Thank you mdm. Personal everybody welcome to the budget season. For this year i look forward to the next week of our deliberations. A few things i want to note before we start off here. In an effort to hear some of the Department Budgets with different ordinance they have attached to them, sometimes will be calling a few things out of order today. Were going to recess at 11 45 am for lunch and we can being approximately 1 30 pm to continue the hearing. Willie taking Public Comment on legislative items. However Public Comment for the budget itself is going to be heard on monday, june 20. Next monday followed by two more days of budget hearings potentially one more day of budget hearings on june 20 and potentially the 23rd. The of to complete our Budget Committee process next to hear this balance, and for a balanced budget to the board for our the liberation set the board on july 12 to there are a number of departments that do not have budget Analyst Reports. I want to spell out specific
Amid intense financial scrutiny on homeless spending in San Francisco, supervisors are wary of granting a five-year extension of the law that allows city homeless officials to award contracts without a competitive bidding process.
San Francisco is paying $60,000 PER TENT for a homeless encampment and now city officials want an additional $20 million to extend the program for two years
Officials from the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing requested $20 million to keep six Safe Sleeping Village encampments running
The city s six encampment sites provide tents for the homeless as well as three meals a day, around-the-clock security and bathrooms and showers
The program currently costs $18.2 million and funds 260 tents in six sites, totaling to just over $60,000 per tent per year
The department is asking the city for $15 million in the upcoming fiscal year for a similar number of tents, which would amount to about $57,000 per tent per year
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