The caption goes here. A new ordinance will affect many of the roughly 10,000 U.S. companies that contract with the city to provide everything from banking services to office supplies.
Critics call the policy ill-conceived and costly, approved without ample study or public notice.
We think San Francisco taxpayers get the highest-quality services for their money when the city keeps its options open. We do the same work, our spousal status is virtually the same. In San Francisco, Bank of America officials have discussed such a policy but haven't enacted it. The city's Board of Supervisors gave the ordinance unanimous approval after considering it since last February. Mayor Willie Brown signed it in early November.