Awaiting funding, nonprofit covers costs of 24th St. vaccine site
The Latino Task Force, a Mission District-based nonprofit that took the reins of pandemic-response in the neighborhood, has been fundraising for the last few weeks to keep a local vaccination site open that provides vaccines and test kits to the Mission’s residents.The nonprofit was expecting San Francisco to step in with public funds — after all, the city had for the last four years partially covered the cost of running the site, which offers flu and COVID-19 vaccines and test kits.The city delayed the funding for the program after a kerfuffle in the city’s contracting process: The Latino Task Force’s contracting partner and a mobile healthcare company, BayPLS, was initially awarded a city contract for the site, after receiving a passing score on its proposal. But on Oct. 23 the city said it made a scoring error, and that BayPLS — […]
