Mayor Gavin Newsom has repeatedly boasted of balancing San Francisco's dire budget deficit without raising taxes - but has quietly introduced hundreds of new fees and fee increases that would make living, working and traveling in the city more expensive.
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More....Get ready to open your wallets wider if you need a city ambulance. A ride, which now costs $1,053, would increase to $1,458, plus the mileage rate would rise from $18 per mile to $28.
Getting a proof-of-death letter from the medical examiner's office for insurance purposes would get more expensive, as would swimming in a public pool, renting a recreation center and working as a street artist. The permit for running a street fair would become three times more expensive than it is now.
Some of the fees would be charged to outside agencies, including charging the FBI, the U.S. Park Service or other counties for use of the medical examiner's advanced drug screening technology. Those fees include $1,200 to test a corpse for date rape drugs and $4,000 per piece of hair to test for drug residue.
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