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San Francisco proposes $2.8 billion DPH budget with expanded behavioral‑health funding
Summary
DPH Director Grant Colfax outlined a $2.8 billion two‑year budget that preserves Mental Health SF components, adds funding for overdose prevention teams, new treatment bed contracts and expanded non‑law‑enforcement crisis response. Supervisors pressed for details on beds, staffing and timelines.
Grant Colfax, director of the San Francisco Department of Public Health, told the Budget & Appropriations Committee that the department’s proposed $2,800,000,000 budget would preserve core pandemic response and carry forward key behavioral‑health investments. “This is our $2,800,000,000 budget,” Colfax said in his five‑minute overview, adding it supports more than 7,300 full‑time equivalents and funds hospital and long‑term care operations.
Colfax emphasized the budget’s focus on Mental Health SF: new non‑police crisis response capacity, increased operating support for the behavioral health pharmacy and the drug sobering center, and work toward filling planned treatment beds. Chief Financial Officer Jenny Louie told supervisors the budget assumes operating costs…
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