Sneaky San Francisco supervisors undermine open-government claims
The next time you hear cries about transparency in government in San Francisco, you may want to see if the shouts are coming from behind opaque glass.
A city known for its laborious political process — where any decisions are subject to myriad public hearings, debates and community courting — this week became the home of the backdoor stunt, whereby three major policy initiatives were snuck onto the November ballot by our most left-leaning supervisors without any discussion.
The reason is simple. If they had been properly vetted, the public outrage over their existence would have been considerable. But since the backers of the initiatives are often the loudest voices about fair and open government, let’s just say it’s quite an exhibition of hypocrisy.
The most controversial measure is one that would undo the basic tenets of Care Not Cash, a policy overwhelmingly approved by voters in 2002 and one that by any baseline standard, has proven to be a raging success.
The program, which provides housing and health services to homeless people instead of handing out cash, has taken thousands of people off the street and reduced the welfare rolls by 85 percent. It’s one of the primary reasons former Mayor Gavin Newsom, who authored it, was elected twice, and certainly will increase the drumbeat for Mayor Ed Lee to run for election, since city residents generally prefer having an adult as chief executive.
Lee denounced the behind-the-scenes maneuver by supervisors John Avalos, David Campos, Jane Kim, Eric Mar and Ross Mirkarimi, noting that the move would “undermine the success of a nationally recognized, award-winning program.” Yet as it turned out, the board members were just getting warmed up.
Just a scant few weeks after a majority of the board approved a plan to remake the Parkmerced apartment complex and add thousands of units of new housing, the same five supervisors who were on the losing end of that vote quietly threw another measure on the ballot to prohibit the demolition of residential buildings containing 50 or more housing units — in essence an attempt to undo what the board already did.
I don’t know about you, but I think most people consider it poor sportsmanship to call for the replay of a game you clearly already lost. The ballot is not supposed to be a repository of recent do-overs, especially by a group that allegedly supports new housing in San Francisco.
Still, in between breaths, a minority of the board’s members had enough left to find yet another solution in search of a problem.
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A small group of San Francisco supervisors is attempting to use the ballot to undo decisions by the full Board of Supervisors. (Getty Images file photo) The next time you hear cries about transparency in government in San Francisco, you may want to see
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