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First 5 and DCYF defend spending priorities as dozens of community speakers urge restoration of youth program funding
Summary
First 5 and DCYF presented FY2013–15 budgets and RFP outcomes; First 5 outlined Prop H/Prop 10 reserves and Race to the Top grants while DCYF defended RFP choices. Dozens of community groups and youth urged restoration of cuts to neighborhood youth programs and asked for transparent award data by grantee, ZIP code and demographic.
First 5 San Francisco and the Department of Children, Youth and Their Families (DCYF) briefed the Board’s Budget & Finance Committee on April 24 on proposed FY2013–15 allocations and recent RFP awards. Laura Klumach, First 5’s executive director, said First 5 will draw on Prop H and Prop 10 funds and reserves to sustain preschool and family resource investments; she reported Prop H allocation at about $17.7 million and warned First 5’s Prop 10 revenue is declining toward an estimated $5.6 million next year.
Klumach described a Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge federal grant (about $1.3 million over three years) and a sustainability plan that uses reserves to backfill state cuts, including $2.8 million annually from Prop H to cover state preschool reimbursement…
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