Press
May 6th, 2009
YEE FIGHTS FOR FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY
Signs of Trouble
S.F. School Officials Overlooked the Indications of Misspent Millions
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/11/12/MN141006.DTL
EXCERPT: In 1999, the Board of Supervisors, at the urging of Supervisor Leland Yee, a former school board member, told the district to make quarterly reports on bond fund expenditures beginning in 2000. It was Yee, who, as a member of the school board, requested the 1995 Coopers & Lybrand audit.
Supervisor Blasts S.F. Schools
Leland Yee demands probe of finances
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/04/03/MNW172227.DTL
EXCERPT: “The irresponsible financial practices of our school district are incomprehensible and affecting the standards of our children’s education,” Yee said.
Yee Seeks City Probe of School Finances
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-binj/article.cgi?file=/examiner/archive/2000/04/10/NEWS10434.dtl
“We are getting increased demands from the school district to bail them out,” said Yee. “I’m not interested in letting these city dollars continue to flow without being assured they are flowing to children in the classroom,” he said.
S.F. School Board President Under Fire
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/archive/2000/05/18/NEWS13169.dtl
EXCERPT: San Francisco Budget Analyst Harvey Rose, at Yee’s request, studies the school district’s financial practices and concluded this week that The City’s public schools are in serious financial straits and the problems “should be addressed immediately if not sooner.”
S.F. School Board Takes Heat
Supervisors excoriate official for district’s financial mess
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/05/18/MN83652.DTL
EXCERPT: “Not one more penny until I get some sense you are not wasting my money or my children’s money,” added Yee, whose four children have all attended the city’s schools.
YEE FIGHTS FOR OUR NEIGHBORHOODS AND FAMILIES
Supervisor Leland Yee Wants to Be an Advocate for Children and Neighborhoods
http://www.noevalleyvoice.com/1998/May/yee.html
EXCERPT: “…I think that is something that has marked my career. I’m sensitive to the voices of the neighborhoods, and not to those of the power groups. I think that the voices of the neighborhood are more genuine,” said Yee.
The Sunshine Initiative Endorsement of Supervisor Leland Yee http://www.sunshinesf.com/update.html
EXCERPT: “As taxpayers, we need to know how our money is being spent, and as voters we need to know how decisions in City Hall are being made when the doors close… Our right to know must be protected, our freedom of information is at stake.”
http://www.studebakerforcongress.com/welcome/
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