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Rules committee forwards shelter-monitoring code changes and files FY2016-17 report after providers describe reforms
Summary
The Rules Committee forwarded an ordinance to amend the Shelter Monitoring Committee's administrative code to the full Board with a positive recommendation and filed the committee's FY2016-17 annual report. Officials and providers discussed complaints, corrective steps at the Nextdoor shelter and plans to expand monitoring to navigation centers.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Rules Committee on Oct. (meeting) voted to forward to the full Board an ordinance amending the administrative code that governs the city's Shelter Monitoring Committee and filed the committee's FY2016-17 annual report.
The committee's report, presented by Howard Chen, a policy analyst with the Department of Public Health, described the panel's role inspecting city-funded shelter programs and handling client complaints. Chen said the committee is composed of 13 appointed members — including formerly homeless individuals, service providers and representatives from the Department of Public Health and the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing — and that it monitors 21 city-funded sites, including eight adult shelters that together account for roughly 1,203 year-round adult beds.
Why it matters: the report furnishes oversight data on shelter conditions and complaints that supervisors said they need to balance constituent concerns, provider capacity and program corrections.
The report recorded 219 complaints from 133 unduplicated clients in FY2016-17.…
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