The administration of San Francisco Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie “will implement a new governance structure” when he takes office on January 8th of next year, Lurie said Tuesday morning.
Several days after the election and the morning after incumbent Mayor London Breed’s concession, Lurie declared victory in a fiercely contested mayoral race last month.
Lurie said in the press release that the restructure will allow him “to deliver on his commitment to creating an administration rooted in accountability, service, and change.”
According to the statement, there is a centralized policy director and 56 agencies under the present City Hall organizational chart that report to the mayor via the chief of staff. The organization will be reorganized to include a chief of staff and four policy chiefs who will answer directly to Lurie as part of the proposed new governance structure for his administration. The four policy chiefs will address “Housing and Economic Development; Infrastructure, Climate and Mobility; Public Health and Wellbeing; and Public Safety,” the press release stated.
The four police chiefs will be in charge of “a portfolio of agencies representing between $2 and $6 billion in public spending.” In addition, the police chiefs will report directly to the mayor and “provide strategic alignment across a number of city departments, thereby working as a partner to department heads”
In order to bring the departments under the city administrator’s office into alignment, the city administrator will also work closely with the four chiefs.
In the announcement, Lurie stated, “City Hall’s current business model is antiquated, inefficient, and results-oriented.””I’m reorganizing the mayor’s office to ensure that your government is accountable and coordinated in addressing the fentanyl problem, providing safe and clean streets, constructing housing quickly, and guaranteeing a complete economic recovery. All San Franciscans will be impacted by the improvements we’re making at the top, which will help remove obstacles to efficient governance.
Lurie’s campaign pledge of greater accountability with his administration would be facilitated by the plan, the announcement continued, adding that “this reorganization is a critical first step in ensuring that promise is kept.”
The announcement also noted that in a report published in August 2024, San Francisco Planning and Urban Research (SPUR) offered comparable suggestions for good governance. The report stated that “the lack of clear, coordinated action to address big challenges has led to a growing perception that the city government isn’t responding quickly enough to meet the growing needs of the people it serves.”
Lurie named his transition committee last month, which included retired Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
Next year, Lurie will be elected as the 46th mayor of the city.
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