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Grand jury urges nonprofit oversight and end to targeted add‑backs; city departments and nonprofits favor coordinated implementation
Summary
A civil grand jury report flagged procurement, monitoring and a budget practice called add‑backs affecting nonprofits; departments acknowledged monitoring gaps and recommended using existing task forces and a citywide grants tracking approach rather than abrupt programmatic changes.
The Government Audit & Oversight Committee heard a civil grand jury report assessing San Francisco’s nonprofit contracting, procurement and the budget practice known as targeted add‑backs.
Leonard Kelly, a civil grand jury foreperson, told the committee the jury reviewed procurement, back‑office functions and program/performance monitoring and urged development of a citywide system to track fiscal and program outputs across grants and contracts. The jurors recommended discontinuing the practice of targeted add‑backs, which they said can reallocate funds late in the budget process without sufficient…
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