The money, part of $50 million tapped from a budget surplus of $137 million, will pay for job training, services for parolees, transportation for at-risk youth and other programs.

In approving the $6.4 million, the committee held $2.2 million in reserve until the city Office of Economic and Workforce Development and the Department of Children, Youth & Their Families details how they will spend it.

Supervisors are scheduled to vote on the legislation Tuesday.

This article appeared on page B - 3 of the San Francisco Chronicle