San Franciscans for Smart Reform

10/10/2011

BE THE FIRST TO READ THE ARTICLE AND ADD YOUR COMMENT NOW: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2011%2F10%2F10%2FBATG1LDALK.DTL

In his black suit and silk tie, Public Defender Jeff Adachi looked out of place as he stepped into a low-ceilinged, ramshackle live fish store on an alley in the Tenderloin. Learning a candidate for mayor was the...

10/03/2011

http://finance.yahoo.com/real-estate/article/113588/american-cities-going-broke-247wallst

Personal Finance, real-estate

10/02/2011

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/28/san-francisco-pension-reform-explained_n_985697.html

People often complain that most important things in city government happen in secret.

09/14/2011

http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2011/09/san-francisco-labor-deal-gains-unanimous-support-supervisors

While politics have raged over a deal Mayor Ed Lee reached with police and firefighters unions, the agreement was approved Tuesday without a peep from members of the Board of Supervisors. The deal, which lets police and firefighters keep raises they were owed in exchange for them paying more toward ...

09/08/2011

Read more: http://www.sfexaminer.com/blogs/under-dome/2011/09/supervisors-question-mayor-ed-lee-s-police-fire-shield-deal

A deal Mayor Ed Lee struck with police and fire unions was not embraced Wednesday by two members of the Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Committee, who expressed concerns about the cost to The City and why these public safety unions should enjoy protections from Public Defender Jeff Adachi’s ...

09/06/2011

PLEASE SHARE: http://www.sfsmartreform.com/about-pension-reform

Alot of people have asked what the difference is between the measure put on by the Mayor and Labor Unions (Prop C) and the measure put on by the voters (Prop D). Prop D saves almost $400 million more and provides a fairer apportionment of pension costs. Under Prop D, low-wage earners pay nothing ...

09/01/2011

http://www.sfweekly.com/2011-08-31/news/pension-reform-san-francisco-jeff-adachi-ed-lee-joe-eskenazi/

Illustration by Charlie Powell Until recently, pension reform was largely the obsession of a mafia of nerds. These economists, politicos, journalists, and others brandished alarming financial forecasts and horrifying c

08/23/2011

Jeff Adachi will be attending the Mayoral Arts Forum today at 6pm the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. He will be discussing how Prop D's pension reform measure will help inject $1.7 billion back into the City over the next ten years, and help retore critical programs, including the arts. Please join him. To support Jeff, visit www.adachi2011.com.

08/05/2011

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/05/us-rhodeisland-centralfalls-idUSTRE7740ES20110805

CENTRAL FALLS, Rhode Island (Reuters) - A bankruptcy filing this week by Central Falls, Rhode Island, could be a lesson for other struggling cities in the advantages of taking that drastic legal step,

07/27/2011

http://www.citireport.com/2011/07/pension-reform-a-dozen-years-of-easy-answers-to-hard-problems/

This November two pension reform ballot measures will join nine earlier pension reform ballot measures – all approved by the voters since 1998. In every case,

07/12/2011

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/12/business/central-falls-ri-faces-bankruptcy-over-pension-promises.html?scp=1&sq=central%20falls,%20ri&st=cse

Central Falls, R.I., cannot afford to pay its pension benefits, but a bankruptcy could set off a chain reaction that might put the state itself on the brink.

07/07/2011

ONLY FOUR MORE DAYS TO SIGN THE PENSION REFORM PETITION! Please email [email protected] to have a petition sent to you. For more information, or to download the petition, visit www.sfpensionreform.com.

This year, taxpayers spent one out of every six tax dollars – nearly a billion dollars — on city employee benefits. Within five years, that number is expected to double. Over the next twelve months, the city’s benefits costs for city employees will soar by $100 million more.