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Board rejects last-minute amendment to reserve disability-access funds for homeless services; ordinance passes on first reading
Summary
The Board of Supervisors voted down an amendment that would have reallocated previously reserved disability-access funds to preserve services including Buster's Place; the underlying ordinance reserving the funds passed on first reading.
Supervisor Daley proposed an amendment to restore a prior funding plan and use reserve funds to cover services facing cuts, including Buster's Place, mental-health clinic funding and a chronic home-care nursing program. The motion was seconded by Supervisor Mercarimi and failed in a roll-call vote, 4–6. The ordinance as introduced remained on the calendar and passed on first reading by a 6–4 vote.
The amendment, described by Daley as an effort to "make whole" several vulnerable programs, sought to reallocate money from a disability-access appropriation for the Board of Supervisors chambers and the City Administrator's office back to a package of general fund protections for social services. Daley told the board that Buster's…
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