Rebecca Bowe is a journalist based in San Francisco. She's covered Bay Area news since 2009, and previously served as News Editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Follow her on Twitter @ByRebeccaBowe.
By Rebecca Bowe
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Election Day, San Francisco-Style
Guide to San Francisco 2015 Ballot Propositions A to K
Behind Props. G and H, Dueling S.F. 'Green' Energy Ballot Measures
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Update: 7 January 2016, 12:20 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, UC Davis released the first estimates of methane emissions from an underground gas storage field north of Los Angeles. Owned by Southern California Gas Company, the gas has been leaking since October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Davis pilot and scientist Stephen Conley measured the plume and estimates nearly 80,000 tons of methane have been released, or about 1,000 tons per day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To put this into perspective, the leak effectively doubles the emission rate for the entire Los Angeles Basin,” says Conley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The methane has traveled and affected nearby Los Angeles suburb Porter Ranch, displacing thousands of residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, California Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency over the leak and its impact on the Porter Ranch community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update: 31 December 2015, 1:45 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utility officials in Southern California say they have determined the underground location of a pipe leak that has spewed natural gas into the air since late October, but it could be months before they’re able to fix the rupture that has driven up the state’s methane emissions and chased thousands of families from their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has called the leak an “environmental disaster,” and the Los Angeles Unified School District shuttered two area schools for the rest of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the leak at Southern California Gas Company’s Aliso Canyon storage facility is pouring methane into the air at a rate equal to putting an additional 7 million cars on the road daily. The Environmental Defense Fund created this real-time counter showing how many metric tons of methane are estimated to have escaped from the Aliso Canyon facility since Oct. 23:\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://www.edf.org/embed/methane-counters\" width=\"100%\" height=\"515\" style=\"width: 100%; border: none; height: 515px;\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Original Story:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>World leaders left Paris over the weekend with an aggressive agreement to cut methane emissions and other so-called short-lived climate pollutants. Methane doesn’t last as long in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, but it’s much more potent. That’s one reason the city of Los Angeles is suing over the methane leak from a natural gas well north of L.A., and it’s why state leaders are concerned about a long-hidden source of methane emissions: leaking natural gas pipelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, utilities in California have logged, but not repaired, thousands of pinprick leaks in pipelines criss-crossing the state. These leaks are considered non-hazardous because they don’t pose a health or safety risk. But they do pose an environmental risk. 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Even before the leak started, he said, he’d notice the smell of gas sometimes. “Late night or early morning, it smells like natural gas, like my stove is on,” he explained. “I’d call the gas company, they would come out, and nothing in my house was leaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO8HraNes9w\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when the leak started Oct. 23, he said the fumes grew to an extreme level – and started to affect residents’ health. “It was hard to breathe,” he said. “It’s the kind of thing where you call the emergency number. 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SoCalGas made several unsuccessful attempts to plug the leak, and it’s now \u003ca href=\"https://www.alisoupdates.com/main\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drilling a relief well\u003c/a> to contain it—a process that could take up to four months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SoCalGas now faces a class-action lawsuit from residents of Porter Ranch, charging the company showed a “willful disregard for public health,” and a lawsuit from the city of Los Angeles charging that the utility failed to notify residents of the health hazard in a timely manner and didn’t have a sufficient plan in place to repair the breach. The company has also drawn heat from environmentalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”j8ZKAhTyX6vUmZUPJsNS6vYz2BUiiQ2Q”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At a calculated rate per hour of about 50,000 kilograms of methane emissions, this single leak is likely responsible for over 25 percent of the state’s daily total methane emissions from all sources, including landfills and agriculture,” O’Connor wrote in a recent blog post. “Depending on when it is fixed, this one leak is also likely to single-handedly double the methane emissions associated with natural gas use in California this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the Aliso Canyon leak has released a staggering amount of heat-trapping gases, leaking natural gas pipelines are a more insidious problem that has persisted for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hidden Source of Climate Change\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Non-hazardous pipeline leaks are graded differently from ruptures that cause gas explosions – under state law, utilities must respond immediately if a detected leak is deemed hazardous. But leaks that vent outdoors, or emit only a small amount of gas, are classified as Grade 3 and have historically ranked as utilities’ lowest priority for repair. Usually the amount of gas they leak is so minuscule you can’t smell it, and if they’re venting outdoors, there’s no danger of a gas build-up that could lead to explosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nhttp://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio//2015/12/WEBLeakyPipelinesBowe151214.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there are really high levels that could be dangerous, flammable, [utilities] come out immediately,” explains Francesca Hopkins, who works with Duren on the NASA carbon monitoring team. “What we’re talking about is worrying about methane leaks because of their impact on climate, not finding leaks because they’re a public safety hazard. We care because it’s those smaller, long-term leaks that affect global warming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Air Resources Board estimates gas pipeline leaks will account for 12 percent of the state’s methane emissions by 2030—a problem that will translate to higher utility bills in the long run, since customers pay for that wasted fuel. Policymakers have only recently started taking action to require utilities to fix them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation requiring utilities to seal non-hazardous pipeline leaks that don’t pose a threat to public safety. Before this policy, it was common practice to simply allow them to vent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_408396\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 497px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-408396\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/armato-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A PG&E crew member uses soap to identify the exact location of a gas pipeline leak.\" width=\"497\" height=\"373\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A PG&E crew member uses soap to identify the exact location of a gas pipeline leak. \u003ccite>(Rebecca Bowe/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Certain situations — not all, I want to be very clear on this — you’d find some leaks that would go unrepaired for literally years,” said Eric Hofmann, business agent with the SoCalGas utility workers’ union. He said leaks from plastic pipes were more likely to be repaired, but leaks from steel pipes could persist for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Partly because the deadly 2010 explosion in San Bruno drew attention to leaky pipelines, and partly because of the new state law, utilities are paying more attention to these small, non-hazardous leaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the industry, Hofmann said, “there’s definitely been a sense of a more aggressive approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utilities are currently working with state regulators to formulate long-term plans for complying with the new legislation. In the meantime, Hofmann and others say the gas companies have started adopting new practices, with the recognition that addressing environmentally hazardous leaks is now mandated under state law.\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAround the time of this paradigm shift, PG&E adopted new air-monitoring technology that’s 1,000 times more sensitive than the devices it used to rely on. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>“If there are really high levels that could be dangerous, flammable, [utilities] come out immediately,” explains Francesca Hopkins, who works with Duren on the NASA carbon monitoring team. “What we’re talking about is worrying about methane leaks because of their impact on climate, not finding leaks because they’re a public safety hazard. We care because it’s those smaller, long-term leaks that affect global warming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Air Resources Board estimates gas pipeline leaks will account for 12 percent of the state’s methane emissions by 2030—a problem that will translate to higher utility bills in the long run, since customers pay for that wasted fuel. Policymakers have only recently started taking action to require utilities to fix them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2014, Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation requiring utilities to seal non-hazardous pipeline leaks that don’t pose a threat to public safety. Before this policy, it was common practice to simply allow them to vent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_408396\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 497px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-408396\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/12/armato-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A PG&E crew member uses soap to identify the exact location of a gas pipeline leak.\" width=\"497\" height=\"373\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A PG&E crew member uses soap to identify the exact location of a gas pipeline leak. \u003ccite>(Rebecca Bowe/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Certain situations — not all, I want to be very clear on this — you’d find some leaks that would go unrepaired for literally years,” said Eric Hofmann, business agent with the SoCalGas utility workers’ union. He said leaks from plastic pipes were more likely to be repaired, but leaks from steel pipes could persist for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Partly because the deadly 2010 explosion in San Bruno drew attention to leaky pipelines, and partly because of the new state law, utilities are paying more attention to these small, non-hazardous leaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the industry, Hofmann said, “there’s definitely been a sense of a more aggressive approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utilities are currently working with state regulators to formulate long-term plans for complying with the new legislation. In the meantime, Hofmann and others say the gas companies have started adopting new practices, with the recognition that addressing environmentally hazardous leaks is now mandated under state law.\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nAround the time of this paradigm shift, PG&E adopted new air-monitoring technology that’s 1,000 times more sensitive than the devices it used to rely on. Now they’re finding leaks they couldn’t detect before. In 2014, PG&E reported to regulators that crews found more than 18,800 new, non-hazardous pipeline leaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Methane has drawn a lot of attention from policymakers lately. Speaking at a press conference in Paris, Democratic Senator Ricardo Lara of Los Angeles County issued a proposal to slash methane emissions in California to 40 percent below current rates by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It was a little after 10 a.m. on April 3, 2015, that Darnell Benson was reported to be standing on a stranger’s balcony at a Bayview apartment complex and threatening to jump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A woman who lived there spotted him and phoned her mother, who in turn dialed 911, according to Sgt. Michael Andraychak, a San Francisco Police Department spokesman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The resident reported a male was threatening to jump from the balcony,” according to a San Francisco medical examiner’s report obtained by KQED. “When officers arrived, they approached the subject, and convinced him to come off of the balcony.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than three hours later, Benson lost his pulse in an ambulance en route to San Francisco General Hospital, with a police officer by his side. He regained a pulse thanks to work by paramedics but ultimately landed in the intensive care unit, where a CT scan revealed loss of brain function. Benson died three days later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family members snapped pictures of him as he was lying in the hospital bed. The photos show a deep purple bruise across his face and another bruise on the top of his head. The medical examiner’s report later documented bruises on his back and abrasions on his wrists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The details of what happened from the time Benson was arrested until the time he was lying on a gurney and rushed through the doors of the emergency room differ slightly, depending on which city agency you ask. Eight months after his death, parallel investigations into the incident remain underway at the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department and the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Arrested for Traffic Warrant\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benson, who was 5-foot-10 and weighed 215 pounds, was a father who “was very religious and ... had changed his life, like the course of his life,” according to his brother, Derrick Benson, who described Darnell as a devout Muslim who was caring and had signed up to be an organ donor. The 40-year-old black San Francisco resident had been working several jobs, according to his obituary, including as an Uber driver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benson had also cycled in and out of the criminal justice system and battled psychological issues in the past -- he’d previously been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and PTSD. He'd been hospitalized, too, having suffered a gunshot wound in the early 1990s and a brain aneurysm about a decade later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For years they said that, you know, he has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress and stuff like that,” Derrick Benson said, noting that he and his brother rarely discussed such things, even though they were close. “That would have been like, you know, irrelevant conversation for me and him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10779737\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/Derrick-and-Darnell-Benson.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10779737\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/Derrick-and-Darnell-Benson-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Brothers Derrick and Darnell Benson, in an undated photo.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/Derrick-and-Darnell-Benson.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/Derrick-and-Darnell-Benson-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/Derrick-and-Darnell-Benson-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/Derrick-and-Darnell-Benson-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/Derrick-and-Darnell-Benson-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/Derrick-and-Darnell-Benson-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/Derrick-and-Darnell-Benson-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brothers Derrick and Darnell Benson, in an undated photo. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy Derrick Benson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just after Benson was coaxed off the balcony, according to the SFPD’s Andraychak, officers placed him in handcuffs on suspicion of trespassing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But “the resident declined to press charges for trespassing,” the police spokesman said. “He had an outstanding warrant for an arrest, so he was taken to Bayview Station.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the medical examiner’s report, he was then arrested on an outstanding traffic warrant. Derrick Benson said he’d first learned of this in a conversation with Michael Hoogasian, an investigator with the medical examiner’s office, shortly after his brother had passed away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My question to Hoogasian immediately was: Why didn’t they get him the help that he needed?” Derrick Benson said. “Why would they take him to jail for a traffic warrant? It’s kind of well-known in San Francisco that traffic warrants and petty stuff like that, you know, you don’t even get taken to jail for that. You get cited out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on the medical examiner’s account, Benson appears to have been suicidal. A training manual issued by the San Francisco Department of Public Health’s Community Behavioral Health Services notes that police have probable cause to detain an individual when “the person … is a danger to himself or others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s protocol in these cases to transfer the individual to a designated facility, such as San Francisco General Hospital, for 72-hour psychiatric treatment and evaluation. In the state of California, that’s known as a 5150 hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If SFPD determines that someone is a 5150 and they are taken to San Francisco General Hospital, we have our Psychiatric Services unit work with them,” Department of Public Health spokeswoman Nancy Sarieh explained in an email to KQED. In Benson’s case, this didn’t happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Refused From Jail\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After his identity was confirmed and the warrant was verified, Benson was taken from the Bayview Police Station to the San Francisco County Jail at 425 Seventh St., according to Andraychak’s account and the medical examiner’s record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the county jail,” sheriff's spokeswoman Kenya Briggs wrote in an email, “he was refused entry for medical reasons. He was referred to San Francisco General Hospital.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Derrick Benson said that, as soon as funeral services for his brother ended, he started gathering every available scrap of information that offered clues about his brother’s death in an attempt to piece together a timeline. When he met with a “high-ranking member” of the Sheriff’s Department, he says he asked what happened when police officers brought his brother to the jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I was told was that my brother wasn’t supposed to be there in the first place,” Benson said. “They said, ‘When he got to our jail, we basically corrected a wrong,’ ” by referring him to the psych ward at S.F. General instead of allowing him to be booked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the medical examiner’s record, “While in the process of being booked, [Benson] voiced suicidal ideations to a member of the jail staff. [He] was being prepared for transport to San Francisco General Hospital … when he became uncooperative with officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Six-Minute Scuffle\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His behavior had changed suddenly -- Benson was reportedly screaming, speaking nonsensically and threatening to kill himself, according to a note from a jail therapist that Derrick Benson allowed KQED to review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He became very agitated and aggressive,” Andraychak said. “He’d been cooperative throughout the entire process prior. He was restrained by sheriff’s deputies and a San Francisco police officer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the medical examiner’s report, officers put handcuffs on Benson’s wrists and ankles, and placed a spit mask over his face, all “while in the booking station.” But a handwritten note on an inpatient initial visit form prepared by a hospital employee provides a different account, saying Benson was “being taken out to [a] squad car when [he] began resisting, was wrestled to [the] ground, [and] placed in shackles. After about six minutes of a scuffle he stopped resisting and was noted to be less responsive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benson’s brother says he’s examined the possible sequence of events from every angle. “From 12:18 … until the paramedics were by his side at 12:31, those 13 minutes right there, that window is where the unthinkable happens,” he said. “He was left ‘limp and unresponsive’ after this point. So he was already handcuffed … when the ambulance found him, he was hogtied. … I mean, what can you do, if you’re handcuffed and you’re in jail? I mean, how much can you do?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The handwritten note on the hospital form contains another detail: “Unclear on timing, but got Versed and was placed in ambulance.” Versed is the brand name of a drug called midazolam, which is sometimes administered before surgical operations to decrease anxiety or cause a patient to forget the painful details of a procedure. Records suggest paramedics gave Benson the maximum recommended dose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While en route to the hospital, [Benson] became unresponsive,” the medical examiner’s report states, noting that paramedics initiated CPR on the way to the ER.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Death Ruled Accidental\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For roughly eight months, the official cause of Benson’s death was listed as “pending.” In late November, the medical examiner released its final report, concluding that his death was an accident caused by “complications of acute methamphetamine and cocaine intoxication.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked why it had taken so long to prepare the document, Medical Examiner's Office spokesman Christopher Wirowek answered, “Due to the location of the death, the totality of circumstance was carefully assessed before drawing a conclusion to this multifaceted interagency investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To date, a police incident report and a security video that captured officers’ handling of Benson at San Francisco County Jail have been withheld from Benson’s family and media on the grounds that they pertain to open and active investigations. The police officers involved in the incident were reassigned to administrative duties when the SFPD’s internal affairs and homicide detail divisions began looking into the matter, according to Andraychak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Derrick Benson says he and his family have been left without a sense of closure. “For them to label my brother’s death some type of accidental drug thing, I feel like … he’s being maligned by the city and county of San Francisco,” he said. “Or they are quickly making determinations without looking at everything as a whole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he views it as a matter of accountability. “It’s like everybody is so defensive, and tight-lipped. It’s nontransparent, you know, in a situation where somebody was killed. This is not the Wild, Wild West -- you have to have explanations today.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The 40-year-old black San Francisco resident had been working several jobs, according to his obituary, including as an Uber driver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benson had also cycled in and out of the criminal justice system and battled psychological issues in the past -- he’d previously been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and PTSD. He'd been hospitalized, too, having suffered a gunshot wound in the early 1990s and a brain aneurysm about a decade later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For years they said that, you know, he has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress and stuff like that,” Derrick Benson said, noting that he and his brother rarely discussed such things, even though they were close. “That would have been like, you know, irrelevant conversation for me and him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10779737\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/Derrick-and-Darnell-Benson.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10779737\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/Derrick-and-Darnell-Benson-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Brothers Derrick and Darnell Benson, in an undated photo.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/Derrick-and-Darnell-Benson.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/Derrick-and-Darnell-Benson-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/Derrick-and-Darnell-Benson-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/Derrick-and-Darnell-Benson-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/Derrick-and-Darnell-Benson-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/Derrick-and-Darnell-Benson-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/Derrick-and-Darnell-Benson-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brothers Derrick and Darnell Benson, in an undated photo. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy Derrick Benson)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just after Benson was coaxed off the balcony, according to the SFPD’s Andraychak, officers placed him in handcuffs on suspicion of trespassing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But “the resident declined to press charges for trespassing,” the police spokesman said. “He had an outstanding warrant for an arrest, so he was taken to Bayview Station.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the medical examiner’s report, he was then arrested on an outstanding traffic warrant. Derrick Benson said he’d first learned of this in a conversation with Michael Hoogasian, an investigator with the medical examiner’s office, shortly after his brother had passed away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My question to Hoogasian immediately was: Why didn’t they get him the help that he needed?” Derrick Benson said. “Why would they take him to jail for a traffic warrant? It’s kind of well-known in San Francisco that traffic warrants and petty stuff like that, you know, you don’t even get taken to jail for that. You get cited out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on the medical examiner’s account, Benson appears to have been suicidal. A training manual issued by the San Francisco Department of Public Health’s Community Behavioral Health Services notes that police have probable cause to detain an individual when “the person … is a danger to himself or others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s protocol in these cases to transfer the individual to a designated facility, such as San Francisco General Hospital, for 72-hour psychiatric treatment and evaluation. In the state of California, that’s known as a 5150 hold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If SFPD determines that someone is a 5150 and they are taken to San Francisco General Hospital, we have our Psychiatric Services unit work with them,” Department of Public Health spokeswoman Nancy Sarieh explained in an email to KQED. In Benson’s case, this didn’t happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Refused From Jail\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After his identity was confirmed and the warrant was verified, Benson was taken from the Bayview Police Station to the San Francisco County Jail at 425 Seventh St., according to Andraychak’s account and the medical examiner’s record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the county jail,” sheriff's spokeswoman Kenya Briggs wrote in an email, “he was refused entry for medical reasons. He was referred to San Francisco General Hospital.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Derrick Benson said that, as soon as funeral services for his brother ended, he started gathering every available scrap of information that offered clues about his brother’s death in an attempt to piece together a timeline. When he met with a “high-ranking member” of the Sheriff’s Department, he says he asked what happened when police officers brought his brother to the jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I was told was that my brother wasn’t supposed to be there in the first place,” Benson said. “They said, ‘When he got to our jail, we basically corrected a wrong,’ ” by referring him to the psych ward at S.F. General instead of allowing him to be booked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the medical examiner’s record, “While in the process of being booked, [Benson] voiced suicidal ideations to a member of the jail staff. [He] was being prepared for transport to San Francisco General Hospital … when he became uncooperative with officers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Six-Minute Scuffle\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His behavior had changed suddenly -- Benson was reportedly screaming, speaking nonsensically and threatening to kill himself, according to a note from a jail therapist that Derrick Benson allowed KQED to review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He became very agitated and aggressive,” Andraychak said. “He’d been cooperative throughout the entire process prior. He was restrained by sheriff’s deputies and a San Francisco police officer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the medical examiner’s report, officers put handcuffs on Benson’s wrists and ankles, and placed a spit mask over his face, all “while in the booking station.” But a handwritten note on an inpatient initial visit form prepared by a hospital employee provides a different account, saying Benson was “being taken out to [a] squad car when [he] began resisting, was wrestled to [the] ground, [and] placed in shackles. After about six minutes of a scuffle he stopped resisting and was noted to be less responsive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benson’s brother says he’s examined the possible sequence of events from every angle. “From 12:18 … until the paramedics were by his side at 12:31, those 13 minutes right there, that window is where the unthinkable happens,” he said. “He was left ‘limp and unresponsive’ after this point. So he was already handcuffed … when the ambulance found him, he was hogtied. … I mean, what can you do, if you’re handcuffed and you’re in jail? I mean, how much can you do?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The handwritten note on the hospital form contains another detail: “Unclear on timing, but got Versed and was placed in ambulance.” Versed is the brand name of a drug called midazolam, which is sometimes administered before surgical operations to decrease anxiety or cause a patient to forget the painful details of a procedure. Records suggest paramedics gave Benson the maximum recommended dose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While en route to the hospital, [Benson] became unresponsive,” the medical examiner’s report states, noting that paramedics initiated CPR on the way to the ER.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Death Ruled Accidental\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For roughly eight months, the official cause of Benson’s death was listed as “pending.” In late November, the medical examiner released its final report, concluding that his death was an accident caused by “complications of acute methamphetamine and cocaine intoxication.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked why it had taken so long to prepare the document, Medical Examiner's Office spokesman Christopher Wirowek answered, “Due to the location of the death, the totality of circumstance was carefully assessed before drawing a conclusion to this multifaceted interagency investigation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To date, a police incident report and a security video that captured officers’ handling of Benson at San Francisco County Jail have been withheld from Benson’s family and media on the grounds that they pertain to open and active investigations. The police officers involved in the incident were reassigned to administrative duties when the SFPD’s internal affairs and homicide detail divisions began looking into the matter, according to Andraychak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Derrick Benson says he and his family have been left without a sense of closure. “For them to label my brother’s death some type of accidental drug thing, I feel like … he’s being maligned by the city and county of San Francisco,” he said. “Or they are quickly making determinations without looking at everything as a whole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Homicide investigators with the Oakland Police Department today confirmed that the firearm used in the Sept. 29 fatal shooting of muralist Antonio Ramos had been stolen, and belonged to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The firearm used in the murder of Antonio Ramos on September 29, 2015 was reported as property taken in a burglary,” OPD spokesperson Johnna Watson noted in a statement sent to reporters. “The stolen firearm is associated with the Federal Agency, Department of Homeland Security (ICE).”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate statement, ICE confirmed that a firearm was stolen from an ICE agent’s vehicle in San Francisco on Sept. 13.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A duty weapon belonging to an officer with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) was stolen Sept. 13 in San Francisco from a vehicle being used by the officer,” James Schwab, an ICE spokesman in San Francisco, wrote in an emailed statement to KQED News in response to questions about the stolen firearm used in the Ramos shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The theft was properly reported to local authorities and through official federal channels,” Schwab added. “The matter is currently under investigation by ICE's Office of Professional Responsibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramos, 27, was \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2015/09/29/artist-shot-killed-while-working-on-west-oakland-community-mural/\">gunned down in West Oakland \u003c/a>while working on a mural project on the 2500 block of West Street beneath a freeway overpass. The community art project was sponsored by Attitudinal Healing Connection of Oakland, a nonprofit with a mission of breaking cycles of violence through creativity and education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OPD announced Tuesday that it had made an arrest in the Ramos killing, and would charge \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/24/oakland-man-20-charged-with-murder-in-killing-of-muralist\" target=\"_blank\">20-year-old Marquise Holloway with murder\u003c/a> and multiple counts of robbery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Gun-used-to-kill-Oakland-muralist-traced-to-ICE-6657172.php?cmpid=brknow\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> reported that the gun used to kill Ramos was a Glock 26 pistol, and that the 9mm firearm had been stolen from a rental car parked at Second and South Park streets by two ICE agents visiting from out of town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This marks the second high-profile Bay Area shooting in the past six months to be linked to the theft of a firearm from a federal agent’s vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, 32-year-old Kate Steinle was shot and killed while walking with her father along San Francisco’s crowded Pier 14. The case touched off a national media firestorm because \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/04/accused-pier-14-shooter-to-face-murder-charges-at-trial\">suspect Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez\u003c/a> was released from the custody of the San Francisco Sheriff's Department instead of being turned over to ICE custody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinle's family is pursing legal action against the San Francisco Sheriff's Department and ICE -- but is also suing the federal Bureau of Land Management, alleging a ranger failed to properly secure the handgun when it was stolen from his car parked in San Francisco four days before Steinle was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nor were these the only recorded gun thefts. A recent NBC Bay Area investigation revealed that \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Unaccounted-For-Hundreds-of-Guns-Lost-or-Stolen-From-Bay-Area-Police-Agencies-Since-2010-350768311.html%20since%202010\">more than 500 weapons had gone missing\u003c/a> from eight different Bay Area law enforcement agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 19 a San Francisco Board of Supervisors committee held a hearing on \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/22/campos-to-float-legislation-to-address-pier-14-shooting-uphold-sanctuary-city\">proposed legislation\u003c/a> aimed at preventing gun theft from vehicles parked in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor David Campos, who authored the legislation, had initially crafted it to apply only to off-duty law enforcement officers employed by the city and county. 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"content": "\u003cp>The California Public Utilities Commission today announced it will consider levying fines against Pacific Gas & Electric Co. for violating rules that are meant to prevent backroom deals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E could face penalties for violations concerning ex parte communications -- private exchanges between utility representatives and regulators that had the potential to impact major decisions before the commission in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One item of business flagged by the commission was an investigation launched in the aftermath of the deadly September 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion. 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(For a fee, Spokeo hands over bundles of personal information profiling just about anyone whose personal data can be gathered via publicly available sources.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokeo reported that Robins was in his 50s, had obtained a master’s degree and earned an annual six-figure income. In reality, when he discovered the false online profile several years ago, he was in his mid-20s and unemployed. The case was filed in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robins argued that the false profile harmed his job prospects. His lawyers claimed Spokeo had violated his rights under the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokeo, a Pasadena-based company, sought to dismiss the case. It argued Robins couldn’t prove that he’d actually experienced any tangible harm as a result of the inaccuracies. But a federal court rejected that argument. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit affirmed the lower court decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now four Silicon Valley firms — \u003ca href=\"http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/13-1339-Spokeo-Inc.-v.-Robins-Br.-for-Amici-eBay-Inc.-et-al.-Jun....pdf\" target=\"_blank\">eBay, Google, Yahoo and Facebook\u003c/a> — have jointly filed a brief in support of Spokeo.com, while some consumer advocacy organizations are rallying behind Robins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 2, \u003ca href=\"http://fortune.com/2015/11/02/supreme-court-spokeo/\" target=\"_blank\">the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the case\u003c/a>. A decision is expected by June 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The big tech firms supporting Spokeo argued that a ruling in Robins’ favor could incentivize class-action lawsuits targeting deep-pocketed tech companies, even in cases where no one was harmed:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“If any of the millions of individuals who interact with [Google, Facebook and Yahoo!] is willing (or is enticed by a plaintiff’s attorney) to allege that a generalized practice or act violated a law providing a private cause of action and statutory damages, then she could launch a putative class action on behalf of herself and millions of other ‘similarly situated’ users. She could pursue a multi-billion dollar statutory damages claim despite the lack of injury to herself or any other class member.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Robins is represented by Chicago-based Edelson PC, a prominent law firm that \u003ca href=\"http://www.therecorder.com/id=1202741426439/Privacy-ClassAction-Firm-Opens-SF-Office\" target=\"_blank\">recently opened an office in San Francisco’s\u003c/a> startup-saturated SoMa district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The firm specializes in privacy law, and has targeted tech giants, including Google and Facebook, with class-action suits in the past. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/technology/unpopular-in-silicon-valley.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times profile\u003c/a> dubbed Jay Edelson Silicon Valley’s “least friended man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Dore, a partner with the firm, said Robins’ case was filed after the firm received a high volume of complaints alleging inaccurate profile data displayed on Spokeo.com.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any type of false information can cause distinct harm,” Dore said. For example, he said, imagine a scenario where you’ve met someone via an online dating website and “you find out the person you’re going on a date with appears to be married.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Edelson PC’s cases have served to highlight a range of hot-button privacy issues in the face of the rapidly evolving tech landscape, the majority are settled out of court — Edelson claims to have won $1 billion in settlements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But rather than settle the Robins suit, Spokeo has opted to push back, raising the stakes for both sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is one of those many issues that seem to be boring or narrow, and end up being really huge,” explained G.S. 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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit affirmed the lower court decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now four Silicon Valley firms — \u003ca href=\"http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/13-1339-Spokeo-Inc.-v.-Robins-Br.-for-Amici-eBay-Inc.-et-al.-Jun....pdf\" target=\"_blank\">eBay, Google, Yahoo and Facebook\u003c/a> — have jointly filed a brief in support of Spokeo.com, while some consumer advocacy organizations are rallying behind Robins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Nov. 2, \u003ca href=\"http://fortune.com/2015/11/02/supreme-court-spokeo/\" target=\"_blank\">the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the case\u003c/a>. A decision is expected by June 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The big tech firms supporting Spokeo argued that a ruling in Robins’ favor could incentivize class-action lawsuits targeting deep-pocketed tech companies, even in cases where no one was harmed:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“If any of the millions of individuals who interact with [Google, Facebook and Yahoo!] is willing (or is enticed by a plaintiff’s attorney) to allege that a generalized practice or act violated a law providing a private cause of action and statutory damages, then she could launch a putative class action on behalf of herself and millions of other ‘similarly situated’ users. 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A \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/technology/unpopular-in-silicon-valley.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times profile\u003c/a> dubbed Jay Edelson Silicon Valley’s “least friended man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Dore, a partner with the firm, said Robins’ case was filed after the firm received a high volume of complaints alleging inaccurate profile data displayed on Spokeo.com.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any type of false information can cause distinct harm,” Dore said. 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"content": "\u003cp>Of all the political races in San Francisco’s November 2015 election, the contest for District 3 supervisor was one of the most closely watched and hardest fought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because there’s a lot at stake — the balance of power on the 11-member San Francisco Board of Supervisors will be impacted by the final outcome, resulting in a six-member voting bloc that can either be expected to align with Mayor Ed Lee or oppose him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With 100 percent of precincts reporting (but not every last vote tallied) it appears former board president Aaron Peskin is poised to reclaim the District 3 seat, which he previously held from 2001 to 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peskin, Lee’s polar opposite as far as San Francisco politics is concerned, was ahead of incumbent and mayoral appointee Julie Christensen by nearly 10 percentage points as of Tuesday afternoon. While the gap could narrow, it’s statistically unlikely that the next round of election results will put Christensen in the lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So with Peskin expected to take office again, the board will be more likely to take a progressive stance on major decisions — the opposite of what would have happened if Christensen had won. In a fascinating political twist, Peskin was backed in this race by Rose Pak, an influential Chinatown figure who was previously a close ally of the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Running these campaigns, of course, required a lot of time and energy — not to mention money. At the end of the day, major expenditures were laid out for a race that, by early estimates, drew fewer than 12,000 to the polls. There are more than 34,500 registered voters in the district, which includes Telegraph Hill, North Beach, Chinatown, Russian Hill, the Financial District, Fisherman’s Wharf, Nob Hill and part of Union Square.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the most recent campaign finance filings, financial support for Peskin didn’t quite rise to the level that Christensen supporters raised — but they were in the same ballpark. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/spending-surge-for-sup-christensen-includes-mailer-linking-her-to-republican-party/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Examiner report\u003c/a> noted that the final spending tally for the Christensen camp surpassed $1 million. Spending to elect Peskin wasn’t so far behind, clocking in at $904,914.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With such abysmal voter turnout, the race to represent the iconic San Francisco district turned out to be a very expensive affair, which raises this question: What’s the estimated spending per vote received?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the latest results, Christensen received 5,038 votes, while forces promoting her candidacy spent $1,060,752. Do the math — yes, we know it’s based on a preliminary vote tally – and it comes out to $210.55 spent per vote received. Using the same formula, Peskin’s per-vote spending comes out to $146.30. He received 6,185 votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These exact figures per vote will certainly change — but they are still useful in a comparison with spending in other races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campaign spending in favor of Mayor Ed Lee, who was easily re-elected, totaled $1,441,570, while Lee garnered 70,715 votes. That comes out to $20.38 spent per vote received — a bargain compared with the District 3 campaigns’ spending, particularly when one considers that Lee, who did not face any opponents with strong name recognition or political experience, arguably had more money at his disposal than was actually needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what did all the donations poured into the District 3 campaigns ultimately pay for? Campaign ads, of course, many of which required translation in an attempt to capture the all-important Chinatown vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nor were the District 3 opponents particularly kind to one another when crafting their glossy campaign materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To wit:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10746108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/unacceptable-peskin.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10746108\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/unacceptable-peskin-800x543.jpg\" alt=\"Image from a campaign flier distributed by supporters of Julie Christensen\" width=\"800\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/unacceptable-peskin-800x543.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/unacceptable-peskin-400x272.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/unacceptable-peskin.jpg 956w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image from a campaign flier distributed by supporters of Julie Christensen \u003ccite>(Courtesy SF Department of Elections)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Christensen supporters attacked Peskin’s character, while Peskin supporters distributed fliers casting Christensen as tone-deaf to San Francisco voters:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10746109\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/badchristensen.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10746109\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/badchristensen-800x572.jpg\" alt=\"Image from a campaign flier distributed by Peskin supporters\" width=\"800\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/badchristensen-800x572.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/badchristensen-400x286.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/badchristensen.jpg 806w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image from a campaign flier distributed by Peskin supporters \u003ccite>(Courtesy SF Ethics Commission)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In any case, it will be interesting to see what happens next. Stay tuned for the final vote tally, expected by the end of the week.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Spending to elect Peskin wasn’t so far behind, clocking in at $904,914.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With such abysmal voter turnout, the race to represent the iconic San Francisco district turned out to be a very expensive affair, which raises this question: What’s the estimated spending per vote received?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the latest results, Christensen received 5,038 votes, while forces promoting her candidacy spent $1,060,752. Do the math — yes, we know it’s based on a preliminary vote tally – and it comes out to $210.55 spent per vote received. Using the same formula, Peskin’s per-vote spending comes out to $146.30. He received 6,185 votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These exact figures per vote will certainly change — but they are still useful in a comparison with spending in other races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campaign spending in favor of Mayor Ed Lee, who was easily re-elected, totaled $1,441,570, while Lee garnered 70,715 votes. That comes out to $20.38 spent per vote received — a bargain compared with the District 3 campaigns’ spending, particularly when one considers that Lee, who did not face any opponents with strong name recognition or political experience, arguably had more money at his disposal than was actually needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, what did all the donations poured into the District 3 campaigns ultimately pay for? Campaign ads, of course, many of which required translation in an attempt to capture the all-important Chinatown vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nor were the District 3 opponents particularly kind to one another when crafting their glossy campaign materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To wit:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10746108\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/unacceptable-peskin.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10746108\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/unacceptable-peskin-800x543.jpg\" alt=\"Image from a campaign flier distributed by supporters of Julie Christensen\" width=\"800\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/unacceptable-peskin-800x543.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/unacceptable-peskin-400x272.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/unacceptable-peskin.jpg 956w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image from a campaign flier distributed by supporters of Julie Christensen \u003ccite>(Courtesy SF Department of Elections)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Christensen supporters attacked Peskin’s character, while Peskin supporters distributed fliers casting Christensen as tone-deaf to San Francisco voters:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10746109\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/badchristensen.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10746109\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/badchristensen-800x572.jpg\" alt=\"Image from a campaign flier distributed by Peskin supporters\" width=\"800\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/badchristensen-800x572.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/badchristensen-400x286.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/badchristensen.jpg 806w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image from a campaign flier distributed by Peskin supporters \u003ccite>(Courtesy SF Ethics Commission)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In any case, it will be interesting to see what happens next. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco voters will be asked to decide on a number of ballot measures pertaining to the city’s affordable housing crisis. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/03/san-francisco-2015-election-results\" target=\"_blank\">View results here\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Find your \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfelections.org/tools/pollsite/\" target=\"_blank\">polling place\u003c/a> and complete voting information at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgov2.org/index.aspx?page=599\" target=\"_blank\">City and County of San Francisco Department of Elections website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"a\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Proposition A - Affordable Housing Bond\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"QaJ3F2KANtWcLnxWzYE1muAwneOZSMwU\"]\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>How the ballot reads:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>To finance the construction, development, acquisition, and preservation of housing affordable to low- and middle-income households through programs that will prioritize vulnerable populations such as San Francisco’s working families, veterans, seniors, disabled persons; to assist in the acquisition, rehabilitation, and preservation of affordable rental apartment buildings to prevent the eviction of long-term residents; to repair and reconstruct dilapidated public housing; to fund a middle-income rental program; and to provide for home ownership down payment assistance opportunities for educators and middle-income households; shall the City and County of San Francisco issue $310 million in general obligation bonds, subject to independent citizen oversight and regular audits?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In a nutshell:\u003c/strong> Proposition A is a $310 million general obligation bond that’s being floated to finance the construction or rehabilitation of 30,000 affordable housing units. The bond measure requires two-thirds majority voter approval to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/30/s-f-voters-to-decide-on-airbnb-rentals-mission-moratorium-and-other-housing-measures\" target=\"_blank\">Read more about Proposition A from KQED's News Fix.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/documentcloud/?doc=2468286-san-francisco-proposition-a\" target=\"_blank\">Read the ballot guide summary with arguments for and against\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"b\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Proposition B - Paid Parental Leave for City Employees\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How the ballot reads:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Shall the City amend the Charter to allow parents who are both City employees to each take the maximum amount of paid parental leave for which they qualify for the birth, adoption or foster parenting of the same child, if both parents are City employees; and to provide each parent the opportunity to keep up to 40 hours of sick leave at the end of paid parental leave?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In a nutshell:\u003c/strong> If approved, Proposition B would allow both parents, if they are city employees, to take the maximum paid parental leave. Both parents could also keep up to 40 hours of paid sick leave at the end of paid parental leave. Proposition B requires majority approval to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/documentcloud/?doc=2468287-san-francisco-proposition-b\" target=\"_blank\">Read the ballot guide summary with arguments for and against\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Proposition C - Expenditure Lobbyists\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How the ballot reads:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Shall the City regulate expenditure lobbyists by requiring them to register with the Ethics Commission, pay a $500 registration fee, and file monthly disclosures regarding their lobbying activities?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In a nutshell:\u003c/strong> If approved, Proposition C would define an expenditure lobbyist as any person or business who pays $2,500 or more in a calendar month to solicit, request or urge others to directly lobby city officers. Prop. C requires majority voter approval to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/documentcloud/?doc=2468288-san-francisco-proposition-c\" target=\"_blank\">Read the ballot guide summary with arguments for and against\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"d\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Proposition D - Mission Rock Development\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How the ballot reads:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Shall the City increase the height limit for 10 of the 28 acres of the Mission Rock site from one story to height limits ranging from 40 to 240 feet and make it City policy to encourage the development on the Mission Rock site provided that it includes eight acres of parks and open space and housing of which at least 33% is affordable for low- and middle-income households?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In a nutshell:\u003c/strong> If approved, Proposition D would allow changes to building height limits at 10 of 24 acres at Mission Rock. The Mission Rock development plan includes 1,000 to 1,950 residential units, most of which are rentals. At least 33 percent of the units must be affordable to low- and middle-income households. Prop. D requires majority voter approval to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/documentcloud/?doc=2468289-san-francisco-proposition-d\" target=\"_blank\">Read the ballot guide summary with arguments for and against\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Proposition E - Requirements for Public Meetings\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How the ballot reads:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Shall the City broadcast all City meetings live on the Internet; allow members of the public to submit electronically during the meeting live, written, video, or audio comments from any location and require those comments be played; require pre-recorded video testimony to be played during a meeting; and allow the public or board, commission, or committee members to request that discussion of a particular agenda item begin at a specific time?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In a nutshell:\u003c/strong> If approved, Prop. E would amend San Francisco's Sunshine Ordinance to require the city to broadcast all city meetings live on the Internet. The public would also be able to submit written, video or audio to those meetings from anywhere. Prop. E requires majority voter approval to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/documentcloud/?doc=2468290-san-francisco-proposition-e\" target=\"_blank\">Read the ballot guide summary with arguments for and against\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"f\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Proposition F - Short-Term Residential Rentals\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How the ballot reads:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Shall the City limit short-term rentals of a housing unit to 75 days per year regardless of whether the rental is hosted or unhosted; require owners to provide proof that they authorize the unit as a short-term rental; require residents who offer short-term rentals to submit quarterly reports on the number of days they live in the unit and the number of days the unit is rented; prohibit short-term rentals of in-law units; allow interested parties to sue hosting platforms; and make it a misdemeanor for a hosting platform to unlawfully list a unit as a short-term rental?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In a nutshell:\u003c/strong> Prop. F seeks to impose tougher restrictions on short-term rentals by limiting them to 75 days per year across the board, requiring property owners to provide proof that they authorize short-term rentals and imposing provisions to ensure that private rentals are paying hotel taxes and complying with city codes, among other things. Prop. F requires majority voter approval to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/06/how-san-franciscos-prop-f-would-change-airbnb-rentals\" target=\"_blank\">KQED's News Fix: How San Francisco’s Prop. F Would Change Airbnb Rentals\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201510050900\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to a debate about Proposition F from KQED's Forum.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/documentcloud/?doc=2468291-san-francisco-proposition-f\" target=\"_blank\">Read the ballot guide summary with arguments for and against\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"g\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Propositions G and H -- Definitions of Renewable Electricity Sources for CleanPowerSF\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>We need to break from our guide format a little to describe the unusual circumstances surrounding Prop. G and Prop. H. Both measures treat the same subject: Precisely what sources of power may be termed renewable or \"green\" for San Francisco's planned CleanPowerSF program and what disclosures the program will make to consumers about where it gets its electricity. CleanPowerSF, scheduled to launch in early 2016, aims to offer city residents cleaner energy (less dependent on non-renewable sources, mainly fossil fuels) than currently available through PG&E. Similar programs are already operating in Marin and Sonoma counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition G was launched by IBEW Local 1245, a union that represents line and clerical workers at PG&E (and many other companies). Prop. G, positioned partly as a local jobs issue, would narrow the kinds of electricity that CleanPowerSF could call green by excluding potentially \"dirty\" power procured through the use of \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/PUC/energy/Renewables/FAQs/05REcertificates.htm\" target=\"_blank\">unbundled renewable energy credits\u003c/a>. The measure would also have barred power produced by rooftop solar arrays, an increasingly important source, from being classified as \"renewable greenhouse-gas free electricity.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of CleanPowerSF, including both moderates and progressives on the Board of Supervisors, attacked Prop. G as a tactic to undermine the new alternative power program. They produced Proposition H, which would allow the city to use the state's definition of renewable energy sources any time it officially uses terms like \"clean energy\" or \"green energy.\" By using the state's definition, CleanPowerSF may take advantage of unbundled renewable energy credits. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the twist: Confronted with Proposition H, the backers of Proposition G reconsidered. They agreed to abandon Prop. G in exchange for a compromise: The Prop. H authors, led by Supervisor London Breed, would include provisions a) requiring the city to try to limit the use of the unbundled renewable energy credits for CleanPowerSF and b) urging the city to inform consumers of the composition of CleanPowerSF's energy portfolio in upcoming mailings. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With that deal in place, IBEW 1245 joined Breed, Mayor Ed Lee and most of the Board of Supervisors \u003ca href=\"http://www.truthinenergysf.com/recs-truth/\" target=\"_blank\">in support of Prop. H\u003c/a> and against Prop. G. That means there is no ballot argument in favor of Prop. G. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition H will go into effect if it gets more than 50 percent of the vote and gets more votes than Prop. G.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More details on G and H as they appear on the ballot:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Proposition G: How the ballot reads:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Shall the City define “renewable, greenhouse-gas free electricity” to mean electricity derived exclusively from certain renewable resources located within or adjacent to the California border or electricity derived from Hetch Hetchy, except for electricity from other types of resources such as rooftop solar and other large hydroelectric facilities; require CleanPowerSF to inform customers and potential customers of the planned percentage of “renewable, greenhouse-gas free electricity” to be provided; and prohibit CleanPowerSF from marketing, advertising or making any public statement that its electricity is “clean” or “green” unless the electricity is “renewable, greenhouse gas-free electricity” as defined in this measure?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/documentcloud/?doc=2468292-san-francisco-proposition-g\" target=\"_blank\">Read the ballot guide summary with argument against\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Proposition H: How the ballot reads:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Shall the City use the State definition of “eligible renewable energy resources” when referring to terms such as “clean energy,” “green energy,” and “renewable Greenhouse Gas-free Energy”; and shall CleanPowerSF be urged to inform customers and potential customers of the planned percentage of types of renewable energy to be supplied in each communication; and shall it be City policy for CleanPowerSF to use electricity generated within California and San Francisco when possible?\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/documentcloud/?doc=2468293-san-francisco-proposition-h\" target=\"_blank\">Read the ballot guide summary with arguments for and against\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://kalw.org/post/sfs-prop-g-authors-say-vote-competing-measure-prop-h\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>KALW:\u003c/strong> S.F.'s Prop. G authors say vote for competing measure, Prop. H\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/election2015/propGH\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>S.F. Public Press:\u003c/strong> Propositions G and H: Defining 'Clean' or 'Green' Energy\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"i\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Proposition I - Suspension of Market-Rate Housing in the Mission District\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How the ballot reads:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Shall the City suspend the issuance of permits on certain types of housing and business development projects in the Mission District for at least 18 months; and develop a Neighborhood Stabilization Plan for the Mission District by January 31, 2017?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In a nutshell:\u003c/strong> Proposition I seeks to impose a temporary moratorium on luxury housing construction in San Francisco’s Mission District for at least 18 months, halting the construction of market-rate housing and any project larger than five units. It would also develop a stabilization plan to preserve land that could be used for affordable housing in the area, which has been impacted by gentrification and displacement of long-time residents. Prop. I requires majority approval to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/01/san-francisco-supervisors-debate-proposed-market-rate-housing-moratorium\" target=\"_blank\">KQED's News Fix: San Francisco Supervisors Debate Proposed Market-Rate Housing Moratorium\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/documentcloud/?doc=2468294-san-francisco-proposition-i\" target=\"_blank\">Read the ballot guide summary with arguments for and against\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Proposition J - Legacy Business Historic Preservation Fund\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How the ballot reads:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Shall the City establish a Legacy Business Historic Preservation Fund, which would give grants to Legacy Businesses and to building owners who lease space to those businesses for terms of at least 10 years; and expand the definition of a Legacy Business to include those that have operated in San Francisco for more than 20 years, are at risk of displacement and meet the other requirements of the Registry?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In a nutshell:\u003c/strong> Prop. J would create the Legacy Business Historic Legacy Fund. Legacy businesses would be granted $500 per full-time employee. Building owners who lease to legacy businesses for at least 10 years could also receive an annual grant of $4.50 per square foot of leased space. Prop. J expands the definition of a legacy business to include businesses and nonprofits that have been in the city for over 20 years, have contributed to the history or identity of a neighborhood, or face risk of displacement because of rent increases or lease termination. Prop. J requires majority voter approval to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/documentcloud/?doc=2468295-san-francisco-proposition-j\" target=\"_blank\">Read the ballot guide summary with arguments for and against\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"k\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Proposition K - Surplus Public Lands\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How the ballot reads:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Shall the City expand the allowable uses of surplus property to include building affordable housing for a range of households from those who are homeless or those with very low income to those with incomes up to 120% of the area median income; and, for projects of more than 200 units, make some housing available for households earning up to 150% or more of the area median income?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In a nutshell:\u003c/strong> If approved, Prop. K would permit San Francisco \"to expand the allowable uses of surplus property to include building affordable housing for a range of households from those who are homeless or those with very low income to those with incomes up to 120 percent of the area median income. For projects of more than 200 units, some housing would be available for households earning up to 150 percent or more of the median income.\" Prop. K requires majority approval to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/documentcloud/?doc=2468296-san-francisco-proposition-k\" target=\"_blank\">Read the ballot guide summary with arguments for and against\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco voters will be asked to decide on a number of ballot measures pertaining to the city’s affordable housing crisis. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/03/san-francisco-2015-election-results\" target=\"_blank\">View results here\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Find your \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfelections.org/tools/pollsite/\" target=\"_blank\">polling place\u003c/a> and complete voting information at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgov2.org/index.aspx?page=599\" target=\"_blank\">City and County of San Francisco Department of Elections website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"a\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Proposition A - Affordable Housing Bond\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>How the ballot reads:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>To finance the construction, development, acquisition, and preservation of housing affordable to low- and middle-income households through programs that will prioritize vulnerable populations such as San Francisco’s working families, veterans, seniors, disabled persons; to assist in the acquisition, rehabilitation, and preservation of affordable rental apartment buildings to prevent the eviction of long-term residents; to repair and reconstruct dilapidated public housing; to fund a middle-income rental program; and to provide for home ownership down payment assistance opportunities for educators and middle-income households; shall the City and County of San Francisco issue $310 million in general obligation bonds, subject to independent citizen oversight and regular audits?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In a nutshell:\u003c/strong> Proposition A is a $310 million general obligation bond that’s being floated to finance the construction or rehabilitation of 30,000 affordable housing units. The bond measure requires two-thirds majority voter approval to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/09/30/s-f-voters-to-decide-on-airbnb-rentals-mission-moratorium-and-other-housing-measures\" target=\"_blank\">Read more about Proposition A from KQED's News Fix.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/documentcloud/?doc=2468286-san-francisco-proposition-a\" target=\"_blank\">Read the ballot guide summary with arguments for and against\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"b\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Proposition B - Paid Parental Leave for City Employees\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How the ballot reads:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Shall the City amend the Charter to allow parents who are both City employees to each take the maximum amount of paid parental leave for which they qualify for the birth, adoption or foster parenting of the same child, if both parents are City employees; and to provide each parent the opportunity to keep up to 40 hours of sick leave at the end of paid parental leave?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In a nutshell:\u003c/strong> If approved, Proposition B would allow both parents, if they are city employees, to take the maximum paid parental leave. Both parents could also keep up to 40 hours of paid sick leave at the end of paid parental leave. Proposition B requires majority approval to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/documentcloud/?doc=2468287-san-francisco-proposition-b\" target=\"_blank\">Read the ballot guide summary with arguments for and against\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Proposition C - Expenditure Lobbyists\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How the ballot reads:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Shall the City regulate expenditure lobbyists by requiring them to register with the Ethics Commission, pay a $500 registration fee, and file monthly disclosures regarding their lobbying activities?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In a nutshell:\u003c/strong> If approved, Proposition C would define an expenditure lobbyist as any person or business who pays $2,500 or more in a calendar month to solicit, request or urge others to directly lobby city officers. Prop. C requires majority voter approval to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/documentcloud/?doc=2468288-san-francisco-proposition-c\" target=\"_blank\">Read the ballot guide summary with arguments for and against\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"d\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Proposition D - Mission Rock Development\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How the ballot reads:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Shall the City increase the height limit for 10 of the 28 acres of the Mission Rock site from one story to height limits ranging from 40 to 240 feet and make it City policy to encourage the development on the Mission Rock site provided that it includes eight acres of parks and open space and housing of which at least 33% is affordable for low- and middle-income households?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In a nutshell:\u003c/strong> If approved, Proposition D would allow changes to building height limits at 10 of 24 acres at Mission Rock. The Mission Rock development plan includes 1,000 to 1,950 residential units, most of which are rentals. At least 33 percent of the units must be affordable to low- and middle-income households. Prop. D requires majority voter approval to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/documentcloud/?doc=2468289-san-francisco-proposition-d\" target=\"_blank\">Read the ballot guide summary with arguments for and against\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Proposition E - Requirements for Public Meetings\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How the ballot reads:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Shall the City broadcast all City meetings live on the Internet; allow members of the public to submit electronically during the meeting live, written, video, or audio comments from any location and require those comments be played; require pre-recorded video testimony to be played during a meeting; and allow the public or board, commission, or committee members to request that discussion of a particular agenda item begin at a specific time?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In a nutshell:\u003c/strong> If approved, Prop. E would amend San Francisco's Sunshine Ordinance to require the city to broadcast all city meetings live on the Internet. The public would also be able to submit written, video or audio to those meetings from anywhere. Prop. E requires majority voter approval to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/documentcloud/?doc=2468290-san-francisco-proposition-e\" target=\"_blank\">Read the ballot guide summary with arguments for and against\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"f\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Proposition F - Short-Term Residential Rentals\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How the ballot reads:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Shall the City limit short-term rentals of a housing unit to 75 days per year regardless of whether the rental is hosted or unhosted; require owners to provide proof that they authorize the unit as a short-term rental; require residents who offer short-term rentals to submit quarterly reports on the number of days they live in the unit and the number of days the unit is rented; prohibit short-term rentals of in-law units; allow interested parties to sue hosting platforms; and make it a misdemeanor for a hosting platform to unlawfully list a unit as a short-term rental?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In a nutshell:\u003c/strong> Prop. F seeks to impose tougher restrictions on short-term rentals by limiting them to 75 days per year across the board, requiring property owners to provide proof that they authorize short-term rentals and imposing provisions to ensure that private rentals are paying hotel taxes and complying with city codes, among other things. Prop. F requires majority voter approval to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/06/how-san-franciscos-prop-f-would-change-airbnb-rentals\" target=\"_blank\">KQED's News Fix: How San Francisco’s Prop. F Would Change Airbnb Rentals\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201510050900\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to a debate about Proposition F from KQED's Forum.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/documentcloud/?doc=2468291-san-francisco-proposition-f\" target=\"_blank\">Read the ballot guide summary with arguments for and against\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"g\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Propositions G and H -- Definitions of Renewable Electricity Sources for CleanPowerSF\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>We need to break from our guide format a little to describe the unusual circumstances surrounding Prop. G and Prop. H. Both measures treat the same subject: Precisely what sources of power may be termed renewable or \"green\" for San Francisco's planned CleanPowerSF program and what disclosures the program will make to consumers about where it gets its electricity. CleanPowerSF, scheduled to launch in early 2016, aims to offer city residents cleaner energy (less dependent on non-renewable sources, mainly fossil fuels) than currently available through PG&E. Similar programs are already operating in Marin and Sonoma counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition G was launched by IBEW Local 1245, a union that represents line and clerical workers at PG&E (and many other companies). Prop. G, positioned partly as a local jobs issue, would narrow the kinds of electricity that CleanPowerSF could call green by excluding potentially \"dirty\" power procured through the use of \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/PUC/energy/Renewables/FAQs/05REcertificates.htm\" target=\"_blank\">unbundled renewable energy credits\u003c/a>. The measure would also have barred power produced by rooftop solar arrays, an increasingly important source, from being classified as \"renewable greenhouse-gas free electricity.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of CleanPowerSF, including both moderates and progressives on the Board of Supervisors, attacked Prop. G as a tactic to undermine the new alternative power program. They produced Proposition H, which would allow the city to use the state's definition of renewable energy sources any time it officially uses terms like \"clean energy\" or \"green energy.\" By using the state's definition, CleanPowerSF may take advantage of unbundled renewable energy credits. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the twist: Confronted with Proposition H, the backers of Proposition G reconsidered. They agreed to abandon Prop. G in exchange for a compromise: The Prop. H authors, led by Supervisor London Breed, would include provisions a) requiring the city to try to limit the use of the unbundled renewable energy credits for CleanPowerSF and b) urging the city to inform consumers of the composition of CleanPowerSF's energy portfolio in upcoming mailings. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With that deal in place, IBEW 1245 joined Breed, Mayor Ed Lee and most of the Board of Supervisors \u003ca href=\"http://www.truthinenergysf.com/recs-truth/\" target=\"_blank\">in support of Prop. H\u003c/a> and against Prop. G. That means there is no ballot argument in favor of Prop. G. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition H will go into effect if it gets more than 50 percent of the vote and gets more votes than Prop. G.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More details on G and H as they appear on the ballot:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Proposition G: How the ballot reads:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Shall the City define “renewable, greenhouse-gas free electricity” to mean electricity derived exclusively from certain renewable resources located within or adjacent to the California border or electricity derived from Hetch Hetchy, except for electricity from other types of resources such as rooftop solar and other large hydroelectric facilities; require CleanPowerSF to inform customers and potential customers of the planned percentage of “renewable, greenhouse-gas free electricity” to be provided; and prohibit CleanPowerSF from marketing, advertising or making any public statement that its electricity is “clean” or “green” unless the electricity is “renewable, greenhouse gas-free electricity” as defined in this measure?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/documentcloud/?doc=2468292-san-francisco-proposition-g\" target=\"_blank\">Read the ballot guide summary with argument against\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Proposition H: How the ballot reads:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Shall the City use the State definition of “eligible renewable energy resources” when referring to terms such as “clean energy,” “green energy,” and “renewable Greenhouse Gas-free Energy”; and shall CleanPowerSF be urged to inform customers and potential customers of the planned percentage of types of renewable energy to be supplied in each communication; and shall it be City policy for CleanPowerSF to use electricity generated within California and San Francisco when possible?\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/documentcloud/?doc=2468293-san-francisco-proposition-h\" target=\"_blank\">Read the ballot guide summary with arguments for and against\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://kalw.org/post/sfs-prop-g-authors-say-vote-competing-measure-prop-h\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>KALW:\u003c/strong> S.F.'s Prop. G authors say vote for competing measure, Prop. H\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/election2015/propGH\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cstrong>S.F. Public Press:\u003c/strong> Propositions G and H: Defining 'Clean' or 'Green' Energy\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"i\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Proposition I - Suspension of Market-Rate Housing in the Mission District\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How the ballot reads:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Shall the City suspend the issuance of permits on certain types of housing and business development projects in the Mission District for at least 18 months; and develop a Neighborhood Stabilization Plan for the Mission District by January 31, 2017?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In a nutshell:\u003c/strong> Proposition I seeks to impose a temporary moratorium on luxury housing construction in San Francisco’s Mission District for at least 18 months, halting the construction of market-rate housing and any project larger than five units. It would also develop a stabilization plan to preserve land that could be used for affordable housing in the area, which has been impacted by gentrification and displacement of long-time residents. Prop. I requires majority approval to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/01/san-francisco-supervisors-debate-proposed-market-rate-housing-moratorium\" target=\"_blank\">KQED's News Fix: San Francisco Supervisors Debate Proposed Market-Rate Housing Moratorium\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/documentcloud/?doc=2468294-san-francisco-proposition-i\" target=\"_blank\">Read the ballot guide summary with arguments for and against\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Proposition J - Legacy Business Historic Preservation Fund\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How the ballot reads:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Shall the City establish a Legacy Business Historic Preservation Fund, which would give grants to Legacy Businesses and to building owners who lease space to those businesses for terms of at least 10 years; and expand the definition of a Legacy Business to include those that have operated in San Francisco for more than 20 years, are at risk of displacement and meet the other requirements of the Registry?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In a nutshell:\u003c/strong> Prop. J would create the Legacy Business Historic Legacy Fund. Legacy businesses would be granted $500 per full-time employee. Building owners who lease to legacy businesses for at least 10 years could also receive an annual grant of $4.50 per square foot of leased space. Prop. J expands the definition of a legacy business to include businesses and nonprofits that have been in the city for over 20 years, have contributed to the history or identity of a neighborhood, or face risk of displacement because of rent increases or lease termination. Prop. J requires majority voter approval to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/documentcloud/?doc=2468295-san-francisco-proposition-j\" target=\"_blank\">Read the ballot guide summary with arguments for and against\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003ca id=\"k\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Proposition K - Surplus Public Lands\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How the ballot reads:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Shall the City expand the allowable uses of surplus property to include building affordable housing for a range of households from those who are homeless or those with very low income to those with incomes up to 120% of the area median income; and, for projects of more than 200 units, make some housing available for households earning up to 150% or more of the area median income?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In a nutshell:\u003c/strong> If approved, Prop. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, Nov. 2, 2015: \u003c/strong>Voters may be puzzled to learn that there is no ballot argument in favor of Proposition G. That’s due to a set of unusual circumstances surrounding competing measures G and H.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, IBEW Local 1245 -- the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. electrical workers' union behind Proposition G -- reached a deal with San Francisco Board of Supervisors President London Breed to support H and abandon support for G. The agreement was finalized after the union had already gathered enough voter signatures to place G on the ballot (see original post below).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Local 1245 fully supports the Breed measure,” IBEW 1245 business representative Hunter Stern said in July, “and will actively campaign for its passage and against the ‘Renewable Energy Truth in Advertising Act’ we previously submitted for the ballot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both measures relate to the same subject: Precisely what sources of power may be termed renewable or “green” for San Francisco’s planned CleanPowerSF program, and what disclosures the program will make to consumers about where it gets its electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scheduled to launch in early 2016, CleanPowerSF aims to offer city residents a greener energy mix than currently available through Pacific Gas & Electric Co., which relies heavily on natural gas and nuclear energy sources. Similar programs, created under a structure known as Community Choice Aggregation, are already in operation in Marin and Sonoma counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Positioned partly as a local jobs issue, Prop. G sought to narrow the kinds of electricity that CleanPowerSF could label as green by excluding potentially “dirty” power procured through the use of unbundled renewable energy credits. The measure would also have barred power produced by rooftop solar arrays, an increasingly important source, from being classified as “renewable greenhouse-gas free electricity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of CleanPowerSF, including both moderates and progressives on the Board of Supervisors, attacked Prop. G as a tactic designed to undermine the new alternative power program. That led to them to craft Prop. H, which would allow the city to use the state’s definition of renewable energy sources any time it officially uses terms like “clean energy” or “green energy.” By using the state’s definition, CleanPowerSF may take advantage of unbundled renewable energy credits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the twist: Confronted with Proposition H, the backers of Proposition G reconsidered. They agreed to abandon Prop. G in exchange for a compromise: The Prop. H authors, led by Supervisor London Breed, would include provisions: a) requiring the city to try to limit the use of the unbundled renewable energy credits for CleanPowerSF; and b) urging the city to inform consumers of the composition of CleanPowerSF’s energy portfolio in upcoming mailings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With that deal in place, IBEW 1245 joined Breed, Mayor Ed Lee and most of the Board of Supervisors in support of Prop. H and against Prop. G.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the strong support for Prop. H, “We still think that voters are going to be confused by the two measures,” said Jess Dervin-Ackerman, conservation manager at the Sierra Club San Francisco Bay Chapter. “Prop. G is another attempt to kill S,F,’s Clean Energy Program,” she added. “For us, Prop. H is really a tool to defeat Prop. G. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. H will go into effect if it gets more than 50 percent of the vote, and garners more votes than Prop. G.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post, July 7, 2015: \u003c/strong>The proponent of a proposed San Francisco ballot measure targeting the city’s municipal green-power program turned in some 17,000 signatures at the San Francisco Department of Elections Monday, setting the stage for a November ballot battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Renewable Energy Truth in Advertising Act seeks to limit how the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission can describe the energy mix offered in its nascent municipal green-energy program. If passed, the SFPUC would be prohibited from labeling electricity sold through its CleanPowerSF program as “clean,” “green” or “greenhouse-gas free” in marketing materials, unless that electricity is “derived exclusively from renewable resources” generated within California, or from the city-owned Hetch Hetchy hydropower facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to make (sure) the program is honest and clear to consumers,” said proponent Hunter Stern, business representative of IBEW 1245, a union that represents Pacific Gas & Electric Co. electrical workers. \"The main purpose is simply so that San Franciscans who could be enrolled in a new energy program as soon as the end of this year will be sure to have information about the source, and greenness, of the electricity\" they're getting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason Fried, executive officer of the city's Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo), which has worked with the SFPUC to advance CleanPowerSF, said the IBEW-sponsored measure would actually make things more confusing for energy customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you wanted to compare apples to apples, you’re no longer able to do that,” Fried said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in a press release issued Monday afternoon, environmental activists who have pushed for implementation of the green energy program said this measure would set a double standard in advertising to give PG&E a marketing advantage once it's competing with the SFPUC for energy customers. Environmentalists described the IBEW-backed measure as \"a thinly veiled attempt to kill\" CleanPowerSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Voters have seen through previous attempts to preserve California's dirty energy monopoly, just as they will see through this disingenuous measure,\" said Michelle Myers, director of the Sierra Club San Francisco Bay Chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To date, San Francisco customers haven’t powered a single lightbulb with CleanPowerSF electricity because the program has yet to launch. Designed under a Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) model -- which entrusts the SFPUC with buying and selling power, while leaving transmission, billing and grid-operation duties to PG&E -- the municipal system aims to offer a greener power mix than PG&E, at or below the same rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the program structure, customers will be automatically transferred from PG&E to CleanPowerSF unless they opt out. And in the near-decade that CleanPowerSF has been moving forward, both PG&E and IBEW have engaged in efforts to halt its progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern insisted in an interview with KQED News that contrary to popular belief, his union isn’t seeking to kill CleanPowerSF. “If we wanted to kill it, we would have proposed an opt-in requirement,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that IBEW 1245 had drafted, but ultimately decided not to circulate, such a measure. That change of heart came about because “we support the mayor in his ... commitment to this program,” Stern said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Green vision\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee initially opposed CleanPowerSF. In August 2013, Lee’s appointees on the SFPUC effectively blocked it from moving forward, a move that sent program supporters back to the drawing board for an overhaul. Earlier this year, however, at a January press conference with San Francisco Board of Supervisors President London Breed, Lee announced his support for the revised version of CleanPowerSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly before Lee’s announcement, consulting firm EnerNex released a hefty green-energy road map commissioned by LAFCo outlining how CleanPowerSF could create more than 8,100 construction jobs with $2.4 billion worth of solar, wind and geothermal projects. Environmentalists envision this renewable build-out as a long-term strategy for transitioning San Francisco away from fossil fuels and sheltering customers from future energy-market volatility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But program backers say that in order to steer the SFPUC into a financial position to break ground on those construction projects, flexibility in energy purchases is needed early on. Under a previous plan, the SFPUC planned to meet its green-energy targets with a higher percentage of renewable-energy certificates, better known as RECs, which can be purchased to offset energy sent to customers that doesn’t comply with the state’s renewable-portfolio standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The RECs would have been integrated as a way of “greening” a base-load of hydropower, which is not considered to be as green as wind or solar but nevertheless counts as greenhouse-gas free, Fried said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern said the use of RECs, which are partially integrated by a similar program in Marin, is a central concern for IBEW.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you use RECs you’re not investing in renewable energy, you’re buying these certificates,” Stern said, adding that his union views RECs as a “gimmick” and a \"greenwashing\" practice that does nothing to spur in-state renewable energy development and lends zero support to union jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Fried said the legal restrictions introduced by the language of IBEW’s measure would be too restrictive, and might lead to a reality where “we cannot go out there and call rooftop solar clean, green and renewable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hypothetically speaking, if the SFPUC were to offer the exact same energy mix as PG&E, Fried said, the proposed measure would create a situation where PG&E would legally be able to label 54 percent of its power as “green” and “greenhouse-gas free,” while the SFPUC would be limited to claiming only 22 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fried said the city has ditched plans that were more heavily reliant on RECs and now seeks to offer a base product of 33 to 50 percent state-certified renewable power, with much of the remainder derived from the city’s Hetch Hetchy hydropower system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A greener option, offered at a premium, would provide customers with 100 percent renewable power. But in emergency situations, such as if a wildfire limited the city's ability to draw power from Hetch Hetchy, the city would still need that flexibility in power purchasing and might have to turn to RECs, according to Fried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pge.com/en/mybusiness/account/bill/nov2014.page\">PG&E’s power mix in 2013\u003c/a> was made up of 28 percent natural gas, 22 percent nuclear, 10 percent large hydro, 22 percent renewable and 18 percent “unspecified.” Environmentalists who support CleanPowerSF also pointed out that PG&E uses the same RECs that the measure's backers oppose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show Stern has joined forces with PG&E before to take aim at CCA programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“PG&E did not provide financial support to Hunter Stern for such efforts, but PG&E staff members and [REDACTED] attended public meetings with Hunter Stern with the goal of marketing or lobbying against CCA proposals,” the utility disclosed in a formal document submitted in April 2014 to the California Public Utilities Commission, in response to a series of questions raised about its activities targeting a similar municipal power initiative in Marin County. The document said these efforts halted in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E also confirmed it had provided “financial and staff support” to the San Francisco Common Sense Coalition, a group that formed in 2010 to oppose an earlier iteration of CleanPowerSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Countermeasure planned\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the IBEW ballot measure, four members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors -- London Breed, John Avalos, Scott Wiener and Julie Christensen -- have drafted their own countermeasure to be placed on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would require \"green,\" \"clean\" and \"greenhouse-gas free\" to be defined in accordance with definitions of eligible renewable resources under state law. And it would cancel out the measure backed by IBEW if it wins more votes. The measure would also prevent PG&E from labeling its nuclear power as \"green\" or \"greenhouse-gas free.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern emphasized that the supervisors' measure “reinforces that RECs are okay.” He added that it \"potentially could legally allow CleanPowerSF to provide dirtier energy than the energy it's replacing\" with RECs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board president Breed introduced the countermeasure, titled the \u003ca href=\"http://sfgov2.org/ftp/uploadedfiles/elections/candidates/Nov2015/CleanEnergy_Text.pdf,\">Clean Energy Right to Know Act,\u003c/a> at the June 16 Board of Supervisors meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After over a dozen years of PG&E standing in the way of cleaner energy, we are finally, finally launching a clean-power program in San Francisco,” she said. “Consumers will finally have a choice about who provides their electricity. And in making that choice, we should be confident that words like ‘clean’ and ‘green’ are not just PG&E marketing terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My measure will require the city to inform ratepayers about how much nuclear power they are receiving. This way, when San Franciscans choose which energy provider to use -- PG&E or CleanPowerSF -- they can make an informed choice, knowing that almost one-fourth of PG&E power comes from nuclear plants.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Positioned partly as a local jobs issue, Prop. G sought to narrow the kinds of electricity that CleanPowerSF could label as green by excluding potentially “dirty” power procured through the use of unbundled renewable energy credits. The measure would also have barred power produced by rooftop solar arrays, an increasingly important source, from being classified as “renewable greenhouse-gas free electricity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of CleanPowerSF, including both moderates and progressives on the Board of Supervisors, attacked Prop. G as a tactic designed to undermine the new alternative power program. That led to them to craft Prop. H, which would allow the city to use the state’s definition of renewable energy sources any time it officially uses terms like “clean energy” or “green energy.” By using the state’s definition, CleanPowerSF may take advantage of unbundled renewable energy credits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the twist: Confronted with Proposition H, the backers of Proposition G reconsidered. They agreed to abandon Prop. G in exchange for a compromise: The Prop. H authors, led by Supervisor London Breed, would include provisions: a) requiring the city to try to limit the use of the unbundled renewable energy credits for CleanPowerSF; and b) urging the city to inform consumers of the composition of CleanPowerSF’s energy portfolio in upcoming mailings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With that deal in place, IBEW 1245 joined Breed, Mayor Ed Lee and most of the Board of Supervisors in support of Prop. H and against Prop. G.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the strong support for Prop. H, “We still think that voters are going to be confused by the two measures,” said Jess Dervin-Ackerman, conservation manager at the Sierra Club San Francisco Bay Chapter. “Prop. G is another attempt to kill S,F,’s Clean Energy Program,” she added. “For us, Prop. H is really a tool to defeat Prop. G. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prop. H will go into effect if it gets more than 50 percent of the vote, and garners more votes than Prop. G.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post, July 7, 2015: \u003c/strong>The proponent of a proposed San Francisco ballot measure targeting the city’s municipal green-power program turned in some 17,000 signatures at the San Francisco Department of Elections Monday, setting the stage for a November ballot battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Renewable Energy Truth in Advertising Act seeks to limit how the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission can describe the energy mix offered in its nascent municipal green-energy program. If passed, the SFPUC would be prohibited from labeling electricity sold through its CleanPowerSF program as “clean,” “green” or “greenhouse-gas free” in marketing materials, unless that electricity is “derived exclusively from renewable resources” generated within California, or from the city-owned Hetch Hetchy hydropower facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to make (sure) the program is honest and clear to consumers,” said proponent Hunter Stern, business representative of IBEW 1245, a union that represents Pacific Gas & Electric Co. electrical workers. \"The main purpose is simply so that San Franciscans who could be enrolled in a new energy program as soon as the end of this year will be sure to have information about the source, and greenness, of the electricity\" they're getting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason Fried, executive officer of the city's Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo), which has worked with the SFPUC to advance CleanPowerSF, said the IBEW-sponsored measure would actually make things more confusing for energy customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you wanted to compare apples to apples, you’re no longer able to do that,” Fried said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in a press release issued Monday afternoon, environmental activists who have pushed for implementation of the green energy program said this measure would set a double standard in advertising to give PG&E a marketing advantage once it's competing with the SFPUC for energy customers. Environmentalists described the IBEW-backed measure as \"a thinly veiled attempt to kill\" CleanPowerSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Voters have seen through previous attempts to preserve California's dirty energy monopoly, just as they will see through this disingenuous measure,\" said Michelle Myers, director of the Sierra Club San Francisco Bay Chapter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To date, San Francisco customers haven’t powered a single lightbulb with CleanPowerSF electricity because the program has yet to launch. Designed under a Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) model -- which entrusts the SFPUC with buying and selling power, while leaving transmission, billing and grid-operation duties to PG&E -- the municipal system aims to offer a greener power mix than PG&E, at or below the same rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the program structure, customers will be automatically transferred from PG&E to CleanPowerSF unless they opt out. And in the near-decade that CleanPowerSF has been moving forward, both PG&E and IBEW have engaged in efforts to halt its progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern insisted in an interview with KQED News that contrary to popular belief, his union isn’t seeking to kill CleanPowerSF. “If we wanted to kill it, we would have proposed an opt-in requirement,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that IBEW 1245 had drafted, but ultimately decided not to circulate, such a measure. That change of heart came about because “we support the mayor in his ... commitment to this program,” Stern said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Green vision\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee initially opposed CleanPowerSF. In August 2013, Lee’s appointees on the SFPUC effectively blocked it from moving forward, a move that sent program supporters back to the drawing board for an overhaul. Earlier this year, however, at a January press conference with San Francisco Board of Supervisors President London Breed, Lee announced his support for the revised version of CleanPowerSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly before Lee’s announcement, consulting firm EnerNex released a hefty green-energy road map commissioned by LAFCo outlining how CleanPowerSF could create more than 8,100 construction jobs with $2.4 billion worth of solar, wind and geothermal projects. Environmentalists envision this renewable build-out as a long-term strategy for transitioning San Francisco away from fossil fuels and sheltering customers from future energy-market volatility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But program backers say that in order to steer the SFPUC into a financial position to break ground on those construction projects, flexibility in energy purchases is needed early on. Under a previous plan, the SFPUC planned to meet its green-energy targets with a higher percentage of renewable-energy certificates, better known as RECs, which can be purchased to offset energy sent to customers that doesn’t comply with the state’s renewable-portfolio standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The RECs would have been integrated as a way of “greening” a base-load of hydropower, which is not considered to be as green as wind or solar but nevertheless counts as greenhouse-gas free, Fried said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern said the use of RECs, which are partially integrated by a similar program in Marin, is a central concern for IBEW.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you use RECs you’re not investing in renewable energy, you’re buying these certificates,” Stern said, adding that his union views RECs as a “gimmick” and a \"greenwashing\" practice that does nothing to spur in-state renewable energy development and lends zero support to union jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet Fried said the legal restrictions introduced by the language of IBEW’s measure would be too restrictive, and might lead to a reality where “we cannot go out there and call rooftop solar clean, green and renewable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hypothetically speaking, if the SFPUC were to offer the exact same energy mix as PG&E, Fried said, the proposed measure would create a situation where PG&E would legally be able to label 54 percent of its power as “green” and “greenhouse-gas free,” while the SFPUC would be limited to claiming only 22 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fried said the city has ditched plans that were more heavily reliant on RECs and now seeks to offer a base product of 33 to 50 percent state-certified renewable power, with much of the remainder derived from the city’s Hetch Hetchy hydropower system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A greener option, offered at a premium, would provide customers with 100 percent renewable power. 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The document said these efforts halted in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E also confirmed it had provided “financial and staff support” to the San Francisco Common Sense Coalition, a group that formed in 2010 to oppose an earlier iteration of CleanPowerSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Countermeasure planned\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the IBEW ballot measure, four members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors -- London Breed, John Avalos, Scott Wiener and Julie Christensen -- have drafted their own countermeasure to be placed on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would require \"green,\" \"clean\" and \"greenhouse-gas free\" to be defined in accordance with definitions of eligible renewable resources under state law. And it would cancel out the measure backed by IBEW if it wins more votes. 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