Hey there, San Francisco. 

On Monday, Mayor London Breed appointed Matt Dorsey to replace Matt Haney as District 6 supervisor. 

Most recently, Dorsey worked as the director of comms for the SFPD. 

As the Chronicle’s J.D. Morris writes, Breed considered Dorsey “the best pick to tackle street conditions and the drug crisis” in District 6, which includes SoMa. 

Interestingly, Dorsey has struggled with addiction himself, telling the Chronicle he’s a “three time drug rehab graduate” who has abused crystal meth, GHB, MDMA, Xanax, and alcohol. 

“For those of us in recovery, seeing our city struggle with a public health calamity that is twice as deadly as COVID-19 and represents something we haven’t seen since the AIDS crisis in San Francisco — it’s hard to watch,” Dorsey, who’s living with HIV, told the Chronicle.

“He represents what hope is,” Breed said of her appointee on Monday. 

Still, not everyone was enthusiastic about the decision, including Haney, who had openly thrown his support behind his former chief of staff, Honey Mahogany, for the position. 

“I guess we aren't hanging up our campaign sneakers just yet,” Haney tweeted on Monday, referring to the upcoming November election when the District 6 supervisor seat will be on the ballot. 

As Mission Local’s Joe Eskenazie wrote: “A mayor can put a supervisor into office. But it’s constituents who keep them there.” 

And with that… onto the news… 

Quick bits: News to know 

💊 On Friday, the city announced the opening of the Office of Coordinated Care, which is meant to help connect people with addiction and mental illnesses to treatment and other services, especially when they are leaving jail or involuntary psychiatric holds.  

• “We want to prioritize getting those folks connected into care so we can prevent the next crisis,” San Francisco's behavioral health director Dr. Hillary Kunins told the Chronicle. (Chronicle) 

🧑‍🏫 City College will layoff 38 tenured teachers due to budget deficits, its Board of Trustees decided amid protests last week. The school’s 150 part-time instructors could be impacted as well. 

• "It's absolutely gut-wrenching," Monica Bosson, an English teacher at City College, told the board. (KQED) 

😞 Two people died on Friday when their single-engine plane crashed into a hillside in the Marin Headlands. Officials said fog had “completely obscur[ed] the area” when they ultimately found the plane, though the cause of the crash is still undetermined. (SFGATE) 

🥯 Sourdough bagel purveyor Midnite Bagel will open its Inner Sunset brick-and-mortar shop on May 23, Eater reports. They’ll also sell scones, muffins, and granola. (Eater) 

🦊 On Saturday, fire department and animal control crews rescued a six-week-old fox that had gotten lodged inside an uninstalled pipe at a construction site near Oracle Park. 

• “She is emaciated and dehydrated but doing surprisingly well considering,” an official for the Yggdrasil Urban Wildlife Rescue in Potrero Hill told SFGATE. (SFGATE) 

What else I’m reading/listening to: Links to browse 

• KQED Live: An Interview with Chesa Boudin (KQED) 

• Inside Handroll Project, the Ju-Ni Team’s Much-Anticipated Casual Restaurant in the Mission (Eater) 

• The SF Conservatory of Music Has Bought Itself a Record Label (SFist) 

• ‘An inhumane creation’: The rise of the Transamerica Pyramid, once S.F.’s most hated building (Chronicle) 

• The Inventor and Artist Who Tried Starting the First Airline Service to SF ... in 1849 (KQED) 

And finally… 1 photo to go 

‘Twas a windy weekend. 

Hopefully, these GGP toilets can be stood up before Bay to Breakers on Sunday. 

That’s all for today. Have a good evening y’all and see you back here tomorrow. - Nick B.