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Budget committee backs $498,000 recommendation for Community Justice Center after heated public comments on homelessness
Summary
The San Francisco County Board of Supervisors budget and finance committee voted to recommend a roughly $498,000 appropriation for a mayoral Community Justice Center to the full board amid public testimony warning the court would criminalize homelessness and calls to redirect funds to housing and services.
The San Francisco County Board of Supervisors budget and finance committee voted to recommend that the full Board consider a mayoral appropriation of about $498,000 to the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice to fund a Community Justice Center.
Chair Supervisor Jake Magota, who opened the special meeting, said he had objected to the proposal earlier in the budget process on fiscal grounds but that recent restorations to the budget made it appropriate to move the item forward as a committee recommendation to the full board. "I am willing to today then, as we are still in the middle of our budget process ... to send this to the full board a recommendation for $498,000," he said.
Much of the morning’s meeting centered on whether the center would divert scarce resources from…
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