(a) In 1999, the Board of Supervisors created the Single Room Occupancy Health, Stabilization and Safety Task Force in response to a rash of fires that resulted in over 900 single room occupancy (SRO) units being eliminated from the housing market due to fire since 1988. In 2006, in Resolution No. 459-06, the Board reconfigured the Task Force, renamed it the SRO Task Force, reduced its membership from 32 to 13 voting members and a Chair who votes only in the event of a tie vote, and extended its sunset date to December 31, 2009. In 2009, in Resolution No. 457-09, the Board changed the membership of the Task Force again, increasing its size to 14 voting members and a non-voting Chair, and extended its sunset date to December 31, 2012. In 2010, in Resolution No. 582-10, the Board eliminated the non-voting Chair. In 2013, in Resolution No. 09-13, the Board again extended the sunset date to December 31, 2015. This Article XXVIII codifies the Task Force in the Administrative Code.
(b) During its existence, the SRO Task Force has been successful in fulfilling its original mission of preventing and improving the City's response to SRO fires, and has expanded its goals to include quality of life issues faced by residents of SRO hotels.
