Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Supervisor Dave Pine, District 1
Supervisor Warren Slocum, District 4
Subject: Board Discussion re Guaranteed Income Programs in San Mateo County
RECOMMENDATION:
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Receive report regarding different models of Guaranteed Income programs:
A) Overview
B) City of South San Francisco's guaranteed income program
C) Mission Asset Fund (MAF) Immigrant Families Recovery Program
D) San Mateo County Human Services Agency/County Health Guaranteed Income grant proposal
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BACKGROUND:
As the County emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath, it is important to reflect on the lessons learned from the County's efforts to address the needs of the most vulnerable low-income residents. As emergency shelter-in-place orders were put in place and businesses shuttered, residents struggled to meet the basic needs of their families including rent, food security, employment, and remote learning.
In response, the County instituted, on an expedited basis, many new and innovative programs to meet these urgent needs. These programs included $7,000,000 in supplemental funding for the County Emergency Financial Assistance Program administered by the Core Services Agencies, $6,000,000 in grants to Second Harvest Food Bank for food pantries and distribution sites, an unrestricted $500 one-time grant program that assisted 263 Coastside families in need administered by Puente de la Costa Sur and Coastside Hope, and a $5,000,000 contribution to the Mission Asset Fund Immigrant Emergency Assistance program that provided $1,000 in unrestricted grants to 500 immigrant families. But in many cases, the challenges and systemic inequities of the County's vulnerable populations that existed before the pandemic were exacerbated during the pandemic and have not gone away.
DISCUSSION
As the County considers how to best address these needs now, especially with t...
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