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Budget committee advances $19.7 million human-services supplemental and adopts amendment shifting rainy-day funds
Summary
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Budget & Finance Committee advanced a $19.7 million supplemental for children, families, seniors and disabled services and adopted an amendment reallocating $15.83 million from a rainy‑day one‑time reserve to offset the package; the measure was set for continued consideration toward full‑board action.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Committee advanced a supplemental appropriation package aimed at child care, senior services, eviction prevention and violence‑prevention programs, and adopted a procedural amendment to reshape how the proposal is scored.
Chair Chris Daley, who introduced the two‑item package, said the supplemental responds to better‑than‑expected revenue and local advocacy and described an "amendment of the whole" intended to score revenues in a way that would reduce the proposal’s net impact on the general fund. Daley described roughly $15,830,000 in a rainy‑day capital/one‑time reserve that his amendment would de‑appropriate from a prior affordable‑housing supplemental and restore to the general‑fund baseline so it can be reallocated in this package.
The committee heard more than two hours of public testimony. Speakers included advocates and service providers representing OpenHouse, the Mental Health Association, Senior Action Network, the Saint Francis Living Room Foundation, and numerous neighborhood and youth organizations. Testimony repeatedly urged funding for eviction prevention tied to compulsive hoarding programs, home‑and‑community‑based services for seniors and people with disabilities, expanded child‑care vouchers and neighborhood youth centers in South of Market and Bernal Heights.
Advocates emphasized both human and fiscal stakes: several speakers said early‑intervention services and eviction prevention reduce later institutional or emergency costs. "This budget supplemental would help support self‑help support groups and treatment groups for compulsive hoarders," Mental Health Association speaker Alicia Hopper told the committee. "Please don’t let another San Francisco resident lose their housing." Valerie Hayden of OpenHouse urged support for senior and disability services that she said are underused by LGBT seniors due to fear of homophobia.
Committee discussion focused on budget scoring and the net effect on next year’s projected shortfall. Controller’s office staff and the committee’s budget analyst explained that moving one category of reserves into another bucket would shift the projected totals between line items but would not, by itself, change the overall arithmetic of the out‑year deficit: "This proposal will basically cause one bucket to go up and another bucket to go down by the exact same amount in that projection," a controller office analyst said in response to Supervisor Ellsberg’s questions.
On a roll‑call vote, the committee adopted the amendment of the whole for items 1 and 2. The clerk recorded votes as: Ammiano — aye; Dufty — aye; Mercarimi — aye; Ellsburn — no; Daley — aye. The motion passed. The committee scheduled continued consideration and intends to bring the (amended) supplemental package to the Monday committee meeting with the goal of sending the item to the full Board for final action.
What happens next: The committee continued the item with the intent to finalize the amendment language and routing to the full Board. The supplemental remains a policy matter for the Board of Supervisors; proponents urged prompt action to include the priorities in the mayor’s June budget submission.
