San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston has introduced a resolution to the Board of Supervisors urging them to reject the mayor’s proposed slashing of funding for the city’s Community Ambassadors Program.

In Mayor London Breed’s recently announced two-year budget, she plans to cut funding in the Office of Civic Engagement and Immigrant Affairs that would eliminate the Community Ambassadors Program. The proposed cuts are part of Breed’s attempt to close the city’s $800 million deficit.

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Alise is a general assignment reporter with a focus on covering government, elections, housing, crime, courts and entertainment in San Francisco and on the Peninsula. Alise is a Bay Area native from San Carlos. She studied history at University of California, Santa Cruz and first started journalism at Skyline College’s school newspaper in San Bruno. She has interned for Bay City News and for Eesti Rahvusringhääling, or Estonian Public Broadcasting. She has covered everything from the removal of former San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus to the divisive battle over the Great Highway on San Francisco’s west side. Please send her any tips.