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First 5 and DCYF tensions as supervisors press for impact analysis of add-back reductions
Summary
First 5 San Francisco outlined declining Prop 10 and Prop H revenues and a plan to use reserves to limit service reductions; supervisors pressed DCYF and First 5 to quantify the impact of cuts to community-based family resource centers and requested the controller's review include these analyses.
Laura Klumack, executive director of First 5 San Francisco, told the committee the commission faces declining revenues from Proposition 10 and Prop H and plans to use roughly $2.4 million from reserves to reduce service cuts. "Next year, we have a total budget of $31,600,000," Klumack said, describing a decline and a strategic focus on family resource centers, preschool expansion and supports for children with special needs.
Supervisors asked for detail on how add-back reductions were handled. Maria Hsu, director of the Department of Children, Youth and Their Families, explained DCYF cut about $1.1 million from family support services and that $850,000 previously intended to be work-ordered to First 5 would not be forwarded. She said the three departments (First 5, DCYF and HSA) jointly reviewed funding and returned awards to core levels when reallocating based on indicators.
Supervisor David Campos pressed for a data-driven analysis of how proposed cuts would affect families and individual community-based organizations, noting some reductions could lead to layoffs of frontline staff and severe program reductions. He requested that the controller's review include that analysis; Controller Ben Rosenfield confirmed the requested review would address those questions.
The committee continued deliberations and decided to take up First 5 and DCYF with HSA at a follow-up hearing next month so staff could present more detailed impact analyses.
