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Mayor Gavin Newsom with SFMTA Executive Director Nathaniel Ford. File photo by Luke Thomas.<\/p><\/div>\n

By Luke Thomas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

May 20, 2010<\/p>\n

Mayor Gavin Newsom today lashed out at the Board of Supervisors and the Transportation Workers Union (TWU) urging the Board “to agree to the SFMTA’s $7 million request to keep 45 buses in service” and urging the TWU to “step up and join every other labor union in San Francisco by ratifying the $14 million in labor concessions their leadership agreed to several months ago.”<\/p>\n

“There is no more time for political theatrics,” Newsom wrote in terse statement released to the press. “The moment to step up is now. The Board of Supervisors has repeatedly said no. TWU has repeatedly said no. But now it’s time for them to say yes. It’s time for the Board of Supervisors and TWU to say yes to restoring service, to say yes to keeping our buses running, and to say yes to reaffirming our commitment to a Transit First city.”<\/p>\n

Newsom neglects to mention that the Board of Supervisors is requesting a 50 percent restoration in Muni service cuts that took effect May 8 in exchange for $7 million in Prop K dollars to help balance the SFMTA’s estimated $19 million budget shortfall, or that he endorsed Proposition A in 2007 which gifted Muni drivers a guarantee of the highest salaries in the nation, or that in 2008 he was caught with his hands in the cookie-jar siphoning Muni funds<\/a> to pay for mayoral staffers.<\/p>\n

Responding to Newsom’s press release, Budget and Finance Committee Chair John Avalos told Fog City Journal: “Our goal is to reduce the service cuts so that we can have a semblance that San Francisco is a Transit First City,” adding there is still time for the TWU to honor their commitment to concessions.<\/p>\n

“The mayor is politicizing this issue to score political points, and it looks like he’s becoming unhinged,” Avalos said.<\/p>\n

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Budget and Finance Chair, Supervisor John Avalos<\/p><\/div>\n

Newsom’s statement in full:<\/strong><\/p>\n

MAYOR GAVIN NEWSOM\u2019S STATEMENT ON THE SFMTA BUDGET AND RESTORATION OF SERVICE CUTS<\/p>\n

San Francisco, CA\u2014 Mayor Gavin Newsom today made the following statement as the Board of Supervisors Budget & Finance Committee considered the San Francisco Municipal Transit Agency\u2019s (SFMTA) FY10-11 budget:<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, the Budget & Finance committee of the Board of Supervisors will have a chance to participate in a solution to a balanced budget for the SFMTA. It’s critical that the members of the Board agree to the SFMTA’s $7 million request to keep 45 buses in service. And it’s critical that TWU step up and join every other labor union in San Francisco by ratifying the $14 million in labor concessions their leadership agreed to several months ago. These two acts alone would immediately reverse nearly 3\/4 of the $28.8 million in service cuts.<\/p>\n

There is no more time for political theatrics — the moment to step up is now. The Board of Supervisors has repeatedly said no. TWU has repeatedly said no. But now it’s time for them to say yes. It’s time for the Board of Supervisors and TWU to say yes to restoring service, to say yes to keeping our buses running, and to say yes to reaffirming our commitment to a Transit First city.<\/p>\n

Members of the Board of Supervisors should end the political grandstanding and join in being part of the solution. Stop holding $7 million hostage to conditions you know cannot be met. Release the funds to the SFMTA and join us in helping to restore the service cuts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“There is no more time for political theatrics,” Newsom wrote in terse statement released to the press. “The moment to step up is now. The Board of Supervisors has said repeatedly said no. TWU has repeatedly said no. But now it’s time for them to say yes. 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