{"id":57124,"date":"2025-11-17T18:23:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T18:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/57124\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T18:23:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T18:23:39","slug":"nobody-knew-her-shock-relief-after-alcaraz-resigns-as-sf-supe-names-float-for-successor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/57124\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Nobody knew her\u2019: Shock, relief after Alcaraz resigns as SF supe; names float for successor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Local leaders and community members in San Francisco\u2019s District 4 are reacting to Beya Alcaraz\u2019s decision to step down<\/a> from the role of supervisor of the district just one week after being sworn in.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m relieved,\u201d Julia Baran, who took over Alcaraz\u2019s small business earlier this year, said in an interview. \u201cShe was just not qualified to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Alcaraz, a political newcomer, was appointed by Mayor Daniel Lurie to fill the vacancy in District 4 on the west side of the city after voters recalled the district\u2019s previous supervisor, Joel Engardio, in September.<\/p>\n

However, her tenure has ended abruptly amid allegations that she mismanaged her former small business.<\/p>\n

\u201cI spoke to Supervisor Alcaraz tonight,\u201d said Mayor Daniel Lurie in a statement Thursday. \u201cWe also agreed that the new information about her conduct while running her small business, which I learned today, would be a significant distraction from that work. In our conversation, she told me she intends to resign as supervisor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alcaraz ran a pet store for 10 years called The Animal Connection in San Francisco\u2019s Sunset District.<\/p>\n

Some community members in District 4, like Albert Chow, were surprised when Alcaraz was chosen.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think a lot of people scratched their heads when the appointment was made. Nobody knew her, and we had all been expecting someone that we would know and trust.\u201d<\/p>\n

Albert Chow, People of Parkside Sunset president<\/p>\n

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Chow owns Great Wall Hardware on Taraval Street and is the president of People of Parkside Sunset<\/a>, a coalition of Parkside and Sunset neighborhood residents and local business owners. In addition to being a prominent voice in the recall effort against Engardio, Chow\u2019s name circulated as a potential pick for District 4 supervisor.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think a lot of people scratched their heads when the appointment was made,\u201d Chow said. \u201cNobody knew her, and we had all been expecting someone that we would know and trust.\u201d<\/p>\n

Baran said she was \u201cshocked\u201d when she learned that Alcaraz had been appointed.<\/p>\n

Allegations of business mismanagement<\/p>\n

When Alcaraz gave Baran the keys to The Animal Connection, the store was apparently left in unsanitary conditions with finances in the red. She also accused Alcaraz of improperly filing taxes for the business.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe store was left with hundreds of dead mice in it. It never turned a profit,\u201d Baran said. \u201cShe wrote off all her personal expenses on the business.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Exterior of the Animal Connection, a pet store formerly run by Beya Alcaraz in San Francisco, on Friday, Nov. 14, 2025. Alcaraz resigned from her position as District 4 Supervisor amid allegations that she mismanaged the store. (Alise Maripuu\/Bay City News)<\/p>\n

Alcaraz did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n

Amid the allegations made by Baran, Alcaraz made the move to resign.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m happy that what I said made a difference,\u201d Baran said. \u201cI was definitely surprised. I didn\u2019t think that she would resign.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Chinese American Democratic Club<\/a> is an organization that promotes civic engagement in San Francisco\u2019s Chinese American community and the group said it hoped the resignation will force Lurie to ensure that he is appointing someone who is a more well-known figure in District 4.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile we had kept an open mind about the Mayor\u2019s appointment and invited the new appointee to work with us, we were shocked to learn that the reason she did not appear at our meeting as planned this evening was because she had resigned,\u201d CADC said in a statement Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the vacancy now extended and ongoing instability in the seat, we had hoped \u2014 and continue to wish \u2014 that CADC\u2019s recommended criteria, which were repeatedly presented, would finally be considered.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018She got in over her head\u2019<\/p>\n

CADC had hoped that Lurie would appoint Chow, Selena Chu, or CADC president Josephine Zhao. Chu and Zhao were also in support of recalling Engardio.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel sorry for her,\u201d Chow said, referring to Alcaraz. \u201cI think she came in with the highest intention and the best of intentions, but she got in over her head rather quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chow said he is unsure if he would accept an appointment.<\/p>\n

Matt Dorsey said in a statement on social media that he admires Alcaraz\u2019 move to resign.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think her classy decision to step aside affirms the strength of her commitment to do right by her district and her city,\u201d Dorsey wrote. \u201cPolitics can be tough, and I applaud anyone willing to step into this arena. But the scrutiny that goes with public life is often intense, and it\u2019s a hard thing to prepare for.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local leaders and community members in San Francisco\u2019s District 4 are reacting to Beya Alcaraz\u2019s decision to step…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[21117,184,28441,35166,35167,179,35168,93,4306,405,6088,35169,2500,35170,16424,35171,13,35172,4311,101,34860,103,102,35173,104,106,105,27669,35174],"class_list":["post-57124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-appointment","tag-bay-area","tag-beya-alcaraz","tag-chinese-american-democratic-club","tag-civic-engagement","tag-community","tag-district-4","tag-featured","tag-featured-news","tag-government","tag-joel-engardio","tag-josephine-zhao","tag-leadership","tag-matt-dorsey","tag-mayor-daniel-lurie","tag-people-of-parkside-sunset","tag-politics","tag-public-office","tag-resignation","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-board-of-supervisors","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-selena-chu","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sunset-district","tag-the-animal-connection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}