Matt Haney

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Matt Haney
Matt Haney, official portrait, 2020 (from sfbos.org).jpg
Haney in 2020
Member of the
San Francisco Board of Supervisors
from District 6
Assumed office
January 8, 2019
Preceded byJane Kim
Personal details
Born
Matthew Craig Haney

(1982-04-17) April 17, 1982 (age 39)
California
Political partyDemocratic
ResidenceSan Francisco, California
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley (BA)
Stanford Graduate School of Education (MA)
Stanford Law School (JD)
OccupationPolitician
Websitesfbos.org/supervisor-haney-district-6

Matthew Craig Haney (born April 17, 1982) is an American politician from San Francisco. A progressive member of the Democratic Party, Haney served as a commissioner on the San Francisco Board of Education from 2013 until his election to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in November 2018. He represents District 6 (Tenderloin, Civic Center, Mid-Market, SOMA, Yerba Buena, Rincon Hill, South Beach, Mission Bay, Treasure Island). He is a candidate for the 2022 California 17th State Assembly district special election.

Early life and education[]

Haney was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended public schools in Albany, California.[1] His mother Kris Calvin served on the school board of South Pasadena, California.[2]

He has a Bachelor of Arts in 2005 from the University of California, Berkeley, and an LL.M in human rights from the National University of Ireland, where he was a Senator George Mitchell Scholar.[3] He has a Master of Arts in 2010 from the Stanford Graduate School of Education and a JD in 2010 from Stanford Law School.[4] Haney worked at both the Stanford Design School and at the JFK School of Law, and Sociology at Palo Alto University, where he taught education law.[5] Haney taught Education Law at the JFK School of Law in addition to teaching Sociology at Palo Alto University and served as a Fellow and Adjunct Faculty at the Stanford Design School.[6]

Early career[]

After graduating from UC Berkeley in 2005, Haney was a legislative aide for California State Senator Joe Simitian.[3] He was the executive director of the UC Student Association.[3]

Haney is the former National Policy Director for The Dream Corps.[7] In 2015, he co-founded #cut50, an Oakland-based national nonprofit designed to end mass incarceration, with Van Jones and Jessica Jackson.[5][8]

San Francisco School Board[]

In April 2012, Haney announced his candidacy for the San Francisco Board of Education election for one of four open seats.[2] He was elected in the November 2012 San Francisco general election, placing fourth behind three incumbents. Haney replaced Norman Yee, who forgone re-election to run for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

Upon his election, Haney was the youngest member of the commission and one of the only members of an urban school board in California under the age of 35.[3] Prior to his election, he served two years on San Francisco Unified School District’s Public Education Enrichment Fund Community Advisory Committee and Restorative Justice Committee.[1]

Haney, Sandra Lee Fewer, and Shamann Walton authored a resolution that required the district's food vendor to disclose the origin of their food products. It passed with a unanimous vote in May 2016.[9]

While serving as president of the school board, Haney proposed on Twitter that George Washington High School should be renamed to honor poet Maya Angelou, an alumna of the school. He cited objections to George Washington's role as a slaveowner.[10] He also proposed removing but not painting over the Life of Washington mural by Victor Arnautoff inside of the school. He cited his objection to its depiction of slavery and dead Native Americans.[11] Haney and Commissioner Stevon Cook co-authored a resolution in 2018 to establish a panel to examine schools which schools to rename.[12]

Haney introduced a resolution calling for the end of the current all-choice-based student assignment system. [13]

President Barack Obama endorsed Haney during his re-election campaign in 2016. It was one of the 150 endorsements he made the weekend prior to the 2016 United States elections. Haney was previously a volunteer for Obama's 2008 presidential campaign but had not sought out the endorsement.[14]

San Francisco Supervisor[]

In September 2017, Haney filed to run in the 2018 San Francisco Board of Supervisors election to represent District 6.[15]

Haney was elected Supervisor for District 6 on November 6, 2018, receiving 14,249 first preference votes (56.24 percent of all valid votes).[16] After allocation of preferences from eliminated candidates in San Francisco's ranked-choice voting system, Haney received 63.12 percent of final-round votes, compared to 36.88 percent for runner-up Christine Johnson, a former planning commissioner.[17][18] Haney was sworn in at the Board of Supervisors' January 8, 2019 meeting, replacing Jane Kim, who was ineligible to run for re-election after two four-year terms.

A progressive majority was created upon his and Gordon Mar's election to the board.[19]

Housing[]

Haney initially opposed state bill SB 35, that streamlined housing production in cities that were falling short of state-mandated minimums but later came to support the bill.[20]

In October 2021, Haney harshly criticized his fellow members on the board after they declined to approve the construction of a 495-unit apartment complex on a parking lot next to a BART station.[21] That same month, Haney voted against the construction of 316 micro-homes in Tenderloin, 13.5% of which would have been designated as affordable housing.[22]

Business[]

In 2020, Haney authored the nation’s first ‘Overpaid CEO Tax’ (Proposition L). The tax charges companies in San Francisco a 0.1% surcharge on their annual business taxes if their top executives earn more than 100 times more than their ‘typical local worker’.[23] The measure is one of the first in the country to address growing income inequality between workers and CEOs in the United States. This Proposition was passed during the 2020 elections with 65.18%.[24]

Haney wrote an opinion piece in the San Francisco Chronicle endorsing a No vote on 2020 California Proposition 22.[25] The proposition would have granted app-based transportation and delivery companies like DoorDash, Uber, Lyft and other gig-economy companies an exception to Assembly Bill 5 by classifying their drivers as "independent contractors".

New Department of Sanitation[]

Haney introduced Proposition B, which amends San Francisco’s Charter to form the Department of Sanitation and Streets by splitting it from the San Francisco Department of Public Works, in 2020. It would also create the Sanitation and Streets Commission and a Public Works Commission to provide oversight to the departments. The Board of Supervisors placed it on the ballot with a 7 to 4 vote. Proposition B passed in the November 2020 elections with 200,251 voters or 60.87%.[26]

Healthcare[]

Haney supported opening a safe injection site in his district by the Tenderloin district.[27] Haney represents the Tenderloin and SoMa, two districts most impacted by fatal drug overdoses within the city.[28]

Personal life[]

Haney has a brother and a sister. His sister Erin Haney is senior counsel for #cut50, a nonprofit he cofounded.[29]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Rookie San Francisco Board of Education member Matt Haney prepares to face daunting tasks". The San Francisco Examiner. December 18, 2012. Retrieved June 27, 2021.
  2. ^ a b Thomas, Luke (April 13, 2012). "Matt Haney Declares Candidacy for School Board". Fog City Journal. Retrieved June 27, 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d "Matt Haney (d.school fellow 2013-2014)". The Whiteboard. Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. Archived from the original on September 15, 2015. Retrieved June 27, 2021.
  4. ^ https://sfbos.org/supervisor-haney-overview
  5. ^ a b SF BoS 2019.
  6. ^ https://sfbos.org/supervisor-haney-overview
  7. ^ Swan, Rachel; Fracassa, Dominic (September 20, 2017). "In SF's District Six race, Haney is in while Angulo is out". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  8. ^ Canon, Gabrielle (November 29, 2019). "Jessica Jackson, a single mom from California, took on the prison system — and changed her life". USA Today. Retrieved January 30, 2021.
  9. ^ Barba, Michael (May 26, 2016). "SFUSD wants its food suppliers to fork over meal sources". The San Francisco Examiner. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
  10. ^ Andrews, Travis M. (September 9, 2016). "No 'slave owners': San Francisco school board chief threatened after call to rename George Washington H.S." Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  11. ^ Tucker, Jill; Wu, Gwendolyn (April 8, 2019). "Offensive or important? Debate flares anew over SF school mural depicting slavery". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  12. ^ Knight, Heather (January 12, 2021). "Effort to rename S.F. schools could have been history lesson, but it placed politics over learning". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  13. ^ "Two S.F. School Board Members to Introduce Resolution to End 'Lottery' System". KQED. Retrieved December 19, 2021.
  14. ^ Barba, Michael (November 7, 2016). "President Obama endorses SF school board candidate". The San Francisco Examiner. Retrieved June 27, 2021.
  15. ^ Swan, Rachel; Fracassa, Dominic (September 20, 2017). "In SF's District Six race, Haney is in while Angulo is out". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  16. ^ SF Elections 2018a.
  17. ^ SF Elections 2018b.
  18. ^ Thadani, Trisha (November 28, 2018). "SF declares supervisor race winners: Stefani, Mar, Haney, Mandelman, Walton". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  19. ^ "After SF Progressives Win Big, a Shift in Dynamics at City Hall". KQED. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  20. ^ Haney, Matt (September 15, 2020). "Vote no on Prop. 22 to protect drivers and customers". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  21. ^ Bote, Joshua (October 27, 2021). "SF Mayor Breed blasts supes over parking lot housing vote". SFGATE. Retrieved October 27, 2021.
  22. ^ Dineen, J. K. (October 6, 2021). "S.F. supes say no to 316 micro-homes in Tenderloin over fear they would become 'tech dorms'". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved October 27, 2021.
  23. ^ "San Francisco passes 'Overpaid Executive Tax'". NBC News. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  24. ^ Sault, Laurence Du (November 4, 2020). "San Francisco voters approve first-in-the-nation CEO tax that targets income gap". CalMatters. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  25. ^ Haney, Matt (September 15, 2020). "Vote no on Prop. 22 to protect drivers and customers". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  26. ^ "Voters backing Prop. B, which creates a new sanitation department". The San Francisco Examiner. November 4, 2020. Retrieved June 27, 2021.
  27. ^ Thadani, Trisha (November 16, 2021). "S.F. working to open supervised drug use site by spring, possibly in building near the Tenderloin". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved December 9, 2021.
  28. ^ Thadani, Trisha (October 14, 2021). "S.F. Mayor Breed is facing pressure to declare the overdose crisis a health emergency. Would it help?". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  29. ^ Fracassa, Dominic (November 21, 2018). "With a few votes left to count in SF election, leaders remain the leaders". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved December 12, 2021.

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