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Supervisors and providers fault Prop T report as late and insufficient; coalition urges comprehensive gaps analysis and more treatment and housing
Summary
Supervisors criticized the Proposition T (treatment-on-demand) annual report as late and inadequate; DPH defended timeliness issues and presented managed-care metrics while adult probation and community providers showed longer referral waits and urged a comprehensive, population-level gaps analysis tied to budget priorities.
At a lengthy hearing on May 27, the Public Safety & Neighborhood Services Committee examined the Department of Public Health's Proposition T (treatment-on-demand) annual report and the broader system of substance-use treatment and recovery services in San Francisco. Committee sponsor Supervisor Rafael Mandelmann and others said the report, delivered to the committee the night before the hearing, failed to provide a usable gaps analysis for budgeting and planning.
Mandelmann reviewed the Prop T statutory language and said the report should measure the demand for treatment slots and provide a plan that informs city budgets. "The annual Prop T reports we reviewed at that 2019 hearing were notably thin documents that painted a picture that was radically different from the experience of…
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