Mayor Gloria's Top Accomplishments in his First 100 Days
SAN DIEGO – While acknowledging that there is significantly more work to do to address San Diego's biggest challenges, the following are some of Mayor Todd Gloria’s major accomplishments in his first 100 days in office.
PROVIDING LEADERSHIP THROUGH A PANDEMIC
- Executive order signed to enforce the public health order
- Proposed and won approval for an eviction ban for struggling renters and businesses
- Announced a $42 million rent relief program
- Executive order signed to cap third party delivery app fees and expand curbside pickup parking
- Hosted a COVID-19 vaccination town hall
- Opened a vaccination site at the Municipal Gym in Balboa Park
- Secured an additional $45.5 million in state funding for rent relief
- Signed Big City Mayors letter urging schools to reopen
- Hosted a pop-up vaccination site at Malcolm X Library
- Received unanimous City Council approval for the creation of the $92.2 million Housing Stability Assistance Program
- Hosted a pop-up vaccination site at Montgomery High School
- Nearly 240 San Diego Fire-Rescue personnel have administered more than 55,000 vaccines
CHANGING THE STATUS QUO ON HOMELESSNESS
- Extended Operation Shelter to Home through March
- Moved hundreds of formerly homeless people to 322 permanent housing units
- Hired a national expert to aid in focusing the City’s homeless policy
- Provided vaccines to Convention Center residents
- Opened additional shelter beds and established more outreach for transition-aged youth
- Began a new coordinated outreach program
- Stopped abatements from happening at night or during inclement weather
CREATING A MORE EQUITABLE CITY
- Streamlined City leadership team saves $1.2 million annually and diversified management
- Appointed the City’s first Chief Innovation Officer, one of the few Black women to hold that role in the U.S.
- Appointed Ismahan Adbullahi to the County Water Authority
- Signed a pledge opposing Anti-Semitism
- Called for solidarity after hate crimes in Hillcrest
- Joined the Mayors Against Illegal Guns coalition
- Created the Black Advisory Group
- Appointed diverse members to the Small Business Advisory Board
- Established the “No Shots Fired” gang diversion program
- Released a landmark pay equity study
MAKING GOVERNMENT WORK
- Secured $23 million from State funds for La Media Road and $157 million in SANDAG Projects including Del Mar Bluffs, Otay East, and Uptown Bikeways
- Extended gas and electric franchise agreements
- Partnered with City Councilmembers to hold public forums on the future of gas and electric franchise agreements
- Unanimously elected as SANDAG vice chair
- Passed short-term vacation rental ordinance
- Hired a new Real Estate Assets Department director