u/Extreme-Price23

I haven’t been back to Corpus in almost a decade. Grew up there and loved the cafes, Mexican food, and of course Port A.

I’ll mostly be hanging out on my own, so advice on places to go chill, read, or eat good food would be very appreciated 💜

The city is closing a $643M deficit, and the Board has about three weeks to restore cuts before the vote sets spending for two years.

SF Pretrial has run pretrial services for 50 years. 96% court appearance rate, 93% no new charges while enrolled, 1,800 people supervised out of jail daily. Cost: $8M a year. Adult Probation, an armed law enforcement agency, wants $12.7M to take it over July 1 and rebuild from zero. No state mandate requires this. The Public Defender opposes it. So does the Sheriff. When those two agree, pay attention.

Other proposed cuts:

-~25M from community health orgs, including $5.4M from HIV/AIDS services. That hits low-barrier HIV screening directly.

- Free City (free City College tuition) is on the chopping block.

- Immigrant legal services keep roughly half their funding. Senior and disability services take hits too.

Cutting HIV screening while entertaining a $12.7M request to duplicate an $8M program isn't budgeting. Our budget IS a moral document that reflects the community conscience.

What you can do:

- Email your supervisor and the Budget and Appropriations Committee. Two sentences: deny Adult Probation's $12.7M request, restore the health and education cuts. Lookup at sfbos.org.
- Written comment: sfbos.org/budgetinformation.
- In person: Wednesdays, 10am, City Hall Room 250. One minute public comment.

Scripts and detail: dontdismantlesf.org and the People's Budget Coalition.

"I live in District X and I oppose this" is a complete comment. Volume is what supervisors count.