SF Supervisor Demands NFL Reimbursement For Super Bowl 50 ExpensesSupervisor Jane Kim is fighting to get the National Football League, not San Francisco taxpayers, to foot the nearly $5 million bill for the costs associated with upcoming Super Bowl 50 events. [...]
"City departments have been requested by the Mayor's Office to identify $4,375,765 of surplus in their General Fund allocations and/or redirect staff time and other resources from planned projects to support this extraordinary special event," the analysis states.
Protip: You have to negotiate this sort of stuff BEFORE an event.
You did see that the linked article was published nearly a month ago, right? (Still a last ditch public attempt by 15 January, but the suggestion seems to be that trying to make the right thing happen internally had failed up to that point.)
I went to law school with her.