The city is pushing to temporarily lease a Fillmore community center to a local organization previously connected to former Dream Keeper head Sheryl Davis, who is currently facing felony charges, and residents say they’ve had little input in the process.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is set to vote on a proposal that would transfer programming at the Fillmore District’s historic Ella Hill Hutch Community Center to the local nonprofit, Booker T. Washington Community Service Center, for the next 13 months, as the Chronicle reports. As SFist previously reported, Ella Hill Hutch has been facing possible closure following the dissolution of its former operator, Collective Impact, which was also tied to the Dream Keeper scandal.
The deal, backed by Mayor Daniel Lurie, Supervisors Bilal Mahmood and Myrna Melgar, and several city agencies, would lease the Fillmore community center’s facilities to Booker T for $1 while the city pays the nonprofit to run summer programming for neighborhood children…