We recommend voting for Stephen Sherrill in District 2.

Sherrill brings a lot of professional policy-maker and political experience to the table, along with a laser focus on responsive and effective governance. He served as senior policy advisor in the Bloomberg administration in New York City, led the Mayor’s Office of Innovation here in San Francisco, and as District 2 Supervisor he has cut red tape and focused on helping small businesses, improving public safety, and lowering the cost of living. Through it all, Stephen has shown a consistent commitment to excellence in public service and government accountability.

We feel he’s done a great job as Supervisor and are excited to see him continue to work alongside Mayor Lurie and his fellow Board members to get San Francisco back on track.

Without safe streets, parents won’t let their kids walk to school, businesses can’t keep their doors open, and people lose faith in the city. Rebuilding that trust starts with visible results like cleaner sidewalks, faster responses when people call for help, and better coordination across city departments to address public drug use and improve street conditions.

Stephen SherrillSupervisor, District 2

Why vote for Stephen Sherrill?

Stephen’s top policy goals are:

1. Public Safety

Sherrill’s top policy priority is public safety, and he's delivered several key victories:

He co-sponsored and passed a resolution to speed up 911 responses to reports of illegal activity near schools, parks, and playgrounds, ensuring that these vital areas don't get neglected.

Sherrill also co-sponsored Mayor Lurie's RV homelessness legislation, ensuring encampments blocking sidewalks, streets, and alleys are regulated with coordinated outreach and clear rules - helping to unblock enforcement of these rules.

Supervisor Sherrill supported more sober housing for people in recovery via the Recovery First ordinance, which supports greater investment in sober living facilities across the city. In his own words, people using drugs in public should “be directed into treatment and services, and moved off the sidewalks so that families and businesses are not forced to live with open air drug use.” And he also supports expanding involuntary holds for people who do not have the mental capacity to care for themselves, either due to mental illness or substance abuse. He notes these holds must include clear medical standards for intervention, judicial oversight, transparency and accountability to prevent abuse or neglect.

Finally, to prevent tragedies, he led the city’s new free firearm storage program, partnering with SFPD to allow residents to store firearms securely and at no cost at police stations.

2. Small Business

In Supervisor Sherrill's district, several commercial corridors have extremely high vacancy rates, leaving them blighted and hurting the businesses that have managed to hold on, like Van Ness from City Hall north to Broadway — a stretch with 53% ground-floor vacancy. To help, he introduced a plan to make it easier for chain stores to fill these longtime vacant spaces which local businesses don't want. The ordinance passed unanimously, opening the doors to new stores.

To support local businesses and people who want to start a business, he helped extend the “First Year Free” program which waives costly city fees for new businesses. To date it's helped over 11,000 local businesses.

3. Good Governance

Sherrill has long been an advocate for government accountability and effectiveness. He’s criticized city hall for letting delays and opaque processes drag on for years, and has called for performance dashboards, departmental scorecards, and real consequences for missed goals.

He brought that ethos to bear during his time leading the Mayor’s Office of Innovation. He broke through departmental barriers to build the All Street Integrated Database (ASTRID), which integrates data from nine street teams across four city departments. ASTRID provided, for the first time, homeless outreach workers with comprehensive, up-to-date information on the people they encounter and their history across teams and departments. People got better care, the city worked faster, and taxpayers saved money. A win-win-win.

Sherrill runs his own office with a focus on data - he measures his success by constituent satisfaction, with a focus on accessibility, accountability, and follow through.

On other issues

Affordability & Families: Stephen highlights the four-pronged issues of affordability - housing affordability, quality public education, great public transportation (safe, clean, and reliable), and affordable childcare. He has been vocal about making this city affordable for families by expanding the childcare subsidy to middle class households and by fixing zoning rules that ban daycares in many parts of the city. Additionally, to bring workers back downtown, he's exploring creating a new childcare subsidy for all downtown workers - regardless of residency.

Housing: Stephen supports streamlining building approvals, reducing CEQA friction for moderate-density developments, and capping discretionary appeals. He argues one of the biggest barriers is “the little hindrances” around permitting rather than outright opposition to construction. He also supported office-to-residential conversion incentives, legislation passed unanimously in 2025, which unlocks funding and tools to transform vacant downtown office space into housing.

Transportation & Safe Streets: He supports reintroducing Vision Zero–style safe design measures and voted to adopt the new Street Safety plan. During Board deliberations, he noted that 12% of city streets are responsible for 68% of severe crashes, and pushed for hardened daylighting, curb extensions, and speed hump installation. He voted in support of adopting the new Street Safety plan, and at the Board hearing pointed to data showing how a small share of streets cause the most severe crashes — pushing agencies to prioritize interventions like daylighting, curb extensions, and speed humps.

Fiscal Discipline: Stephen believes the city has overpromised and underdelivered; his approach emphasizes small, evidence-backed pilots and scaling only once metrics prove success.

We recommend voting for Alan Wong for the Board of Supervisors, District 4.

Alan Wong was appointed to District 4 Supervisors by Mayor Daniel Lurie in September, 2025. Lurie ran an open process to find a new Supervisor, and Alan was selected from a set of five finalists for the position. We think that the number one priority for the District 4 Supervisors is to make D4 voters feel heard again—and Alan has been doing just that.

To demonstrate this, Supervisor Wong's first act was to submit a ballot measure to re-open the Great Highway. This reflects the majority opinion in the district and sends a clear signal that he isn't bringing his own agenda to the Board, but is there to enact their will. Only two other Supervisors signed on to the measure, so it did not meet the threshold to qualify for the ballot.

Alan grew up in the Sunset, attended Lincoln High, and has an extensive track record of public service. He’s been a labor organizer, a Legislative Aide to former District 4 Supervisor Gordon Mar, led Public Policy and Comms for the Children’s Council of San Francisco, and, most recently, was a Trustee on the Community College Board. He is also a First Lieutenant with the Army National Guard. Alan brings experience working across different political and interest groups to do what’s in the best interest for the communities he represents.

We believe Alan has the level-headed temperament, experience in public service, and dedication to the district to bring stability back to City Hall. And we think the district deserves some continuity of leadership after the past couple tumultuous years.

Why vote for Alan Wong?

Alan’s top policy goals are:

1. Public Safety. Alan believes public safety and a fully staffed police force should continue to be the city's top priority. He says "Public safety investments are critical for residents to feel safe, for small businesses to flourish, and for commerce and activity to return to our neighborhoods."

   To help solve the 500-officer shortage, he supports strengthening recruitment for bilingual officers who speak Cantonese, Mandarin, Spanish, and other languages and civilianizing certain desk roles so more sworn officers can return to patrol.

2. Making Government Work for D4 Residents. District 4 residents consistently ask for responsiveness from City Hall. Alan says he will dedicate half of his staff time to constituent services -that's things like filling potholes, installing stop signs, and working to improve traffic. He has committed to reply within 24 hours to any constituent concern and to follow through across city agencies to make sure issues are resolved. He wants every Sunset resident to have a voice at City Hall, “especially seniors, working families, small business owners, and longtime residents who don’t always have time to organize but whose lives are deeply affected by city decisions.”

3. Supporting Small Business. Alan says “opening a business in San Francisco is a painful, grueling process that can shut doors before they have a chance to open.” He supports Mayor Lurie's efforts to make it easier for businesses to open and run in the city., In our questionnaire, he said he would launch a program to collect feedback and identify laws for repeal, to reduce or eliminate high fees, and give small businesses a “straightforward checklist of items to complete rather than a byzantine maze of never-ending bureaucracy.” He’d also like to provide hands-on support to fix problems. We think this is a great way to identify and prioritize the highest priority issues for D4 business owners but also the city at large.

4. Families & Education. The Sunset has long been a home for families just starting out, which means Sunset residents need great schools and daycares for their little ones. Alan wants to ensure families can thrive in the Sunset by supporting early childcare and school choice. We suggest that he should make it easier to open childcare facilities, improve safety and transportation around schools, and push the school district to provide parents with clearer, more transparent enrollment and school-quality information.

On other issues

1. Affordability. Alan understands that families are hurting with the rising cost of living. That's why his first vote on the Board of Supervisors was in favor of Mayor Lurie's Family Zoning plan. It will create new starter homes for new families in the neighborhood, make it easier to add rooms to existing homes, and stabilize rents.
2. Transit & Parking. As a life-long Sunset resident, Alan knows how important parking is. But he knows that not everyone can drive, so a fast, safe, and affordable bus network is just as important. He will find ways to preserve parking without slowing down the bus, and make it easier to access small businesses.
3. Fiscal Discipline. Alan plans to take a pragmatic and holistic approach to the budget role that he will play on the Board of Supervisors; he wants to prioritize core services, scrutinize spending, and consider a mix of savings and revenue options.
4. Great Highway. Alan attempted to get a repeal of the Great Highway closure onto the ballot to give voters a final say on the issue, but only Supervisors Chan and Chen signed on to support it, so it did not succeed.

District 4 needs a serious, values-driven public servant, and we believe Alan is still the best candidate — and that he will do the outreach, build the coalition, and ultimately drive this issue to a good outcome.

We recommend voting for Phil Kim for the Board of Education.

Phil has both the experience and the track record that SFUSD needs. Phil is a former public school student and teacher, and a lifelong educator. He led STEM education and policy at K-12 public schools across 20+ states and 300+ schools. He has a Masters in Education, and is currently pursuing his doctorate in Education. Since he joined the Board in 2024, Phil has used his deep understanding of how other school systems have improved student outcomes to begin the process of improving SFUSD’s. He was unanimously elected President by his fellow commissioners in January of this year.

We think Phil has done a great job working with the Board and our Superintendent over the last year and a half to get SFUSD back on track, and would like to see him continue his work.

“We are seeing literacy and math outcomes improving for the first time in years, even as we underwent significant budget reductions last year. As a Board, we must stay focused on effective progress monitoring of our student outcome goals, and holding the superintendent accountable to our guardrails.”

Phil KimBoard of Education President

Why vote for Phil Kim?

Phil’s top policy goals are:

1. Student Outcomes

Phil believes school systems exist to improve student outcomes, and has shown relentless focus on bringing 3rd grade reading, 8th grade math, and college and career readiness markers to a competitive level. For the first time in years, we’re seeing improvements. There’s a lot of work to be done to get SFUSD where we all want it to be, but we think Phil is uniquely positioned, and experienced, in driving all parts of the school system towards the right outcomes.

2. Safety & Stability

Phil believes that a safe school is one that is properly resourced with highly competent and trained educators and school operators. He worked with the Board and Superintendent to prioritize and protect teachers' jobs during budget cuts. Phil states that steadiness in personnel is also important towards students feeling safe, and that training, coaching and development are needed to ensure great teachers stay. He is also committed to partnering with the Board and Superintendent to ensure school security staff are better trained and coordinated to prevent and respond to incidents.

3. Access

San Francisco has one of the largest percentages of students enrolled in private schools. Phil believes we must offer language immersion and other sought-after programs in San Francisco to attract more families to SFUSD, and drive enrollments up.

On other issues

1. Data Transparency

Phil is committed to making data publicly accessible. While SFUSD does report its data biannually, it’s hard to find, and harder to understand. This is unacceptable. Phil Kim aims to fix that by aligning the Board and Superintendent on goals, the strategies to achieve them, and the data to measure progress. We look forward to seeing clearer, more digestible, public facing dashboards in the future.

2. Fiscal sustainability

One of Phil’s first actions as President of the Board of Education was to ensure our Superintendent was evaluated on metrics that would align SFUSD with fiscal sustainability. As a result, the district has gone from “negative” fiscal certification to “qualified” and is aiming for the highest, “positive” certification by July of next year, completing the rapid transition out of state oversight.