San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder has asked to be excused from her duties at City Hall until the end of June following a mental health crisis that recently landed her in the hospital.
Fielder made her intentions known in a Tuesday memo to the Board of Supervisors clerk and Board President Rafael Mandelman. She requested permission to miss supervisors’ meetings through June 30.
Fielder had already missed two weeks of board and committee meetings before news broke on March 27 that she was in the hospital amid an “acute personal health crisis.” Fielder had reportedly said that day that she intended to resign. Her staff has said she was contending with a mental health condition and that she would take time to recover before deciding whether or not to remain in office…