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If approved by a simple majority of voters, the measure would grant supervisors the authority to remove Corpus with an 80% vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corpus was the first female and first Latina candidate for sheriff in county history. When she was elected in 2022, she became one of the first Latina sheriffs in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corpus did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ousting a sheriff by charter amendment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2001, then-Attorney General Bill Lockyer \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/opinions/pdfs/01-408.pdf\">issued an opinion \u003c/a>affirming that supervisors in \u003ca href=\"https://www.counties.org/general-information/county-structure-0\">California’s 14 charter counties\u003c/a> — those with greater autonomy over their elections and elected officials — could adopt ordinances allowing for the removal of a sheriff, district attorney or other elected official for cause. The process requires a four-fifths vote by the county board after providing the impacted person written notice and a chance to respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following year, San Bernardino County, a charter county, did just that, and although its board didn’t try to use its new powers against him, Sheriff Gary Penrod asked a judge for an injunction. He alleged the move was an “unconstitutional ‘removal’ of the constitutionally mandated, elected sheriff” that could also interfere with investigative and prosecutorial functions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A legal battle ensued, ending up at the Fourth District Court of Appeals, where judges found in 2005 that the \u003ca href=\"https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ca-court-of-appeal/1445637.html\">ordinance was constitutional\u003c/a>. They didn’t, however, decide whether the majority board vote to remove the sheriff might violate the \u003ca href=\"https://porac.org/members/peace-officer-bill-of-rights/\">Peace Officers Bill of Rights\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently in 2022, Los Angeles County voters overwhelmingly \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Los_Angeles_County,_Measure_A,_Removal_of_Sheriff_for_Cause_Amendment_(November_2022)\">approved an identical charter amendment\u003c/a> to allow the board to remove a sheriff. Two years earlier, LA supervisors \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-31/supervisors-vote-remove-sheriff-emergency-operations\">removed Sheriff Alex Villanueva\u003c/a> as the head of the county’s emergency operations through a board vote due to several ongoing scandals, including a \u003ca href=\"https://knock-la.com/tradition-of-violence-lasd-gang-history/\">history of deputy gangs inside the department\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board vote ultimately was unnecessary, as Villanueva overwhelmingly lost his re-election bid to an internal challenger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932401\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11932401\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1244809714-scaled-e1668610347274.jpg\" alt=\"Villanueva stands at a podium, his hands hold the sides of the podium and it appears as though he's bracing himself. The outgoing sheriff looks down, seemingly dejected.\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva details his accomplishments during a press conference at the Hall of Justice where he conceded the election to Robert Luna on Nov. 15, 2022. \u003ccite>(Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s charter has similar authority, requiring at least nine of the 11 supervisors to vote in favor of removing a sheriff or other public official for misconduct. A vote was brought against then-Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi in 2012 after he pleaded guilty of one count of misdemeanor false imprisonment of his wife. The city’s ethics commission \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/73516/does-mirkarimi-have-the-3-votes-he-needs-on-the-board-of-supervisors\">found that Mirkarimi committed official misconduct\u003c/a> and Mayor Ed Lee suspended him. Mirkarimi was ultimately reinstated when \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Ross-Mirkarimi-to-keep-job-supes-decide-3934169.php\">only seven supervisors voted in favor\u003c/a> of removing him permanently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Mateo County, Corpus has alleged she believes the board is overstepping its authority by asking voters to approve a charter amendment. An argument filed \u003ca href=\"https://smcacre.gov/media/7598/download?attachment\">against the measure\u003c/a> calls it “an illegal maneuver that will not survive a court challenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Dec. 2 meeting where the board approved putting the measure up for a special election, Thomas “Tip” Mazzucco, an attorney appearing on behalf of Corpus, asked the board for a delay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of uncertainty about the process. I ask that you continue this matter to protect the sheriff’s rights, because it’s the right thing to do,” he said. “This is premature for you to usurp the authority of the voters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo supervisors did not delay, adding the \u003ca href=\"https://smcacre.gov/elections/march-4-2025-special-election\">amendment measure to the March 2025 ballot\u003c/a>, with signatures from U.S. Reps. Anna Eshoo and Kevin Mullin, Supervisor Noelia Corzo and the heads of the two unions representing deputies and sergeants in the San Mateo Sheriff’s Office in favor of her removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eliot Storch, secretary of the San Mateo County Deputy Sheriff’s Association, said the union is supporting the amendment through its political action committee, \u003ca href=\"https://www.almanacnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Law-Enforcement-Against-Corruption-by-San-Mateo-Deputy-Sheriffs-Association_fppc410_201_09-12-2024.pdf\">Law Enforcement Against Corruption\u003c/a>. He expects people to turn out to vote, even though they just went through a presidential election cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t something that’s a distant thing in Washington, D.C. This is something right here,” Storch said. “The people who live here and who interact with the sheriff’s office and our deputies and correctional officers, they’re the ones who are affected by this, and so we want them to understand what’s going on, why Sheriff Corpus’ behavior is so bad and why she needs to be removed, and hope that they will then vote accordingly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Storch said people are still “holding out hope” that Corpus “will see the light” and resign before the amendment or recall are put to voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing the previous legal challenge out of San Bernardino County, the \u003ca href=\"https://scocablog.com/sheriff-removal-procedures/\">California Constitution Center in 2021\u003c/a> examined the ways counties can remove sheriffs and found a charter amendment with a four-fifths board vote and simultaneous recall is legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Multiple means of removing a sheriff are not conflicting, or mutually exclusive. So while general law counties must use the state’s existing recall procedure (and are probably limited to that remedy), charter counties… have far greater flexibility to use the recall or some other removal procedure. The bottom line is that California sheriffs are not exempt from removal before their term expires,” the center concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that rarely happens, as sheriffs can’t be recalled just for any reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015628\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 475px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015628\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/image1-e1732313039320.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/image1-e1732313039320.png 475w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/image1-e1732313039320-160x107.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A picture from retired Superior Court Judge LaDoris H. Cordell’s report shows President-elect Donald Trump posing for a photo with San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office Executive Director Victor Aenlle on Sept. 13, 2024.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Usually it’s some kind of dereliction of duty, or it has to be a violation of the oath of office, and that’s where a lot of recalls run into trouble,” Pishko said. “Most recalls are either for some kind of failure to investigate crime or the sheriff has lied about corruption. You don’t ever get a recall because the sheriff has been too violent, too tough, or has killed too many people or their officers are committing misconduct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her investigation, retired Judge LaDoris Cordell had \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/ceo/news/county-supervisors-consider-seeking-sheriffs-immediate-resignation-over-findings\">several sustained findings\u003c/a> against Corpus, including Corpus using racial and homophobic slurs in the workplace; she and her executive team engaging in retaliation and intimidation; and she and former Executive Director Victor Aenlle are in a romantic relationship that creates a conflict of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Recalling a California sheriff is a rare feat\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Mateo supervisors have also announced that a recall campaign against Corpus is underway, which will require about 46,000 signatures to get on the ballot. County officials estimate it wouldn’t be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016445/san-mateo-county-board-asks-voters-for-authority-to-remove-sheriff-christina-corpus\">until April 2026\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recall campaigns against sheriffs died due to a lack of signatures in both Shasta and Santa Cruz counties in 2012. An \u003ca href=\"https://recallelections.blogspot.com/2013/09/california-high-failure-rate-results-in.html\">analysis of a failed sheriff recall\u003c/a> in Lake County in 2013 found the most common reason signatures were invalidated — 8.6% of all signatures — was because the signee was not registered to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recall effort against San Francisco’s Mirkarimi was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Sheriff-Ross-Mirkarimi-recall-in-works-4018582.php#ixzz2BlSRiyKl\">hinted at in 2012\u003c/a> but never materialized, along with one \u003ca href=\"https://voicesofmontereybay.org/2021/02/26/bernal-target-of-recall/\">in Monterey County in 2021\u003c/a>, when Sheriff Steve Bernal chose to retire. Monterey County supervisors censured him over allegations he misused funds but, as a non-charter county, they couldn’t remove him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time citizens tried to recall a California sheriff was in Sonoma County in 2017. \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/sonoma-county-sheriff-steve-freitas-announces-early-retirement/\">Then-Sheriff Steve Freitas resigned\u003c/a>, citing medical issues, before the deadline for the recall to collect 35,000 valid signatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes sheriffs just resign rather than go through the process,” Pishko said. “If the situation is bad enough, the sheriff will simply resign and then no recall is necessary.”\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside tag='recall-election' label='More Recall Coverage']\u003c/span>A search of newspaper archives found just one successful recall campaign against a California sheriff. In December 1974, Plumas County Sheriff W.C. “Abby” Abernethy “retired” for six days before being sworn in for his sixth term, according to the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.newspapers.com/image/162352450/?match=1&terms=Sheriff%20W.C.%20%E2%80%9CAbby%E2%80%9D%20Abernethy%20recall\">Feather River Bulletin\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. The move allowed him to collect his pension while drawing a salary of $29,346 a year, $178,390 in today’s dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some taxpayers didn’t like the double-dipping, so they gathered the required 500 signatures to put the recall on a 1976 ballot. After 21 years in office, Abernethy was recalled, losing by just 2% of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spivak said it’s not surprising that there aren’t many recalls against sheriffs, because of two main reasons. One, there’s only 58 serving in the state at a time, compared to the thousands of people serving on school boards or city councils across the state, so other offices are more likely to face a recall based on sheer numbers alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The other problem is that, because there’s one sheriff, that means they’re elected by the whole county, so you need a lot more signatures,” he said. “You need just an enormous number of signatures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While San Mateo County officials have estimated they need 46,000 signatures to get Corpus’ recall onto a 2026 ballot, Spivak projects they should plan to gather around 54,000 if they want to be successful, as 20% of signatures submitted for recalls typically don’t meet the requirements and are tossed out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Timing of the election also impacts a recall’s success. Spivak said of the more than 1,000 recall elections in the U.S. since he began tracking them in 2011, 67% succeeded on a general or primary election day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spivak said San Mateo is right to use its authority as a charter county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That makes a lot of sense to go with a charter amendment,” he said. “If you can, it’s much easier and a lot less costly.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">S\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>an Mateo County supervisors are attempting a historic feat in the state: removing an elected sheriff via charter amendment and a simultaneous recall vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear whether both have been levied against a California sheriff before, but removing a county’s top law enforcement officer has rarely been successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County supervisors are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016688/san-mateo-county-will-ask-voters-for-power-to-remove-the-sheriff\">asking voters in March\u003c/a> to give them the temporary authority to remove Sheriff Christina Corpus two years into her first term after “unprecedented complaints.” An \u003ca href=\"https://sanmateocounty.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13544883&GUID=95923619-2B6F-477A-8684-CD64124A3BAA\">independent investigation\u003c/a> found the hallmarks of her administration weren’t the transparency and accountability she promised voters, but rather “lies, secrecy, intimidation, retaliation, conflicts of interest, and abuses of authority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corpus has remained steadfast that she would not step down, despite \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015360/embattled-san-mateo-county-sheriff-faces-mounting-calls-resign\">mounting calls for her to resign\u003c/a> from state and federal lawmakers, so county officials are taking a two-pronged approach to remove her before she’s up for re-election in 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recall elections in the Bay Area have been surprisingly successful in the last two election cycles, including the recalls of three school board members and District Attorney Chesa Boudin in San Francisco in 2022 and this year’s recall of Oakland Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sheng-thao\">Sheng Thao\u003c/a> and Alameda County District Attorney \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pamela-price\">Pamela Price\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is interesting about the sheriff is that, historically, recalls haven’t gone after law enforcement officials until now, until the DA recall,” said Joshua Spivak, a senior research fellow at Berkeley Law’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.berkeley.edu/research/california-constitution-center/\">California Constitution Center\u003c/a> and author of \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Recall-Elections-Alexander-Hamilton-Newsom/dp/B09DJ1BWN8\">\u003cem>Recall Elections: From Alexander Hamilton to Gavin Newsom\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But sheriffs across the country have largely been spared the wrath of a recall, namely because those campaigns have failed before making it to the ballot or, in some cases, the sheriff resigns before a vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sheriff recalls are actually so rare that it’s pretty hard to come up with a very consistent typology or information about recalls,” said Jessica Pishko, a journalist, attorney and author of \u003ca href=\"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707263/the-highest-law-in-the-land-by-jessica-pishko/\">\u003cem>The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike a recall, San Mateo required only a vote by its supervisors to place the amendment on the ballot. If approved by a simple majority of voters, the measure would grant supervisors the authority to remove Corpus with an 80% vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corpus was the first female and first Latina candidate for sheriff in county history. When she was elected in 2022, she became one of the first Latina sheriffs in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corpus did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ousting a sheriff by charter amendment\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2001, then-Attorney General Bill Lockyer \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/opinions/pdfs/01-408.pdf\">issued an opinion \u003c/a>affirming that supervisors in \u003ca href=\"https://www.counties.org/general-information/county-structure-0\">California’s 14 charter counties\u003c/a> — those with greater autonomy over their elections and elected officials — could adopt ordinances allowing for the removal of a sheriff, district attorney or other elected official for cause. The process requires a four-fifths vote by the county board after providing the impacted person written notice and a chance to respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following year, San Bernardino County, a charter county, did just that, and although its board didn’t try to use its new powers against him, Sheriff Gary Penrod asked a judge for an injunction. He alleged the move was an “unconstitutional ‘removal’ of the constitutionally mandated, elected sheriff” that could also interfere with investigative and prosecutorial functions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A legal battle ensued, ending up at the Fourth District Court of Appeals, where judges found in 2005 that the \u003ca href=\"https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ca-court-of-appeal/1445637.html\">ordinance was constitutional\u003c/a>. They didn’t, however, decide whether the majority board vote to remove the sheriff might violate the \u003ca href=\"https://porac.org/members/peace-officer-bill-of-rights/\">Peace Officers Bill of Rights\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently in 2022, Los Angeles County voters overwhelmingly \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Los_Angeles_County,_Measure_A,_Removal_of_Sheriff_for_Cause_Amendment_(November_2022)\">approved an identical charter amendment\u003c/a> to allow the board to remove a sheriff. Two years earlier, LA supervisors \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-31/supervisors-vote-remove-sheriff-emergency-operations\">removed Sheriff Alex Villanueva\u003c/a> as the head of the county’s emergency operations through a board vote due to several ongoing scandals, including a \u003ca href=\"https://knock-la.com/tradition-of-violence-lasd-gang-history/\">history of deputy gangs inside the department\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board vote ultimately was unnecessary, as Villanueva overwhelmingly lost his re-election bid to an internal challenger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11932401\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11932401\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1244809714-scaled-e1668610347274.jpg\" alt=\"Villanueva stands at a podium, his hands hold the sides of the podium and it appears as though he's bracing himself. The outgoing sheriff looks down, seemingly dejected.\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva details his accomplishments during a press conference at the Hall of Justice where he conceded the election to Robert Luna on Nov. 15, 2022. \u003ccite>(Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s charter has similar authority, requiring at least nine of the 11 supervisors to vote in favor of removing a sheriff or other public official for misconduct. A vote was brought against then-Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi in 2012 after he pleaded guilty of one count of misdemeanor false imprisonment of his wife. The city’s ethics commission \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/73516/does-mirkarimi-have-the-3-votes-he-needs-on-the-board-of-supervisors\">found that Mirkarimi committed official misconduct\u003c/a> and Mayor Ed Lee suspended him. Mirkarimi was ultimately reinstated when \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Ross-Mirkarimi-to-keep-job-supes-decide-3934169.php\">only seven supervisors voted in favor\u003c/a> of removing him permanently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Mateo County, Corpus has alleged she believes the board is overstepping its authority by asking voters to approve a charter amendment. An argument filed \u003ca href=\"https://smcacre.gov/media/7598/download?attachment\">against the measure\u003c/a> calls it “an illegal maneuver that will not survive a court challenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Dec. 2 meeting where the board approved putting the measure up for a special election, Thomas “Tip” Mazzucco, an attorney appearing on behalf of Corpus, asked the board for a delay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of uncertainty about the process. I ask that you continue this matter to protect the sheriff’s rights, because it’s the right thing to do,” he said. “This is premature for you to usurp the authority of the voters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo supervisors did not delay, adding the \u003ca href=\"https://smcacre.gov/elections/march-4-2025-special-election\">amendment measure to the March 2025 ballot\u003c/a>, with signatures from U.S. Reps. Anna Eshoo and Kevin Mullin, Supervisor Noelia Corzo and the heads of the two unions representing deputies and sergeants in the San Mateo Sheriff’s Office in favor of her removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eliot Storch, secretary of the San Mateo County Deputy Sheriff’s Association, said the union is supporting the amendment through its political action committee, \u003ca href=\"https://www.almanacnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Law-Enforcement-Against-Corruption-by-San-Mateo-Deputy-Sheriffs-Association_fppc410_201_09-12-2024.pdf\">Law Enforcement Against Corruption\u003c/a>. He expects people to turn out to vote, even though they just went through a presidential election cycle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t something that’s a distant thing in Washington, D.C. This is something right here,” Storch said. “The people who live here and who interact with the sheriff’s office and our deputies and correctional officers, they’re the ones who are affected by this, and so we want them to understand what’s going on, why Sheriff Corpus’ behavior is so bad and why she needs to be removed, and hope that they will then vote accordingly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Storch said people are still “holding out hope” that Corpus “will see the light” and resign before the amendment or recall are put to voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing the previous legal challenge out of San Bernardino County, the \u003ca href=\"https://scocablog.com/sheriff-removal-procedures/\">California Constitution Center in 2021\u003c/a> examined the ways counties can remove sheriffs and found a charter amendment with a four-fifths board vote and simultaneous recall is legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Multiple means of removing a sheriff are not conflicting, or mutually exclusive. So while general law counties must use the state’s existing recall procedure (and are probably limited to that remedy), charter counties… have far greater flexibility to use the recall or some other removal procedure. The bottom line is that California sheriffs are not exempt from removal before their term expires,” the center concluded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that rarely happens, as sheriffs can’t be recalled just for any reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015628\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 475px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015628\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/image1-e1732313039320.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/image1-e1732313039320.png 475w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/image1-e1732313039320-160x107.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A picture from retired Superior Court Judge LaDoris H. Cordell’s report shows President-elect Donald Trump posing for a photo with San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office Executive Director Victor Aenlle on Sept. 13, 2024.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Usually it’s some kind of dereliction of duty, or it has to be a violation of the oath of office, and that’s where a lot of recalls run into trouble,” Pishko said. “Most recalls are either for some kind of failure to investigate crime or the sheriff has lied about corruption. You don’t ever get a recall because the sheriff has been too violent, too tough, or has killed too many people or their officers are committing misconduct.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her investigation, retired Judge LaDoris Cordell had \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/ceo/news/county-supervisors-consider-seeking-sheriffs-immediate-resignation-over-findings\">several sustained findings\u003c/a> against Corpus, including Corpus using racial and homophobic slurs in the workplace; she and her executive team engaging in retaliation and intimidation; and she and former Executive Director Victor Aenlle are in a romantic relationship that creates a conflict of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Recalling a California sheriff is a rare feat\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Mateo supervisors have also announced that a recall campaign against Corpus is underway, which will require about 46,000 signatures to get on the ballot. County officials estimate it wouldn’t be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016445/san-mateo-county-board-asks-voters-for-authority-to-remove-sheriff-christina-corpus\">until April 2026\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recall campaigns against sheriffs died due to a lack of signatures in both Shasta and Santa Cruz counties in 2012. An \u003ca href=\"https://recallelections.blogspot.com/2013/09/california-high-failure-rate-results-in.html\">analysis of a failed sheriff recall\u003c/a> in Lake County in 2013 found the most common reason signatures were invalidated — 8.6% of all signatures — was because the signee was not registered to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recall effort against San Francisco’s Mirkarimi was \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Sheriff-Ross-Mirkarimi-recall-in-works-4018582.php#ixzz2BlSRiyKl\">hinted at in 2012\u003c/a> but never materialized, along with one \u003ca href=\"https://voicesofmontereybay.org/2021/02/26/bernal-target-of-recall/\">in Monterey County in 2021\u003c/a>, when Sheriff Steve Bernal chose to retire. Monterey County supervisors censured him over allegations he misused funds but, as a non-charter county, they couldn’t remove him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time citizens tried to recall a California sheriff was in Sonoma County in 2017. \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/sonoma-county-sheriff-steve-freitas-announces-early-retirement/\">Then-Sheriff Steve Freitas resigned\u003c/a>, citing medical issues, before the deadline for the recall to collect 35,000 valid signatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes sheriffs just resign rather than go through the process,” Pishko said. “If the situation is bad enough, the sheriff will simply resign and then no recall is necessary.”\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/span>A search of newspaper archives found just one successful recall campaign against a California sheriff. In December 1974, Plumas County Sheriff W.C. “Abby” Abernethy “retired” for six days before being sworn in for his sixth term, according to the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.newspapers.com/image/162352450/?match=1&terms=Sheriff%20W.C.%20%E2%80%9CAbby%E2%80%9D%20Abernethy%20recall\">Feather River Bulletin\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. The move allowed him to collect his pension while drawing a salary of $29,346 a year, $178,390 in today’s dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some taxpayers didn’t like the double-dipping, so they gathered the required 500 signatures to put the recall on a 1976 ballot. After 21 years in office, Abernethy was recalled, losing by just 2% of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spivak said it’s not surprising that there aren’t many recalls against sheriffs, because of two main reasons. One, there’s only 58 serving in the state at a time, compared to the thousands of people serving on school boards or city councils across the state, so other offices are more likely to face a recall based on sheer numbers alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The other problem is that, because there’s one sheriff, that means they’re elected by the whole county, so you need a lot more signatures,” he said. “You need just an enormous number of signatures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While San Mateo County officials have estimated they need 46,000 signatures to get Corpus’ recall onto a 2026 ballot, Spivak projects they should plan to gather around 54,000 if they want to be successful, as 20% of signatures submitted for recalls typically don’t meet the requirements and are tossed out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Timing of the election also impacts a recall’s success. Spivak said of the more than 1,000 recall elections in the U.S. since he began tracking them in 2011, 67% succeeded on a general or primary election day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spivak said San Mateo is right to use its authority as a charter county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Muni is faster and more frequent and more reliable than it has been in decades,” Tumlin told KQED. “I have such an incredible crew at the MTA who’s ready to step it up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tumlin stepped into the role in 2019 and has steered the public transportation agency through \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014573/sf-muni-dire-need-funding-without-cuts-could-be-devastating\">one of its worst fiscal crises\u003c/a> in recent history. Despite recent improvements in ridership after a steep drop-off during the pandemic, SFMTA is facing a nearly $300 million deficit starting in 2026 after state and federal relief is exhausted — leaving a major problem in the lap of Tumlin’s successor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every single one of Muni’s main sources of revenue has declined as a result of work from home, particularly our downtown parking garage revenue,” Tumlin said of what’s driving the fiscal crisis. “I would argue there is no path for economic recovery in San Francisco without a strong Muni.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA is working on a regional ballot measure for 2026 to fund public transit across the nine Bay Area counties. 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He added that the cable cars are too important to the city’s tourist economy to take them off the streets and vowed the 151-year-old system is “here to stay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie made no comment on the other measures under discussion at the SFMTA, including shutting down more than 20 bus lines and reducing the frequency of service systemwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two further meetings of the Muni Funding Working Group have been canceled since Lurie’s comments on the cable cars.[aside postID=news_12015011 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/MUNI-with-GBUS.png']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tumlin, meanwhile, has said his ultimate goal is to avoid service cuts and continue to rebuild and improve Muni’s service, which was scaled back during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jeff has been a leader in building infrastructure, improving Muni operations, and making the hard decisions when necessary for our city as we grow,” Mayor London Breed said in a statement on Thursday night. “MTA is a challenging department to run, and I want to thank Jeff for leading this Department and serving our city through the difficult years of the pandemic and after to get us where we are today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tumlin plans to appoint Julie Kirschbaum, the agency’s director of transit, to take over as interim director after his contract expires on Dec. 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie will be tasked with naming a permanent replacement for Tumlin, who found himself a target in the mayoral campaign when Mark Farrell and Ahsha Safaí said they would fire the SFMTA boss if elected. They blamed him for controversial projects like the ill-fated center bike lane on Valencia Street in the Mission District, which prompted one local business owner to go on a hunger strike and several others to launch an online petition before the SFMTA board \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014765/sfs-controversial-valencia-street-center-bike-lane-poised-for-redesign\">voted to nix the pilot project\u003c/a> last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also became a frequent target of autonomous vehicle evangelists, like Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan, who \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/garrytan/status/1792081328009290005?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1792081328009290005%7Ctwgr%5Edb0391764d7618ebce3aaf93a0bcc40fa752184a%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsfstandard.com%2F2024%2F05%2F28%2Fsan-francisco-transportation-jeff-tumlin-hot-seat%2F\">posted on X that Tumlin should be fired\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of Tumlin, who ardently backed alternatives to private vehicles such as public transit and bicycling infrastructure, celebrated his five-year term after his announcement on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been a daily Muni rider for 27 years, and under Jeff’s leadership, Muni is better than it’s ever been during that time period,” said State Sen. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> police have blown through approved overtime budgets in the past five years, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25453350-121224-performance-audit-of-police-dept-overtime/\">audit\u003c/a> released Thursday by the Budget and Legislative Analyst Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The findings come as San Francisco faces a nearly $800 million budget deficit and looming cuts across city departments and after the Board of Supervisors in 2023 approved an additional $25 million for police overtime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overtime spending nearly tripled in the audit period, reaching a staggering $108.4 million in the 2022–23 fiscal year, according to the report, which was requested by Supervisor Dean Preston, who chairs the Government Audit and Oversight Committee. It also shows that overtime for special events and backfill, in particular, ballooned 592% from fiscal year 2018–19 to 2022–23.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPD has a total budget of approximately $821 million, up nearly $200 million since 2020. However, a relatively small proportion of staff have clocked the majority of overtime hours. In fiscal year 2022–23, just 209 (12%) of sworn officers who worked overtime accounted for nearly one-third of SFPD’s total overtime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“SFPD does not adequately control staff use of overtime or monitor and enforce established overtime limits,” the report reads. “Overall, we found a lack of both internal and external accountability for overtime limit violations and excessive overtime at SFPD. The Department has not taken sufficient steps to enforce its overtime limits, and violations typically do not result in consequences or corrective action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a written response to the audit, Chief Bill Scott said that the use of overtime in SFPD “is directly tied to the current understaffing of the Department,” which he said is short by at least 274 officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a necessary stopgap measure, the SFPD has been using overtime to backfill our patrol and investigation units to ensure San Francisco remains one of the safest cities in the country,” Paulina Henderson, SFPD’s public information officer, said in an email. “As we continue to rebuild our ranks, overtime hours will decrease, saving the city money and giving our incredibly hard-working officers a much-needed break.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report not only highlights the vast increase in overtime costs but also “potential abuse patterns” over how officers are taking sick and injury-related leave. Sick leave used by SFPD officers increased by 77% in the five years the audit reviewed, which overlapped with the COVID-19 pandemic. The report suggests that officers were more likely to use sick days on weekends “to avoid weekend duties” and that “SFPD did not enforce existing absenteeism policies or adequately monitor attendance during the audit scope period.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sick leave is directly tied to overtime use because SFPD must backfill positions when officers are unable to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Excessive overtime hours pose risks to public safety and officer health … and may generate unnecessary financial costs for the City,” the report reads. “SFPD must improve its oversight, reporting, and compliance with overtime policies to mitigate the risks associated with excessive overtime, including increased liability, impaired officer decision-making, and other negative health and public safety impacts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Auditors also took a look at two specific initiatives where the police department has relied on overtime spending to increase police presence in a designated area. Those include the Union Square Safe Shopper Initiative and the Tenderloin Triangle Initiative. In both cases, the additional overtime led to no significant improvement in 911 response times or overall crime trends, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston, who called for the audit in 2023, slammed SFPD for weak oversight and urged incoming supervisors to follow through on efforts to ensure police spending is lawful and efficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew it was bad, but not this bad,” Preston said in an email statement. “The violation of laws and contracts, the lack of oversight, and the abuse of overtime are alarming and require immediate intervention and oversight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Bay Area is bracing for a quadfecta of environmental conditions this week — heavy rain, strong winds, high surf and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014611/king-tide-back-bay-area-heres-what-you-can-expect#:~:text=%E2%80%9CKing%20tide%E2%80%9D%20is%20not%20a,feet%20at%205:38%20p.m.\">king tides\u003c/a> — that will create blustery conditions and potential flooding across the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like everything all at once,” said Nicole Sarment, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Bay Area office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Wednesday night brought moderate rain, Sarment said the Bay Area will get a short reprieve before a larger, windy, wet storm settles over the region late Friday through Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarment foresees flooding due to heavy rain, high surf and king tides. Starting Friday, according to the weather service’s \u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?format=ci&glossary=1&issuedby=mtr&product=afd&site=mtr&version=1\">online forecast discussion\u003c/a>, “there are going to be poor conditions everywhere, especially on the water or at the beach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The storm door is now opening up for us,” said Rick Canepa, a meteorologist with the weather service’s Bay Area office. “We’re still in the early stages of the winter season. So it’s a bit of a tough call, but there’s plenty of potential ahead of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016722\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016722\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241122_NorcalStorm_GC-15_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241122_NorcalStorm_GC-15_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241122_NorcalStorm_GC-15_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241122_NorcalStorm_GC-15_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241122_NorcalStorm_GC-15_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241122_NorcalStorm_GC-15_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241122_NorcalStorm_GC-15_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rohnert Park Expressway flooded due to heavy rainfall during an atmospheric river storm affecting the Bay Area on Nov. 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lowland parts of the region will likely receive about an inch of rain during the 24-hour storm, but the North Bay is of top concern because up to 5 inches of rain could fall at the highest elevations, Sarment said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The North Bay just got hammered with an atmospheric river a few weeks ago, so their soils are a lot more saturated,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saturated soil is unable to absorb as much rainwater, leading to more runoff during a heavy storm and raising the flood risk for rivers, streams and roadways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12016813 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs14-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A flood watch is in effect from 2 p.m. Friday through Saturday afternoon for the North Bay. Three Sonoma County waterways could flood: Laguna de Santa Rosa, the Russian River and Mark West Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If a thunderstorm or really heavy showers were to develop, that poses a risk for flooding,” Sarment said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King tides — caused by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1955598/king-tides-are-here-why-they-happen-and-what-they-teach-us\">a stronger than normal gravitational pull\u003c/a> when the sun, moon and Earth align — could push water up the coast and bayshore with high-tide levels between \u003ca href=\"https://www.coastal.ca.gov/kingtides/participate.html#tidemap\">5 and 12 feet through Monday\u003c/a>. On top of the higher tides, the weather service has issued a high surf advisory from 1 p.m. Thursday through 4 p.m. Saturday with large breaking waves on the order of 18 to 22 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because the tide overall is going to be higher, those bigger waves will be able to run up the beach farther,” Sarment said. “Overall, it’s not going to be a good weekend to go out and about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The higher tides increase flooding risk in places like San Francisco’s Embarcadero and the Mill Valley–Sausalito Bike Path in Marin County. The highest tides could reach nearly 12 feet on Saturday north of San José’s bayshore community of Alviso, according to the California King Tides Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Coastal Commission asks the public \u003ca href=\"https://www.coastal.ca.gov/kingtides/#:~:text=The%20next%20California%20King%20Tide,December%2013%2D15%2C%202024.&text=Sign%20up%20to%20receive%20email,the%20highest%20tides%20of%20today.\">to submit photos of waves and rising groundwater\u003c/a> during this weekend’s king tides. The images will be used by climate scientists and government officials “to validate sea level rise models and assess local vulnerabilities to erosion and flooding,” the commission wrote in a press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conditions will improve on Sunday before a third round of rain moves through the Bay Area on Monday, but Sarment said impacts from next week’s system look minor so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is some good news for the not-so-distant future: After next week’s storm, she said, the region will “have better weather” just in time for the Christmas holiday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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The mergers, which would \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013739/oakland-school-board-spurns-campus-closures-plans-merge-some-schools-instead\">combine 10 small schools that share five campuses\u003c/a>, could save $3 million, according to the district — leaving significant cuts to be made as OUSD faces a possible backslide into total state control.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board did pass a resolution on Wednesday, giving the district permission to implement more than two dozen other cost-cutting measures into the 2025–26 budget to try to bridge that nearly hundred-million-dollar gap, though it represents only an initial step and no confirmed cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the long list of budget-balancing proposals from district staff, the school merger plan was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014397/parents-teachers-say-oakland-school-mergers-could-hurt-students-in-the-flatlands\">especially unpopular with families and school employees\u003c/a>, who worried it would disproportionately hurt low-income schools and remove specialized programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The proposals, past and present … are not OK. They are not inclusive of our families and our students,” said parent Elizabeth Knight, whose child is in transitional kindergarten at International Community School, one of the schools that would have merged. “If the district’s vision to reduce the footprint is to get every elementary school to 500-plus students, say this transparently without jargon. And include the schools that are not under-resourced, that are not serving majority socio-economically disadvantaged students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017852\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017852\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Unified School District Board listens to public comment during a meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. Students, families, educators, and community members raised their concerns about a proposed merger of their schools. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After hearing from emotional students, parents and staff members, no board member made a motion to vote on the item.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There has been no motion, so there is no vote, and this will not happen,” Board President Sam Davis told the packed board room. “This will not move forward. There’s nothing happening on the mergers tonight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The newly elected school board could return to some version of the merger proposal in January after it is sworn in, though the plan likely won’t gain any more support. Davis, one of the strongest advocates for the mergers, will depart the board after this term. Rachel Latta, who will fill his seat, and Patrice Berry, who will represent District 5, have both been skeptical of the effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday wasn’t the first time that school closures, posited as a cost-saving measure for the district as it battles low enrollment and rising costs, have been kicked down the road in OUSD. In 2021, a plan to shutter 11 campuses — which spurred widespread outrage and even a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11905982/how-dare-you-oakland-school-closure-decision-inspires-new-opposition-efforts\">hunger strike by two staff members\u003c/a> — was reversed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017855\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017855\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-012.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-012-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-012-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-012-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-012-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-012-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Navie Davis, 14, becomes emotional as she makes a public comment to the Oakland Unified School District Board about a proposed merger during a meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Board member Mike Hutchinson, who led the effort to reverse the earlier school closures, did not appear at the dais until after discussion of the mergers ended on Wednesday. He has also been vocally opposed to this year’s proposal for school closures, which was initially a more robust plan to shutter campuses in addition to the mergers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis, who supported the wider closure plan, said a larger list of campus consolidations presented to board members by Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell was dropped due to a lack of support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11726682/why-does-oakland-have-so-many-small-schools.\">Oakland’s movement toward small schools\u003c/a> and declining enrollment, it is operating more schools than it needs to, according to the district. OUSD currently has 77 school sites, despite an efficiency analysis that suggested it should only have 46. Davis believes the true number that OUSD should maintain, considering equity and other factors, likely falls somewhere in the middle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the consolidation plan won’t go forward as of now, district staff warned the board that there isn’t time to push off deep and likely painful cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017853\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017853\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-029.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-029.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-029-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-029-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-029-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-029-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-029-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naija Garg, 8, attends the Oakland Unified School District Board Meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. The School Board took public comment on a proposed merger of ten different schools. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are a billion-dollar organization, which is why you have got to make billion-dollar organization decisions,” chief business officer Lisa Grant-Dawson said. “I don’t see it, and I’m very concerned about the darkness. I don’t see how we’re going to get there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district certified a negative budget on Wednesday, which indicates that if its spending remains as is, it will likely be unable to pay its expenses over the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, it is 18 months away from completing its final loan payment to the state and exiting state receivership. OUSD has been under state control since 2002, when it ran out of funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12017631 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SFUSDStudentsFamiliesGetty-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, OUSD has worked toward good financial standing and built up a strong reserve fund, but its growth has quickly turned into overspending, as wages and the community school model have driven up spending and pandemic relief funds dried up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2023, the board voted to give teachers a 10% raise after they \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949458/oakland-teachers-strike-ends-as-union-reaches-agreement-with-school-district\">went on a seven-day strike\u003c/a>. But without making necessary budget adjustments elsewhere, the district has been spending beyond its means to cover these new wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a crisis that we very intentionally created because we decided as a board that we absolutely needed to prioritize giving increased compensation to all of our employees because people are leaving education, costs are rising around the Bay Area,” Davis said. “We needed to give raises to all of our employees, even though we didn’t have the resources to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget-balancing proposal passed by the board on Wednesday gives the district permission to implement 30 outlined cost-cutting solutions into the 2025–26 budget. Those include centralizing contracts, both with service manufacturers — like those that provide copiers — and community agencies. Both have historically been managed by school sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other options are to reduce schools’ discretionary funding, potentially eliminating some positions and reducing the majority of overtime pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The motion passed with four votes. Board Directors VanCedric Williams, Valarie Bachelor and Davis dissented for differing reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the other cost-cutting measures, though, Johnson-Trammell said she believes school consolidations are only a matter of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t get to closing the deficit for good without addressing the number of schools we have,” she said. “This is math. This isn’t conjecture. There is not $95 million worth of investments, staff — support and central office — to get you out of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the long list of budget-balancing proposals from district staff, the school merger plan was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014397/parents-teachers-say-oakland-school-mergers-could-hurt-students-in-the-flatlands\">especially unpopular with families and school employees\u003c/a>, who worried it would disproportionately hurt low-income schools and remove specialized programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The proposals, past and present … are not OK. They are not inclusive of our families and our students,” said parent Elizabeth Knight, whose child is in transitional kindergarten at International Community School, one of the schools that would have merged. “If the district’s vision to reduce the footprint is to get every elementary school to 500-plus students, say this transparently without jargon. And include the schools that are not under-resourced, that are not serving majority socio-economically disadvantaged students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017852\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017852\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Unified School District Board listens to public comment during a meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. Students, families, educators, and community members raised their concerns about a proposed merger of their schools. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After hearing from emotional students, parents and staff members, no board member made a motion to vote on the item.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There has been no motion, so there is no vote, and this will not happen,” Board President Sam Davis told the packed board room. “This will not move forward. There’s nothing happening on the mergers tonight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The newly elected school board could return to some version of the merger proposal in January after it is sworn in, though the plan likely won’t gain any more support. Davis, one of the strongest advocates for the mergers, will depart the board after this term. Rachel Latta, who will fill his seat, and Patrice Berry, who will represent District 5, have both been skeptical of the effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday wasn’t the first time that school closures, posited as a cost-saving measure for the district as it battles low enrollment and rising costs, have been kicked down the road in OUSD. In 2021, a plan to shutter 11 campuses — which spurred widespread outrage and even a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11905982/how-dare-you-oakland-school-closure-decision-inspires-new-opposition-efforts\">hunger strike by two staff members\u003c/a> — was reversed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017855\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017855\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-012.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-012-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-012-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-012-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-012-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-012-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Navie Davis, 14, becomes emotional as she makes a public comment to the Oakland Unified School District Board about a proposed merger during a meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Board member Mike Hutchinson, who led the effort to reverse the earlier school closures, did not appear at the dais until after discussion of the mergers ended on Wednesday. He has also been vocally opposed to this year’s proposal for school closures, which was initially a more robust plan to shutter campuses in addition to the mergers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Davis, who supported the wider closure plan, said a larger list of campus consolidations presented to board members by Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell was dropped due to a lack of support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11726682/why-does-oakland-have-so-many-small-schools.\">Oakland’s movement toward small schools\u003c/a> and declining enrollment, it is operating more schools than it needs to, according to the district. OUSD currently has 77 school sites, despite an efficiency analysis that suggested it should only have 46. Davis believes the true number that OUSD should maintain, considering equity and other factors, likely falls somewhere in the middle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the consolidation plan won’t go forward as of now, district staff warned the board that there isn’t time to push off deep and likely painful cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017853\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017853\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-029.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-029.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-029-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-029-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-029-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-029-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-029-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naija Garg, 8, attends the Oakland Unified School District Board Meeting at La Escuelita Elementary School in Oakland on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. The School Board took public comment on a proposed merger of ten different schools. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are a billion-dollar organization, which is why you have got to make billion-dollar organization decisions,” chief business officer Lisa Grant-Dawson said. “I don’t see it, and I’m very concerned about the darkness. I don’t see how we’re going to get there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district certified a negative budget on Wednesday, which indicates that if its spending remains as is, it will likely be unable to pay its expenses over the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, it is 18 months away from completing its final loan payment to the state and exiting state receivership. OUSD has been under state control since 2002, when it ran out of funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Our staff is currently reviewing architectural plans that they submitted last week, so today’s closure announcement was surprising. We remain happy to facilitate their permitting process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrick Hannan, communications director for the Department of Building Inspection said the property has three open code violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are outstanding plumbing and electrical safety and installation code violations at this property. The building code represents the minimum legal safety standards for a structure,” Hannan said. “When a building isn’t meeting the minimum code standards, the Department of Building Inspection requires the property owner to fix it so it’s safe for people to occupy. That’s what we are doing here. There is no outstanding building code violation requiring structural work, just electrical and plumbing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the church’s San Francisco location opened on Wednesday, members expressed sadness at its impending closure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I use psilocybin for various purposes, number one being recreation, but also focus and giving myself like a little more clarity or lucidity in my days when I need a little push,” said 33-year-old Jake Winkelman of Oakland. “I really appreciate having a safe place where I can have a lot of control in what I’m getting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kyle Richard, 38, drove in from Chico and said the church has helped him treat his depression and anxiety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ I used to be on a lot of anti-anxiety and depression medications, and through microdosing, I’ve been able to get rid of the pharmaceuticals, which I am not a fan of,” Richard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hodges said the biggest impact of Zide Door’s closing will be on the people who live in the neighborhood, which is one of the city’s hotspots in its drug and housing crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The church’s presence, with 24/7 security, has been positive for the immediate surroundings, Hodges said, noting that church staff have reversed overdoses using Narcan, passed out water to those in need and provided surveillance footage to police investigating crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anytime that we see something where we can intervene and get somebody the help they need, we’ve been able to do it. 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But other campaigns with big tech money behind them, like efforts to elect a more right-leaning mayor or to unseat progressive Supervisor Connie Chan, fell flat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mixed outcomes show the limits of campaign spending in local politics, but political analysts and campaign finance experts say that won’t stop billionaires from trying in San Francisco and, increasingly, in other cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They realize that they have skin in the game even at the local level, and it behooves them to try and have candidates on these city councils or county board of supervisors that are friendly to their policy views,” said Sean McMorris, who leads the transparency, ethics and accountability program at California Common Cause. “You will see it, I believe, in bigger cities where there are more opportunities for special interests to increase their bottom lines.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley power players have poured money into local elections for decades. But political analysts and grassroots organizers say tech and cryptocurrency billionaires’ spending went even further this past election cycle, which brought in more than $62 million in total donations. Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie raised about $16 million — about half of which was self-funded — making his campaign the most expensive in the city’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Larsen, an early donor for Mayor London Breed who co-founded the cryptocurrency company Ripple Labs, donated more than $1 million to San Francisco races this year, largely into a PAC supporting the mayor created by the Abundance Network, a YIMBY (Yes In My Backyard) political organizing group. Started in San Francisco in 2022, the Abundance Network has expanded to Oakland, Santa Monica and has plans to grow into New York City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed lost her bid for a second term to philanthropist Daniel Lurie, but Larsen’s investments paid off in the local supervisor race for District 5, where he donated $50,000 to a PAC started by GrowSF, another moderate political organizing group working to unseat the board’s sole Democratic Socialist, Dean Preston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What was absolutely clear was the huge amount of spending in our race by tech millionaires and billionaires against progressive candidates. That was certainly the case in District 5,” Preston told KQED. “It was much more of just a negative attack disinformation campaign on me rather than propping up a different candidate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political watchdogs digesting this year’s election are seeing similar efforts across the Bay and nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coinbase’s Jesse Pollak helped the Abundance Network raise nearly $500,000 to back a moderate slate of candidates for city council in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, a Super PAC backed by crypto industry leaders spent nearly $10 million on ads against Katie Porter’s run for Senate. The progressive candidate lost to fellow Democrat Adam Schiff in the March primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, Silicon Valley poured more than $394.1 million into the presidential election this year, according to the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/07/campaign-spending-crypto-tech-influence\">Guardian\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. While most came from Elon Musk supporting Donald Trump, players like Larsen, who donated about $13 million to Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign, also made a significant contribution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ripple and Coinbase specifically are two cryptocurrency companies spending on the local level and people connected to them directly are pushing big money behind local politics,” said Jeremy Mack, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.phoenixprojectnow.com/\">Phoenix Project\u003c/a>, a nonprofit tracking money and influence in San Francisco politics. “Those two companies also ended up becoming the two biggest backers of nationwide cryptocurrency PACs that spent huge on elections across the country, largely both to unseat progressives and get the Republicans elected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Abundance Network and GrowSF are just a few of the political organizing groups that have sprung up in San Francisco since the pandemic, tapping into some residents’ frustration over the city’s struggles with homelessness, a drug overdose crisis and crime. Others included TogetherSF, backed by tech billionaire Michael Moritz, and Stop Crime SF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the 2024 election cycle, tech leaders like Garry Tan, CEO of Y-Combinator and a board member of GrowSF, got directly involved with local political action and messaging. Tan became a prominent critic of Preston on social media, along with Musk, who notably called for the supervisor to be \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1709236386841170389?s=20\">“thrown in prison” on social media platform X\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But tech money alone didn’t sway voters. Nancy Tung, who was elected chair of the San Francisco Democratic Party this spring as part of the board’s shift to a moderate-majority, points to how Supervisor Chan held her seat with big donations from organized labor, defeating efforts from GrowSF and TogetherSF to replace Chan with a moderate Democrat, Marjan Philhour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is big money on both sides,” Tung told \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017320/s-f-democratic-partys-nancy-tung-on-steering-the-party-toward-the-middle\">KQED’s Political Breakdown\u003c/a>. “The misconception is that there is money being spent only on one side. Really what it is, is that voters decide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrat Bilal Mahmood, who unseated Preston, said the outcome came down to messaging and voters wanting change.[aside tag=\"politics,crypto\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]“Money was not the deciding factor of who won or lost in this race,” Mahmood told KQED. “[Preston] lost because his messaging was out of touch with what the district wanted. There’s now people in tech who are involved at the grassroots level, and that’s on both sides as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big donors themselves did not agree on candidates across the board, another reason why some efforts succeeded and others didn’t in San Francisco, said progressive political consultant Jim Ross.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you look at that District 5 race, they were able to use their money to back a new candidate and get people to knock on doors and develop strong messaging that was compelling to people in that district,” Ross said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, the rapid emergence of so many political groups at the local level in San Francisco was unique this election, Ross added. “In the past, we had one or two, but it seems like every day there was a new billionaire-backed political action committee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McMorris of Common Cause and others say strengthening campaign finance laws could help level the playing field as elections grow expensive and candidates increasingly have to navigate disinformation campaigns from special interest groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Really, the worst lesson tech billionaires will draw from [this election] is that funding massive disinformation campaigns against progressives works,” Preston said. “Progressives will need to be prepared for that and need to battle more on rebutting disinformation early and making sure that allies and progressive donors step up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: This story has been updated to reflect the total amount of campaign donations this past election cycle.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They realize that they have skin in the game even at the local level, and it behooves them to try and have candidates on these city councils or county board of supervisors that are friendly to their policy views,” said Sean McMorris, who leads the transparency, ethics and accountability program at California Common Cause. “You will see it, I believe, in bigger cities where there are more opportunities for special interests to increase their bottom lines.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley power players have poured money into local elections for decades. But political analysts and grassroots organizers say tech and cryptocurrency billionaires’ spending went even further this past election cycle, which brought in more than $62 million in total donations. Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie raised about $16 million — about half of which was self-funded — making his campaign the most expensive in the city’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Larsen, an early donor for Mayor London Breed who co-founded the cryptocurrency company Ripple Labs, donated more than $1 million to San Francisco races this year, largely into a PAC supporting the mayor created by the Abundance Network, a YIMBY (Yes In My Backyard) political organizing group. Started in San Francisco in 2022, the Abundance Network has expanded to Oakland, Santa Monica and has plans to grow into New York City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed lost her bid for a second term to philanthropist Daniel Lurie, but Larsen’s investments paid off in the local supervisor race for District 5, where he donated $50,000 to a PAC started by GrowSF, another moderate political organizing group working to unseat the board’s sole Democratic Socialist, Dean Preston.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What was absolutely clear was the huge amount of spending in our race by tech millionaires and billionaires against progressive candidates. That was certainly the case in District 5,” Preston told KQED. “It was much more of just a negative attack disinformation campaign on me rather than propping up a different candidate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Political watchdogs digesting this year’s election are seeing similar efforts across the Bay and nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coinbase’s Jesse Pollak helped the Abundance Network raise nearly $500,000 to back a moderate slate of candidates for city council in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, a Super PAC backed by crypto industry leaders spent nearly $10 million on ads against Katie Porter’s run for Senate. The progressive candidate lost to fellow Democrat Adam Schiff in the March primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationally, Silicon Valley poured more than $394.1 million into the presidential election this year, according to the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/07/campaign-spending-crypto-tech-influence\">Guardian\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. While most came from Elon Musk supporting Donald Trump, players like Larsen, who donated about $13 million to Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign, also made a significant contribution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ripple and Coinbase specifically are two cryptocurrency companies spending on the local level and people connected to them directly are pushing big money behind local politics,” said Jeremy Mack, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.phoenixprojectnow.com/\">Phoenix Project\u003c/a>, a nonprofit tracking money and influence in San Francisco politics. “Those two companies also ended up becoming the two biggest backers of nationwide cryptocurrency PACs that spent huge on elections across the country, largely both to unseat progressives and get the Republicans elected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Abundance Network and GrowSF are just a few of the political organizing groups that have sprung up in San Francisco since the pandemic, tapping into some residents’ frustration over the city’s struggles with homelessness, a drug overdose crisis and crime. Others included TogetherSF, backed by tech billionaire Michael Moritz, and Stop Crime SF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the 2024 election cycle, tech leaders like Garry Tan, CEO of Y-Combinator and a board member of GrowSF, got directly involved with local political action and messaging. Tan became a prominent critic of Preston on social media, along with Musk, who notably called for the supervisor to be \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1709236386841170389?s=20\">“thrown in prison” on social media platform X\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But tech money alone didn’t sway voters. Nancy Tung, who was elected chair of the San Francisco Democratic Party this spring as part of the board’s shift to a moderate-majority, points to how Supervisor Chan held her seat with big donations from organized labor, defeating efforts from GrowSF and TogetherSF to replace Chan with a moderate Democrat, Marjan Philhour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is big money on both sides,” Tung told \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017320/s-f-democratic-partys-nancy-tung-on-steering-the-party-toward-the-middle\">KQED’s Political Breakdown\u003c/a>. “The misconception is that there is money being spent only on one side. Really what it is, is that voters decide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrat Bilal Mahmood, who unseated Preston, said the outcome came down to messaging and voters wanting change.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:18 p.m. Monday \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Oakland faces significant cuts to police and fire services and dozens of potential layoffs, the City Council is considering budget amendments to alleviate a growing deficit and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015103/oakland-is-at-risk-of-financial-insolvency-is-bankruptcy-on-the-table\">avoid a fiscal emergency\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a council meeting on Monday, City Administrator Jestin Johnson shared cuts that are already being initiated, including fire station brownouts and potential layoffs of more than 90 employees, and requested that council members reallocate additional city funds to patch a $130 million budget deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s shortfall has ballooned thanks to overspending by public safety departments and a delay of funds from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010521/oaklands-fiscal-crisis-budget-cuts-coming-even-with-coliseum-sale\">sale of Oakland’s Coliseum ownership stake\u003c/a>. The shortfall also includes almost $30 million in funds pulled from emergency reserves to cover last year’s costs, which it must replace by July or be forced to declare a fiscal emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson shared a two-phase plan to re-balance the budget, which includes the first cuts to public safety departments since Oakland started paring down its budget in September. The fire chief is preparing for brownouts, or rotating closures, of two fire stations immediately, according to a report from Johnson last week. That will make three fire stations out of commission since one is currently closed for repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to look back three people from me in this line,” said Seth Olyer, the vice president of the firefighters’ union, standing in a long line of public commenters at Monday’s meeting. “At the end of my [one minute] time and [their time], that’s when the first fire engine would show up, without any cuts while besides the cut we already have. When you call the next batch of speakers — after your six or seven proposed closures — that’s when the fire engine will show up. I want all of you to hold your breath for that time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Department — one of the biggest spenders of city money — must now get written approval from the mayor’s office and city administrator for foreseeable overtime, Johnson said. Two police academies planned for the remainder of the fiscal year will also be canceled, and the agency will pause some specialized departments, like recruiting, and reallocate their resources to patrol and other necessities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017328\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017328\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/OaklandPoliceDepartment2-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Police Department on Nov. 12, 2016. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These cuts will save the city an estimated $37.6 million, but Johnson said the council will need to make additional funding reallocations to bring the budget into balance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council will decide next week whether to move more than $22 million in restricted funds to the city’s general purpose fund, which pays for essential services like public safety, public works, and administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They will also vote on transferring an excess of about $10 million in the emergency reserve to the general purpose fund. City policy requires it to maintain its emergency reserve at least 7.5% — last year’s failure to do so added almost $30 million to the deficit, and will require declaring a fiscal emergency if it isn’t replaced by July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council voted 6-1 to preliminarily approve one part of the reallocation plan which transfers $5.7 million set aside for affordable housing to the general purpose fund on Monday. That ordinance requires two readings, and will come before the council again for final approval next Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While multiple council members worried about cutting housing funds in the face of the city’s homelessness crisis, all but Councilmember Noel Gallo voted in favor. Councilmember Dan Kalb amended the ordinance to ensure at least half of the money continues to go toward affordable housing in future years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Together, these actions will recover $104 million for the general purpose fund, but the remaining $16 million will require a second phase of cuts by the city administrator’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four more fire stations could face brownouts, and about 92 full-time equivalent employees will be laid off across most city departments, the majority of whom are in the Public Works, Police and Human Services departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11957276\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230802-OAKLAND-CITY-HALL-MHN-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland City Hall in downtown Oakland on Aug. 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Public Works will lose around 30 positions, the Police Department will cut 18 non-sworn employees and Human Services will reduce 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with the staff reductions, January’s planned cuts include defunding the city’s cultural arts grant program. That’s after the city reduced funding to a new \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13969048/oakland-film-rebate-program-budget-cuts\">film rebate program\u003c/a> — meant to encourage more local production of successful films like \u003cem>Fruitvale Station \u003c/em>in Oakland — in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12016715 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/LakeMerrittBARTGetty-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 100 people lined the City Hall chambers to urge council members to come up with the money another way. Many expressed concern that taking from the city’s notable arts community would only further deplete revenue and make fewer people interested in visiting or moving to Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Culture and arts aren’t just hobbies, they’re an economic driver,” said Miguel Lopez, the executive director of Peralta Hacienda Historical Park. “Last year, Oakland saw 3.4 million visitors. They spent over $600 million, generating a total economic impact of over $800 million. They supported over 505,500 jobs and generated $90 million in state and local taxes. These budgets are small compared to other departments, but their impact are enormous by visitors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the second phase of cuts doesn’t require council approval, council members can avoid them by renegotiating contracts with labor partners, like the police and fire unions, or declaring a fiscal emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council will vote on reallocating restricted funds next Tuesday. Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016605/oakland-special-election-mess-after-mayoral-recall-heres-why\">will leave the council in January\u003c/a> after her recent election to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, said she and her fellow council members are committed to leaving new leadership, which will be sworn in next month, in a healthy fiscal position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are planning to make sure that we take action by the end of the calendar year and set up our new city leadership for success,” she said. “I look forward to continuing to work with the administration, the mayor’s office and the City Council to ensure that we have the leadership necessary to make these hard choices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the council does not come up with an alternative to the second phase of proposed cuts, though, they will take effect in the new year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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