San Francisco Administrative Code § 5.12 Advisory Bodies

Sec. 5.12-1. Capital Planning Council.¶

Editor’s Notes:

Former Ch. 5, Art. XII, regarding the Balboa Park Station Area Plan Community Advisory Committee, expired per the terms of its sunset provision, former Sec. 5.12-7, and was removed from this Code at the direction of the Office of the City Attorney.

Former Ch. 5, Art. XII, “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Seniors Task Force,” expired per the terms of its sunset provision, former Sec. 5.115, and was removed from this Code in December, 2015, at the direction of the Office of the City Attorney. There is hereby created a Capital Planning Council, an Advisory Body as that term is defined in Section 5.1-1, consisting of the City Administrator as chair, the President of the Board of Supervisors, the Mayor’s Budget Director, the Controller, the Planning Director, the Director of Public Works, the Airport Director, the Director of Transportation, the General Manager of the Public Utilities Commission, the General Manager of the Recreation and Park Department, and the Executive Director of the Port of San Francisco. Each member of the Capital Planning Council may designate a person to represent them as a voting member of the Council. Such designations shall be in written documents signed by the designating member and filed with the City Administrator or their designee. The mission of the Capital Planning Council is to review the proposed capital expenditure plan and to monitor the City’s ongoing compliance with the final adopted capital plan. As such, the Capital Planning Council shall (1) establish prioritization and assessment criteria to assist the City Administrator with the development of the capital expenditure plan, (2) annually review the City Administrator’s proposed capital expenditure plan prior to its submission to the Mayor and Board of Supervisors, and (3) review the annual budget and any proposed use of longterm debt, including General Obligation Bonds, to ensure compliance with the adopted capital expenditure plan.

The Board of Supervisors shall not place on the ballot, or otherwise authorize the issuance of any long term financing, until the Capital Planning Council completes a review of the proposal and submits its recommendation to the Board of Supervisors. Each bonding proposal shall be in form and substance satisfactory to the Council, and shall be accompanied by descriptive financial, architectural, and/or engineering data, and all other pertinent material in sufficiently complete detail to permit the Council to evaluate all aspects of the bonding proposal. The Council shall submit a written report to the Mayor and the Board analyzing the feasibility, cost, and priority of each proposal relative to the City’s capital expenditure plan.

The Chair of the Capital Planning Council is hereby authorized to adopt such rules, definitions, and procedures as are necessary to meet the requirements described in this Section 5.12-1 and in Section 3.20 of this Code. (Added as Sec. 3.21 by Ord. 216-05, File No. 050920, App. 8/19/2005; amended and redesignated by Ord. 99-26, File No. 260217, App. 5/29/2026, Eff. 6/29/2026)

(Former Sec. 5.12-1 added by Ord. 235-16, File No. 161033, App. 11/22/2016, Eff. 12/22/2016; expired 2/28/2019)

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