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Where do you stand on the issues and likely ballot propositions in the upcoming June election?

This survey reviews the ballot propositions that will likely be on the ballot in San Francisco.

You can find more information at the Department of Elections website. Candidates are listed here, and Ballot initiatives are listed here.

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JUNE 2026 BALLOT MEASURES

If you were voting today, how would you likely vote on these measures? 

 

PROP A: Earthquake Safety and Emergency Response

(General Obligation Bond, Needs ⅔ of voter support to pass)

How it got on the ballot: Mayor; Mandelman, Dorsey, Wong, Mahmood, Sauter, Chen, Chan, Sherrill, and Melgar

Background: Voters already passed Prop L in 2022 to extend the city’s existing half-cent sales tax for transportation for 30 more years and helps fund transit and street projects, including work tied to the Potrero Yard Modernization Project.

This $535 million general obligation bond is framed as an earthquake safety and emergency response measure. Nearly 40% of the bond, $200 million, is directed to a single project Potrero Yard Bus Storage and Maintenance Facility to replace the existing 110-year-old Potrero bus storage and maintenance facility with a new seismically resilient transit facility.

Funds would be divided across five categories:

$130M — Emergency Firefighting Water System
$100M — Firefighting Facilities and Infrastructure
$72M — Police Facilities and Infrastructure
$200M — Potrero Yard / Muni Bus Storage and Maintenance Facility
$33M — Other Public Safety Facilities and Infrastructure

A key distinction in the measure is that Potrero Yard is the only clearly identified, environmentally cleared project in the bond text. The ordinance ties that $200 million allocation to the already defined “modified project” for Potrero Yard, which has already gone through environmental review and Board findings. By contrast, the other major categories are broader buckets whose eventual projects would still be subject to later planning, approval, and, in several cases, future environmental review. The ordinance also states that the proposed uses in Section 3 are “subject, without limitation, to review and revision by the Mayor and the Board.” That means Potrero Yard appears to be the bond’s most concrete and farthest-advanced commitment, while much of the rest of the funding is not tied to specific completed project lists in the ordinance itself.

The bond would last up to 30 years, with an estimated average tax rate of $7.45 per $100,000 of assessed value and estimated annual revenues of $35.9 million. It also authorizes landlords to pass through 50% of the resulting property tax increase, if any, to tenants in covered units.

The measure includes oversight and transparency requirements, including annual review by the Citizens’ General Obligation Bond Oversight Committee and public reporting on bond progress.

 

Prop B: Lifetime Term Limits for Mayor and Members of the Board of Supervisors

Charter Amendment, Needs a Simple Majority to Pass

How it got on the ballot: Sponsored by Supervisors Mahmood, Melgar, Sherrill, Dorsey, Sauter, and Wong

This measure would permanently tighten San Francisco’s term-limit rules for the offices of Mayor and Supervisor by changing them from consecutive term limits to lifetime term limits.

Today, elected officials can serve two terms, leave office for four years, and then return to run again for the same position. This measure would end that practice. A person who has already served two terms as Mayor or two terms as Supervisor would generally be barred from returning to that office.

The measure does include a transition carveout for current Supervisors and for anyone elected Supervisor on June 2, 2026, allowing them to finish their term even if they would otherwise exceed the new lifetime cap.

Background on Prop C and Prop D

Voters passed Prop L in 2020 which taxed companies with revenue of $5M or more if their CEO was paid more than 100 times that of the median salary of employees in San Francisco.

Voters passed Prop M in 2024 which lowered the tax rate for the Prop L companies while keeping the tax in place. This was done to aid economic recovery post-pandemic and keep businesses from leaving San Francisco

Prop C: Small Business and Economic Recovery Act

How it got on the ballot: Prop C reached the ballot through the citizen initiative process. The initiative proponent is Rodney Fong, President/CEO of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, and supported by the Bay Area Council, Golden Gate Restaurant Association, Hotel Council of San Francisco, and the SF Tech Council.

Proposition C would change the City’s business taxes to:

- Exempt most businesses with up to $7.5 million in San Francisco gross receipts from the Gross Receipts Tax and the Top Executive Pay Tax. This would mainly affect small businesses.

- Accelerate the 2028 Top Executive Pay Tax increase to apply in 2027.

- Increase tax rates to 2020 levels

These changes would apply indefinitely until repealed, subject to adjustments based on the Consumer Price Index. Tax revenues would be available for general governmental purposes and are not specifically earmarked for healthcare.

If Proposition C passes with more votes than Proposition D, then Proposition D would have no legal effect.

This measure would eliminate the reduction in business taxes that voters passed in 2024 and increase them to 2020 levels and make that increase happen sooner. Most businesses with between $5M and $7.5M in revenue would be exempt from the tax.

Prop D: Increases to Business Tax Based on Comparison of Top Executive’s Pay to Employees’ Pay

How this got on the ballot: Prop D reached the ballot through the citizen initiative process. StandUp for SF https://www.standupforsf.com/ collected the signatures, and they are backed by SEIU, United Educators of San Francisco, San Francisco Building & Construction Trades Council, UFCW Local 648, and other labor groups.

This measure would substantially increase San Francisco’s existing Top Executive Pay Tax and lock those increases in more tightly by taking away the Board of Supervisors’ ability to reduce the tax without going back to voters.

Beginning in 2027, Proposition D would change the City’s business taxes to:

Impose the Top Executive Pay Tax on businesses with over $5M in revenue when their Top Executive earns more than 100 times the median compensation paid to their employees.

Calculate this median compensation using the compensation of worldwide employees, not just those based in San Francisco.

Increase the Top Executive Pay Tax rates for most businesses to between 0.183% and 1.121% of their San Francisco gross receipts.

Increase the Top Executive Pay Tax rates for businesses who pay the tax based on their San Francisco payroll expense instead of their gross receipts to between 0.75% and 4.47%.

The proposed measure also would prohibit the Board of Supervisors from reducing the Top Executive Pay Tax without voter approval.

These changes would apply indefinitely until repealed. Tax revenues would be available for general governmental purposes and are not earmarked for healthcare or any other specific program.  This proposal would increase the City’s spending limit for four years.

If Proposition D passes with more votes than Proposition C , then Proposition C would have no legal effect.

This proposition would increase the tax rates for qualifying companies beyond what voters passed in 2020, and then reduced 16 months ago.