Having been booted off the mayor’s Gang Prevention Task Force this year isn’t keeping Councilmember Nora Campos from posturing as the city’s leading cheerleader on the issue. Campos last week held a community meeting where she called on the mayor’s task force to pull $200,000 from the emergency reserve funds to help target hot-spot areas in the city where there has been an increase in gang activity. She had fired off a media advisory at the end of March saying she would announce the release of the $200,000 at the meeting. Campos might be anxious to be the hero of gang violence prevention in San Jose, but she got a reality check. For starters, councilmembers don’t have the authority to tap city funds as they please, city officials said. “The charter doesn’t allow councilmembers to deploy staff or budget resources other than those at the discretion of their own council office,” said Michelle McGurk, press information office for Mayor Chuck Reed. Even more importantly, that $200,000 is not from reserves; it is money that has already been set aside to spend on gang prevention this summer when school is out, such as keeping the community centers open on evenings and weekends, McGurk said. But Campos, who was removed from the task force in part because the mayor said she didn’t show up to enough meetings, says the mayor should spend that money now at a time when San Jose has seen a spike in homicides, said Ryan Ford, her chief of staff. “We say this is an emergency now,” Ford said. “They have not done one special act to sit down with everyone and figure how to address this emergency.”