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Committee restores most of IHSS wage increase, forwards interim budget to full Board
Summary
The Budget & Appropriations Committee approved an amendment to restore 75% of a Minimum Compensation Ordinance (MCO) wage increase for In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) workers, funding it through a corresponding reduction in a curb-ramp capital line, and forwarded items 1–3 to the full Board with a positive recommendation. Public commenters urged immediate implementation.
Chair Sandra Lee Feuer said the committee would move forward with an amendment negotiated with the mayor's budget office and the comptroller that ‘‘will restore 75% of the wage increase for IHSS workers through the Minimum Compensation Ordinance beginning September 1.’’ The amendment, read into the record by Feuer, increases the Human Services interim budget for fiscal year 2020–21 by $2,001,503 for MCO increases for IHSS employees and reduces a curb-ramp capital project by a corresponding amount (the transcript record included inconsistent figures for the reduction).
Feuer framed the amendment as a continuation of prior board action…
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