(a) If, in complying with the City's obligations to provide for citizen participation under U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ("HUD") Consolidated Planning regulations, the Mayor convenes a citizen's committee, the committee shall be called the Citizen's Committee on Community Development ("Committee") and shall be governed by this Section.
(b) Purpose. The Committee shall be an advisory body whose purpose is to make recommendations to the Mayor and Board of Supervisors on HUD-based funding allocations and policy matters directly related to community development efforts in the City. For purposes of this Section, "community development" means a planned effort or program that increases the capacity of low- and moderate-income people to improve their quality of life.
(c) Duties. The Committee's duties shall include the following:
(1) Make policy recommendations to the Mayor and the Board of Supervisors on the development and implementation of a comprehensive community development structure and strategy for the City. In developing such recommendations, the Committee shall address (1) government structure, including coordination between City boards, commissions and advisory bodies with overlapping programmatic jurisdiction pertaining to community development, (2) citizen oversight and community participation, and (3) strengthening the capacity of community-based organizations that serve low- and moderate-income communities.
(2) Provide for citizen participation and oversight in the development of the City's consolidated planning process that satisfies the requirements of the HUD Consolidated Planning regulations, as amended from time to time.
(3) Make annual funding recommendations to the Mayor and Board of Supervisors for the HUD entitlement resources of Community Development Block Grants ("CDBG") and Emergency Shelter Grants ("ESG"), in accordance with all HUD requirements, as amended from time to time.
(4) Establish a regular Committee public meeting schedule, which shall consist of no less than six public meetings per year.
(d) Committee Membership. The Committee shall consist of nine members. The Mayor shall have exclusive power to appoint five members of the Committee; the Board of Supervisors shall have exclusive power to appoint four members. The Mayor's appointees shall have professional expertise in one or more of the following areas of community development: community development finance, affordable housing, small business development, microenterprise, homelessness, neighborhood planning, workforce development, social services, technical assistance to community-based service providers, and capital projects and public space improvement. In making its appointments to the Commission, the Board of Supervisors shall give consideration to the ability of its appointees to reflect and advance the concerns and needs of low-income neighborhoods and/or communities in the City.
No person who is either employed by or serves on the governing board of any entity that has a CDBG or ESG grant application pending with the City shall be eligible to serve as a member.
To stagger the terms of the members, the initial appointments to the Committee shall be as follows: the Mayor shall appoint three members to serve terms of two years, two members to serve terms of one year. The Board of Supervisors shall appoint two members to serve terms of two years, two members to serve terms of one year. Thereafter, all members shall serve for two-year terms.
Members shall serve fixed terms and may be removed for cause. Vacancies shall be filled by the appointing authority.
In addition, the following individuals, or their designee, shall serve ex officio as non-voting members of the Committee: the Director of Economic and Workforce Development Department and the Director of the Mayor's Office of Housing. The Director of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, or his or her designee, may also serve ex officio as a non-voting member of the Committee.
(e) Attendance. The Committee Chair shall monitor the attendance of the Committee. Any Committee member who misses three regular or subcommittee meetings within a calendar year, whether excused or unexcused, will receive an inquiry from the Chair. If the same member has two or more additional unexcused absences, he or she will be deemed to have resigned from the Committee and will be notified of separation from the Committee by the Chair.
(f) Staffing. The Committee shall be staffed primarily by the Mayor's Office of Housing, or its successor. As needed, additional staff support shall be provided by City departments that administer and oversee CDBG or ESG grants.
(Added by Ord. 212-09, File No. 090909, App. 10/6/2009)
