In regard to Ken Garcia’s column (The Examiner, April 29) about taxpayers saying no to more expenditures, I couldn’t agree more. It seems like San Francisco is a city that expects its residents to have endless cash reserves, when The City itself does not. All this while The City pays employees, such as the head of Muni, ridiculous sums of money, while that agency underperforms year after year.

Please help save this theater. The Metro is one of the best and last remaining neighborhood movie theaters in San Francisco. It is an important attraction for the Union Street neighborhood commercial district and draws visitors from throughout San Francisco and the Bay Area. It is also a significant historic resource designed by prominent architects the Reid Brothers, a beautiful and unique community asset that can never be replaced. The Metro is also the original home of the San Francisco International Film Festival, which was first organized in 1957. Also, and equally important, the 1941 murals in the Metro’s interior are the work of Anthony Heinsbergen, considered the foremost designer of North American movie theater interiors and are in mint condition due to a 1998 renovation.

Although Ken Garcia is right about the Cow Palace structures not deserving preservation as a landmark, bashing that section of Daly City and nearby SF is unwarranted.

Think globally, act locally has taken on new meaning as we face the dictatorial governments in China, the Middle East and South America.