Home Stretch for Climate Funding: Speak to the Board!

Mayor Breed has presented her budget to the Board of Supervisors, and while it restores the funds she had threatened to cut from the Department of Environment (a victory, though small), it comes nowhere near the 1% of the City budget that a response to the climate emergency needs. Now the Mayor’s budget goes to the Budget and Appropriations Committee (Supervisors Haney, Safai, Mar, Ronen, Walton) for two hearings, and so will we!

Our proposal is to dedicate at least 1% of the City’s total 2021-2 budget (approximately $130 million) to new programs for equitable climate change mitigation and adaptation (read more about it here), including:
  • $335 thousand to analyze the costs and resources required to implement an emergency response to the climate crisis, as well as to identify potential funding streams
  • An initial grant of $1 million to kick-start a Clean Energy Equity Hub, to provide workforce training, outreach, and education in order to catalyze our zero-emissions buildings future
  • The bulk of the funds on programs that will add jobs, improve equity, and reduce emissions, such as an electrification retrofits pilot in disadvantaged communities, a pilot program subsidizing low and moderate-income residents to buy and/or rent bicycles and electric micromobility, and grants for community groups to advance the causes of climate equity and justice
Speak up with us and our allies to let the Mayor and the Board of Supervisors know they need to allot far more to deal with the existential risk of climate change and to do so in a way that puts equity at its center.
Sign up to testify, then leave your number in the form and we’ll text you when the comment period begins. There are three dates:
  1. Monday, June 14, 10:00am
  2. Monday, June 21, 10:00am
  3. Friday, June 25, TBD
You can also write to your Supervisor and the Budget and Appropriations Committee to let them know they must act.
We hold regular constituent meetings with members of the Board of Supervisors, the Department of the Environment, and the Mayor’s office to help keep them on track to meet the demands of the Climate Emergency.

We aim to support affected communities and concerned citizens from all parts of San Francisco in making their voices heard on climate issues by scheduling constituent meetings, and by alerting our network of members and allies about opportunities to contribute to task forces, give public comment at committee hearings, and more.

​To get more involved, join us using the form below, or contact us!