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Committee forwards multi-year youth grants for JCYC and a retroactive HRC contract while flagging audit and oversight concerns
Summary
The committee advanced two multi-year grant agreements for the Japanese Community Youth Council (JCYC) — one through the Department of Children, Youth & Their Families and another retroactively through the Human Rights Commission — and agreed a controller audit should examine fund controls and participant reporting; both items were forwarded to the full Board.
The Budget & Appropriations Committee advanced two related youth-program grants to the full Board on June 20 while outlining oversight follow-up. Item 7 authorized a five-year grant to the Japanese Community Youth Council for multiple programs (Mayor’s Youth Employment & Education Program, SF STEM Academy, and a Japantown youth leadership program) with a not-to-exceed 5‑year amount of about $40,386,800. Item 6 directed the Human Rights Commission to retroactively enter a grant with JCYC for its Opportunities for All youth-works program (5-year, not-to-exceed roughly $43.2 million). Both were forwarded with positive recommendations.
BLA review and audit flag: The Budget & Legislative Analyst supported Item 7 after summarizing the RFP, monitoring plans and recent fiscal compliance monitoring of JCYC (no findings). For Item 6 (the retroactive HRC grant), BLA noted discrepancies in reported participant counts and an apparent lack of sufficient controls over fund disbursement and recommended the Board request a controller’s financial audit; the committee discussed the tradeoff between urgent program start (summer internships) and the need for an audit. "Because the audit has not yet occurred, approval of the proposed resolution is a policy matter for the board of supervisors," BLA told the committee.
Technical correction: DCYF reported a technical correction to the grant agreement: a subcontractor entry for a "human service agency" was removed from the draft grant; the department submitted a revised contract to the Clerk.
Committee action: With no public speakers, the committee voted to forward both Items 7 and 6 to the full Board with positive recommendations, recording roll-call votes in favor (four ayes, Peskin absent). The committee also accepted the corrected contract documents for referral.
What’s next: The full Board will consider both grant agreements. BLA’s audit recommendation and the technical correction to the grant will inform Board deliberations and potential audit requests.
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