City Administrator's April 2024 Newsletter

City Administrator Carmen Chu joins the Mayor and other female leaders of City departments to honor Women's History Month in March.  

Grants for the Arts will officially release its Request for Proposals (RFP) and grant application for the City’s Fiscal Years 2025 and 2026 (FY25-FY26) on Friday, April 26, 2024. 

The application will go live on GFTA's website on April 26.

Application Deadline: Friday, June 7, 2024, 12:00 NOON PST 

Thanks to the great work of our City Hall Building Management team and the Real Estate Division, a new café has opened in City Hall!

Located on the ground floor (by the Grove Street loading dock entrance), Café Melange (pronounced as “muh laanj”, meaning a composition made of miscellaneous mixtures) brings together the rich, eclectic flavors of the African diaspora from our City’s 3rd Street-Bayview corridor to City Hall!

Café Melange has soft launched this month with temporary opening hours from 8am to 3pm, Tues to Thurs. They are featuring a pop-up menu from Radio Africa & Kitchen, Gumbo Social, Tallio’s Coffee & Tea, and Yvonne's Southern Sweets.

Starting in mid-April, the café will open five days per week with a full menu. To learn more, visit https://cafemelangesf.com/

The Moscone Convention Center hosts events that bring visitors from across the country and around the world to San Francisco. Take a look at some of the conferences coming soon to San Francisco.

6/03/24 - 6/06/24 Snowflake Summit

6/10/24 - 6/13/24 Databricks, Inc. - Data + AI Summit

6/23/24 - 6/27/24 Association for Computing Machinery - DAC Conference 

6/26/24 - 6/27/24 Figma, Inc. Config   

7/09/24 - 7/11/24 SEMICON West

Congratulations to our SF Animal Care and Control Team for receiving the Good Government Award from SPUR, this award recognizes their leadership, vision, and ability to make a difference - both within city government and in the community at large! As the pandemic slowed down, shelters across the country moved from a surge in adoptions to a backlog of large dogs that are very difficult to place. Recognizing this challenge the team shifted focus to discourage surrenders by offering families help with veterinary care, pet food, and waiving service fees.

Through innovative approaches and strategic partnerships, the team successfully deterred surrenders of animals and provided vital support to pet guardians, saving both resources and preventing animals from entering the shelter system.

The City and County of San Francisco is offering free tax prep help for those earning $64,000 or less. This program supports local families, including immigrants, in accessing vital tax credits before the April 15 deadline. Don't miss out on potential refunds and credits for expenses like utilities, rent, food, and childcare— visit the San Francisco Human Services Agency's website to learn more and get assistance at neighborhood locations now and maximize your returns! 

The Community Challenge Grants (CCG) program is working with our local community to be #bettertogether. 

This grant cycle, CCG's application cycle is expected to open in July 2024 and close in January 2025. 

The Community Challenge Grant program recently completed a series of focus groups to inform the future of the program. Over 50 community members representing all eleven supervisorial districts attended the focus groups in March. Over half of the attendees had never applied to the program, reflecting positively on outreach efforts.

This open process continues Community Challenge Grants' history of partnership between local government and community members to improve neighborhood spaces. Learn more at sf.gov/ccg. 

Click the graphic below to see the Office of Transgender Initiatives new video highlighting the stories of San Francisco's Transgender, Gender Non-Conforming, Intersex, and 2-Spirit (TGNCI2S) communities!