SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KCBS) - An effort is underway to up-end a pension reform measure in San Francisco. The mayor, however, is drawing a line in the sand to prevent that from happening.
Last week supervisor Sean Elsbernd found out the hard way what happens when you try to reform the city's cash-poor pension system. Labor unions pushed through an amendment to add on a 7% raise for city workers, thereby turning the whole reform effort upside down.
Elsbernd says he'll remove his name if the raise stays, and Mayor Newsom is right there with him.
"We've got to tackle that unfunded liability and that means the voters need to have that opportunity and if the board doesn't allow them that opportunity we will go directly to them and get this thing on the ballot in November," vowed Newsom.
KCBS' Barbara Taylor reports
Adding that 7% raise would not only waylay this effort at pension reform, but increase the city deficit by $7 to $10 million this year, exactly the opposite of what Elsbernd hoped to do when he first proposed the charter amendment.
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