SF Politics Oakland City Council Weighing Drastic Cuts as $130 Million Deficit Looms Layoffs, pay cuts, and reductions to the police and fire departments are all on the table in Oakland, as the City Council looks for ways to slash the city's budget as they confront a deficit of nearly $130 million.
SF News Another Day, Another Budget-Cut Protest A group of 50 or so gathered outside the state building on Golden Gate this afternoon to protest the state budget cuts that are causing the S.F. School Board once again to
SF News State Dems Take Key Vote to Kill Redevelopment, Oakland Scrambles to Tie Up Funds The fight over redevelopment in California is still far from finished, but Democratic lawmakers on a key state legislative committee took a step that could hurry the death knell along yesterday. The conference
SF News Will the Redevelopment Cuts Stand, and Are They Legal? We know most of you are probably not on the edge of your seats waiting to see how Jerry Brown's threats to kill redevelopment in California shake out, but we thought we'd keep
SF News Brown's Budget Kills the State's Juvenile Justice System Too Another line item getting nixed in Jerry Brown's proposed budget is the state's Division of Juvenile Justice, potentially saving the state some $242 million but potentially costing some pain at the county level,
SF News Muni Holds Hearing On Restoring Service Muni is holding a hearing today to discuss/debate the restoration of more than half the service cuts they made this past spring, which they say can happen by September. They're crediting "stronger
SF News Muni Drivers Reject Contract Concessions, Muni Head Not Giving Up Despite Gavin's threats of "real consequences" if they didn't vote his way, Muni bus, metro, and cable car operators voted 747 to 548 yesterday last Friday to reject the proposed contract concessions aimed
SF News Supervisors Wait to Take 'Largely Symbolic' Vote on Muni And in useless news today, the Board of Supervisors is "in limbo" about whether or not to reject Muni's latest budget, even though this amounts to a "largely symbolic" vote on the part
SF News Supervisors May Reject Muni's New Budget The Board of Supes is holding a hearing tomorrow to decide whether to reject Muni's latest budget, which includes a City Charter-mandated 9% raise for union members on July 1, which totals about
SF News Muni and BART Receive State Funds Muni received $4.8 million and BART $2 million in state funding for capital projects this week. BART is said to be using the money to fund the Warm Springs extension in Fremont,
SF News Muni Cutting Back on Fare Enforcement The recent glut of Muni fare enforcement officers on metro trains and platforms is slowing down, at least temporarily, after immigrants' rights advocates have been raising concerns about profiling by the officers. They
SF News Correction: LGBT Center Not Bleeding Cash, Only Seeking $157K Loan SFist received a call from the LGBT Center over the weekend regarding our and the Chronicle's stories about their financial difficulties, which they say were grossly misrepresented. "We're not in foreclosure, we're not
SF News The LGBT Center Is Bleeding Cash, Needs a Mortgage Bailout It's not a shocker that the not-quite-vibrant LGBT Center (you'd think it would be, it has a nice building, but it's not exactly a well-frequented space) is facing some tough times eight years
Arts & Entertainment Saving SF Public Schools, Town Hall Meeting Tonight Faced with a $113 million cut in San Francisco Unified School District's budget over the next two years, which is greater than cuts experienced during the Great Depression, pissed-off parents have organized a
SF News $70M in Stimulus Funds Will NOT Be Going to BART's OAK Connector You'll recall how BART was recently under threat of effing themselves out of that $70M in federal stimulus funds if they didn't come up with a better report regarding potential discrimination in their
misc SF City College Launches "Cost-$aving$ Ideas Contest" Upon losing $18 million of its operating budget, CCSF is searching for ways to cut costs. They've already implemented many cost-saving measures, including canceling their summer session, to the disappointment of many, and
SF News We Are Not Alone In Our Transit Woes The NYT is reporting on the "punishing slate" of service cuts by the New York City MTA, which is facing a $400 million budget shortfall. They're eliminating two train lines, reducing service on
SF News A Toll To Cross the Golden Gate On Foot Or Bicycle? In addition to raising the car toll another $1 come 2013, the board of directors of the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District is considering charging bicyclists and pedestrians to cross the
SF News UC Berkeley to Pay Consultants $3M to Find Ways to Cut Costs Facing a $150 million budget deficit this year due to cuts in state funding and higher operating costs, UC Berkeley has hired Bain & Co., a Massachusetts-based consultant with offices in San Francisco,
misc Schwarzenegger to (Probably) Make More Cuts to Social Programs View more news videos at: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/video. The cruel, cruel Governator is expected today to use his line-item veto power to make further cuts to social programs--particularly those serving the
SF News <i>Russia Today</i> Has a Chuckle Over CA's Budget Crisis, IOUs In this clip from Russia Today, an English-language news program based in Moscow, the suave and accented anchorman speaks with an American correspondent about the fiscal crisis in California and the "meaningless pieces
SF News Oakland Might Become First U.S. City to Tax Marijuana Sales ABC 7 brings us this report about how Oakland may try to solve its budget crisis, in part, by becoming the first city in the nation to directly tax marijuana dispensaries. The city
