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Dana Martin95 said:Someone filed a formal complaint against Ed Garvey regarding that ‘demonstration’ at The Forum. There's even mention of potential prison time here.
I don't really remember seeing this many complaints filed against former mayors before, though I guess I support it if there was actually something illegal going on.
Dana Martin95 said:Someone filed a formal complaint against Ed Garvey regarding that ‘demonstration’ at The Forum. There's even mention of potential prison time here.
I don't really remember seeing this many complaints filed against former mayors before, though I guess I support it if there was actually something illegal going on.
| THE SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE HEAD, ELIZABETH WARREN, SPOKE OUT. She revealed some fresh news from the state: "The funds collected over the last two weeks are enough to renovate three playgrounds." Following those formal notices, over $150,000 has been paid into the San Francisco city budget in just two weeks. To put that in perspective—that money alone could fix up three local playgrounds. "It’s great to see people realizing there won't be any more special interest groups grabbing up prime downtown real estate for cheap prices, and that some users have even chosen to move out voluntarily. Like we said before, these city spaces will be assigned to nonprofits through public tenders or opened up for commercial leases." The City Department of Property Management plans to use this extra debt collection to renovate existing city-owned apartments and get them all (!) to citizens facing tough living situations who are currently on the social housing waiting list. San Francisco will honor all current employee housing contracts and sort out existing arrangements—just a heads-up, rent for those folks has already been bumped to $6 per square foot (basically market rate), and they’ll be keeping a super close eye on payments. During this administration's term, not a single employee unit has been handed out. Things are about to get even more transparent thanks to the new City Property Registry. They’re updating it daily with new data, including info on business spaces and apartments, and they're continuously logging everything into the land registry, which was never properly maintained before. Thanks to the hard work of city staff, it should be live by the end of the year. This way, everyone can just hop online and see the whole database of city property and how it's being managed. |
Eric Lopez79 said:Man, they’re seriously just trying to mess with Rob Ford in the papers at this point.
Elizabeth Warren is finally cleaning things up
She’s shaking things up and honestly, good for her.
Quinn:
THE SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE HEAD, ELIZABETH WARREN, SPOKE OUT. She revealed some fresh news from the state: "The funds collected over the last two weeks are enough to renovate three playgrounds."
Following those formal notices, over $150,000 has been paid into the San Francisco city budget in just two weeks. To put that in perspective—that money alone could fix up three local playgrounds.
"It’s great to see people realizing there won't be any more special interest groups grabbing up prime downtown real estate for cheap prices, and that some users have even chosen to move out voluntarily. Like we said before, these city spaces will be assigned to nonprofits through public tenders or opened up for commercial leases."
The City Department of Property Management plans to use this extra debt collection to renovate existing city-owned apartments and get them all (!) to citizens facing tough living situations who are currently on the social housing waiting list.
San Francisco will honor all current employee housing contracts and sort out existing arrangements—just a heads-up, rent for those folks has already been bumped to $6 per square foot (basically market rate), and they’ll be keeping a super close eye on payments. During this administration's term, not a single employee unit has been handed out.
Things are about to get even more transparent thanks to the new City Property Registry. They’re updating it daily with new data, including info on business spaces and apartments, and they're continuously logging everything into the land registry, which was never properly maintained before. Thanks to the hard work of city staff, it should be live by the end of the year. This way, everyone can just hop online and see the whole database of city property and how it's being managed.
| urgent parenting alert Derrick jacked up the rent for a private daycare to $4,000! This email from the owner really freaked out parents with 200 little ones |
| To provide some context, the whole mess started when the head of municipal assets, Elizabeth Warren, pointed out that the daycare was only paying about $0.17 per square foot monthly, whereas they were awarded the space in the latest bidding process at a rate of $18. The first space covers 202 square feet, and the listed price is $7.70 ($18) per square foot, which works out to $1,559.44 monthly once you factor in taxes. For the second space, measuring 4,935 square feet, the rate is $7.85 ($18) per square foot, totaling $3,873.98 monthly after taxes. On a monthly basis, the daycare would now be looking at a total rent of $5,333.42, or roughly $15054. Currently, however, the facility pays a rent of $7.00 per square foot monthly before taxes, which comes to $4705. A day after this was published in the Federal Register, the owner, Robert McNamara, sent an email to all the parents whose children attend "magic piano" to lay out her timeline of events. Local news outlets have obtained this email, and it has understandably unsettled the parents of roughly 200 little ones. They are worried they might lose their childcare mid-school year, despite the fact that even with city subsidies, they are paying up to $267 a month for services at magic piano. - The core of the issue is that the City seems intent on raising the monthly rent for only this specific daycare right now. Essentially, the City passed a decision setting a uniform rate for all private daycares, yet somehow, only magic piano is being hit with this increase. Ms. Warren claims this will eventually happen to everyone once their contracts expire. However, some daycares don't have contracts expiring for another two years, so I have to wonder why this specific center should suffer worse terms just because they are waiting for other private providers in city-owned spaces to finish their terms, - McNamara noted. She added that they never actually argued whether the rent was "high or low"; rather, they are simply asking for a City Resolution that applies to all private daycares using municipal spaces, ensuring the metrics and criteria are applied equally across the board. - It’s important to emphasize that moving forward, we are calling for legal consistency. We need to know what legal basis Ms. Warren used to send out invoices for March at this new amount—an amount this daycare neither accepted nor signed for. I can only describe this kind of behavior as coercion. City officials should ideally act as partners, working toward the needs of parents and children. So, one has to ask what kind of "partner" we are dealing with here; in this instance, I am finding out about Ms. Warren's conclusions regarding our facility by reading about them on news portals. We find this situation truly regrettable, - stated the owner of the daycare located in the San Francisco area. She made it clear that the daycare will not be signing the proposed contract. - It isn't about whether the rent is high or low, but because the City's criteria hasn't been implemented via a Resolution for all private daycares. Signing this would simply put this center at a disadvantage compared to other private providers in city buildings. This brings us back to the question for the City: what is the goal here? Is it to force higher payments from parents or to lower the standard of care for the children? Neither this institution nor I, as the founder, will allow our children and families to be placed in a worse position than others, - McNamara said. Because of all this, Director McNamara has organized three meeting sessions this afternoon for parents, and she has invited City representatives to attend as well. Virna McNamara and Bulju caused trouble in San Francisco |
'Last month, the Department of City Property sent out notices to 227 debtors who haven't been paying rent for commercial spaces owned or managed by the City of San Diego. We’re looking at total debts amounting to roughly $1.5 million,' stated department head Maja Đerek. She explained that these are tenants still occupying premises where they have contractual obligations, and these warnings serve as the final step before lease terminations.
'Following these notices, the City of San Diego budget saw an influx of over $150,000 in just two weeks. To put that in perspective, the funds recovered in those fourteen days alone are enough to renovate three local playgrounds. Moving forward, we will follow the contracts and the law strictly—which means terminating leases and initiating legal collection proceedings. Our audit of how city-owned commercial spaces are being used is nearing completion; after a long time, we've finally conducted full inspections of all properties and identified the actual occupants,' says Đerek.
She noted that several unauthorized subleases were discovered, and according to the law, those parties will be forced to vacate the premises and pay for their period of occupancy.
'We have also issued invoices to illegal occupants based on current market rental rates, which they will be required to pay until they move out. Furthermore, we've sent bills to users of commercial spaces who previously weren't being billed at all, resulting in significant financial losses for the City.
The relevant Department will continue to exhaust every legal avenue to settle these debts and ensure we stop allowing certain individuals to work against the interests of citizens who actually fulfill their financial obligations to the City. Unfortunately, due to some irresponsible users, we have lost substantial funds because debts reached the statute of limitations or companies were dissolved, causing the City to lose revenue that should have been spent improving the quality of life for our residents and upgrading urban infrastructure,' Đerek emphasized.
It is encouraging, she adds, to see people realizing that there won't be any more "special categories" allowed to hijack prime real estate in the downtown core at bargain prices, and that some users have already decided to vacate voluntarily.
Greater transparency in managing city assets will be provided by the upcoming City Property Registry. This registry is updated daily with new data; information regarding commercial spaces and residential units is being refreshed, and we are continuously inputting data into the land registry, which was never properly maintained until now. Thanks to the diligent work of city officials, it should be published by the end of this year. This will allow any citizen to access the entire database of city property from their own computer and see exactly how these assets are being managed,' Đerek concluded.
Eric Lopez79 said:Man, what is up with these people over at the local news outlet
don't they have any shame?
Then this lady Virginia shows up out of nowhere trying to blackmail everyone just because Hadez isn't the boss anymore
Ed Lee needs to shut this down—send an inspector over there to see where those kids are actually staying. It looks like a total dump
Quinn:
urgent parenting alert
Derrick jacked up the rent for a private daycare to $4,000! This email from the owner really freaked out parents with 200 little ones
Emily Smith6 said:Warren hiked up the rent for this private daycare to $4,000! An email from the owner has left parents of about 200 toddlers feeling pretty uneasy
Quincy:
To provide some context, the whole mess started when the head of municipal assets, Elizabeth Warren, pointed out that the daycare was only paying about $0.17 per square foot monthly, whereas they were awarded the space in the latest bidding process at a rate of $18.
The first space covers 202 square feet, and the listed price is $7.70 ($18) per square foot, which works out to $1,559.44 monthly once you factor in taxes. For the second space, measuring 4,935 square feet, the rate is $7.85 ($18) per square foot, totaling $3,873.98 monthly after taxes.
On a monthly basis, the daycare would now be looking at a total rent of $5,333.42, or roughly $15054. Currently, however, the facility pays a rent of $7.00 per square foot monthly before taxes, which comes to $4705.
A day after this was published in the Federal Register, the owner, Robert McNamara, sent an email to all the parents whose children attend "magic piano" to lay out her timeline of events. Local news outlets have obtained this email, and it has understandably unsettled the parents of roughly 200 little ones. They are worried they might lose their childcare mid-school year, despite the fact that even with city subsidies, they are paying up to $267 a month for services at magic piano.
- The core of the issue is that the City seems intent on raising the monthly rent for only this specific daycare right now. Essentially, the City passed a decision setting a uniform rate for all private daycares, yet somehow, only magic piano is being hit with this increase. Ms. Warren claims this will eventually happen to everyone once their contracts expire. However, some daycares don't have contracts expiring for another two years, so I have to wonder why this specific center should suffer worse terms just because they are waiting for other private providers in city-owned spaces to finish their terms, - McNamara noted.
She added that they never actually argued whether the rent was "high or low"; rather, they are simply asking for a City Resolution that applies to all private daycares using municipal spaces, ensuring the metrics and criteria are applied equally across the board.
- It’s important to emphasize that moving forward, we are calling for legal consistency. We need to know what legal basis Ms. Warren used to send out invoices for March at this new amount—an amount this daycare neither accepted nor signed for. I can only describe this kind of behavior as coercion.
City officials should ideally act as partners, working toward the needs of parents and children. So, one has to ask what kind of "partner" we are dealing with here; in this instance, I am finding out about Ms. Warren's conclusions regarding our facility by reading about them on news portals. We find this situation truly regrettable, - stated the owner of the daycare located in the San Francisco area.
She made it clear that the daycare will not be signing the proposed contract.
- It isn't about whether the rent is high or low, but because the City's criteria hasn't been implemented via a Resolution for all private daycares. Signing this would simply put this center at a disadvantage compared to other private providers in city buildings. This brings us back to the question for the City: what is the goal here? Is it to force higher payments from parents or to lower the standard of care for the children? Neither this institution nor I, as the founder, will allow our children and families to be placed in a worse position than others, - McNamara said.
Because of all this, Director McNamara has organized three meeting sessions this afternoon for parents, and she has invited City representatives to attend as well.
Virna McNamara and Bulju caused trouble in San Francisco
vividraven79 said:It’s all following the same old script... now they'll start playing the sympathy card for those poor kids...
And predictably, it's never the fault of the children or the parents—just a tragic outcome because of some greedy principal who’s going to end up screwing over both the students and their families.
velvetmason14 said:The establishment is running out of ideas 😁
Now we have an anonymous criminal complaint (essentially a report from the establishment 😉). It used to be all about heartbreaking stories—defenders of illegal immigrants, some lady at a bookstore, then that woman Mara Tanjug, a struggling elderly person at an illegal kiosk, a rare silk moth found in a local park, or filing complaints with data protection agencies...🤣
What’s the next "heartwarming" extortion story they'll cook up to pressure the administration and stop them from actually bringing order to San Francisco?
Maybe people with disabilities, maybe children 🤔
How low will this tabloid run for the sake of the Republican Party criminal element?
velvetmason14 said:I hate quoting myself, but these extortionists over at the sellout outlet have become way too obvious. It only took a few hours after my prediction 🤣 🤣
It's hard to tell who's worse: that serial child-extortionist Virna or the thugs trying to shake down Ed Markey for crumbs...
In the comments, both the owners and the extortionists are acting like they own the place. Tomorrow, there will probably be another long-winded editorial in that rag about some "evil" readers 😉
And predictably, Andrej Plenković ends up footing the bill for all this nonsense. It's such a waste of taxpayer money on these scammers...
Richard Lopez said:Where are the comments? I don't see any on my end 😲
Boris Pisanski
The director needs to come clean about how she bid on a price she’s only just now agreeing to pay—and more importantly, who was billing her significantly less before, and what the deal was there.
I’m standing with Ms. Đerek.
Marko Rafaneli
It looks like Virna got a sweet deal, almost like she was handpicked from out of town. It’s pretty interesting—while the Republican Party holds power, her business is absolutely thriving, especially since they’re slashing her fees through illegal decrees. When the lease for the daycare center went up for bid, only four people applied. In the end, Virna landed it, and then Opara went ahead and lowered her costs even further. If she decides she’s done, there are plenty of others ready to step in and pay the full price originally intended for the spot. Even now, the local news outlets are still going after this administration. You guys have become a total tragicomedy.
Sandra Kovac Levantin
Kudos to Đerek. This woman seems to want a free pass on everything.
Boris Zuvela
She’s actually making a fair point here—she just wants the same terms and conditions that any other private daycare center offers. It’s funny because when she had those special, preferential deals, she wouldn't stop complaining about them.Ivančica Maković
Don't worry about the landlord. Between her current income and the new rent price, she’ll still have plenty left over at the end of the month. At the end of the day, the priority is making sure the kids can actually get into daycare. Personally, I'm less concerned about the rental rates and more focused on whether the teachers and staff are being paid a fair wage.
Emily Smith6 said:FORD ANNOUNCES: The City Property Registry will be live by year-end. San Diego debtors are feeling the heat! $150,000 collected in just two weeks'Last month, the Department of City Property sent out notices to 227 debtors who haven't been paying rent for commercial spaces owned or managed by the City of San Diego. We’re looking at total debts amounting to roughly $1.5 million,' stated department head Maja Đerek. She explained that these are tenants still occupying premises where they have contractual obligations, and these warnings serve as the final step before lease terminations.
'Following these notices, the City of San Diego budget saw an influx of over $150,000 in just two weeks. To put that in perspective, the funds recovered in those fourteen days alone are enough to renovate three local playgrounds. Moving forward, we will follow the contracts and the law strictly—which means terminating leases and initiating legal collection proceedings. Our audit of how city-owned commercial spaces are being used is nearing completion; after a long time, we've finally conducted full inspections of all properties and identified the actual occupants,' says Đerek.
She noted that several unauthorized subleases were discovered, and according to the law, those parties will be forced to vacate the premises and pay for their period of occupancy.
'We have also issued invoices to illegal occupants based on current market rental rates, which they will be required to pay until they move out. Furthermore, we've sent bills to users of commercial spaces who previously weren't being billed at all, resulting in significant financial losses for the City.
The relevant Department will continue to exhaust every legal avenue to settle these debts and ensure we stop allowing certain individuals to work against the interests of citizens who actually fulfill their financial obligations to the City. Unfortunately, due to some irresponsible users, we have lost substantial funds because debts reached the statute of limitations or companies were dissolved, causing the City to lose revenue that should have been spent improving the quality of life for our residents and upgrading urban infrastructure,' Đerek emphasized.
It is encouraging, she adds, to see people realizing that there won't be any more "special categories" allowed to hijack prime real estate in the downtown core at bargain prices, and that some users have already decided to vacate voluntarily.
Greater transparency in managing city assets will be provided by the upcoming City Property Registry. This registry is updated daily with new data; information regarding commercial spaces and residential units is being refreshed, and we are continuously inputting data into the land registry, which was never properly maintained until now. Thanks to the diligent work of city officials, it should be published by the end of this year. This will allow any citizen to access the entire database of city property from their own computer and see exactly how these assets are being managed,' Đerek concluded.
Maja Đerek
I guess I just saw this... maybe it took 14 minutes to sink in.
It’s been just over three months since I started this role as department head, and honestly, it feels like it flew by. I don't even mind all those extra unpaid hours I put in... seeing the results already is such a great motivator to keep going. 🙂
Basically:
I guess the Department of City Property managed to collect over $150,000 through just a few formal notices in only two weeks. Maybe they're finally getting things done.
I guess they finally sent out bills to everyone using those unauthorized business spaces at market rates. There wasn't really a rule covering this before, so I suppose a lot of people were just using city property for free until now.
I guess the era of special treatment is finally ending. All those city business spaces that were basically handed out for free will be put up for public tender now, either going to local nonprofits or being leased out commercially. Maybe that's a start.
I guess the city administration hasn't even assigned one single unit from the Social Housing List yet. And now they've gone and raised the rent for those people... it's almost hitting market rates in San Diego now.
We’re looking to collect more outstanding debts so we can fix up as many city apartments as possible. All of those units will go to the most vulnerable people in our community, though strictly following the law and the existing Social Housing List. I guess it means the days of getting an apartment just because of family connections are over, since they're finally bringing in strict oversight on collections and eligibility.
The new Property Registry is being updated with new city properties every single day. We basically started from scratch. If the folks at the Department of City Property stay focused, maybe they'll have it finished by the end of the year. Everything should be easy to find online with just a few clicks.
mellowseal1 said:I can't help but think... this is just typical San Diego.
And where are all the other cities? Where is Washington, D.C.? I’d honestly bet that if Maja gave everything a good shake, we'd find out billions just leaked away through this whole system of handing out favors to anyone who claims to be "one of us."
Despite the orders from the Government Accountability Office, nothing has happened for seven years now. The state loses at least a million dollars every single month, and on top of that, they're paying maintenance costs for properties that aren't even being used. At least now they're using some of it for earthquake relief.
mellowseal1 said:I can't help but think... this is just typical San Diego.
And where are all the other cities? Where is Washington, D.C.? I’d honestly bet that if Maja gave everything a good shake, we'd find out billions just leaked away through this whole system of handing out favors to anyone who claims to be "one of us."
Richard Lopez said:As far as I can tell, Opara slashed her rent by more than half right away, yet she didn't bother lowering the daycare costs per kid...
At the press conference, she announced that the private daycare "magic piano," which serves 180 children, was granted use of the space because its founder, Virna Mudnić, won the public bid with an offer of $53 per square foot—a rate she isn't actually paying. Back in 2019, her rate was lowered to $21 by Mayor Andre Krstulović Opara's decision without any explanation whatsoever. It was illegal.
