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Entries from SFist tagged with 'oversightcommittee'

August 13, 2007

As promised, non-mayoral candidate Chris Daly's proposing his nonbinding resolution to ban the Blue Angels from flying over San Francisco at the Governmental Audit and Oversight Committee meeting today. Daly, who's been working with Code Pink, Global Exchange, and Veterans for Peace on the resolution, is asking that San Francisco elected officials work to reduce unnecessary military flyovers in the area, saying that the loud jets are a threat to publich safety; upset pets,......

Continue Reading "Blue Angels Committee Vote"

July 17, 2007

Chris Daly was finally reassigned to a new committee today, in a total step down. After getting removed from the "powerful" budget committee chairmanship Chris was totally lonesome, floating in a committeeless void. But yesterday that changed as he was introduced as a member of the Government Audit and Oversight Committee. Note that Daly is not mentioned on the agenda of the meeting, but if you go to sfgtv and watch Monday's session you......

Continue Reading "Everybody Hates Chris: Reassigned!"

December 13, 2005

The internet is strangely quiet about yesterday's Government Audit and Oversight Committee hearing. Not only were Daly, Peskin and Elsbernd arguing over whether or not they should be able to edit their own homepages on SFGov (can SFist petition to make it a crime to put sound, animated GIFs or blinking text on them?), they were also arguing over public oversight of the San Francisco TechConnect process. Sasha at Left In SF did liveblog......

Continue Reading "TechConnect Public Hearing"

February 28, 2005

SFist ascended the steps to the gilded seat of city government for the first time today, as we desperately wanted to overpay for a tiny sandwich and miniature Pepsi at the City Hall Cafe. Kidding. We wanted to speak up at a public Government Audit and Oversight Committee meeting, where committee member and Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi would be asking questions of the SFPD press department and asking the public for their thoughts on the......

Continue Reading "SFist Goes To City Hall -- What's Up With SFPD Press Passes?"

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