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Committee forwards $1 million in power-plant settlement funds for Potrero neighborhood health and mitigation programs
Summary
The committee forwarded to the Board of Supervisors a plan to appropriate $1,000,000 in settlement funds from the Potrero power-plant closure for four programs — home air-quality retrofits, SF Live activity expansion, community gardens and pediatric asthma education — with implementation to be managed by the Department of Public Health and community partners.
The Budget and Finance Committee voted to send to the Board of Supervisors a supplemental appropriation that would allocate $1,000,000 in settlement funds from the closure of the Potrero power plant for neighborhood improvement and health-mitigation programs in the communities most affected.
Supervisor Malia Cohen told the committee she introduced the appropriation to distribute the settlement payment after years of community advocacy and power-plant closure, saying the funds should support projects that produce tangible, sustainable benefits and reduce the burden of chronic disease in impacted neighborhoods.
Karen Cohen, program manager in the Department of Public Health’s children’s environmental health promotion program and the department’s…
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