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(a) Continuing Membership on the Committee. Members of the Committee seated as of the effective date of the ordinance in Board File No. ______ shall by operation of law remain members of the Committee for one year from the effective date of said ordinance. New terms for members of the Committee shall commence on that date, and the Commission shall make appointments to the Committee for those terms in accordance with Section 20.305. Members of the Committee seated as of that date shall be eligible for reappointment to the Committee by the Commission.
(b) To provide for staggered terms, the members appointed to Seats, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 shall serve for an initial term of one year; thereafter the term for Seats, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 shall be a two-year term. The members appointed to Seats 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13 shall serve for an initial term of two years.
(c) In the event that a vacancy occurs during the term of office of any Committee member, a successor shall be appointed by the Commission to complete the expired term of office.
(a) The Committee shall meet a minimum of once per quarter at such times and places as the Committee shall designate.
(b) The Department of Department of1
Homelessness and Supportive Housing shall provide clerical and administrative support and staffing for the Committee.
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The Committee shall monitor the attendance of Committee members. In the event that any Committee member misses three regularly scheduled Committee meetings in a six-month period without the express approval of the Committee at or before the missed meetings, the member shall be deemed to have resigned from the Committee 10 days after the third unapproved absence. The Committee shall notify the appointing authority accordingly and request the appointment of a new member.
By adopting this Article, the City and County of San Francisco is assuming an undertaking only to promote the general welfare. It is not assuming, nor is it imposing on its officers and employees, an obligation for breach of which it is liable in money damages to any person who claims that such a breach proximately caused injury.
(Added by Ord. 283-04, File No. 041449, App. 12/1/2004; reenacted by Ord. 61-21, File No. 210115, App. 4/30/2021, Eff. 5/31/2021, Oper. 5/31/2021)
Unless extended by ordinance, this Article XII shall expire by operation of law, and the Committee shall terminate, on July 1, 2027. After the expiration of the Committee, the City Attorney shall cause this Article to be removed from the Administrative Code.
(Added by Ord. 283-04, File No. 041449, App. 12/1/2004; amended in full by Ord. 249-18, File No. 171171, App. 11/2/2018, Eff. 12/3/2018; reenacted and amended by Ord. 61-21, File No. 210115, App. 4/30/2021, Eff. 5/31/2021, Oper. 5/31/2021; Ord. 89-22, File No. 220393, App. 6/10/2022, Eff. 7/11/2022, Retro. 7/1/2022)
(Added by Ord. 283-04, File No. 041449, App. 12/1/2004; repealed by Ord. 249-18, File No. 171171, App. 11/2/2018, Eff. 12/3/2018)
The Chair of the Shelter Monitoring Committee, or the Chair’s designee, shall attend meetings of the Homelessness Oversight Commission (“Commission”) as scheduled by the Commission, to regularly report on this Committee’s site visits and recommended actions based on those site visits.
Findings. | |
Definitions. | |
Purpose. | |
City Requirements. | |
Contract Requirements. | |
Complaint Process and Investigation. | |
Corrective Action Plan, Imposition of Liquidated Damages. | |
Severability. | |
Limited to Promotion of General Welfare. | |
The Board of Supervisors finds and declares the following:
(a) In 2004, the Board of Supervisors created the Shelter Monitoring Committee that is required to provide the Mayor, the Board of Supervisors, and others with accurate and comprehensive information about the conditions in and operations of shelters funded by the City.
(b) After conducting numerous site visits of City-funded shelters and after investigating many complaints it received from shelter clients, the Shelter Monitoring Committee found that the City's shelter system lacks comprehensive standards of care to be provided to clients utilizing shelter services.
(c) In order to ensure that all City-funded shelter providers meet minimum standards of care in the shelter system, and that all shelter clients are treated with dignity and respect and are provided with a clean, healthy, and safe shelter stay, the Board of Supervisors hereby adopts the following contractual requirements that apply to all shelter providers in San Francisco.
(Added by Ord. 50-08, File No. 071518, App. 3/28/2008; amended by Ord. 277-24, File No. 240871, App. 12/12/2024, Eff. 1/12/2025)
For the purposes of this Chapter XIII,1
the following definitions shall apply to the terms used herein.
“Case management services” means those services offered to shelter clients by people with the title of “case manager,” or with equivalent job duties customarily associated with that title, that include, but are not limited to, referrals to housing, public benefits, and behavioral health, medical, and other social services.
“City” means the City and County of San Francisco department that contracts for services at a particular shelter.
“Director” means the head of the department that contracts for services at a particular shelter, or their designee.
“Program manager” means the City employee who monitors the shelter provider’s compliance with the contract for shelter services.
“Shelter” means a facility, including a resource center, operating under a contract with the City, to provide temporary emergency shelter services for single adults or families experiencing homelessness.
“Shelter provider” means the contracted nonprofit provider of a shelter.
(Added by Ord. 50-08, File No. 071518, App. 3/28/2008; Ord. 131-10, File no. 100437, App. 6/24/2010; amended by Ord. 277-24, File No. 240871, App. 12/12/2024, Eff. 1/12/2025)
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