San Francisco’s pending city budget is a great illustration of the Democrat’s priorities, both at the local and state level. Who are the the biggest winners in the new city budget? The public employee union, of course!
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, salaries and benefits for city employee will get a whopping 10.6 percent increase. City jobs will grow by 2 percent, up 646 jobs.
But the places that will get the new positions tell the real story. Take a look at the true winners in this budget:
— Municipal Transportation Agency: 157.15
— Public Health Department: 128.48
— Public Utilities Commission: 75.5
— Human Services Agency: 60.5
— General Services Agency – City Administration: 45.13
— General Services Agency — Public Works: 31.5
— Police: 18
— General Services Agency — Telecommunications & Information Services: 17.34
— Airport: 14.5
— District Attorney: 10
— Trial Courts: 10.6
— City Attorney: 7.25
— Juvenile Probation: 3.75
Social service and general government will grow by 530 positions while the growth in new positions for the police department, city attorney, juvenile probation and trial courts combined is 49.6 positions. Notice that the police department got a measely 18 positions. This is a city that has a real crime problem and is regularly criticized for not making enough arrests and prosecutions of criminals. Wanna a free AID or TB test in San Francisco? No problem! Looking for quick response from the police department? Don’t hold your breath….
June 26th, 2006 at 12:00 am
San Francisco is the governed by farleft wing ideologues who believe in massive redistributions of wealth and the the government is should take care of everyone from womb to tomb.
The mayor, who ran as a pro-business moderate, took a hard left turn as soon as he was elected.
The anti-business caucus of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, led by board president Peskin shows a total lack of understanding of basic economics and simple fairness.
First, they are trying to drive the largest businesses currently located here out of town by raising taxes. Most of what were San Francisco’s major corporations and taxpayers have relocated.
Next, they are proposing legislation that will let them to steal elections by not allowing corporations to contribute to political campaigns without having the same restrictions on the labor unions that are their masters. Simply fairnessis not a hallmark of this board.
SFSOS (sfsos.org), a bipartisan San Francisco government watch dog organization, compiled the information about our bloated budget.
Howard Epstein
Vice Chair Communications
Sam Francisco Republican Party
“In June of 2006 the Mayor released that 2006-07 budget, totaling nearly $5.8 Billion. That is, despite our recently touchy economy and uncertain revenues, a $500 million increase over the previous year. This number is yet again larger than the budget of the City of Los Angeles, which has 13.3 times more people to serve. That budget is larger than that of 20 full states (you know you’re curious, so see City Facts below). That is $2.7 billion larger than the San Francisco of 10 years ago, which is comparable to today’s SF in population, jobs, and services. Faced with such troubling financial times, our budget is growing by half a billion dollars.”
“City Facts
San Francisco’s proposed 2006 – 07 Budget: $5.8 billion
Compared to the state budgets of:
Iowa: $5.7 billion
Kansas: $5.6 billion
Mississippi: 5.4 billion
Nevada: $5.0 billion
Utah: $4.7 billion
New Mexico: $4.5 billion
Hawaii: $4.4 billion
West Virginia: $4.3 billion
Nebraska: $3.8 billion
Maine: $3.0 billion
Idaho: $2.9 billion
Delaware: $2.7 billion
Rhode Island: $2.6 billion
Vermont: $2.2 billion billion
New Hampshire: $2.0 billion
Montana: $1.9 billion
Alaska: $1.9 billion
Wyoming: $1.7 billion
North Dakota: $1.4 billion
South Dakota: $1.1 billion”