The San Francisco Chronicle asked supervisors what issues their constituents complain about the most. We already know that nudity is the number-one complaint in Supervisor Scott Wiener’s District 8. District 9 residents like to complain about quality-of-life issues, according to Supervisor David Campos.
In District Nine, the Mission, people complain about broken lights, potholes, trash and public safety issues, said Supervisor David Campos.
“It’s certainly not nudity,” he said with a laugh. “It’s a lot of the nuts and bolts of what happens in the neighborhood.
What issues matter to you?
Mission residents don’t “like” to complain about quality of life issues. Rather than be-littling us, Supervisor Campos should work hard to get better city services into the Mission. It’s all about respect. We are not getting it.
I’m sure the reporting is accurate and Campos laughed off his constituents’ concerns since he refuses to acknowledge the many quality of life issues in the neighborhood or do anything about them. He seems to be too busy making excuses for convicted perpetrators of domestic violence.
Somebody, anybody, run against this clown, please.
Campos is doing the best job he can under the circumstances. The Mayor’s office plays hardball and only doles out city services to supervisors which buy full into the corruption and don’t demand anything for their communities just like they give all sorts of wrongdoing a pass when it is one of them but throws the book at anyone who is not on their team at the slightest pretense. That is how they maximize the extraction take from the public sector to their patrons and cronies. It is up to D9 residents to put pressure on Campos to elevate neighbor public services needs to at least the same level as the nonprofits and public health department.
He ignores emails and calls and nobody will run against him – how can residents put pressure on him when there is no other option?
Campos and/or his team actually do answer emails from what I’ve seen.
Its also up to Mission residents to file complaints often with DPW, 311, Parks and Rec, the Mayor, Campos and others about what specifically is wrong and how it should be done right. Then file public records act requests to make sure those complaints were filed. I doubt it’s a conspiracy, its just that Noe Valley neighbors feel and thus act like they deserve the services, so they demand them. We should too. Can you imagine a project like the Cesar Chavez renovation happening in the Marina in the slipshod, no signs, no info way that this has progressed? no way.
That is exactly right. It is up to the neighbors. I have always had DPW come out when I called about the chronically slobtastic apartment across from me (the residents love to dump). The supervisor of the DPW for District 9 went so far as to cite the landlord for the illegal dumping. It all started with my phone call.
True. There are good tools to report issues that the city and parks and rec are responsible for. http://seeclickfix.com for street issues. Try http://parkscan.org for park related issues.
all of the above. Especially the trash issue.
I am sensing from these comments that no one except maybe small business is doing their job right in SF?! complaints about city workers, elected officials, unions and non-profit workers. Damn! I guess only people in the private sector do their jobs right? Yeah right. You think you have trash in D9, resident? come out the Bayview sometime. Laughing off nudity is not the same as laughing off real concerns. If he’s such a clown and you know so much about how the district should run, why don’t you run for the office, randolph mortimer? The level of complaining on Mission local’s comment section is beginning to rival sfgate. And it sounds very republican, which is not very San Franciscan.
It is not so much quality of life, rather dismal quality of the delivery of city services that we pay for, services that other neighborhoods take for granted.
DPW, Rec and Park, Muni are the agencies that most impact most San Franciscans’ lives. There is rampant corruption in all of these departments as public resources and entitlements are used as political chits and service delivery is a mere side project.
The tacit deal is that the labor and the nonprofits claim to represent the people, they assent to the corruption so long as they get a small slice on the side.
Most all San Francisco residents, under this deal, get nothing. This is not a quality of life issue, it is an honest government issue that originates in Room 200 of City Hall.
Would you support these departments spending some additional funds to better engage the public about how and what they are doing?