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Supervisors debate and re-refer contested public-health supplemental and salary items after vote confusion
Summary
A dispute over midyear revenue, potential state Medicaid matching funds and the use of general-fund reserves led the Board to rescind votes on two Department of Public Health budget and staffing items and refer them back to committee for further consideration.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors debated a midyear public-health supplemental and related salary ordinance at length Tuesday, then voted to rescind earlier approvals and send the measures back to committee for additional work.
Supervisor Daly and Supervisor Avalos urged the board to use recently identified or anticipated revenues to avert layoffs and reclassifications in the Department of Public Health. Avalos described widespread service disruptions and individual examples of long-time clerks and public-health workers being "bumped" from positions. He cited a memo from the health department's CFO reporting the department ended the prior fiscal year about $8.25 million better than anticipated and told colleagues that state legislation (Assembly Bills 1383 and 188) could produce a larger pool of federal matching dollars for hospitals.
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