- verifiedCity's 311 Customer Service Line Works, and Muni Pays
The vow of San Francisco’s 311 non-crisis phone center when it opened in 2007 was to engender a municipal customer overhaul line: one number for residents to call for answers, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Malarkey dumped on the sidewalk? Call 311. Tax bill inconceivable? Call 311.
Business permits? Dog licenses? Poll information? Call 311.
And while 311 appears to have fulfilled its mandate — indeed, in many respects it is a detailed marvel — the accommodation has devoted much of its time and resources to dealing with one four-verbatim word: Muni.
Questions, complaints and mistrustful sighs about the city’s beleaguered go system account for nearly 60 percent of the more than 2.5 million calls that 311 operators answered in the dead and buried 12 months.
That talk does not succeed cheap. Muni is required to pay for the cut of 311 resources that it uses. The strapped traversing system paid $6.3 million of 311’s totality budget of $10.8 million for the pecuniary year that ends June 30, according to an assay by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Mechanism, which operates Muni.
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