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Supervisors advance ordinance to create Gun Violence Prevention Task Force after BLA report; amendments accepted
Summary
The Rules Committee accepted amendments to an ordinance creating a Gun Violence Prevention Task Force after hearing the Budget and Legislative Analyst’s audit and a presentation by the Mayor’s Office of Violence Prevention; the committee directed the task force to set performance metrics and required department reporting on violence-prevention spending.
Supervisor Cohen introduced an ordinance on Jan. 15 to amend the Administrative Code and establish a Gun Violence Prevention Task Force to advise city departments and policymakers. She framed the proposal around a Budget and Legislative Analyst (BLA) audit that, she said, found San Francisco spends tens of millions annually on violence-prevention programs with little coordinated planning or consistent performance metrics: "we are spending nearly $50,000,000 on violence prevention services," Cohen said, and described a 23 percent funding increase in recent years from about $38,000,000 to $47,500,000.
Diana Oliva Oroche, Director of Violence Prevention Services in the Mayor’s Office, described the IPO initiative (Interrupt, Predict, Organize),…
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