Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez
Politics Reporter at The San Francisco Standard
#SF raised. SF Standard politics journo. Reporting the hell out of my dear, foggy City. [email protected] / DM for Signal info
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3 days ago |
sfstandard.com | Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez |Gabe Greschler
On the campaign trail, Daniel Lurie vowed to vanquish City Hall corruption, promising to fully fund the city’s governance watchdog, the Ethics Commission. Now, as mayor, Lurie just blew a gaping hole in the department’s budget, sparking an outcry from its leader. “We need to spend money on the front end, before they become big problems,” said Patrick Ford, executive director of the Ethics Commission. “In that sense, an investment in ethics is a cost saver in the long run. Our department is tiny.
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1 week ago |
sfstandard.com | Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez |Gabe Greschler
Mayor Daniel Lurie released his nearly $16-billion budget proposal on Friday, showcasing his master plan to close San Francisco’s colossal $782-million budget deficit. Many services will keep their funding: the San Francisco Police Department, the Public Defender’s Office, the District Attorney’s Office, street cleaning crews, and homelessness services will maintain current funding levels. Everything else will be razed.
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1 week ago |
sfstandard.com | Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez
Cratered. Decimated. Tanked. Whatever word you use, the reality is the same. San Francisco’s budget is screwed. The deficit is an eye-watering $782 million out of a budget of $15.9 billion. Now, Mayor Daniel Lurie has the unenviable task of digging San Francisco out of that hole by slashing spending. Lurie plans to balance critical priorities like public safety while gutting the budgets of other city departments. Residents could see service cuts, and 1,000 city positions might be eliminated.
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1 week ago |
sfstandard.com | Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez
San Francisco’s budget is a mess, but at least its streets won’t be. And, in news of interest to anyone who’s ever stepped in something awful on a sidewalk, rather than axing eight street cleaning staffers, Lurie will boost the street cleaning teams by 18 personnel, sources with knowledge said. Lurie is set to reveal his proposed budget Friday or Monday to coincide with a June 1 deadline.
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1 week ago |
sfstandard.com | Josh Koehn |Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez
For the first time in more than a decade, San Francisco government workers may be laid off to shore up a massive city budget deficit, The Standard has learned. In order to close the $782 million gap, sources told The Standard that Lurie intends to permanently eliminate around 1,000 jobs. Most of those positions are currently vacant or, to a lesser extent, filled by employees currently slated for retirement.
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