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Officials warn of funding shortfall and supply‑chain pressures for 2016 Public Health & Safety Bond projects
Summary
Project leads told the Commission that construction inflation, long lead times for materials and a difficult bidding environment have created a roughly $85 million shortfall in current budgets for bond projects; they described mitigation actions and highlighted recently opened clinics.
City capital staff briefed the Commission on progress and risks for the 2016 Public Health & Safety Bond program, reporting completed clinics, continuing hospital campus work and a funding gap driven by construction‑market changes.
Mark Primo, DPH capital oversight advisor, and project leads summarized completed and near‑complete projects, including the recently opened Southeast Family Health Center (a 22,000 sq. ft. clinic that began seeing patients July 29) and the Castro Mission re‑occupancy planned for late August. They also described major cost…
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