Governor Newsom rejected a proposal by PG&E to exit bankruptcy with a $13.5 billion settlement to victims of wildfires since 2015. Without commenting on the settlement, Newsom blasted the company’s plan to leave bankruptcy as it does not do enough to change corporate governance, in the governor’s opinion. Newsom has called for a new board of directors and changes to the company’s financial structure. Under AB1054, a law the governor backed, utilities would be protected from future fire costs if they made improvements. Newsom’s rejection comes while PG&E waits for U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali to consider their settlement with the victims on Tuesday.

The San Francisco Police Department and United Playaz, a San Francisco-based violence prevention and youth development organization, will host a gun buyback today. It will be held from 8 am till noon at 1038 Howard St. in SOMA.

A panel of experts put together by Mayor London Breed has found MUNI is severely lacking not just in drivers but in maintenance workers. Vacancy rates are up 45% for some positions with MUNI. MUNI faces multiple problems for recruitment: the high cost of living in San Francisco, competing with PG&E for electrical workers, and heavy traffic that slows buses down, which requires more buses to run, and more drivers to run them, just to maintain the basic level of service. The city controller will review the findings of the panel and put together a report in January.

The San Francisco Police Department will hold a town hall meeting Tuesday, 6 pm, at Cesar Chavez Elementary School at 825 Shotwell St. to discuss a recent officer-involved shooting in the Mission District. Jamaica Hampton, 24, was shot after allegedly assaulting police officers, who were responding to a burglary, with a weapon. An officer also suffered from injuries but they were not life threatening. More information has not been released at this time.

In a heated letter to City College Chancellor Mark Rocha, Assemblyman Phil Ting has called on City College of San Francisco to do more to save the Older Adults program. The program provided 50 noncredited classes free to seniors in their 70s and 80s in everything from computer skills to music. Over 2,000 people have used the program. It cost less than $1 million to administer. The cuts are part of City College’s elimination of 20% of their class offering due to budget cuts. Assemblyman Ting complained about the Chancellor’s seemingly zealous pursuit of cutting programs that are more focused on community well being rather than graduation and has stated the administration can save such programs if it allocated its resources better.

District 11 Supervisor Ahsha Safai is trying to prevent Lyft from cancelling cash payments for their bikeshare program. A city law was passed earlier this year requiring all bikesharing companies to accept cash payments. Safai is looking into whether the law applies to Lyft. If it does not, he will amend the law to include Lyft’s Bay Wheels. In the meantime, Safai is preventing any new construction of bike dockets in his district as long as Lyft doesn’t accept cash payments.

E-Scooter company Skip is out of business in San Francisco for the foreseeable future, after an error in formatting in the safety section of their application led to a disqualifying score on their renewal paperwork. Approved scooter companies include almost all of those who dropped hundreds of scooters on SF streets without a permit. Skip played by the rules and won an initial bid to operate.

Skip, whose safety issues regarding their batteries catching fire is well documented but not a stated reason for the denial from the SFMTA, is appealing the ruling, they are unable to keep doing business in SF during the process, leading one exec to bemoan following the SF rules in the first place.

Bay Area dog lovers filed a lawsuit against the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in SF federal court on Thursday, claiming new “substantial and controversial” restrictions on dog walking in GGNRA parks violate previous policy.

Just six of these people received shelter. 

Following San Francisco City College’s announcement that it would have to cut a series of classes in the Spring due to budget shortfalls, Supervisor Shamann Walton proposed legislation to avert these cuts with a $2.7 million allocation of City funds from the general fund.