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Committee hears $17.39 million children, youth and families supplemental; public supporters urge youth centers and violence prevention
Summary
Supervisors heard an ordinance appropriating $17,394,628 for children, youth, family, senior and disabled programs; community groups urged approval and the committee continued the item for one week to refine technical amendments and line-item reallocations.
The Budget & Finance Committee heard detailed public testimony Tuesday on a proposed $17,394,628 supplemental aimed at children, youth, families, seniors and people with disabilities and continued the item to allow technical amendments and further review.
Clerk read the appropriation — $17,394,628 including $17,251,834 of general fund and $142,794 of revenue for fiscal year 2006–07 — and the introducing supervisor asked the committee to continue the matter for one week after several proposed changes.
Community speakers representing the Family Budget Coalition, Child Care Planning and Advisory Council (CPAC), United Players and CLEAR Project urged approval. Mauricio Ovela of the Family Budget Coalition said the package addresses child care, youth employment, violence prevention and family housing needs. Grama Dobson (CPAC) emphasized investments in early care and education serving low-income, homeless and special-needs children. Several United Players speakers and CLEAR Project representatives recounted program impacts and urged funding for violence-prevention services and a proposed SoMa youth center; one public speaker said a $300,000 allocation for a SoMa youth center is part of the supplemental.
Chair and supervisors proposed technical reallocations: move two human-service items into the Department of Children, Youth and Their Families (DCYF); move rental subsidies to the Mayor’s Office of Housing; and specific appropriations including $1.6 million for Hayes Valley playground planning/capacity building, $300,000 for Rosa Parks senior services, $350,000 for comprehensive psychiatric services for people with disabilities, and a $75,000 outreach program for injection users. The chair asked that line items be adjusted accordingly and said he would circulate written amendments.
After public testimony the committee agreed to continue Item 2 to next week to allow the budget analyst and staff to review the amendments. Later in the meeting the committee rescinded an earlier committee action, increased an afterschool line from $360,000 to $410,000 (a $50,000 reprogramming), and again continued Item 2 to next week for final consideration.
Next steps: The item is scheduled to return next week with technical amendments and budget-analyst review; committee members indicated some will press for further baseline or longer-term funding decisions during substantive debate.
