{"id":1493,"date":"2009-11-13T01:18:39","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T09:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/13\/budget-appropriation-sparks-daly-maxwell-feud\/"},"modified":"2009-11-23T23:43:07","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T07:43:07","slug":"budget-appropriation-sparks-daly-maxwell-feud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/1493\/budget-appropriation-sparks-daly-maxwell-feud\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget Appropriation Sparks Daly, Maxwell Feud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2009\/bos_091110\/_w2w5550_std.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><br \/>\nA miffed Supervisor Sophie Maxwell responds to Supervisor Chris Daly&#8217;s suggestion<br \/>\nthat she &#8220;flipped&#8221; her vote against an appropriation ordinance following a meeting<br \/>\nwith Newsom Chief of Staff Steve Kawa.<br \/>\n<strong>Photos by Luke Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/author\/luke\/\">Luke Thomas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>November 13, 2009<\/p>\n<p>Heated words were exchanged Tuesday between Supervisors Chris Daly and Sophie Maxwell during the weekly Board of Supervisors meeting, Fog City Journal has learned.<\/p>\n<p>The quarrel ensued when Maxwell cast the deciding vote to effectively torpedo a $7 million public health salary appropriation, a general fund budget transfer item requiring a two-thirds majority vote for passage on the eleven member Board.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> Budget Chair John Avalos, who helped broker an FY 2009\/10 budget deal with Mayor Gavin Newsom and the Board, said new revenue from state and federal sources made it possible to modify the budget agreement to prevent an additional 320 layoffs in the Department of Public Health, despite a citywide projected $350 million budget shortfall in the current fiscal year that began July 1.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2009\/bos_091110\/_w2w5543_std.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><br \/>\nSupervisor John Avalos<\/p>\n<p>As expected, Newsom-appointed Supervisors Michela Alioto-Pier, Carmen Chu and Sean Elsbernd, voted against the appropriation.\u00c2\u00a0 An animated Elsbernd said the expectation of new revenue sources was &#8220;speculative&#8221; and said the appropriation move is a potential &#8220;budget deal breaker.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a proposal to spend money we don&#8217;t have,&#8221; Elsbernd intoned. &#8220;These layoffs are inevitable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2009\/bos_091110\/_w2w5569_std.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><br \/>\nSupervisors Sean Elsbernd and Chris Daly.<\/p>\n<p>Supervisor David Campos responded saying the appropriation would restore &#8220;equity&#8221; among minorities who, he said, have been disproportionately impacted by the FY 2009\/10 budget cuts.\u00c2\u00a0 He said 96 percent of termination notices were sent to people of color, 80 percent were women.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is this the kind of city we want to be? Are those the kind of choices we want to make?&#8221; Campos asked.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2009\/bos_091110\/_w2w5480_std.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><br \/>\nSupervisor David Campos<\/p>\n<p>But it was Supervisor Maxwell&#8217;s dissenting vote that caught Daly&#8217;s attention and his rebuke.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the exchange, according to Daly, (forwarded via email Wednesday):<\/p>\n<p><em>I said, &#8220;So Steve Kawa flipped your vote.&#8221; She said, &#8220;What?&#8221; I said, &#8220;Weren&#8217;t you just meeting with Kawa before the meeting?&#8221; She said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t have to answer that question.&#8221; I said, &#8220;I&#8217;ll take that as a yes.&#8221; Then she got out of her seat and approached me and said something about me being disrespectful to imply that a black women needed a white man to tell her what to do. I responded, &#8220;Well, that is what happened, isn&#8217;t it?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When asked what was said between Daly and Maxwell, Maxwell told FCJ following the vote:\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;That conversation was between me and Supervisor Daly.&#8221; Maxwell has not responded to additional requests for comment, or to confirm Daly&#8217;s version of the exchange.<\/p>\n<p>Though the appropriation failed to pass, a motion requiring eight votes to send the item back to committee did pass.\u00c2\u00a0 Supervisor Maxwell supported the motion.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2009\/bos_091110\/_w2w5549_std.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2009\/bos_091110\/_w2w5556_std.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2009\/bos_091110\/_w2w5560_std.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A miffed Supervisor Sophie Maxwell responds to Supervisor Chris Daly&#8217;s suggestion that she &#8220;flipped&#8221; her vote against an appropriation ordinance following a meeting with Newsom Chief of Staff Steve Kawa. 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