Expand B-HEARD (mental-health crisis response)

Central to Office of Community Safety. B-HEARD failed to dispatch on 35% of eligible calls 2022-24. Expansion plan in FY27 ask but FUNDING CEILING CONFIRMED at ~$270M OCS umbrella — same as preliminary $260M, only $10M of net growth. With OCS promise now marked broken (-75% vs $1.1B pledge), B-HEARD expansion is materially constrained. Stays in-progress because some B-HEARD growth is happening, but the larger ambition (full mental-health-first crisis response) is gated by the budget loss on OCS. [Jun 1 update: At Council OCS budget hearing, CM Lincoln Restler revealed B-HEARD team responded to only ~1,411 of 17,961 eligible 911 mental-health calls Jan-Apr 2026 = 7.9% — called program "essentially irrelevant." Tisch defended B-HEARD as existing function but did not commit to expansion. Status remains in-progress; weak evidence trend.]