San Francisco's plan to host two Chinese pandas hit a roadblock after city supervisors questioned the amount of money needed to take care of them.
hit a major snag after the city’s Board of Supervisors rejected her fundraising proposal to care for the fuzzy newcomers.
The pandas were pitched by Breed as a tourism boost for the city and its zoo but the Board of Supervisors voted to postpone her funding request, calling it a distraction as San Francisco faces other funding needs, NBC“We do need to make sure we have the information to make sure we prevent actual conflicts of interest here, and make sure this is all being done transparently,” Preston said.
The short-term one, which will cost between $3 million and $5 million, required renovating an existing facility for the bears. The second plan involved building them an entirely new habitat that will cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $20 million.
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