Hi neighbors,
As a late reminder (Sorry!), the Sunnyside Neighborhood Association Board is having our casual coffee meetup at the local coffee joint, the Railroad Expresso, this Saturday, 3/28/2026, from 9 to 10am. Gotta gripe? Maybe an interesting project you’d like to do with the SNA? Swing by for some java and meet your board and your neighbors, and share your thoughts! Let’s make our community even sunnier together!
Your SNA Board
The Parent Teacher Association at our neighborhood public school Sunnyside ES is holding an online spring auction April 19th – 26th to raise vital funds for the school. Given the funding challenges at SFUSD overall, our schools can use all the help they can get. So SNA is helping them put out a call for items to be included.
Do you own a vacation home you would be willing to offer? Do you have season tickets? Are you an artist with a piece of art you’d love to go to a good home for a worthy cause? Do you frequent a hotel, acupuncturist, manicurist, bodyworker or dog groomer that you could ask for a donation? Did your kid enjoy summer camps that need exposure? Love your piano teacher? Are you a local business that could offer a gift card or item? To put it in the words from the auction organizing team: “Basically anything outside of the dirty socks under your couch cushions!”
So far, the parent community has rallied and collected a lot of wonderful items. You can get a preview via the online catalogue to help you come up with ideas. They would definitely appreciate more!
The PTA has a draft donation request letter. This is a great starting place to draft a personal letter. Find it here. If you have something to donate, please fill out this form. And if you have any other questions, please reach out to the organizing team directly at auction@sunnysidesf.org.
Thank you in advance for helping our neighborhood public school!
SNA officially completed the submission of our proposal to create a foot path through and adding daylighting curb paint along the neglected Congo and Circular island. We are attaching it below for your information. Meanwhile, we also want to extend our sincere gratitude to neighbors Lisa Spinali, Renee Espinoza, and Catherine Grey for their tremendous contribution to the application, as well as Emma Hare for her invaluable feedback from the perspective of the Supervisor’s Office. We will keep you all updated if our proposal and any other Sunnyside proposals make it onto the ballot!
Thank you to those of you who submitted an idea for the 2026 Participatory Budget! The SNA Board discussed the submissions and decided that we will be submitting a proposal to create a pedestrian path through the overgrown triangle at Congo and Circular to improve pedestrian safety and beautify our neighborhood.
For those of you who may not be familiar, while the triangle at Congo and Circular has beautiful plants, it’s so overgrown that there is no longer a path that connects the 2 painted sidewalks on both sides of it (see pictures below). This means pedestrians have to walk on the road along Circular to pass. On days when vehicles are parked along the sides, pedestrians have to step into active traffic to pass. This is dangerous, to say the least. Since there are painted sidewalks visible, we believe DPW should be able to use the funds to create a path and add ADA compliant curb cuts. While we are fortunate that no injuries have been reported, multiple neighbors have raised this as a concern at quarterly membership meetings over the last couple of years. So we felt that this is a repeated issue we should try our best to address.
We will be drafting the official application for submission by midnight on Friday 3/20. Please reach out to board@sunnysideassociation.org ASAP if you wish to contribute to this proposal!
Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a democratic process in which community members propose projects and collectively decide how to spend part of a public budget. It began in 2013 by then-Supervisor Norman Yee, and this year, Participatory Budgeting is back and improved! You can visit the official website to learn more details about the Submission Process.
The Sunnyside Neighborhood Association is collecting ideas from members and residents so we can
For the ideas that already have a “sponsoring group”, SNA will make sure to avoid submitting a duplicative idea and help cross-promote for votes. For the ideas that still need a “sponsoring group”, SNA will evaluate and select one to sponsor by refining and submitting an application, marketing for votes, and supporting with implementation if awarded.
Since the official deadline is at March 20th, 11:59pm, we want to strike the right balance between collecting ideas and feedback from our community and preparing a complete application for submission. Therefore, we plan to follow the following timeline prior to the March 20th deadline:
So please send us your ideas by fill out the form!!
As a reminder: Any neighborhood groups with more than 1 individual in District 7 can submit an application. There is no qualification criteria on group size or official standing with any tax or government agencies.
Sunnyside Neighborhood Association 