On Thursday, March 26, 2026, the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, chaired by Supervisor Matt Dorsey and joined by Vice Chair Balal Machmood and Supervisor Alan Wong, convened to hear an update on the Fiscal Year 2025–2026 Behavioral Health Services Act (BHSA) annual update, formerly the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA). The committee received a presentation from Jessica Brown, Director of the Office of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion and Behavioral Health Services Act lead for the Department of Public Health, who outlined program outcomes, funding transitions under Proposition One, and next steps for the county’s integrated plan.
Presentation on the BHSA Annual Update: Jessica Brown, joined initially by Deputy Director Danielle Marshall, presented the FY 2025–2026 annual update. Key points included:
Chair Supervisor Dorsey’s Questions and Comments:
Good morning, everyone. This meeting will come to order. Welcome to the regular meeting of the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for Thursday, March twenty-sixth, twenty twenty-six. I am Supervisor Matt Dorsey, Chair of this committee, and I'm joined today by fellow committee members, Vice Chair Balal Machmood, and Supervisor Alan Wong. As always, we're grateful today to our clerk, Ms. Monique Um Creighton, whom we thank for staffing us and keeping us on track as well. We are appreciative to the entire team at SFGov TV for facilitating and broadcasting today's meeting, and that is especially true for our producer today, Ms. Kalina Mendoza. Madam Clerk, do you have any announcements? Yes, please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Public comment will be taken on each item on this agenda. When your item of interest comes up in public comment is called, please line up to speak on your right. Alternatively, you may submit public comment in writing in either of the following ways. Finally, items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors' agenda of April seventh, twenty twenty-six unless otherwise stated. Yes, Mr. Chair. Item number one is a resolution authorizing adoption of the San Francisco Behavioral Health Services Act. Annual update for fiscal year 252. Um twenty twenty-five, twenty twenty-six behavioral and mental health services act annual update. So I'm really um excited to hear about that. I think this is something that people may recall that voters enacted uh back in March with Proposition One. So there's some interesting things that I'm really looking forward to hearing up about. Um, I'd like to welcome Jessica Brown, who is the director of the Office of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, and Behavioral And Heads Up the Uh, Behavioral Health Services Act work. Um, thank you, Ms. Brown. The floor is yours. I just I just wanted to say I'm not Jessica Brown. I'm Danielle Marshall. I'm the deputy director. Jessica is actually coming up on the elevator right now, so she will be here momentarily if we can have just a moment of patience with with you all. Uh, sure. Madam Clerk, should we just take a recess for 10 minutes? Okay. Okay, thank you so much. Okay. No problem. Yes, let's recess. Okay. Thanks. We are in recession. San Francisco government television. Okay, we are back from recess, and um, as I was saying, we are going to hear a presentation from the Department of Public Health on the fiscal year twenty twenty-five, twenty-six Behavioral and Mental Health Services Act annual update. This includes updates on key programs, outcomes, and the upcoming transition to the state's new Behavioral Health Services Act. And I would say that that is the most significant public policy update at the state level since I think the the uh mental health services act was passed back in two thousand four, I believe. Yes. Um, so those of us who are um involved in these issues are aware that back in March of twenty uh twenty-four, we cal in California passed proposition one, which made some important updates. Some of these include um expanding some of the outreach and work to um the recovery community and people who uh struggle with substance use disorder. These are issues that are close to my heart, so I really appreciate um Jessica Brown, who is the director of the Office of Justice, Equity, Diversion, and Diversity and Inclusion and the Behavioral Health Services Act. Um leader for the point person for the Department of Public Health.