San Jose's City Council voted 8 to 3 Tuesday to let voters decide this June whether to approve pension reform for city workers in what Mayor Chuck Reed and other council members call an essential move to free up funding for city services. The long-awaited vote came after nearly three hours of rousing public testimony — mostly from city employees — about the measure, proposed by Reed, which would increase those ......

San Public Defender Jeff Adachi's proposal to fix San Francisco's pension woes has qualified for the November ballot, the San Francisco Department of Elections announced Friday afternoon. Adachi submitted 72,699 signatures — far more than the 46,559 required. But the extra padding turned out to be important: Only 48,160 of the signatures were found to be valid, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Competing with Adachi's measure on the ballot will ......

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to put a pension reform measure on the November ballot, one of two proposals on the issue likely to end up in front of the city's voters. The measure, proposed by Mayor Ed Lee in collaboration with various labor and business leaders, seeks to make San Francisco's city workers pay more toward their retirement benefits, would cap the benefits they receive, ......

San Francisco supervisors on Tuesday unanimously voted to add a winner-takes-all provision to the pension-reform measure backed by city officials, labor and business leaders. Both the city-backed measure and a competing proposal put forward by San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi are likely to be on the November ballot. The amendment, introduced by Supervisor Sean Elsbernd, says that whatever measure concerning retirement benefits gets the most votes in November will be ......

Public Defender Jeff Adachi on Monday filed three versions of his much-anticipated ballot measure with the San Francisco Department of Elections. Adachi's previous effort, Proposition B, which would have required city workers to contribute more toward their pension and benefits costs, lost by a wide margin at the polls last November.  But the city's employee costs continue to balloon, and Adachi has made no secret of his plan to try ......