San Francisco – The mayor of San Francisco Daniel Lori achieved an early victory in the Crusade campaign against the city’s twin crises from homelessness and fentian addiction, and obtained a registration from the Council of Supervisors to overcome the bureaucratic obstacles that slowed the expansion of shelter and treatment programs, and more fun to follow up on special funding for these initiatives.
This measure, which is called the Fintanel Law in the emergency, represents the first big step from Lori in fulfilling the promise of the campaign by clearly reducing the camps of the homeless and using the outdoor drugs within six months of the half, partly by adding 1500 shelter beds and expanding mental health services.
This pledge, Laurie, a moderate democratic and a new political homeland, helped in the November elections against the current London and three veterans in the city hall, which he accused of allowing homelessness, addiction and ills accompanying retail and property.
During a press conference in the city hall on Wednesday before the signing of the legislation, Lori said that the new authority would allow his administration to “act quickly and effectively.”
Lori said: “The fentanel crisis is not a process from 9 to 5,” Lori said. “It does not take periods of rest, and we will not.”
Lori presented the decree shortly after its inauguration in January, and last month, he spent negotiating it with the Council of Supervisors in San Francisco, a strong body of 11 members working as a legislative branch of the city. Supervisors gave the decree his final approval on Tuesday in a 10-1 vote.
This resounding support represents a major shift in the dynamics of power between the mayor and the council, whose leadership is strongly progressive. The Board of Directors often opposed the dynasty-which is also a democratic in the middle-in its cruel efforts to take strict measures on drug traffickers and support the police authorities.
The November elections resulted in a rotation in the board of directors, as voters appeared weary from the virgin camps of the displaced parties and the rude drug abuse to shake the local rule. The newly formed council contains five new members and means more moderate.
“Progressive people are a great reduction in the board of directors, and those that were gradual by the center now are,” said Jason McDaniel, a professor of political science at San Francisco State University. “I think the council and the mayor have a common goal of … in an attempt to solve some of these problems that the voters seem to be very annoying.”
Supervisor Rafael Mandamman, who was called Chairman Last month, I worked with Lori amendments to narrow this decree in ways that took advantage of the most liberal board members and obtained the majority vote. Mandman is among the supervisors who moved towards the political center in recent years after his election in 2018 as a gradual representation of Castro County.
The decree reduces the red tape in the city’s response to homelessness and drug use by temporarily strengthening the mayor’s authority – and reducing the role of the council – in approval of the city contracts related to homelessness, addiction and mental health. It records the procedures for employing awareness workers and public safety employees assigned to employment shelters. It also exempts such contracts from the process of providing strict competitive bidding in the city until 2026.
The Board of Directors still has the opportunity to form contracts worth $ 10 million to $ 25 million, but the decree requires supervisors to behave within 45 days of the contract proposal.
One of the decisive elements in this matter allows Lori and some members of his administration over the next six months to request special donations of up to 10 million dollars for these efforts of individuals who suffer from business before the city, and to give up banning payments from the “parties concerned”, a wide category that includes contractors, societies and pressure.
This allowance is given Lori, a heir to the Levi Strauss family, an opportunity to take advantage of Roludix from the wealthy ties in the technology and business sectors accumulated during his family contracts in charitable work and his own experience as a non -profit executive authority. External financing can help fill a Budget It is expected that nearly one billion dollars, and avoid discounts to displacement and treatment services that could undermine Lori’s efforts.
Lori said that the comfortable rules will quickly help the city create a “stability center” around the clock throughout the week in the heart of the Tnderloin area of the police to drop people who need medical care, as an alternative to prison and emergency rooms.
The waiver raised concerns between a handful of supervisors, who advised Laurie to use his new powers carefully and pointed to a embarrassing series of scandals that rocked the city hall in recent years. This includes 2022 Federal claim For a former director of the Ministry of Public Works in San Francisco for long -term a plan It involves bribery and operations. In the same year, voters in San Francisco agreed to make a poll that restricts city officials from seeking special donations from the people who deal with the city.
“With my voting today, I put a great deal of belief in the administration of mayor Laurie to use these exceptional powers to implement the will of the voters and provide housing, shelter and treatment for the most vulnerable, and they do this without repeating the corrupt practices that were filmed in the application stage.
Supervisor Shaman Walton, progressive progress, expressed concerns about weakening government checks and balances and the lack of details in the Lauro plan before making the only “no” vote against the decree.
On Wednesday, Lori pledged “full transparency” about who contributes to money to obtain improved services. “The audience will know who we are talking to and who is donating,” he said.
Despite Lori’s early victory, political observers said that future policy differences between the Council and the mayor’s office are almost sure. Although the treatment of the abuse of fentanel is a common issue, Democratic Political Adviser Jim Ross is likely to raise discussions about freezing the recruitment of the last city hall in Laurie and the budget crisis that waves on the horizon more tension.
Ross said: “This is his first legislative issue, and I think there are many members of the Board of Directors who do not want their time to start …