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2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 MINUTES OF February 10, 2003 MEETING of the FINANCE COMMITTEE
Of the JUVENILE PROBATION COMMISSION
held at Youth Guidance Center cafeteria 375 Woodside Ave San Francisco, CA 94127
The Minutes of this meeting set forth all actions taken by the Commission on the matters stated, but not necessarily the chronological sequence in which the matters were taken up
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(ACTION) Roll Call
The meeting was called to order at 9:40am by Chair Ricci. Comm. Bonilla was present at the gavel.
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(ACTION) Review and approval of November 26, 2002 meeting minutes
The minutes were approved as written.
(public comments) There was none
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(DISCUSSION) Public Comment on any matter within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Juvenile Probation Commission.
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(ACTION) Review and possible action to recommend FY 2003-04 Operating Budget reduction plan to full Commission
(public comments)
A representative from Huckleberry Youth Services acknowledged the difficult times faced by this Dept and asked in the spirit of continuing cooperation and coordination that the other service providers work with them to find alternative therapeutic services for the youth Huckleberry would have served, but for the reduction in funds and resultant loss of staff, and to continue working together to provide the network of services needed by these young people.
Ntanya Lee of Coleman Advocates commended the Dept on their attempts to minimize the effects on CBO services, and in examining the viability or advisability of the Log Cabin Ranch program, and encouraged them to continue thinking of ways to maximize the provision of services in this current period of tightening funds. She said it would have been useful to see how the cuts were distributed (by percentage) among the Dept’s divisions, as they had presented them last year.
She was still concerned for the CBO contracts, and asked the Dept to re think the cut to Huckleberry Youth Services. She also asked for clarification of the Prop J funds which were to be moved to the repeat offenders program, as to legality of using them for youth in the system (as opposed to “non delinquent”).
She also questioned the value of spending $161K annually to maintain the JJIS database.
Rich Perino, President of the Dep. Probation Officers Association expressed concern that closing Log Cabin would result in higher Juvenile Hall populations, due to the extended time it would take to get them to out of home placements, or CYA –the other option. Getting rid of the “last stop” option before CYA would lead to increased referrals to CYA.
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(ACTION) Adjournment
Comm. Ricci expressed her desire to continue this meeting until February 13, so that she would have enough time to really review the proposed cuts, just distributed at this meeting, and for the other commissioners to be in a better position to act on it.
It was decided to re convene on Feb. 13, at 9:30am at which time this discussion could be completed.
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 11:45am.
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