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First 5 San Francisco keeps preschool and health investments intact despite state pressures
Summary
First 5 presented a FY2010 plan that preserves Prop 10 supports and uses sustainability funds to sustain preschool and health investments; Prop H faces a $5 million reduction tied to triggers, but First 5 expects to serve 3,000 children next year and reach a 4,800‑child goal by 2014.
Laurel Klumach, Executive Director of First 5 San Francisco, presented the commission’s FY2010 funding plan on May 20 and told the Budget & Finance Committee that the agency will hold most services steady despite state and local budget pressures.
Klumach said First 5 has two primary funding streams: Prop 10 tobacco tax revenues and Prop H (preschool for all). For FY2010, Prop 10 funding stands at $10,150,000, with roughly $5,000,000 allocated to community‑based organizations and $4,000,000 to public departments (DCYF, DPH, HSA). The agency uses sustainability funds to avoid cuts and reported a Prop 10 staffing level of 6.8 FTEs.
Prop H staff and programming total about $16.5 million for FY2010; Klumach said the figure reflects a $5 million reduction tied to the city’s trigger rules. First 5 plans to serve approximately 3,000 four‑year‑olds next year (up from about 2,400 this year) and aims for a 4,800 child target by February 2014, representing roughly 80 percent of San Francisco four‑year‑olds.
Committee members probed the Family Resource Center alignment initiative, which pools family support dollars across HSA, DCYF and First 5 and issued a NOFA that drew 36 responses; Klumach said reader panels in early June will select grant awards. Supervisors also requested demographic and outcome details for the airport employment pipeline and other workforce linkages that First 5 supports.
The committee forwarded First 5’s item to the full Board for further budget and performance review in June.
