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The Tenderloin has been heavily affected by budget cuts — we’ve reported the planned closure of clinics like the Larkin Street youth clinic — so now’s the time to get involved.
The People’s Budget Coalition is hosting a town hall to create a “people’s budget” focused on the Tenderloin’s needs and priorities. The group has been going around the city to work with different districts, and the town hall will include a Budget 101, and attendees will hear from Supervisor Bilal Mahmood about how budget cuts will impact the community.
Register here for the event on Wednesday May 6 at Kelly Cullen Community Auditorium at 220 Golden Gate Ave.
Mahmood wants to make 111 Taylor, the birthplace of the transgender resistance movement in the Tenderloin, a historical landmark.
The building is the site of the infamous 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria riot and is now home to a halfway house run by for-profit prison operator GEO Group. Last year, the site was under scrutiny after the death of Melvin Bulauan, a man living there who was in crisis, as Mission Local first reported.
The intersection was already landmarked, but the building’s façade will now be protected from changes without city approval.
Dog bites have been on the rise, particularly in the Tenderloin, as we reported in March, and the city’s vicious-dog court has been on hiatus for a year. In response, District 2 Supervisor Stephen Sherill called for the hiring of a hearing officer to bring the process back online.
On that note, we’ve also learned that the dog lieutenant who had taken a special interest in canine law enforcement in the Tenderloin has moved on, so station Captain Matt Sullivan is seeking his replacement.
Would like to know how the tenderloin police precinct is going to be able to address the increased drug containment zone on the west side of polk including the longstanding drug alleyways ?
To date they cannot get control of the alleyways on the east side of polk and Larkin
Why are 20 percent of coroner reported deaths still happening in this zipcode which includes this small area?
The whole rest of the tenderloin is 20 percent yet these few streets have had and continue to have the same numbers year after year?
Was hoping the city cared and would get control of the lawlessness on larkin and polk including the alleyways
Sad to see drug dealing is still the only business here . Hope they pay their taxes ?
I m not a supporter of the death penalty but it appears the policies and plans to date here are doing that by allowing the sales and nonstop usage on everyblock all day all night .
Tragic
Do you want to spend time in this drug containment zone?
How often are you coming here?
I bet not much .
So Mission Local takes “The People’s Budget Coalition” at its word as representing the interests of people in the city budget process. One might think that would involve advocating for the people-facing elements of city government better street cleaning with DPW, better Muni service and a people-first Rec and Park.
One would be mistaken if one drew that conclusion. The People’s Budget Coalition has been Yet Another Coalition Of The Same Nonprofits trying to paint a popular lipstick on their self serving pigs.
Basically, these operations get paid city money to lobby the city for more city money for their nonprofits that have minimal reach and effectiveness other than as lubricating patronage.