San Francisco bans homeless people from living in RVs
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The budget closes an $817.5 million deficit. It preserves funding for the police department, fire department, District Attorney's Office and Public Defender's Office and sets aside $400 million in reserves to prepare for future financial challenges amidst federal funding uncertainty.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors last night passed the city’s budget for the next two fiscal years. District 9 Supervisor Jackie Fielder cast the lone dissenting vote to the city’s nearly 16 billion dollar annual budget.
Backers of Lurie’s just-passed legislation say that by expanding housing and outreach services for those living in RVs, his plan offers more credible safeguards that will help ensure that the parking ban will not cause people to get pushed out onto the street with nowhere to go.
San Francisco receives a $5 million grant for electric vehicle charging ports to boost its non-public safety fleet's zero-emission capacity by 40%.
The San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department Board of Supervisors this week approved a new fee structure for city parks, pickleball courts, golf courses and more.
S.F. supervisors grilled leaders of imploded nonprofit for not knowing their finances or communicating with the organizations they served.
San Francisco city hearing examines Parks Alliance's financial mismanagement and the nonprofit's impact on the city's parks system.
With Mayor Daniel Lurie and the Board of Supervisors approving San Francisco's $15.9 billion budget, the city's fiscal winners and losers are coming into focus. Why it matters: The two-year plan signed by Lurie on Friday marks the clearest signal yet of San Francisco's shifting priorities under his administration: leaner city government and a stronger public safety push.
Jacobs, 31, has ascended to a leadership role at one of San Francisco’s most well-funded and powerful political organizations, Neighbors for a Better San Francisco. His principal task will be to build Blueprint, the organization’s new project, which offers to be “that friend who knows what’s going on in local politics.”