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In 2016, The City received the site from the Shorenstein family, who also gave The City $1 million for the interim use of the site. La Cocina, an organization that helps minority women open their own restaurants and food businesses, matched the funds with $1 million of its own to build the food hub at 101 Hyde St., an abandoned former U.S. Post Office now owned by The City.
However, rising construction costs have since doubled the cost of the project to nearly $4 million, according to Caleb Zigas, the executive director for La Cocina.
City Controller Ben Rosenfield said Monday there are “no signs of a recession, but we know we’re now nine years since our last recession ended – which makes this the second longest expansion in the US since WWII.”
The tunnel project will “extensively rehabilitate” the 2-mile long tunnel, replacing the tracks replacement, making repairs to the tunel and drainage system and seismically retrofittig the tunnel, according to an SFMTA staff report.
“It’s a hundred years old,” SFMTA Director of Transportation Ed Reiskin said, of the drainage system. He spoke about the closures to the SFMTA Board of Directors last Tuesday.
Criminal defense attorney John Hamasaki said Monday he plans to apply for the traditionally Asian American seat that Bill Ong Hing vacated on the Police Commission in April. Julie Soo, a California Department of Insurance attorney and Commission on the Status of Women member, applied last week.
This is the second time that Hamasaki and Soo will compete for the seat. In December 2016, the Board of Supervisors voted 8-2 to appoint Hing to the Police Commission, with supervisors... London Breed and Malia Cohen dissenting in favor of Hamasaki. Supervisor Katy Tang voiced support for Soo at the time.
But Hing, a professor at the University of San Francisco and immigration expert, resigned unexpectedly a month after being the only commissioner to vote against a policy for arming officers with Tasers in March. Hing did not announce a reason for his resignation.
Column: Teacher Appreciation Week offers a time to reflect on support for educators
Tens of thousands of workers including healthcare professionals at UC San Francisco are slated to begin a three-day strike on this morning over stalled contract negotiations with the university system.
The Giants closed out their first sweep of the season on Sunday using a method that’s generated success for them for much of this decade: left-handed pitching and a big offensive day from a catcher.
On Sunday, with the Golden State Warriors poised to secure a 3-1 advantage over the New Orleans Pelicans, the head coach opted to start his famed Death Lineup for the for the first time not just this postseason, but the first time ever.
On Guard: A new local ballot measure crafted by the Berniecrats, a political club, would levy a parcel tax to create community-based affordable housing in San Francisco. And in a nod to European models, The City would own and operate that housing.
“In other schools, you don’t sit in a classroom and do stuff. You sit in a classroom writing and listen all day to people telling you what to do,” Perez said. “Here, they give me options. And if I don’t want to do anything, I don’t have to. It works for me, because why would you do something you don’t want to do?”
Overtime spending continues to rise in San Francisco and hundreds of city workers exceeded caps last year that were passed into law to rein in those costs.
San Francisco and the Police Officers Association have struck a three-year agreement that includes a 9 percent pay raise over three years.
Considering the number of tents cleared, and the low number of people connected to shelters or services, Kelly Cutler, a human rights organizer with the Coalition on Homelessness, called the sweeps a failure of city policy.
“Compare this to what an encampment resolution looks like, a three or four week process,” Cutler said. “It sounds like throwing (services) in at the last minute.”
Hennessy said defendants charged with crimes as serious as kidnapping and rape were among the 791 people out of jail on pretrial release on an average day in the first three months of 2018 — 284 more a day on average than in the first quarter of 2017. And those numbers only account for defendants facing felonies.
