What is it?

This establishes price controls on commercial waste collection, restructures the residential Refuse Rate Board, and allows that future amendments to this law can only be done by a supermajority of the Board of Supervisors.

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Why is this on the ballot?

This is an amendment to a previous ballot proposition. According to San Francisco Charter section 14.101, ballot props can only be amended by other ballot props, so despite every single Supervisor supporting this, they are obligated to take it to the voters.

Sponsor: Mayor Breed
Co-Sponsors: Supervisors Shamann Walton, Rafael Mandelman, Ahsha Safai, Matt Haney, Gordon Mar, Myrna Melgar, Hillary Ronen, and Dean Preston
Placed on ballot by: Mayor Breed and unanimously with Supervisors Shamann Walton, Rafael Mandelman, Ahsha Safai, Matt Haney, Gordon Mar, Myrna Melgar, Hillary Ronen, and Dean Preston
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Why vote No?

The technocratic changes in Prop F are fine-to-good, and allowing the Board of Supervisors to amend the law is definitely better than the status quo (currently only amendable by another ballot measure). But those changes come at the cost of setting a price ceiling on commercial waste collection.

Price ceilings almost always result in worse service for customers, and we have no reason to think waste collection is any different. Expanding the price ceiling to commercial customers of any waste disposal service — not just Recology — will not just hurt the employees of the waste collection businesses, but limit competition and reduce quality of service for both small and large businesses.