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Supervisor Connie Chan with Supervisor Aaron Peskin at her reelection victory celebration on the steps of San Francisco City Hall on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024.Supervisor District 4, Joel Engardio speaking at the launch of the Sunset Night Market in San Francisco on Friday, Sept.
15, 2023.Supervisor Connie Chan speaking at her reelection victory celebration on the steps of San Francisco City Hall on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024. Though there are still a few thousand votes to count, The City’s supervisorial races are all but decided. Now that the dust from the Nov. 5 election has largely settled, The Examiner has compiled a roundup of the new and familiar faces set to be inaugurated Jan. 8, which supervisors will leave the board at the end of this term and which others are up for reelection in 2026.Danny Sauter, candidate for District 3 Supervisor, pictured on Columbus Avenue in North Beach, San Francisco on Monday, March 25, 2024.— who’s also the board’s outgoing president — in representing a section of The City’s northeast corridor including the Financial District, Chinatown and North Beach. Sauter, who was Peskin’s runner-up in the race for the seat in 2020, beat out a coalition of challengers headlined by urban planner Sharon Lai and deputy city attorney Moe Jamil. A former president of North Beach Neighbors who still sits on its board, Sauter will be the district’s first new supervisor since 2015. The moderate is a stark contrast to Peskin not just ideologically, but in experience — Peskin has held elected office for nearly 25 years, while this is Sauter’s first such position “The vote reflects that people are ready for change and are looking for some fresh leadership,” Sauter told The Examiner. “That’s what the numbers tell us.”The former California State Assembly candidate edged Supervisor Dean Preston, a democratic socialist, out of his District 5 seat in one of The City’s most expensive supervisorial races. District 5 encompasses the heart of The City, including Haight-Ashbury, the Western Addition, Hayes Valley and — after redistricting in 2022 — the Tenderloin. Mahmood was heavily backed by the moderate, tech-funded political group GrowSF, though he identifies as a progressive. GrowSF’s Coalition to Grow San Francisco spent more than $300,000, and nearly $15,000 in support of Mahmood, according to campaign finance filings. Labor groups, meanwhile, spent a little more than $200,000 opposing Mahmood. “I think it’s a testament to all the hard work our team did, and door-knocking, and the message we had resonated with voters,” Mahmood told The Examiner.Then-California State Senate Candidate Jackie Fielder smiles while chatting with a supporter at her election night party at Barrel Proof in the Mission District on Tuesday, March 3, 2020.The district, which includes the Mission, Bernal Heights and Portola, is generally one of The City’s most progressive areas. With Preston’s defeat, Fielder will likely become the most liberal member of the Board of Supervisors. At 30 years old, she is also its youngest. “To every single supporter, every neighbor, every small dollar donor, every person who put up a sign, every volunteer: I am honored and humbled to represent you,” Fielder wrote on social media last week.Just 210 votes separated longtime labor advocate and organizer Chyanne Chen from education worker Michael Lai, a moderate who was elected to The City’s Democratic Party leadership in the spring, in the race to succeed termed-out incumbent Ahsha Safai as of press time. There were still nearly 25,000 ballots outstanding citywide, making it possible the race could go either way. Either Chen or Lai would join District 1 Supervisor Connie Chan as the only Chinese Americans on the board. The winner will represent one of The City’s most diverse populations, which is spread throughout the Excelsior, Parkmerced, Crocker Amazon, Ingleside, McLaren Park, Oceanview and the Outer Mission.Although just 125 votes separated the pair four years ago, Chan enjoyed a nearly 1,200-vote advantage among the counted ballots as of press time. Chan will thus serve a second term representing west-side neighborhoods such as the Richmond, Sea Cliff and parts of Golden Gate Park. Outside groups backing Chan spent far more in support of her reelection bid than any others supporting supervisorial candidates, totaling nearly $845,000. “Over the course of the last eight months, I’ve talked to so many residents who care deeply about the future of our communities,” Chan said in a statement Tuesday before holding a celebration on the City Hall steps. “And while we may have respectful disagreements on some issues, we came together understanding that we can work together to support our neighbors and neighborhoods.”Incumbent Myrna Melgar led rival Matt Boschetto in the District 7 supervisorial race in the most recent vote count, which was released Wednesday morning.The former urban planner has often prided herself on being a bridge between the moderate and progressive camps in the San Francisco legislature, citing support from both sides of the aisle during the race. Outside groups each spent about $55,000 in support and opposition of Boschetto, respectively, while the two candidates’ campaigns combined to spend a little more than $745,000. Despite the likely win, Melgar said she felt mixed emotions about what her next term will look like. While she was thrilled with the victory, she said theand how much federal support The City will receive under another Donald Trump presidential administration have made her anxious for the future. “I’m feeling a little bit overwhelmed emotionally by the prospect of doing this job for the next four years,” she told The Examiner.There is guaranteed to be a new representative for San Francisco northern edge, we just don’t know who it is. Incumbent Supervisor Catherine Stefani, a moderate, cruised to a win in the race for California State Assembly. She will replace termed-out incumbent Phil Ting and represent Assembly District 19 in San Francisco. That means her supervisorial seat will go to whomever Mayor London Breed appoints to fill out the rest of her term. The conventional wisdom is that Breed, a moderate, will appoint a politically like-minded person to take on that role. Stefani is expected to be sworn into the Assembly in December.Incumbents Joel Engardio , Matt Dorsey , Rafael Mandelman and Shamann Walton make up the remainder of the Board of Supervisors. Mandelman and Walton are serving the final two years of their second consecutive terms, meaning they are unable to run for reelection representing the Castro and The City’s southeastern edge, respectively. Engardio, the lone challenger to unseat an incumbent in 2022, will be up for reelection in 2026. The moderate, who represents the Outer Sunset, introduced a successful ballot measure to close upper Great Highway. More than 64% of counted votes in his district had voted against the proposition as of press time. Dorsey, a former police spokesman appointed by Breed to the District 6 seat in 2022 and elected to a full term that fall, is also eligible for reelection in 2026. The eventual District 2 appointee would also be eligible for reelection to a full term in 2026, meaning five of The City’s supervisorial districts will hold contests that year., The City’s premier health-research center and hospital has kept its hard-earned status as a leader in medical innovation worldwide. The Australian has been a mainstay at UCSF for more than 40 years. He started at the hospital as a research fellow in 1982, working for John Clements and William Tooley, a pair of pioneers in the discovery and uses of pulmonary surfactant — a substance that assists the function of lungs — which has helped save millions of infant lives. That experience set the foundation for Hawgood’s forte as a neonatologist, a doctor who specializes in the care of newborns. Prior to being named UCSF’s chancellor, he served as physician-in-chief of UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, chief of neonatology, chair of pediatrics and dean of the UCSF School of Medicine — which, under his leadership, became the top medical school in the nation in research funding from the National Institutes of Health, raising $439.6 million in 2013. As head of UCSF, Hawgood oversees a $9.5 billion institution that encompasses four nationally ranked professional schools , along with the top adult hospital in California and No. 3 hospital nationwide in neurology and geriatric care, as ranked by U.S. News & World Report. In Hawgood’s 10-year stint as chancellor, he has expanded partnerships with the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, public-health and community groups, and other health-care organizations. UCSF revenues have also increased 50 percent. But it isn’t just its revenue that has doubled — the institution has also doubled down on San Francisco. While other companies have been leaving, UCSF not only sustained our community through COVID-19 but also invested in The City when we needed it most: developing the plan for the Dogpatch Power Station Project, upgrading its Parnassus location, adding St. Mary’s and other San Francisco hospitals to its primary care offerings to serve the City, opening the new Mission Bay campus, and even expanding beyond the City’s borders with facilities in the East Bay, North Bay and beyond.. Almost 160,000 donors contributed to UCSF: The Campaign, raising nearly $6.2 billion to support the center’s mission to advance human health worldwide over the course of only 15 months. As he said in a statement, “Our donors helped fortify UCSF’s future by investing in our people, ensuring the work we all do each day will continue to advance human health in the Bay Area, in our nation and around the world.”, The Examiner has set out to recognize the people who define The City. As our city is being reborn, there have been a few remarkable contributions by people who refuse to succumb to the lazy narrative of doom loops and ,instead, in truly San Francisco style, choose to see the opportunity and will a new future into existence. This is one of the 12 San Franciscans you, our readers, selected whose innovative work and leadership have left an indelible mark on our city and inspire us all to be better San Franciscans.San Francisco school board President Matt Alexander gained enough votes to qualify for one of that body’s four open seats in figures released Monday by the Department of Elections.Jaime Huling , Parag Gupta , Supriya Ray and Alexander were the leading vote-getters as of Tuesday afternoon, when The City’s elections officials said 18,200 ballots remained outstanding. Just 336 counted votes separated Alexander and challenger John Jersin. Monday’s ballot tally marked the first time since Election Day that Alexander was among the top four in counted votes. “There are lots of good people running, and I’m confident is on a path toward creating the schools our students deserve,” Alexander told The Examiner. More than half of the Board of Education seats were up for grabs Nov. 5 at a critical juncture for the district. SFUSD is in the middle of anas it tries to stave off financial insolvency, with state education officials requiring the district to submit a balanced budget by the middle of next month. The district also now has a new superintendent, following the current board’s appointment of Maria Su to the position after accepting former Superintendent Matt Wayne’s resignation. Su paused a controversial school-closures process at the board’s direction, but she has not ruled out closing some of SFUSD’s schools after the 2025-26 school year. Huling had about 29,000 more votes than Gupta as of Tuesday afternoon, and she has led in every batch of counted votes. The San Francisco Unified School District parent and former deputy city a1ttorneynot long after the polls closed on Election Day, writing on the social-media platform X that she “will always fight to protect our immigrant communities, trans kids, freedom of speech, and funding for education.”, United Educators of San Francisco. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that month that all four shared the same campaign strategist. “I ran as hard as I could and left nothing on the table. I did so alongside two fantastic candidates in John and Jaime,” Gupta told The Examiner. “I am full of gratitude.” Huling, Gupta and Ray are all parents of students in the district, and all three earned the endorsement of SF Parent Action. The organization was a vocal proponent of the 2022 school-board recalls, and it said in June it was “Ray, a regular attendee at school-board meetings over the last two years, said she became “deeply involved” in school-board governance after observing the impact of pandemic-related school closures on students. Should she win election as a commissioner, Ray said her top priorities would be providing students with resources to ameliorate learning loss from COVID-19, andAlexander started serving as board president in August following the resignation of his predecessor, Lainie Motamedi. His record on the board during one of the district’s darkest eras might have been both a blessing and a curse: Although United Educators of San Francisco backed him for his leadership in questioning central-office bloat and pushing back against school closures, many other unions’ school-board endorsements — and those of SF Parent Action — called for change and a new vision on the body. Jersin told The Examiner that he is “proud of all that the campaign has accomplished,” adding that he spent his last day on the trail “with volunteers across The City continuing to get our message out, and hearing from voters about why they are excited to vote for competent leadership on the Board of Education.” “I’m also not just grateful, but truly inspired by the huge numbers of people who supported the campaign because they care enough about our education system to take action,” he said.Click and hold your mouse button on the page to select the area you wish to save or print. You can click and drag the clipping box to move it or click and drag in the bottom right corner to resize it. When you're happy with your selection, click the checkmark icon next to the clipping area to continue.This is the name that will be displayed next to your photo for comments, blog posts, and more. Choose wisely!Create a password that only you will remember. 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