Mission Local is tracking Daniel Lurie’s appointments on a live page here, where you can see the comings and goings at the major city departments and the mayor’s office as they happen.
Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie this morning named Kunal Modi, a partner in consulting firm McKinsey’s Bay Area office, to be his policy chief of health, homelessness, and family services, with a focus on issues such as behavioral health, unsheltered homelessness, and the city’s support and services provided to residents.
In this new position, Modi will coordinate eight departments, including the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, the Human Rights Commission, the Human Services Agency, the Department of Public Health, the Department of Disability and Aging Services, the Department of Early Childhood, Child Support Services, and the Department of Children, Youth, and Their Families.
In addition, Modi will also serve as the administration’s point of contact with the San Francisco Unified School District and City College.
This announcement marks the fourth and final selection of Lurie’s four deputies, new roles in the mayor’s office Lurie created to streamline reporting from department heads. Lurie previously named SPUR head Alicia John-Baptiste as the chief of infrastructure, climate, and mobility, former police commander Paul Yep as the chief of public safety, and ex-Twitter executive Ned Segal as the chief of housing and economic development.
“Kunal has a track record of delivering results in some of the most complex and critical areas of public service,” Lurie said in a press release. “His leadership will be instrumental as we act urgently and compassionately to address homelessness, strengthen behavioral health systems, and ensure that all San Franciscans-especially our most vulnerable-have access to the support and services they need to thrive.”
At McKinsey, where Modi worked as a partner for more than 11 years since 2013, Modi’s work highlights government efficiency, including scaling new public health infrastructure, simplifying multi-agency permitting, and reforming procurement processes. Modi also serves on the boards of anti-youth homelessness organization Larkin Street Youth Services and social service nonprofit St. Anthony’s Foundation.
“I look forward to helping deliver the Mayor-elect’s vision for safer streets; more effective treatment, shelter, and housing solutions; and making San Francisco the best place to raise a family,” Modi said in the press release.
A good starting point for Day 1 of Lurie’s administration: the City Budgetary and Legislative Analyst’s tecrnt audit of SFPD’s unlawful use of overtime revealing millions of taxpayer dollars wasted by cops calling in sick and going on to work private security gigs while still getting paid overtime and still paying replacement cops to police SF. An ongoing practice of at least 5 years with numerous officers repeatedly signing their own timesheets when regulation calls for the signatures and approval of overtime by 2 SFPD superiors. Years of this abuse and misuse (and waste of hundreds of millions of dollars) documented in the City analyst’s recent audit. What will Lurie, his new efficiency czars and newly elected supervisors do to stop this clearly documented violation and waste of taxpayer dollars and the City’s resources? Expensive. Wasteful. Inefficient snd illegal practices.
McKinsey partners surely make 7 figures a year. I hope that Modi can tolerate the cut in pay.
My experience with McKinsey is that they are brutal cost and staff cutters. Is this a sign that Lurie sees such city welfare provision as bloated and excessive?
Yes, the private sector to the resuce! MBAs and consultants don’t need subject matter expertise / experience in areas that focus on social ills. Especially McKinsey alumni. I know they helped accelerate the opioid epidemic, but still, that is just a one off.
lol, McKinsey. Of course. Business pitbulls of the ruling class. There’s lots of articles at the nakedcapitalism blog on the austerity freaks at McKinsey. This does not bode well for SF’s health, homelessness, and family services.
McKinsey gets huge consulting fees for prescribing the same treatment – slash-and-burn cost-cutting – for every problem.
What to do with a deficit? slash and burn! What to do with a surplus? slash and burn! Considering expanding expanding into new markets? slash and burn! Planning for a robust economy? slash and burn! Planning for a slow economy? slash and burn! Want to improve customer satisfaction? slash and burn! Climate change and natural disasters? slash and burn! Opiods? slash and burn!
The employees and customers of McKinsey clients always lose.
The class war will continue.
Zero confidence. Even less than when “Care not Cash” BS started floating.
Same goons, different flavors.
Campers,
Did I miss it when he made the most important appointment of all ??
Inspector General
Given a handful of the right Algorithms and an NCIC connection we’ll see the schemes and crooks with City contracts exoosed and weeded out.
I’d say Peg Stevenson is perfect for the job.
go Niners !!
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The biggest lie ever as seen by his empty chair on 4/7 at Buena Vista Horace Mann meeting about evicting homeless families from shelters. He could not have even bothered to attend. Nothing urgent nor compassionate about it. Kunal should be ashamed.
“Kunal has a track record of delivering results in some of the most complex and critical areas of public service,” Lurie said in a press release. “His leadership will be instrumental as we act urgently and compassionately to address homelessness, strengthen behavioral health systems, and ensure that all San Franciscans-especially our most vulnerable-have access to the support and services they need to thrive.”
He left the most vulnerable out in the cold this evening and couldn’t have cared less.
We know what the game is now, he is going to funnel money in any way he can, McKinsey is about protecting the investments of the wealthy he’ll get a return on his investment for sure. We lost an imperfect but good mayor and replaced her with someone who will do nothing but further corruption.
The technocratic regime of Daniel Lurie is taking shape. With the addition of a McKinsey clearcutter to the team, and the budget deficit nearing ten figures, I’d imagine that the politically connected city funded nonprofiteers are increasingly nervous now that a new mayor is not in the need of their patronage services and a McKinsey alum has a ton budget slashing to do.
I wonder if we’re going to see a caged death match where cartel members break the uneasy bid rigging truce and begin to turn on each other.
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Time to remove McSpadden from the head of hsh and replace and many of her staff
Time to remove the head of dph and replace colfax and many of his staff
Campers,
McFadden’s good lady but the City’s entire approach lacks vision.
I say we build 4 high quality 1,000 slot RV and Tent Campgrounds.
Two on Treasure Island and one on Harding and Lincoln Golf courses.
I predict that AGI will install a UBI that will erase poverty and then we’ll have another 4,000 Tourist spaces.
I pick up trash in an area that includes the Armory daily with my dog, Skippy who likes to see his name in print for some reason.
Lately, we’re seeing the same encampment people still in the hood but w/out tents.
Build the high quality Campgrounds and while they’ll initially cost the City, in just a few years they’ll be a cash cow.
Along with the Casino in the Armory, Daniel !!
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Go Niners !!
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