Only a few years ago, it appeared San Francisco city workers’ runaway cellphone costs would only grow worse.City workers’ bills nearly doubled in a four-year span to a high of $3.3 million in 2008, and efforts to reduce costs had proven difficult. In November 2009, then-Mayor Gavin Newsom said he was “frustrated” over how much The City was spending on cellphone use and his inability to cut costs. Read More
During the past five years, more than 100 of The City’s largest contracts grew in cost by nearly $300 million — sometimes without the knowledge of San Francisco’s most powerful decision-makers.
That’s according to a new Budget Analyst’s Office report requested by Board of Supervisors President David Chiu, who said he’s fed up with the difficulty of tracking how San Francisco spends its money. Read More
