Proposition A: $790 million School Improvement and Safety Bond

  • ACX recommendation: conflicted YES
  • We think the school board needs this money to make necessary improvements but that the board does not have a good track record of using the money given previously. Voting for change on the school board members is important to fix these issues.

Proposition B: $390 million Health Care and Public Spaces Bond

  • ACX recommendation: YES
  • Voting on budgeting via bonds is a side effect of Prop 13. This is a hodgepodge of ideas based on the current board of supervisors, if you want to change the hodgepodge vote for different supervisors/mayors

Proposition C: Inspector General for Local Government

  • ACX recommendation: NO

Proposition D: City Commissions and Mayoral Authority

  • ACX recommendation: YES
  • This will streamline commissions and strengthen the SF mayor. There are some concerns with the fact that a strong mayor could do harm in the future and that the commissions that will be eliminated are not necessarily going to be selected in the best manner.

Proposition E: Task Force on City Commissions

  • ACX recommendation: NO or deliberate abstain
  • If both Prop D and Prop E are passed then the one that gets the most votes will take effect. If you would be ok with either but prefer Prop D, abstaining on this proposition is the correct voting strategy.

Proposition F: Police Staffing and Deferred Retirement

  • ACX recommendation: NO or deliberate abstain

Proposition G: Rental Subsidies for Low-Income Tenants

  • ACX recommendation: NO

Proposition H: Retirement Benefits for Firefighters

  • ACX recommendation: NO

Proposition I: Retirement Benefits for Nurses and 911 Operators

  • ACX recommendation: we were evenly split on this issue

Proposition J: Oversight of City Funding for Children and Youth Programs

  • ACX recommendation: we were evenly split on this issue

Proposition K: Closing the Upper Great Highway to Private Vehicles

  • ACX recommendation: YES

Proposition L: Additional Business Tax on Transportation Network Companies and Autonomous Vehicle Businesses to Fund Public Transportation

  • ACX recommendation: YES
  • The increase in taxes would take SF to around national average rates on private car apps for typical fares
  • Cuts to public transit negatively affect even people who don’t ride transit. Modeling based on current transit ridership data suggests that the service cuts being discussed would move 30% of current transit ridership into cars - across the Bay Area, that would represent more than 100,000 people purchasing cars and tens of millions more ride-hail rides. These are supply-constrained, meaning increased prices for services on top of the traffic, parking, and climate impacts of more vehicle miles traveled. Prop L, while not enough to singularly prevent service cuts, is part of the mosaic of funding sources needed to maintain service. Even just shrinking the deficit of a transit agency has disproportionate benefits as service and funding are often nonlinearly related - BART cites needing to cut service frequency by 65% to save 20% of their budget.
  • A 2026 regional funding measure to fund Muni (alongside BART, Caltrain, and other county agencies) is actively in work and looks likely to fund much (but not all) of Muni’s shortfall. SF will need to secure additional revenue/cost savings on its own; having a ~$25mln/yr partial solution secured now strengthens the city’s hand going into regional negotiations. This means better odds of avoiding service cuts and their negative effects (see above).

Proposition M: Changes to Business Taxes

  • ACX recommendation: weak YES or deliberate abstain
  • If this measure gets more YES votes than Prop L, Prop L will not take effect.
  • If Prop L passes and this measure gets more than 50% YES votes but fewer raw YES votes than Prop L, both will take effect

Proposition N: First Responder Student Loan and Training Reimbursement

  • ACX recommendation: NO

Proposition O: Support for Reproductive Rights

  • ACX recommendation: YES

Board of Education

  • ACX recommendation: Supryia Ray, Parag Gupta, Jamie Huling, John Jersin

Mayor

  • ACX recommendation:
  • Rank 1: Dylan Hirsch-Shell
  • Unless ACX has a lot more influence, Dylan has no chance of winning but this is the advantage of ranked choice voting. Dylan supports many policies that have been covered on ACX, notably land value tax.
  • Rank 2, 3, 4 [voter to order per preference]: London Breed, Mark Farrell, Daniel Lurie
  • London Breed is considered to have the best approach to urbanism and housing while Mark Farell is focused the most on public safety.

Supervisor, District 1

  • ACX recommendation: [voter to order per preference] Jen Nossokoff, Marjan Philhour. Don’t rank Connie Chan.

Supervisor, District 3

  • ACX recommendation: Danny Sauter

Supervisor, District 5

  • ACX recommendation: Bilal Mahmood. Don’t rank Dean Preston.

Supervisor, District 7

  • ACX recommendation: [voter to order per preference] Myrna Melgar, Matthew Boschetto

Supervisor, District 9

  • ACX recommendation:
  • Rank 1: Trevor Chandler
  • Rank 2: Roberto Hernandez
  • Don’t rank Jackie Fielder.

Supervisor, District 11

  • ACX recommendation:[voter to order per preference]  Ernest Jones, Michael Lai. Don’t rank Chyanne Chen.

Bart Board of Directors, District 7

  • ACX recommendation: Victor Flores

Bart Board of Directors, District 9

  • ACX recommendation: Joe Sangirardi