People's Budget Collaborative:

Providers, advocates, and recipients for City services in San Francisco have advocated for a progressive agenda in City Budget issues, including collecting more revenue from corporations and the rich, fighting City service cuts that hurt the poor and working population, saving money on City projects that are genuinely wasteful, and identifying service the City should be providing. People's Budget Collaborative's 2004 Budget document can be seen on this website.

Proposition 63:

The Mental Health Initiative, would provide mental health services an estimated $700 million statewide and $40 million citywide, to be financed by a statewide 1% tax on income over $1 million. Mental Health services have been under funded in San Francisco for years. SEIU 790 is planning a series of presentations on the initiative to various groups in San Francisco. Visit the Prop 63 website.

Proposition 72:

Passage of Prop 72 would keep in place the already-passed "SB2" legislation.

This law mandates companies with over 50 employees to provide individual health coverage, and companies with over 200 employees to provide family health coverage. Failing this, companies would pay into a state fund to provide this coverage.

The law would extend coverage to over one million of California's 4.5 million uninsured, would extend coverage to many families, and would reduce the burden on already-under-funded county and other safety-net providers. The law is under attack by by business, particularly fast food (McDonalds) and retail (Macy's and Walmart.)

In the legal process approving November initiatives, the California Secretary of State changed some wording, so now YES ON Prop 72, affirms SB2 and keeps employer-mandated healthcare in place.

Visit the Save Your Healthcare website.