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Board questions timing, inclusiveness and allocations in juvenile justice local action plan
Summary
The committee reviewed the 2009 Juvenile Justice Local Action Plan, heard that aligning department funding aims to protect core services amid cuts, and recorded supervisors' concerns about vetting, representation of vulnerable groups and metrics for accountability before submission to the state.
The Budget & Finance Committee took up the 2009 Juvenile Justice Local Action Plan, a state-required document that determines how San Francisco will allocate juvenile justice funding and qualifies the city to draw down JJCPA (juvenile justice crime prevention act) funds.
Brian Chu, Deputy Director of the Mayor's Office of Community Investment, said the plan was developed through the Juvenile Justice Coordinating Council and a broader outreach effort; he told the committee the JJCPA allocation for the coming year is "a little over $2,000,000" and that due to the city's deficit the group anticipated a reduction in total juvenile justice-related funds "from a total of $16,000,000 in the current year to be reduced down to $10,000,000 for 02/2009." Chu said the plan aligns funding streams across JPD, DCYF, MOCI and DPH to avoid…
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