Watching City Hall #453 (4-11-06)

Watching City Hall #453

4-11-06)
 
“I think things will remain as they are … bad.�
 
(Orwell’s mule describes our ‘Progressive’ Board)
 
          Here’s the Bulldog account of how your weekly reaming by the SF Board of Supervisors will go down.    Item by item.   Screwing labor.   Privatizing parks.   Shorting the arts.  
 
Items 9 and 10  …  $26 million dollars to DPW & RPD for projects that
                                  will never be completed.
 
          The ‘street resurfacing’ cash will be shunted over to curb cuts as usual.    DPW is the worst run of all the City departments and that says a ton.    There goes $15 million.   Vote:  11-0 against responsibility.
 
          $11 million or so to be re-directed from the projects listed (Yabadabadoo has done this for years as Capital Projects head of RPD) to things like completing the club house at Harding (despite a budget of $4 million, RPD spent $25 million on Harding and didn’t finish it).
 
Items 11, 14, 28 & 29  …  Michela Pier continues her bold moves to give
                                      more tax breaks to the rich.    Remember how
                                      well her ‘ski jump’ went?    The bike race?
 
          This time the Board is asked to finalize the dynasty of Stephanie Coyote as “sole liaison between film companies and City departments�.    This is the lady who went ape-shit on long-term City employees a few months back.    (item 14)   Hoping for autographs, Board fucks you 11-0
 
          Item #29 gives Coyote the power to hand tax breaks of between one and two million for “qualified motion picture projects�.    Not bad.   Here’s a woman who got busted charging personal purchases of only a grand or so to the City a couple of months ago.   That, and bullying her staff.   Her punishment?   Now, when her Hollywood friends come to town, she can hand them a million bucks apiece.   And you bitched when the City gave the Pope a friggin’ paperweight.    Up yours … 11-0
 
          Item 11 asks the Board to “expand definition of properties qualifying as historical under the Mills Act� … now, just off the top of your head, do you think that maybe some of Pier’s rich friends asked her to do this so’s they’d get bigger tax breaks?   Board, hoping to get invited to parties at these tax-free mansions screws you again … 11-0
 
          Item #28 is a hearing called by Pier to discuss the report put together by the 3 SFSOS numbers crunchers whose salaries were foisted on you through that ‘Clean Streets’ initiative a year or so back.   Everything these guys say will be a contoured lie designed to enrich Donald Fisher and Warren Hellman and Walter Shorenstein et. al..
 
Item #21  …  We’ll take this one next because the Fisher name just came                 
                       in the previous item.  
 
          Let’s call this one, ‘Fisher’s Fields’ and what a giant leap forward this one is for the forces of privatization.    Bringing his kids into the fold to join Billy Getty over at RPD, the Fishers are just this narrow step from controlling every major playing field under the Rec & Park domain.   After the Board folds on this one today, Fisher and his kids only have to go to Yabadabadoo to get approval for taking over more playing fields, setting the schedules for who can play there and when.   You know, little things like total control.    Bottom line is that after today, you public playing fields will be controlled more and more by a group called the:  ‘City Fields Foundation’.    Venture philanthropy at it’s most blatant.    I’m hoping Daly & Sandoval vote against them making your loss only:   9-2
 
Item #12  …  $226k to keep shelters open in the cold and rain.
 
          Sean Elsbernd has done everything he can to keep the poor and crippled and insane and whatever out on the streets by delaying this measly appropriation for over a month while he burns incense to Donald Fisher and prays it will stop raining.    Well, guess what?   It’s raining out my window 2 hours from the Board meeting.   You’ll finally win one here if you’re a true San Franciscan but the most cold hearted of the Board will vote against sheltering the poorest amongst us.    You win 9-2 with Elsbernd and Pier preferring to give the quarter million to Stephanie Coyote to buy lunches for Sean Penn.
 
Item #27  …  Closed session with Labor Negotiators
 
          You’ll take the worst beating as the Board meets with Human Services hack, Phil Ginsberg to listen to why they should destroy the seniority system, allow the cops to avoid foot patrols and hire 90% out-of-towners and, well, … things like that.   And, guess what?   They don’t have to tell you anything they gave away to get money and endorsements from these back-stabbing union hacks.
 
Item #20  …  Delete a flower stand at 5^th & Market
 
          I don’t know shit on this one but that’s never stopped me from commenting before.    I only hope that the area will be reserved for street musicians.    If it’s not, it should go back to committee where that subject should be broached.    Reality?    11-0 while you lose real flowers along with the real grass in the parks.
 
Item #15  …  Giving bastard, Phil Ginsberg more power.   This time, to ‘define OLSE and include it as a final decision maker along with DHS’ in whether contractors working for the City are following Fair Hiring Practices.    Ginsberg sucks and you can’t beat his hordes behind the curtain:   Screw you 11-0
 
Item #19  …  $250k of the hundred ten million dollars of City surplus designated for the arts.    To be administered by, for, and about a gang of rich pricks.    You lose … 11-0
 
Item #34  …  $75k to Sean Elsbernd to use … ?  …  this one needs to go to committee badly for vetting.   He’s adding ‘Rehabilitation Center’ as a name change to Laguna Honda Hospital?   It stinks.   Chris Daly should send it to committee like all the things Sean sent to committee on him.
 
Correspondence:
 
     There were 3 letters from homophobes in support of bringing the Iowa to San Francisco.    Odd, Mike Hardeman over at Port said he’d be sending 600.    Hey Mike, send the other 597 or I’ll call you a fucking boot-licking liar.   I will too.   Just ask anyone.
 
enjoy the rain: