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By Tes Welborn, HANC Board

What is a Farmers Market worth? The Heart of the City Farmers Market has abruptly been relocated to a smaller site without any public process. In its place, Rec and Park plans a skateboard park, ping pong, and various card table games. All of this appears to be so San Francisco looks good for the APEC event in November, Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation Meeting. Biden and other Asian Pacific heads of state will attend.

The Tenderloin community, now part of District 5, has no other “supermarket” than this Farmers Market. Residents and neighbors rallied, many of them seniors, Wednesday August 30 to oppose the move and smaller site. The Market is also patronized by shoppers from other parts of the city and by tourists.

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By Calvin Welch, HANC Board

September 14th at HANC will be all about District Election of Supervisors and just how and for whom it works. We are fortunate to have as our sole guest the longest serving district elected Supervisor in the modern history of San Francisco, President of the Board of Supervisors (for the second time), Aaron Peskin, who represents District 3 - Russian Hill, North Beach and Chinatown. Aaron is in the final year of his second two term stint as District Supervisor, a total of 16 years on the Board spanning four Mayors (Brown, Newsome, Lee and Breed, or five if you count the six month term of Mark Ferrell) making him, I believe, the longest serving locally elected official now in office.

The election of the Supervisors by districts had been repealed in San Francisco in the 1900 Charter with the creation of at large elected Board of Supervisors which lasted until 1977 when the first neighborhood districts went into effect after being passed in 1976.

The promise of district elections was that it would result in a Board of supervisors that looked like San Francisco. The last at-large elected Board did not have a tenant nor a person of color that was not first appointed by the Mayor. The first district elected Board had a majority of tenants and the first directly elected Black and Chinese Supervisors. Even though it lasted for but two and a half years the district board passed rent control, condominium conversion and public employee contract reforms causing business and real estate interests to view district election as similar to the Bolshevik revolution in Russia.

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Nominations for the HANC Board are open through the election at our November Meeting. All current HANC members are eligible to serve and to nominate other members. If you would like to serve, or would like to nominate someone, you can do so before the vote at the November meeting. The term is from December, 2023 through November, 2024.

Our Bylaws require that we solicit nominations from our membership in the September Voice and present a slate at our October and November meetings. The offices open for election are: President, Vice-President, Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretary, Treasurer, Nominating Chair, Membership Chair, Housing and Land Use Chair, Recycling Chair, and three Members at Large.

Current Board members as well as members who are not serving on our Board are eligible for these positions. Only members in good standing for at least three months are eligible to run for or hold a board position.

You can join HANC or renew your membership online at https://www.hanc-sf.org/join-us, by sending a check to HANC, PO Box 170518, San Francisco, CA  94117, or by bringing a check to our next general meeting.  Dues are $15 per year, or $5 for low income.

September: Newsom Targets SF Housing, and Ballot Propositions E and M

October: The November Ballot: Propositions C, H, L, and O

November: Bikeshare, and Non-Violent Peace Movements. Panel: Adrian Leung, SFMTA’s bike share and bike parking manager, David Hartsough, a Haight-Ashbury resident on non-Violent Peace Making and Non-Violent Peace Movements

December: 19th Assembly District Assemblymen Phil Ting, and How the Haight Voted

January: City College Trustees, and Returning from the Pandemic (started hosting hybrid meetings). Panel: Susan Solomon (City College Board of Trustees), Alan Wong (City College Board Trustee)

February: Affordable Housing and the Housing Element

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By Teresa Palmer, MD – Geriatrics/Family Practice

(Attending Physician at Laguna Honda 1989-2004)

Despite Mayor Breed’s relieved announcement in mid August that Laguna Honda Hospital (LHH), closed to new admissions since April of 2022, has been recertified by Medi-Cal, many questions are NOT being answered. We need to continue to ask these questions about our public nursing home:

1.When will new admissions resume?

2.Will patients evicted in 2022 (who survived) be readmitted?

(Nothing in writing yet). In addition, nursing home eligible San Francisco residents who have had to leave the county for care should have priority at Laguna Honda-but they do not.

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By Bruce Wolfe, HANC Board

WHEN: September-October TBD

HANC will be hosting a Town Hall for its members and surrounding community to introduce the Race & Equity in all Planning (REP-SF)¹ Citywide People’s Plan.

HANC has been a member of REP-SF since its inception in August 2020 in the middle of the pandemic. Its mission and purpose is: “Needing to change the City’s approach to planning and land use, REP-SF works proactively for Desegregation, Affordability, Culture & Arts, Stability and Sustainability (DACSS solutions framework)². San Francisco’s political priorities, bolstered by mainstream media, rely on trickle-down, profit-driven, market-based approaches which only result in increasingly expensive housing, and displacement. REP-SF works to create new systems that deliberately address all the components of DACSS to achieve equity for people of color, immigrants, people with low and no incomes, seniors and people with disabilities.“

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