Today Mayor Gavin Newsom visited Potrero Terrace and Annex to inspect
the start of construction on $17.9 million in repair work at over a
dozen San Francisco Housing Authority (SFHA) properties. Read more...
The Court’s decision allows us to continue providing uninsured workers with access to health care. There are now over 36,000 people enrolled in Healthy San Francisco,and we expect approximately 60,000 by December, 2009. I encourage the Golden Gate Restaurant Association to work collaboratively with the City and County of San Francisco to expand health care access. Read more...
Today Mayor Gavin Newsom announced significant increased funding for the city’s commercial and multi-family residential energy efficiency program, SF Energy Watch. Read more...
Mayor Gavin Newsom today kicked off the deployment of the first fifty
City-owned LED (light-emitting diode) streetlight fixtures in the
Tenderloin and announced a new partnership between Pacific Gas &
Electric (PG&E) and the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
(SFPUC) to evaluate new "smart controller" technologies that will allow
for better monitoring and performance of City streetlights. Read more...
Mayor Gavin Newsom today announced that layoffs and program cuts to
public schools will be prevented by providing up to $23 million from
the city's rainy day fund. Newsom’s action will save over 250 teachers’
jobs. Read more...
I applaud President Obama’s commitment to
ensuring that stem cell research moves forward and advancing the search
for cures to our world’s most challenging diseases. The President’s
decision to reverse an eight-year ban on embryonic stem cell research
will be of tremendous benefit not only to San Francisco, and
California, but to the world as a whole. Read more...
Mayor Newsom today announced the release of the City and County of San
Francisco’s Proposed Capital Plan for Fiscal Year 2010-2019 to spur
local job growth by recommending $17.5 billion in capital investments. Read more...
