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Budget hearings draw hundreds of residents urging restoration of shelters, senior meals and youth programs
Summary
At a marathon public-comment session the Budget & Finance Committee heard hundreds of residents, service providers and workers asking supervisors to restore cuts for shelters, senior meals, IHSS emergency supports, youth after-school and violence-prevention programs and supportive-housing services.
The committee’s citywide budget hearing drew hours of public comment that highlighted the personal impact of proposed cuts to social services and the tension between restoring human-services programs and keeping public-safety budgets intact.
Hundreds of routine speakers—seniors, nonprofit staff, case managers, institutional police and union representatives—gave brief testimony. Testimony clustered around several recurring themes:
- Shelters and daytime hours: Multiple speakers said proposed daytime closures at shelters (Nextdoor, Sanctuary, MSC South and others) would put vulnerable people on the street for many hours a day and make it impossible for them to pursue job interviews, medical care or housing intake (various public-comment spans; see SEG 6640 onward). One MSC South…
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