SF Politics Deficit Times Again? Mayor Breed Says SF Looking At $728 Million Budget Shortfall SF has gone from a $650 million deficit, to a $108 million surplus, and now back to a $728 million deficit, all in less than two years, and Mayor Breed is ordering department heads to slash their budgets ASAP.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Someone Tried To Bring A Gun Into SF City Hall You can now order another batch of free at-home COVID-19 tests, North Beach jazz bar Savoy Tivoli reopens today, and someone tried get a handgun through the metal detector at City Hall.
SF Politics SF Street Sweepers Are Rallying Today In Opposition of Prop B — the Supes' Effort to Nix a New Sanitation Department Proposition B, if it passes in November, will negate part of the voter-approved Proposition B that passed two years ago creating a new city department responsible only for cleaning streets and sidewalks.
SF News How Much Did the Average SF City Employee Make in 2021? Around $127K During the 2020-2021 fiscal year, thousands of people were employed by San Francisco. The lowest-earning among them made a bit more than $36k during that period, while the highest earner pulled in $602K. But collectively, the average SF City employee earned roughly $127K last year.
SF News Wallethub Names SF Second-Worst Run City in America, City Hall Officials Are None Too Pleased The SF City Controller and Chief Economist would like a word with the Listicle Department at Wallethub, after the credit card lead-generator site ranked San Francisco as the second-worst run large city in the United States.
SF News SF to Drop Mask Requirement for IRL Public Meetings Inside City Facilities Starting Monday, April 25, individuals who participate in in-person meetings inside City hearing rooms won't need to wear a face mask — though people are still strongly encouraged to do so.
SF Politics The Press Has Located Gavin Newsom — He Was at Ivy Getty’s Wedding/Trick or Treating With His Kids The mystery of the disappearing governor has been solved, as Gavin Newsom apparently skipped a global climate conference to attend the fancy Getty heiress wedding at City Hall Saturday.
SF Politics David Chiu Likely to Be SF's Next City Attorney, Setting Up Race For His Assembly Seat The winds of San Francisco politics are going to strengthen in the coming weeks, with potential shakeups that will likely bring us a new assemblymember in Sacramento, and potentially a shift in power on the Board of Supervisors.
SF Politics Permit Expeditor Walter Wong to Repay $1.45 Million to San Francisco to Settle Corruption Lawsuit A longtime contractor with the city of San Francisco and a well-known consultant known to be able to grease the wheels of city departments to get notoriously slow permit processes to magically speed up is going to be repaying over $1 million in contract awards to the city.
SF Politics SF City Attorney Suspends Four Contractors With Links to Nuru From Doing Future Business With the City As part of the ongoing corruption scandal that upended business as usual at San Francisco City Hall last year, City Attorney Dennis Herrera has officially suspended five executives representing four companies that previously had city contracts.
SF News Demonstrators Call for Expanded Rent Relief Outside City Hall To Help Immigrants Amid Pandemic On Friday, dozens of community organizers, educators, and activists stood outside City Hall to call for more support of San Francisco's immigrant communities amid the pandemic, specifically demanding increased rent relief for members of those cohorts.
SF Politics City Contractor Florence Kong Becomes First to Be Sentenced In Federal Corruption Probe Florence Kong, who did business with SF's Public Works Dept under former director Mohammed Nuru, today became the first figure to be sentenced in the ranging federal corruption investigation that became public early last year.
SF Politics Former SF Medical Examiner's Staffer Involved In Adachi Autopsy Sues City Over His Firing A former employee of the SF Medical Examiner's Office claims he was fired after refusing to alter the autopsy report of late Public Defender Jeff Adachi at the request of the City Administrator. The city says that the allegations are "complete fiction."
SF Politics SF Supervisors Block Latest Effort To Create a Public Advocate Department, Approve Sheriff Oversight Commission A proposed ballot measure from Supervisor Gordon Mar to create a new Office of the Public Advocate was shot down by the Board on Tuesday in a 6-to-5 vote — the second time in five years that this proposed office has been shot down.
SF News Scenes of Solidarity: Photos and Videos From This Weekend's Demonstrations Across the Bay Area As you've maybe heard: traffic on the Bay Bridge is starting to lift after a 50-plus-car caravan protest temporarily blocked the westbound lanes. But this weekend was also filled with dozens of other local nonviolent demonstrations, one being a "blackout march" at City Hall.
SF News [Updates] Thousands Again Protest Through San Francisco; Groups Gather at Union Square, City Hall Throngs of vociferous — yet nonviolent — crowds gathered at City Hall this afternoon in the hundreds to denounce the killing of George Floyd and ongoing police brutality, later expanding in numbers before individual groups weaved down Market Street and through parts of the Embarcadero.
SF News [Updates] Hundreds Rally at UN Plaza To Stand Against Police Brutality; Protesters Continue Crisscrossing San Francisco Hundreds convened at the United Nations Plaza this afternoon to protest the killing of George Floyd and call for an end to police brutality. The nonviolent crowd practiced social distancing — the vast majority wearing face masks — with many protesters still marching through SF.
SF News Mayor Breed Extends Paid Leave For Over 200,000 Eligible San Franciscans Mayor Breed signed into law District 4 Supervisor Gordon Mar’s Public Health Emergency Leave ordinance Friday, instantly making some 200,000 San Franciscans eligible to receive two additional weeks of paid leave.
SF News SF Leases 300 Hotel Rooms to House COVID-19 Patients and 'Vulnerable Populations' On the heels of District 5 Supervisor Dean Preston putting $10K of his own money toward a private fund that will help house unsheltered San Franciscans at the Oasis Inn during the COVID-19 pandemic, the City of SF announced yesterday they’ve now secured leases for around 300 hotel rooms.
SF News SF Halts 'Non-Essential' Public Gatherings at City Facilities; 6 New Cases of Coronavirus Reported The San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) announced six more cases of COVID-19 Saturday, bringing the total number of infections in the city to eight. Also, as a means to hinder the advance of coronavirus, SF has blocked all "non-essential" public gatherings at "city-owned facilities."
SF News Scenes From The 2020 Women's Marches Across The Bay Area Thousands of protesters, dawning pink headwear and wielding frank signage, marched San Francisco's City Hall yesterday afternoon, chanting "together we rise" in glorious unison. Similar demonstrations — of equal candor and conviction — were seen throughout the Bay Area, as well.
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Civic Center Plaza Yarn-Bombed With Giraffes People voted for an animal theme for phase 2 of #knittingthecommons so the first 3 trees got a family of giraffes. These cuties have quickly become one our favorite yarn bombs! A post
SF News San Francisco's Proposed Delivery Robot Ban Rolls Forward It's been a good long while since we heard about Supervisor Norman Yee's proposed ban on delivery robots on SF sidewalks. But that doesn't mean it'
SF News Cash Pouring In For Mayor, Supervisor Races As Ed Lee Staffers Bolt For Uber It may become a new rite of passage in lame duck administrations that top staff start taking lobbying positions for the lawless scandal factory that is Uber. That’s a thread we see
SF News SF Might Start Taxing Landlords Who Keep Apartments Vacant It's a comment news orgs get on nearly every story about San Francisco's rent control laws — something like,"I'm a property owner, but I refuse to
