Chief Operating Officer San Francisco Public Library
San Francisco's voters approved the third renewal of the Library's primary funding source, the Library Preservation Fund, in November 2022 and even extended it beyond its traditional time frame to secure stable funding for the next 25 years. But the 2022 renewal was anything but assured, coming immediately after a global pandemic that shut down the library system in favor of needed public health emergency services, and in a political climate with a slowing economy that was casting a wary eye on budget set-aside funding for city departments. Find out how library leaders laid the foundation with excellent service delivery, leveraged a strong partnership with its Friends group, and navigated unprecedented operational challenges in a polarized political environment to gain unanimous support from the Mayor's Office and the Board of Supervisors for a ballot measure that ran unopposed on the ballot.
