SF News Federal Cuts End Year-Round Conservation on the Farallon Islands Budget constraints will reduce research on the Farallon Islands to a seasonal program. The loss of year-round monitoring puts seabirds, seals, and other wildlife at risk, with fewer resources to prevent human disturbances.
SF News Mayor Breed’s Budget Cuts Leave Alemany Flea Market on the Chopping Block, Vendors Revolt The City of San Francisco’s $800 million budget deficit is leaving many programs under the scalpel, and Portola neighborhood vendors are furious that the Alemany Flea Market may be one of them.
SF News Supervisors Up In Arms Over Breed’s Massive Budget Cuts to Community Ambassador Program Those bright neon yellow- and green-jacketed street ambassadors are on the chopping block in Mayor Breed’s new proposed budget, as she’s calling to phase them out by 2026 to save a few dollars, but supervisors are furious because they think that program really works.
SF News San Francisco Budget Cuts Trash Plans for City's New Fancy, Expensive Trash Cans The Department of Public Works has already spent more than half a million dollars on this project to customize and prototype new trash cans, but they said Friday it's on pause amid the city's budget deficit.
SF News After 3-Month Protest, UC Berkeley Anthropology Library Saved from Closure When Cal planned to shutter the George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library to narrow a budget deficit, anthropology students and faculty occupied it for 85 days — and just reached a compromise with admin to keep it open (mostly).
SF News Berkeley Poised to Close Famed Anthropology Library, Angry Students In Full ‘Occupy’ Mode UC Berkeley’s 67-year-old George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library is one of only three university anthropology libraries in the U.S., but the school wants to shut it down, prompting an Occupy-style student protest.
SF News Mayor Calls For Budget Cuts Amid $100 Million City Deficit Despite a flush local economy and real estate prices that leave locals flushed, the City of San Francisco faces a nearly $100 million budget deficit, approximately 42 percent of which comes from the
SF News Oakland Kills (About) 105 City Jobs As redevelopment lies choking and dying in the blighted gutters of California streets, the City of Oakland is preparing to cut about 105 full-time positions from its payroll, in order to balance their
SF News CA Cities Scramble to Deal With Death Of Redevelopment You'll recall that Governor Jerry Brown decided last year that one thing he could probably pretty easily kill off, and net a few billion dollars in the state budget without the public caring
SF News Ed Lee, City Treasurer Ask For Your Charity This Holiday Season Because it is the holiday season (and also because the city is broke), Mayor Ed Lee and City Treasurer Jose Cisneros have announced Give2SF.org, a site where the city will gladly accept
SF News Oakland Library Safe For Time Being Thanks to a huge outcry from the Oakland community, its libraries and many other invaluable public services have been saved for the time being. If you recall, the Oakland City Council was looking
SF News Scenes from Wheeler Hall Protest at UC Berkeley After 17 protesters were arrested earlier this week over UC budget cuts, among other isues, eight demonstrators occupied a fourth-story ledge at UC Berkeley's Wheeler Hall. Riot police were called in to use
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 Caltrain's $30 Million Shortfall Could Lead to Service Cuts, Including Weekend SF Giants Games The crucial 77-mile line that hauls an estimated 40,000 passengers during the weekdays could be in danger. Scratch that, it is in danger. A $30 million shortfall will ebb away at almost
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 More San Francisco Budget Cuts According to KCBS, "[a] new austerity mandate has come down from Mayor Gavin Newsom." And it's pretty grim. Then again, what isn't in these dastardly economic times? Anyway, Newsom wouldn't say exactly how
SF News Protesters Take Over SFSU Building Following on the heels of Cal students who occupied Wheeler Hall last month to protest fee hikes, students at San Francisco State University have taken over the school's business building. "The 20 or
SF News Local Post Offices at Risk Facing a nearly $7 billion potential loss this fiscal year, The United States Postal Service selected 677 branches nationwide for either closure or consolidation, including more than a couple dozen in the Bay
SF News What's Going On Here, Angry Firefighters? They seem rather upset. Why? Because because the city budget is bad for them, and the cuts will hurt them. So, they want to BOS to cut other services. Or something. Anyway, here
misc Tough Times at the DMV With budget cuts, and long lines, apparently this is the easiest way for disgruntled patrons at the Fell Street DMV to get out their frustrations. The colors are very harmonious though.
SF News 25 State Parks In Danger of Closing Come July 1 As SFist reported back in January, a proposal to prune the California park system's $150 million general fund budget, money that goes to staff salaries and maintenance, might result in the closure of
SF News SF Public Servant Salaries Revealed Want to see to what certain SF public officials are landing a year? Of course you do. Business Insider came across a handy chart (based on this database) that lists the yearly salaries
SF News UCSC Students Protest Budget Cuts Via Hunger Strike Dozens of students and staff at the University of California at Santa Cruz have gone on a hunger strike "in order to bring attention to $13 million in state funding being cut at
SF News "Pink Friday" Protests Teacher Layoffs With over 26,000 teachers getting pink slips in the mail, the California Teachers Association has organized Pink Friday, "a day of action to protest mass layoffs and drastic cuts to public education.
