City commissioners may only get paid $50 or $100 for meetings they attend, but as Larry Bush at 
CitiReport reminds, they also get upward of $500 a month in taxpayer-provided health insurance benefits. And that’s whether they bother to show up for meetings or not. Thing is, plenty of them don’t always show up, he says.
Add: In 2006, former Mayor Gavin Newsom directed boards and commissions to forward their attendance records at the end of each fiscal year. But when Bush submitted a public records request for the last three years of such records in May, he got this back from the mayor’s office: “We do not have responsive documents to your request.”
