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Supervisors Urge More In-Kind Support as Comptroller Confirms $30 Million Prop H Requirement
Summary
Comptroller's office told the Budget & Finance Committee the city must allocate $30 million next fiscal year under Prop H — $10 million to First 5 and $20 million to SFUSD — while supervisors pressed the district for more in-kind services beyond a reported $250,000.
Monique Zamuda of the ComptrollerOffice told the Board of Supervisors Budget & Finance Committee that the citymust make a $30 million allocation for the Public Education Enrichment Fund in the 2007-08 budget, with $10 million directed to First 5 San Francisco for preschool and $20 million to the San Francisco Unified School District.
Zamuda presented the ComptrollerOfficereport, saying the office identified general discretionary revenue growth of $75 million that could be used to meet the $30 million requirement and noted policy options that would require voter approval, such as parcel taxes, increases in sales tax or utility user taxes. She also said the mayor's budget planning assumes the $30 million allocation as part of its deficit estimate.
Zamuda estimated the city provides approximately $13.7 million annually in in-kind services to the school district, including about $5.3 million from the Department of Children, Youth and Their Families, $2.7 million for power, $2.2 million in health department services, and roughly $1.7 million in countywide allocation costs, plus $937,000 in recreation services. She said the controller and budget analyst had done a more thorough survey of departmental services to quantify the amount.
Several supervisors expressed frustration that the school districtreported a resolution instructing its Community Advisory Committee to include no less than $250,000 in in-kind services. "Dollars 250,000 is nowhere near what I'm looking for in in-kind services," said Supervisor Ellsburn, urging the mayorand district to seek substantially more in-kind contributions.
Matthew Kellerman, Executive Director for Policy and External Affairs for the school district, said the Board of Education had passed a resolution calling for at least $250,000 in in-kind services and that the Community Advisory Committee would deliberate and forward recommendations to the Board in early January.
The committee closed public comment without speakers and, without objection, filed the ComptrollerOffice report for the record. Zamuda told supervisors the district and First 5 spending plans are due to the Board on Feb. 1 and would be incorporated into the next year's budget.
What happens next: the Budget & Finance Committee filed the report and will use the Feb. 1 submissions from the district and First 5 to consider further direction to the mayor's office during the budget process.
