Mayor Mark Farrell’s call for a new 10-member team to fan out across San Francisco offering an instant cure for heroin addiction is the latest attempt to deal with the growing problem of people openly shooting drugs.

It’s also expensive.

The two-year plan includes $370,310 a year for the team’s doctors, $251,344 annually for nurses, $157,185 a year for psychiatric social workers, a full-time health co-coordinator at $89,579, three health workers at $69,000 each, plus a full-time pharmacist at $186,710.

Add in $508,322 for benefits, and it works out to a total of $1.8 million a year for just staff.

The total cost, including the addiction-stopping wonder drug buprenorphine, is estimated at $6 million for two years.

The goal is to get 250 of the city’s estimated 11,000 heroin addicts off the streets and into treatment. That pencils out to about $24,000 per addict — or about $10,000 more than tuition and fees to attend the University of California for one year.

Health department spokeswoman Rachael Kagan, however, said it’s “not correct” to equate the total funding with a per-patient cost for buprenorphine treatment alone, as the street team will be “expanding to provide a wide variety of services over time.”

Nonetheless, the cost of the program is an insight into how the city is spending over $300 million a year on a homelessness problem that shows little sign of improving.

Indeed, from the looks of things, it will be spending even more in the coming years.

Toll take: With just over two weeks to go before the June election, no one knows how the regional measure to raise Bay Area bridge tolls by $3 to pay for transportation projects will fare.

A KPIX-Survey USA phone poll of 584 likely Bay Area voters from May 10 to May 15 found the “yes” on Regional Measure 3 campaign is leading 40 percent to 34 percent, but more than a quarter of those surveyed were undecided. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percent.

The well-financed backers of the plan — which would increase tolls on all seven of the region’s state-owned bridges to pay for $4.5 billion in transportation projects — are gearing up to get it across the finish line.

In recent weeks, the coalition of labor, civic and business organizations has been hitting the nine Bay Area counties with customized cable TV ads touting the projects that will benefit each area.

In San Francisco, for example, the ads boast about improvements to Muni and extending BART to San Jose. Across the bay in Alameda, they highlight plans for a second bay crossing. In Contra Costa County, the pitch is for improvements to the Interstate 680-Highway 4 interchange.

“Our polling shows that when people see the projects, they like them — they want to support (the measure) and get those benefits,” said Michael Cunningham of the Bay Area Council, one of the many business and civic groups backing the effort.

But Sue Caro, regional vice chair of the state Republican Party, said what had once been a toll to maintain the bridges would now be used for unrelated projects.

“It’s what we call a ‘Christmas tree’ program,” Caro said. “They are going to make it look good for all of the different nine counties.”

What their ads don’t mention is the toll hike, which starts at $1 in 2019 and rises to $3 over the next six years.

Nonetheless, Cunningham said, “traffic is terrible. Improvements are needed. Everyone benefits.”

Pay day: Embattled Alameda City Manager Jill Keimach, who secretly taped conversations with two City Council members she felt were pressuring her to hire a union leader as the city’s fire chief, has agreed to a $945,000 walk-away package.

“The terms of the agreement are fair toward me and enable the city to move forward with its important business without the potential of years of litigation,” Keimach told us in a statement.

Keimach had been on paid leave from her $250,000-a-year job since March, when it was revealed that she had secretly taped two City Council members who she said were making veiled threats that she could lose her job unless she hired their preferred candidate for fire chief.

The tapes were uncovered as part of an outside investigation into whether the council members tried to unduly influence Keimach.

The council has asked the Alameda County district attorney to investigate Keimach’s potentially illegal taping, but backed off firing her after dozens of her supporters packed the council chambers last week and rallied to her defense.

In a 3-2 vote, the council agreed to pay out the 22 remaining months on Keimach’s four-year contract. The deal includes $257,400 in severance, 18 months worth of health benefits and a $519,000 annuity to be paid in two installments.

The city is also picking up Keimach’s $125,000 in attorney fees.

“We think it’s a vindication,” said Karl Olson, part of the San Francisco legal team that represented her.

Alameda Mayor Trish Herrera Spencer and Vice Mayor Malia Vella voted against the settlement. But in a statement announcing the deal, Spencer thanked the city manager for her service and said “the city wishes Ms. Keimach well in her continued public sector career.”

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