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Dozens defend San Francisco Pretrial as its future heads to the full Board

San Francisco Budget and Finance Committee: The committee sent the Sheriff's $22,532,145 SF Pretrial contract to the full Board with no recommendation, amid a court push to move it.
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San Francisco
Budget and Finance Committee Meeting
May 27, 2026

TL;DR

  • The committee sent the Sheriff's $22,532,145 SF Pretrial contract to the full Board with no recommendation, amid a court push to move it.
  • It backed five shelter and supportive-housing contracts, the largest a $303,609,319 deal for 16 supportive-housing sites.
  • It funded the 822 Geary voluntary mental-health crisis center two more years, at $26,255,566.
  • It adopted a behavioral-health plan that, under a state mandate, shifts about $5 million from training and prevention into housing.
  • It approved a 1455 Market Street lease expansion that, the budget analyst said, will cost about $1.03 billion in rent through 2049.

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