Upcoming and Past Events
Hi5D5 Fireside Chat with D5 Supervisor Candidates Autumn Looijen and Scotty Jacobs
AUTUMN HOPE LOOIJEN is a Caltech-educated engineer and parent of five kids.
When our kids were suffering during Covid, she co-founded the extremely successful school board recall and ran the campaign to bring algebra back to middle school.
Her organization SF Guardians has been one of the most effective organizations in SF politics, winning 7 of 8 races... many of them in a landslide.
Now she is running for Supervisor in District 5 to bring effective, practical government to our district... which now includes the Tenderloin.
SCOTTY JACOBS is running to be a rational voice for common-sense San Franciscans in City Hall; that means cleaning up our streets, cutting bureaucratic red tape, restoring our downtown economy and tax base, and implementing meaningful budget reform. He will take the hard positions to get the city back on track.
Scotty is a fourth-generation resident of San Francisco. As an LGBTQ+ renter, Scotty represents the next generation of political leadership in San Francisco.
With private sector experience running multi-hundred million dollar businesses, Scotty will bring pragmatic solutions grounded in reality to our City’s most pressing problems.
Who Will Be Mayor? A live forum on July 8th, 2024, with all of the major candidates for mayor.
Stop Crime Action, Stop Crime SF, Coalition for San Francisco Neighborhoods, and ConnectedSF invite you to a mayoral candidate debate on the evening of July 8. Doors open at 6:00 PM, the Crimefighter award presentation to DA Brooke Jenkins begins at 6:30 PM, followed by the mayoral debate which begins promptly at 7:00 PM. Mayor London Breed, Supervisors Aaron Peskin and Ahsha Safaí, former Mayor Mark Farrell and nonprofit executive Daniel Lurie have been invited to speak and answer questions from the audience.
The event will be held at a facility in Golden Gate Park. Please register for the event by filling out the form below, and the exact location and details of the event will be sent to you. Seating is limited, so REGISTER NOW!
The event is also co-sponsored by Stop Crime SF, Sunset Heights Association of Responsible People (SHARP) Golden Gate Heights Neighborhood Association (GGHNA), Midtown Terrace Neighborhood Association, Miraloma Park Improvement Club (MPIC), and others.
Virtual SF Budget Deep Dive with ConnectedSF: Can we address the shortfall?
Since 2017 the SF city budget has doubled. As of right now San Francisco has a $14.5B budget for a city/county of 800,000 people.
San Francisco leaders project am $800M shortfall for FYE June 2025. This is based upon the most optimistic scenarios. A more realistic analysis puts the coming year's shortfall at over $1B.
Mayor Breed will release her budget this week and will start a period of negotiations with the Board of Supervisors.
San Franciscans and taxpayers tend to be forgotten by politicians – but not by ConnectedSF. We are here to educate you on the inner-workings of the budget and analyze what the outcomes will be. A finance expert will dig in on the budget and help make sense of it, when it matters: BEFORE it is finalized. ConnectedSF exists to provide you information to make your views known before it is "reported on" and too late to have a say.
Merchant Fireside Chat & "Friendraiser"
Join Haight Street Merchants and Hi5D5 via Zoom for a "Fireside Chat'' and Small Business Friendraiser to discuss issues and solutions concerning businesses on Upper and Lower Haight Street. This event is not just for merchants! Merchant concerns are often very similar to resident concerns. The discussion panel includes:
Jim Siegel of Distractions
Steve Smith of Roberts Hardware
Michael Musleh of Pork Store, Stanza, Bite Me
Peterson of Sandy's
Zahra of International Cafe
RSVP HERE — https://form.jotform.com/233518805145153