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Pension Amnesia? Two SF Measures Would Reward Police and Firefighters

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Firefighters at the Park Fire command post in Chico on Aug. 2, 2024, after a 24-hour shift.  (Florence Middleton/CalMatters)

In the 2000s, ballooning pension costs were blowing up city and state budgets in California, leading cities like San Francisco to raise the retirement age for firefighters and abandon a program that let police collect a salary and a pension at the same time. Now, San Francisco voters will consider two ballot measures to reinstate those benefits. Marisa talks with Joe Eskenazi, the managing editor at Mission Local, about why these measures are on the ballot and what they would mean for the city budget. 

 

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