Candidate for
Board of Supervisors; County of San Francisco; Supervisorial District 6

With strong citywide support, Jane Kim sponsored legislation to create the City's first-ever Vision Zero policy to eliminate pedestrian and cyclist fatalities within the next ten years. Through Vision Zero, SFPD has increased its traffic enforcement, targeting high injury corridors and intersections as well as the top five driver violations known to cause injury or death on our streets. Supervisor Kim convenes a monthly Pedestrian Safety Work Group which spearheaded the City's first-ever Vision Zero pilot projects, including temporary bulbouts on Sixth Street and a buffered bike lane pilot on Folsom Street. She is currently sheparding the Second Street, Sixth Street and Folsom/Howard Street Improvements through their respective environmental reviews, and secured funding for the final completion of Eddy/Ellis two-waying in the Tenderloin.

In 2013, Supervisor Kim introduced a $2.2 million one-time appropriation to back-fill state education cuts and provide additional classes to 2,000 San Francisco sophomores and juniors who were at risk of not graduating under new higher standards set by SFUSD. The Board of Supervisors approved funding, however only $1.4 million ended up being allocated after the Mayor line-item vetoed $843,000 of the package. While we were disappointed that we could not fund the entire credit recovery program, the proposal led to a much larger conversation about the value of funding our public schools. Within weeks, the Mayor committed to fully funding public education, as mandated by voters, for the first time in 4 years and released $1.5 million in Rainy Day Funds in order to help stem teacher layoffs.

This November, Jane is leading a coalition effort to provide more funding for our schools. There will be a ballot measure to support the Public Education and Enrichment Fund, also known as PEEF. If reauthorized, PEEF will expend up to $76M of city funds that have proven to be sound investments in our schools and youth . In the last decade, critical PEEF Sports, Libraries, Arts and Music funding has ensured that every San Francisco public school has a librarian, regular professional development training occurs for Visual Arts and Performance instructors where before there was none and the number of professional training classes for Athletics instructors has more than tripled. The General Education portion of the Public Education Enrichment Fund has enabled San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) to triple the number of students enrolled in grades K-8 receiving individual and/or group health and mental health services through Student Support Professionals over the past five years, with the number of high school students receiving five or more counseling sessions at the Wellness Center more than doubling in the last 10 years.

Supervisor Jane Kim is fighting to expand affordable housing and tenant protections. In 2013, when tenants in the Mid-Market corridor were threatened with eviction in the largest eviction since the International Hotel in 1977, she and her office worked closely with tenants, the Department of Building Inspection and the Planning Department to develop creative solutions to keep them in their homes. In addition, Supervisor Kim has convened a newly-formed Non-Profit Displacement Working Group that meets regularly to brainstorm near and longterm solutions to keep our critical non-profit service and arts organizations in the communities that they serve.