The Assessor's Office stinks to high heaven.
Stop targeting small businesses and Non-Profit in
middle of the COVID-19 pandemic - convoluted, property taxes.
San Francisco has reached a saturation point on most levels where accountability and transparency counts.
Pre-pandemic and post-pandemic - nothing much has changed - and things today - have reached a chronic stage.
Recently - we found out much of which we knew but now it is out in the open. Our convention centers are used for other purposes - millions lost on the conventions centers - and those who used to come to San Francisco - fed up with the crime on the streets and more dirty streets - that never, ever existed before.
Long sessions - so-called virtual meetings are held and the public hoodwinked in broad daylight.
As much $700 million spent on Navigation Centers, leased hotel room costing $185 a day -others for $250 - other dubious models - to hoodwink us trying to help the poor - with wrap-around services.
Good money is thrown down the dark hole - by mostly White policymakers - talking in circles - laughing to the bank.
One of the thugs who used to go to Catelus Corporation and beg for money - now, they are openly screwing the public. Then dabbled in having pit stops - doling minimum wage to those released for the jails - keeping most of the money for themselves.
The above mention sordid folks -steeped in the evil ways of saying one thing and doing another spread lies.
No one should promise help to Small Business - take the money from the Federal Government - and fail to keep their promise.
They even had a couple of Town Hall with Nancy Pelosi present -again lying through her teeth and nothing much came the way of the small businesses. Non-Profit that matter and not those that are steeped with abject corruption.
All this by the so-called heads of SF City and County departments - who on average make $275,000 - with benefits - their performance - getting worse by the day. Most of them have no leadership skills - and most hired - based of life style.
Our Municipal Transportation Agency is sinking - it has passed the point of rescue - no leadership.
MUNI transportation who have spent millions over the years - tethering, folding, and experiencing confusion of the worst order - most of the MTA Commissioners - despondent and in a state of pandemonium.
Our MUNI buses are filthy and there are only so many times one can put it in writing or even speak up at public comment.
It is common on the popular MUNI lines 14, 9, 38, 26, 7, 5 others too - many passengers who have never taken a shower in months - enter the buses.
Many are mentally challenged - have no respect for the passengers - create confusion - and when one brings such incidents to the attention of the authorities - one gets no response.
No response what so ever.
Where are our leaders on this - and why is there NO virtual hearing on such matters - with the Mayor, the Controller, the head of the Health Department, the head of the Police Department, the head of the MTA, the City Attorney, the District Attorney, the Assessor, the Treasurer - others present - so that all may know what have been happening all these many months - from February 2020.
The SF Municipal Transportation Agency - not long ago - dipped into the fund of the Taxi Drivers and stole their money.
The Taxi Drivers were fooled to pay as high as $250,000 for their medallions - that are now worth - nothing at all.
SF City leaders the likes of past Mayor from Willie L. Brown to Gavin Newsom to the rest - to today worst Mayor London Breed - have not addressed the Taxi Drivers.
Adversely affected by Lift, Uber, Sidecar, Ride Share taxis that have destroyed the Yellow Cab, DeSoto, and other Taxis that served us San Franciscans and the tourists that visit us well - for decades.
Taxi Drivers came in droves pleading their case before the SF Municipal Transportation Agency (MTA) - for years on end.
The Taxi drivers did the same coming to SF City Hall to Room 250 and addressed the SF Board of Supervisors. The SF BOS looked at the Taxi Drivers with disdain - many from India, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, the Middle-East, other nations - mostly recent immigrants - who were fooled by MTA - the families suffering to this day.
KARMA has visited the SF MTA - and as I said before - not long ago - SF MTA will fall flat on its face.
No one with intent should rob, cheat, steal, hoodwink - more deprive the break winner - and think they can go Scott Free - your time has come. MTA - buffoons that you are.
The pain and suffering - the cries for help - led many advocates to join the fray and speak on behalf of the Taxi Drivers - the SF Board of Supervisors did nothing - more to save MTA from utter shame - now their time has arrived - the pangs and suffering of the MTA will be intense - time will tell.
For sure the present SF Board of Supervisors (BOS) - love kicking the can down the street.
When the SF BOS listen to the plight of the SF Taxi Driver who tell them they have suffered heart attacks and some of them have strokes - multiple strokes - NO one cares. This is not right.
Many SF Taxi Drivers have died - I knew some of them - their BLOOD is on the hands of those who could have done something - but did nothing at all.
The COVID-19-pandemic from its inception has been addressed by very poor leadership.
Foremost - Mayor London Breed had no clue what she is saying and does not know today the serious implications of her snail pace actions - linked to the situation at ground zero - linked to the COVID-19 virus.
Mayor London Breed saw fit in the middle of the pandemic to act like a hypocrite - attending a dinner party - congregating - at The French Laundry Restaurant and failing to apologize immediately.
Then after weeks - she made some tongue-in-cheek statement - a half-ass apology - that no one cared to listen to less pay - attention to.
From the inception with all the Bio-Engineering and related Sciences - we could have implemented " testing " on a War Footing we did not in San Francisco and California in toto.
We could have nipped COVID-19 in the bud the thousands of careless "asymptomatic " folks keep spreading the virus - because they think they are healthy - when they are dangerous to the public at large.
When Dr. Grant Colfax and Mayor London Breed, talk - they think they are talking to some little children.
Often times lying to our face - and failing to give us the empirical data.
The current surge in San Francisco may not be as worse as it is in Southern California - but if we do not take things very seriously - and make every effort to keep testing.
More to have the right logistics in place - to serve the public at large - with vaccinations - we will be in deep trouble - Mayor London Breed loves to cry wolf - but for all the wrong reasons.
In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, Mayor London Breed has given herself - a pay raise.
She now makes over $400,000 but has nothing much to show for that amount of taxpayers' money - wasted by someone barking up the wrong tree - every opportunity she gets to open her mouth and spew diatribe.
London BreedS must step down and fade into oblivion - she has failed to represent.
Our small businesses are suffering - and have received little or no help.
The noise made by the Mayor Office of Economic Development - is just noise and noise is not harmony.
The select few who were served linked to the first Stimulus Act - were all insiders. The majority of Small Businesses waited and waited for over 8 months - many Small Businesses have gone out of business - left San Francisco - never, ever to return to San Francisco.
It is worse for Non-Profits - more those who have served San Francisco for decades - when the City and County could not maintain much - and Non-Profit stepped up and did what we could do - because we love San Francisco.
Today the Mayor Office of Economic Development and Workforce is a Joke.
So is the Assessors Office sending out notices in the middle of a pandemic - trying to collect Property Taxes?
First - without a having a friendly and more sound interaction with Small Business and Non-Profits. Making crooked and corrupt decisions - that are not fair and just. Typical of poor leadership, less judgment - and following No standard procedures.
We pay our business license, we pay other fees, what we get in return is nothing at all. The crooked ways to fill the coffers of SF City Hall must STOP - now.
For years I would pay the SF Treasure's Office a fee linked to my Non-Profit - then I got paper work from the State of California - and of course the Internal Revenue Service Certification and had to force the Treasurer's Office - to STOP asking my Non-Profit for taxes that I was exempt from.
Recently the Assessor's Office which must be audited by the FEDS - is having a field day - harassing small businesses and Non-Profits.
How can the Assessor's Office - do a property assessment of office equipment and office furniture - and tax Non-Profits - who are exempt from paying such taxes - such as a 501 c 3?
Arbitrarily taxing some entity without talking to the owner of the small business and more a Non-Profit organization - in the middle of the pandemic. How about contacting the owner or person by telephone or email?
The Assessor's Office using the Treasure's Ofice another rogue Department in San Francisco - fleecing Small Businesses and other operations that the Assessor's Office offers no help - but leeches on such entities.
What makes the matter worse the computers, and much of the office furniture and accessories are five years old.
Then I get a letter from the Treasurer's Office - saying that a Lien could be levied on my Office which I do not own - and that if I had some concern - take it with the Assessor's Office.
Threatening me that a lien is on the way - to pay the tax in a couple of weeks. Such ways do not help - especially when the Treasurer's Office has made a fool of itself before at SF City Hall in Room 250.
I am not about to waste my time with idiots - so I just paid the money - after consulting someone from the SF City Treasurer's Office who knew what he was talking about - but said the mistake or whatever it was - was with the Assessor's Office.
Carmen Chu should look into this nonsense - pretending to put the blame on the State of California - trying to charge small businesses on furniture, computers, and other tools we need to work - at time when we are in dire straits. This is not Compton - this is San Francisco.
The City and County of San Francisco - has not lifted a finger to help us Non-Profits nor small businesses - to buy the furniture, the computers, upgrade the tools we want - but wants to charge us - under some wishy-washy - property tax law - crafted by crooks for crooks.
These heads of departments - Joaquin Torres, Jose Cisneros, Carmen Chu, London Breed the Mayor - have NO clue how much suffering is borne by the Non-Profits and small businesses.
Do not test our ire - you scoundrels are paid by us Tax Payers.
All of you make more than $275,000 with benefits - and all your salaries must be cut by half - more. during this COVID-19 pandemic - where you are doing nothing at all - but pussyfooting.
Try getting on the virtual meetings - where so-called experts - are touting that they can help Non-Profits and small businesses with grants and loans - from $5000 to $25,000 and so on.
Why would you want us to share our Social Security with someone - when you can have access to the Federal Employment Identification Number (FEIN) and there are laws that prohibit one from giving one's Social Security - except for important and pertinent situations?
Various organizations backed by the Mayor's Office of Economic Development (MOED) - had so many of us - send them our certifications linked to our Non-Profit way back in February 2020. Nothing happened for months.
Then we received a letter - we did not make it - but that we would hear soon.
We were informed about the second round.
Both rounds used the lottery method - which is suspect - choosing those who knew something - typical of those heading some of these departments - incompetent, weak in the knees, immoral, unethical - perverts that we do not respect - those that are decent and hardworking.
What these scoundrels do well - while they steal taxpayers' money - is advertise virtual meetings - where they tell you about your business - when they know nothing much about any business - much less running their lousy City Departments - that have NO standards. Many will be audited by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Jackasses.
Do you think any sensible person will wait for a grant or loan - after two rounds - taking 8 months - thinking that the third round and then the fourth round - will make you win the jackpot - like most lotteries - that fail to deliver?
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has forced many to think better - and folks like Harlan Kelly the Manager of the SF Public Utilities Commission has resigned.
His rogue ways have landed him in court - he has been charged- has appeared in court - and will spend an inordinate time in jail - when convicted - soon.
20 years minimum but even more as more and more criminal charges are added.
Juliet Ellis who worked for the SF Public Utilities Commission - supposedly their Chief Strategist - who doled out money - left, right, and center in the millions - has resigned.
There is more to this - but I will reveal it as soon as I can paint a full picture.
Suffice to say - good riddance of a WITCH who ruined the lives of many - careers destroyed.
Naomi Kelly the SF City Administrator - has taken leave - she may not come back.
Naomi had jurisdiction over 30, 000 City workers - half of whom will be laid off - just because those in power say so.
Some praise the essential workers - use them like a rag - and after they use them and feel they do not need the " essential workers " out the door you go.
In San Francisco we valued compassion and empathy - we once discerned with our heart in the right place - no more.
Wheeling and dealing in broad daylight - more during the COVID-19 pandemic - is the norm today - saturated by crooks who work from home - and have all the time and tools to cheat, hoodwink, and adversely impact - thousands.
One of the worse departments the Office of Emergency Services - they have failed miserably - when it comes to providing the necessary services.
Those holding important positions - making - over $275,000 a year - more from overtime and other nefarious activities.
Moscone East Convention Center - is a den of crooks - and what happens there is beyond anyone's imagination - that is what happens when you have NO chain of Command - worth the salt.
Today we do not have a qualified Incident Manager - the rank of a Commander - much like the Federal Emergency Management Agency has for decades.
We do not have anyone who has sound experience with logistics on a scale as we have before us today - COVID-19 pandemic.
San Francisco has No Blue Print - linked to sound Quality of Life issues.
We are in a mess - those in power pulling wool over our eyes - as in the case with Naomi Kelly.
Any way you look at it - Naomi Kelly's arrogance brought her down.
Her- sordid deeds - have come to bite her in the butt.
Naomi makes over $400,000 and so did her husband Harlan Kelly - they have two young boys - and guess who suffers?
At a public function - one where hundreds gathered - I looked at Harlan and his father Senior Harlan - and requested them to leave a legacy.
We were gathered at the funeral of Harlan's mother - who I knew separately - and admired the many gathered to give testimony by their presence - and hundred of wreaths - all beautifully displayed.
2021 us upon us - and some think by uttering sweet nothings - we can make good things happen.
Good things happen with good actions - anyone can talk the talk but to walk the walk - you need tenacity and fortitude - one heart in the right place.
No one can discern, get a clear picture - make much happen if you are not educated on issues.
In San Francisco, you have in many Departments - the blind leading the blind.
Hoodwinking and cheating - the crooks filling their pockets with millions - more Community Benefits.
Shamann Walton had access to millions - he must now account for.
he has stolen millions and must be held accountable -
Community Benefits that I fought for the community at large -
not the crooks - who I did not see in the trenches.
Some of them have been nabbed - but the list of those to be nabbed is long - one of the Dwayne Jones - another Shamann Walton.
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