Mayor Newsom Announces Recommendations of San Francisco’s Urban Wind Power Task Force

Mayor Newsom today announced recommendations from San Francisco’s Urban Wind Power Task Force, charged with finding ways to encourage the expansion of local wind power generation in San Francisco. The Task Force’s 29 recommendations include working at the state-level to exempt small wind turbines from property tax increases, installing more City-owned small wind demonstration sites, and exploring offering permitting cost refunds. Read more...

Mayor Newsom Launches City App Store

Today, Mayor Newsom announced the launch of the DataSF App Showcase (www.datasf.org/showcase) to highlight and centralize software applications created from City data. The site will celebrate the innovators and innovations from a more collaborative and open government. On the site the public can browse examples of new ways in which Bay Area constituents are using City data to improve San Francisco. Read more...

Mayor Gavin Newsom and Jennifer Siebel Newsom Celebrate Birth of Baby Daughter

Today San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and Jennifer Siebel Newsom are celebrating the birth of a healthy baby daughter, Montana Tessa Newsom. Read more...

Mayor Newsom Welcomes Fotowatio, One of the World's Largest Independent Solar Power Producers, to San Francisco

Mayor Gavin Newsom today welcomed Spanish independent solar power producer, Fotowatio, to San Francisco. Fotowatio has established its North American Headquarters in San Francisco, under the company name "Fotowatio Renewable Ventures." San Francisco will also serve as a base for the U.S. expansion of Fotowatio Renewable Ventures. Read more...

Mayor Newsom Announces Pilot Program to Improve Transit and Pedestrian Conditions on Market Street

Mayor Gavin Newsom today announced that the City will be piloting several strategies to improve public transit, and the pedestrian experience along Market Street. Read more...

Mayor Gavin Newsom in Washington to Support President Obama's Call for Health Care Reform

Today, Mayor Gavin Newsom will attend President Obama’s speech to the joint session of Congress about national health care reform. Speaker Nancy Pelosi has invited Mayor Newsom to be her guest. San Francisco's two-year-old universal health care plan, Healthy San Francisco, has covered more than 75% of the city's uninsured. New studies from UC Berkeley and the Kaiser Family Foundation indicate that the city's public plan has had no negative impact on the city's economy and more than 90% of the patients are satisfied with their care. Read more...

Mayor Newsom Announces Sunday Streets Becomes Permanent Program

Days before the final 2009 Sunday Streets event on September 6, Mayor Gavin Newsom today announced the continuation of this popular event as a permanent program in San Francisco. Read more...

Mayor Newsom Announces Free H1N1 Shots to Protect San Franciscans During the Upcoming Flu Season

Mayor Gavin Newsom today announced that San Francisco will be organizing free H1N1 (swine) flu clinics throughout the City and County of San Francisco, utilizing a combination of public schools, private schools and community centers. Read more...

Mayor Newsom and SFMTA Announce Record MUNI Annual On-Time Performance

Mayor Gavin Newsom and the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) today announced that the Municipal Railway (Muni) achieved the highest ever annual on-time performance (OTP) rate—73.3 percent—for Fiscal Year (FY) 2009, which ended June 30, 2009. This record OTP rate for FY 2009 represents a 2.7 percent gain from the FY 2008 rate of 70.6 percent. The voter-mandated OTP goal is 85 percent. Read more...