In an 11-0 vote, the Board of Supervisors approved Mayor Ed Lee’s proposed $6.8 billion budget for the fiscal year that began July 1. The vote came with heaps of praise about how the process was different than other years. “We worked through very difficult issues, but we showed that we can come together to get things done without enormous drama,” Board of Supervisors President David Chiu said.
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Bypassing the voters, a plan to borrow $170 million using what is known as certificates of participation was approved Tuesday by the Board of Supervisors in an 11-0 vote.
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A ninth candidate for mayor has filed to receive taxpayer money from The City’s public financing program, and odds are that he’ll be the last.
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Board President David Chiu likes to present his small business credentials while on the campaign trail for San Francisco mayor, but at a mayoral forum at the United Irish Cultural Center on Thursday, his braggadocio got him in a little trouble.
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A number of San Francisco mayoral candidates will participate in a panel discussion and question-and-answer session tonight in The City’s Sunset district.Candidates expected to participate include John Avalos, Michela Alioto-Pier, David Chiu, Bevan Dufty, Tony Hall, Dennis Herrera, Joanna Rees, Phil Ting and Leland Yee.The event, organized by the San Francisco Irish American Democratic Club, will take place at the United Irish Cultural Center at 2700 45th Ave.
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Supervisor David Chiu and the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency have teamed up on a plan that would regulate and oversee tour buses in San Francisco.The plan, introduced at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, would create more efficient loading zones for tour buses, provide metered parking spaces for the vehicles, establish overnight parking zones, and develop a permit system to better manage enforce bus parking and loading.
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You’re invited to a mayoral debate focusing on issues in the Mission district, but not all the mayoral candidates are.And we’re not even talking about the 28 candidates who have thrown their names into the race and have been kept out of the two forums already hosted. The nine candidates who have regularly been invited have now been whittled down to five.
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Every couple of seasons, Planet Budget and Planet Election collide and the resulting blast of anti-overtime bombast signals the creation of a legislative black hole. Good intentions and electoral pandering alike are sucked in and disappear, along with the public’s memory of their existence.
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The ink from Mayor Ed Lee’s signature is barely dry on Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi’s moratorium on stock-option taxes, and now the one company that the legislation will benefit most is talking about going public.
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In November 2002, voters were presented with a plan to issue $123 million in general obligation bonds to improve and seismically retrofit the War Memorial Veterans Building. Although backed by all members of the Board of Supervisors and heavy hitters such as Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, only 55 percent of voters approved the bonds, which was short of the 66.7 percent required by law.
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