The panel that is looking at consolidating or eliminating city commissions meets Wednesday/15, and a long list of activist groups are lining up to oppose changes that would give the mayor even more power than the city’s chief executive already has.

Dr. Allen Cooper, a retired physician who is on the Advisory Council to the Commission on Disability and Aging Services, calls it “DOGE comes to San Francisco,” and as the committee looks at eliminating or reducing community involvement in local policy making, it’s important to remember:

Why are we doing this?

This is happening because one billionaire oligarch, Michael Mortiz, paid to put a measure on the fall 2024 ballot that would have cut the number of city commissions in half, and, according to the Bay Guardian, eliminated

the Public Hea

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