{"id":2165,"date":"2010-07-09T09:08:09","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T17:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2017-05-28T15:52:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T23:52:57","slug":"adachi-allies-threaten-cuts-to-public-defender-budget-over-pension-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2165\/adachi-allies-threaten-cuts-to-public-defender-budget-over-pension-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Adachi Allies Threaten Cuts to Public Defender Budget over Pension Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/images\/photos2010\/sf_smart_reform_adachi_gonzalez_20100626\/_w2w6029_std.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi. Photo by Luke Thomas.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/author\/luke\/\">Luke Thomas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>July 9, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Supervisors usually allied with San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi are threatening cuts to his budget, a Fog City Journal inquiry has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The move is a retaliatory strike over Adachi\u2019s pension and healthcare reform measure, SF Smart Reform, which aims to rein in unsustainable pension and healthcare costs projected to exceed $1 billion by 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Labor leaders who say the measure will hurt low-income working families are vociferously opposed to the measure. Mayor Gavin Newsom has also expressed opposition to the measure.<\/p>\n<p>According to Budget Committee Chair John Avalos, Supervisor Chris Daly is expected to make a motion at the Board\u2019s July 20 meeting asking the Board to reverse a $1.2 million public defender budget restoration. That restoration, transferred from the trial court budget, was applied to help prevent outsourcing of more expensive indigent defense counsel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d rather operate to keep the function of the public defender intact rather than apply retribution, although if my colleagues want to apply retribution, I\u2019m not going to cry,\u201d Avalos told Fog City Journal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think what he\u2019s (Adachi) doing, especially on the healthcare side, is very, very problematic,\u201d Avalos explained. \u201cIt\u2019s not typically what progressives stand for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If the SF Smart Reform measure qualifies for the November ballot and is passed by a simple majority of voters, city employees would be required to pay 50 percent of the cost to insure their dependents. It would also require city employees to contribute between 9 and 10 percent of their income towards their retirement pensions.<\/p>\n<p>The measure would reduce next year\u2019s projected $700 million deficit by $170 million, easing pressures to layoff city employees and make cuts to city services.<\/p>\n<p>Asked what is the motivation behind the motion to cut Adachi\u2019s budget, Supervisor Chris Daly told FCJ: \u201cEven with the heroic work of John Avalos&#8217;s Budget Committee, there are important programs and vital services that have been cut. When we are cutting psychiatric beds and underfunding clean elections, no stone should be left unturned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reached for comment, Adachi said, \u201cIt will be highly unusual to change the budget as passed by the budget committee.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The move is a retaliatory strike over Adachi\u2019s pension and healthcare reform measure, SF Smart Reform, which aims to rein in unsustainable pension and healthcare costs projected to exceed $1 billion by 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Adachi Allies Threaten Cuts to Public Defender Budget over Pension Reform - 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