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Budget committee forwards 10‑year capital plan to Board with amendments on youth justice and mental‑health housing
Summary
The Budget & Finance Committee voted without objection to send the city—s 10‑year capital expenditure plan to the full Board with amendments added to reflect juvenile justice facility changes and to add emerging capital needs for mental‑health boarding care and cooperative housing for people with serious mental illness.
The Budget and Finance Committee on April 17 advanced the city—s 10‑year capital expenditure plan to the full Board of Supervisors after adopting amendments to capture capital needs tied to juvenile justice reform and housing for people with serious mental illness.
Supervisor Hillary Ronan proposed the amendments, saying the revisions would ensure the plan reflects ongoing policy shifts "around not only the city's juvenile justice system, but particularly San Francisco's building additional community‑based alternatives to incarceration, as well as a new rehabilitative and education focused youth space run by juvenile probation." Ronan also asked the plan to include options for long‑term housing tied to mental‑health needs, including boarding‑care facilities and cooperative apartments.
President Norman Yee and other supervisors supported Ronan—s changes and urged the committee and city staff to address operating subsidies as well as construction costs. "You can have a building, but you can't afford to operate it," Yee said, urging the committee to pair capital investments with recurring operating funds.
City Administrator Naomi Kelly told the committee that some existing priorities, such as the Golden Gate Park Senior Center, are already tracked in the city's asset database and are likely to be listed in the plan under renewal and modernization, but she agreed to work with Rec and Park staff and supervisors to ensure the need is memorialized in plan language before the full Board considers the resolution.
After public comment from residents and advocates urging attention to senior services and tenant conditions, Chair Sandra Lee Feuer moved to forward the capital plan to the full Board "as amended"; the motion was seconded and taken without objection.
Next steps: the resolution will appear on the Board of Supervisors agenda; staff indicated they will submit revised plan language reflecting the agreed amendments prior to that hearing.
