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Supervisors forward MHSA performance contract and annual update to full Board
Summary
At its March 5, 2014 Budget and Finance Committee meeting, supervisors heard presentations on a retroactive $0 performance contract to accept state and federal mental-health funding and the FY2013–14 Mental Health Services Act annual update, then voted to forward both items to the full Board with recommendation.
San Francisco — On March 5, 2014, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors’ Budget and Finance Committee voted to forward two Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) items to the full Board: a retroactive performance contract that sets conditions for accepting state and federal mental‑health funds, and the FY2013–14 annual update to the city’s MHSA program and expenditure plans.
Supervisor Mark Farrell, chair of the committee, called Marlo Simmons of the Department of Public Health to summarize the items. Simmons said the performance contract is a “$0 contract” that establishes the conditions the department must meet to receive several funding streams, including the federal PATH grant for services to people experiencing homelessness, the federal mental health block grant, and MHSA funds distributed monthly by the state controller. “It’s really about compliance reporting data collection,” Simmons said.
Severn Campbell of the Budget and Legislative Analyst Office told the committee the Board had already approved $33,000,000 for FY2013–14 and that staff estimate roughly $34,000,000 for FY2014–15. Campbell described the performance contract as retroactive for FY2013–14 and explained a separate approval would be required for the following fiscal year.
Supervisor Eric Marr asked whether the department had projections tied to the governor’s budget and noted ongoing debates in Sacramento about restoring cuts. “Do you have any projections right now?” Marr asked. Simmons said she did not have an overall projection but described an internal city planning process to engage populations that have been difficult to reach and said Laura’s Law is one tool the city may use to connect people to services.
With no public comment, the committee moved both items to the full Board with a recommendation. The chair asked for a motion to forward items 1 and 2; a committee member moved to do so and the chair said the committee would take that “without objection,” and the items were forwarded to the Board. No roll-call vote was recorded on the motion.
Next steps: both items will appear on the full Board of Supervisors’ agenda (Clerk’s note said items acted on would appear on the March 11 supervisors’ agenda unless otherwise stated).
