Hi All,
Looking for some ideas for a new LPSF website article, I came across Mayor Lee's Town Halls on his new budget. I posted a list on the LPSF website Bay Area Events and provided a link. I plan to attend my district's Town Hall if I can when the location is announced. Good if you can attend the Town Hall in your district.
http://www.sfmayor.org/index.aspx?recordid=285&page=934
Marcy
Hi Marcy! Thanks for the article and interesting link. I poked around it for a while and was fascinated by the section entitled "Vendor Payments." I happened to click on the Non-Profit report and 15 pages of vendors came up. Interesting the way they're doling it out like candy at City Hall: SF Apartment Association-$67K, $50K, $81K in recent years; Give A Dog A Bone-$11K, $5K, $3.8K in recent years; Dress For Success San Francisco-$15K, $26K, $24K in recent years; Parents for Public Schools of SF-$157K, $181K in recent years; St. Francis Yacht Club-$90K in one recent year; and Lake Merced Golf Club-$199,057 in one recent year. The pork goes on and on. I have to say the site has an amazing amount of information on it--they ought to be ashamed of all that nonsense the taxpayers are paying for, but I have to give them a few points for listing it all there in black and white (oops, red).
I will attend the District 7 Town Hall on May 11--it's only an hour and a half in the morning.
Thanks!
Aubrey
That does indeed sound like good information. It's useful to see which organizations are on the dole and for how much. Members of the San Francisco symphony recently went on strike to protest a wage freeze, which might elicit some sympathy until you learn they make $165,000 a year on average and the Symphony gets $2.6 million a year in taxpayer funding ( http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2013/03/16/san-francisco-symphony-strike-continues-saturday-concert-canceled/ ).
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