Now that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has unanimously passed District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney's Music and Entertainment Venue Recovery Fund, his legislative aide is hopeful that beleaguered venues can start getting help next month.
Haney is trying to identify $1.5 million that can be used for the fund, according to a news release from his office. "I am hopeful that we will be able to allocate the money and get the fund up and running by the end of March," Honey Mahogany, a queer nonbinary trans person who is the chief legislative aide for Haney, stated to the Bay Area Reporter. "That is just a guess, it could happen sooner." As the B.A.R.