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Committee splits bond file over undergrounding, presses departments on deep budget cuts
Summary
Committee duplicated the proposed $388M safe‑streets bond to separate a utility-undergrounding amendment and continued detailed budget hearings. Bicycle advocates urged keeping the measure focused on safety; city attorney and other departments warned additional cuts would impair services. Several department budgets were continued for technical adjustments.
The Budget & Finance Committee opened extensive debate June 17 on a proposed general-obligation bond to pay for street resurfacing, sidewalk repairs and streetscape improvements (listed at an estimated $388 million). Supervisor Dufty prompted a procedural split: the committee agreed to duplicate the bond file so one version removed a proposed $20 million utility-undergrounding component and the other retained it for separate consideration.
Dan McKenna and Ed Riskin of the Department of Public Works fielded questions about undergrounding, cost estimates supplied by utilities (AT&T estimated roughly $69,000 per block in one cited estimate) and whether provisions to require conduit or fiber would be feasible.…
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