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(a) Members of the Working Group in Seats 1-11 shall serve at the pleasure of the Board of Supervisors and may be removed by the Board at any time. Each member in Seats 1-11 may remain in the Working Group until the termination of the Working Group under Section 5.40-7, unless removed by the Board. Any vacancy in Seats 1-11 shall be filled by the Board.
(b) Service in the Working Group shall be voluntary. Members appointed to Seats 1 through 9 may receive a stipend in an amount determined by the Board. Members appointed to seats 10 and 11 may receive their regular salaries for time spent on the Working Group because they are serving in an official capacity as representatives of their departments.
(c) The Working Group shall strive to schedule meetings to accommodate the Working Group members so that all members may attend regularly. Any member in Seats 1-11 who, within a six-month period, misses three regular meetings of the Working Group without the express approval of the Working Group at or before the missed meeting shall be deemed to have resigned from the Working Group ten days after the third unapproved absence. The Working Group shall inform the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of any such resignation.
(d) Subject to the fiscal and budgetary provisions of the Charter, the Director shall designate staff to provide administrative support to the Working Group.
(e) Subject to the fiscal, budgetary, and civil service provisions of the Charter, the Director shall hire and make available to the Working Group an outside consultant with expertise in juvenile justice reform, program evaluation, data analysis, youth development, development of alternatives to detention, and juvenile justice systemic change. The outside consultant shall advise the Working Group, and, to the extent desired by the Working Group, may facilitate its meetings and compile required reports on behalf of the Working Group.
(f) Quorum. Eight members of the Working Group shall constitute a quorum.
(g) Officers. The Working Group shall elect a Chairperson from its members. The Chairperson shall designate a member to serve in the Chairperson’s absence.
(h) Subcommittees. The Working Group may establish subcommittees to be convened as directed by the Working Group. The Working Group shall establish a Needs Assessment subcommittee. The Working Group’s Chairperson or the Chairperson’s designee shall appoint members to the subcommittees, and shall appoint members to the Needs Assessment subcommittee consistent with subsection 5.40-6(a) of this Article. Subcommittees shall report findings and make recommendations to the full Working Group for its consideration.
(i) Meeting Frequency. The Working Group shall meet at least every two months until Juvenile Hall is closed and a substitute place or places of detention are available for youth placement.
(j) Roles of Members. In adopting this ordinance, the Board of Supervisors recognizes that each member in Seats 12-15 retains their authority and duties under State law and that where conflicts may arise out of members’ dual roles, State powers and duties shall supersede the duties that this Article XL
imposes on members.
(Added by Ord. 117-19, File No. 190392, App. 6/28/2019, Eff. 7/29/2019)
(a) The Working Group shall have the following powers and duties in the work focus areas described below:
WORK FOCUS AREA # 1: Based on data review, conduct a needs assessment for youth detained in Juvenile Hall. To conduct this assessment, the Working Group shall:
(1) Establish a “Needs Assessment subcommittee” to conduct a confidential review of juvenile delinquency case files to the extent that review is authorized by the Court. The Needs Assessment subcommitee shall consist of the following four Working Group members: the Public Defender or the Public Defender’s designee (Working Group Seat 13); a representative of a community-based non-profit that serves juvenile justice-involved youth and that is a member of the Juvenile Justice Providers Association (Working Group Seat 1 or 2); an expert in youth mental illness (Working Group Seat 7); and an expert in juvenile justice reform (Working Group Seat 8): 1
(2) Request that the City Attorney petition the Court and request that the Court authorize the Juvenile Probation Department to allow Needs Assessment subcommittee members to access to1
data contained in juvenile delinquency files and related juvenile records in the possession of the Juvenile Probation Department for the purpose of conducting the needs assessment.
(3) Submit formal requests for aggregate, de-identified statistical data regarding the children detained in Juvenile Hall from the following departments and agencies: the Juvenile Probation Department, the Department of Public Health, the San Francisco Unified School District, and the Human Services Agency. The data requested shall include, but not be limited to: race, gender, age, charged offense and level, sustained offenses and level, disposition, length of stay in custody, number of prior delinquency contacts, number of probation violations or bench warrants, child welfare system involvement, disability status, prior school records that identify educational disbilities, mental health status, and prior referrals to community-based programs and services. The Juvenile Probation Department, Department of Public Health, and the Human Services Agency shall respond to data requests within two weeks of receiving the request.
(4) Identify gaps in existing community-based programs and services.
(5) Evaluate the use of risk assessment tools, both quantitatively and qualitatively, to ensure that all young people who are eligible and safe to be released are in fact being released.
(6) Create plans to transition youth leaving Juvenile Hall to appropriate, local non-institutional settings.
WORK FOCUS AREA # 2: Plan and design a small, rehabilitative and education-focused center for the placement of detained youth (“Center”). In developing the plan and design, the Working Group shall:
(1) Analyze best practices for the administration and management of small rehabilitative non-institutional settings for youth, which may include consultation with designers, architects, experts in alternative models, and mental health and youth development experts. The analysis also may include examination of existing programs in other counties, states, or countries that have demonstrated rehabilitative success.
(2) Collaborate with the Real Estate Division, the Capital Planning Committee, and local community-based organizations to identify local land or existing buildings that may be used for this Center.
(3) Create an implementation plan for this Center.
WORK FOCUS AREA # 3: Determine the community-based residential or day-programs that need to be created, expanded, or reinstated to effectively serve wards of the Court and persons alleged to come within the jurisdiction of the Court who are not ordered detained by the Court. To make this determination, the Working Group shall:
(1) Promptly identify a housing option in the City for youth who, following arrest or release from detention, cannot return to their homes, to replace the Catholic Charities San Francisco Girls Home Shelter closed in 2018 and the Boys Home Shelter closed in 2019.
(2) Identify existing community-based day programs and housing options that may be expanded.
(3) Identify new services or programs, including day services and housing options, which are needed to serve vulnerable youth populations.
(4) In consultation with DCYF, the Department of Public Health, the Juvenile Probation Department, and the Human Rights Commission, create funding plans to ensure both the expansion of existing programs with a demonstrated record of success and the creation of new programs. The programs should include mental health services, educational services, employment opportunities, and mentoring opportunities, which are culturally-relevant, trauma-informed, strengths-based, and rooted in the local community. Where possible, these services should be available to youths’ family members.
WORK FOCUS AREA # 4: The Working Group shall develop a plan to transition Juvenile Hall staff to jobs in other City departments or jobs with the San Francisco Unified School District or the alternative Center.
WORK FOCUS AREA # 5: Develop trauma-informed, culturally relevant transition plans, specialized services, and housing options for vulnerable youth exiting detention, including young women, gender non-conforming and LGBT youth, African American youth, immigrant, youth,1 foster youth, homeless youth, and mentally ill youth.
WORK FOCUS AREA # 6: Develop a reinvestment plan that redirects funds historically allocated for Juvenile Hall to community-based alternatives to detention, the Center, and additional mental health and academic support programs for juvenile justice-involved youth.
WORK FOCUS AREA # 7: Develop policy recommendations for the Police Department, the Juvenile Probation Department, and CARC, which divert youth who have been arrested from the juvenile justice system to alternative, community-based programs and support systems.
WORK FOCUS AREA # 8: Develop policy recommendations for the Juvenile Probation Department that transform the department supervision model into a strengths-based framework so that young people are not sent to detention for probation violations, including technical violations or violations for low-level offenses.
(b) In carrying out its duties, the Working Group shall: 1) collaborate with the Mayor’s Juvenile Justice Reform Blue Ribbon Panel; and 2) consult with the Capital Planning Committee, Real Estate Division, Child Welfare Division of the Human Services Agency, Child Crisis Division of the Department of Public Health, the Department of Children, Youth and Their Families, Youth Commission, the Police Department, and the San Francisco Unified School District. The Working Group shall invite a representative of each entity identified in this subsection (b) to all Working Group meetings.
(c) Subject to the fiscal, budgetary, and civil service provisions of the Charter, and to the extent consistent with open government laws, the Working Group shall investigate juvenile justice best practices by visiting other jurisdictions and request that the Director retain subject matter experts, as needed.
(d) Reports. The Working Group shall prepare and submit a report every six months that describes the Working Group’s progress in fulfilling the duties set forth in this Section 5.40-6. The first report shall be due six months after the effective date of the ordinance in Board File No. 190392, creating this Article XL
. The Working Group shall submit each report to the Board of Supervisors, along with a proposed resolution to accept the report. The Working Group shall also submit each report to the Mayor, any City department or office responsible for a program identified in the report, and the Director. The Working Group shall submit the final plan to the Board no later than June 1, 2021, detailing the final steps needed to close Juvenile Hall by December 31, 2021. The plan shall be accompanied by a proposed resolution accepting the plan, and the Board may act by resolution to accept, reject, or modify the plan. Each report shall be available to the public, and the Director.1
shall post each report on the Human Rights Commission’s website.
(e) In carrying out its duties, the Working Group shall receive prompt and full cooperation and assistance from all City departments, offices, officers, and employees. All components of City government shall promptly produce all records and information requested by the Working Group, unless prohibited from doing so by state or federal law.
(Added by Ord. 117-19, File No. 190392, App. 6/28/2019, Eff. 7/29/2019)
CODIFICATION NOTE
This Article XL shall expire by operation of law, and the Working Group shall terminate, when the Chief Juvenile Probation Officer certifies in writing that Juvenile Hall is closed and there is a substitute place or places of detention, approved by the Court, that is available for wards of the Court and persons alleged to come within the jurisdiction of the Court. In that event, after the sunset date, the City Attorney shall cause this Article XL to be removed from the Administrative Code.
(Added by Ord. 117-19, File No. 190392, App. 6/28/2019, Eff. 7/29/2019)
Establishment of Our City, Our Home Oversight Committee. | |
Purposes and Duties. | |
Membership and Terms of Office. | |
Organization and Support. |
(a) In approving Proposition C in the November 6, 2018 general municipal election, the voters of the City and County of San Francisco adopted the Homelessness Gross Receipts Tax Ordinance, codified in Business and Tax Regulations Code Article 28. One section of that measure, Business and Tax Regulations Code Section 2810, sets forth the required and permissible expenditures of monies collected under the Homelessness Gross Receipts Tax Ordinance and deposited to the credit of the Our City, Our Home Fund (the “Fund”) established in Administrative Code Section 10.100-164. Section 2810 envisions the establishment of the Our City, Our Home Oversight Committee to monitor and provide advice regarding the administration of the Fund.
(b) Consistent with the intent of the voters in adopting Proposition C, the Board of Supervisors hereby establishes the Our City, Our Home Oversight Committee (the “Committee”).
(Added by Ord. 51-19, File No. 181210, App. 3/22/2019, Eff. 4/22/2019)
The Committee shall have the following purposes and duties:
(a) All the purposes and duties as set forth in Business and Tax Regulations Code Section 2810(e)(1) and (2).
(b) Identify barriers to safe and successful exits out of homelessness, and propose to the Board of Supervisors, the Mayor, the Health Commission, and the Homelessness Oversight Commission ways to reduce those barriers or the impact of those barriers.
(c) Solicit substantive input from people who are Homeless regarding spending priorities. The Committee may seek this input through all appropriate means, including but not limited to conducting surveys and focus groups, and coordinating with community organizations that conduct outreach and/or provide services to Homeless people.
(d) Each needs assessment conducted in accordance with Business and Tax Regulations Code Section 2810(e)(2)(B) shall be provided in the form of a written report within the time frames there specified. The needs assessment specified in Section 2810(e)(2)(B) shall include an assessment of the needs of Homeless people with disabilities, and the report shall include an assessment of available data regarding the disability status of Homeless people served by the programs and expenditures described in Business and Tax Regulations Code Section 2810(b)(3). Each needs assessment shall be transmitted to the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing to inform the Department’s strategic planning process.
(e) In conjunction with each needs assessment report, at least 60 days before issuing the report, the Committee shall provide a draft of the report to each City department discussed in the report, and allow the department 30 days to provide a written response to the Committee. The Committee shall include any such responses that it timely receives from departments in the report.
(a) The Committee shall have nine voting members, with qualifications and appointing authorities as set forth in Business and Tax Regulations Code Section 2810(e)(3)(A) and (B). An appointment to a seat on the Committee may not become effective before the effective date of this Article XLI.
(b) The terms of each seat on the Committee shall commence on the effective date of this Article XLI. Terms of seats shall be for two years, except that the initial terms for odd-numbered seats shall be for three years.
(c) Service on the Committee shall be voluntary and members shall receive no compensation from the City.
(d) Members may be removed by their appointing authorities at any time. Additionally, any member who misses three regular meetings of the Committee within a six-month period without the express approval of the Committee at or before each missed meeting shall be deemed to have resigned from the Committee ten days after the third unapproved absence. The Committee shall inform the member’s appointing authority of any such resignation.
(Added by Ord. 51-19, File No. 181210, App. 3/22/2019, Eff. 4/22/2019)
(a) The Committee shall hold its inaugural meeting not more than 30 days after at least six members have been appointed to the Committee. There shall be at least ten days’ notice of the inaugural meeting. Following the inaugural meeting, the Committee shall hold at least one additional meeting before June 30, 2019. Thereafter, the Committee shall hold a regular meeting not less than six times per fiscal year.
(b) The Committee shall elect a Chair, Vice-Chair, and officers for such other positions, if any, it chooses to create. The Chair, or the Vice-Chair if the Chair is unavailable, shall be responsible for developing the Committee’s agendas and conducting meetings. The Committee may establish bylaws and rules for its organization and procedures.
(c) All City departments, commissions, boards, and agencies shall cooperate with the Committee in the performance of its functions. At least one representative from each of the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development, the Office of the Controller, and the Department of Public Health shall attend all regular meetings of the Committee to be available to provide policy support to the Committee.
(d) The Controller shall provide administrative and clerical support for the Committee.
(e) Notwithstanding Rule 2.21 of the Board of Supervisors Rules of Order, which provides that advisory bodies created by the Board of Supervisors should sunset within three years, the Committee shall not expire unless the Board enacts an ordinance terminating the Committee.
(Added by Ord. 51-19, File No. 181210, App. 3/22/2019, Eff. 4/22/2019)
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