From SFPUC: Currents Jan-Feb 2017
With Fractional Billing, we are excited to announce your bill will now reflect every cubic foot of water used! Find out more http://sfwater.org/index.aspx?page=1100
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Two recent articles on the subject of housing and families in SF. (Read a related recent piece in NY Times here.)
In SF Chronicle: “Keeping kids in San Francisco makes the city better for everyone”
http://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Keeping-kids-in-San-Francisco-makes-the-city-10895278.php
In SF Examiner, Op-Ed: “A city for all includes families”
http://www.sfexaminer.com/city-includes-families/
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[Source: http://www.sfexaminer.com/free-city-college-decision-comes-wire/ Click tab at top for City College for more posts.]
By Michael Barba on January 31, 2017 1:00 am
There is still time for City College of San Francisco to become tuition-free for all next semester, but Mayor Ed Lee would have to double back on his decision to not fund the effort within the next couple days.
Interim Chancellor Susan Lamb has been waiting for an agreement between the mayor and Supervisor Jane Kim, who led the tuition-free effort and does not want to back down.
“At this late a date, it’s putting us up against pretty impossible odds,” Lamb said in an interview Monday, noting that she previously told city officials she needed to know the plan by Jan. 15. Continue reading “SF Examiner: Free City College decision comes ‘down to the wire’”
The 16th Annual Mardi Gras Zydeco Dance to be held at Saint Finn Barr Church Auditorium on Saturday Jan 28, 8 pm – 12 am. Show up at 7 pm for the free dance lesson!
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The New York Times just published a longish article about children and San Francisco, which includes quotes from District 7 Supervisor, Norman Yee.
Read it here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/21/us/san-francisco-children.html. Beyond Chron’s reply: http://www.beyondchron.org/ny-times-whiffs-sfs-lost-children-story/
“Everybody talks about children being our future,” said Norman Yee, a member of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors. “If you have no children around, what’s our future?”
[….] Mr. Yee, the supervisor, is urging his colleagues to hold hearings next month on the issue of children.
“For me it’s part of the fabric of what a city should have,” he said. “It makes us all care more.”
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Sunnyside Neighborhood Association 