What once were two scandal-ridden San Francisco city departments will be one, if Mayor Daniel Lurie has his way.
Included in Lurie’s $15.9 billion annual budget plan he introduced Friday is a proposal to fold the Department on the Status of Women into the Human Rights Commission. Both agencies were the subject of high-profile scandals over the last year that led to the departures of their respective leaders.
Lurie’s official budget proposal said the combined entity would be called the Agency on Human Rights and it was intended to help “improve outcomes for residents and grant recipients.” Consolidating the two departments would allow them to “collaborate on community-facing grant services and their charter-mandated functions to defend civil rights,” the mayor’s budget document said…