Programmers from a group known as “the Peace Corps for geeks” will soon begin building a $360,000 app intended to help connect low-income San Franciscans to unused public assistance benefits.
The City was one of nine American municipalities to win a fellowship from Code for America Labs, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that sends programmers on computer service projects intended to “connect citizens to their governments.”
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Riding the wave of an improving economy, Mayor Ed Lee rolled out a $7.3 billion city and county budget proposal Thursday that includes nearly 700 new government jobs, no cuts to health services and a likelihood of no political drama.
Lee presented a two-year budget — it will increase to $7.6 billion in the subsequent fiscal year — in a 14-minute speech at City Hall in the Board of Supervisors chamber filled with department heads and elected officials.
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A former employee of San Francisco’s Human Services Agency pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges that she stole the personal information of more than 3,000 Medi-Cal applicants, prosecutors said.
Shawn Williams was fired from her job as an eligibility worker for the agency’s Medi-Cal program in March 2009, according to District Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Stephanie Ong Stillman.
In 2006, Williams allegedly began emailing the applicants’ confid
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Amid reports of the increasing number of homeless families living on the streets, Supervisor John Avalos has called for a hearing Monday to get a handle on what’s going on.
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San Francisco spends about a half-billion dollars every year on a group of nonprofits handling an array of services, but the system has faced criticism for lack of accountability.
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There’s been a lot of talk about the $380 million deficit and now city officials are diving into the details. On Wednesday, the Board of Supervisors five-member Budget and Finance Committee meets to discuss the large cost of San Francisco’s workforce: fringe benefits, including pension and health care provided.
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San Mateo County officials are scrambling to prevent about 500 low-income children from losing their state-funded subsidized child care at the end of the year.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger used his line-item veto to cut the CalWORKS Stage 3 Child Care program’s $256 million in funding from the state budget, which faces an estimated $25 billion shortfall during the next 18 months.
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