{"id":1704448,"date":"2022-10-20T15:34:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T19:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1704448"},"modified":"2022-10-20T15:34:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T19:34:22","slug":"california-drops-1-7-million-on-single-public-toilet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-drops-1-7-million-on-single-public-toilet\/","title":{"rendered":"California Drops $1.7 Million on Single Public Toilet"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcalifornia-drops-1-7-million-on-single-public-toilet%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1704448&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Democrats scrap celebration of toilet purchase after media ridicule exorbitant price tag<\/p>\n<p>    A public restroom in San Francisco \/ Wikimedia Commons   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/philip-caldwell\/\" title=\"Posts by Philip Caldwell\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Philip Caldwell<\/a> \u2022 October 20, 2022 3:30 pm  <\/p>\n<p>California Democrats secured $1.7 million in state funding for a single public toilet in a San Francisco park, and they&#8217;re now scrapping an event celebrating the investment following backlash over the exorbitant price tag.<\/p>\n<p>Assemblyman Matt Haney (D.) successfully included funding in the state budget for a bathroom in San Francisco&#8217;s Noe Valley Town Square after residents expressed a need for a restroom in the 150-square-foot space, the <em>San Fransisco Chronicle\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/sf\/bayarea\/heatherknight\/article\/million-dollar-toilet-17518443.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> Wednesday. The city&#8217;s Recreation and Parks Department came up with the $1.7 million estimate and determined the bathroom would not be ready to use until 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Haney initially touted the investment and defended the price tag to the <em>Chronicle<\/em>, saying, &#8220;They told me $1.7 million, and I got $1.7 million. \u2026 I didn&#8217;t have the option of bringing home less of the bacon when it comes to building a toilet.&#8221; He also planned a Wednesday press conference in Noe Valley Town Square to celebrate the toilet, alongside state senator Scott Wiener (D.) and city supervisor Rafael Mandelman (D.).<\/p>\n<p>But after the <em>Chronicle<\/em> on Wednesday morning published a column ridiculing the cost of the toilet and quoting experts who called the project&#8217;s price tag absurd, Haney abruptly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/sf\/bayarea\/heatherknight\/article\/Celebration-for-S-F-s-1-7-million-toilet-17520998.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">canceled<\/a> the event. Now he&#8217;s changing his tune about the cost to build the toilet and says he&#8217;ll send a formal letter to the Recreation and Parks Department demanding an explanation for the project&#8217;s price and timeline.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m glad that Noe Valley will at some point get a bathroom, but it shouldn&#8217;t cost this much and it shouldn&#8217;t take this long, and I&#8217;m angry about it,&#8221; Haney told the <em>Chronicle<\/em>. &#8220;It&#8217;s not something I want to celebrate right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tom Hardiman, the executive director of the Modular Building Institute, a construction trade association in Charlottesville, Va., was taken aback when the<em> Chronicle\u00a0<\/em>informed him of the cost to build the toilet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is to build one public restroom?&#8221; Hardiman asked. &#8220;What are they making it out of\u2014gold and fine Italian marble? It would be comical if it wasn&#8217;t so tragically flawed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hardiman said that within minutes he was able to find a contractor who installed seven bathrooms in Los Angeles for the same amount San Francisco is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Democrats secured $1.7 million in state funding for a single public toilet in a San Francisco park, and they&#8217;re now scrapping an event celebrating the investment following backlash over the exorbitant price tag.<br \/>\nThe post California Drops $1.7 Million on Single Public Toilet appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":1704454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1704448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1704454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}