SF Mayor Daniel Lurie unveils budget with no – Latest News
Daniel Lurie simply delivered the unthinkable in San Francisco: A budget that avoids additional layoffs — and offers a raise to emergency responders, particularly police and firefighters.
As The California Post reported earlier this week, Lurie is delivering on guarantees of reform. The metropolis’s funds are enhancing steadily, and San Francisco is investing in public security — the important thing to attracting investment, serving to small companies and defending residential neighborhoods.
Police and firefighters will earn a raise of 14% over the following 4 years. That’s a main step ahead after Lurie was compelled to impose a hiring freeze final 12 months. The freeze saved the town $130 million, the mayor mentioned.
Mayor Daniel Lurie simply delivered the unthinkable in San Francisco: A budget that avoids additional layoffs. Getty Images
It’s superb how controlling spending leaves room for the issues that matter most.
And it’s equally astonishing that a metropolis as liberal — or left wing — as San Francisco is paying police more.
We’ve come a long means because the “summer of love” in 2020, when Black Lives Matter riots swept the nation, and Mayor London Breed promised to cut $120 million in spending on law enforcement, earlier than altering her thoughts amid a rising crime wave.
One of the keys to saving money in San Fran: Cutting nonprofits out of metropolis contracts.
San Francisco had misplaced residents, and firms, within the pandemic — however not utterly. Getty Images
While there are exceptions, these “non-governmental organizations” (NGOs) incessantly do little more than present sheltered employment for political cronies, who’re anticipated to prove the vote at election time.
How did San Francisco flip issues round?
Just a few years in the past, the town squandered a COVID-era surplus primarily based on “emergency” spending by the Biden administration.
There have been deficits so far as the attention may see.
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The AI revolution introduced new investment back to the Bay Area. Getty Images
Two issues occurred. One: The AI revolution introduced new investment back to the Bay Area. The metropolis itself had misplaced residents, and firms, within the pandemic — however not utterly. And it stays an innovation hub.
Two: The voters elected Lurie over Breed.
Breed was not as radical as her base, however usually appeared to really feel compelled to observe their lead. She was a weak chief who couldn’t make a clean break with the insurance policies that had failed the town.
So Lurie — a relative political outsider — stepped up. And he offered a new direction for the town — one that’s nonetheless within its left-liberal political custom, however which additionally acknowledges that authorities has to ship the fundamentals.
Lurie is offering a model for LA, and different troubled massive “blue” cities throughout the nation, to observe.
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