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Supervisors press DEM on $5.5M Drug Market coordination plan as BLA urges reserves
Summary
City officials debated the Department of Emergency Managements Drug Market Agency Coordination Center (DMACC), with DEM seeking $5.5 million for start-up and operations while the Budget and Legislative Analyst urged reserving $4 million for interdepartmental work orders until plans are finalized.
San FranciscoBudget and Appropriation Committee members spent more than an hour Wednesday interrogating the Department of Emergency Managementabout a newly launched Drug Market Agency Coordination Center, known as DMACC, and whether the department should be the long-term home for what supervisors described as a cross-agency public-safety operation.
Mary Ellen Carroll, DEMexecutive director, told the committee that the mayorand DEM have reposed a $5.5 million initiative to stand up the DMACC. Of that total, Carroll said, roughly $1.277 million is the operational portion that would cover leasing 1155 Market Street, technology and temporary staff; the remainderabout $4 millionis proposed as a one-time reserve for work orders to other departments that would support the centerwork. "We activated this less than two weeks ago," Carroll said, adding DEM expects to provide more operational details by the…
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