SF News Five Public Comment Speaking Points Provided by AT&T at Last Night's Hearing on Infrastructure Upgrades At yesterday's meeting, the Board of Supervisors delayed their decision on whether or not to call for an Environmental Impact Review of AT&T's proposed high-speed broadband infrastructure improvements. Although we won't
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, April 20th 2011 Yesterday's Board of Supervisors meeting was mercifully short, thanks to an absolute dearth of discussion and a full roster of supervisors arriving on time to the People's Chambers. Items 1 - 11 breezed
SF News S.F. Officials To Score Massive Pay Raise Despite Deficit Despite a deficit of $306+ million, the San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors, mayor and other elected officials could receive thousands of dollars more in their paychecks come next fiscal year. "The salaries
SF News What's on the Agenda? Board of Supervisors Items of Interest for April 19, 2011 This week's Board of Supervisors meeting agenda lacks the star power of an Ed Lee cameo, so those of us following along at home will probably be left with nothing to discuss other
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, April 13th 2011 Just as everyone who showed up for Question Time with Ed Lee at yesterday's Board Meeting started to nod off to the Mayor's smooth-as-felt, Kermit the Frog voice, Board President David Chiu skipped
SF News Board of Supervisors Items of Interest for April 12, 2011 Last week's meeting turned out surprisingly short after most of the supes managed to keep their discussions of the Twitter tax break relatively brief. This week, a slightly longer list of agenda items,
SF News Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, April 6th For the second week in a row, the Board of Supervisor's meeting kicked off with all members of the board actually present and accounted for. As they very well should have been, because
SF News What's on the Agenda? Board of Supervisors Items of Interest for April 5th, 2011 At last week's board meeting we saw the current lineup tackle their biggest issue so far: the Parkmerced project which could do a great deal to shape the future of the southwestern edge
misc Board of Supervisors Weekly Power Rankings for Wednesday, March 16th Our interest in the Board of Supervisors weekly meetings has been waning ever-so-slightly every week since the class of 2011 took their place in the People's Chambers. So, in order to bring a
SF News What's on the Agenda? Board of Supervisors Items of Interest for March 15, 2011 As the meeting gets underway in the People's Chambers this afternoon, we should point out that there are actually two agendas for today's Board of Supervisors meeting (Dueling agendas, huh? Imagine that...): The
SF News Ed Lee to Possibly Get Screwed Out of His Admin Job? Interim Mayor Ed Lee, as many of you know, only took the job on the promise that the law could be changed allowing him an exception from the rule that says that mayors
SF News NIMBY Watch: A Battle Over a Vintage Coke Sign Turns Crazy Over in Bernal Heights a battle is being waged over a vintage Coca-Cola ad that typifies all we know and love about San Franciscans. The fight pits neighbor against NIMBY neighbor, preservationist against
SF News Supervisor Malia Cohen Loses Condo to Foreclosure Another nugget from Matier & Ross this a.m.: Newly seated District 10 Supervisor Malia Cohen is one of the many in the country who was the victim of predatory lending, and her
SF News What's Up With the Supes? Tax Breaks for Twitter, Redevelopment Alternatives and a Possible Apocalypse on the Agenda today Board of Supervisors meetings haven't been quite as exciting after the 11th-hour fireworks that went down just before the class of snooze-thousand-eleven took their seats last month. Hopefully, the rookies will find their
SF News Wiener Wants to Do a Food-Not-Cash Thing for Bottle and Can Redemption Supervisor Scott Wiener has had quite enough of the 'unsavory' characters who congregate around the Castro Safeway with their cart-loads of bottles and cans, headed to the recycling center. He's been aware of
SF News Here We Go: District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim Refuses to Recite Pledge of Allegiance Reinforcing the public's perception of the Board of Supervisors as a group of whiny liberal high school kids who go to battle, and occasionally try to one-up each other with how forward-thinking and/
SF News Little Known City Admin Ed Lee Looks to Be Our New Mayor, and Daly is Super Pissed Yesterday's eight-and-a-half-hour meeting of the Board of Supervisors regarding the vote for interim mayor -- a drama which, as we noted, riveted at least several dozen non-blogging, non-journalist San Franciscans -- culminated in
misc This Guy Predicts "Judgement Day" for the Board of Supervisors, Creeps Us Out After last week's Board of Supervisors meeting turned out to be such a charming shitshow, we've become something of SF Government TV Nerds around here. Our only real complaint is that there aren't
SF News Supes Pass Local Hiring Ordinance In an effort to create more jobs for San Franciscans, the Board of Supervisors voted 8-3 last night to approve an ordinance that requires contractors to hire city residents for municipal construction projects.
SF News S.F. Cell Phone Users Should Get Ready for More Dropped Calls New legislation, proposed by Supervisors David Campos and John Avalos and inspired by a fight over a new cell phone tower in Bernal Heights, may make it more difficult to place a call
SF News Supervisors Would Rather Not Pick an Interim Mayor Yet Last night, the Board of Supervisors voted 8-3 to postpone nominating an interim mayor. So the current board will have one last chance to pick San Francisco's Mayor for 2011 when they meet
SF News Supes. Vote 11-0 To Approve America's Cup Bid Although it still needs to be given the green light by Larry Ellison's BMW Oracle Team, today the San Francisco Board of Supervisors "voted 11-0 today to approve a bid put forward by
SF News Supervisor Eric Mar to Get Mocked By <em>Daily Show</em> Re: That Happy Meal Toy Ban The Daily Show has already spent some time mocking San Francisco's Happy Meal toy ban (in particular Lewis Black's tirade against our Nanny State legislating), which the Board of Supervisors passed last month
SF News Supes Decide on How to Pick a Mayor Well, we're ever-so-slightly closer to actually choosing an interim mayor. The Appeal reports that last night the Board of Supervisors approved a process to select who will win a year's supply of Gavin's
SF News Concessions Issued in Supervisor Races, Wiener and Kim Claim Victory Even though the SF Department of Elections refuses to go beyond the *preliminary* stages of ranked choice vote tallying, Debra Walker and Rafael Mandelman put us out of our misery yesterday by issuing
