The City moved a step closer to ordering an addiction and behavioral-health treatment nonprofit embroiled in a financial scandal to repay roughly $7.6 million.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Committee met Wednesday to discuss Baker Places Inc.’s financial downfall and subsequent internal changes. The nonprofit operates health programs and more than 200 treatment beds at 30-plus facilities in The City, with four facilities currently contracted through the San Francisco Department of Public Health.
Supervisors gave Baker Places $1.2 million to help the nonprofit stay afloat in the summer of 2022, and a subsequent city audit determined the organization was at risk of being unable to perform its contracted services.
The repayment plan, which goes before the full board for approval April 2, includes $20,000-a-month payments at $1.12% interest through 2046 and the transfer of a $3 million property at 333 7th St. to The City.
“Their beds and services are critical to our behavioral health system,” said Supervisor Rafael Mandelman. “In the years prior to the pandemic, as The City looked to expand our substance use disorder treatment and to provide more options to get folks off the street including shelter with people with mental illness, we asked (Baker Places) to do more and more.”