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Committee adds reporting and forwards six-month waiver to let mayor solicit donations for homelessness and behavioral-health initiatives

5959316 · October 16, 2025
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Summary

The committee approved a six-month behested-payment waiver for the mayor's office to raise funds for the "Breaking the Cycle" homelessness and behavioral-health initiative and added a requirement that departments report donors, amounts and interested-party relationships within 60 days of waiver expiration.

San Francisco — The Government Audit and Oversight Committee on Oct. 16 voted to amend and forward a six-month behested-payment waiver allowing the mayor and designated members of the mayor's office to solicit donations to support the "Breaking the Cycle" homelessness, behavioral health and addiction-response initiative.

Policy chief Kunal Modi told the committee the mayor's Breaking the Cycle fund, formed in partnership with private philanthropy and other partners, has "roughly raised around $40,000,000" since May; later in the hearing Modi said the mayor—s office had "in the…

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