comments during a session of the Our City, Our Home Oversight Committee.

Proposition D would halve the number of City Hall commissions and end their oversight of government departments. The mayor would gain greater power to appoint commissions and departments. 

Proposition D would dramatically alter governance in San Francisco. It is in direct opposition with Proposition E.

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Proposition E — Create Task Force to Consider Culling Commissions

The Our City, Our Home Oversight Committee, in session.

Proposition E would create a task force to assess San Francisco’s many commissions and public bodies and recommend whether any should be altered or eliminated to improve local governance.

Proposition E is in direct opposition with Proposition D, which would automatically schedule half the city’s commissions for elimination.

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Proposition F — Delay Officer Retirement to Bolster Police Staffing

Mayor London Breed and Police Chief Bill Scott address cadets at the police academy.

Proposition F aims to bolster police staffing by giving retirement-eligible officers a financial incentive to continue working: They could begin drawing pensions early, alongside their salaries, for up to five years.

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Proposition G — Fund Housing for Extremely Low-Income Tenants

Exterior view of Bethany Senior Center.

Proposition G would reduce rents for hundreds of housing units in San Francisco so that extremely low-income seniors, families and people with disabilities could afford them.

Today, even San Francisco’s so-called affordable housing is often out of reach for those tenants.

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Proposition H — Enable Earlier Retirement for Firefighters

Firefighters handle a ladder and other gear in the field.

Proposition H would lower the age by which members of the San Francisco Fire Department could qualify for their maximum retirement packages, from 58 to 55, in an effort to encourage them to protect their health by leaving the work sooner.

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Proposition I — Give Nurses and 911 Operators Better Pension Plans

An ambulance passes in front of the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center.

Proposition I would improve retirement packages for 911 call dispatchers, as well as nurses who transitioned from temporary to full-time staff positions, in an effort to attract more people to those city jobs.

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Proposition J — Increase Oversight of City Funding for Children and Youth Programs

Children outside a school.

Proposition J would create an oversight body to evaluate local government expenditures on programs benefiting children and youths.

The measure would also redirect many tens of millions of dollars annually to those programs, potentially drawing down other parts of City Hall’s budget.

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Proposition K — Authorize Great Highway to Become Car-Free, Possibly a Park

A woman crosses the street with a stroller and child at the intersection of Lincoln Way and the Great Highway.

Proposition K would start a process that could, about a year later, permanently close a large section of San Francisco’s Great Highway to car traffic so that the city could later turn it into a park. The measure would not fund the design or creation of the park.

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Proposition L — Tax Ride-Hailing and Autonomous Vehicle Companies to Fund Public Transit

Passengers disembark a Waymo vehicle.

Proposition L would tax ride-hail companies, including those that operate self-driving cars, and devote the tax revenue to improving San Francisco’s public transit.

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Proposition M — Overhaul SF Business Tax System

An employee at a local business in San Francisco gives change during a transaction.

Proposition M would fundamentally change how the city taxes businesses, in order to better align with post-pandemic work norms and strengthen the government’s long-term financial footing.

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Proposition N — Create Fund to Pay Off First Responders’ Student Loans

Paramedics help an elderly man in the Tenderloin neighborhood.

Proposition N could help pay off first responders’ student loans with the goal of attracting new hires amid staffing shortages.

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Proposition O — Protect Access to Reproductive Care

Women's March, 2017, in San Francisco.

Proposition O would strengthen access to abortion and reproductive care in San Francisco and protect the privacy of patients and health care providers.

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