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 Mohammed Nuru’s Ex-Girlfriend Sandra Zuniga Gets Probation, Not Jail, For Laundering His Bribe Money SF’s former head of the Office of Neighborhood Services Sandra Zuniga, also known as “Girlfriend 1” in the FBI’s Mohammed Nuru indictment, will skate with just three years probation after a very favorable sentencing Thursday.
SF Politics Hilariously, Russian Hill Residents Banned Street Sweeping Years Ago, But Now They Regret That Denizens of Russian Hill made a choice almost 40 years ago to sacrifice well-swept streets in exchange for hassle-free parking. And they still don't have to move their cars on street-sweeping days, but things are kind of a mess and some residents are trying to reverse course, all these years later.
SF News SF Public Works Announces Winner Of ‘$20,000 Trash Can’ Contest — The Slim Silhouette A pricey bureaucratic process that’s littered the national press with San Francisco jokes has come to an end, as a survey and pilot program has led SF Public Works to choose the Slim Silhouette as the city’s new public trash can design.
SF News SF Spent a Half Million Dollars Creating Fancy Trash Can Prototypes and More Survey Respondents Preferred Ugly Off-the-Shelf 'BearSaver' Model The trash-can saga drones on over at the Department of Public Works, and today we learn the results of that survey they ran seeking public opinion on six waste receptacle designs being considered.
SF Politics Pile of Poop Prominently Placed In Political Pamphlet Now Arriving In SF Mailboxes The latest SF political mailer drops a provocation in the old San Francisco street poop debates, and it’s largely paid for by a union that may gain some members under a Department
SF News Poop Complaints Are Down 30% In the Tenderloin! In the name of fecal data journalism and clicks, the Chronicle is back on the poop beat this week — and there's some good news for the chronically poopy streets of the Tenderloin!
SF Politics Maybe We Won't Be Getting a Dept. of Sanitation and Streets After All, With New Amendments Headed for Ballot Several members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors who just two years ago were fully behind the creation of a separate Department of Sanitation and Streets that would not live under the aegis of the Department of Public Works, aren't so much now.
SF News SF Trash Bin Saga Gets Even More Complicated, Three New Models Now in the Running The already-laughingstock San Francisco trash can replacement drama is getting less resolution instead of more, as more new proposed bin models are now littering the landscape.
SF Politics Sanitation and Streets Department To Take Shape Tuesday, Hopes to Be ‘Laser Focused’ On Cleaning Up SF Streets Former supervisor Matt Haney proposed the Department of Sanitation and Streets to break that duty away from Public Works. The supervisors will vote to make it a reality on Tuesday, though ironically, it will now be a department within Public Works.
SF News Mission Bay Sidewalks Are (Still) Sinking, Creating Tripping Hazards; Drought Might Be Making Things Worse Residents of San Francisco's newest neighborhood, in Mission Bay and around China Basin, say that building and sidewalk settlement has caused a lot of wonky walkways for years.
SF Politics Carla Short, New Interim SF Public Works Chief, To Assume Duties Monday With one interim director of SF's Department of Public Works on his way out, Mayor London Breed and City Administrator Carmen Chu have appointed a replacement, and it's someone with 17 years experience in the department.
SF Politics SF Dept. of Public Works Acting Director Jumps Ship, Takes Job at BART Alaric Degrafinried, the acting director of San Francisco's troubled Department of Public Works, had once said he planned to vie for the permanent title of head of the department. But in the 18 months since he took over, he changed his mind.
SF News Nuru Scandal Cont'd: Former Public Works Employee Arrested By DA For Allegedly Shady Merch Contract Worth $263K The latest development in the now 18-month unfolding of both federal and local investigations into corrupt dealings at San Francisco City Hall is the arrest of a former high-ranking Department of Public Works official by the SF District Attorney's Office.
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 Politics Feds Charge Three More People Linked to Mohammed Nuru and City Hall Corruption Probe It's been four months and a pandemic later, but we are still talking about the rampant, some say "low level," corruption that has apparently existed at San Francisco City Hall for decades
SF Politics City Attorney Is Investigating Private Companies That Allegedly 'Funneled' Money to DPW Holiday Parties Subpoenas issued Wednesday by the City Attorney's Office for records and emails from eight private companies and non-profits appear to relate in part to a kids' baseball charity run by indicted local restaurateur Nick Bovis.
SF Politics Mohammed Nuru Has Resigned From His Post at Public Works While there have been calls in the last two weeks for Mayor London Breed to fire embattled Department of Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru, she said that she had to follow proper procedure — and now Nuru has resigned of his own accord.
SF Politics Was Mohammed Nuru's Self-Propelled PR Machine To Blame For San Francisco's Filth? The latest City Hall scandal has a lot of people asking whether our allegedly corrupt director of Public Works wasn't at least partly to blame for either pretending the problem wasn't as bad as it was, or fundamentally mis-managing the department responsible for keeping things clean.
SF Politics City Attorney Vows Thorough, Independent Investigation Of City Contracts Linked To Nuru Dennis Herrera, in conjunction with the city's Controller, said today that an independent investigation — beholden to no one at City Hall — is already underway into any potential improprieties in contracts linked to the DPW and its recently federally charged director.
SF Politics DPW Director Mohammed Nuru Accused Of Scheme To Get Bar Owner City Contract For Homeless Housing It's like the "Shrimp Boy" scandal all over again! Only this time it involves the Department of Public Works and the guy who owns Lefty O'Doul's.
SF Politics [Update] SF's Public Works Director and Local Bar Owner Charged In FBI Corruption Probe Department of Public Works Director and longtime Willie Brown pal Mohammed Nuru was arrested by the FBI on Monday in a federal corruption probe that apparently also involves local bar owner Nick Bovis.
SF News City's Homelessness Department And Public Works Are Officially At Odds Over Encampments A quiet war seems to be brewing within City Hall over the handling of homeless encampments, marking yet another chapter in a multi-year saga involving police, sanitation workers, homeless advocates, outreach workers, politicians,
SF News Video: Homeless Woman In The Mission Says If These Are End Times, The Homeless Will Be The Survivors Yet another tent encampment at 14th and Mission got cleared Wednesday by the city's Department of Public Works in an ongoing game of musical tent cities that is one way your local tax
SF News Homeless Woman Addresses Letter To DPW, SFPD As They Clear Her Encampment In a sweep of homeless encampments described by the Coalition on Homelessness, the Department of Public Works and the SFPD cleared 30 tents near San Bruno Avenue and Alameda Street on Sunday morning
