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Rules Committee amends and advances charter proposal to create homelessness oversight commission; continues item for further edits
Summary
The Rules Committee advanced Supervisor Safaie’s charter amendment to create a Homelessness Oversight Commission with amendments, including added fiscal/audit language and a narrower shelter monitoring provision; the item was continued for conforming edits after committee votes with one dissent.
The Rules Committee on Monday adopted amendments to a proposed charter amendment that would create a homelessness oversight commission to oversee the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH) and continued the item for additional edits.
Sponsor Supervisor Safaie told the committee that HSH will have "almost a $700,000,000 budget" next fiscal year and argued the city needs a chartered body to provide regular transparency, oversight and auditing of its work. He proposed technical and substantive changes distributed to members, including explicit authority for the city controller to audit homeless services as part of the city services auditor's responsibilities and a requirement that one mayoral appointee have experience in budgeting,…
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