A Muni fare discount for young people is well-deserved and smart policy even if it might cost up to $15.5 million a year, advocates of the proposed discount say.Supervisor Jake McGoldrick has drafted a resolution urging Muni to implement discounted fares for those between the ages of 18 and 24.
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The St. Francis Yacht Club will enjoy its prime city-owned spot by the Bay for another 47 years despite criticism that the lease approved Tuesday by the Board of Supervisors couldleave the public high and dry.The lease increases the St. Francis Yacht Club’s rent by 137.7 percent, bringing the annual rent to $200,134. On top of the rent increase, the club will pay $1.2 million for harbor repairs.
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The City will begin boosting salaries of veteran cops as an incentive for them to stay on the force while the Police Department struggles to recruit new officers and continues to operate with a staff shortfall of nearly 300 officers.Mayor Gavin Newsom pushed for an amendment to the police contract that would grant a 4 percent pay increase for 30-year veterans of the force. The incentive is seen as a way to slow down the pace of retiring officers.
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The highly controversial fee that will be imposed on The City’s businesses to help pay for health insurance for all of San Francisco’s uninsured adults, is no longer set in stone, according to the plan’s author.When the Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the Health Access ordinance this summer, the business community strongly opposed the plan since it would force them to pay a per-employee fee — that would cost businesses as much as $33 million annually — to help offset of the health program’s $200 million price tag.
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Four days after San Francisco voters cast their ballots, community activist Ed Jew has emerged as the winner of the Board of Supervisors District 4 race to replace Fiona Ma, according to unofficial results released by the Department of Elections on Friday.Also, Supervisor Chris Daly has prevailed in the District 6 race over his main challenger, Rob Black, whose anti-Daly campaign was largely funded by Daly’s opponents in the business community. Mayor Gavin Newsom also endorsed Black in an attempt to unseat Daly, his political adversary.
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The undone dream of a new 49ers stadium in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood has dashed the hopes of hosting the 2016 Olympic Games and stalled the revitalization of this neighborhood long plagued by an aging infrastructure, vacant industrial space and a high crime rate.
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A group of restaurant owners filed a lawsuit Wednesday that could jeopardize funding for The City’s ambitious plan to provide health care for more than 82,000 uninsured residents.Pushed by Mayor Gavin Newsom and Supervisor Tom Ammiano, the recently adopted health care ordinance was unanimously approved by the Board of Supervisors, but largely opposed by the business community, which will have to pay a portion of the program’s estimated $200 million price tag. The program is expected to begin this July.
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The race that will decide who will replace Fiona Ma in the District 4 seat on the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday night is now a tossup among four candidates.At the outset, the race for the District 4 seat — which represents the Sunset and Parkside neighborhoods — was a free for all with handful of strong candidates for the seat Ma vacated to run for Assembly District 12.There is still no official winner since none of the District 4 candidates have received more than 50 percent of the first-choice votes.
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San Francisco has become the first-ever city to require that businesses offer paid sick days to employees.Proposition F forces businesses to provide paid sick days by February 2007. Businesses with fewer than 10 workers must offer five paid sick days a year per worker and those with 10 or more workers must provide nine paid sick days, according to the measure. Workers, who must accrue the sick days, would be allowed to also take a sick day to take care of an ill family member.
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A 1,900-rental apartment development slated for Market and Eighth streets has met with resistance at the Board of Supervisors.
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The latest piece of public art on San Francisco Port land will likely stand 7 feet high and span 30 feet, honoring the Bay Area Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.The San Francisco Port Commission is expected to vote Nov. 14 on whether to allow the artwork’s installation near the east wall of the Vaillancourt Fountain at Justin Herman Plaza. It would be only the third monument to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the United States.
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Transit officials, consultants work on strategic plan to get people out of cars, on boardAs operating deficits continue to plague Muni, the public transit agency wants to implement better technology and make it culturally hipper to board buses instead of drive a car.As a study on Muni, dubbed the Transit Effectiveness Project, is under way to overhaul the transit system, the Municipal Transportation Agency, which oversees Muni, is working with a consultant team to come up with its own strategy for shaping citywide transportation.
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Lawsuit alleges three companies neglected to roll back gate fee during 26-month period, costing drivers $8MA group of taxi drivers filed a lawsuit Thursday against three of the largest cab companies in San Francisco for allegedly overcharging them to take cabs out for a day’s work.United Taxicab Workers, a group of about 500 cabdrivers, allege that Yellow Cab, Luxor Cab and Speck Cab Co. owe cabdrivers up to $8 million in total overcharges.
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End of disagreement about stadium’s valuation means The City will save $3.9MA six-year battle over the value of the San Francisco Giants’ stadium — which jeopardized millions of tax dollars — has come to an end.City Assessor-Recorder Phil Ting announced Wednesday that a settlement over the stadium’s value was reached between The City and the Giants, which will protect $3.9 million in taxes for The City.
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Event in favor of Prop. 87 features former president, city politicians, musical actsFormer President Bill Clinton and local rockers turned a Wednesday evening political rally outside of City Hall into a party.For more than an hour, a star-studded lineup took to the stage to pump up Proposition 87, a ballot measure before voters this Tuesday that would tax oil production in California. Rock music poured out of large speakers hanging over the makeshift stage set up in Civic Center Plaza, inspiring the crowd to dance and shout as they waited for speakers.
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