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GAO Committee continues amended health-code ordinance to require adult residential facility; working group structure set
Summary
The Government Audit & Oversight Committee reviewed substantive amendments to an ordinance requiring the Department of Public Health to maintain an adult residential facility with no fewer than 41 beds and set a 12-member working group to oversee implementation. Because the amendments were substantive, the committee continued the item to its Nov. 21 meeting for final action.
The Government Audit & Oversight Committee on Nov. 13 reviewed substantive amendments to an ordinance that would amend the San Francisco Health Code to require the Department of Public Health (DPH) to maintain and operate an adult residential facility with no fewer than 41 beds.
Carolyn Goosen of Supervisor Ronan’s office told the committee the board had passed prior legislation to save the city’s only boarding care facility for people with severe mental illness and that her office had duplicated the file to refine one component: the specific structure and parameters of the management-staff working group. "Before you today is an amended, duplicated file that incorporates all of the details," Goosen said, summarizing the changes the committee considered.
The amendments set the working group composition and procedures. The ordinance language presented calls for a 12-member working group composed of six management-level DPH staff, four staff representatives appointed from SEIU Local 1021 (presented in the file as "SEIU 1021"), and two Local 21 representatives who work at the behavioral health center. Appointees may receive their regular salary while participating during scheduled hours; union appointees from SEIU Local 1021 and Local 21 would serve on release time consistent with MOU provisions. The working group must hold an inaugural meeting no more than 30 days after at least seven members are appointed, meet at least monthly thereafter, and prepare a report every six months to the mayor and the Board of Supervisors.
There was no public testimony on the item. Committee members accepted the amendments as substantive and, because of that, the chair continued the item to the Nov. 21, 2019 GAO meeting so the committee may vote on the amended ordinance at that time.
What happens next: the committee will consider the revised ordinance and take a vote at its Nov. 21 GAO meeting. If approved by the committee, the ordinance would proceed to the full Board of Supervisors for final action.
