Since district elections were reinstated in 2000, San Franciscoโs supervisors might come into office with citywide ambitions. But if they want to get re-elected, theyโve got to make their districts happy and get things done.
Last November, six supervisors were up for election and one was appointed by Mayor London Breed. Now theyโre in office, and five of them are brand-new to legislating. What are they promising to deliver?
Click the arrows on each illustration to swipe through and learn more about your district supervisor’s goals.
Love these illustrations! This is fantastic, great job! ๐
Wow Ronna: Your illustrations are AMAZING!!! Thank you.
I really enjoyed this! Such a fun way to learn.
This is excellent and very informative!
Noteworthy: each and all of our eleven district supervisors needs to stop whatever else they are working (or not working) on and focus 100% on MUNI and San Francisco’s public transit system and looming budget shortfall. This issue impacts the daily life of every single San Franciscan. Itโs a quality of life issue for young and old, rich and poor, able bodied and disabled folks, pedestrians, cyclists and motoristsโฆ..for parents and kids and for folks without kids. Fact: the city of San Francisco provides 60% of the SF Bay Areaโs transit trips; SF bears the brunt of public transit costs for other local cities and that is not just. Fact: transit fares comprise only 7% of MUNIโs revenue. Our workers, nurses, teachers, janitors, small biz, restaurants, bars, elders and school kids depend on MUNI every day. Each of our 11 district supes must make public transportation a TOP PRIORITY. MUNI has a revenue shortage that could be mitigated by taxes and fines to corporate and private transit companies for misuse of public resources, streets, roads, bus stops, liading zones, curbs and bike lanes. JUST SAY NO TO SERVICE CUTS TO PUBLIC TRANSIT! And all 11 supervisors: get busy on finding solutions and funding for public transit for San Franciscans. Snap out of it.
If as you say Muni fares only cover 7% of the cost of running Muni, then that is the problem right there.
Think about it. A cash fare is $3 for a ride that, by your math, costs $43 dollars (100/7 times $3) to operate. How can a Muni ride possibly cost $43? Answer that and you have solved the problem.
MUNI and public transit use the same infrastructure as private for-profit transportation (like UBER, LYFT, Tesla, Tech Shuttles and taxi cabs). The payment structure and system must be modernized so that corporations along with private corporate profiteers pay their fare and fair share. UBER, Lyft etc. are using our public resources basically for free.
Subsidizing a monopoly whether public or private with ever-increasing “mandates” is not good governance per se. MUNI was much leaner (and equally effective, go figure) a decade ago. How does the budget double in that time and service not improve? Well, you’re living that example by pretending the only solution is more money – it’s not, the best solution is auditing and figuring out where it’s all going. They spent $50+ MILLION on SIGNAGE and advertising. That’s a problem.
But we cannot just say that Muni costs whatever it costs, and others have to pay for it. There is a pressing need to determine why Muni is so expensive to run.
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Love this presentation! Thank you!! I’m also wondering if the text is otherwise accessible, b/c being able to copy/paste this information would make my job of tracking elected officials easier. ๐ And, as an aside, this makes me wonder, can search engines and AI access this text the way it’s posted? Thanks again!
Matt Gonzalez was latino so Melgar’s claim is a little sus?
Matt Gonzalez was a Latina? With an “A”? Not last I checked.
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SD’s assumption was understandable as it was a bit hard to tell an “a” from a “o” in that script. Particularly if using a phone. “Latino” is often used to denote both male and female members of that race.
But the bigger problem is that this is the only race, as far as I know, where people try and split the name by gender. That in turn leads to verbal contortions like “latinx”.
So journalistically, wouldn’t it be better practise for ML to instead use the equivalent and gender-neutral word “hispanic”?
@Fielder. PLEASE Just get rid of the street vendors in the Mission. You are wasting our time and Tax money. Residents are sick of the stolen goods and flight on the sidewalks. The Mission looks like flipping mess.