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Board of Supervisors overrides mayoral veto to fund San Francisco General workers' compensation clinic
Summary
The Board of Supervisors voted 8-3 to override the mayor's veto of an appropriation to preserve the publicly operated workers' compensation clinic at San Francisco General Hospital, reversing an executive budget cut after a contentious debate over privatization and budget priorities.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, April 8, voted 8-3 to override Mayor Gavin Newsom’s veto of an ordinance appropriating funds from the General Fund Reserve to the Human Resources Department to keep the workers’ compensation clinic at San Francisco General Hospital open.
Supporters said preserving the clinic protects a publicly administered service used by city employees; opponents called the vote symbolic amid a broader budget crisis. The board’s override restores the appropriation that supervisors said would otherwise have been cut in the mayor’s budget actions.
Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi argued the clinic’s retention was a check against creeping privatization and said the publicly run clinic had shown improvements in reducing lost work time and other performance measures.…
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