Feb 5: SNA Quarterly Meeting

You are invited: the quarterly meeting of the Sunnyside Neighborhood Association is tonight. Open to all residents. Agenda below.  Monday Nov 5th, 2018, 7-8:30 pm, at St Finn Barr Auditorium (415 Edna Street at Hearst Ave).

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The speakers and subjects will include:

  • SNA’s biennial election of officers. Read more here.
  • City Assessor Carmen Chu to speak on what that agency does and how their programs may save you money in taxes or help you buy a home.
  • Update from the Balboa Reservoir Committee on what is happening regarding this nearby housing project.
  • D7 Supervisor Norman Yee to speak and answer your questions.

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Monday: SNA Quarterly Meeting

You are invited: the quarterly meeting of the Sunnyside Neighborhood Association is next Monday. Open to all residents. Agenda below.  Monday Nov 6th, 2017, 7-8:30 pm, at St Finn Barr Auditorium (415 Edna Street at Hearst Ave).

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The speakers and subjects will include:

  • Meet the new captain at the Ingleside Police Station, Jack Hart, a Sunnyside resident;
  • Several representatives from the developer team for Balboa Reservoir Project to talk about what is coming and how you can participate. Bring your questions and concerns;
  • Hear about the greening project on Detroit Street from its organizer, Pam Parker Souza;
  • Supervisor Norman Yee with the latest D7 news;
  • Assembly Member Phil Ting on state-level issues of local interest.

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Participatory Budgeting: another season of Your Ideas, Your Vote, Your Decision

During the last round, Participatory Budgeting put $120,000 into the pipeline for improved pedestrian safety for Sunnyside.

Now it’s time to begin another round of crafting projects and proposals for the next season of District 7 Participatory Budgeting–the fifth year in Supervisor Norman Yee’s program. This process is open to all D7 residents. The Kick-Off meeting is Wed Nov 1, at Midtown Terrace Clubhouse, 280 Olympia, San Francisco.

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SF Examiner: City Hall flooded with complaints over SF’s new mixed drinking water

Supervisor Norman Yee called a hearing that took place yesterday about the groundwater issue, which impacts Sunnyside. Article source: SF Examiner http://www.sfexaminer.com/city-hall-flooded-complaints-sfs-new-mixed-drinking-water/.

City Hall flooded with complaints over SF’s new mixed drinking water

(Jessica Christian/S.F. Examiner)
(Jessica Christian/S.F. Examiner)

By Joshua Sabatini on May 25, 2017 1:00 am

Complaints are flooding City Hall as word spreads that San Francisco’s beloved Hetch Hetchy drinking water is being mixed with less pristine groundwater.

So many, in fact, that Supervisor Norman Yee was compelled to call Wednesday’s hearing to ask the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission to address the myriad of concerns, from the safety of the water to the need for the change.

Four wells pulling up water 450 feet below in the West Basin Aquifer are in the testing phase and by summer to early fall, 1 million gallons daily of underground water will go into the system. The plan is to reach 4 million gallons daily by 2020, 15 percent of the water supply delivered to some 60 percent of the water users.

One well, located by Lake Merced, pumped water into the system over two days in April. The other wells will be tested in June and July.

During the two-hour hearing Wednesday, mothers worried about the impacts on their young children, some residents said they felt like guinea pigs and others referred to the added groundwater as contamination. Some are calling on The City to halt the effort altogether.     Continue reading “SF Examiner: City Hall flooded with complaints over SF’s new mixed drinking water”

May 24: Public hearing on groundwater in our water supply

There will be a hearing about the new inclusion of groundwater in D7 water supply at the next meeting of the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee, on Wednesday May 24 at City Hall (Room 263) at 10:30am. At this meeting the SFPUC will make a presentation.  More information about the new groundwater program on the SFPUC website: http://sfwater.org/index.aspx?page=1136

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Areas in SF that will receive groundwater. Click here SFPUC for original groundwater distribution map.

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