City gets it. Sorta.So the Mayor has finally realized that its "workers" are often spoiled bureaucrats with too many priviliges and not enough oversight. Funny how he's realizing this, just as he begins his big fundraising push for his run for Governor.
First, the Mayor's office
has eliminated 103 cars from various departments and has repossessed 46 more cars from city "workers" who have been using them to commute to and from work every day without paying for tolls or gas or parking. Some of these people commute as far away as Santa Rosa. The excuse Gavin is using is the "global wah-wah" argument, but also argues that the financial cost that these "workers" run up driving these cars every day costs the City money.
Seems like to me that using a city car to commute free every day (and to run errands during other times) is not the right use for a government vehicle. Actually, I think the City should calculate how much each one of the people cost the City in fuel, tolls and mileage. Then report it as income so it can be taxed. I have seen Official SF Vehicles at the mall in Colma during the weekdays. There's a city "worker" who has been taking a Pious home every day down the block from me for the past few years. I wonder if his car has been repossessed and now he will have to suffer on Joe Muni like much of San Francisco does. Although this move has been made in the name of global wah-wah, I think that in this case, the ends justify the means.
And speaking of spoiled city "workers",
some of them may be losing their free cell phones! The City spent over $13 million dollars last year for city owned cell phones. Aside from public safety, there should be no other agency that gets a free cell phone. Who are all these people that have cell phones and why are they using them so much? Don't they have REAL work to do?? Again, calculate how much each person has rung up and add it on to her paycheck as income so it's taxable!
Let's see how much teeth these directives have. Or is it just window dressing for a Governor's run?
- True San Franciscian,
16:09
