By Tim Redmond
Sahsa at leftinsf has the full text of the mayor’s wifi initiative posted, and a phrase I hadn’t known about just leaps out:
(4) The City should initially provide the Wi-Fi Network through a public-private partnership that utilizes expertise of the high technology sector and minimizes financial risk to the City;
In other words, the mayor’s official declaration of policy (also signed by Sup. Aaron Peskin, who ought to know better) directly takes on and attempts to derail any type of municipal wifi service. The way Newsom is putting it out, we simply must privatize this piece of public infrastructure.
Nice work.