Good morning, everyone.

Welcome to the November 10th 2025 special meeting of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll?

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Supervisor Alcaraz.

Alcaraz present, Supervisor Chan.

Chan present, Supervisor Chen, Chen present, Supervisor Dorsey, Dorsey present, Supervisor Fielder, Fielder present, Supervisor Mahmood.

Mahmoud present, Supervisor Mandelman.

Present.

Mandelman present, Supervisor Melgar, Milgar present, Supervisor Sauter, Sutter present, Supervisor Cheryl, Cheryl present, and Supervisor Walton.

Walton present.

Mr.

President, all members are present.

Thank you, Madam Clerk, and thank you, colleagues, for making yourselves available for this special meeting.

I want to welcome our new colleague from District 4, Bea Alcaraz.

And with that, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramatushalone, who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula.

As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramatushaloni have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory.

As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland.

We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the Ramatushaalone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as First Peoples.

Colleagues, will you join me in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance?

I pledge allegiance.

On behalf of our board, I want to acknowledge the staff at SFGov T D SFGov TV.

Today we're especially grateful to James Kawana.

They record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online.

Madam Clerk, do you have any communications?

Yes, thank you, Mr.

President.

As our president stated, we do have a new member.

We received a communication from the Honorable Mayor Daniel Lurie, dated November 6th, 2025, announcing his appointment of Beya Alcaraz to fill the vacancy in District 4.

Supervisor Alcaraz has taken the oath of office as of November 6th and is covered under the bonding credentials.

And as the President said, welcome to the new supervisor, Supervisor Alcaraz.

The board also does expect individuals to attend this meeting in person.

We're located in the legislative chamber, room 250, second floor of City Hall.

The proceeding is airing live on SFGOV TV's Channel 26, or you can watch the live streaming on WW.sfgovtv.org.

If you have public comment you'd like to submit, either in writing, you can address an envelope to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the number one, Dr.

Carlton B.

Goodlit Place, City Hall, Room 244, San Francisco, California, 94102, or you can send an email to BOS at sfgov.org.

For those who need to make a reasonable accommodation for a future meeting under the Americans with Disability Act or to request language assistance, contact the clerk's office at least two business days in advance by calling 415-554-5184.

Thank you, members, Mr.

President.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Let's go to unfinished business.

Please call item number one.

Item one, this is an ordinance to appropriate 9.1 million from the state and federal revenue risk reserve to the human services agency for CalFresh benefits backfill in fiscal year 2025 through 2026.

Added as a co-sponsor on this item.

Thank you for your first words on the uh at the in this chamber.

Um, all right, let's go to public comment on this item.

Mr.

President, I don't see any members of the public in the public gallery.

All right.

Then uh public comment is now closed.

Uh Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

On item one, Supervisor Chen.

Chen, I, Supervisor Dorsey, Dorsey, I, Supervisor Fielder, Fielder, I, Supervisor Mahmood, Mahmoud, I, Supervisor Mandelman.

Aye.

Mandelman, I, Supervisor Melgar, Melgar, I, Supervisor Sauter.

Solder, I, Supervisor Cheryl, Cheryl, I, Supervisor Walton, Walton, I, Supervisor Alcaraz.

Aye.

Alcaraz, I, and Supervisor Chan.