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 Day Around the Bay: Urban Alchemy Has Another Weapons Scandal Over Employee Carrying Giant Knife On Duty The Castro may be getting a new pilates studio, a new report finds ex-DBI commissioner Rodrigo Santos was allegedly working from an unpermitted office, and street ambassador outfit Urban Alchemy will have to answer for an on-duty employee carrying a very large knife.
SF News Street Ambassador Nonprofit Urban Alchemy Seen as Force of Good, Mostly The non-profit is one of the biggest city contractors, moving people along who are committing quality-of-life offenses, reversing overdoses, managing a tiny-home village, discouraging crime, and giving advice to wayward tourists.
