Mayor Ed Lee’s plan to add $1 million into The City’s revolving loan fund for small businesses suffered a setback Wednesday.The Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Committee unanimously agreed the proposal raised a number of unresolved issues and more time was needed to determine whether it was the best use of taxpayer dollars.
Voters will continue ranking candidates in elections after a proposal to eliminate such a system failed to make the June ballot. Supervisor Mark Farrell had proposed a charter amendment that would eliminate the system. Instead, people would vote in September with a November run-off. But Farrell could not secure the six votes on the Board of Supervisors to place it on the June ballot Tuesday, the deadline to do so.
San Francisco Police Department Chief Greg Suhr on Friday announced the release of an "It Gets Better" video that features officers from the department.
The video, which is part of a nationwide campaign to end the bullying if LGBT youth, was produced by San Francisco filmmaker Shawn Northcutt, according to the department.
The San Francisco Police Department is the first department in the nation to make a video for the campaign, according to police.
Shoppers will have to start bringing their own bags if they want to avoid a new fee.
San Francisco on Tuesday became the latest California city to impose a fee on bags provided to customers, 10 cents a tote, as part of a growing effort to change consumer habits by hitting them in their wallets.
An appointee to the Planning Commission clarified Thursday the conflict of interest she may have when voting on important development issues while also working for an influential Chinatown nonprofit.
“One question that many people have been asking me about is if there are potential conflicts due to my day job at CCDC,” said Cindy Wu, Board of Supervisors President David Chiu’s appointee to the Planning Commission.
An appointee to the Planning Commission clarified Thursday the conflict of interest she may have when voting on important development issues while also working for an influential Chinatown nonprofit.
“One question that many people have been asking me about is if there are potential conflicts due to my day job at CCDC,” said Cindy Wu, Board of Supervisors President David Chiu’s appointee to the Planning Commission.
Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has petitioned a judge to gain visitation rights to his family and is expected to make his argument Friday morning in San Francisco Superior Court. Since Mirkarimi was arrested on Jan. 13, the newly elected sheriff has not been allowed to contact his wife and two-year-old child nor live at his home in the Western Addition.
Board of Supervisors President David Chiu introduced legislation Tuesday that would give preferences to more socially responsible companies for bids on city contracts. Chiu said it was important to send the message to these types of businesses that “we are open for business.”
A new cruise ship terminal in San Francisco – spurred by investment from the America’s Cup yacht race coming to The City over the next two years -- will be dedicated by Mayor Ed Lee Tuesday at 10 a.m.The new terminal at Pier 27 will be partially remade before the race events and finished completely in 2014, according to the Mayor’s Office. Christine Falvey, a spokeswoman for the mayor, said the new terminal is hoped to bring in more ships and more tourists.
