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Stanford University, that higher-learning institute that most of us did not get into, is feeling the economic pinch just like their public school plebeian counterparts. Senior administrators at Stanford plan on taking a salary cut this year, including the school president and provost. The cuts will affect 15 to 20 positions with salaries that begin in $250,000 range, so, you know, no worries. President John Hennessy, who takes in $700,000 annually, has volunteered to take a 10% reduction. In other Stanford news, someone (allegedly) climbed down Hoover Tower late last night, taping huge footprints to the side of the building. Anybody have pics of this youthful frivolity? If so, do send them our way.

As the SFMTA looks deep into the abyss of a budget deficit in the $40 million range, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency chief Nathaniel Ford has decided he wants to halt the annual $40K-plus raise and bonus coming his way. Ford's base contract salary, currently set at an envious $315,140/year, would have added a $13,236 raise and a performance bonus of $26,787. Aw. (SFGate)

Aw. This kind of sucks. School teacher Margaret Pavese got slapped with a misdemeanor charge for causing the 47+-acre Lick fire that erupted on Labor Day Weekend.

According to a press release put out on PR Newswire by her attorney, Dr. Arlene Ackerman has filed suit against the San Francisco Unified School District in San Francisco Superior Court.

Well, some pretty good news for teachers in Ravenswood City School District: their union has managed to get them a little more scratch.

The East Bay Biz Times is reporting that Whole Foods is planning a major expansion throughout the East Bay. Yes, soon enough, Lafayette, Dublin, and Oakland will be able to experience the "whole paycheck" phenomenon.

It's good to be a starting lawyer at a big firm these days. Cal Law reports that a number of prominent, large, local firms keep raising salaries for staring associates, leading to peers to do the same.

"Ain't nothin' but a ballgame fellas, ain't nothin' but a thing."

That's probably what Baron Davis and Stephen Jackson were telling their teammates Tuesday night on the flight home to Oaktown after letting the Dallas Mavericks slip the hangman's knot in game 5, 118-112.

With the series now a little tighter at 3-2 in favor of the Warriors, the C word (choke) hangs over Tuesday's bobble like Adonal Foyle's contract against the Warriors salary cap. We're still seeing all this as a win-win though. Game 5 was an incredible game for playoff-starved Warriorphiles. Both teams played spirited ball. The Mavericks faced down elimination from the very brink of defeat. The Warriors had a chance to close out their opening round best-of-seven playoff series with the Mavs, but couldn't quite pull it off. The game featured great defense, clutch shots, a little intrigue (again), last-second heroics, and playoff drama -- everything a hoops fan expects from the postseason.

Fun fact: Muni is required to pay its drivers based on what the two highest-paying transit systems in the country offer. Right now, that works out to about $27 an hour, and amazingly, the Union likes that just fine. But you can spoil their good mood pretty quick by talking about tying compensation to performance.

File Under: Terminal Shopping Spring is springing all around us (Hello, Sunshine!) and while we can't afford to go on a real vacation on our salary, we can afford to dream. Which is why we love Flight 001.

We've learned so much about mayoral communications director Peter Ragone from this article in the Sunday Chron! Since it's a Sunday (and there's no Swells today), we're naturally giving it the SFist By The Numbers treatment.

You think Gavin Newsom'll shave off all his hair next, just like rehabbing Britney Spears?

So imagine you have a job. And imagine you're really good at your job. You know it, your coworkers know it, and your bosses know it. Now imagine that there's a management position that opens up which would be a great promotion for you. So you apply for it. You think you would be great at the job, your coworkers think you would be great at the job and your friends think you would be great at the job. Now imagine that instead of you getting the job, the head of the company give it to some snot nosed punk straight out of school with no experience. Welcome to Rob Ryan's world

Alright, let's take a look at this Zito signing after we've all had a day to absorb everything. First, more details of the deal has been released. The key thing is that Zito will make only $10 million this year as he agreed to backload some of his salary to help the Giants and their budget. Which is another way of saying "have money left over for the other Barry." The signing should come soon. The Giants budget this year will be $92 million, their highest yet and about $12 million more than their standard $80 million. This all sounds well and good-- we like teams that spend to win, but one wonders what would have happened if they decided to break the bank earlier. Like, oh, resigning Jeff Kent. Or going after Vlade. Or another good starter to back up Jason Schmidt.

You know what hasn't been done yet? Barry Bonds' contract. In fact, while everyone is saying it's a done deal, it's not quite done, meaning that the i's haven't been dotted and the t's haven't been crossed and Barry Lamar's John Henry has not yet been put on a piece of paper.

--SF Director of Emergency Services Annemarie Conroy has been demoted (but is keeping her salary).

A couple of days ago, the Niners announced that they finally had their front office football guy and hired him. The new honcho: Lal Heneghan. Heneghan, 42, worked for seven years with the NFL and was vice president of football operations for the Cleveland Browns 2.0 from 1999-2004. Heneghan is supposedly a whiz at contract negotiations and the whacky world of the NFL salary cap, a job that has become one of the most important in the NFL. He will work directly under head coach Mike Nolan and VP of Player Personnel Scot McCloughan.

Welcome, readers, to an all-too-rare edition of SFist Answers, where we pretend to know stuff. Today's theme: crying. Let's make people cry. Fun!

Remember how we said the Rai-duhs weren't going to release Kerry Collins? Oops. Yesterday they officially released Collins in an attempt to save the Raiders 9.1 million against the salary cap. We had actually thought Collins was that much safer because of the new CBA which raised team's salary cap to $102 million and gave the Raiders more money, but we were wrong.

Tomorrow, teams in the NFL have to announce whom they're keeping and whom they're releasing. After that happens, it’s free agent signing time. So Tomorrow is the start of football's Hot Stove Heater, or whatever it is they call it in the NFL. Yep, it's the time of year where one can sit around and dream up any ole thing (Daunte AND T.O. to the Rai-duhs!) even though it'll never happen and only makes people extremely disappointed when it doesn't happen. See Giants fans still better that the Giants never signed Vlad. As much as we love all this, we much prefer baseball's free agent dreaming as the salary cap weighs way too much in all of this and let's just say SFist barely made it through Physics for Poets. This year we find the Bay Area teams at opposite sides of the salary cap spectrum. The Niners got rid of some deadweight (like Ahmed Plummer) and are rolling in dough. That sounds great except the Niners front office still appears to be Dysfunction Junction and unable to agree on much of anything. Good luck with that, Niners fans.

This week, the San Francisco symphony was performing an all Russian program which will definitely be one of the highlights of its upcoming trip to China. However, the trip was momentarily on hold, as the renegotiation of the musicians contract was proving unsatisfactory. They just reached an agreement this Monday morning, which they should sign and disclose very soon. The main sticking point: musicians want a pay package in the middle of the zone defined by the contracts of the seven top orchestras in the country (New York, Chicago, Boston, Cleveland, Philadelphia, LA, and SF) while the current offer from management stands at the bottom. Both sides of the negotiation we talked to offered reasonable and careful statements, acknowledging that talks are ongoing and hoping for a quick resolution.

Saturday: There are a disturbing number of options for New Year's Eve, but we're going with Friends of SFist and R.E.M. tribute band Chronic Town, which is playing a cover free show at Ireland's 32. It all gets started at around 9 p.m., and we hear there'll be free champagne at midnight.

Dang, if we'd known you could make that much money in academia, we'd've studied harder for the GREs! The UC faces yet another embarrassment, as it now comes out that in the wake of tuition increases and department cutbacks, the academic admin staff is routinely pulling down salaries of over $300,000 -- to do nothing. Former Cal chancellor Robert Berdahl got an annual salary of $315,000 for a 13 month leave, provost MRC Greenwood is on a 15 month leave at a $301,840 salary, and the former head of the Lawrence Berkeley labs is finishing up a one-year leave at $336,000. This is all despite the fact that the UC put a policy in place against this back in 1994. The Regents explain that these folks are taking their leaves as administrators before they return to teaching -- because in part their salaries are significantly lower as mere professors ($130,000 for Berdahl, for instance), and these faculty members say they've been using the time off to work on books and lectures. The UC's been having a hard time explaining their pay practices lately -- the Chron's also uncovered evidence that as part of a lawsuit settlement, another administrator from Davis is receiving $200,000+ with no official job duties, all administrators got 3% merit pay raises, as tuition goes up 8-10%. They've called in an outside auditor.

The Examiner reports that new Muni transportation director Nathaniel P. Ford, Sr. (we love that name -- doesn't he sound like the guy who should be on the $7 bill or something?) wil become San Francisco's highest paid official when he takes over the position next year.

Earlier this week, State Senator Abel Maldonado, R-Santa Maria, called for hearings into salary compensation and raises in the University of California system. Apparently, the UC people have been hiring a bunch of people at mid-level salaries, and then gave them all sorts of extra goodies. Not to mention kick-ass raises. All this would be all well and good except for the fact nobody at UC let the Powers That Be know that they were going to do this. Oh, and they just cut a whole bunch of student services and raised fees too. In short, juicy salary raises + lots of free stuff + cuts to student services= pissed off people.

...oh no!! The whale's back! The whale that was previously beached in Half Moon Bay that just washed out to sea a few days ago has resurfaced -- floating on the waters right by Half Moon Bay's Ritz-Carlton hotel. "It doesn't smell like incense," says a marine biologist, no doubt rubbing his hands together with glee. Hotel management claims they haven't had any complaints yet, but the Merc notes that "gelatinous blobs of dead whale" will probably start washing ashore any minute now. Oakland City Councilmember Desley Brooks is under investigation for accepting kickbacks. Brooks was apparently funneling money through the daughter of her boyfriend, who was getting paid $5200/month while enrolled in college on the East Coast. Brooks, who it sounds like is not the most popular councilmember in the world, claims it's all a setup by Council President Ignacio de la Fuenta to get her out of office. And two shootings in SF last night -- one at 26th and Treat, one in Crocker Amazon Park. Both victims are at SF General and the shooters remain at large.

So last week the Gavster announced this big, huge plan to build more housing, even low-cost housing. The point being, of course, the more housing the better, especially more low-cost housing, because the more housing you have, the less expensive housing will be. Gavin's idea is that with just the waving of the magic wand of better bureaucracy, the Department of Building Inspectors and the Planning Commission will have easier times allowing for more housing to be built.

Sandoval is alerting people to the fact that he's running for Assessor. The election will be in November; if there's an incumbent, it will be an appointed incumbent, as Mabel Teng has resigned. The Mayor can appoint someone, but they will face an immediate election (not re-election.)

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