讓三藩市走上復甦的預算

市長布里德與其預算團隊。

布里德市長與新任地檢官謝安宜(左二)出席CYC社區青年中心活動。

布里德市長與新任地檢官謝安宜(右一)日前出席平園活動,與李鄭祝婆婆(右二)合照。

(三藩市市長 布里德)

上周,我簽署了三藩市的預算案,該預算規定了為提供居民應得基本服務的優先事項,同時在擺脫疫情後建設一個更強大的未來。 預算的撥款將加強市內的經濟復甦,恢復公共安全,支援員工和家庭,並在減少無家可歸和解決行為健康問題的努力的基礎上再接再厲。

我感謝預算委員會主席市參事盧凱莉在這個過程中與我們一同的努力。

經濟復甦

預算在兩年內投放了4740萬元,以促進市內經濟復甦。 這包括對小商業的新直接支援,以及新創活動、空間啟動、公共空間改善和推廣工作,以支援依賴上班人士、旅客和其他遊客的地區。 撥款還將繼續市內現有位於中市場區、聯合廣場、市中心、南市場區和Embarcadero海旁的大使計劃。

預算還包括兩年內720萬元,用於支援強化的田德隆區清潔計劃,該計劃將擴大公務局目前在該區的清潔工作。除了加強清潔工作外,預算還包括兩年共440萬元,用於支援與市議會合作制定的街頭售賣條例的執行。

公共安全和其他非警服務

自新冠病毒爆發以來,警察局經歷了高警員自然流失率和吸引新警員進入部門的困難。 為解決這個問題,預算為警察招聘計劃提供撥款,以填補市內約200個空缺的警員職位。 預算透過提供以下方式支援該計劃:

警校課程:每個財政年度支援四個學院課程的資源,在兩年內總共填補220名警員。

招聘:調整即將新上任警員的工資,使三藩市警察局成為一個與其他灣區城市相比更具競爭力的部門。 預算還為開發招聘工具和策略提供撥款。

留用警員:為5年和15年服務年限的官員提供留用獎金,以促進長期服務並降低該部門的高自然流失率。

使部門職能現代化,並繼續促進改革。 除了為正在進行的警察改革工作提供撥款外,預算還在未來兩年增加了12個新的專業工作人員職位,以繼續改革工作,並充分支援《公共記錄法》的要求。

三藩市在上一個預算週期進行了大量撥款,以開發執法應對策略的非警員附加服務方案。 該預算維持了對街頭危機應對小組、街頭健康應對小組和街頭藥物應對小組的撥款。 預算進一步擴大了這些撥款,用於加強專注為社區服務的外展團隊,以改善市內對以前由執法部門負責的非緊急和非醫療服務需求應變。 這些加強計劃包括新的危機社工顧問,他們將容入9-1-1接線中心,並有助於為精神和行為健康需求而應變,作為三藩市以服務為首策略的一部分。

無家可歸和行為健康

根據最新統計,三藩市在過去幾年\xf9堙A透過市長的無家可歸者復甦計劃在無家可歸者和住房方面進行了大膽的新投資,該計劃幫助該市內減少了15%的無家可歸者。

在這些努力的基礎上,預算案包括為在本財政年度收購的非聚集式或半集合環境中持續運營410張新的成人庇護所床位提供資金,以及三家居家避疫酒店的持續運營,否則這些酒店將於2022年底關閉。 預算還繼續為Mission和灣景區的安全睡眠站點提供撥款,Gough街上70單位,並增加了一次性撥款在Mission區建立70個單位。

預算還撥款為不成比例地面臨住房、服務和就業障礙的跨性別人士居民提供住房補貼,以作為為這些人士結束無家可歸策略,為未來五年內結束跨性別無家可歸議題上提供資源。

預算包括繼續實施心理健康三藩市計劃關鍵方面的資源。 擴大市內的行為健康治療床位容量仍然是一個優先事項,預算包括兩年內5750萬元,用於新獲得的床位設施的運營。 這筆款項將支援達到400張床位的目標,大大改善最需要這些服務人士獲取這些服務的機會。

勞動和工資公平

即將到來的兩年預算中最重要的持續撥款是對市內公共和非牟利勞動力的2.4億元撥款。 這包括在兩年預算期間為非宣誓就職員工提供10%的工資增長。 預算還完全恢復了市內宣誓僱員工會3%的工資增長。 隨著公共部門員工的增加,它還將在下個財政年度提高非牟利機構員工的工資。 此外,預算進一步投資於市內永久支援性住房的前線工作人員的工資,包括事務經理、清潔人員和文員。

預算還包括市長辦公室和早期護理和教育辦公室最近推出的早期教育工作者加薪的持續撥款。 這項投資將維持2000多名由政府資助的早期教育工作者每年增加8,000至30,000元薪酬,使教育工作者能夠為重要工作上獲得更公平的薪酬,並幫助吸引新入職和優質的教育工作者投身該行業。

兒童青年和家庭

預算包括每年近2500萬元,用於支援市長提倡的兒童和家庭康復計劃的四項建議,為低收入家庭和有孩子的過渡年齡年輕人提供兒童保育券;增加工作人員配置,並在家庭資源中心提供家長支援和培訓;以及建立一個改進的系統,以幫助家庭識別和註冊服務。

該預算旨在透過每年投資500萬元來支援兒童和家庭的整體健康。 這些撥款將支援加州大學三藩市分校醫院臨床醫生與社區組織合作,為兒童和青年提供即場支援,培訓和指導社區組織員工,以識別有心理健康需求的症狀,為社區組織員工提供臨床支援,並提高機構提供健康和轉診服務的能力。

三藩市市長

布里德

 

Budget that sets San Francisco on path to recovery

Last week, I signed the City’s budget that sets forth our priorities to deliver on the basic services our residents deserve, while also building towards a stronger future as we emerge from this pandemic. The significant investments in this budget will strengthen our economic recovery, restore public safety, support workers and families, and build on efforts to reduce homelessness and address behavioral health.

Economic Recovery

The budget invests $47.4 million over the two years to promote the City’s economic recovery. This includes new direct support for small businesses, as well as new events, activations, public space improvements, and marketing efforts to support areas that rely on workers, tourists, and other visitors. The funding proposal will also continue the City’s existing Ambassador programs located in areas like Mid-Market, Union Square, Downtown, South of Market, and along the Embarcadero.

The budget also includes $7.2 million over the two years to support an enhanced Tenderloin cleaning initiative, which will expand Public Works’ current cleaning operations in the area. In addition to enhanced cleaning efforts, the budget includes $4.4 million over the two years to support enforcement of the street vending ordinance, developed in partnership with the Board of Supervisors.

Public Safety and Alternatives to Policing

Since the beginning of COVID-19, the Police Department has experienced both a high rate of officer attrition and difficulty attracting new officers to the Department. To address this, the Budget funds a Police Hiring Plan to fill the City’s approximately 200 vacant police officer positions. The budget supports this plan by providing:

Academy Classes: Resources to support four academy classes in each fiscal year, backfilling a total of 220 officers over the two years.

Recruitment: Adjusting entry-level step salary for incoming officers, making San Francisco a more competitive department compared to other Bay Area cities. The budget also provides funding to develop recruitment tools and strategies.

Retention: Funding to offer retention bonuses to officers at 5- and 15-years of service to promote longevity and reduce the department’s high attrition rate.

Modernizing department functions and continuing to promote reform. In addition to funding the ongoing police reform work underway, the budget adds 12 new professional staff positions over the next two years to continue reform work and sufficiently support Public Records Act requests.

The City made significant investments during the last budget cycle to develop new alternatives to law enforcement response strategies. This budget maintains investments for the Street Crisis Response Teams (SCRT), Street Wellness Response Teams (SWRT), and Street Opioid Response Team (SORT). Further expanding on these investments, the budget invests in strengthening community-based outreach teams to improve the City’s response to non-emergency and non-medical calls for service that had been the responsibility of law enforcement previously. Enhancements include new Crisis Counselors, which will be embedded in the 9–1–1 Call Center and can help to respond to mental and behavioral health calls as part of the City’s services-first strategy.

Homelessness and Behavioral Health

The City has made bold new investments in homelessness and housing over the last several years through the Mayor’s Homelessness Recovery Plan, which has helped the City experience a 15% reduction in unsheltered homelessness, according to the latest point-in-time count.

Building on these efforts, the proposed budget includes funding for ongoing operations of 410 new adult shelter beds in a non-congregate or semi-congregate setting that were acquired in the current fiscal year, as well as continuing operations for three Shelter-in-Place (SIP) hotels that would otherwise close at the end of 2022. The proposed budget also continues funding for Safe Sleep sites in the Mission and Bayview districts, a 70-unit cabin site on Gough Street, and adds one-time funding to create a new 70-unit cabin site in the Mission.

The budget also invests in strategies to end homelessness and provide housing subsidies for transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) residents who disproportionally face barriers to housing, services, and employment. These investments fund a citywide strategic goal to end Transgender Homelessness in the next five years.

The budget includes funding to continue the implementation of key aspects of Mental Health SF. Expanding the City’s behavioral health treatment bed capacity remains a priority, and the budget includes $57.5 million over the two years for the operation of newly-acquired bed facilities. This funding will support the goal of reaching 400 beds, greatly improving access to these services for those who need them most.

Labor and Wage Equity

The most significant, ongoing investment in the upcoming two-year budget is a $240 million investment in the City’s public and non-profit workforce. This includes providing a 10 percent wage increase over the period of the two-year budget for non-sworn City workers. The budget also fully restores a 3 percent wage increase for the City’s sworn employee unions. It also increases wages for non-profit workers next fiscal year, in line with increases for public sector employees. Additionally, the budget further invests in the wages of frontline staff in the City’s permanent supportive housing buildings, including case managers, janitors and desk clerks.

The budget also includes ongoing funding for early educator raises that were recently launched by the Mayor’s Office and the Office of Early Care and Education (OECE). This investment will maintain the $8,000 to $30,000 annual raises of the over 2,000 City-funded early educators, enabling educators to be more fairly paid for their crucial work, and also helping attract new, quality educators to the field.

Children, Youth, and Families

The budget includes nearly $25 million each year to support four recommendations from the Mayor’s Children and Family Recovery Plan, providing childcare vouchers for low-income families and transition-aged young adults with children; increased staffing, and parental support and training at Family Resource Centers; and the creation of an improved system to help families identify and sign up for services.

The budget aims to support overall child and family wellness through an annual $5 million investment. These funds will support UCSF hospital clinicians to work with community-based organizations (CBOs) to provide onsite support to children and youth, train and coach CBO staff to identify signs and symptoms of mental health needs, provide clinical support to CBO staff, and increase agency capacity to provide wellness and referral services.

Mayor London Breed

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