Candidates for Assessor-Recorder

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PAUL BELLAR

My occupation is Teacher / Real-Estate Appraiser.

My qualifications are:

San Francisco is in a major housing crisis, the likes of which have not been seen in generations. Elected officials, like Assessor/Recorder, have a duty to step up during times of crisis to innovate and work to solve the problems their constituents are facing. This is what I plan to do and is why I am running for County Assessor/Recorder.

When I arrived 15 years ago, San Francisco welcomed me with open arms, even with my meager salary as a public school teacher. As a result, I was able to meet my wife, start a family and make San Francisco our home. If we, along with many long-term residents, were to arrive today, we would not be as fortunate.

Now, with my own company that specializes in San Francisco housing, I have seen how this office can help ease San Francisco’s housing crisis. I will leverage my 8 years of housing experience as a real estate appraiser, in addition to my 18 years as a public school educator, to take the role of Assessor/ Recorder in a new direction and focus it on housing solutions.

Paul Bellar

CARMEN CHU

My occupation is Assessor Recorder.

My qualifications are:

I’ve focused on transforming the Assessor’s office to deliver nearly $3 billion in annual revenue for vital city services including public education, housing, public safety, senior services, and street cleaning.

Raising Bar on Accountability

• Eliminating backlogs and resolving appeals; generated over half a billion dollars above expectations to fund our most pressing challenges like affordable housing, safety, street maintenance, homeless navigation centers.

• Closed loopholes to hold the largest corporations responsible for paying their fair share – $38 million in underreported transfer taxes identified.

• Implemented performance tools and streamlined processes to remove barriers to building more housing.

Office Modernization

• Launched online filing and recording; redesigned website for better customer service.

• 2.6 million historical records transitioned from paper to searchable digital files; data safeguarded for disaster recovery.

• Overhauling dated tax system for greater transparency and efficiency.

Serving Community

• Helped over 800, mostly monolingual families, access free counseling from financial and legal professionals.

• Connected low and middle-income families to foreclosure prevention services.

• Introduced legislation extending tax benefits for locally registered domestic partners who previously didn’t have the opportunity to marry.

Proud to be endorsed by Mayor London Breed, Senator Scott Wiener, Supervisor Aaron Peskin, Sheriff Vicki Hennessy.

I respectfully ask for your vote.

www.CarmenChu.org

Carmen Chu