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"content": "\u003cp>When the state auditor gauged the fiscal health of California cities in 2015, this port community on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay made a short list of six distressed municipalities at risk of bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond has cut about 200 jobs — roughly 20 percent of its workforce — since 2008. Its credit rating is at junk status. And in November, voters rejected a tax increase that city leaders had hoped would help close a chronic budget deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think there’s any chance we can avoid it,” said former City Councilman Vinay Pimple, referring to bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A major cause of Richmond’s problems: relentless growth in pension costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Payments for employee pensions, pension-related debt and retiree health care have climbed from $25 million to $44 million in the last five years, outpacing all other expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2021, retirement expenses could exceed $70 million — 41 percent of the city’s general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond is a stark example of how pension costs are causing fiscal stress in cities across California. Four municipalities — Vallejo, Stockton, San Bernardino and Mammoth Lakes — have filed for \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/municipalities-declared-bankruptcy/\">bankruptcy\u003c/a> protection since 2008. Others are on the brink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The truth is that there are cities all over the state that just aren’t owning up to all their problems,” said San Bernardino City Manager Mark Scott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increasingly, pension costs consume \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-pension-squeeze/\">15 percent or more\u003c/a> of big city budgets, crowding out basic services and leaving local governments more vulnerable than ever to the next economic downturn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11318519\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-800x470.jpg\" alt=\"RichmondChart\" width=\"800\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-160x94.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-240x141.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-375x220.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-520x306.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond is a racially diverse, working-class city of 110,000 whose largest employer is a massive Chevron oil refinery. Like many California municipalities, Richmond dug a financial hole for itself by granting generous retirement benefits to police and firefighters on the assumption that pension fund investments would grow fast enough to cover the cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That optimism proved unfounded, and now the bill is coming due.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Manager Bill Lindsay insists that Richmond can avoid going off a cliff. Last year, financial consultants mapped a path to stability for the city by 2021 — but at a considerable cost in public services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city cut \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/07/06/facing-prospect-of-further-credit-downgrade-richmond-passes-budget/\">11 positions\u003c/a>, reduced after-school and senior classes, eliminated neighborhood cleanups to tackle illegal trash dumping, and trimmed spending on new library books — saving $12 million total.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials also negotiated a four-year contract with firefighters that freezes salaries and requires firefighters to pay $4,800 a year each toward retirement health care. Until then, the benefit was fully funded by taxpayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It’s a huge mess. I don’t know how it’s going to get resolved. One of these days, it’s just going to come crashing down.'\u003ccite>Mayor Tom Butt\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen some of my good friends go through it in Vallejo and Stockton, and what we found out during those [bankruptcies] is that your union contracts aren’t necessarily guaranteed,” said Jim Russey, president of Richmond Firefighters Local 188.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond’s consultants said the city had to find \u003ca href=\"http://documents.latimes.com/richmond-five-year-budget-forecast-2016/\">$15 million\u003c/a> more in new revenue or budget cuts by 2021. Lindsay said the city has been looking hard for additional savings, and the police union recently agreed to have its members contribute toward retirement health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at the five-year forecast, with reasonable assumptions, even with the growth in pension cost, it does start to generate a surplus,” Lindsay said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Nation, a former Democratic state legislator who teaches public policy at Stanford’s Institute for Economic Policy Research, is not so sanguine. He reviewed Richmond’s retirement cost projections and said they leave little room to maneuver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next five years, every dollar the city collects in new revenue will go toward retirement costs, leaving little hope of restoring city services, Nation said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there is an economic downturn of any kind, I can imagine that they could be pushed to the brink of bankruptcy, if not bankruptcy,” Nation said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), the state’s main pension fund, lowered its projected rate of return on investments from 7.5 percent to 7 percent per year. That means Richmond and other communities will have to pay \u003ca href=\"http://documents.latimes.com/calpers-circular-letter/\">more\u003c/a> each year to fund current and future pension benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change is expected to increase local government pension payments by at least 20 percent starting in 2018, according to CalPERS spokeswoman Amy Morgan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11318524\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11318524\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-800x895.jpg\" alt=\"The city of Richmond’s pension-related budget problems have taken a toll on public services, including street repair. \" width=\"800\" height=\"895\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-800x895.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-160x179.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-1020x1141.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-1180x1320.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-960x1074.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-240x268.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-375x419.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-520x581.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The city of Richmond’s pension-related budget problems have taken a toll on public services, including street repair. \u003ccite>(Robert Durell/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An analysis by the nonprofit news organization CALmatters indicates that Richmond’s retirement-related expenses could grow to more than $70 million per year by 2021. That represents 41 percent of a projected $174 million general fund budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay said the city’s estimates of future pension costs are lower because of different assumptions about salary increases and other costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters approved a sales tax increase in 2014 to help stabilize the city’s finances. But in November, voters rejected \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/DocumentCenter/View/39147\">an increase in the property transfer tax\u003c/a> that was expected to bring in an additional $4 million to $6 million annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay said the city was never counting on the property transfer tax in its five-year plan. If the city needed more cash, he says Richmond has properties it can sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Budget management is much more difficult in Richmond than in Beverly Hills, but you still manage it,” Lindsay said. “To say it’s spiraling out of control into bankruptcy does incredible damage to our community and it’s just not accurate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond is especially hard hit by personnel costs because of high salaries for public employees. The city’s \u003ca href=\"http://publicpay.ca.gov/Reports/Cities/Cities.aspx\">average salary of $92,000\u003c/a> for its 938 employees was fifth highest in California as of 2015, according to the state controller. The city’s median household income is $54,857.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police officers and firefighters in Richmond make more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/richmond-city-safety-2015.pdf\">$137,000\u003c/a> per year on average, compared with an average $128,000 per year for Berkeley \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/berkeley-city-safety-police-2015.pdf\">police\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/berkeley-city-safety-fire-2015.pdf\">firefighters\u003c/a>, where housing prices are more than 60 percent higher than in Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public safety salaries averaged \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/oakland-city-safety-2015.pdf\">$115,000\u003c/a> in Oakland and \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/vallejo-city-safety-2015.pdf\">$112,000\u003c/a> in Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11318522\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11318522\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-800x573.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor Tom Butt says of Richmond’s pension-related financial problems: 'It’s a huge mess ... One of these days, it’s just going to come crashing down.' \" width=\"800\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-800x573.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-1020x730.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-1180x845.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-960x688.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-240x172.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-375x269.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-520x372.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Tom Butt says of Richmond’s pension-related financial problems: 'It’s a huge mess ... One of these days, it’s just going to come crashing down.' \u003ccite>(Robert Durell/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Richmond Mayor Tom Butt, an architect and general contractor who has served on the City Council for two decades, says the city that was once among the state’s most dangerous has little choice but to pay higher salaries to compete for employees with nearby communities that are safer and more affluent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t convince anyone here that they deserve less than anybody in any other city,” Butt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay said the decision to offer higher salaries for public safety employees was strategic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The City Council made a conscious decision to put a lot into public safety, in particular reducing violent crime. And largely, we’ve been successful,” Lindsay said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Violent crimes have been declining in the city over the past decade, with homicides dropping to a low of 11 in 2014. But Richmond is experiencing an uptick, recording 24 homicides in 2016, according to the police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the challenge with public safety costs dates to 1999, when Richmond, like many local governments, matched the state’s decision to sweeten retirement benefits for California Highway Patrol officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHP officers could retire as early as 50 with 3 percent of salary for each year of service, providing up to 90 percent of their peak salaries in retirement. Other police departments soon demanded and got similar treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond firefighters are eligible to retire at age 55 with 3 percent of salary for each year of service. Recent hires will have to work longer to qualify for a less generous formula under legislation passed in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11318528\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11318528\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-800x504.jpg\" alt=\"To cope with severe budgetary pressures, the city of Richmond put this Fire Department training facility up for sale.\" width=\"800\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-800x504.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-1020x643.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-1180x744.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-960x605.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-240x151.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-375x236.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-520x328.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">To cope with severe budgetary pressures, the city of Richmond put this Fire Department training facility up for sale. \u003ccite>(Robert Durell/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Richmond’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/richmond-city-safety-2015.pdf\">actuarial pension report\u003c/a> shows there are nearly two retirees for every police officer or firefighter currently on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a way, Richmond is a preview of what California cities face in the years ahead. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/board-agendas/201609/financeadmin/item-8c-01.pdf\">CalPERS\u003c/a>, there were two active workers for every retiree in its system in 2001. Today, there are 1.3 workers for each retiree. In the next 10 or 20 years, there will be as few as 0.6 workers for each retiree collecting a pension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because benefits have already been promised to today’s workers and retirees, cuts in pension benefits for new employees do little to ease the immediate burden. It “means decades before the full burden of this will be completely dealt with,” said Phil Batchelor, former Contra Costa County administrator and former interim city manager for Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Richmond’s taxpayers are spending more to make up for underperforming pension investments. CalPERS projects that the city’s payments for unfunded pension liabilities will more than double in the next five years, from $11.2 million to $26.8 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the lower assumed rate of investment return is projected to add nearly $9 million to Richmond’s costs by 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a huge mess,” said Mayor Butt. “I don’t know how it’s going to get resolved. One of these days, it’s just going to come crashing down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Judy Lin is a reporter at \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\" target=\"_blank\">CALmatters\u003c/a>, a nonprofit journalism venture in Sacramento covering state policy and politics. This story is part of an ongoing project involving the Los Angeles Times, CALmatters and Capital Public Radio.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When the state auditor gauged the fiscal health of California cities in 2015, this port community on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay made a short list of six distressed municipalities at risk of bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond has cut about 200 jobs — roughly 20 percent of its workforce — since 2008. Its credit rating is at junk status. And in November, voters rejected a tax increase that city leaders had hoped would help close a chronic budget deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think there’s any chance we can avoid it,” said former City Councilman Vinay Pimple, referring to bankruptcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A major cause of Richmond’s problems: relentless growth in pension costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Payments for employee pensions, pension-related debt and retiree health care have climbed from $25 million to $44 million in the last five years, outpacing all other expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2021, retirement expenses could exceed $70 million — 41 percent of the city’s general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond is a stark example of how pension costs are causing fiscal stress in cities across California. Four municipalities — Vallejo, Stockton, San Bernardino and Mammoth Lakes — have filed for \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/municipalities-declared-bankruptcy/\">bankruptcy\u003c/a> protection since 2008. Others are on the brink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The truth is that there are cities all over the state that just aren’t owning up to all their problems,” said San Bernardino City Manager Mark Scott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increasingly, pension costs consume \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-pension-squeeze/\">15 percent or more\u003c/a> of big city budgets, crowding out basic services and leaving local governments more vulnerable than ever to the next economic downturn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11318519\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-800x470.jpg\" alt=\"RichmondChart\" width=\"800\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-160x94.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-240x141.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-375x220.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondChart-520x306.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond is a racially diverse, working-class city of 110,000 whose largest employer is a massive Chevron oil refinery. Like many California municipalities, Richmond dug a financial hole for itself by granting generous retirement benefits to police and firefighters on the assumption that pension fund investments would grow fast enough to cover the cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That optimism proved unfounded, and now the bill is coming due.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Manager Bill Lindsay insists that Richmond can avoid going off a cliff. Last year, financial consultants mapped a path to stability for the city by 2021 — but at a considerable cost in public services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city cut \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/07/06/facing-prospect-of-further-credit-downgrade-richmond-passes-budget/\">11 positions\u003c/a>, reduced after-school and senior classes, eliminated neighborhood cleanups to tackle illegal trash dumping, and trimmed spending on new library books — saving $12 million total.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials also negotiated a four-year contract with firefighters that freezes salaries and requires firefighters to pay $4,800 a year each toward retirement health care. Until then, the benefit was fully funded by taxpayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It’s a huge mess. I don’t know how it’s going to get resolved. One of these days, it’s just going to come crashing down.'\u003ccite>Mayor Tom Butt\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I’ve seen some of my good friends go through it in Vallejo and Stockton, and what we found out during those [bankruptcies] is that your union contracts aren’t necessarily guaranteed,” said Jim Russey, president of Richmond Firefighters Local 188.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond’s consultants said the city had to find \u003ca href=\"http://documents.latimes.com/richmond-five-year-budget-forecast-2016/\">$15 million\u003c/a> more in new revenue or budget cuts by 2021. Lindsay said the city has been looking hard for additional savings, and the police union recently agreed to have its members contribute toward retirement health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at the five-year forecast, with reasonable assumptions, even with the growth in pension cost, it does start to generate a surplus,” Lindsay said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joe Nation, a former Democratic state legislator who teaches public policy at Stanford’s Institute for Economic Policy Research, is not so sanguine. He reviewed Richmond’s retirement cost projections and said they leave little room to maneuver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next five years, every dollar the city collects in new revenue will go toward retirement costs, leaving little hope of restoring city services, Nation said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there is an economic downturn of any kind, I can imagine that they could be pushed to the brink of bankruptcy, if not bankruptcy,” Nation said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), the state’s main pension fund, lowered its projected rate of return on investments from 7.5 percent to 7 percent per year. That means Richmond and other communities will have to pay \u003ca href=\"http://documents.latimes.com/calpers-circular-letter/\">more\u003c/a> each year to fund current and future pension benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change is expected to increase local government pension payments by at least 20 percent starting in 2018, according to CalPERS spokeswoman Amy Morgan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11318524\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11318524\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-800x895.jpg\" alt=\"The city of Richmond’s pension-related budget problems have taken a toll on public services, including street repair. \" width=\"800\" height=\"895\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-800x895.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-160x179.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-1020x1141.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-1180x1320.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-960x1074.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-240x268.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-375x419.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondStreet-520x581.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The city of Richmond’s pension-related budget problems have taken a toll on public services, including street repair. \u003ccite>(Robert Durell/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An analysis by the nonprofit news organization CALmatters indicates that Richmond’s retirement-related expenses could grow to more than $70 million per year by 2021. That represents 41 percent of a projected $174 million general fund budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay said the city’s estimates of future pension costs are lower because of different assumptions about salary increases and other costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters approved a sales tax increase in 2014 to help stabilize the city’s finances. But in November, voters rejected \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/DocumentCenter/View/39147\">an increase in the property transfer tax\u003c/a> that was expected to bring in an additional $4 million to $6 million annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay said the city was never counting on the property transfer tax in its five-year plan. If the city needed more cash, he says Richmond has properties it can sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Budget management is much more difficult in Richmond than in Beverly Hills, but you still manage it,” Lindsay said. “To say it’s spiraling out of control into bankruptcy does incredible damage to our community and it’s just not accurate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond is especially hard hit by personnel costs because of high salaries for public employees. The city’s \u003ca href=\"http://publicpay.ca.gov/Reports/Cities/Cities.aspx\">average salary of $92,000\u003c/a> for its 938 employees was fifth highest in California as of 2015, according to the state controller. The city’s median household income is $54,857.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police officers and firefighters in Richmond make more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/richmond-city-safety-2015.pdf\">$137,000\u003c/a> per year on average, compared with an average $128,000 per year for Berkeley \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/berkeley-city-safety-police-2015.pdf\">police\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/berkeley-city-safety-fire-2015.pdf\">firefighters\u003c/a>, where housing prices are more than 60 percent higher than in Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public safety salaries averaged \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/oakland-city-safety-2015.pdf\">$115,000\u003c/a> in Oakland and \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/vallejo-city-safety-2015.pdf\">$112,000\u003c/a> in Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11318522\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11318522\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-800x573.jpg\" alt=\"Mayor Tom Butt says of Richmond’s pension-related financial problems: 'It’s a huge mess ... One of these days, it’s just going to come crashing down.' \" width=\"800\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-800x573.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-160x115.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-1020x730.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-1180x845.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-960x688.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-240x172.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-375x269.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondMayor-520x372.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Tom Butt says of Richmond’s pension-related financial problems: 'It’s a huge mess ... One of these days, it’s just going to come crashing down.' \u003ccite>(Robert Durell/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Richmond Mayor Tom Butt, an architect and general contractor who has served on the City Council for two decades, says the city that was once among the state’s most dangerous has little choice but to pay higher salaries to compete for employees with nearby communities that are safer and more affluent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t convince anyone here that they deserve less than anybody in any other city,” Butt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay said the decision to offer higher salaries for public safety employees was strategic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The City Council made a conscious decision to put a lot into public safety, in particular reducing violent crime. And largely, we’ve been successful,” Lindsay said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Violent crimes have been declining in the city over the past decade, with homicides dropping to a low of 11 in 2014. But Richmond is experiencing an uptick, recording 24 homicides in 2016, according to the police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the challenge with public safety costs dates to 1999, when Richmond, like many local governments, matched the state’s decision to sweeten retirement benefits for California Highway Patrol officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CHP officers could retire as early as 50 with 3 percent of salary for each year of service, providing up to 90 percent of their peak salaries in retirement. Other police departments soon demanded and got similar treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond firefighters are eligible to retire at age 55 with 3 percent of salary for each year of service. Recent hires will have to work longer to qualify for a less generous formula under legislation passed in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11318528\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11318528\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-800x504.jpg\" alt=\"To cope with severe budgetary pressures, the city of Richmond put this Fire Department training facility up for sale.\" width=\"800\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-800x504.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-1020x643.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-1180x744.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-960x605.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-240x151.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-375x236.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RichmondTrainingFacil-520x328.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">To cope with severe budgetary pressures, the city of Richmond put this Fire Department training facility up for sale. \u003ccite>(Robert Durell/CALmatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Richmond’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/actuarial-reports/2015/richmond-city-safety-2015.pdf\">actuarial pension report\u003c/a> shows there are nearly two retirees for every police officer or firefighter currently on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a way, Richmond is a preview of what California cities face in the years ahead. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.calpers.ca.gov/docs/board-agendas/201609/financeadmin/item-8c-01.pdf\">CalPERS\u003c/a>, there were two active workers for every retiree in its system in 2001. Today, there are 1.3 workers for each retiree. In the next 10 or 20 years, there will be as few as 0.6 workers for each retiree collecting a pension.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because benefits have already been promised to today’s workers and retirees, cuts in pension benefits for new employees do little to ease the immediate burden. It “means decades before the full burden of this will be completely dealt with,” said Phil Batchelor, former Contra Costa County administrator and former interim city manager for Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Richmond’s taxpayers are spending more to make up for underperforming pension investments. CalPERS projects that the city’s payments for unfunded pension liabilities will more than double in the next five years, from $11.2 million to $26.8 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the lower assumed rate of investment return is projected to add nearly $9 million to Richmond’s costs by 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a huge mess,” said Mayor Butt. “I don’t know how it’s going to get resolved. One of these days, it’s just going to come crashing down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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He is the first of the three defendants to face a jury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/307914921″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the election of President Trump, the Southern Poverty Law Center \u003ca href=\"https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/11/18/update-incidents-hateful-harassment-election-day-now-number-701\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported\u003c/a> a spike in alleged hate crimes across the country. The FBI defines a \u003ca href=\"https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/civil-rights/hate-crimes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hate crime\u003c/a> as “a traditional offense like murder, arson, or vandalism with an added element of bias.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there are many hate crimes reported each year, hate crime killings are relatively rare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“According to the FBI, there were 18 hate homicides in the United States in 2015, which would be the highest number in about 15 years,” said \u003ca href=\"http://criminaljustice.csusb.edu/facultystaff/levin.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brian Levin\u003c/a>, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism and professor of criminal justice at California State University San Bernardino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Half of those were the nine individuals killed in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/15/us/dylann-roof-trial.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charleston church shooting massacre\u003c/a>. Levin pointed out that the actual number is likely higher, as homicides may in fact be hate killings even if they are not identified or charged as such.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the district attorney announced that he would prosecute this case as a hate crime, William Sims’ fellow musicians, along with various community members, held a vigil in his memory. Friends described him as a gifted artist and a gentle young man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all see what type of person he was. This is not the type of individual that would walk in somewhere and start some problems,” said vigil organizer Kev Choice, who taught piano to Sims at \u003ca href=\"http://oaktownjazz.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Jazz Workshops\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the DA hasn’t given the public details about his theory of the case. But in a preliminary hearing, Detective William Root of the Contra Costa Sheriff’s Office presented testimony from a witness he interviewed alleging that at least one of the defendants used racial slurs while hitting Sims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For defendants convicted of hate crimes, the hate crime enhancement comes into play during the sentencing phase, where offenders can face heavy additional penalties. However, these cases can be difficult to prosecute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One has to prove the specific intent of the defendant in making that decision to select a crime victim because of their status,” Levin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of William Sims, the prosecutor will have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendants selected Sims to attack because of his race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And this is a complex case, even apart from the question of racial bias. There are three defendants charged with the murder. But only one man, Ray Simons, is alleged to have shot Sims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s a key element in attorney Colin Cooper’s defense of Daniel Porter-Kelly, the defendant whose trial begins this week. Cooper said video surveillance shows his client driving away from the bar before Sims was shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Daniel Porter-Kelly left in his own car, alone, four or five minutes before the shooting took place,” Cooper said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter-Kelly’s long-term girlfriend, Erica Martinez, said the media and the DA have got the father of her 3-year-old son all wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s not what they say,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pointing to their mixed-race family and the mostly African-American neighborhood where they live, Martinez said the man she knows and loves isn’t a racist. And she believes Kelly is innocent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s not this kind of guy at all,” she said. “Just like I said, wrong place, wrong time, knowing the wrong people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martinez said she’s also heartbroken for Sims’ parents, who will never get their son back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s heartbreaking, as much as I love my son, you know?” she said. “Never to even think something like that, but you know it’s hard and you think, gosh, you know the kid didn’t deserve this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A jury will hear evidence against Porter-Kelly and in his defense over the coming weeks. Ray Simons and Daniel Ortega will face preliminary hearings later this month. Both have pleaded not guilty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Thanks to KQED Arts for the use of audio recordings from the William Sims vigil.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Mark Farrell wants to haul executives from the Chevron oil company to City Hall to explain why two malfunctions at their Richmond refinery may have sent toxic gas to San Francisco twice late last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prompted by \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/06/mysterious-s-f-odors-preceded-by-high-levels-of-toxic-gas-in-richmond/\" target=\"_blank\">KQED's reporting\u003c/a>, Farrell on Tuesday plans to call for a hearing into the series of refinery problems in Richmond that apparently sent large amounts of hydrogen sulfide into the air hours before dozens of residents on the other side of San Francisco Bay complained of a sulfurlike smell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For two consecutive nights, a strange rotten-egg smell lingered in the air in San Francisco,\" Farrell said. \"Chevron must answer for their actions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with Chevron, Farrell wants air district officials and air quality experts to appear before the Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"OK7nzEA0h5WAy0rYxiRAJKz3CQ5Okrnd\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is the second elected leader in the Bay Area to call for more action from Chevron on the heels of two flaring incidents at the refinery on Dec. 27 and 28.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Gioia, the Contra Costa County supervisor who represents the area of the refinery and who sits on the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) board, said late last week that the air district believes the abnormally high amounts of hydrogen sulfide detected by one of Chevron's air monitors after flaring operations \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/06/air-district-says-chevron-refinery-in-richmond-probably-caused-mysterious-s-f-odors/\" target=\"_blank\">caused the sulfurlike smell\u003c/a> in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gioia says the oil company will probably be fined by the air district for violating air quality standards and by Contra Costa County authorities for waiting 13 hours to report its first flaring incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell is also unhappy about the oil company's late notification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That extreme delay is unacceptable while people's lives and safety are at risk,\" Farrell said. \"The public deserves to know why they occurred in the first place, why there was a delay in reporting the flares, and what procedures are in place to protect against flaring.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron and other local refineries emphasize that flaring is a highly regulated safety method used to relieve pressure inside their facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company has pushed back against the theory that malfunctions at its Richmond facility caused the San Francisco odor and maintains that it's working with air regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We continue to meet and cooperate with BAAQMD on their investigation,\" company spokeswoman Leah Casey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air district, which is still investigating, has not told Chevron that the refinery is the source of the odors, according to Casey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As required by the Contra Costa Health Services, we have prepared and submitted three 72-hour reports based upon our investigation of the flaring events that took place on Dec. 27 and Dec. 28,\" Casey said in a statement. \"This report includes a summary of data collected from air monitoring stations during the incidents and meteorological conditions. The data shows that emissions were well within applicable health standards.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The readings of hydrogen sulfide violated standards set by the air district, but they were not high enough to trigger a federal violation of air limits, according the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Farrell is not the only one who wants answers. Local environmentalists want them as well. They were alarmed by the hydrogen sulfide readings -- which were so intense in one case that they maxed out Chevron's pollution monitoring equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to know much more about this disturbing incident to ensure this refinery doesn't continue endangering our air,\" said Hollin Kretzmann, an Oakland-based attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Public officials must hold Chevron accountable and require the giant oil company to track its dangerous air pollution throughout the Bay Area,\" Kretzmann said. \"They should also consider whether this problem-prone facility should cut the risk of pollution by reducing operations.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Chevron oil company will most likely face a series of fines in connection with malfunctions at its Richmond refinery and high levels of a toxic gas that were measured near the facility last week, according to a top local air district official.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Air regulators believe that the abnormally high amounts of hydrogen sulfide detected by one of the company's air monitors moments after flaring incidents at the refinery most likely caused two days of a sulfurlike smell in San Francisco, said John Gioia, the Contra Costa County supervisor who represents the area where the refinery is located and is a member of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) Board of Directors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The air district modeled the unique atmospheric conditions that were going on over those days, and believe that indeed odors from Richmond made their way over to the Marina district in San Francisco,\" Gioia said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"J32U5v7Wlgi39i5kB9h3a3GGnKIz9cOX\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His comments came hours after KQED revealed that one of the air readings that followed a Chevron flaring incident last week \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/06/mysterious-s-f-odors-preceded-by-high-levels-of-toxic-gas-in-richmond/\" target=\"_blank\">maxed out\u003c/a> the company's pollution monitoring equipment in Point Richmond minutes later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are the first remarks from an air district official that more definitively point to Chevron as the most likely cause of the smell that prompted dozens of residents more than 10 miles away from the refinery to complain to San Francisco fire dispatchers and PG&E in the early morning hours of Wednesday, Dec. 28, and again late that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right now the focus is on the Chevron flaring incident,\" Gioia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took the refinery 13 hours to notify local emergency agencies, county health officials and local air regulators after Chevron's first flaring incident, one of the oil company's preliminary reports acknowledged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That delay should lead to a penalty from county officials, according to Gioia. \"In this case there's an immediate violation of state law for failing to notify about the flaring,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contra Costa health officials and county prosecutors are considering the \"possibility of doing enforcement actions for improper notification,\" said Randy Sawyer, the county's chief environmental health and hazardous materials officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first air reading at Point Richmond measured 451 parts per billion (ppb) of hydrogen sulfide and the second detected more than 500 ppb. Those levels violate standards set by the air district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Clearly, if there are air quality violations, the air district will vigorously pursue fines and penalties to the maximum extent that it can,\" Gioia said, adding that the BAAQMD is finalizing its investigation and will most likely release some of its results in the next week or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ralph Borrmann, an air district spokesman, emphasized that the investigation has not been concluded, and so he would not say what the potential fines would be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past, the air agency has said the refinery is just one of the suspects tied to the San Francisco odor. Other potential sources are a ship in the Bay, area landfills and wastewater treatment facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were no reports of any spills in the bay at the time, according to the U.S Coast Guard, and Gioia said the district believes landfills and wastewater treatment facilities did not create the hydrogen sulfide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron has yet to comment on the most recent development, but has pushed back against the theory that the Richmond refinery caused the San Francisco odor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is premature to speculate whether our recent flaring incidents are the cause of those odors,” Chevron spokeswoman Leah Casey said last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Casey wrote in an email Friday afternoon that Chevron has not yet heard from the air district regarding its findings.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Twice last week, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/12/28/air-district-launches-investigation-into-san-francisco-sulfur-smell/\" target=\"_blank\">residents of San Francisco complained\u003c/a> of a sulfurlike smell during the night. And twice last week, elevated concentrations of a toxic gas violating local air regulations were detected at Point Richmond, according to air monitoring data by the Chevron oil company, which operates a refinery there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the levels of hydrogen sulfide were so intense in one instance that it maxed out the company's pollution monitoring equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data alarmed environmentalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a very dangerous pollutant, and some of these levels far exceed the limits set by air quality officials,\" said Hollin Kretzmann, an Oakland-based attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, who reviewed Chevron's data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reports lend credence to what seemed to be a far-fetched \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/12/29/chevron-flaring-two-days-in-a-row-now-suspect-in-sulfur-smell/\" target=\"_blank\">theory \u003c/a>that flaring at the Chevron facility may have been the cause of sulfurlike odors last week in San Francisco, more than 10 miles away, according to Randy Sawyer, Contra Costa's chief environmental health and hazardous materials officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's definitely an indication that something was going on and there could definitely be something that could have potentially impacted San Francisco,\" said Sawyer, adding that the winds after both flares were gusting toward the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's something that did not work properly,\" Sawyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Normally, hydrogen sulfide is burned as it goes through a refinery's flares, a process that turns the gas into sulfur dioxide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, in these two incidents, air monitors picked up high levels of hydrogen sulfide. If that chemical came through the flares or somewhere else in the facility, that's a serious problem, Sawyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a week after the flaring incidents and ensuing series of odor complaints, Chevron sent \u003ca href=\"http://cchealth.org/hazmat/pdf/chevron-incident-2016-1227-72hr-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">three preliminary reports\u003c/a> to Contra Costa County's health services agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This incident highlights the huge risks that come with having an oil refinery in such a heavy populated area,\" said the Center for Biological Diversity's Kretzmann. \"It's also another example of communities of color unjustly bearing the brunt of dangerous air pollution,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Timeline of Refinery Problems, Flares and Toxic Gas Readings\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was at 11:45 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 27, when Chevron's first malfunction took place, involving a problem with a device that knocks out water from a gas compressor. The refinery sent gas to its flares 38 minutes later, according to the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just minutes after that, at 12:45 a.m., 451 parts per billion (ppb) of hydrogen sulfide were detected at one of the company's ground-level monitoring stations at Point Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 2 a.m. people in San Francisco began calling PG&E and the city's Fire Department, complaining of a sulfurlike smell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took Chevron 13 hours to notify local emergency agencies, Contra Costa County health officials and local air regulators about the high-level readings, one of the company's reports said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That is a problem,\" Sawyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second flaring incident started at 8:45 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 28, after a problem with a refinery lube oil compressor. At 10:30 p.m., elevated levels of the toxic gas were detected at the same monitoring station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 11 p.m. residents in San Francisco began complaining of an odor that smelled like rotten eggs, according to fire and PG&E officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Detecting Higher Levels of Hydrogen Sulfide\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron's air monitoring device has a detection range of up to 500 ppb of hydrogen sulfide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you get up to 500 parts per billion, it's going to be very strong odors,\" said Sawyer. He added that people who inhale hydrogen sulfide at those levels can feel nauseous and get headaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, the reading violates \u003ca href=\"http://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/planning-and-research/rules-and-regs/reg-09/rg0902.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">standards \u003c/a>set by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, they would not trigger a federal violation of air limits, according to Michele Huitric, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9, based in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hydrogen sulfide presents acute health and life safety risks to refinery workers but at much higher levels, according to Robert Harley, who chairs the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chemical can affect the respiratory systems of plant workers and residents who live near refineries and can be harmful, according to federal health officials. (You can learn more about it by reading this \u003ca href=\"https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/phs/phs.asp?id=387&tid=67\" target=\"_blank\">overview\u003c/a> by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chevron: 'Premature to Speculate' Over Links to Odor \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Refinery officials say they are not sure if the facility's two flaring incidents caused the high levels of hydrogen sulfide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Available information is inconclusive regarding identification of the source of the events, including whether the source was within or from outside of the refinery,\" said one of the company's reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the refinery has pushed back against the theory that it caused the San Francisco odor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is premature to speculate whether our recent flaring incidents are the cause of those odors,\" Chevron spokeswoman Leah Casey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Air District Still Investigating\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the BAAQMD has been \u003ca href=\"http://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/communications-and-outreach/publications/news-releases/2016/2016-098-cccountysulfursmell-123016-pdf.pdf?la=en\" target=\"_blank\">investigating the odor\u003c/a> for the last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The monitoring data indicates excesses of Air District standards, pending further evaluation and review by the District enforcement and air monitoring staff,\" said agency spokesman Ralph Borrmann, adding that the work would take the next 30 to 60 days to complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air district has emphasized that the Chevron refinery is just one of the suspects in the San Francisco odor mystery. Other potential sources include area landfills and wastewater treatment facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has also said that ships in the bay could be responsible for the odor, even though the U.S. Coast Guard has said it had no reports of any spills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last weekend, the agency deployed inspectors into the field throughout the region as part of its probe, said district officials. The agency also received two more odor complaints in Richmond last Friday and Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's possible that the gas odor from Richmond could have been detected by people in San Francisco, according to UC Berkeley's Harley. \"Winter and nighttime conditions make this more plausible,\" Harley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even though San Francisco is further away from the source, the hydrogen sulfide levels in San Francisco might still have been above odor threshold for at least some residents,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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If that chemical came through the flares or somewhere else in the facility, that's a serious problem, Sawyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About a week after the flaring incidents and ensuing series of odor complaints, Chevron sent \u003ca href=\"http://cchealth.org/hazmat/pdf/chevron-incident-2016-1227-72hr-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">three preliminary reports\u003c/a> to Contra Costa County's health services agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This incident highlights the huge risks that come with having an oil refinery in such a heavy populated area,\" said the Center for Biological Diversity's Kretzmann. \"It's also another example of communities of color unjustly bearing the brunt of dangerous air pollution,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Timeline of Refinery Problems, Flares and Toxic Gas Readings\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was at 11:45 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 27, when Chevron's first malfunction took place, involving a problem with a device that knocks out water from a gas compressor. 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Other potential sources include area landfills and wastewater treatment facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has also said that ships in the bay could be responsible for the odor, even though the U.S. Coast Guard has said it had no reports of any spills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last weekend, the agency deployed inspectors into the field throughout the region as part of its probe, said district officials. The agency also received two more odor complaints in Richmond last Friday and Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's possible that the gas odor from Richmond could have been detected by people in San Francisco, according to UC Berkeley's Harley. \"Winter and nighttime conditions make this more plausible,\" Harley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11 a.m.:\u003c/strong> Richmond firefighters have subdued a smoky fire in an auto salvage yard that triggered a shelter-in-place order for local residents and sent an attention-getting column of smoke into East Bay skies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews used fire-suppressing foam to subdue the blaze and prevent it from spreading through a property containing hundreds of junked vehicles. Richmond Deputy Fire Chief Emon Usher said about 40 cars burned in the incident, which was first reported at 7:15 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze at Richmond Parkway and Gertrude Avenue snarled traffic in the area, but there were no reports of injuries and no 911 calls from the public, Usher said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Usher added there were also no reports of toxicity in the air near the fire, despite a heavy cloud of black smoke that spread southeastward over Richmond and El Cerrito.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Usher said the Fire Department issued the shelter-in-place order, which covered unincorporated North Richmond and parts of the city proper, \"because we don’t want the chemicals or poisonous gas to affect our families and our neighbors. That’s what we’re here to do: It's to save lives, and that is why that’s activated, and we’re monitoring that right now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Usher told reporters at the scene that barriers had been set up to contain runoff from the fire into nearby waterways. He said the cause of the fire was still under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Property records show the owner of the property that burned is Chen Long Inc., licensed with the state as a metal recycling business. One of the principals of that firm, Jian Song, is the longtime owner of Deal Auto Wrecking, which operates the yard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11223219\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23358_IMG_4494-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11223219\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23358_IMG_4494-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters used foam to suppress blaze at Richmond auto salvage yard Friday morning.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23358_IMG_4494-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23358_IMG_4494-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23358_IMG_4494-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23358_IMG_4494-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23358_IMG_4494-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23358_IMG_4494-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23358_IMG_4494-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23358_IMG_4494-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/RS23358_IMG_4494-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Firefighters used foam to suppress blaze at Richmond auto salvage yard Friday morning. \u003ccite>(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, 8:25 a.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> A fire in an auto salvage yard in Richmond has sent an ominous column of smoke into East Bay skies during the Friday morning commute and triggered a shelter-in-place order for nearby residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire is burning at a wrecking yard at the corner of Richmond Parkway and Gertrude Avenue. The fire forced the closure of the southern end of the parkway, an expressway linking Interstate 80 and I-580.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CHPoakland/status/809792450160005120\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze is just northeast of, but not in, Chevron's Richmond refinery. The fire is just across the highway from a residential neighborhood in North Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Richmond Fire Department ordered a shelter in place for the area:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Residents near Gertrude Avenue and Richmond Parkway in Richmond should shelter in place. Please go inside, close all windows and doors, turn off all heaters, air conditioners and fans. If not using the fireplace, close fireplace dampers and vents, and cover cracks around doors and windows with tape or damp towels. Updated emergency information can be found on media news networks and by going to www.cococws.us. Stay off the telephone unless you have a life threatening emergency. Shelter in place until further notice.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Smoke from the blaze was visible over a wide area and was pushed south and east by strong northwesterly winds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Metrozoe/status/809789493704151040\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another refinery worker, Dustin Albarado, was named in the attack and fired from the same company but will not be charged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police arrested Little the day of the attack and a bench warrant was later issued for Leblanc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI began work on apprehending him, but before he was detained he contacted authorities through a lawyer, said Contra Costa County Deputy Attorney Simon O’Connell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The attention prompted Leblanc to come forward,” O’Connell said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leblanc posted bail without appearing in California and without being arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leblanc and Little are due to be arraigned in Contra Costa County court on Nov. 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Efforts to reach their attorneys were unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sikh Coalition, an advocacy organization that brought attention to the case, issued a statement after learning that Leblanc had come forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will monitor the next steps in this case closely but remain thankful that hate crime charges have been filed in this case because that’s the crucial first step for addressing the broader problem,” said the group’s legal director, Harsimran Kaur.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Contra Costa County prosecutors have charged two men in connection with the brutal attack in Richmond last month of a member of the East Bay’s large Sikh community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney’s office filed felony assault charges with hate crime enhancements against Chase Little of Beaumont, Texas, and Colton Leblanc of Winnie, Texas, on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11125483\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 491px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11125483\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/MaanSinghKhalsa1.jpg\" alt=\"Two men have been charged with felony assault with hate crime enhancements in the attack on Richmond resident Maan Singh Khalsa.\" width=\"491\" height=\"592\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/MaanSinghKhalsa1.jpg 491w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/MaanSinghKhalsa1-400x482.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two men have been charged with felony assault with hate crime enhancements in the attack on Richmond resident Maan Singh Khalsa. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the Sikh Coalition)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Authorities say the two men attacked Maan Singh Khalsa near Hilltop Mall on Sept. 25. They allegedly threw beer at Khalsa’s car and assaulted him through his open car window.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The men allegedly knocked off Khalsa’s turban and cut a fistful of his hair from his head. He sustained a swollen black eye, damaged teeth and knife wounds to his left hand, authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors add that one knife wound caused nerve damage and required stitches. Because of an infection from that wound, one of his fingers will be amputated at the first knuckle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The District Attorney’s Office has concluded that Mr. Khalsa’s actual or perceived race/ethnicity, religion and nationality was a substantial factor in the vicious assault,” said Contra Costa County Deputy District Attorney Simon O’Connell in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The savage cutting of Mr. Khalsa’s unshorn hair, a sacred article of his faith, constitutes a hate crime under the law,” O’Connell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another man who was previously named in the attack, Dustin Albarado, has been cleared of criminal liability and will not be charged, O’Connell said. Prosecutors do not believe he was involved in the physical assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the heels of the assault, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/11/two-suspects-in-richmond-attack-on-sikh-man-fired-from-refinery-jobs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Little and Albarado were fired\u003c/a> from their jobs as contract refinery employees at a company tied to Koch Industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative for Koch Communications revealed Friday that Leblanc was also an employee of Koch Specialty Plant Services and has been fired as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The men were in the area working on a project for the Chevron refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite Albarado not being charged in the incident, he is still out of a job, said Koch Communications spokesman Rob Carlton in an email. Carlton, though, would not comment further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators say Khalsa was alone in his car stopped at a red light on Hilltop Road when a pickup truck pulled up next to him. There were five people in the truck and beer cans were thrown at Khalsa’s car, the district attorney’s office said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A driver in another car then called 911 to report the conduct of the men in the truck. The light turned green and both Khalsa’s car and the truck drove forward. At that point, Khalsa was concerned about the harassment and called 911 from his cellphone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the next intersection two men in the truck ran toward Khalsa’s car and then repeatedly punched him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mr. Khalsa’s turban was displaced during the barrage of punches and the assailants proceeded to pull Mr. Khalsa by the hair. While yelling obscenities, the assailants forced Mr. Khalsa’s head down and cut a significant portion of his unshorn hair,” O’Connell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors say portions of the attack were overheard and recorded by a California Highway Patrol dispatcher who was trying to find Khalsa’s location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to O’Connell, Albarado and two other men drove away. Moments later Albarado decided to go back toward the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At around the same time, a Contra Costa sheriff’s deputy found Little with blood on his body. After Albarado showed up by Little’s side, the two men were arrested, O’Connell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Little is out on bail and has a court date scheduled for Nov. 21. A bench warrant will be issued for Leblanc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney’s actions prompted praise from the Sikh Coalition, an advocacy organization that has been calling for hate crime charges to be filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was clear that bias was a motivating factor in the brutal assault against Mr. Khalsa so we are thrilled that these charges were filed,” said Harsimran Kaur, the organization’s legal director, in an interview Friday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group will follow the case aggressively, Kaur said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll absolutely be watching as the prosecution occurs,” she said. “This is the start. 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Stories about evictions and displacement have become common in the Bay Area, and many families are being forced, or choosing, to leave cities that are \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandisplacement.org/map/sf\" target=\"_blank\">rapidly gentrifying\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work to get these measures on the ballot has been hard. Renters' advocates are spending well below the amount spent by the real estate industry for campaigning. 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They passed out stacks of fliers supporting Measure R, which would limit rent increases to inflation (not less than 1 percent and not more than 4 percent) on multifamily rental units built before 1995. Single-family homes and condos are exempt. The measure would also limit the ability of landlords to evict tenants in any residential building unless there was good reason -- like failure to pay rent or damaging the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buildings in California constructed after 1995 are exempt from rent controls, according to state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this particular day in Burlingame, the job for the renters' group was to find undecided voters, then try to convince those voters to join their side over the next few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Getting in the buildings is a little tough. But we have ways of getting in the buildings so we can talk to them,\" said Cindy Cornell, one of the campaign leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11109691\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11109691\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2585-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Kristen Parks and Saundra Ardito are volunteers with the Measure R campaign. Behind them is a board, which shows how to rank a voter. The group wants to target those 3s and 4s who they might convince to join their side.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2585-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2585-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2585-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2585-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2585-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristen Parks and Saundra Ardito are volunteers with the Measure R campaign. Behind them is a board, which shows how to rank a voter. The group wants to target those 3's and 4's who they might convince to join their side. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In each of the six cities with ballot measures, renters have clashed with elected city leaders about how far they should go to stop rising rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/09/14/richmond-rent-increase-and-eviction-moratorium-blocked-by-mayor-tom-butt-and-two-councilmembers\">Richmond\u003c/a> failed to pass a moratorium on rent increases in September; the city councils in Alameda and Mountain View approved their own rent regulation measures that will go before voters in November. Renters groups are generally critical of any city-approved ballot measure, claiming they offer weaker renter protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Mateo County, rents for two-bedroom units shot up about 50 percent over the last four years. But the city of Burlingame hasn’t backed Measure R. In fact, it wrote the argument against it, which upset renters like Cornell. The City Council called the measure bad public policy and, despite trying to study the issue, some council members said they didn't know enough about what the impact of Measure R would be on the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though opposed, the Burlingame City Council decided to run the ballot measure in the November election rather than waiting a month and holding a special election when there would be lower voter turnout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>At the Heart of the Issue Is This Question About Fairness\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The six cities with renter measures have a complicated question before them, says Chris Palmer, an associate professor at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business: Who do they want to enable to stay in the community, and who should pay for that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palmer echoes what many economists agree on -- that rent control or rent stabilization is a temporary fix for people living in communities now, and that cities need to figure out how to build more housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a Band-Aid to a gushing wound,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer of who \u003cem>will\u003c/em> pay for it might come down to how many renters show up to vote, he said. Renters make up a majority of residents in most of the cities holding rent-control ballot measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renters make up about 52 percent of the population in Alameda, 52 percent in Burlingame, 59 percent in Mountain View, 47 percent in San Mateo and 55 percent in Richmond. In Oakland, 60 percent of residents are renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do think that the fraction of renters who are voting in a given city is going to be the biggest determinant,\" Palmer said. \"Then it’s going to be a question of how effective do they think this policy is going to be.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Small Property Owners Could Get Priced Out\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, vocal and persistent renter advocates pressured the city to pass a package of rent laws in September, including one that requires property owners to petition for rent increases higher than the annual consumer price index increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, Ballot Measure JJ would also put the onus on landlords who want to raise rents above the index to petition a rent board for approval. The measure would also expand the city's just-cause eviction law to buildings constructed through 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new and proposed laws have caused some smaller landlords to feel that they, too, might get priced out of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I did what they say don’t do -- don’t let your heart get in it,\" Karen Francisco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 69-year-old landlord bought her fourplex right near Lake Merritt in 1979. It’s an older building with Mediterranean character from the 1930s. All four families who live in the building, including herself, share one furnace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Each person has a thermostat, but if one person turns their thermostat on, they turn the heat on for everybody,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francisco wants to pay to install separate heating units. She also wants new windows with thicker panes, but she can’t afford it. She estimates she's spending about $1,000 more each month than she makes in income, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11109840\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11109840\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2620-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Karen Francisco stands in her bare front room. She says she has been preparing to leave her fourplex, which she owns, because the costs to maintain it are too high.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2620-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2620-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2620-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2620-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2620-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karen Francisco stands in her bare front room. She says she has been preparing to leave her fourplex, which she owns, because the costs to maintain it are too high. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When you walk into her place there is hardly any furniture in the front room. She’s been downsizing and preparing to leave the building she owns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was ready to move out because I couldn’t afford it. But I’ve changed my mind because I’m not ready to go,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she also can’t afford to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francisco wants the city to reconsider what impact rent control has on small landlords in Oakland. She’s convinced the city could and should do better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The big property owners seem to be able to take care of themselves. And some of them, it’s just sad to say, it’s just greed. Whereas those who are really here to make a contribution to this city can absolutely do so without hurting the next fellow,\" Francisco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Palmer is right, and renter turnout has a big impact, Francisco could be in trouble. She has already prepared herself to leave.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The fight over who is responsible for California’s fast-rising rents and its housing crisis is playing out on ballots across the Bay Area. There are six cities in the region asking voters to weigh in on ballot measures that would limit certain evictions and make it harder for property owners to raise rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters in Alameda, Richmond, Oakland, Burlingame, San Mateo and Mountain View will be casting ballots this November in one of California's most politically relevant moments for rent regulation in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/286184505&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/286184505'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For renters, the argument for why cities need rent control or rent stabilization laws is simple. Stories about evictions and displacement have become common in the Bay Area, and many families are being forced, or choosing, to leave cities that are \u003ca href=\"http://www.urbandisplacement.org/map/sf\" target=\"_blank\">rapidly gentrifying\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The work to get these measures on the ballot has been hard. Renters' advocates are spending well below the amount spent by the real estate industry for campaigning. Along the Peninsula, renters' groups have raised tens of thousands of dollars, compared with the hundreds of thousands raised by their competitors, according to campaign finance statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, renters have lower voter turnout compared with homeowners, so rent-control advocates say they must work harder if they hope to gain the simple majority to win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11109675\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 681px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11109675 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Rent.jpg\" alt=\"Rent\" width=\"681\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Rent.jpg 681w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/Rent-400x246.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of National Low Income Housing Coalition.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marshalling Renters in Burlingame\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteers gathered in the back of a dimly lit union hall near downtown Burlingame last month to look over maps of the city. They passed out stacks of fliers supporting Measure R, which would limit rent increases to inflation (not less than 1 percent and not more than 4 percent) on multifamily rental units built before 1995. Single-family homes and condos are exempt. The measure would also limit the ability of landlords to evict tenants in any residential building unless there was good reason -- like failure to pay rent or damaging the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buildings in California constructed after 1995 are exempt from rent controls, according to state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this particular day in Burlingame, the job for the renters' group was to find undecided voters, then try to convince those voters to join their side over the next few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Getting in the buildings is a little tough. But we have ways of getting in the buildings so we can talk to them,\" said Cindy Cornell, one of the campaign leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11109691\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11109691\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2585-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Kristen Parks and Saundra Ardito are volunteers with the Measure R campaign. Behind them is a board, which shows how to rank a voter. The group wants to target those 3s and 4s who they might convince to join their side.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2585-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2585-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2585-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2585-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2585-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristen Parks and Saundra Ardito are volunteers with the Measure R campaign. Behind them is a board, which shows how to rank a voter. The group wants to target those 3's and 4's who they might convince to join their side. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In each of the six cities with ballot measures, renters have clashed with elected city leaders about how far they should go to stop rising rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/09/14/richmond-rent-increase-and-eviction-moratorium-blocked-by-mayor-tom-butt-and-two-councilmembers\">Richmond\u003c/a> failed to pass a moratorium on rent increases in September; the city councils in Alameda and Mountain View approved their own rent regulation measures that will go before voters in November. Renters groups are generally critical of any city-approved ballot measure, claiming they offer weaker renter protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Mateo County, rents for two-bedroom units shot up about 50 percent over the last four years. But the city of Burlingame hasn’t backed Measure R. In fact, it wrote the argument against it, which upset renters like Cornell. The City Council called the measure bad public policy and, despite trying to study the issue, some council members said they didn't know enough about what the impact of Measure R would be on the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though opposed, the Burlingame City Council decided to run the ballot measure in the November election rather than waiting a month and holding a special election when there would be lower voter turnout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>At the Heart of the Issue Is This Question About Fairness\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The six cities with renter measures have a complicated question before them, says Chris Palmer, an associate professor at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business: Who do they want to enable to stay in the community, and who should pay for that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palmer echoes what many economists agree on -- that rent control or rent stabilization is a temporary fix for people living in communities now, and that cities need to figure out how to build more housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a Band-Aid to a gushing wound,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer of who \u003cem>will\u003c/em> pay for it might come down to how many renters show up to vote, he said. Renters make up a majority of residents in most of the cities holding rent-control ballot measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Renters make up about 52 percent of the population in Alameda, 52 percent in Burlingame, 59 percent in Mountain View, 47 percent in San Mateo and 55 percent in Richmond. In Oakland, 60 percent of residents are renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do think that the fraction of renters who are voting in a given city is going to be the biggest determinant,\" Palmer said. \"Then it’s going to be a question of how effective do they think this policy is going to be.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Small Property Owners Could Get Priced Out\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, vocal and persistent renter advocates pressured the city to pass a package of rent laws in September, including one that requires property owners to petition for rent increases higher than the annual consumer price index increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, Ballot Measure JJ would also put the onus on landlords who want to raise rents above the index to petition a rent board for approval. The measure would also expand the city's just-cause eviction law to buildings constructed through 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new and proposed laws have caused some smaller landlords to feel that they, too, might get priced out of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I did what they say don’t do -- don’t let your heart get in it,\" Karen Francisco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 69-year-old landlord bought her fourplex right near Lake Merritt in 1979. It’s an older building with Mediterranean character from the 1930s. All four families who live in the building, including herself, share one furnace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Each person has a thermostat, but if one person turns their thermostat on, they turn the heat on for everybody,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Francisco wants to pay to install separate heating units. She also wants new windows with thicker panes, but she can’t afford it. She estimates she's spending about $1,000 more each month than she makes in income, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11109840\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11109840\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2620-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Karen Francisco stands in her bare front room. She says she has been preparing to leave her fourplex, which she owns, because the costs to maintain it are too high.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2620-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2620-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2620-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2620-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/IMG_2620-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karen Francisco stands in her bare front room. She says she has been preparing to leave her fourplex, which she owns, because the costs to maintain it are too high. \u003ccite>(Devin Katayama/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When you walk into her place there is hardly any furniture in the front room. 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