Why is Mayor Gavin Newsom proposing cuts to mental health treatment for those with the most serious mental illness?

One block from where the mayor announced that cuts to mental health programs would be small, at the offices of the Citywide Case Management and Community Focus, we learned that we would lose 38 percent of our total budget. We provide comprehensive services for the highest users of San Francisco's psychiatric emergency services and mentally ill offenders under the jurisdiction of the Behavioral Health Court. The mayor proposes to cut $1.3 million in city funds from us, but because we bring $1.21 in federal funds for every $1 of city funds, the actual blow to the budget is $2.9 million. At least 400 high-risk mentally ill clients will go unserved.