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"content": "\u003cp>On a recent Tuesday night, at least 80 people crowded into a small room in the basement of Oakland’s main library for a workshop about the city’s biennial budget process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prompted by a facilitator, they scanned a QR code with their phones and typed in questions about the city’s budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One by one, they appeared on a projector screen: Who makes the decisions? Who really takes responsibility? How bad is it? Why are we always in crisis? Why are we paying taxes and not getting services?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s financial future is bleak. 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Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lee’s campaign, focused on a message of unity, has emphasized her track record of bringing federal funding to Oakland while in Congress. Lee has said she would use her connections to bring more investment to the city with the establishment of a new office of public-private partnerships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has also said her priorities would include collecting city revenue from fines and parking tickets and making sure Oakland receives its share of funds from Measure W, an Alameda County sales tax approved by voters in 2020 intended for homelessness programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need a forensic audit,” Lee said at a mayoral debate held several blocks from the library on the same night as the workshop. “We need an audit that’s going to tell the taxpayers in this city where the waste, fraud and abuse is in our city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, who has the endorsement and financial support of some of the city’s major unions, has also said cutting more jobs would be a last resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031661\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250315_Oakland-Mayor_DB_00121.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250315_Oakland-Mayor_DB_00121.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250315_Oakland-Mayor_DB_00121-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250315_Oakland-Mayor_DB_00121-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250315_Oakland-Mayor_DB_00121-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250315_Oakland-Mayor_DB_00121-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250315_Oakland-Mayor_DB_00121-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayoral candidate Barbara Lee greets voters after a public forum organized by the League of Women Voters of Oakland at Oakland City Hall on March 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Taylor has marketed himself as a “professional problem solver” who, as a former engineer, would be best equipped to fix a “broken” Oakland. Taylor has said Oakland’s next mayor needs to be willing to make hard decisions, including cutting jobs if necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to understand that we did not get to this budget deficit overnight. It was a series of decisions that were made, decisions that were influenced in the process,” Taylor said at the same debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The root cause of our financial struggles — corruption, mismanagement, self-dealing, not centering Oaklanders at the center of decisions that are being made — we have kicked the can down the road so long that there is no road left to kick it down,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor has advocated for the city to adopt zero-based budgeting, where all expenses must be justified, rather than making adjustments to an existing budget. He also argues that the city would benefit from refinancing its pension debt to reduce interest payments and getting companies that do business with the city to reduce their pricing by 10%–15%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031580\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12031580 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_00159.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_00159.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_00159-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_00159-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_00159-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_00159-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_00159-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loren Taylor is interviewed by the media at a public forum hosted by Greenbelt Alliance, Housing Action Coalition and East Bay for Everyone in downtown Oakland, on Feb. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These decisions have such an outsized impact on us and all the services like the library that we use from the city. So that’s definitely a consideration in deciding who to vote for for mayor,” said Erin Burns as she buckled her son into his seat on the back of her bicycle outside the library after the workshop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burns said she is leaning towards voting for Lee, 78. Her husband is more of a fan of Taylor, 47, because he thinks someone younger should be mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I consider budget to be upstream of all the other issues in the city,” said Burns’ husband, Prasenjit Mukherjee, who is a legal permanent resident and can’t vote. “The public safety, the businesses coming back and all of that is kind of downstream of the city having the money to spend to fix all these issues. So that’s probably issue number one going into the special election.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Various factors have contributed to Oakland’s current financial picture. Among them, the lingering effects of the pandemic, an overreliance on one-time COVID-19-era funds, a drop in real estate transfer tax revenue from slower property sales, high pension and retiree medical costs, and under-budgeting of overtime pay to the police and fire departments, according to \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/View-Powerpoint-Presentation-1.pdf\">the city’s finance department (PDF)\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/news/2025-01-24/what-it-will-take-close-oaklands-structural-deficit-part-1-how-we-got-here\">SPUR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031577\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031577\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00034.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00034.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00034-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00034-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00034-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00034-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00034-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Larisa Casillas, with the budget advisory commission, addresses Oakland residents at an educational workshop on March 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City officials have already made a series of cuts, including browning out two fire stations, eliminating police academies, cutting contracts with nonprofits, restricting police overtime and laying off dozens of employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those cuts have already made a $42 million dent in the current deficit, according to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, more cost-saving measures are on the horizon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You got a lot of people feeling uneasy because their jobs are at stake, a lot of services are being cut,” said Troy Dotson, a city employee who works on capital improvement projects in the city’s libraries and attended the workshop to hear how city officials are handling the deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It affects people in the community, as well as myself, working in this city,” Dotson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031692\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12031692 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00041.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00041.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00041-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00041-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00041-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00041-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00041-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Mathai, vice president and co-chair of Voter Services at the League of Women Voters, leads a discussion on Oakland’s biennial budget process during an educational workshop on March 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city is also banking on voters approving a sales tax measure that will be on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure A would increase the city’s sales tax by 0.5%, bringing it in line with nearby cities like Alameda, Hayward, Albany and San Leandro. If it passes, it would generate an estimated $21 million in city revenue in the first year and \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/documents/April2025-Ballot-Measure-A-General-Sales-Tax_2025-02-21-005439_lhyb.pdf\">$30 million in (PDF) \u003c/a>subsequent years, according to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interim Mayor Kevin Jenkins has said the city is building the budget on the assumption that the measure passes. A spokesperson for the city administrator’s office said the city is building two drafts of the budget — one that assumes the measure passes and another that assumes it does not pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/View-Budget-Resident-Survey-MAIN.pdf\">survey by the city’s Budget Advisory Commission (PDF)\u003c/a> found 44% of residents polled opposed the tax increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031055\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12031055 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_OAKLAND-BUDGET_DMB_00002-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_OAKLAND-BUDGET_DMB_00002-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_OAKLAND-BUDGET_DMB_00002-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_OAKLAND-BUDGET_DMB_00002-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_OAKLAND-BUDGET_DMB_00002-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_OAKLAND-BUDGET_DMB_00002-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_OAKLAND-BUDGET_DMB_00002-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Oakland resident reviews a pamphlet detailing the city’s budget basics on March 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“City Council needs to make sure that taxes are collected and that departments that function to collect revenue and taxes are actually doing that before asking residents for more money,” said one unnamed resident who responded to the survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would like to see council members EFFECTIVELY manage a budget from a city that has significant wealth,” said another. “There is no reason Oakland should be bankrupt while no improvements to quality of life are being made. Where is the money going?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland isn’t the only city facing a budget deficit. \u003ca href=\"https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13923442&GUID=A89BE21A-9AE4-45D9-9903-324C77B96999\">San José\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sfethics.org/commission/budget\">San Francisco\u003c/a> are also projecting budget shortfalls over the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, questions around whether mismanagement has played a role in Oakland have loomed in recent months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland paid over $1.6 million in excess overtime to employees in the Department of Transportation and Public Works Department over a six-year period, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandauditor.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/20250202_FLSA-Investigation-Report_FINAL.pdf\">a city auditor report released on Feb. 20 (PDF)\u003c/a>. The investigation found the city’s payroll division used an unauthorized formula to calculate overtime that resulted in higher payments than what federal law requires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031060\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031060\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_OAKLAND-BUDGET_DMB_00043-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_OAKLAND-BUDGET_DMB_00043-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_OAKLAND-BUDGET_DMB_00043-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_OAKLAND-BUDGET_DMB_00043-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_OAKLAND-BUDGET_DMB_00043-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_OAKLAND-BUDGET_DMB_00043-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_OAKLAND-BUDGET_DMB_00043-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland residents speak to each other during an educational workshop about Oakland’s biennial budget process. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Auditor Michael Houston said he had no reason to believe the formula wasn’t used to pay employees in other departments and has called for a city-wide review. In a March 10 email to KQED, Houston said his office hadn’t heard anything from the city administration about the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/View-Supplemental-Report-4172024-2.pdf\">Oakland’s finance department reported (PDF)\u003c/a> that thousands of businesses had not paid taxes since 2021, potentially costing the city as much as $34 million in lost revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Lee and Taylor have said they would conduct an audit of the city’s finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>This may be a turning point, where people are fed up and say enough is enough. We are just not getting the return on our money,” Matthai said. “I don’t know about mismanagement. I don’t know. I’m trying to understand more as to where this is, but it just feels like this could be a turning point, and we are really in trouble.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Due to the timing of the election and the budget process, it’s unclear exactly how much direct input the new mayor will have on the new budget.[aside postID=news_12025747 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250208_Barbara-Lee_DMB_00457-1020x680.jpg']Voting in the mayoral election ends April 15, but the registrar has thirty days to certify the results. Meanwhile, the mayor has until May 1 to present a budget to the city council, which has until June 30 to make alternative proposals and approve the final budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new mayor may be able to have an impact on the process in other ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a charter that’s all about influence, not about power,” said former Oakland City Councilmember Lynette Gibson McElhaney. “So you’re going to want to make sure you have good relationships with council members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would think that the top two contenders for this seat will be leveraging their existing relationships to influence this process,” McElhaney said. “I think that they’ll be weighing in on those reports and speaking to council members and trying to earn the support of the council.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would think that they and their staff are going to be attending the public budget meetings, the budget hearings, that they would be asking critical questions, that they are forming allies on this council,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, all Oakland City Council members have endorsed Lee for mayor, with the exception of Councilmember Noel Gallo, who has said he does not plan to endorse a candidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With election day just weeks away, the window that candidates have to make their case to voters is quickly closing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Good said she’ll be looking to hear from candidates what specific plans they have to solve the budget deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is it all sunshine and roses?” Good said. “Or is somebody really going to go at it and say — we have a real problem here and here’s what I think we should do?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters, concerned about the city’s finances, are searching for answers about how Oakland got here and — as they prepare to choose their next mayor in an April 15 special election following the recall of former mayor Sheng Thao — what the city’s next mayor plans to do about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to know what’s going on,” said Jana Good, who sat in the second row next to her husband, Bruce Goldberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031573\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031573\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00018.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00018.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00018-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00018-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00018-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00018-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00018-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carina Lieu, Inclusive Community Engagement Officer for the city of Oakland, addresses the audience at an educational workshop about Oakland’s biennial budget process at the Main Library on March 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The budget doesn’t look great,” Goldberg said. “We have some real tough choices to make. And I don’t know enough, so I’m here to learn more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to mayor, voters are choosing a new city council member to fill a seat left vacant by former council member Nikki Fortunato Bas, who was elected to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city, which usually holds public workshops after the budget is complete in May, opted to hold two additional ones early this year because of the deficit, according to the League of Women Voters, which co-sponsored the workshops alongside the city, its Budget Advisory Commission and the nonprofit SPUR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Understanding the budget process, Good said, would likely help the couple decide how they’ll vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t understand our budget well enough,” Good said. “I don’t even know personally how much control the mayor has versus the City Council. Like, who actually is making these decisions?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anna Matthai, a retired Oakland resident and League of Women Voters member, said she is tuned in to what candidates are saying about their plans for the budget and priorities for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>I think we need to understand what their ideas are right now,” Matthai said. “They should be thinking about the budget right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, the two likely frontrunners in Oakland’s race for mayor — former East Bay Rep. Barbara Lee and former Oakland City Councilmember Loren Taylor — have presented contrasting approaches to fixing the deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031576\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031576\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00044.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00044.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00044-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00044-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00044-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00044-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00044-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland residents attend an educational workshop about Oakland’s biennial budget process at the Main Library on March 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lee’s campaign, focused on a message of unity, has emphasized her track record of bringing federal funding to Oakland while in Congress. Lee has said she would use her connections to bring more investment to the city with the establishment of a new office of public-private partnerships.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has also said her priorities would include collecting city revenue from fines and parking tickets and making sure Oakland receives its share of funds from Measure W, an Alameda County sales tax approved by voters in 2020 intended for homelessness programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need a forensic audit,” Lee said at a mayoral debate held several blocks from the library on the same night as the workshop. “We need an audit that’s going to tell the taxpayers in this city where the waste, fraud and abuse is in our city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee, who has the endorsement and financial support of some of the city’s major unions, has also said cutting more jobs would be a last resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031661\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250315_Oakland-Mayor_DB_00121.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250315_Oakland-Mayor_DB_00121.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250315_Oakland-Mayor_DB_00121-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250315_Oakland-Mayor_DB_00121-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250315_Oakland-Mayor_DB_00121-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250315_Oakland-Mayor_DB_00121-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250315_Oakland-Mayor_DB_00121-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayoral candidate Barbara Lee greets voters after a public forum organized by the League of Women Voters of Oakland at Oakland City Hall on March 15, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Taylor has marketed himself as a “professional problem solver” who, as a former engineer, would be best equipped to fix a “broken” Oakland. Taylor has said Oakland’s next mayor needs to be willing to make hard decisions, including cutting jobs if necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to understand that we did not get to this budget deficit overnight. It was a series of decisions that were made, decisions that were influenced in the process,” Taylor said at the same debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The root cause of our financial struggles — corruption, mismanagement, self-dealing, not centering Oaklanders at the center of decisions that are being made — we have kicked the can down the road so long that there is no road left to kick it down,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor has advocated for the city to adopt zero-based budgeting, where all expenses must be justified, rather than making adjustments to an existing budget. He also argues that the city would benefit from refinancing its pension debt to reduce interest payments and getting companies that do business with the city to reduce their pricing by 10%–15%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031580\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12031580 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_00159.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_00159.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_00159-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_00159-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_00159-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_00159-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250218_Oak-Mayoral_DMB_00159-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loren Taylor is interviewed by the media at a public forum hosted by Greenbelt Alliance, Housing Action Coalition and East Bay for Everyone in downtown Oakland, on Feb. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These decisions have such an outsized impact on us and all the services like the library that we use from the city. So that’s definitely a consideration in deciding who to vote for for mayor,” said Erin Burns as she buckled her son into his seat on the back of her bicycle outside the library after the workshop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burns said she is leaning towards voting for Lee, 78. Her husband is more of a fan of Taylor, 47, because he thinks someone younger should be mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I consider budget to be upstream of all the other issues in the city,” said Burns’ husband, Prasenjit Mukherjee, who is a legal permanent resident and can’t vote. “The public safety, the businesses coming back and all of that is kind of downstream of the city having the money to spend to fix all these issues. So that’s probably issue number one going into the special election.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Various factors have contributed to Oakland’s current financial picture. Among them, the lingering effects of the pandemic, an overreliance on one-time COVID-19-era funds, a drop in real estate transfer tax revenue from slower property sales, high pension and retiree medical costs, and under-budgeting of overtime pay to the police and fire departments, according to \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/View-Powerpoint-Presentation-1.pdf\">the city’s finance department (PDF)\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/news/2025-01-24/what-it-will-take-close-oaklands-structural-deficit-part-1-how-we-got-here\">SPUR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031577\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031577\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00034.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00034.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00034-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00034-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00034-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00034-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00034-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Larisa Casillas, with the budget advisory commission, addresses Oakland residents at an educational workshop on March 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City officials have already made a series of cuts, including browning out two fire stations, eliminating police academies, cutting contracts with nonprofits, restricting police overtime and laying off dozens of employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those cuts have already made a $42 million dent in the current deficit, according to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, more cost-saving measures are on the horizon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You got a lot of people feeling uneasy because their jobs are at stake, a lot of services are being cut,” said Troy Dotson, a city employee who works on capital improvement projects in the city’s libraries and attended the workshop to hear how city officials are handling the deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It affects people in the community, as well as myself, working in this city,” Dotson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031692\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12031692 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00041.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00041.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00041-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00041-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00041-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00041-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00041-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Mathai, vice president and co-chair of Voter Services at the League of Women Voters, leads a discussion on Oakland’s biennial budget process during an educational workshop on March 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city is also banking on voters approving a sales tax measure that will be on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure A would increase the city’s sales tax by 0.5%, bringing it in line with nearby cities like Alameda, Hayward, Albany and San Leandro. If it passes, it would generate an estimated $21 million in city revenue in the first year and \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/documents/April2025-Ballot-Measure-A-General-Sales-Tax_2025-02-21-005439_lhyb.pdf\">$30 million in (PDF) \u003c/a>subsequent years, according to the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Interim Mayor Kevin Jenkins has said the city is building the budget on the assumption that the measure passes. A spokesperson for the city administrator’s office said the city is building two drafts of the budget — one that assumes the measure passes and another that assumes it does not pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/View-Budget-Resident-Survey-MAIN.pdf\">survey by the city’s Budget Advisory Commission (PDF)\u003c/a> found 44% of residents polled opposed the tax increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031055\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12031055 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_OAKLAND-BUDGET_DMB_00002-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_OAKLAND-BUDGET_DMB_00002-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_OAKLAND-BUDGET_DMB_00002-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_OAKLAND-BUDGET_DMB_00002-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_OAKLAND-BUDGET_DMB_00002-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_OAKLAND-BUDGET_DMB_00002-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_OAKLAND-BUDGET_DMB_00002-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Oakland resident reviews a pamphlet detailing the city’s budget basics on March 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“City Council needs to make sure that taxes are collected and that departments that function to collect revenue and taxes are actually doing that before asking residents for more money,” said one unnamed resident who responded to the survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would like to see council members EFFECTIVELY manage a budget from a city that has significant wealth,” said another. “There is no reason Oakland should be bankrupt while no improvements to quality of life are being made. Where is the money going?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland isn’t the only city facing a budget deficit. \u003ca href=\"https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13923442&GUID=A89BE21A-9AE4-45D9-9903-324C77B96999\">San José\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sfethics.org/commission/budget\">San Francisco\u003c/a> are also projecting budget shortfalls over the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, questions around whether mismanagement has played a role in Oakland have loomed in recent months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland paid over $1.6 million in excess overtime to employees in the Department of Transportation and Public Works Department over a six-year period, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandauditor.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/20250202_FLSA-Investigation-Report_FINAL.pdf\">a city auditor report released on Feb. 20 (PDF)\u003c/a>. The investigation found the city’s payroll division used an unauthorized formula to calculate overtime that resulted in higher payments than what federal law requires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031060\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031060\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_OAKLAND-BUDGET_DMB_00043-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_OAKLAND-BUDGET_DMB_00043-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_OAKLAND-BUDGET_DMB_00043-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_OAKLAND-BUDGET_DMB_00043-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_OAKLAND-BUDGET_DMB_00043-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_OAKLAND-BUDGET_DMB_00043-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_OAKLAND-BUDGET_DMB_00043-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland residents speak to each other during an educational workshop about Oakland’s biennial budget process. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Auditor Michael Houston said he had no reason to believe the formula wasn’t used to pay employees in other departments and has called for a city-wide review. In a March 10 email to KQED, Houston said his office hadn’t heard anything from the city administration about the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/View-Supplemental-Report-4172024-2.pdf\">Oakland’s finance department reported (PDF)\u003c/a> that thousands of businesses had not paid taxes since 2021, potentially costing the city as much as $34 million in lost revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Lee and Taylor have said they would conduct an audit of the city’s finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>This may be a turning point, where people are fed up and say enough is enough. We are just not getting the return on our money,” Matthai said. “I don’t know about mismanagement. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Voting in the mayoral election ends April 15, but the registrar has thirty days to certify the results. Meanwhile, the mayor has until May 1 to present a budget to the city council, which has until June 30 to make alternative proposals and approve the final budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new mayor may be able to have an impact on the process in other ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a charter that’s all about influence, not about power,” said former Oakland City Councilmember Lynette Gibson McElhaney. “So you’re going to want to make sure you have good relationships with council members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would think that the top two contenders for this seat will be leveraging their existing relationships to influence this process,” McElhaney said. “I think that they’ll be weighing in on those reports and speaking to council members and trying to earn the support of the council.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would think that they and their staff are going to be attending the public budget meetings, the budget hearings, that they would be asking critical questions, that they are forming allies on this council,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, all Oakland City Council members have endorsed Lee for mayor, with the exception of Councilmember Noel Gallo, who has said he does not plan to endorse a candidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With election day just weeks away, the window that candidates have to make their case to voters is quickly closing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Good said she’ll be looking to hear from candidates what specific plans they have to solve the budget deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is it all sunshine and roses?” Good said. “Or is somebody really going to go at it and say — we have a real problem here and here’s what I think we should do?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Volunteers helped her repair the damage. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Friends of Ocean Beach Park)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Whoever did this, and why ever they did it, it didn’t have the desired effect,” said Heidi Moseson of Friends of Ocean Beach Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit group, which is helping lead the roadway’s transformation with the Recreation and Parks Department, filed a police report over the vandalism Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident comes amid simmering tension between supporters of the new park and opponents who want to restore oceanfront vehicle access between Lake Merced and Golden Gate Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, opponents of Proposition K, which mandated the permanent closure of a two-mile stretch of the Upper Great Highway after its passage in November, announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030751/days-before-san-franciscos-great-highway-closure-opponents-aim-block-it\">plans to sue the city\u003c/a>. They argue that placing the proposition on the ballot was invalid, claiming it violates the California Vehicle Code, which grants local jurisdictions the authority to permanently close highways to cars only when local legislators determine they are “no longer needed for vehicular traffic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fromm no longer lives in San Francisco and couldn’t vote on Prop. K, but she said she wasn’t immune to the community tensions while working on her mural over the past month and a half.[aside postID=arts_13973169 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/OceanCalling.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Throughout the time I was working, and especially during that week [of the closure], we did receive some hateful comments in person,” she said. “People made us feel unsafe and that was really unfortunate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, a second artist began work on another of the 16 planned artworks for the site. 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Eduardo Ibarra was on that engine, the first to respond to the metal shredder’s bayside yard that night in August 2023. He guessed the burning pile was close to the size of a football field, 50 to 70 feet high in places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew that we were gonna be there for a long time,” Ibarra told an Alameda County criminal grand jury, according to a transcript of the proceedings obtained by Public Health Watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The glowing core — the seat, the origin of the fire — proved hard to reach, with the scrap piled up near the back fence. Fire crews struggled to maneuver their trucks and hoses around the mound, and it soon became clear that something inside was volatile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours after the first fire truck arrived, repeated explosions sent hot metal sizzling through the air. At one point, an oval piece of metal about two feet long and four feet wide flew over the heads of Ibarra and his crew, landing on a discarded Bay Area Rapid Transit car, where it burned through the roof and started another fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031598\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12031598\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Ibarra-800x1066.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Ibarra-800x1066.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Ibarra-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Ibarra-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Ibarra-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Ibarra-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Ibarra-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lt. Eduardo Ibarra can see the Schnitzer Steel facility from Oakland Fire Department Station 2, which took the call to respond to a fire in 2023. \u003ccite>(Molly Peterson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The explosions [are] not something that we deal with all the time,” Ibarra later told Public Health Watch. “We do deal with explosions from, like propane tanks and things like that, RV fires and things of that nature. But we never deal with explosions of this caliber on a regular basis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibarra’s sworn testimony and the testimony of others recorded in the 2,700-page grand jury transcript provide new details about the fire and its aftermath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Health Watch also reviewed hundreds of pages of additional documents obtained under the California Public Records Act that recounted what state and local regulators have done — and what they haven’t — to keep the public safe over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new details raise questions about California’s oversight of the metal shredding industry and the potential health hazards posed by the toxic and airborne metals and other pollutants that drift off the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 23,000 people live in West Oakland within a mile of the Schnitzer site, and thousands more live downwind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, which has since been renamed Radius Recycling, and two employees were later charged with up to 10 separate environmental felonies and misdemeanors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charges include felony violations of the state’s health and safety code between 2021 and 2023, as well as conspiracy to destroy evidence, reckless handling of hazardous waste and negligently emitting air contaminants. The company and both employees pleaded not guilty in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Radius Recycling did not respond to requests for comment from Public Health Watch, before the article published, but the company has defended its business and the metal shredding industry as a way to produce steel — a construction staple — with a small or neutral carbon footprint that can help mitigate climate change and meet regulatory requirements for greener building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, after the story published, the company issued a statement to Public Health Watch via email, complaining that allegations raised in the story, based on grand jury testimony and multiple other sources, were false.[aside postID=news_11996994 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/012_KQED_SchnitzerSteelPortofOakland_03082022_qed-1020x679.jpg']“Radius Recycling remains committed to safety, environmental compliance, and transparency,” according to the statement from Eric Potashner, the chief sustainability officer. “Following the fire at our Oakland facility, we worked closely with the District Attorney’s Office and multiple regulatory agencies — including the California Department of Toxic Substances Control and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District — who were on-site immediately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our operations follow strict environmental regulations, and we remain fully confident that the facts will demonstrate Radius Recycling’s continued prioritization of public safety and compliance with the law,” Potashner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement also challenged some of the testimony presented to the grand jury that later issued the indictments, saying the company had alerted officials it would immediately shred the evidence from the fire and that no one objected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As part of standard fire prevention protocol, we proactively informed regulators that we would begin shredding the burned material that day to eliminate any risk of reignition. No agency or regulator objected to this process,” according to the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-District Attorney Pamela Price called the criminal charges “historic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe Radius has often shrugged off the regulations when it was convenient to them, treating minor administrative penalties and fines as the cost of doing business,” Price said at the time the indictment was handed down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators, it appears, also fell down on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031603\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PHW-Photo-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PHW-Photo-3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PHW-Photo-3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PHW-Photo-3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PHW-Photo-3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PHW-Photo-3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PHW-Photo-3-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">6231 Schnitzer Steel workers use cranes to pull metal out of the smoky mound after a fire started deep in a pile of scrap on Aug. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Oakland Fire Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oversight of the metal shredding industry has repeatedly faltered. Over the years, the state has granted exemptions from a key rule, missed a deadline for drafting new regulations and avoided enforcement of existing laws, either through lack of resources or lack of effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along the way, decades of poorly coordinated efforts among a host of public agencies have enabled — and in some cases exacerbated — problems across the industry, Public Health Watch learned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s multiple agencies in charge of making sure industry complies with relevant laws, but these agencies have failed to actually do the job of enforcing those laws,” said Karen Chen, an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council, which has filed friend-of-the-court briefs in support of stricter enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the meantime, real people suffer irreversible health harms while [the state Department of Toxic Substances Control] waits to truly do its job and enforce the hazardous waste control law,” Chen said. “In turn, metal shredders get to skirt regulations in order to make a buck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read the full story at \u003ca href=\"https://publichealthwatch.org/2025/03/18/california-metal-shredding-lead-waste/\">Public Health Watch\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11:15 a.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://publichealthwatch.org/2025/03/18/california-metal-shredding-lead-waste/\">originally published\u003c/a> by \u003ca href=\"https://publichealthwatch.org/\">\u003cem>Public Health Watch\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a nonprofit investigative news organization. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The engine from Oakland Fire Department’s Station Number 2 had rolled out to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958816/alameda-county-das-office-wants-your-help-investigating-schnitzer-steel-fire\">Schnitzer Steel\u003c/a> before, but this call was different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t the typical smoldering nugget of debris. Instead, smoke was billowing from a massive pile of scrap as flames shot outward from an orange glow deep within.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lt. Eduardo Ibarra was on that engine, the first to respond to the metal shredder’s bayside yard that night in August 2023. He guessed the burning pile was close to the size of a football field, 50 to 70 feet high in places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew that we were gonna be there for a long time,” Ibarra told an Alameda County criminal grand jury, according to a transcript of the proceedings obtained by Public Health Watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The glowing core — the seat, the origin of the fire — proved hard to reach, with the scrap piled up near the back fence. Fire crews struggled to maneuver their trucks and hoses around the mound, and it soon became clear that something inside was volatile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours after the first fire truck arrived, repeated explosions sent hot metal sizzling through the air. At one point, an oval piece of metal about two feet long and four feet wide flew over the heads of Ibarra and his crew, landing on a discarded Bay Area Rapid Transit car, where it burned through the roof and started another fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031598\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12031598\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Ibarra-800x1066.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Ibarra-800x1066.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Ibarra-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Ibarra-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Ibarra-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Ibarra-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Ibarra-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lt. Eduardo Ibarra can see the Schnitzer Steel facility from Oakland Fire Department Station 2, which took the call to respond to a fire in 2023. \u003ccite>(Molly Peterson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The explosions [are] not something that we deal with all the time,” Ibarra later told Public Health Watch. “We do deal with explosions from, like propane tanks and things like that, RV fires and things of that nature. But we never deal with explosions of this caliber on a regular basis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ibarra’s sworn testimony and the testimony of others recorded in the 2,700-page grand jury transcript provide new details about the fire and its aftermath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Health Watch also reviewed hundreds of pages of additional documents obtained under the California Public Records Act that recounted what state and local regulators have done — and what they haven’t — to keep the public safe over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new details raise questions about California’s oversight of the metal shredding industry and the potential health hazards posed by the toxic and airborne metals and other pollutants that drift off the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 23,000 people live in West Oakland within a mile of the Schnitzer site, and thousands more live downwind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, which has since been renamed Radius Recycling, and two employees were later charged with up to 10 separate environmental felonies and misdemeanors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charges include felony violations of the state’s health and safety code between 2021 and 2023, as well as conspiracy to destroy evidence, reckless handling of hazardous waste and negligently emitting air contaminants. The company and both employees pleaded not guilty in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Radius Recycling did not respond to requests for comment from Public Health Watch, before the article published, but the company has defended its business and the metal shredding industry as a way to produce steel — a construction staple — with a small or neutral carbon footprint that can help mitigate climate change and meet regulatory requirements for greener building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, after the story published, the company issued a statement to Public Health Watch via email, complaining that allegations raised in the story, based on grand jury testimony and multiple other sources, were false.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Radius Recycling remains committed to safety, environmental compliance, and transparency,” according to the statement from Eric Potashner, the chief sustainability officer. “Following the fire at our Oakland facility, we worked closely with the District Attorney’s Office and multiple regulatory agencies — including the California Department of Toxic Substances Control and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District — who were on-site immediately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our operations follow strict environmental regulations, and we remain fully confident that the facts will demonstrate Radius Recycling’s continued prioritization of public safety and compliance with the law,” Potashner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement also challenged some of the testimony presented to the grand jury that later issued the indictments, saying the company had alerted officials it would immediately shred the evidence from the fire and that no one objected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As part of standard fire prevention protocol, we proactively informed regulators that we would begin shredding the burned material that day to eliminate any risk of reignition. No agency or regulator objected to this process,” according to the statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-District Attorney Pamela Price called the criminal charges “historic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe Radius has often shrugged off the regulations when it was convenient to them, treating minor administrative penalties and fines as the cost of doing business,” Price said at the time the indictment was handed down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regulators, it appears, also fell down on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031603\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PHW-Photo-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PHW-Photo-3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PHW-Photo-3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PHW-Photo-3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PHW-Photo-3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PHW-Photo-3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PHW-Photo-3-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">6231 Schnitzer Steel workers use cranes to pull metal out of the smoky mound after a fire started deep in a pile of scrap on Aug. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Oakland Fire Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oversight of the metal shredding industry has repeatedly faltered. Over the years, the state has granted exemptions from a key rule, missed a deadline for drafting new regulations and avoided enforcement of existing laws, either through lack of resources or lack of effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along the way, decades of poorly coordinated efforts among a host of public agencies have enabled — and in some cases exacerbated — problems across the industry, Public Health Watch learned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s multiple agencies in charge of making sure industry complies with relevant laws, but these agencies have failed to actually do the job of enforcing those laws,” said Karen Chen, an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council, which has filed friend-of-the-court briefs in support of stricter enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the meantime, real people suffer irreversible health harms while [the state Department of Toxic Substances Control] waits to truly do its job and enforce the hazardous waste control law,” Chen said. “In turn, metal shredders get to skirt regulations in order to make a buck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read the full story at \u003ca href=\"https://publichealthwatch.org/2025/03/18/california-metal-shredding-lead-waste/\">Public Health Watch\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday is scheduled to consider pausing the collection of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11930303/should-sf-and-berkeley-tax-empty-homes-following-oaklands-lead\">a tax on vacant homes\u003c/a> amidst ongoing litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://thefrisc.com/its-high-time-to-slay-the-myth-of-all-those-vacant-san-francisco-homes-2efd50728d8/\">Supporters\u003c/a> of the tax \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/skw0ub/more_than_40000_vacant_homes_in_san_francisco_20/\">often\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DDkWzxxv1qQ/\">point\u003c/a> to vacancy rates as a contributing factor to the city’s high home prices. And in 2022, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11931327/heres-every-bay-area-housing-measure-on-the-ballot-tomorrow\">voters approved\u003c/a> the \u003ca href=\"https://sftreasurer.org/business/taxes-fees/empty-homes-tax-eht\">Empty Homes Tax\u003c/a> to open vacant units for new renters and owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would have \u003ca href=\"https://digitalsf.org/islandora/object/islandora%3A218071?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=baca753a092dbebb3e9b&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=0&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=0\">levied stiff penalties \u003c/a>for owners holding units vacant, ranging between $2,500 to $5,000 per unit, depending on its size. If the apartment was kept vacant for three or more consecutive years, an owner could pay up to the maximum penalty of $20,000 per unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first filings were slated to be due at the end of April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, a few months after voters approved the tax, \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/small-realty-vs-san-francisco-complaint-.pdf\">groups representing property owners sued the city\u003c/a>, claiming it violated their constitutional rights. And, in November, a superior court judge agreed, \u003ca href=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/jnswire/jns-media/2e/60/19799276/NORCAL_PropM_unconstitutional_ruling_11-26-24.pdf\">ruling the Empty Homes Tax is unconstitutional\u003c/a> and violates \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=GOV&division=7.&title=1.&part=&chapter=12.75.&article=\">California’s Ellis Act\u003c/a>, which bars any public entity, including a city, from forcing a property owner to offer accommodations for rent or lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The right to exclude people from your property has long been considered one of the most fundamental aspects of property ownership,” said Jeremy Talcott, a property rights attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation. “In essence, this forces people to open up their private property to a third party.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031680\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031680\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-22_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-22_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-22_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-22_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-22_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-22_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-22_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view looking west from the 100 Van Ness building rooftop in San Francisco on June 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The court ordered the city to stop enforcing or administering the tax. In a statement, Alex Barrett-Shorter, a spokesperson for City Attorney David Chiu, said the city was “disappointed by the trial court’s decision.” Last year, the city \u003ca href=\"https://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.gov/search/case/dockets.cfm?dist=1&doc_id=3119880&doc_no=A172067&request_token=NiIwLSEnTkw%2BWzBFSCFNWE5IIEw6UVxfJCI%2BRzxSQCAgCg%3D%3D\">appealed\u003c/a> and is scheduled to \u003ca href=\"https://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.gov/search/case/scheduledActions.cfm?dist=1&doc_id=3119880&doc_no=A172067&request_token=NiIwLSEnTkw%2BWzBFSCFNWE5IIEw6UVxfJCI%2BRzxSQCAgCg%3D%3D\">present opening arguments\u003c/a> in April, even as opponents have vowed to keep fighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors was scheduled to consider pausing the tax until a year after a final decision is made on the tax’s legality, but Supervisor Jackie Fielder asked to continue the item until this week’s meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her staff told KQED she wanted to understand whether the city could start collecting the tax if a lower court ruled in the city’s favor but ultimately decided against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11930303 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/10/RS59672_017_KQED_BerkeleyMeasureM_10262022-qut-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston, a vocal proponent of the tax, said it was meant to target large corporate landlords and real estate spectators who might purchase homes but hold them off the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The concern of all the advocates behind [the tax] was these properties where the homes just aren’t being used as homes for people,” he said. “They’re being used like shares of stock in the stock market for real estate investors to buy them and hold them for years and then resell them at higher values for profit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to an October 2022 \u003ca href=\"https://56a418ca-94d2-476c-9a45-f491ca4a0387.usrfiles.com/ugd/56a418_8ba58b3bef6543b0ad09ce81a0ef037c.pdf\">city report\u003c/a>, which used data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, there were more than 60,000 San Francisco housing units considered vacant in 2021, though that statistic includes homes that are temporarily vacant because a tenant hasn’t moved in yet, the home is undergoing repairs or the property is caught in legal proceedings, among other reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tax \u003ca href=\"https://sftreasurer.org/file/empty-homes-tax-presentation/download?inline\">would have applied to\u003c/a> buildings with three or more units if the unit was kept vacant for more than 182 days in a calendar year. Single-family homes, duplexes and units occupied by travelers or vacationers would be exempt. And it allowed for vacancies during periods of construction, repairs, disasters or if the owner died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031683\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Houses_in_San_Francisco_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"857\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Houses_in_San_Francisco_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Houses_in_San_Francisco_qed-800x343.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Houses_in_San_Francisco_qed-1020x437.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Houses_in_San_Francisco_qed-160x69.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Houses_in_San_Francisco_qed-1536x658.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Houses_in_San_Francisco_qed-1920x823.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A row of homes on Capp Street, between 22nd and 23rd streets, in San Francisco’s Mission District. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/BLA.Residential%20Vacancies.013122_final.pdf\">In an earlier report from January 2022 (PDF)\u003c/a>, the city assumed fewer than a fifth of San Francisco’s vacant homes would be subject to the tax, and it could collect a little more than $61 million per year in net revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents argued the tax would ultimately \u003ca href=\"https://www.smallprop.org/press/supervisor-prestons-proposed-vacancy-tax-measure-would-place-a-hefty-tax/\">apply to fewer units\u003c/a> than the city predicted and \u003ca href=\"https://tsfaction.org/prop-m\">wouldn’t address\u003c/a> barriers to constructing new housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven Huang, president of the San Francisco Association of Realtors, said the tax was an “unfair punishment on homeowners disallowed by the courts.” The organization was one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The solution at hand is not the right one because the courts said so,” he said. “The right move should be to go back to the drawing board and craft something that actually solves the problem rather than going down a path that they’ve been told is not the right one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031686\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031686\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Covid19_04072020_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Covid19_04072020_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Covid19_04072020_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Covid19_04072020_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Covid19_04072020_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Covid19_04072020_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Covid19_04072020_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Empty streets in downtown San Francisco on April 7, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Out of the homes that were considered vacant in 2021, the city found that \u003ca href=\"https://56a418ca-94d2-476c-9a45-f491ca4a0387.usrfiles.com/ugd/56a418_8ba58b3bef6543b0ad09ce81a0ef037c.pdf\">more than 16%\u003c/a> were occupied seasonally or recreationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are truly pied-à-terres,” said Sarah Karlinsky, research director with the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley. She authored \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/sites/default/files/2014-10/SPUR_Non-Primary_Residences.pdf\">a study on vacancy rates (PDF)\u003c/a> almost a decade before San Francisco voted on the Empty Homes Tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In it, she found that there were nearly 900 homes that were sold but unoccupied in 2012. By 2021, that number had grown to more than 10,270, representing about 2.5% of the city’s total housing stock at the time, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://56a418ca-94d2-476c-9a45-f491ca4a0387.usrfiles.com/ugd/56a418_8ba58b3bef6543b0ad09ce81a0ef037c.pdf\">city’s report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a ton of units, but it’s also not insignificant during a period where we’re having a housing crisis,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s tax was modeled after one Vancouver voters passed in 2016, which reduced the vacancy rate by more than 20% and generated more than $20 million for affordable housing in its first year, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/voter-guide/2022-11/sf-prop-m-vacant-homes\">an analysis\u003c/a> by the urban planning think tank, SPUR. The following year, SPUR researchers found that the percentage of vacant homes in Vancouver continued to decrease, albeit at a much lower rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031689\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031689\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/470165429_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/470165429_qed-1.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/470165429_qed-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/470165429_qed-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/470165429_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/470165429_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/470165429_qed-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bicyclist rides by a row of homes on Feb. 18, 2014, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, when it came to the tax’s impact on housing affordability, Vancouver officials found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-08-16/taxing-the-rich-do-housing-prices-fall-when-empty-second-homes-are-taxed\">there were fewer vacant units\u003c/a> than they had initially expected, and it didn’t have an impact on housing costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Bay Area cities, including Berkeley and Oakland, have passed similar taxes. \u003ca href=\"https://rentboard.berkeleyca.gov/laws-regulations/city-berkeley-ordinances-affecting-rental-properties/empty-homes-tax\">Berkeley\u003c/a>’s tax, which voters approved the same year as San Francisco’s, has not been billed to property owners yet, though the \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Measure%20M%20-%20November%208%2C%202022%20Election.pdf\">city estimated (PDF)\u003c/a> it could generate up to $5.9 million annually. \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/vacantpropertytax\">Oakland’s tax\u003c/a>, which voters approved in 2018 and covers all properties, levies an annual tax of up to $3,000 per vacant home and $6,000 per parcel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=6722176&GUID=40CFF307-9BED-4270-A81A-301C09FE9FD6&Options=&Search=\">As of June 2024\u003c/a>, Oakland had collected an average of $5.53 million per year in revenue, but it has \u003ca href=\"https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=6854943&GUID=0A065116-182B-4C8C-A135-1D1BCA26E210&Options=&Search=\">not resulted in a decrease in vacant properties\u003c/a> since 2019, when the city began collecting the tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the legal proceedings, San Francisco hasn’t been able to test whether the tax could impact home prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if a lower court allows the city to start collecting the tax, Amanda Fried, a spokesperson for San Francisco’s Office of the Treasurer and Tax Collector, said the process would still be complicated because many property owners would have to file paperwork for the tax, even if their property isn’t vacant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Similar to your income taxes with the IRS, you’re required to file every year, even if you don’t owe anything,” she said. “It would have been difficult to implement this tax without a lawsuit, but if there’s still uncertainty, trying to convince 80,000 property owners that they need to go online and file a piece of paper that their property isn’t vacant is a lot. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, a few months after voters approved the tax, \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/small-realty-vs-san-francisco-complaint-.pdf\">groups representing property owners sued the city\u003c/a>, claiming it violated their constitutional rights. And, in November, a superior court judge agreed, \u003ca href=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/jnswire/jns-media/2e/60/19799276/NORCAL_PropM_unconstitutional_ruling_11-26-24.pdf\">ruling the Empty Homes Tax is unconstitutional\u003c/a> and violates \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=GOV&division=7.&title=1.&part=&chapter=12.75.&article=\">California’s Ellis Act\u003c/a>, which bars any public entity, including a city, from forcing a property owner to offer accommodations for rent or lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The right to exclude people from your property has long been considered one of the most fundamental aspects of property ownership,” said Jeremy Talcott, a property rights attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation. “In essence, this forces people to open up their private property to a third party.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031680\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031680\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-22_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-22_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-22_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-22_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-22_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-22_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230630-100-VAN-NESS-MHN-22_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view looking west from the 100 Van Ness building rooftop in San Francisco on June 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The court ordered the city to stop enforcing or administering the tax. In a statement, Alex Barrett-Shorter, a spokesperson for City Attorney David Chiu, said the city was “disappointed by the trial court’s decision.” Last year, the city \u003ca href=\"https://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.gov/search/case/dockets.cfm?dist=1&doc_id=3119880&doc_no=A172067&request_token=NiIwLSEnTkw%2BWzBFSCFNWE5IIEw6UVxfJCI%2BRzxSQCAgCg%3D%3D\">appealed\u003c/a> and is scheduled to \u003ca href=\"https://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.gov/search/case/scheduledActions.cfm?dist=1&doc_id=3119880&doc_no=A172067&request_token=NiIwLSEnTkw%2BWzBFSCFNWE5IIEw6UVxfJCI%2BRzxSQCAgCg%3D%3D\">present opening arguments\u003c/a> in April, even as opponents have vowed to keep fighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors was scheduled to consider pausing the tax until a year after a final decision is made on the tax’s legality, but Supervisor Jackie Fielder asked to continue the item until this week’s meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her staff told KQED she wanted to understand whether the city could start collecting the tax if a lower court ruled in the city’s favor but ultimately decided against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston, a vocal proponent of the tax, said it was meant to target large corporate landlords and real estate spectators who might purchase homes but hold them off the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The concern of all the advocates behind [the tax] was these properties where the homes just aren’t being used as homes for people,” he said. “They’re being used like shares of stock in the stock market for real estate investors to buy them and hold them for years and then resell them at higher values for profit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to an October 2022 \u003ca href=\"https://56a418ca-94d2-476c-9a45-f491ca4a0387.usrfiles.com/ugd/56a418_8ba58b3bef6543b0ad09ce81a0ef037c.pdf\">city report\u003c/a>, which used data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, there were more than 60,000 San Francisco housing units considered vacant in 2021, though that statistic includes homes that are temporarily vacant because a tenant hasn’t moved in yet, the home is undergoing repairs or the property is caught in legal proceedings, among other reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tax \u003ca href=\"https://sftreasurer.org/file/empty-homes-tax-presentation/download?inline\">would have applied to\u003c/a> buildings with three or more units if the unit was kept vacant for more than 182 days in a calendar year. Single-family homes, duplexes and units occupied by travelers or vacationers would be exempt. And it allowed for vacancies during periods of construction, repairs, disasters or if the owner died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031683\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031683\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Houses_in_San_Francisco_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"857\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Houses_in_San_Francisco_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Houses_in_San_Francisco_qed-800x343.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Houses_in_San_Francisco_qed-1020x437.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Houses_in_San_Francisco_qed-160x69.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Houses_in_San_Francisco_qed-1536x658.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Houses_in_San_Francisco_qed-1920x823.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A row of homes on Capp Street, between 22nd and 23rd streets, in San Francisco’s Mission District. \u003ccite>(Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/BLA.Residential%20Vacancies.013122_final.pdf\">In an earlier report from January 2022 (PDF)\u003c/a>, the city assumed fewer than a fifth of San Francisco’s vacant homes would be subject to the tax, and it could collect a little more than $61 million per year in net revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents argued the tax would ultimately \u003ca href=\"https://www.smallprop.org/press/supervisor-prestons-proposed-vacancy-tax-measure-would-place-a-hefty-tax/\">apply to fewer units\u003c/a> than the city predicted and \u003ca href=\"https://tsfaction.org/prop-m\">wouldn’t address\u003c/a> barriers to constructing new housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steven Huang, president of the San Francisco Association of Realtors, said the tax was an “unfair punishment on homeowners disallowed by the courts.” The organization was one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The solution at hand is not the right one because the courts said so,” he said. “The right move should be to go back to the drawing board and craft something that actually solves the problem rather than going down a path that they’ve been told is not the right one.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031686\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031686\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Covid19_04072020_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Covid19_04072020_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Covid19_04072020_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Covid19_04072020_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Covid19_04072020_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Covid19_04072020_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/001_KQED_SanFrancisco_Covid19_04072020_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Empty streets in downtown San Francisco on April 7, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Out of the homes that were considered vacant in 2021, the city found that \u003ca href=\"https://56a418ca-94d2-476c-9a45-f491ca4a0387.usrfiles.com/ugd/56a418_8ba58b3bef6543b0ad09ce81a0ef037c.pdf\">more than 16%\u003c/a> were occupied seasonally or recreationally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those are truly pied-à-terres,” said Sarah Karlinsky, research director with the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley. She authored \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/sites/default/files/2014-10/SPUR_Non-Primary_Residences.pdf\">a study on vacancy rates (PDF)\u003c/a> almost a decade before San Francisco voted on the Empty Homes Tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In it, she found that there were nearly 900 homes that were sold but unoccupied in 2012. By 2021, that number had grown to more than 10,270, representing about 2.5% of the city’s total housing stock at the time, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://56a418ca-94d2-476c-9a45-f491ca4a0387.usrfiles.com/ugd/56a418_8ba58b3bef6543b0ad09ce81a0ef037c.pdf\">city’s report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a ton of units, but it’s also not insignificant during a period where we’re having a housing crisis,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s tax was modeled after one Vancouver voters passed in 2016, which reduced the vacancy rate by more than 20% and generated more than $20 million for affordable housing in its first year, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/voter-guide/2022-11/sf-prop-m-vacant-homes\">an analysis\u003c/a> by the urban planning think tank, SPUR. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-pride\">San Francisco Pride\u003c/a> organizers face a challenging task: raising $3.2 million to cover the total costs of labor, security, insurance and permits required to produce the two-day festival and parade set for June 28–29. However, reaching that goal has become harder as several corporate sponsors have pulled their financial support, SF Pride executive director Suzanne Ford said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We expected [funding] to increase this year and then the whole world changed on us,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comcast, along with beverage companies Anheuser-Busch and Diageo, were multi-year sponsors but are not supporting this year’s celebration. The news comes after SF Pride \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/san-francisco-pride-2025-meta-excluded-20202757.php\">announced that its relationship with Meta, the parent company of Facebook, had ended\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The world’s changed politically, and the environment for sponsorship has changed dramatically,” she said. “And I think these companies have determined that it’s not a good investment in Pride this year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the pandemic, SF Pride has faced financial challenges as production costs rise each year. Both the parade and festival are free to attend, making the event, as currently designed, dependent on corporate sponsorships. 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I think the whole country, in fact, the world, will be looking to see if San Francisco still has those values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comcast, Anheuser-Busch and Diageo did not respond to KQED’s request for comment. A spokesperson for La Crema, a wine company owned by Jackson Family Wines, said it may not support SF Pride at the same scale as before because of financial trouble in the wine industry. The spokesperson said the company is still negotiating with organizers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11990430 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-09-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF Pride, which recently announced a partnership with San Francisco International Airport, is now looking for new sponsors. 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Earlier this month, the Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club released a statement calling for SF Pride leadership to ban companies that have terminated their diversity, equality and inclusion initiatives and “sold out trans safety in favor of currying political favor with far-right bigots like Donald Trump” from the parade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF Pride will no longer partner with Meta after CEO Mark Zuckerberg terminated the tech giant’s DEI initiatives and changed its content moderation policies, with some advocates pointing out that now it is easier for users to \u003ca href=\"https://www.hrc.org/news/metas-new-policies-how-they-endanger-lgbtq-communities-and-our-tips-for-staying-safe-online\">target and demean\u003c/a> transgender people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do sympathize with SF Pride’s financial situation, but these flimsy sponsorships are really just a testament as to why we should be working to create a Pride celebration that is sustained by people,” said Melissa Hernandez, Harvey Milk LGBTQ Democratic Club co-president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SF Pride should be asking itself, what is its purpose?” Hernandez said. “Is it to provide corporations with an outlet to showcase their rainbow branding, or is it to provide LGBTQ+ people from all over the world with an opportunity to feel safe and seen?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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If convicted, he could face a lifetime sentence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11972312\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11972312\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"FCI Dublin Women's Prison in Dublin on Aug. 16, 2023.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal Correctional Institution Dublin, a women’s prison in the East Bay, on Aug. 16, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Women who were formerly incarcerated at FCI Dublin plan to testify that Smith made sexual comments toward them, forced them to lift up their tops in front of him, penetrated them with his fingers as they slept, and even forced them to have sex with him, Paidipaty said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of Smith’s abuse happened in the housing units on that property,” where he was often the only guard, she told the jury. “This is where the women lived, where they slept at night, where they showered, where they did their laundry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For these units, Smith had ultimate control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His defense said that the picture of Smith’s time as a correctional officer would be incomplete, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12031367 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240408-FCIDublin-016-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You will not see DNA evidence, you will not see any other forensic evidence, physical evidence of a sexual assault,” attorney Joanna Sheridan said in opening statements. “You will not see any surveillance video of Mr. Smith touching an inmate. You might want to pause and think about that, considering that this is a prison, a highly secured facility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheridan foreshadowed a strategy of attempting to discredit witness testimony — “These are women who … were there because they committed felony offenses,” she said — and pushed back against the prosecution’s depiction of the power hierarchy of the prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Inmates figure out how to get what they want,” she told jurors. “They learn how to manipulate the system. They learn how to manipulate staff and [Bureau of Prison] management to benefit their interests.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018828/prison-sex-abuse-survivor-speaks-on-fci-dublins-cultural-rot-after-record-settlement\">more than 100 women\u003c/a> have come forward alleging sexual misconduct by officials at FCI Dublin. 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"content": "\u003cp>Many San Francisco drivers are familiar with the precipitous paved cliffs that double as the city’s roads. In a 40-foot-long vehicle that holds dozens of passengers, this hilly terrain is all the more difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On certain \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-muni\">Muni\u003c/a> lines like the 37 Corbett, the road is so narrow that the mirrors of the bus pass over the mirrors of parked cars on either side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s in its own league. Turning the wheel is the least of it,” said Mc Allen, a transit operator for Muni, as he prepared to start a recent shift driving the 44 O’Shaughnessy in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sfmta\">San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency\u003c/a> faces a severe budget deficit and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025781/sf-muni-board-says-not-so-fast-proposed-service-cuts\">possibility of service cuts\u003c/a> to several lines, Allen is on a mission to highlight his job and raise awareness of the importance of public transit. He wants people to make a point of riding Muni on Tuesday, with a goal to increase ridership by 10%\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025781/sf-muni-board-says-not-so-fast-proposed-service-cuts\">.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Allen calls \u003ca href=\"https://www.sftransitoperator.day/\">San Francisco Transit Operator Day\u003c/a> comes the same day that the SFMTA board will discuss those proposed cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_Muni-Operator-Day_DMB_00043_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12031479 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_Muni-Operator-Day_DMB_00043_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_Muni-Operator-Day_DMB_00043_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_Muni-Operator-Day_DMB_00043_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_Muni-Operator-Day_DMB_00043_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_Muni-Operator-Day_DMB_00043_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_Muni-Operator-Day_DMB_00043_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_Muni-Operator-Day_DMB_00043_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The SF Muni 44 O’Shaughnessy line crosses San Francisco on March 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. 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Allen said his colleague had 14 years of service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea is one big day for Muni operators to celebrate transit in San Francisco and encourage people to recognize our efforts and our labor,” Allen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also asking members of the public to submit a total of 500 \u003ca href=\"https://sfmta.tfaforms.net/312\">commendations\u003c/a> to drivers and added that the day is not just about recognizing the operators but also the car cleaners, mechanics, schedulers, dispatchers, station agents and other people who help make Muni run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Bilal Mahmood, meanwhile, has introduced a resolution to officially mark March 18 as Transit Operator Day, which the board will vote on that day. (For years, SFMTA has held its own Transit Operator Appreciation Day for staff on March 18.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAHZp3usV4g\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think resolutions have an importance of raising awareness for our ‘invisible warriors’ in the city,” Mahmood said. “ Unless the public has awareness of the important role that the Muni operators have, they wouldn’t know that they’re an important part of the line item of the budget that we need to be advocating for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/projects/summer-2025-muni-service-cuts\">Tuesday’s meeting\u003c/a>, the SFMTA board will consider reduced service on the 5 Fulton, 9 San Bruno and 31 Balboa lines — and to combine the 21 Hayes and the 6 Haight-Parnassus lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to SFMTA, the cuts are needed to rein in an approximately $50 million \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027759/sf-transit-board-says-no-cutting-school-crossing-guards-save-money\">budget deficit\u003c/a> for fiscal year 2025–26, which is set to begin in July — due to lower-than-expected transit and parking revenue and lower-than-expected operating transfers from the city’s general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA officials have said these service reductions of about 4% will save the agency $15 million and that it plans to make up the remainder of next fiscal year’s deficit through improvements to fare compliance and its parking program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031472\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031472\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_MUNI-OPERATOR-DAY_DMB_00037-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_MUNI-OPERATOR-DAY_DMB_00037-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_MUNI-OPERATOR-DAY_DMB_00037-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_MUNI-OPERATOR-DAY_DMB_00037-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_MUNI-OPERATOR-DAY_DMB_00037-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_MUNI-OPERATOR-DAY_DMB_00037-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_MUNI-OPERATOR-DAY_DMB_00037-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SF Muni Transit Operator Mc Allen waives at another SF Muni bus as he drives the inbound 44 O’Shaughnessy in San Francisco on March 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. 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Still, transit advocates like Jaime Viloria, the outreach and organizing manager for the nonprofit transit advocacy group San Francisco Transit Riders, said the agency should consider dipping into its financial reserves before cutting service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody loves Muni, but I feel like it’s not being shown a lot of love fiscally,” he said.[aside postID=news_12031387 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250311_VTASTRIKEDAY2_GC-23-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Viloria is worried that with SFMTA’s budget deficit set to grow in the future, any cuts to service made now could become permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If people aren’t using transit, then you don’t have revenue from those fares, and then you won’t have the ridership to justify running those lines,” Viloria said. “And it just spirals out of control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Transit Riders is among the groups organizing a protest against service cuts outside San Francisco City Hall on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood said he also advocated for SFMTA to dip into its reserves to tame the deficit, rather than reduce service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Allen, it’s just a coincidence that his Transit Operator Appreciation Day falls on the same day SFMTA’s board is expected to discuss the ongoing financial challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said service reductions would be “enormously impactful” to operators, meaning fewer buses on the road would strain operators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if you only get around in San Francisco by car, public transit is enormously valuable to you because it’s what keeps congestion in check,” Allen said. “Our street network can’t work if public transit is not there serving the hundreds of thousands of San Franciscans every day, and so whether you ride Muni or not, you benefit from it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sfmta\">San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency\u003c/a> faces a severe budget deficit and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025781/sf-muni-board-says-not-so-fast-proposed-service-cuts\">possibility of service cuts\u003c/a> to several lines, Allen is on a mission to highlight his job and raise awareness of the importance of public transit. He wants people to make a point of riding Muni on Tuesday, with a goal to increase ridership by 10%\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025781/sf-muni-board-says-not-so-fast-proposed-service-cuts\">.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Allen calls \u003ca href=\"https://www.sftransitoperator.day/\">San Francisco Transit Operator Day\u003c/a> comes the same day that the SFMTA board will discuss those proposed cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_Muni-Operator-Day_DMB_00043_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12031479 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_Muni-Operator-Day_DMB_00043_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_Muni-Operator-Day_DMB_00043_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_Muni-Operator-Day_DMB_00043_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_Muni-Operator-Day_DMB_00043_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_Muni-Operator-Day_DMB_00043_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_Muni-Operator-Day_DMB_00043_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_Muni-Operator-Day_DMB_00043_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The SF Muni 44 O’Shaughnessy line crosses San Francisco on March 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He got the idea after he heard of a fellow transit operator who had never received a commendation, a kind of formal compliment to operators that members of the public can submit to SFMTA. Allen said his colleague had 14 years of service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The idea is one big day for Muni operators to celebrate transit in San Francisco and encourage people to recognize our efforts and our labor,” Allen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also asking members of the public to submit a total of 500 \u003ca href=\"https://sfmta.tfaforms.net/312\">commendations\u003c/a> to drivers and added that the day is not just about recognizing the operators but also the car cleaners, mechanics, schedulers, dispatchers, station agents and other people who help make Muni run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Bilal Mahmood, meanwhile, has introduced a resolution to officially mark March 18 as Transit Operator Day, which the board will vote on that day. (For years, SFMTA has held its own Transit Operator Appreciation Day for staff on March 18.)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/fAHZp3usV4g'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/fAHZp3usV4g'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“I think resolutions have an importance of raising awareness for our ‘invisible warriors’ in the city,” Mahmood said. “ Unless the public has awareness of the important role that the Muni operators have, they wouldn’t know that they’re an important part of the line item of the budget that we need to be advocating for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/projects/summer-2025-muni-service-cuts\">Tuesday’s meeting\u003c/a>, the SFMTA board will consider reduced service on the 5 Fulton, 9 San Bruno and 31 Balboa lines — and to combine the 21 Hayes and the 6 Haight-Parnassus lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to SFMTA, the cuts are needed to rein in an approximately $50 million \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027759/sf-transit-board-says-no-cutting-school-crossing-guards-save-money\">budget deficit\u003c/a> for fiscal year 2025–26, which is set to begin in July — due to lower-than-expected transit and parking revenue and lower-than-expected operating transfers from the city’s general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA officials have said these service reductions of about 4% will save the agency $15 million and that it plans to make up the remainder of next fiscal year’s deficit through improvements to fare compliance and its parking program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031472\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031472\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_MUNI-OPERATOR-DAY_DMB_00037-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_MUNI-OPERATOR-DAY_DMB_00037-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_MUNI-OPERATOR-DAY_DMB_00037-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_MUNI-OPERATOR-DAY_DMB_00037-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_MUNI-OPERATOR-DAY_DMB_00037-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_MUNI-OPERATOR-DAY_DMB_00037-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250313_MUNI-OPERATOR-DAY_DMB_00037-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SF Muni Transit Operator Mc Allen waives at another SF Muni bus as he drives the inbound 44 O’Shaughnessy in San Francisco on March 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Viloria is worried that with SFMTA’s budget deficit set to grow in the future, any cuts to service made now could become permanent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If people aren’t using transit, then you don’t have revenue from those fares, and then you won’t have the ridership to justify running those lines,” Viloria said. “And it just spirals out of control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Transit Riders is among the groups organizing a protest against service cuts outside San Francisco City Hall on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahmood said he also advocated for SFMTA to dip into its reserves to tame the deficit, rather than reduce service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Allen, it’s just a coincidence that his Transit Operator Appreciation Day falls on the same day SFMTA’s board is expected to discuss the ongoing financial challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said service reductions would be “enormously impactful” to operators, meaning fewer buses on the road would strain operators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if you only get around in San Francisco by car, public transit is enormously valuable to you because it’s what keeps congestion in check,” Allen said. “Our street network can’t work if public transit is not there serving the hundreds of thousands of San Franciscans every day, and so whether you ride Muni or not, you benefit from it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>While she was incarcerated at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/fci-dublin\">FCI Dublin\u003c/a>, one woman says in court documents, her father died. Her mail from her husband was withheld, her calls to him were cut off, and she fell into a depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, a correctional officer at the East Bay federal prison seemed to offer her a lifeline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983422/another-former-fci-dublin-officer-facing-criminal-charges-is-scheduled-for-trial\">Darrell Wayne Smith\u003c/a> told her that if she met him in the prison’s laundry room, he would give her a cellphone so she could have a video visit with her children, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when she arrived, she said, he put his hands on her breasts and buttocks. According to court documents, she alleges that when she asked about calling her kids, Smith “told her she had to cooperate with him first.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith had blocked her communication, she said, and would come to her cell, force her to walk around and spank her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between September 2020 and January 2021, the woman said, Smith got her alone and subjected her to unwanted sexual acts — first by promising contact with her family, and later by threatening trouble if she didn’t comply or by grabbing her physically. She alleges that he made her “model” lingerie, penetrated her with his fingers and ordered her to have sex with him.[aside postID=news_11983422 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240408-FCIDublin-002-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg']After Smith had assaulted her multiple times, the woman told him that she wanted “what was going on between them” to stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Smith responded that she had no choice, and it would not stop until he wanted it to stop,” according to court documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the eight former FCI Dublin officers charged in a sprawling investigation into the prison’s widespread culture of abuse, retaliation and cover-ups, Smith is the last whose fate is uncertain. His trial on 15 counts of abuse and deprivation of civil rights is set to begin Monday in federal court in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018828/prison-sex-abuse-survivor-speaks-on-fci-dublins-cultural-rot-after-record-settlement\">More than 100 women\u003c/a> have come forward alleging sexual misconduct by correctional officers and high-ranking officials at the low-security women’s prison, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982973/feds-abruptly-close-east-bay-womens-prison-following-sexual-abuse-scandals\">shuttered last April\u003c/a> after the yearslong investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This trial is something a lot of women have been looking forward to … and are going to be paying attention to and hoping for a just outcome in,” said Jae Oh, who represented three women who made claims against Smith in civil cases, including the one who said she was isolated and abused by him in 2020 and 2021. KQED does not identify victims of sexual violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This “will be sort of the last bookend step in this very long process where we’ve been repeatedly trying to get the truth and accountability for everything that these women have gone through,” Oh told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Known as “Dirty Dick Clark,” Smith, 55, faces six counts of sexual abuse of a ward, seven counts of abusive sexual contact, one count of aggravated sexual abuse, and one count of deprivation of rights by bestowing cruel and unusual punishment. If convicted, he could face a lifetime sentence.[aside postID=news_12018828 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']“The defendant’s alleged actions are some of the most disturbing charges we’ve seen for a former federal corrections officer,” Michael Nordwall, executive assistant director of the FBI’s Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch, said in a statement when Smith’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997595/former-east-bay-prison-officer-charged-with-more-sex-crimes-against-women-in-his-custody\">indictment was expanded to add new charges\u003c/a> last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith is accused of digitally penetrating five women as far back as 2016, some on multiple occasions, and forcing one to have intercourse with him while one of the other victims “stood outside to serve as a lookout.” He often bribed them to get them alone and threatened retaliation if they didn’t comply, according to court documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That fear of retaliation loomed over many women who were “very scared about participating in this process” by filing complaints against FCI Dublin officers, Oh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some who did were sent to the solitary housing unit, she said, where they lost contact with their families, recreation time and credit for good behavior that could have shortened their time in prison. Another \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018828/prison-sex-abuse-survivor-speaks-on-fci-dublins-cultural-rot-after-record-settlement\">told KQED she lost visitation privileges\u003c/a>, phone and commissary access, and was barred from speaking with lawyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some women who are still incarcerated after being transferred to other facilities have not come forward with their stories of abuse at FCI Dublin because of the power imbalance they face, Oh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Correctional officers “know where the security cameras are; they know who the women will talk to; they get access to their emails, their phone calls, their mails,” she told KQED. “That great power differential and the fact that these women are reliant on the officers day in and day out for food, for recreation time, for mail, for phone calls to family — I think they just feel powerless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the sentences against the seven other FCI Dublin officers, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11934639/ex-warden-of-dublin-womens-prison-convicted-of-sexually-abusing-inmates\">former warden Ray Garcia\u003c/a>, have shown the power of women coming forward, Oh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Validating their stories and their concerns has been very meaningful because time and time again with the other criminal cases up until now, we’ve seen that there is power in the victims’ voices when they speak up,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The years of staff violence at FCI Dublin, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904298/ap-investigation-dublin-womens-prison-fostered-culture-of-abuse\">dubbed the “rape club”\u003c/a> by workers and women incarcerated there, was first reported in a 2021 Associated Press investigation. The prison is facing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978712/infamous-east-bay-womens-prison-hit-with-12-additional-sexual-assault-lawsuits\">more than 60 lawsuits\u003c/a> alleging sexual assault and retaliation by prison officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Federal Bureau of Prisons also faces a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987292/trial-for-class-action-lawsuit-over-troubled-womens-prison-slated-for-june-2025\">class-action lawsuit\u003c/a> brought on behalf of women who were formerly incarcerated at FCI Dublin, including some who were transferred to other federal facilities after its closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is unconscionable that any correctional agency could allow incarcerated individuals under their control and responsibility to be subject to the conditions that existed at FCI-Dublin for such an extended period of time without correction,” read a report by court-appointed special master Wendy Still, who was tasked with overseeing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982014/judge-chooses-top-pick-for-special-master-to-oversee-womens-prison-following-rampant-abuse\">changes at the site\u003c/a> — the first time such an appointment was made in the history of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still’s report, unsealed by a judge in August, also says she worried about “the mistreatment, neglect and abuse” that women suffered at Dublin being repeated after they were transferred, “as many of the conditions that existed at this facility appear to be longstanding and systemic in nature.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The California health care program that covers almost 15 million people is costing more money than Gov. Gavin Newsom projected, creating a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/california-budget/\">new budget problem\u003c/a> in a lean year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now his administration is borrowing $3.4 billion from the state’s general fund to cover the unexpected cost increase. It’s unclear when the administration plans to restore the money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration acknowledged that more people are enrolled in the program than the state anticipated, and that the state is spending $2.7 billion more than it planned on coverage expansions for immigrants without legal status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly 1.6 million immigrants without legal status are enrolled in \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/medi-cal/\">Medi-Cal\u003c/a>, according to state data. The program is a lifeline to people who traditionally have not had access to health insurance, and California is one of six states that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/press-release/more-states-are-providing-fully-state-funded-health-coverage-to-some-individuals-regardless-of-immigration-status/\">offer coverage to immigrant adults \u003c/a>regardless of whether they are in the country legally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones said Newsom has overpromised and under-delivered on health care at a time when all Californians are struggling to afford the cost of living in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Democrats and the governor are picking priorities, and they’re prioritizing people that have come into our country illegally over people who immigrated here legally, people that are citizens,” Jones said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s Medi-Cal expansion for undocumented immigrants costs about $8.5 billion from the state general fund annually, according to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/hearings/258448\">a recent budget hearing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we weren’t spending eight-and-a-half billion dollars on illegal immigrants, we wouldn’t need to borrow $3.4 billion to cover the difference,” Jones said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>H.D. Palmer, a spokesperson for the state’s finance department, acknowledged that the rise in spending is partially attributable to higher-than-projected costs associated with larger enrollment numbers for California’s undocumented population. In January,\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhcs.ca.gov/Documents/Budget-Highlights/DHCS-FY-2025-26-Governors-Budget-Highlights.pdf\">Department of Health Care Services (PDF)\u003c/a>, which oversees Medi-Cal, estimated California is spending $2.7 billion beyond what it budgeted due to the cost of covering care and prescriptions for newly enrolled immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But immigrants aren’t the only population that is using Medi-Cal more than the state expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Medi-Cal population in general ballooned during the COVID-19 pandemic when the federal government temporarily suspended income eligibility checks to keep people insured during the national emergency. Before the pandemic about 13 million people used Medi-Cal. That number peaked at 15.6 million in 2023 when \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/collection/medi-cal-end-public-health-emergency/#:~:text=The%20requirement%20ended%20on%20March,Californians%20may%20leave%20the%20program.\">eligibility checks resumed\u003c/a>. Today 14.9 million people are enrolled, according to \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5010\">state data\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12022068 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-536950177-1020x680.jpg']The Legislative Analyst’s Office has also noted \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2025/5010/Understanding-Recent-Increases-Medi-Cal-Senior-Caseload-030525.pdf\">a 40% growth over the last four years (PDF)\u003c/a> in the number of seniors enrolled in Medi-Cal. While seniors make up only about 10% of the program’s enrollees, they account for a large part of the program’s spending because benefits such as long-term care are among the most expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medi-Cal spends about $15,000 a year per senior. That compares to the $8,000 a year the program spends on average on other enrollees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s office said these issues are neither new nor unique to California. Medi-Cal is California’s version of Medicaid, the federal-state program that provides health coverage nationwide to low-income households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rising Medicaid costs are a national challenge, affecting both red and blue states alike,” Elana Ross, a spokesperson for the governor’s office, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Democrats pledge to protect immigrant health care\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sen. Roger Niello, a long-time critic of the state’s closed-door budgeting process, which is typically hashed out between Democratic leaders and the governor, acknowledged that other factors like senior enrollment and high drug costs could be contributing to the high expenses. He said Republicans are worried about increasing spending on immigrant health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Republican from Roseville criticized the lack of transparency from Newsom’s finance department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The completely opaque nature of the request, which says nothing about any of that, is entirely inappropriate,” Niello said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031546\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/031327_Niello-MediCal_FG_CM_05-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/031327_Niello-MediCal_FG_CM_05-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/031327_Niello-MediCal_FG_CM_05-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/031327_Niello-MediCal_FG_CM_05-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/031327_Niello-MediCal_FG_CM_05-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/031327_Niello-MediCal_FG_CM_05-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Roger Niello holds a news conference in the rotunda of the state Capitol in Sacramento on March 13, 2025. Niello requested more transparency from Gov. Newsom as to why the state needs $3.5 billion to keep Medi-Cal solvent. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Democratic lawmakers said they need more information about what exactly is behind the unexpected spending increases, but pushed back on the idea that the state would need to roll back coverage for its undocumented population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Immigrant workers and families, who pay billions in taxes, deserve access to care, and I am proud to protect California’s progress expanding Medi-Cal,” Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas said in a statement. “There are tough choices ahead, and Assembly Democrats will closely examine any proposal from the governor. But let’s be clear: We will not roll over and leave our immigrants behind.”[aside postID=news_12029294 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/072820-Doctor-Pediatrician-Kid-GETTY-CM-01-copy-1020x680.jpg']Immigrants lacking permanent status contribute approximately \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/news/new-study-undocumented-immigrants-contribute-8-5-billion-in-california-taxes-a-year/\">$8.5 billion in state and local taxes a year\u003c/a>, according to an analysis by the California Budget and Policy Center, a nonprofit research group. That’s about the same amount it’s costing the state to give them Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State lawmakers first allowed undocumented children to enroll in Medi-Cal in 2016 under Gov. Jerry Brown. Since then Newsom has approved adding young adults up to age 25 in 2020 and older adults and seniors in 2022. Adults ages 26–49 were the final group added in 2024. Throughout those years, even \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2024/01/undocumented-health-care-politics/\">some Republican lawmakers supported covering this population.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Republicans need to take a better and keen-eyed look at the timeline associated with those expansions,” said Assemblymember Mia Bonta, an Oakland Democrat who leads the Health Committee. “For them to just try to play the blame game and put it all at the feet of California values to ensure that we have universal health coverage for all with this particular age group being included is just specious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Billions more in potential Medicaid cuts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Dawn Addis, who chairs a budget subcommittee on health, said she will be questioning Newsom officials closely about the spending increase in an upcoming hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really need to understand the details of what the Department of Finance is saying, what the executive is seeing, and how they’re calculating this information,” Addis, a Democrat from San Luis Obispo, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addis emphasized that the biggest threat to Medi-Cal right now is coming from the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Republicans recently voted to advance a proposal that could result in cuts of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2025/02/medicaid-medi-cal-trump-cuts/\">$880 billion to a group of programs\u003c/a>, largely Medicaid, over the next 10 years. The California Budget and Policy Center has estimated that the proposals currently at play in Congress could translate into annual losses of $10 billion to $20 billion a year for the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason why it’s so important for us to fight back against cuts at the federal level to Medicaid is because there is no easy or painless solution to fill that budget hole,” said Amanda McAllister-Wallner, interim executive director of Health Access California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health Access California along with the California Immigrant Policy Center spearheaded the campaign nearly a decade ago to insure all immigrants in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McAllister-Wallner said it was unfair and unreasonable to pin the state budget shortfall on the immigrant expansions. Over the same time period, the state has added benefits, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MediCalExplainedNewServicesGlance20202023.pdf\">doula services and family therapy (PDF)\u003c/a>, and invested heavily in reforming the system through a multibillion-dollar initiative called CalAIM.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those changes that we’ve made in Medi-Cal made the program stronger (and) have made the state healthier,” McAllister-Wallner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters reporter Alexei Koseff contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Legislative Analyst’s Office has also noted \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/reports/2025/5010/Understanding-Recent-Increases-Medi-Cal-Senior-Caseload-030525.pdf\">a 40% growth over the last four years (PDF)\u003c/a> in the number of seniors enrolled in Medi-Cal. While seniors make up only about 10% of the program’s enrollees, they account for a large part of the program’s spending because benefits such as long-term care are among the most expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medi-Cal spends about $15,000 a year per senior. That compares to the $8,000 a year the program spends on average on other enrollees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s office said these issues are neither new nor unique to California. Medi-Cal is California’s version of Medicaid, the federal-state program that provides health coverage nationwide to low-income households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rising Medicaid costs are a national challenge, affecting both red and blue states alike,” Elana Ross, a spokesperson for the governor’s office, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Democrats pledge to protect immigrant health care\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sen. Roger Niello, a long-time critic of the state’s closed-door budgeting process, which is typically hashed out between Democratic leaders and the governor, acknowledged that other factors like senior enrollment and high drug costs could be contributing to the high expenses. He said Republicans are worried about increasing spending on immigrant health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Republican from Roseville criticized the lack of transparency from Newsom’s finance department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The completely opaque nature of the request, which says nothing about any of that, is entirely inappropriate,” Niello said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031546\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/031327_Niello-MediCal_FG_CM_05-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/031327_Niello-MediCal_FG_CM_05-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/031327_Niello-MediCal_FG_CM_05-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/031327_Niello-MediCal_FG_CM_05-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/031327_Niello-MediCal_FG_CM_05-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/031327_Niello-MediCal_FG_CM_05-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Roger Niello holds a news conference in the rotunda of the state Capitol in Sacramento on March 13, 2025. Niello requested more transparency from Gov. Newsom as to why the state needs $3.5 billion to keep Medi-Cal solvent. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Democratic lawmakers said they need more information about what exactly is behind the unexpected spending increases, but pushed back on the idea that the state would need to roll back coverage for its undocumented population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Immigrant workers and families, who pay billions in taxes, deserve access to care, and I am proud to protect California’s progress expanding Medi-Cal,” Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas said in a statement. “There are tough choices ahead, and Assembly Democrats will closely examine any proposal from the governor. But let’s be clear: We will not roll over and leave our immigrants behind.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Immigrants lacking permanent status contribute approximately \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/news/new-study-undocumented-immigrants-contribute-8-5-billion-in-california-taxes-a-year/\">$8.5 billion in state and local taxes a year\u003c/a>, according to an analysis by the California Budget and Policy Center, a nonprofit research group. That’s about the same amount it’s costing the state to give them Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State lawmakers first allowed undocumented children to enroll in Medi-Cal in 2016 under Gov. Jerry Brown. Since then Newsom has approved adding young adults up to age 25 in 2020 and older adults and seniors in 2022. Adults ages 26–49 were the final group added in 2024. Throughout those years, even \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2024/01/undocumented-health-care-politics/\">some Republican lawmakers supported covering this population.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Republicans need to take a better and keen-eyed look at the timeline associated with those expansions,” said Assemblymember Mia Bonta, an Oakland Democrat who leads the Health Committee. “For them to just try to play the blame game and put it all at the feet of California values to ensure that we have universal health coverage for all with this particular age group being included is just specious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Billions more in potential Medicaid cuts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Dawn Addis, who chairs a budget subcommittee on health, said she will be questioning Newsom officials closely about the spending increase in an upcoming hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really need to understand the details of what the Department of Finance is saying, what the executive is seeing, and how they’re calculating this information,” Addis, a Democrat from San Luis Obispo, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addis emphasized that the biggest threat to Medi-Cal right now is coming from the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>House Republicans recently voted to advance a proposal that could result in cuts of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2025/02/medicaid-medi-cal-trump-cuts/\">$880 billion to a group of programs\u003c/a>, largely Medicaid, over the next 10 years. The California Budget and Policy Center has estimated that the proposals currently at play in Congress could translate into annual losses of $10 billion to $20 billion a year for the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason why it’s so important for us to fight back against cuts at the federal level to Medicaid is because there is no easy or painless solution to fill that budget hole,” said Amanda McAllister-Wallner, interim executive director of Health Access California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health Access California along with the California Immigrant Policy Center spearheaded the campaign nearly a decade ago to insure all immigrants in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McAllister-Wallner said it was unfair and unreasonable to pin the state budget shortfall on the immigrant expansions. Over the same time period, the state has added benefits, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/MediCalExplainedNewServicesGlance20202023.pdf\">doula services and family therapy (PDF)\u003c/a>, and invested heavily in reforming the system through a multibillion-dollar initiative called CalAIM.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those changes that we’ve made in Medi-Cal made the program stronger (and) have made the state healthier,” McAllister-Wallner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters reporter Alexei Koseff contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Weeks of actions at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency meant to tear up regulations, eviscerate its climate research and eliminate any focus on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023983/sf-state-1st-to-require-climate-justice-course-all-students\">environmental justice\u003c/a> have left Bay Area nonprofits reeling and confused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal funding was cut, or at least frozen, for work including planting hundreds of trees, developing local air quality monitoring and bolstering a youth climate collective, but nonprofit leaders in East Palo Alto, West Oakland and South San Francisco have already hired staff to fulfill grants, paid graduate student stipends for research and spent years developing a sweeping range of projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We might have to lay them off,” said Brian Beveridge, co-executive director of the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project, which hired at least one staff member to help fulfill a grant analyzing local air quality. “There are real impacts for real humans. It’s not just about a bunch of money being thrown around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The local nonprofits are scrambling to operate without federal funding and to fulfill their missions — centered on climate science and the health of communities of color — as the Trump administration is pulling grants from organizations grounded in environmental justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is just a wholesale onslaught on anything that has to do with our environment,” U.S. Sen. Adam Schiff said in an interview with KQED. The administration wants “to weaken our clean water, clean air rules.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012473\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-18-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-18-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-18-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-18-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-18-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-18-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241104-AdamSchiffCampaign-18-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Adam Schiff at the KQED offices in San Francisco on Nov. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This week, EPA officials terminated \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/administrator-zeldin-announces-billions-dollars-worth-gold-bars-have-been-located\">$20 billion in grants\u003c/a> issued by the Biden administration, many of which were meant to finance clean energy and climate projects through a green bank. Environmental groups filed a lawsuit in response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Administration officials have also targeted diversity, equity and inclusion programs, saying that what they call wasteful spending needs to be cut to align with President Trump’s orders. Over the past few months, the EPA cut or froze hundreds of grants, including some in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency also announced it will disassemble all of its environmental justice offices across the country. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said the cuts will eliminate “forced discrimination programs” and “serve every American with equal dignity and respect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Environmental justice’ has been used primarily as an excuse to fund left-wing activists instead of actually spending those dollars to directly remediate environmental issues for those communities,” Zeldin said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-terminates-bidens-environmental-justice-dei-arms-agency#:~:text=%E2%80%9CPresident%20Trump%20was%20elected%20with,with%20equal%20dignity%20and%20respect.%E2%80%9D\">statement\u003c/a> on Wednesday announcing the termination of the offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA has not responded to KQED’s request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Community-focused work\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For decades, EPA environmental justice workers have fought pollution in lower-income communities of color, who experience that burden most acutely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These neighborhoods sprung up along smoggy highways, next to power plants, busy ports and other polluting industries that belch toxic gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031664\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/007_KQED_MargaretGordonOakland_03042022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/007_KQED_MargaretGordonOakland_03042022_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/007_KQED_MargaretGordonOakland_03042022_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/007_KQED_MargaretGordonOakland_03042022_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/007_KQED_MargaretGordonOakland_03042022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/007_KQED_MargaretGordonOakland_03042022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/007_KQED_MargaretGordonOakland_03042022_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A semi-truck with a label that is labeled ‘Toxic’ stops on 7th Street in West Oakland on March 4, 2022. The route is a popular trucking route to the nearby Port of Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Their growth largely followed discriminatory redlining by financial institutions that denied people housing opportunities based on race, perpetuating wealth gaps and segregation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David González, an assistant professor of public health at UC Berkeley, said he wishes Zeldin understood the “long-term persistent life expectancy gaps when we look at different racial and ethnic groups.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12029553 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/08/cleaner-1180x787.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t talk about racism, then we can’t address what we see when we look at the data,” he said. “Black people are more likely to have poor health and more likely to have shorter lives. Why does that happen? We need to be able to talk about it so that we can fix it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maya Carrasquillo, a civil and environmental engineering professor at UC Berkeley, said the federal government is sending “a clear message — all puns intended — about whose lives matter and whose lives don’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a huge blow,” she said, adding that this is a moment for California to double down on its support of environmental justice. “So many people are rallying around these organizations, and I hope we’ll continue to rally around them. In the past, we have found creative ways to get the work done. And unfortunately, we’re at the point of having to do that again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrasquillo is part of a team that was awarded an EPA grant that could eventually install tree planters in East Oakland. The federal government froze that money in late January but later restored it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031667\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031667\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-04_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-04_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-04_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-04_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-04_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-04_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/230928-EAGLE-ROCK-SETTLE-MD-04_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project (WOEIP) offices in Oakland on Sept. 28, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After Beveridge’s West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project was awarded a $500,000 EPA grant last year to study air quality, he said the federal payment system for grants was frozen and then unfrozen around 36 hours later in January. However, EPA staff aren’t communicating with the group, so they don’t know the status of the invoices, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA also froze and then unfroze a separate $91,000 contract with his organization to improve local air quality monitoring. Still, Beveridge expects the federal government to issue a stop-work order for that project soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students have been working at it for about three months,” he said. “We have paid the students stipends to do research. We have paid our staff to work on the project. So we have commitments there that are outstanding expenses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031668\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(From left) Co-director Brian Beveridge, Co-director Margaret Gordon, and Senior Project Manager Nicole Merino Tsui sit at a table outside the offices of the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project in West Oakland on April 12, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Climate Resilient Communities, based in East Palo Alto, has three EPA grants totaling around $850,000 that are now up in the air — all from the closing environmental justice office. The largest grant of $500,000 would provide air purifiers for children with asthma, said Cade Cannedy, the group’s director of programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group planned to strengthen a youth climate collective, develop a vulnerability assessment for the Belle Haven and North Fair Oaks communities and research the impact of climate change on air quality along the San Francisco Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We stopped billing for them because if it’s not paid for, that is something that would sink our organization,” Cannedy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group holds a fourth EPA grant of $450,000 to study East San José’s watershed that has not formally been revoked, but Cannedy said it might be soon, and “It’s very risky to continue working on it because we aren’t sure if we will get paid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031672\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031672\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_EastPaloAlto_SeaLevelRise_03292021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_EastPaloAlto_SeaLevelRise_03292021_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_EastPaloAlto_SeaLevelRise_03292021_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_EastPaloAlto_SeaLevelRise_03292021_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_EastPaloAlto_SeaLevelRise_03292021_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_EastPaloAlto_SeaLevelRise_03292021_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_EastPaloAlto_SeaLevelRise_03292021_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Climate Resilient Communities executive director Violet Wulf-Saena at Cooley Landing Park in East Palo Alto on March 29, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I hired people six months ago and trained them to lead these projects. Then, when we were about to start, everything went dark,” said Violet Wulf-Saena, the group’s executive director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wulf-Saena said she has no plans to fire new staff and is allocating their time to other projects, but there has been zero communication about whether the federal government will restore the grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It means we’re borrowing from the future,” she said. “If we use these projects to speed up the work and pay for these people’s time, then next year, we won’t have any funding for those projects. We’re going to run out of money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julio Garcia, executive director of Rise South City, said a similar story unfolded in South San Francisco over the past few months. In January, the U.S. Forest Service froze a $600,000 grant for planting and maintaining 700 trees across the city to improve air quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031656\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julio Garcia, executive director of Rise South City, stands in front of two recently planted trees in South San Francisco on March 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the U.S. Forest Service declined an interview request and said in an email that the agency doesn’t have specific information on individual contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spokesperson also said that on Feb. 24, the service “was able to begin making payments for work that had already been completed on existing contracts and agreements. With that said, we are still reviewing all programs to ensure alignment with the President’s priorities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The freeze surprised Garcia initially, but when the Trump administration flagged hundreds of words for his administration to limit or avoid, like climate science, environmental justice and Latinx, he knew the decision would thwart his work. The group’s mission statement includes at least two banned words: equity and intersectional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031657\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-02-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-02-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-02-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-02-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-02-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-02-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-02-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julio Garcia, executive director of Rise South City, examines a recently planted tree in South San Francisco on March 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He said the changes on the federal level will likely impact how the organization pitches to private funders because “donors are scared about where they’re donating” and will think twice about funding climate change initiatives or organizations fighting for environmental justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Undocumented immigrants and people of color may “go back to not having an opinion” in decision-making, he said because they won’t attend public meetings out of fear of retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a couple of presentations at the end of February, and fewer people showed up,” he said. “Those are the communities more affected by climate change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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And unfortunately, we’re at the point of having to do that again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carrasquillo is part of a team that was awarded an EPA grant that could eventually install tree planters in East Oakland. 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However, EPA staff aren’t communicating with the group, so they don’t know the status of the invoices, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA also froze and then unfroze a separate $91,000 contract with his organization to improve local air quality monitoring. Still, Beveridge expects the federal government to issue a stop-work order for that project soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students have been working at it for about three months,” he said. “We have paid the students stipends to do research. We have paid our staff to work on the project. So we have commitments there that are outstanding expenses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031668\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031668\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_KQED_MargaretGordonWestOakland_04122022_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(From left) Co-director Brian Beveridge, Co-director Margaret Gordon, and Senior Project Manager Nicole Merino Tsui sit at a table outside the offices of the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project in West Oakland on April 12, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Climate Resilient Communities, based in East Palo Alto, has three EPA grants totaling around $850,000 that are now up in the air — all from the closing environmental justice office. The largest grant of $500,000 would provide air purifiers for children with asthma, said Cade Cannedy, the group’s director of programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group planned to strengthen a youth climate collective, develop a vulnerability assessment for the Belle Haven and North Fair Oaks communities and research the impact of climate change on air quality along the San Francisco Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We stopped billing for them because if it’s not paid for, that is something that would sink our organization,” Cannedy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group holds a fourth EPA grant of $450,000 to study East San José’s watershed that has not formally been revoked, but Cannedy said it might be soon, and “It’s very risky to continue working on it because we aren’t sure if we will get paid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031672\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031672\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_EastPaloAlto_SeaLevelRise_03292021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_EastPaloAlto_SeaLevelRise_03292021_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_EastPaloAlto_SeaLevelRise_03292021_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_EastPaloAlto_SeaLevelRise_03292021_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_EastPaloAlto_SeaLevelRise_03292021_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_EastPaloAlto_SeaLevelRise_03292021_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/019_EastPaloAlto_SeaLevelRise_03292021_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Climate Resilient Communities executive director Violet Wulf-Saena at Cooley Landing Park in East Palo Alto on March 29, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I hired people six months ago and trained them to lead these projects. Then, when we were about to start, everything went dark,” said Violet Wulf-Saena, the group’s executive director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wulf-Saena said she has no plans to fire new staff and is allocating their time to other projects, but there has been zero communication about whether the federal government will restore the grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It means we’re borrowing from the future,” she said. “If we use these projects to speed up the work and pay for these people’s time, then next year, we won’t have any funding for those projects. We’re going to run out of money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julio Garcia, executive director of Rise South City, said a similar story unfolded in South San Francisco over the past few months. In January, the U.S. Forest Service froze a $600,000 grant for planting and maintaining 700 trees across the city to improve air quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031656\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031656\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250314-EJ-CUTS-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julio Garcia, executive director of Rise South City, stands in front of two recently planted trees in South San Francisco on March 14, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the U.S. Forest Service declined an interview request and said in an email that the agency doesn’t have specific information on individual contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spokesperson also said that on Feb. 24, the service “was able to begin making payments for work that had already been completed on existing contracts and agreements. 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