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Committee forwards ordinance to create public guardian gift fund after hospital council support

Budget and Finance Committee · January 11, 2012
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The committee voted to forward an ordinance to create a Public Guardian/Public Administrator gift fund intended to support timelier conservatorship investigations; the Hospital Council told the committee delays cost an estimated $26 million over three years and offered to contribute to speed the process.

The Budget and Finance Committee voted to send to the Board of Supervisors an ordinance that would add a new San Francisco Administrative Code section creating a gift fund to support the Public Guardian/Public Administrator’s office in conducting needs assessments and conservatorship investigations.

Shereen McSpadden, deputy director at the Department of Aging and Adult Services, told the committee the public guardian is the office authorized under the California Probate Code to…

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