Proposition E: Amend Rules for Contract Approvals and Alter Term and Responsibilities of City Administrator Initiative
California
Nov 3
Require the Board of Supervisors to approve all city contracts that would generate more than $4.5 million or cost more than $25 million and amend the city administrator's roles and authority
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San Francisco and California urbanism
Led by Barak Gila · 39 voters

YIMBY Action's Voting Group
Led by YIMBY Action · 5 voters
Abundant San Francisco
Led by Abundant San Francisco · 3 voters
Prop E centralizes city purchasing rules under the City Administrator instead of leaving them scattered across a hundred-plus code sections that nobody owns and nobody can fix. It's the same dysfunction that gave the city its infamous $1.7M toilet, and it's also the dysfunction that slows down every park, playground, and public infrastructure project the city needs, including the public realm work adjacent to housing growth. When a 2024 reform simplified small-project purchasing, Rec and Park renewed the Bernal Heights Playground for $1.3M in about a year, instead of the years and multiples of the cost that comparable projects took under the old rules. Housing supply doesn't happen in a vacuum — it needs functioning city infrastructure processes around it, and Prop E is a real fix.