SF’s $240 million health care grab is putting City Hall accountability under the microscope — and raising a pretty blunt question: are worker health dollars turning into a budget backstop?
This is San Francisco Reform Report. Today, we’re following the money, the permitting fights, and the reform questions moving through City Hall.
Let’s get into it.
Absolutely — and we’re starting with that $240 million question.
This comes from Source: Google Street View:
San Francisco workers are staring down a quiet health care deadline that could cost them a serious chunk of change. The city is prepared to sweep roughly $240 million in unused worker healthcare money into the general fund unless account owners take action by May 21.
If employers set this money aside for workers’ health costs, then the city should be blasting that May 21 deadline everywhere — not quietly letting inactive accounts turn into budget plug money.
Next, from Blogspot:
Good News! On Monday, Dec. 3, the Land Use Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors "Tabled " indefinitely a draft Resolution sponsored by Supervisor Christina Olague, that would have aborted the nearly-four-year-old Environmental Review process for a Rec & Park Sharp Park Plan to recover frog and snake habitat, while saving the 80-year-old Alister MacKenzie-designed 18-hole golf course.
That is local politics at full strength: one procedural move, but real stakes for habitat, the golf course, and who controls the clock. When something gets tabled indefinitely, the fight isn’t buried — it’s parked.
You’ll find links to every story we covered today in the show notes, so if one of these caught your ear, you can dig into the original reporting there.
That’s San Francisco Reform Report for today. This is a Lantern Podcast.