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How did the city spend $600K on a women’s conference? Massages, hotels, and a fashion show

San Francisco is famous for <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2025/03/27/san-francisco-kimberly-ellis-tahoe-department-status-women/">burning taxpayer cash in weird ways</a>, but a policy summit held by the Department on the Status of Women last spring may have set a new standard by lighting more than $600,000 ablaze while also potentially violating city rules, according to documents obtained by The Standard.



The department has received scathing criticism for more than a week since its director, Kimberly Ellis, was placed on paid leave pending an investigation. Sources say an internal investigation dating back to last year led to the suspension, which is related to unapproved political work she did outside of City Hall and unusual spending on the department’s “Shift Happens” women’s policy summit in April 2024.&nbsp;



Last summer, The Standard requested records for Shift Happens expenses, and the department provided a spreadsheet showing that it budgeted $700,000 for its main vendor, the women’s political organization Ignite National, which received a no-bid contract to run the event. Department officials alleged they did not retain invoices, receipts, or more vendor information from the conference.&nbsp;



Now we know why.&nbsp;



The Standard obtained a trove of documents showing the department spared no expense on food, flowers, lighting and drapes, a fashion show, a DJ, plane tickets, hotel stays, and speaker fees —&nbsp;including one paid to a member of the department’s own oversight committee.&nbsp;



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Although the conference lasted just eight hours, it cost more than $600,000 — almost $1,000 per attendee — months after city budget officials <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2024/01/17/san-francisco-budget-deficit-1-4-billion-cuts-london-breed/">warned of a more than $1 billion deficit</a>.



Invoices for the Shift Happens conference show that Ellis and a few of her department staffers spent up to three nights that week staying at Hotel Zelos — despite the fact that the conference lasted just one day. The department also picked up the hotel tab for conference guests and speakers, collectively racking up $7,656 in charges, and paid for airfare and transportation for out-of-town attendees.



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Additionally, a review of invoices sent to the department by Ignite’s chief operating officer, Amanda Conlee, found what appear to be inconsistencies in the way tens of thousands of dollars in administrative costs were billed to the city.&nbsp;When contacted Friday afternoon, Conlee said she had no comment and immediately hung up.



Ignite has previous financial connections to Ellis: Her consulting firm, Southern Belle Strategies, received more than $10,000 for the group in 2020, according to financial disclosures.



The Standard’s inspection of invoices for the Shift Happens conference found other notable charges:



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<li>$113,685 on audio-video, photo marketing, and promotional materials by Point Studio Inc.: A look at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@sanfranciscodept.onthestat5343/videos">the Department on the Status of Women’s YouTube page</a> shows that videos from the 2024 summit were first posted less than three weeks ago.</li>



<li>$78,666 on food and beverages: Charges include $4,896 for Peet&#8217;s Coffee; $4,608 for candy bars, chips, and cookies; $240 for 16 bottles of sparkling 750ml Perrier bottles priced at $15 each; and $160 for three gallons of cucumber-flavored water.</li>



<li>$65,000 to Projection Presentation Technology: The audio-visual company noted in its invoice that it was giving the department a discount of $13,680.</li>



<li>$19,994 to Island Creative Management for lighting and drapes</li>



<li>$10,047 for floral arrangements by Belle &amp; Trunk Flowers</li>



<li>$5,000 for DJ Hey Love, who keeps the party going with “jazz, R&amp;B, downtempo, broken beat, house, bossa nova, afro beat &amp; hip-hop,” according to the artist’s website</li>



<li>$3,119 to WhoVa, an event management app for check-in: The invoice said it could support up to 1,500 guests. A list shows 624 attendees.&nbsp;</li>



<li>$2,500 to Taylor Joy to arrange a 30-minute fashion show. Taylor Joy also designed former <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=496227525044574">Mayor London Breed’s look</a> for the 2021 premiere of “The Matrix Resurrections.”</li>



<li>$2,000 for massage therapists: An invoice shows one of the therapists was told each massage session should only last seven to eight minutes.</li>



<li>$2,000 for spoken word and traditional blessing performances</li>



<li>$1,210 for makeup and hair styling services</li>



<li>$1,950 for a photo booth</li>
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Documents show the department spent up to $16,500 on honorariums for speakers, some of whom were city officials. Receipts show Sophia Andary, who leads the commission that oversees the Department on the Status of Women, received a $1,000 speaker fee from the conference. 



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Andary, who disclosed the payment in her financial disclosure forms, discussed Ellis’ role as the department’s director in a closed-session meeting with other commission members this week.&nbsp;The group voted to keep the March 26 discussion confidential, and Andary declined to answer The Standard’s questions about the speaking fee, deferring to the city attorney’s office.&nbsp;



Other speakers included Elmy Bermejo, a member of the Commission on the Environment, and youth commissioner Jason Fong. As for the hotel stays, it’s not clear whether Ellis obtained permission to expense overnight stays in the local area. However, city officials previously confirmed that she failed to get approval for outside employment with Power PAC, a political organization her department funded.&nbsp;



Ellis has a history of mixing friendships and city contracts. The department paid behavior coach Christina Harbridge, a “dear friend” of Ellis, $85,000 for work described as a series of trainings, according to <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2025/03/27/san-francisco-kimberly-ellis-tahoe-department-status-women/">an investigation</a> published Thursday. Ellis did not disclose her relationship with Harbridge to the city.&nbsp;



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Ellis revealed in an amended financial disclosure form in late 2024 that she had received $19,350 in payments to her consulting company from Power PAC. Since 2022, Ellis’ department has provided approximately $120,000 in contracts to Power PAC’s nonprofit affiliate.



Ellis’ salary as head of the department totaled $227,556, city records show.



Ellis joined the department in 2020, and since then, 24 people have parted ways from what’s now an eight-person department. The Standard interviewed almost a dozen former employees who described a culture of “surveillance, fear, and bullying.” Three employees have filed grievances with their union about the workplace culture, and at least two ex-workers received settlements from the city.

‘Super disappointed’: SF Juvenile Hall’s future in limbo

Two years after San Francisco’s juvenile hall was slated to close, questions remain over how that closure might come to fruition. The city may instead build a new detention center on the same site, a reflection of California’s decision to close state detention facilities as much as philosophical questions over how to handle young offenders.



Under a 2019 plan, the 150-bed juvenile detention center near Twin Peaks was slated to close after the city recorded a big drop in youth crime. Only a year later, California moved to <a href="https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/djj-realignment/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">shut down state-run youth prisons</a>, proposing to send violent offenders back to their respective counties—a decision that called into question San Francisco’s ability to close its facility.&nbsp;



At a Youth Commission hearing on Monday, city officials reported 29 kids in juvenile detention. Of those, 23 are there on a short-term basis, with a median stay of less than a week. Only six are there long-term, per court order. In spite of that small population, a stay in juvenile hall is hardly easy: In January, <a href="https://develop.sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/attempted-suicide-san-francisco-juvenile-hall-jails/">a 14-year-old detainee attempted suicide</a>, prompting renewed calls for the facility to close at last.&nbsp;



Monday’s meeting saw a conflict between two visions of the future of juvenile detention. Grappling with whether or not to completely transform the existing structure into a rehabilitation center on the same site, city officials clashed with community organizers who criticized a lack of youth voices with direct experience in the carceral system. With perceptions about increased crime growing, the discussion touched on topics like how to separate different groups of young offenders, and how many beds the future sites may need.



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San Francisco’s Chief Juvenile Probation Officer Katherine Miller cautioned against limiting the number of beds to 30. Juvenile hall must have sufficient space, not only to separate kids who don’t get along but also to ensure they aren’t sent to another county for want of room.



“Local jurisdictions have to now figure out what the resolutions are,” Miller said. “There’s a lot of room between what the state tells us we have to do and what we can come up with.”



Mayor London Breed’s administration has allocated sufficient funding to hire an architect to do preliminary designs, but Miller said there’s not enough <a href="https://develop.sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/breed-backed-plan-would-build-new-juvie-over-rubble-of-the-old-despite-calls-to-end-youth-incarceration/">to construct an entirely new facility</a>. To do that, the city would have to start at square one.



Tracy Gallardo, a legislative aide to Supervisor Shamann Walton who was once detained in juvenile hall, is in the camp pushing for a separate rehabilitation facility for kids. She cites the current juvenile justice system&#8217;s lack of mental health beds, group homes and diversion practices to keep minors who haven’t been convicted of violent crimes out of jail and in community programs that provide crisis intervention and case management.



“We know there needs to be a place, because kids commit crimes,” Gallardo said. “What we’re saying is there should be a facility that is a rehabilitative model. I am super disappointed at where we’re at today.”



The Youth Commission, a 17-person body composed of people aged 12 to 23 that advises the Board of Supervisors, sought answers on the diversion attempts by the District Attorney’s Office to prevent youth from being detained at the current facility. The Public Defender’s Office said charge filings have gone up and diversion referrals are down since Brooke Jenkins replaced Chesa Boudin in June 2022.&nbsp;



“There’s a lack of transparency, quite frankly, about what’s happening to these kids that aren’t being referred to these diversion programs,” said Emily Nguyen, chair of the Youth Commission, at the meeting.&nbsp;



Tiffany Sutton, who oversees the juvenile division at the District Attorney’s Office, said she and her colleagues are trying to find additional partners for diversion programs.&nbsp;



Jenkins “is very focused on concentrating on prevention and intervention before a youth even gets to our office,” Sutton said. “If we can prevent youth from even coming in front of a judge, we’ve won 100% of the battle.”



Frustration with the unfulfilled promises was also evident at Monday’s hearing.&nbsp;



“There has been a critical lack of community input in this process,” said Lucero Herrera, lead organizer with the Young Women’s Freedom Center. “<a href="https://www.sfweekly.com/archives/lift-us-up-don-t-lock-us-down-the-battle-to-close-juvenile-hall/article_a6edf79d-88fe-5613-bd6b-dfb54603021e.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">From the beginning of our campaign to shutter juvenile hall</a>, we have been clear that it is impossible to do so meaningfully and transformatively, without the voices of young people who have been directly impacted.”&nbsp;

San Francisco may revive youth sexual assault task force

Over a year after San Francisco students protested en masse over responses to sexual assault and harassment, the city may bring back its youth sexual assault task force.



The task force will bring together students, service providers and city agencies to analyze best practices, and would issue annual reports on findings and recommendations for all education institutions in the city, this time lasting three years. The revival plan is set to be introduced by Supervisor Myrna Melgar at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors’ meeting.&nbsp;



“Despite many student walkouts urging officials to address the issues of sexual assault and harassment, there has been little progress, and the issue continues to run rampant in San Francisco schools,” said Emily Nguyen, chair of San Francisco Youth Commission in a statement. “Reinstating the Safer Schools Task Force will ensure the needed coordination and efforts to address this issue.”&nbsp;



A <a href="https://develop.sfstandard.com/education/metoo-2-0-sf-teens-organize-to-challenge-status-quo-of-high-school-sexual-assault-policies/">series of protests erupted</a> in late 2021 over administrative responses to sexual assault and harassment. Students at the time demanded a safe reporting process, a support system for survivors, established consequences for alleged perpetrators and better transparency around federal civil rights under Title IX.



<a href="https://develop.sfstandard.com/education/students-demands-sexual-assault-reforms-san-francisco/">At a hearing in October</a>, students renewed their demands to the San Francisco Unified School District to enshrine consent lessons into health curriculum from young ages, to require mandatory consent orientation for student athletes, and to require <a href="https://develop.sfstandard.com/education/2nd-woman-alleges-sex-abuse-by-ex-george-washington-high-athletic-director/">athletic coaches to undergo the same training</a> as other district employees. Students also called for better access to information about Title IX rights through posters and digital school platforms. 



“A lot of them are pretty frustrated and want to see some action,” said Alondra Esquivel Garcia, director of the Youth Commission. “We’re hoping that if we have this one task force, we’ll have all these decision makers and voices and people who do this for a living. It’s important we let people know there is some effort going on.”



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In its past iteration, the San Francisco Safer Schools Sexual Assault Task Force met for one year in 2017 and culminated in <a href="https://wayback.archive-it.org/org-571/20221203153125/https://sfgov.org/dosw/sites/default/files/Safer%20Schools%20Sexual%20Assault%20Task%20Force%20Report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">47 recommendations for preventing and responding to sexual assault</a>. Recommendations included education around prevention, improved coordination between agencies and services that respond to cases and survivors, and an ongoing task force.&nbsp;



The renewed task force would likely begin to recruit in the summertime, according to Melgar’s office.



“As a mom, I am especially concerned about the safety of our students,” said Melgar in a statement. “Our young people need to feel safe to come forward with a traumatic event, and they will be believed and supported by their schools. As a city, we need to do everything in our power to provide coordinated support to our youth.”

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The Assessment Appeals Board #1 hears property tax assessment appeals in San Francisco. It evaluates evidence presented by taxpayers and the Assessor to determine property values. The Board has the authority to make final decisions on assessments regardless of property type or value.

Assessment Appeals Board #1

Assessment Appeals Board #1 Commissioner 1

Assessment Appeals Board #1 Commissioner 2

Richard Lee

Stephen Wasserman

Adena Gilbert

Paul Bellar

Quirina Mitchell

Hilary Winslow

The Assessment Appeals Board #2 adjudicates property tax assessment appeals for San Francisco taxpayers. It evaluates evidence presented by taxpayers and the Assessor to determine accurate property values. The Board exercises authority to render final decisions on residential properties and specific real estate assessments.

Assessment Appeals Board #2

Assessment Appeals Board #2 Commissioner 1

Assessment Appeals Board #2 Commissioner 2

Assessment Appeals Board #2 Commissioner 3

Claire Ervin Lee

Louisa Mendoza

Joyce Lewis

Nicholas Goldman

Michelle Domingo

The Assessment Appeals Board #3 provides a platform for San Francisco taxpayers to contest property tax assessments. It conducts hearings where evidence from both taxpayers and the Assessor is evaluated. The Board makes binding decisions on property assessments based on presented evidence.

Assessment Appeals Board #3

Assessment Appeals Board #3 Commissioner 1

Assessment Appeals Board #3 Commissioner 2

Assessment Appeals Board #3 Commissioner 3

Marc Dickow

Assessment Appeals Board #3 Commissioner 5

Assessment Appeals Board #3 Commissioner 6

Assessment Appeals Board #3 Commissioner 7

Assessment Appeals Board #3 Commissioner 8

Assesses property, applies exemptions, collects transfer taxes, and records official documents.

Assessor-Recorder

Joaquín Torres

The Ballot Simplification Committee ensures voter materials are clear and understandable. It reviews and revises ballot language to accurately reflect propositions and measures. The committee advises on simplifying complex legal and technical terms for voter comprehension.

Ballot Simplification Committee

The Bayview Hunters Point Citizens Advisory Committee provides policy advice on planning and land use matters in Zone 2 of Bayview Hunter's Point. It offers expertise in land use policies, zoning issues, and urban development. The committee advises the Board of Supervisors, City Boards, and commissions on relevant projects and initiatives.

Bayview Hunters Point Citizens Advisory Committee

The Behavioral Health Commission advises on mental health policy implementation and quality service delivery. It reviews and advocates for effective mental health services, ensuring policies meet community needs. It educates stakeholders to integrate mental health considerations into broader health strategies.

Behavioral Health Commission

The Bicycle Advisory Committee advises on making bicycling safer and more accessible in San Francisco. It provides recommendations to city agencies to address traffic violence and climate change. The committee advocates for cyclists and addresses biking-related complaints.

Bicycle Advisory Committee

The Board of Appeals provides final review for a wide range of City permitting decisions. It ensures an efficient and fair permit issuance process through an impartial panel. The Board exercises authority to make binding decisions on appeals.

Jefferson Robert Eppler

John Trasviña

Jose Lopez

Rick Swig

Board of Appeals Commissioner 5

Board of Appeals conducts final reviews of City permitting decisions through an impartial panel. It ensures an efficient and fair permit issuance process. The department operates under rules established by the City Charter of 1932.