Oy gevalt! Board MIA for Jewish holiday

‘They must be in mourning over Don Fisher,” my friend offered, wryly. I was at a party Monday night and had asked some pals who are politicos what they thought of the Board of Supervisors canceling every meeting this week. “One less week when they can screw me!” another friend said. “If it were up to me, I’d give them the rest of the year off.”

Ostensibly, there are no sessions in honor of Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement that began at sunset Sunday, and ended at nightfall Monday. Indeed, it did seem odd that the board would cancel a Tuesday meeting — and all subsequent meetings this week — on account of a holiday that ended Monday.

As board President David Chiu told me, this year’s schedule of meetings was set by last year’s board. Chiu said he did reach out to several colleagues to see if he should call a special meeting, but apparently some supervisors (he didn’t say who) had already made plans to be out of town. “We’ll look at this issue in November when we set the schedule for next year,” Chiu said.

I moseyed down to City Hall on Tuesday at around 2 p.m., hoping to find supervisors sitting in contemplative silence, atoning for the fact that there have only been two board meetings in the past six weeks. Needless to say, that was not the case.

I can report, however, that the lone Jewish supervisor, Bevan Dufty, was hard at work in his office. What a mensch!

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Comments

[mschool]

Bevan, what a meshugah!

[Howard Epstein]

Bevan Dufty, every Jew I know and I worked on Tuesday. I hope their pay is docked for this non-holiday. On the other hand, the City was safe for another day.

[Melissa Griffin]

I asked several Jewish friends if they'd be working Tuesday and they all said yes (and looked at me like I was an idiot for asking). I don't think any Supe's pay was docked - they are salaried. We'll keep an eye on this for next year!