LETTER TO INTERIM MAYOR FOR DISMISSLE OF THREE MTA COMMISSIONERS

April 25, 2011

Interim Mayor Ed Lee

Members of the Board

City hall, Room 400

One Carlton Goodlett

San Francisco, CA

Mayor Lee:

SUBJECT:    Dismissal of the Police, SFMTA, & Civil Service Boards or Commissions

Mr. Mayor, I am directing this letter to your attention. I am doing so not just due to the pension reform that this City and County need, but due to the reform of up to 1/3 of the bureaucracy of here, too.  This City is top heavy with worthless Commissions, boards which do not do what they were intended to do.  I have three cases in point:

Police Commission:   Our new District Attorney, a man that is masquerading as a Latino DA, when he left the post of Chief of Police, felt no need to let them know of his decision.  At present, this Commission has attempted to manipulate the Public Speaking format during hearing times, by cancelling hearings and pushing the public times to the end of the session.   The Commission has never adequately addressed runaway police pay, their main job.  This is what the MTA accomplished under Ford.

SF Metropolitan Transportation Agency (SFMTA):  At present, this bureaucracy is totally out of control.  Not only does the MTA have a deficit which is most probably over 200 million dollars a year (forget the lies they are publishing) their Chief Nate Ford is so incompetent, for the past year, the board that hired him has been trying to get him to apply for jobs which will let him leave, quietly.  This is one big joke at the agency. Nate Ford took Atlanta’s MARTI into the biggest bankruptcy in their history, and he is doing the same here.  His background in finance is zero, yes 0.  Mercer College gives academic credit for bus driving.  In actuality, Ford is a just bus driver from New York City.  He was picked in Atlanta, according to one newspaper there, “He was picked because they no longer wanted a white guy to do the job.”  In Atlanta, he was accused of embezzlement, ($175,000) and sexual harassment (settlement approx 1.1 million) while on the job. Atlanta paid $190,000 a year, for his incredible incompetence.  We pay him $310,000 a year here.  And, fire Ms Johnson, his aid.  For special services to him, Nate Ford has pushed her pay up and above anything she deserves. More on Ms. Roberta Johnson and this scandal, later. 

Civil Service Commission:  

Emil Lawrence MBA

660 Westfield Road

San Francisco, CA 94128

1-415-513-7705 PCS

cc:   Police Commission, SFMTA Commission, Civil Service Commission