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On Wednesday afternoon, San Francisco’s Commission Streamlining Task Force, the five-person body in charge of trimming the city’s 149 commissions to a more manageable number, met to discuss culling nine groups.

The first round was easy-peasy: Hard feelings were few — the first 31 eliminated were “inactive” bodies. Two-thirds of them did not even meet once in the past year. Now, as the task force starts to weigh in on the remaining 118 advisory groups, councils, commissions and other bodies, pushback has arrived.

Alongside the Treasury Oversight Committee and Treasure Island/Yerba Buena Island Citizen Advisory Board , for instance, the Sher

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