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Half of the money would go toward long-term fixes, like supportive housing, while the other half would go toward more immediate assistance, like shelters, mental health services and rental assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just got this massive tax break from [President] Trump. The corporate rate went from 35 percent all the way down to 21 percent,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness, which sponsored the measure. “In order to address the systemic crises we need ongoing revenue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As thousands of people sleep on the street each night, most San Franciscans would be quick to name homelessness as a top issue facing the city. Less clear is what voters are willing to do to address the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last two ballot measures that proposed a tax hike to raise money for the homeless — a 2016 sales tax increase and a real estate tax on the ballot last June — both failed. Proposition C differs because it would dedicate all the revenue it raises to homeless programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’ve seen in the past is tinkering, and I don’t think voters have a lot of patience for that,” said Friedenbach. “They want to see big change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYKxFrMkzKA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s estimated that 300 to 400 companies would pay the Proposition C tax hike. 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The cloud computing giant has donated $4.7 million to the Yes on C campaign, with another $1 million coming from CEO Marc Benioff. 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And there’s those who won’t give at all no matter what.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Implied in that second group was Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who Benioff traded jabs with over Proposition C. Dorsey argued that his company Square will be hurt more by the tax increase than Salesforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/jack/status/1053312148317716480\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Lyft and Macy’s joined Square to donate to the No on Prop. C campaign. It didn’t make much of a dent. 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If Proposition C passes and doubles the city’s homeless budget, it will likely be Breed — not Benioff or the homeless advocates who wrote the measure — who will be judged for its results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to make sure that I’m being held accountable for the decisions I make,” she said. “Not the decisions that other people are making.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there’s a chance the heated debate over Proposition C could actually stretch past November. Supporters are hoping that a recent state Supreme Court ruling will allow the citizens’ initiative to pass with a majority vote. Historically, local measures that directed funding to a specific source, like homeless services, required a two-thirds vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tax measures in Mountain View and East Palo Alto have come with significantly fewer political fireworks, but also reflect a shift toward demanding greater corporate responsibility to take on the Bay Area’s vexing housing and transportation problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11647955\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11647955 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS378_Google_082411-800x504.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"504\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign is posted outside Google headquarters Jan. 21, 2010, in Mountain View, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Measure HH in East Palo Alto would tax large commercial office space at a rate of $2.50 per square foot to pay for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters are hoping to capitalize on the recent growth of Amazon in the city, and Facebook’s expansion in nearby Menlo Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just trying to protect our community and have a fair share that will improve the lives of more people,” said Mayor Ruben Abrica. “We’re also trying to be proactive because we know that other development is going to take place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mountain View’s tax is more heavily directed toward a single company: Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed “head tax” in Measure P would tax companies for each employee, with larger companies paying higher rates. Revenue from the tax will go to the general fund, with the promise that it will be used for transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tax is expected to raise $6 million annually, with more than half coming from Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google is not opposing the tax increase, and Mountain View Mayor Lenny Siegel said the search giant has been quick to assist with issues like homelessness in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re a good corporate citizen but we can’t bond against their donations,” he told \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101866893/election-2018-bay-area-cities-to-vote-on-taxing-big-business\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED’s Forum\u003c/a>. “So the tax will allow us to bond so that we can build the infrastructure that allows Google employees to get from Caltrain to the Googleplex.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700919/sen-feinstein-calls-out-s-f-tech-ceos-for-lack-of-civic-engagement\">Sen. Dianne Feinstein Calls Out S.F. Tech CEOs for Lack of Civic Engagement\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700919/sen-feinstein-calls-out-s-f-tech-ceos-for-lack-of-civic-engagement\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/RS33368_102318_AW_DianeFeinstein_03-1180x787.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The demand for more investment from big business, and in particular the region’s thriving tech companies, is a reversal from the policy conversations that took place in Bay Area cities at the beginning of the decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/22623/watch-live-sf-supervisors-vote-on-twitter-tax-break\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">changed its tax code\u003c/a> to attract and retain businesses, with particular incentives for growing tech companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many supporters of the Bay Area business taxes claim that those thriving corporations did not reciprocate the friendly policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t see tech as very civically involved, and I think they have to be,” said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who told KQED \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700919/sen-feinstein-calls-out-s-f-tech-ceos-for-lack-of-civic-engagement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she supports Proposition C\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like when I was mayor, the CEOs of the big banks — I could go in and ask them to help with any civic cause. Cross my heart. I never got a ‘no.’ Bank of America, Wells [Fargo], all of them said ‘yes.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So instead of asking, the tax measures hope to compel Bay Area corporations to put a greater amount of skin in the game toward local problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question remains whether a push like Proposition C has come too late, and is simply setting the stage for a fleeting victory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is certainly a risk if we rely on this one tax to fund a huge part of our homeless services,” said Molly Turner of the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. “If we have a correction or a recession in the near future, that’s going to cut significantly to our ability to fund those programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After years of economic boom, voters in San Francisco, East Palo Alto and Mountain View will decide this November if big corporations should be taxed to help pay for issues that have only gotten worse as business has grown: housing and transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Business groups against the tax hikes argue the measures would give companies a reason to expand in other cities, or even worse, leave the region altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters however, counter that corporate philanthropy has been insufficient to take on the Bay Area’s problems like homelessness and transportation. They argue that a steady funding stream must be created to pay for services.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘There’s two kinds of people in San Francisco. There’s people who are willing to give and always opening their hearts and their wallets to support whatever society needs. And there’s those who won’t give at all no matter what.’\u003ccite>Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“With all of these business taxes right now, there’s certainly an inspiration to take advantage of the enormous prosperity we have in the region, while we have it,” said Molly Turner, a lecturer at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate has touched a nerve in San Francisco, where a proposed tax hike has sparked a clash of tech titans, divided political allies and led the city’s new mayor to make the most controversial decision of her tenure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition C would double the city’s homeless services budget by raising the gross receipts tax on annual revenue above $50 million that companies bring in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average half-percent increase in the tax would raise roughly $300 million annually to help get homeless San Franciscans off of the street. Half of the money would go toward long-term fixes, like supportive housing, while the other half would go toward more immediate assistance, like shelters, mental health services and rental assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just got this massive tax break from [President] Trump. The corporate rate went from 35 percent all the way down to 21 percent,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness, which sponsored the measure. “In order to address the systemic crises we need ongoing revenue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As thousands of people sleep on the street each night, most San Franciscans would be quick to name homelessness as a top issue facing the city. Less clear is what voters are willing to do to address the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last two ballot measures that proposed a tax hike to raise money for the homeless — a 2016 sales tax increase and a real estate tax on the ballot last June — both failed. Proposition C differs because it would dedicate all the revenue it raises to homeless programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’ve seen in the past is tinkering, and I don’t think voters have a lot of patience for that,” said Friedenbach. “They want to see big change.”\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/JYKxFrMkzKA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/JYKxFrMkzKA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s estimated that 300 to 400 companies would pay the Proposition C tax hike. These corporations already pay 57 percent of the business taxes collected by San Francisco, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://sfcontroller.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Economic%20Analysis/hgrt_economic_impact_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report\u003c/a> from the Office of Economic Analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s on top of the increased costs necessary to recruit and retain workers in the region, said Jim Lazarus, senior vice president of public policy at the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At some point the straw breaks the camel’s back and some chief financial officer says, ‘When the lease comes up we’re leaving town,’ ” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar warnings from Amazon pushed Seattle’s City Council to abandon a newly enacted business tax earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But San Francisco’s largest private employer, Salesforce, has taken a markedly different stance on Proposition C. The cloud computing giant has donated $4.7 million to the Yes on C campaign, with another $1 million coming from CEO Marc Benioff. This despite Benioff’s assertion that the company stands to pay millions more under the tax proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10467228\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10467228\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/457215846-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/457215846-800x528.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/457215846-400x264.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/457215846-1440x950.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/457215846-1180x779.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/457215846-768x507.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/457215846-320x211.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff pictured at company conference in October 2014. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To Benioff, the debate over Proposition C is black and white, and CEOs who aren’t for the measure aren’t being socially responsible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I’ve found is there’s two kinds of people in San Francisco,” he told KQED. “There’s people who are willing to give and always opening their hearts and their wallets to support whatever society needs. And there’s those who won’t give at all no matter what.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Implied in that second group was Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who Benioff traded jabs with over Proposition C. Dorsey argued that his company Square will be hurt more by the tax increase than Salesforce.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Last week, Lyft and Macy’s joined Square to donate to the No on Prop. C campaign. It didn’t make much of a dent. Thanks to Benioff, the “yes” side has raked in four times as much in contributions, according to \u003ca href=\"https://sfethics.org/ethics/2018/03/campaign-finance-dashboards-june-5-2018-and-november-6-2018-elections.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data\u003c/a> from the San Francisco Department of Elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benioff’s stance on Proposition C has also caused a fissure with a political ally: San Francisco Mayor London Breed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benioff said the need for sustained homeless funding is best illustrated by a call he recently got from the mayor. Breed was looking for a donation of $8 million to acquire a site that could be used for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s out of money. Her budget was fully maxed,” Benioff said. “The city has these shovel-ready projects ready to go and we can directly address these homeless people if we have more directed funding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed disagrees, not only with the nature of the call — she said she asked Benioff for the immediate donation because a budget supplemental would have taken too long to secure the units — but with the idea that San Francisco can hike taxes for homeless services without consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Can big business pay more to support this? Yes, they can,” Breed told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But things like a ballot measure need to be handled more responsibly,” she added. “Making sure that as we try and tax, that there aren’t the unintended consequences of job loss for middle-income residents. I mean manufacturing, retail, those are things that are important to San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11690711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11690711\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/LondonBreed-800x552.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Mayor London Breed.\" width=\"800\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/LondonBreed-800x552.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/LondonBreed-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/LondonBreed-1020x704.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/LondonBreed-1200x828.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/LondonBreed.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/LondonBreed-1180x814.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/LondonBreed-960x663.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/LondonBreed-240x166.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/LondonBreed-375x259.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/09/LondonBreed-520x359.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor London Breed. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city’s economic analysis of Proposition C finds that retail would be the sector most at risk of job loss, but that the tax’s overall impact on jobs would be insignificant: an estimated loss of 0.1 percent of all jobs in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brimming beneath Breed’s warning of job flight, and her stated desire for the city to get a better handle on how it spends the $300 million already dedicated to homelessness, seems to be a political frustration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor was elected in June on a promise to address the crisis. If Proposition C passes and doubles the city’s homeless budget, it will likely be Breed — not Benioff or the homeless advocates who wrote the measure — who will be judged for its results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to make sure that I’m being held accountable for the decisions I make,” she said. “Not the decisions that other people are making.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there’s a chance the heated debate over Proposition C could actually stretch past November. Supporters are hoping that a recent state Supreme Court ruling will allow the citizens’ initiative to pass with a majority vote. Historically, local measures that directed funding to a specific source, like homeless services, required a two-thirds vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tax measures in Mountain View and East Palo Alto have come with significantly fewer political fireworks, but also reflect a shift toward demanding greater corporate responsibility to take on the Bay Area’s vexing housing and transportation problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11647955\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11647955 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/02/RS378_Google_082411-800x504.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"504\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign is posted outside Google headquarters Jan. 21, 2010, in Mountain View, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Measure HH in East Palo Alto would tax large commercial office space at a rate of $2.50 per square foot to pay for affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters are hoping to capitalize on the recent growth of Amazon in the city, and Facebook’s expansion in nearby Menlo Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just trying to protect our community and have a fair share that will improve the lives of more people,” said Mayor Ruben Abrica. “We’re also trying to be proactive because we know that other development is going to take place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mountain View’s tax is more heavily directed toward a single company: Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed “head tax” in Measure P would tax companies for each employee, with larger companies paying higher rates. Revenue from the tax will go to the general fund, with the promise that it will be used for transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tax is expected to raise $6 million annually, with more than half coming from Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google is not opposing the tax increase, and Mountain View Mayor Lenny Siegel said the search giant has been quick to assist with issues like homelessness in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re a good corporate citizen but we can’t bond against their donations,” he told \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101866893/election-2018-bay-area-cities-to-vote-on-taxing-big-business\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KQED’s Forum\u003c/a>. “So the tax will allow us to bond so that we can build the infrastructure that allows Google employees to get from Caltrain to the Googleplex.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11700919/sen-feinstein-calls-out-s-f-tech-ceos-for-lack-of-civic-engagement\">Sen. Dianne Feinstein Calls Out S.F. 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"content": "\u003cp>In the aftermath of an August incident in which a worker died working in a Muni tunnel, San Francisco agencies say they do not yet have a comprehensive system in place to warn each other about contractors who have had safety problems while working on city construction projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, city officials say they’ve begun building a database in which departments can enter information about contractors — including any documented safety concerns — that other agencies will be able to access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue was raised last week in a Board of Supervisors committee meeting prompted by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11686567/worker-dies-after-twin-peaks-tunnel-project-construction-accident\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Aug. 10 death\u003c/a> of Patrick Ricketts, 51, a worker with Shimmick Construction killed by a falling steel beam in Muni’s Twin Peaks Tunnel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the hearing of the board’s Government Audit and Oversight Committee, Supervisor Norman Yee asked John Thomas, a San Francisco Public Works engineer and deputy director for infrastructure, whether the department notifies other city agencies about contractors that have had safety issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is this information used for future potential contracts?” Yee asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If, for instance, you see a pattern and it doesn’t really stop and they haven’t done any corrective actions, do you use that information to say ‘you know something, we can’t be giving this particular company a new contract?” Yee inquired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At this point, no, it is not used as part of the selection process,” Thomas answered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700900\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"Supervisor Norman Yee called a hearing last week in response to questions that arose after a worker's death near West Portal Station.\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11700900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-800x524.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-960x629.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-240x157.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-375x246.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-520x341.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Norman Yee called a hearing last week in response to questions that arose after a worker’s death near West Portal Station. \u003ccite>(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When asked about Thomas’ remarks, Public Works spokeswoman Rachel Gordon said city departments have begun a pilot project using an internal website, completed last February, where they can store reviews of construction jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, records from eight projects have been entered in the site. City officials plan to add more in the coming months as the project continues to roll out, Gordon said in emailed responses to questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said documenting city officials’ concerns is key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The issue is largely about making a fair decision that is supported by documentation of poor performance,” she said. “If a department doesn’t award a contract because of its concerns about the ability of the contractor to perform, it must backup that decision with documentation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gordon also pushed back against the idea that city agencies don’t have access to safety information about contractors that bid on city projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Departments may ask about safe work history on past work for the city,” Gordon said in an email. “The department may check references by asking its employees or those of other city departments,” Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee called last week’s hearing in response to questions that arose after Ricketts’ death near West Portal Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11686976/muni-chief-downplays-safety-concerns-in-sf-tunnel-project-after-worker-death\">Muni Chief Downplays Safety Concerns in S.F. Tunnel Project After Worker’s Death\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11686976/muni-chief-downplays-safety-concerns-in-sf-tunnel-project-after-worker-death\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/tunnel-1180x592.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the days after the incident, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11686976/muni-chief-downplays-safety-concerns-in-sf-tunnel-project-after-worker-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news reports disclosed\u003c/a> his employer, Oakland-based Shimmick Construction, was tied to dozens of workplace violations over the last decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But prior to beginning work on the Twin Peaks Tunnel, the company and its partner on the project, Con-Quest, answered “no” on a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority questionnaire that asked whether they had been cited for any serious and willful violations by California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health, or Cal/OSHA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the alleged violations for which Cal/OSHA has fined Shimmick were \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/establishment.inspection_detail?id=1192534.015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">three serious infractions\u003c/a> involving the death of a forklift driver in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shimmick, which faces a $46,800 penalty in the case, is contesting Cal/OSHA’s findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Aaron Peskin said city agencies that use similar questionnaires should change the way they ask about contractor safety records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can take years to close out a case,” Peskin said. He urged all departments to ask contractors to list all workplace safety incidents they’re associated with, even those still under investigation or appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Siew-Chin Yeong, SFMTA’s director of capital programs and construction, said that her agency wants to require contractors to submit annual summaries of work-related injuries when bidding on a project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Yee pointed out that on many city construction jobs, the project’s main contractor hires smaller companies to do large parts of the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do we control that?” Yee asked, looking for city rules on how the agencies track the safety records of subcontractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The general contractor is fully responsible for the safety site including the safety of the sub-contractor,” Yeong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the focus of the hearing and of previous news coverage has focused on weaknesses in vetting the safety records of contractors, it should be noted that city officials in recent years have been meeting to collaborate more efficiently on what they know about construction companies, emphasized Nicholas King, a process improvement analyst for Public Works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that you’ve heard from three departments today, and you guys are asking questions and the public’s here and the press is watching,” King said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want to be clear that we’re all on the same page, and we’re all on the same team, and we’re all committed to safety.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If, for instance, you see a pattern and it doesn’t really stop and they haven’t done any corrective actions, do you use that information to say ‘you know something, we can’t be giving this particular company a new contract?” Yee inquired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At this point, no, it is not used as part of the selection process,” Thomas answered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700900\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"Supervisor Norman Yee called a hearing last week in response to questions that arose after a worker's death near West Portal Station.\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11700900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-800x524.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-960x629.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-240x157.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-375x246.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-520x341.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Norman Yee called a hearing last week in response to questions that arose after a worker’s death near West Portal Station. \u003ccite>(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When asked about Thomas’ remarks, Public Works spokeswoman Rachel Gordon said city departments have begun a pilot project using an internal website, completed last February, where they can store reviews of construction jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, records from eight projects have been entered in the site. City officials plan to add more in the coming months as the project continues to roll out, Gordon said in emailed responses to questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said documenting city officials’ concerns is key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The issue is largely about making a fair decision that is supported by documentation of poor performance,” she said. “If a department doesn’t award a contract because of its concerns about the ability of the contractor to perform, it must backup that decision with documentation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gordon also pushed back against the idea that city agencies don’t have access to safety information about contractors that bid on city projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Departments may ask about safe work history on past work for the city,” Gordon said in an email. “The department may check references by asking its employees or those of other city departments,” Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee called last week’s hearing in response to questions that arose after Ricketts’ death near West Portal Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11686976/muni-chief-downplays-safety-concerns-in-sf-tunnel-project-after-worker-death\">Muni Chief Downplays Safety Concerns in S.F. Tunnel Project After Worker’s Death\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11686976/muni-chief-downplays-safety-concerns-in-sf-tunnel-project-after-worker-death\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/tunnel-1180x592.png\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In the days after the incident, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11686976/muni-chief-downplays-safety-concerns-in-sf-tunnel-project-after-worker-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news reports disclosed\u003c/a> his employer, Oakland-based Shimmick Construction, was tied to dozens of workplace violations over the last decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But prior to beginning work on the Twin Peaks Tunnel, the company and its partner on the project, Con-Quest, answered “no” on a San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority questionnaire that asked whether they had been cited for any serious and willful violations by California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health, or Cal/OSHA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the alleged violations for which Cal/OSHA has fined Shimmick were \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/establishment.inspection_detail?id=1192534.015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">three serious infractions\u003c/a> involving the death of a forklift driver in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shimmick, which faces a $46,800 penalty in the case, is contesting Cal/OSHA’s findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Aaron Peskin said city agencies that use similar questionnaires should change the way they ask about contractor safety records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can take years to close out a case,” Peskin said. He urged all departments to ask contractors to list all workplace safety incidents they’re associated with, even those still under investigation or appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Siew-Chin Yeong, SFMTA’s director of capital programs and construction, said that her agency wants to require contractors to submit annual summaries of work-related injuries when bidding on a project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Yee pointed out that on many city construction jobs, the project’s main contractor hires smaller companies to do large parts of the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do we control that?” Yee asked, looking for city rules on how the agencies track the safety records of subcontractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The general contractor is fully responsible for the safety site including the safety of the sub-contractor,” Yeong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the focus of the hearing and of previous news coverage has focused on weaknesses in vetting the safety records of contractors, it should be noted that city officials in recent years have been meeting to collaborate more efficiently on what they know about construction companies, emphasized Nicholas King, a process improvement analyst for Public Works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that you’ve heard from three departments today, and you guys are asking questions and the public’s here and the press is watching,” King said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want to be clear that we’re all on the same page, and we’re all on the same team, and we’re all committed to safety.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Joe Hargrave, co-owner of San Francisco’s Tacolicious restaurants, says customers who come in and sit down for lunch have no idea that all the hustle and bustle in the kitchen has very little to do with serving them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the bar near the kitchen, an employee rushes around to handle all the incoming food orders from a third-party delivery app called Caviar. Even before the restaurant opens, online orders often pile up from Caviar, Uber Eats and DoorDash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hargrave says the apps account for more and more of the restaurant’s lunch business. While lunch sales for Tacolicious are down 35 percent, lunch revenue is up 8 percent. Co-owner Sara Deseran says third-party delivery apps have changed how the two run the place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As long as we will be delivering food, which I don’t see that ever ending,” Deseran says, “then we have to adapt every single thing we do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, the delivery app Caviar says its customers wanted food in bowls. Now Tacolicious is serving food in bowls. The restaurant had stacks of plates on the bar. Now they’ve replaced half of the plates with stacks of to-go boxes. Tacolicious is even making changes to their staff to accommodate the apps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we sat in the restaurant talking, Hargrave received an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[It’s] from our VP of Ops talking about a new position that he wants to put out for third-party sales because he wants to keep the boxes organized and he wants to make sure the food is organized, and that we don’t miss a beat,” says Hargrave. “And we can go as high as $17 an hour!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tacolicious already has a person to manage customer phone calls, many of which happen to be about issues with deliveries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might have seen someone working one of these third-party delivery app jobs at other restaurants. They’re usually behind the bar, surrounded by tablets. The tablets are running all the different delivery apps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You also might have seen the delivery workers for the apps. They are often on mopeds, and still wearing their helmets when they come into the restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These workers are paid by the order, which means they’re rushing into the restaurant to grab food and make their deliveries as quickly as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deseran says the apps create all kinds of chaos that restaurants have to manage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who is going to be dealing with these orders?” Deseran asks. “Will we have another person taking these orders? Will it be its own position? Where will we store the compostable trays? It’s almost like you are running an entirely different business on top of your business,” Deseran says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700687\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11700687\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/FoodDelivery-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A third-party app food delivery worker transports food on his bicycle. Tacolicious co-owner Sara Deseran says third-party delivery apps have changed how she runs her restaurant.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/FoodDelivery-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/FoodDelivery-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/FoodDelivery-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/FoodDelivery-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/FoodDelivery.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/FoodDelivery-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/FoodDelivery-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/FoodDelivery-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/FoodDelivery-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/FoodDelivery-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A third-party app food delivery worker transports food on his bicycle. Tacolicious co-owner Sara Deseran says third-party delivery apps have changed how she runs her restaurant. \u003ccite>(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When something goes wrong with a delivery, the restaurant often has to deal with it. The restaurant gets the angry customer phone calls and the bad Yelp reviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Venture capitalists have poured billions of dollars into these third-party apps. Over the last few years, the apps have been vying for market share and trying to get people used to ordering food online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The companies make revenue by taking a cut of the orders. Some of the companies siphon off as much as 30 percent from each delivery total. Profit margins in restaurants are notoriously small. So even though restaurants might get more business through the apps, they may actually be losing money on each order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hargrave believes all this could get worse as the companies transition from using venture capital to build market share to trying to make real profits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s going to happen to the rates when they start killing each other and one reigns supreme and they have to make a profit?” Hargrave asks. At that point, he says, diners may be so accustomed to the apps that restaurants have to serve them.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I didn’t do this to put food into boxes. I like food, but I like giving food to people and seeing them interact with it.’\u003ccite>Joe Hargrave, Tacolicious co-owner\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The National Restaurant Association is steering its members toward embracing the apps as a way to reach customers and sell more food. It sees this as the future that restaurants must conform to in order to survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hargrave and Deseran own five restaurants, which has allowed them to adapt to the apps. For instance, they can negotiate lower rates to be taken from each order and hire people to manage all the third-party apps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smaller mom-and-pop restaurants don’t have these luxuries. So many don’t use the apps, which means that as more and more people order delivery, they could lose out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Tacolicious, Hargrave’s big worry is that he’ll have to compromise on his food to feed the delivery apps, like adding preservatives to his tortillas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deseran says they’ve already taste-tested their food after it’s been driven around for 20 minutes in a car. So, like, food marinated in a Uber?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes,” Deseran says, “pine scent and all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jokes aside, Deseran says she wishes they didn’t have to do delivery at all because of how it affects their food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You end up having half the quality when it arrives,” says Deseran. “But people, I think, have become accustomed to having food that’s mediocre.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>GrubHub and Uber Eats are also testing ways to make food stay fresher during transit. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we sat in the restaurant talking, Hargrave received an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[It’s] from our VP of Ops talking about a new position that he wants to put out for third-party sales because he wants to keep the boxes organized and he wants to make sure the food is organized, and that we don’t miss a beat,” says Hargrave. “And we can go as high as $17 an hour!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tacolicious already has a person to manage customer phone calls, many of which happen to be about issues with deliveries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You might have seen someone working one of these third-party delivery app jobs at other restaurants. They’re usually behind the bar, surrounded by tablets. The tablets are running all the different delivery apps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You also might have seen the delivery workers for the apps. They are often on mopeds, and still wearing their helmets when they come into the restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These workers are paid by the order, which means they’re rushing into the restaurant to grab food and make their deliveries as quickly as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deseran says the apps create all kinds of chaos that restaurants have to manage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who is going to be dealing with these orders?” Deseran asks. “Will we have another person taking these orders? Will it be its own position? Where will we store the compostable trays? 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So even though restaurants might get more business through the apps, they may actually be losing money on each order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hargrave believes all this could get worse as the companies transition from using venture capital to build market share to trying to make real profits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s going to happen to the rates when they start killing each other and one reigns supreme and they have to make a profit?” Hargrave asks. At that point, he says, diners may be so accustomed to the apps that restaurants have to serve them.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘I didn’t do this to put food into boxes. I like food, but I like giving food to people and seeing them interact with it.’\u003ccite>Joe Hargrave, Tacolicious co-owner\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The National Restaurant Association is steering its members toward embracing the apps as a way to reach customers and sell more food. It sees this as the future that restaurants must conform to in order to survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hargrave and Deseran own five restaurants, which has allowed them to adapt to the apps. For instance, they can negotiate lower rates to be taken from each order and hire people to manage all the third-party apps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smaller mom-and-pop restaurants don’t have these luxuries. So many don’t use the apps, which means that as more and more people order delivery, they could lose out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Tacolicious, Hargrave’s big worry is that he’ll have to compromise on his food to feed the delivery apps, like adding preservatives to his tortillas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deseran says they’ve already taste-tested their food after it’s been driven around for 20 minutes in a car. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap]ntonio Yon brought a stack of folded notes to Tuesday night’s meeting. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency was planning to vote on changes to the taxi industry, and that vote would have a major impact on Yon’s life. He’s a cab driver, and in his notes, he had written down what has happened to him since the rise of Uber and Lyft seven years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Yon’s turn to speak came, he went up to a podium in the center of the room. The seven members of the SFMTA board sat above him in a semicircle on a raised platform. Behind him were rows of cab drivers who were in a similar position — workers who say they’ve been crushed in a \"disrupted\" industry. Yon shifted uncomfortably before he began speaking. He had just two minutes to tell his story. The clock was already ticking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yon is one of hundreds of cab drivers who went to City Hall on Tuesday to protest. The SFMTA was considering three proposals: to decommission medallions from drivers who acquired them before 1978, to only let drivers who purchased $250,000 medallions after 2010 to pick up passengers at San Francisco International Airport and to allow corporations to buy medallions. Most of the drivers at the meeting opposed all three proposals. But the protest was about much more than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2012, when companies like Uber and Lyft began operating in San Francisco without buying medallions, taxi drivers have come to protest at City Hall. They surround the building with their cabs. They honk. They carry signs. They go to meetings. 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The commission issued cease-and-desist letters to Uber, Lyft and Sidecar in 2012 and, when they refused to comply, issued citations against them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CPUC's effort led to formal regulations adopted in July 2013 which dubbed Uber and Lyft as \u003ca href=\"https://techcrunch.com\">“Transportation Network Companies.\"\u003c/a> This meant they would be held to a different set of rules and regulations than taxis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Disruption of an Industry\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Uber and Lyft do not have to be locally licensed -- in San Francisco, that means drivers don't have to buy taxi medallions -- they have been able to put as many cars on the road as they like. Both companies quickly burned through venture capital to sign up drivers, keep fares low and gobble up as much market share as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, San Francisco was selling as many medallions as it could to taxi drivers in order to help make up transit budget deficits incurred during the 2008 financial crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story since 2013 has been one of rapid decline for the taxi industry and the drivers who work in it. Their incomes have continued to plummet, putting emotional and physical stress on drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11694401/san-francisco-made-millions-selling-taxi-medallions-now-drivers-are-paying-the-price\">KQED recently interviewed\u003c/a> the family of a Edward Agababian, a driver who died on the job from a torn aorta. His family believes his health troubles were a direct result of the stress and burden of carrying the debt of his medallion. 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Toran said that a majority of the drivers at that meeting supported restricting which cabs could pick passengers up at the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toran said leaving the status quo would be doing a disservice to the medallion holders. Over 150 drivers have already defaulted on their medallion loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Elephant in the Room \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time Toran had completed her presentation, almost a hundred cab drivers had signed up to speak in the public comment period. When they got to the podium, they told stories of plummeting income. Of defaulting on loans. Of losing houses. Frequently the room erupted in applause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheryl Brinkman, chair of the SFMTA board, repeatedly told the audience to be quiet and threatened to clear the room. She asked the drivers to shake their hands in the air if they approved of what was being said. If they disapproved, they were asked to give a thumbs down. For the rest of the night, the cab drivers gestured in unison, moving their bodies so emphatically that they filled the room with the sound of squeaking chairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the drivers at the meeting wanted the SFMTA to reject the three proposed changes: to allow corporations to buy medallions, to decommission the \"pre-K\" medallions purchased before 1978, and to only allow those who have purchased medallions after 2010 to pick up passengers at the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several cab drivers said that these proposals were not addressing the elephant in the room: the failure to regulate Uber and Lyft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even drivers who might benefit from the city restricting the number of taxis at the airport, like Harbir Batth, were against the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a wrong policy,” Batth said, “I see it as a discriminatory practice from the MTA. 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Drivers were livid. Several said that this is the final blow and that the taxi industry is now officially dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is not clear how this policy will be enforced. Drivers with medallions acquired before 2010 will still be able to drop off passengers at the airport, but then they will have to leave without picking anyone up. Drivers said that it is not worth driving at all if they can’t go to the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, many medallions are not out on the road -- a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcta.org/sites/default/files/content/Planning/TNCs/TNCs_Today_112917.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2017 San Francisco County Transportation Authority analysis\u003c/a> concluded that even at the busiest times, about 400 to 500 taxis are on the streets compared to as many as 6,500 Uber and Lyft vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear what this new proposal will do to the fleet or the number of cabs on the street. 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Ed Reiskin, the SFMTA's chief, was quoted \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=lzRtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA109&lpg=PA109&dq=%22was+fairly+clear+that+city+hall+didn%E2%80%99t+want+us+to+step+in+and+do+so%22&source=bl&ots=USAFQ1u9Od&sig=DzJV5R-WBS70ae1yi-jOtyP2Jik&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjy-Nz-q47eAhWDJDQIHdfkChwQ6AEwAHoECAIQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22was%20fairly%20clear%20that%20city%20hall%20didn%E2%80%99t%20want%20us%20to%20step%20in%20and%20do%20so%22&f=false\">in a later interview\u003c/a> saying the agency took no action because it “was fairly clear that City Hall didn’t want us to step in and do so.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11699608\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 356px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11699608 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LYFTDAY2013-e1539819865173.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"356\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LYFTDAY2013-e1539819865173.png 356w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LYFTDAY2013-e1539819865173-160x239.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/LYFTDAY2013-e1539819865173-240x359.png 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The late Mayor Ed Lee dedicated a day to Lyft in 2013.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the California Public Utilities Commission began to assert its authority to regulate the companies as transportation carriers. The commission issued cease-and-desist letters to Uber, Lyft and Sidecar in 2012 and, when they refused to comply, issued citations against them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CPUC's effort led to formal regulations adopted in July 2013 which dubbed Uber and Lyft as \u003ca href=\"https://techcrunch.com\">“Transportation Network Companies.\"\u003c/a> This meant they would be held to a different set of rules and regulations than taxis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Disruption of an Industry\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because Uber and Lyft do not have to be locally licensed -- in San Francisco, that means drivers don't have to buy taxi medallions -- they have been able to put as many cars on the road as they like. Both companies quickly burned through venture capital to sign up drivers, keep fares low and gobble up as much market share as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, San Francisco was selling as many medallions as it could to taxi drivers in order to help make up transit budget deficits incurred during the 2008 financial crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story since 2013 has been one of rapid decline for the taxi industry and the drivers who work in it. Their incomes have continued to plummet, putting emotional and physical stress on drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11694401/san-francisco-made-millions-selling-taxi-medallions-now-drivers-are-paying-the-price\">KQED recently interviewed\u003c/a> the family of a Edward Agababian, a driver who died on the job from a torn aorta. His family believes his health troubles were a direct result of the stress and burden of carrying the debt of his medallion. The livelihoods and retirement plans of drivers like Agababian have been destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meltdown of the medallion system and the effect on drivers is what the taxi drivers came out Tuesday night to protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Different Rules for Different Drivers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the lengthy public comment period at the SFMTA meeting, Kate Toran, head of taxis and accessibility for the city, gave a presentation about the three proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To justify the measures, Toran referred often to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/reports/pfmschaller-taxi-industry-report-evaluation-and-recommendations-improve-health-taxi-industry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a report\u003c/a> released earlier this year to try to revitalize the city's taxi industry. Many of its proposals hinge on San Francisco's unique medallion structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has three kinds of medallions. There are the \"Pre-K\" medallions issued before 1978, which could be bought by any individual or corporation. After Proposition K passed in 1978, medallions could only be acquired by those who were driving 800 hours a year. They were awarded by seniority and drivers would sit on a waiting list for 10 or 15 years to get one. Then in 2010, the city \"monetized\" the medallions, selling them for $250,000 a piece.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toran said the proposals were geared to help the drivers hit hardest financially — those in the last category who have paid $250,000 for a medallion. The hope was that limiting the supply of cabs on the road and at the airport would increase revenue for the cab drivers who paid the most for their medallions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA had held a meeting about a month prior to this one, in which cab drivers were asked for their input on some of these proposals. Toran said that a majority of the drivers at that meeting supported restricting which cabs could pick passengers up at the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Toran said leaving the status quo would be doing a disservice to the medallion holders. Over 150 drivers have already defaulted on their medallion loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Elephant in the Room \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time Toran had completed her presentation, almost a hundred cab drivers had signed up to speak in the public comment period. When they got to the podium, they told stories of plummeting income. Of defaulting on loans. Of losing houses. Frequently the room erupted in applause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheryl Brinkman, chair of the SFMTA board, repeatedly told the audience to be quiet and threatened to clear the room. She asked the drivers to shake their hands in the air if they approved of what was being said. If they disapproved, they were asked to give a thumbs down. For the rest of the night, the cab drivers gestured in unison, moving their bodies so emphatically that they filled the room with the sound of squeaking chairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the drivers at the meeting wanted the SFMTA to reject the three proposed changes: to allow corporations to buy medallions, to decommission the \"pre-K\" medallions purchased before 1978, and to only allow those who have purchased medallions after 2010 to pick up passengers at the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several cab drivers said that these proposals were not addressing the elephant in the room: the failure to regulate Uber and Lyft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even drivers who might benefit from the city restricting the number of taxis at the airport, like Harbir Batth, were against the proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a wrong policy,” Batth said, “I see it as a discriminatory practice from the MTA. They’re trying to divide us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Batth is one of the more than 700 drivers who bought a medallion for $250,000. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10693923/for-san-francisco-cab-drivers-once-treasured-medallions-now-a-burden\">KQED interviewed him three years ago\u003c/a> about his predicament. He is still in the same situation: paying a loan on a medallion that no one wants to buy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stewart Rosen has driven a cab for more than 40 years and has a medallion, which under the new rules, can no longer be used to pick passengers up at the airport. “Not only did the city not regulate Uber,” he says, “now they're going to take a dagger and shove it right through my chest after all the service I gave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most drivers at the meeting had a simple request: for the city to either find some way to regulate Uber and Lyft or to buy back their medallions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Defiance of the Supervisors\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the morning before the SFMTA meeting, five supervisors sent a letter to the MTA stating that they did not support restricting which cabs can pick up at the airport nor decommissioning medallions purchased before 1978.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In light of serious concerns raised by impacted stakeholders,\" the letter stated, \"and the lack of analysis to inform the debate surrounding likely effects, [...] we cannot support at this time the staff proposals.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter was signed by Supervisors Aaron Peskin, Rafael Mandelman, Sandra Lee Fewer, Norman Yee and Hillary Ronen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not lost on the signatories to this letter that these proposed reforms arrive on the same day as the Transportation Authority’s report showing that Transportation Network Companies like Uber and Lyft \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11699063/city-analysis-uber-lyft-are-biggest-contributors-to-slowdown-in-s-f-traffic\">account for over 50 percent\u003c/a> of the increase in congestion between 2010 and 2016, and that the city’s inability to adequately regulate TNC’s has contributed greatly to the plight of taxi medallion holders.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor London Breed has been silent on this issue, and her office has not responded to multiple requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the letter from supervisors and complaints from cab drivers, the SFMTA board decided to pass the proposals that would allow corporations to buy medallions and to limit which drivers could pick passengers up at the airport. Drivers were livid. Several said that this is the final blow and that the taxi industry is now officially dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is not clear how this policy will be enforced. Drivers with medallions acquired before 2010 will still be able to drop off passengers at the airport, but then they will have to leave without picking anyone up. Drivers said that it is not worth driving at all if they can’t go to the airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, many medallions are not out on the road -- a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfcta.org/sites/default/files/content/Planning/TNCs/TNCs_Today_112917.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2017 San Francisco County Transportation Authority analysis\u003c/a> concluded that even at the busiest times, about 400 to 500 taxis are on the streets compared to as many as 6,500 Uber and Lyft vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear what this new proposal will do to the fleet or the number of cabs on the street. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated Thursday, 3:30 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All evacuation orders due to a fire that threatened a natural gas pipeline in eastern Contra Costa County have been lifted as of 2:30 p.m., Contra Costa County Deputy Fire Chief Lewis Broschard said during an afternoon press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Public Utilities Commission has launched a staff investigation into a fire in an underground utility vault that houses part of a natural gas pipeline run by Chevron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire prompted evacuation orders for some 4,000 residents in Bay Point and Pittsburg and led to a response by about a dozen public agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident started with a small grass fire near Suisun and Poinsettia avenues Wednesday evening that may have been caused by a downed electrical power line owned by Pacific Gas and Electric Co.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews who dealt with that vegetation blaze later learned that a fire in a nearby underground utility vault, owned by Chevron, had ignited. A 12-inch, high-pressure natural gas pipeline runs through the facility. That pipe's pressure was reduced from 480 psi to 25 psi in a \"controlled and safe manner,\" Terence Carey, a county fire assistant chief, said during the afternoon press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron and Contra Costa County Fire personnel were able to enter the vault Thursday to ensure there was no gas leakage, Carey said. He said Chevron personnel will be on the scene for at least the next couple days to make repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want to thank our citizens that were inconvenienced for quite a while, and we appreciate their patience and we're glad to get them back into their homes,\" Carey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, Contra Costa County Fire Protection District spokesman Steve Hill said early Thursday that as firefighters were leaving the scene of the original blaze, they noticed smoke coming from the concrete vault, which is about the size of a pickup truck bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carey said at a news conference later in the morning that crews were called back to the blaze about an hour after they were initially released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we discovered was active fire burning in a vault,\" Carey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It put that gas line at risk,\" Hill said. \"Had that line ruptured or exploded, there would have been considerable damage.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County officials ordered evacuations within a half-mile of the facility, covering approximately 1,400 homes in Pittsburg and Bay Point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation centers were set up at the Calvary Temple Church in Concord and at the parking lot at BART's Pittsburg/Bay Point station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At around 6:20 a.m., BART announced that the shelter near its station was being moved to Los Medanos College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pittsburg residents Matt and Brandy Seville and their two kids, ages 3 and 1, had to leave after getting word from a law enforcement officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11699731\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11699731\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/IMG_4058.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/IMG_4058.jpeg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/IMG_4058-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/IMG_4058-240x180.jpeg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt and Brandy Seville at Los Medanos College evacuation center on Oct. 18, 2018. \u003ccite>(Julia McEvoy/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"He told me that it was time to evacuate,\" Brandy Seville said outside of the Los Medanos College shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Seville family was among those who had to move from the BART station to the college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron crews had been working to reduce the pressure inside the line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cary Wages, a project coordinator for Chevron, said the company believes a much smaller line, which monitors pressure on the larger pipeline, known as a transmitter line, may have ruptured and fueled the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we're assuming is that it was the transmitter line that suffered the damage that ignited, just based on the volumes and the trends that we were seeing on the pipeline,\" Wages said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews purged the line with nitrogen to make it safe for officials to investigate and allow residents back to their home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ContraCostaFire/status/1052974687167209473\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill said crews were using video footage from a drone over the vault earlier today to help determine whether the site is safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're looking at the temperatures that are in there now because those tell us about the relative safety of the site. We want them much lower than they were overnight which was about 400 degrees Fahrenheit,\" Hill said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron spokesman Braden Reddall said the company got word of the blaze at around 8 p.m. Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Chevron Pipe Line Company (CPL) was notified of a fire caused by an electrical power line falling, which started a fire near our valve junction on the Northern Gas Line near Pittsburg,\" Reddall said in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"CPL immediately shut down the line and dispatched a field team to investigate. CPL has initiated its emergency response procedures and is working with the California Office of the State Fire Marshal and local firefighters to evacuate the area as a precautionary measure,\" Reddall said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents near the facility heard what's been described as a loud shrieking, or jet engine sound, as Chevron crews vented gas overnight to reduce pressure in the pipe, according to Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said it was unclear if an electrical power line caused the fire or if it fell during the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>J.D. Guidi, a spokesman for PG&E, said the utility received a report of a grass fire and equipment failure in the area of Pullman and Crivello avenues at around 6:40 p.m. Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That report included that PG&E wires were down in the area, Guidi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another PG&E representative, Tamar Sarkissian, said that the utility believes birds may have come in contact with its power lines causing them to fall and ignite the initial grass fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/TedrickG/status/1053014565196226560\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Braden did not answer specific questions about the pipeline that's been threatened. Hill, the county fire department spokesman, said the line brings natural gas to Richmond's Chevron refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Office of the State Fire Marshal, which is part of Cal Fire, investigates accidents involving intrastate hazardous liquid pipelines. But because this incident involves a natural gas pipeline, it's not under the jurisdiction of the State Fire Marshal, according to Cal Fire spokesman Scott McLean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, the agency dispatched a pipeline safety engineer to the scene \"as a precaution since there is a liquid pipeline nearby,\" McLean said in an email. That engineer left Thursday morning and the office plans no more involvement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Chow, a spokesman for the CPUC, said in an email that the agency is investigating the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inspectors from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District have been on the scene since early Thursday morning, assessing the situation, according to agency spokeswoman Kristine Roselius.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident is affecting train traffic on railroads owned by the Union Pacific Railroad and BNSF Railway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union Pacific service in the area has been suspended since last night, according to U.P. spokesman Jeff DeGraff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the BNSF rail tracks are closed, Amtrak San Joaquins' trains will not stop at the commuter line's Antioch station, according to Olivia Irvin, an Amtrak spokeswoman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amtrak San Joaquins' trains headed to and from Oakland are being rerouted in Sacramento, Irvin said. 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"content": "\u003cp>SACRAMENTO — In the midst of the political battle to overturn California’s gas tax increase, the California State Transportation Agency coordinated frequently with a public affairs firm working to block the repeal on behalf of unions, construction companies and local government groups, emails obtained by The Associated Press show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://calsta.ca.gov/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">State Transportation Agency\u003c/a> and Sacramento-based Bicker, Castillo & Fairbanks organized news conferences and other efforts last year to promote SB 1, the bill to raise the tax to fund road and bridge repairs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the Legislature passed the bill and Gov. 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But he added the actual amount of time government workers spent coordinating with the firm was likely minimal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ann Ravel, who served on the Federal Election Commission and California’s Fair Political Practices Commission, said the volume of emails raises questions about whether the agency aided one side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems like maybe it’s a little too cozy, but I wouldn’t say that it’s clearly inappropriate,” Ravel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SB 1 raised gas taxes by 12 cents per gallon and added higher diesel fuel taxes and vehicle fees to generate $5 billion annually. Proposition 6 on next month’s ballot would repeal the increase and require voters approve gas and vehicle tax increases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ballot measure is a centerpiece of California Republicans’ efforts to boost turnout. Republican congressional leaders, including House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield and Orange County Rep. 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