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Every week, your city makes decisions that touch your block: rent rules, street repaving, where a new shelter opens. Most of it happens in long meetings almost nobody can attend, captured in a public record that is hard to read.
PolisDesk reads it so you do not have to. Every Friday, we tell you what San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose decided that week, in plain English, in a few minutes.
We think this matters. When neighbors know what their city decided, more of them take part, and local government works better for it.
Our job is simple: what passed, what changed, and what this means for you.
We take no side. A 7-4 vote is a 7-4 vote, not a good call or a bad one. We tell you what happened and let you decide what to think. When something is unclear, we say so, because we would rather leave a gap than fill it with a guess.
Two ways to read:
- Floor Pass. The Friday email covering council and supervisor decisions across all three cities, plus the full archive. Free.
- Committee Pass. Everything in Floor Pass, plus committee coverage, where most of the work happens before it reaches the full council. $4 a month or $40 a year.
No ads. No sponsors in the feed. PolisDesk is funded by readers, so the only people we answer to are the people who read it.
If you want to know what your local government decided, and how it lands on your street, PolisDesk is for you.