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Supervisors press agencies for cross-department benchmarks on homelessness, childcare and language access

Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Committee · December 4, 2006
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Summary

Committee members urged departments to provide interdepartmental benchmarks showing unmet need for homelessness services, childcare slots, and language access; agencies said much of that reporting requires cross-agency data and will be developed for February submissions.

Supervisors used the special hearing to press departments to produce cross-department benchmarks that show unmet need and outcomes rather than isolated program outputs.

Multiple speakers — including Fred Blackwell (Mayor’s Office of Community Development), Phil Arnold (Human Services Agency), and representatives from First 5 and DCYF — agreed that many important outcomes…

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