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Wednesday, Aug 12, 11 a.m. - Budget & Finance Committee
Hokey-smokes is this a big-money meeting.
Here's some figures.
• $194,279,046 for a new Public Utilities Commission headquarters.• $25,000,000 for emergency backup generators at San Francisco General Hospital
• $18,712,576 for the SFMTA to rehabilitate 16 Presidential Conference Committee (PCC) historic streetcars
• $29,150,000 for TransLink fare collection equipment and support services.
That's more than a quarter of a billion dollars. I'm sure there's a good reason why the PUC headquarters has to cost $200 million. I'm sure there is. But, unable to remember it, I'm left wondering: Has that been adequately priced out? No doubt I'll come to my senses soon.
Hey, funny thing: I remember writing about those SF General emergency generators ... oh ... has it been a year now already? Eighteen months? Huh. I really would have thought they'd have up and replaced them by now, what with it being an emergency no-bid contract and all. Of course, that's what I thought back then, too.
Anywho ...
There will also be a hearing updating us on the city's budget, so, yeah, that's still going on. You thought it was dead, but, no. There's lots of technical follow-up to be done, it's true -- but I think the more significant factor is that John Avalos and David Chiu just can't stop returning to the scene of the crime.
Another hearing will update us on how the city school district plans to use all that Rainy Day Fund money the city gave it. Did you know there are schools in S.F.? For kids? We give the schools, like, money and stuff to keep the kids from hanging around all the good coffee shops during the day. And to try to teach them not to use hate speech.
It doesn't work: Those kids write filthy, hateful graffiti on the historic trolley cars that MUNI pays $19 million for. Someone should really teach those kids how to spell.
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