San Francisco Board of Supervisors Regular Meeting – June 2, 2026
Good afternoon, welcome to the June 2nd, 2026 regular meeting of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll?
Thank you, Mr.
President.
Supervisor Chan.
Chan present, Supervisor Chen.
Chen present, Supervisor Dorsey.
Dorsey present, Supervisor Fielder, Fielder not present.
Supervisor Mahmoud.
Mahmoud present, Supervisor Mandelman, present.
Mandelman present, Supervisor Melgar.
Melgar present, Supervisor Sauter.
Saudter present, Supervisor Cheryl, Cheryl present, Supervisor Walton.
Walton present, and Supervisor Wong.
Wong present.
Mr.
President, you have a quorum.
Thank you, Madam Clerk.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramatushaloni, 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 Rama Tushalone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as First Peoples.
Colleagues, will you join me in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance?
I pledge allegiance, the flag, United States, America to the Republic, which stands on way in the liberty, and on behalf of the board, I want to acknowledge the staff at SFGov TV.
Today that is especially James Kawana.
They record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online.
Madam Clerk, do you have any communications?
Thank you, Mr.
President.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors welcomes you all to be here in attendance in the board's legislative chamber.
And when you're not able to be here, you can watch the proceeding, which is airing live on SFGOV TV's Channel 26, as well as live streaming at SFGOVTV.org.
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Thank you, members.
Thank you, Mr.
President.
Um, Ms.
President, my apologies.
In line with the request made by Supervisor Fielder that she be excused from uh meetings until June 30th, the motion would be in order today to consider her request for today's meeting.
Thank you, Madam Clerk.
Thank you.
Uh can I have a motion to excuse Supervisor Fielder from today's meeting?
The motions made by Supervisor Dorsey and seconded by Supervisor Chen.
Um colleagues, I think we can take that without objection, without objection, Supervisor Fielder is excused from today's meeting.
Uh Madam Clerk, let's go to approval of our meeting minutes.
Yes, April 21st, 2026, and April 28th, 2026 board meeting minutes.
And can I have a motion to approve the minutes as presented, moved by Walton, seconded by Cheryl.
Um Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll?
On the minutes as presented, Supervisor Chen.
Chen I, Supervisor Dorsey, Dorsey I, Supervisor Mahmoud.
Mahmoud I, Supervisor Mandelman.
Aye.
Mandelman I, Supervisor Melgar, Melgar I, Supervisor Sauter.
Soder I, Supervisor Cheryl.
Cheryl I, Supervisor Walton.
Walton, I, Supervisor Wong.
Wong I and Supervisor Chan.
Chan I.
There are 10 ayes.
Without objection, the minutes will be approved after public comment as presented.
Madam Clerk, let's go to the consent agenda.
Please call items one through seven.
Items one through seven are on consent.
These items are considered to be routine.
If a member objects, an item may be removed and considered separately.
Please call the roll.
On items one through seven, Supervisor Chen.
Chen I, Supervisor Dorsey.
Dorsey I, Supervisor Machmood.
Machmud I, Supervisor Mandelman.
Aye.
Mandelman I, Supervisor Melgar.
Melgar I.
Supervisor Sauter.
Sauter I Supervisor Cheryl.
Cheryl I.
Supervisor Walton.
Walton I, Supervisor Wong, Wong I.
And Supervisor Chan.
Chan I.
There are 10 ayes.
Without objection, these ordinances are passed on first reading and the resolutions are adopted.
Madam Clerk, let's go to uh unfinished business.
Please call item eight.
Item eight, this is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to establish the San Francisco hate crime reward fund.
I think we can take this item, same house, same call without objection.
The ordinance is uh finally passed.
Madam Clerk, please call item number nine.
Item nine, this is an ordinance to amend the business and tax regulations code retroactive to January first, 2026 to extend for 10 years to December 31st, 2035, an exemption from the parking tax and certain related requirements for a limited number of special parking events operated by volunteer-led nonprofit organizations on school district property to benefit the San Francisco public schools and earning less than 10,000 in rent per event.
Same house, same call, without objection, the ordinance is passed on first reading.
Madam Clerk, please call items 10 and 11 together.
Items 10 and 11 are an ordinance and resolution that pertain to GO General Obligation Bond Proceeds series, healthy, safe, and vibrant SFGO bonds 2026A.
Item 10 appropriates 195 million of bond proceeds to the Department of Public Health, Department of Public Works, Recreation and Park Department, and the Municipal Transportation Agency for acquisition and improvement to rail property for various health care, nursing, and mental health facilities.
Certain transportation pedestrian street safety related capital improvements, streetscape enhancements, and other public space improvements and related costs in fiscal year 2025-26, and to place these funds on controller's reserve, pending receipt of bond proceeds.
Item 11, this resolution authorizes 195 million in the issuance and sale of a not to exceed amount, a principal amount of the aforementioned geo bonds on a tax-exempt or taxable basis to prescribe the form and terms of such bonds and any subseries designation to provide for the appointment of depositories and other agents for such bonds to provide for the establishment of accounts or subaccounts, and to authorize the sale of the bonds by competitive or negotiated sale or private placement, and to approve certain forms and notices of intentions and purchases of uh form purchase of the contract.
Item oh, thank you.
Yeah.
Um and we can take these same house, same call.
Without objection, the ordinance is passed on first reading and the resolution is adopted.
Madam Clerk, please call items 12 and 13 together.
Yes, these are two items 12 and 13 are two resolutions that approve agreements or agreement amendments for the Department of Public Health and the San Francisco Community Health Authority.
Item 12 approves the agreement to pay private network providers for the Healthy San Francisco program, term of July 1st, 2026 through June 30th, 2030, with one six-year option to extend for a total amount of forty-one point six million for item 13.
This approves the agreement to provide administrative functions for San Francisco City option for a term July 1st, 2026 through June 30, 2030, with one six-year option to extend for a total amount of 52.8 million.
And we can take these items same house, same call, without objection.
The resolutions are adopted.
Madam Clerk, I think I have this right.
Please call items 14 through 16 together.
Yes, Ms.
President.
Items 14 through 16 are three resolutions that approve amendments to agreements between the public health department and the following entities.
For item 14, it approves the first amendment to the agreement with Crestwood Behavioral Health Inc.
to provide a crisis stabilization unit at 822 Geary to extend the term by two years, June 30th, 2026, for a new term of March 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2028, and to increase the amount by 17.1 million for a new total of 26.2 million.
Item 15, this resolution approves the first amendment to the agreement with Richmond Area Multi-Services Inc.
to provide integrated behavioral health and case management services at 15 of the high school-based wellness centers to extend the term by two years for a new term of July 1st, 2023 through June 30th, 2028, and to increase the amount by approximately 5.6 million for a new total amount of $15 million for item 16.
This resolution approves the second amendment to the agreement with Richmond Area Multiservices Inc.
to provide peer-to-peer employment and peer specialist mental health certificate services to extend the term by three years for a new term of July 1st, 2021 through June 30th, 2029, and to increase the amount by 19 million for a new total not to exceed amount of 48.2 million.
And we can take these items, same house, same call, without objection, the resolutions are adopted.
Madam Clerk, please call item 17.
Item 17, this is a resolution to approve and authorize the general manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission to execute the first amendment to a contract for engineering services for the emergency firefighting water system and city's water distribution system with Lee Plus RO and AGS joint venture to increase the contract amount by 5 million for a new contract amount of 13 million with no change to the duration of the contract still through June 27th, 2032, to provide additional engineering design and support for pipeline improvement projects pursuant to Charter Section 9.118.
And I think we can take this item, same house, same call without objection.
The resolution is adopted.
Madam Clerk, please call items 18 and 19 together.
Items 18 and 19 are two resolutions that approve amendments between the Department of Public Health and a contract with Medline Industries Inc.
Item 18 approves the third amendment to the agreement for low unit of measure distribution of medical surgical and laboratory supplies to extend the term by four years for a total term of July 1st, 2021 through June 30th, 2030, to increase the amount by 156.2 million for a new total amount of 301 million, and to update the Medline Master Distribution Agreement.
And for item 19, this item approves the fourth amendment to the agreement for bulk medical surgical and laboratory supplies and services to extend the term by four years for a new term of July 1st, 2021 through June 30th, 2030, to increase the amount by approximately 70.8 million for a new total of approximately 165 million.
And I think we can take these items, same house, same call, without objection, the resolutions are adopted.
Madam Clerk, please call item 20.
Item 20, this is a resolution to authorize adoption of the San Francisco Behavioral Health Services Act, the three-year integration plan for fiscal years 2026 through 2029.
And I think we can take this item, same house, same call, without objection.
The resolution is adopted.
Madam Clerk, please call items 21 and 22 together.
Items 21 and 22 are two resolutions that approve airport lease terminations.
For item 21, this is for the Terminal three boarding area, F food and beverage concession lease number six between Gate 74 Inc.
and the City.
And item 22 is for the Harvey Milk Terminal 1 Food and Beverage Concession Lease in phases 3 and 4, lease 12, between HFF, SFO, TWO, LLC as tenant, and the city.
And we'll take these same house, same call.
Without objection, the resolutions are adopted.
Madam Clerk, please call items 23 and 24 together.
Items 23 and 24 are two resolutions that retroactively authorize the human services agency to accept and expend a grant increase in supplemental funding from the Federal Office of Refugee Resettlement Program.
Item 23 is entitled Housing Assistance for Ukrainians, San Francisco, a grant increase in the amount of 300,000 for a total amount of 1.8 million for the term through September 30th, 2026.
And for item 24, this is for a program entitled Ukrainian Refugee Support Services Supplemental Funding San Francisco for 200,000 for the term October 1st, 2022 through September 30th, 2026.
Same house, same call without objection.
The resolutions are adopted.
Madam Clerk, please call items 25 through 27 together.
Items 25 through 27 are three resolutions that approve contract amendments between the Department of Homelessness and Support of Housing and the following two agencies.
For item 25, approving the first amendment to the contract with Dish SF for property management services at six buildings to increase the agreement amount by 15.3 million for a new total of 25.3 million to extend the contract term 18 months for a total term of July 1st, 2025 through June 31st, 2027.
And for item 26.
This resolution approves the first amendment to the contract with St.
Vincent DePaul Society of San Francisco for Operations and Support Services at the Division Circle Navigation Center to extend the term 36 months for a total term of July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2029, and to increase the contract amount by 27.5 million for a new total amount of 37 million, and for item 27.
This resolution approves the contract with the St.
Vincent DePaul Society of San Francisco for emergency shelter operations and support services at the Multi-Service Center South for a term July 1st, 2026 through June 30th, 2029, 435 million.
Same house, same call.
Without objection, the resolutions are adopted.
Madam Clerk, please call items 28 and 29 together.
Items 28 and 29 are two resolutions that approve grant agreement amendments between the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing and the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, Inc.
Item 28, approves the second amendment to the grant agreement for supportive services, property management, and master leasing for the Crown, the Winston and National Hotels to extend the term by 18 months for a new total term July 1st, 2021 through December 31st, 2027, to increase the agreement amount by 8 million for a new total amount of 42.5 million.
And for item 29, this resolution approves the third amendment to the grant agreement for master lease stewardship, property management and support services at 16 permanent supportive housing sites to extend the term by 18 months for a total term of July 1st, 2020 through December 31st, 2027, to increase the agreement amount by 61.9 million for a new total amount of 303.6 million.
Same house, same call.
Without objection, the resolutions are adopted.
Madam Clerk, please call item 30.
Item 30, resolution to authorize the San the Department of Public Works to accept and expend a 14.5 million dollar grant from the San Francisco Downtown Development Corporation to fund the Powell Street Improvement Project to approve the associated grant agreement pursuant to Charter Section 9.118 sub A and to affirm the CEQA determination.
Same house, same call, without objection.
The resolution is adopted.
Madam Clerk, please call item 31.
Item 31, this resolution approves and authorizes the director of real estate on behalf of multiple departments to execute a second amendment to the lease agreement with Hudson 1455 Market Street for 502,000 rentable square feet of office space at 1455 Market Street.
And we can take this item, same house, same call without objection.
The resolution is adopted.
Madam Clerk, please call item 32.
Item 32 was referred without recommendation from the budget and finance committee.
It's a resolution to authorize the sheriff's office to contract with the San Francisco Pre-Trial Division Diversion Project Project as a pretrial for pretrial services for a three-year term, July 1st, 2026 through June 30th, 2029, pardon me, for contract amount.
Yeah, the clerk's own.
Pardon me.
Thank you, Madam Clerk.
That sounded painful.
Supervisor Dorsey.
Thank you, President Mandelman.
Colleagues, this item was sent out from the budget and finance committee without recommendation, as is occasionally the practice when there are special circumstances for which committee members want to make sure we apprise all of our colleagues here at the full board.
I will be voting yes on this item.
However, just to explain, it implicates a transition that the Superior Court of California recently announced to align San Francisco's pretrial services with how these services are provided by all other California counties.
In short, it will designate civil service, specifically the adult probation department or APD, to provide pretrial services to justice involved individuals.
It would ultimately replace the nonprofit partner named in this contract, the San Francisco pretrial diversion project, which is historically handed to these services.
As I believe most of our officers were informed by the presiding judge, the Superior Court has expressed concerns about pretrials financial stability, transparency, management, and accuracy of progress reports for those under pretrial supervision.
At the committee, we discussed the three-year length of this contract as potentially problematic given this transition.
Given that we can't amend contracts in committee, we discussed how funding for this contract would occur vis-a-vis the sheriff's budget and how the mayor's office plans to fund APD.
We arrived at an agreed upon conclusion widely offered by our budget chair, uh Connie Chan, that we should express our intent to fund the contract for one year and put two years of the funding on this contract for on reserve.
Meaning we can terminate the pretrial contract without penalty liability or expense of any kind to the city, if I understand that correctly.
So this shared understanding will help us make sure that we facilitate this well.
Thank you, Supervisor Dorsey.
Seeing nobody else in the queue.
Let's take this same house, same call, without objection.
The resolution is adopted.
Please call items 33 through 36 together.
Items 33 through 36 are for ordinances regarding public utility commission revenue bonds and an appropriation.
Item 33 appropriates all estimated capital project receipts and expendit expenditures for the public utilities commission for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 2027 and June 30th, 2028.
And 34, it authorizes issuance and sale of tax exempt or taxable power revenue bonds and other forms of debt by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission for one point 138.1 million to finance the cost of various capital projects benefiting the power enterprise pursuant to amendments to the charter of the city enacted by the voters as proposition A to authorize the issuance of power revenue refunding bonds and the retirement of outstanding public power enterprise commercial paper to declare the official intent of the commission to reimburse itself with one or more issues of tax exempt or taxable bonds or other forms of debt and 35 authorizes the issuance and sale of tax exempt or taxable wastewater revenue bonds and other forms of debt by the PUC for 1.1 billion and 36 and 36.
And 36 is an ordinance to authorize the issuance and sale of tax exempt or taxable water revenue bonds and other forms of indebtedness by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and aggregate principal amount not to exceed approximately 570 million.
Thank you, Madam Clerk.
Let's take these items.
Same house, same call.
Without objection, the ordinance are passed on first reading.
And please call item number 37.
Item number 37 is an ordinance to amend the building code to adjust fees charged by the Department of Building Inspection, amending the administrative code to allow the Department of Building Inspection and Planning Department to charge notary fees and affirmed sequel determination.
Same house, same call, without objection.
The ordinance is passed on first reading.
Madam Clerk, please call items 38 and 39 together.
Items 38 and 39 are two resolutions regarding Prop J certifications.
Item 38 is the resolution to concur with the controller's certification that department services can be performed by private contractor for a low cost, then similar work performed by city and county employees for protective services for the PUC.
And item 39 is a resolution to concur with the controller certification that department services previously approved can be performed by private contractor for a lower cost and similar work performed by city employees for the following services security, information and guest services, parking operations, shuttle bus services at the airport, citations, pair transit, parking, meter collections, security, towing, transit, shelter cleaning services at MTA, janitorial services at the port, and security services at PUC.
And we can take these items, same house, same call without objection.
The resolutions are adopted.
Please call item 40.
Item number 40 is a resolution to authorize the public library to accept and expend approximately 1.1 million grant of in-kind gifts, services, and cash monies from the friends of the public library for direct support for a variety of public programs and services in fiscal year 2026-27.
Same house, same call without objection.
The resolution is adopted.
Please call item 41.
Item 41 is an ordinance to approve amended surveillance technology policies for the Department of Public Works use of unmanned aerial vehicles and the Department of Public Works use of an illegal dumping camera system with automatic license plate reader technology and cameras and making required findings in support of set approvals.
Same house, same call without objection.
The ordinance is passed on first reading.
Please call item 42.
Item number 42 is a resolution to support California State Assembly Bill 1837, which will authorize the use of video imaging to enforce parking and stopping violations in transit only lanes and bikeways in indefinitely.
Can we do a roll call, please?
Sure.
Madam Clerk, please call the roll on item 42.
On item 42, Supervisor Chen.
Chen I, Supervisor Dorsey, Dorsey I, Supervisor Mahmoud, Mahmoud I, Supervisor Mandelman, Mandelman I, Supervisor Melgar, Melgar, I, Supervisor Sauter, Soder I, Supervisor Cheryl, Cheryl I, Supervisor Walton, Walton, no, Supervisor Wong, Wong I, Supervisor Chan, Chen.
Either, I there are nine eyes and one no.
With supervisor Walton voting no.
And the resolution is adopted.
And Madam Clerk, please call item 43.
Item number 43 is a resolution to recognize April 6, 2026 as the 100th anniversary of United Airlines and its central role in San Francisco's economy and global connectivity.
Please call the rule.
On item 43, Supervisor Chen.
Chen I, Supervisor Dorsey, Dorsey, Supervisor Mahmood, Mahmoud I, Supervisor Mandelman, Mandelman I, Supervisor Melgar, Melgar I, Supervisor Soder, Sutter, I, Supervisor Cheryl, Cheryl I, Supervisor Walton, Walton.
I, Supervisor Wong, Wang I, Supervisor Chan.
Chen I there, 10 Eyes.
Without objection, the resolution is adopted.
Madam Clerk, let's go to our 230 p.m.
special order.
Our two special order at 2 30 is the recognition of commendations for meritorious service to the city and county of San Francisco.
We start today with District 1 Supervisor Chan.
Thank you, President Mendelman, colleagues.
Um I would like to welcome Richmond Station Captain Kevin Lee and Officer Jimmy Trent.
We're so fortunate to have their great um presence uh in the Richmond uh and their dedications to public safety.
Captain Kevin Lee is a 26-year-old uh well, not 26-year-old, 26 years.
He looks like a 26-year-old.
My apologies.
Captain Lee is a 26-year law enforcement veteran, serving 19 years with the San Francisco Police Department and seven years with the San Francisco Sheriff's department.
Throughout his career, he has worked at seven of the city's 10 district stations.
Captain Lee strongly believed that patrol is the backbone of every police department and every district and every neighborhood, especially as a bilingual Cantonese speaker.
He recognizes the importance of language access and cultural competency and understanding in the Marden policing in San Francisco.
By bridging communication gaps, he strives to strengthen relationship in neighborhoods that have historically felt underserved.
So thank you, Captain Lee, for your leadership and building such a great team, bringing in officer like Officer Jimmy Trent to serve this community.
And so for Officer Jimmy Trent, and the start is 168.
That's a good number.
That's a great number.
Um is a true son of San Francisco, born and raised in the Richmond district.
He attended Alamo Elementary School, Presidial Middle, and Washington High School before earning both his bachelor's and master degrees from San Francisco State University.
Officer Trent began his San Francisco police department career in 2014.
After graduating from the police academy, he began field training at Inglesai Station with subsequent assignments at Central and Bayview Station, followed by the professional standard unit.
Today he proudly serves the neighborhood that raised him at the uh as the Command Clement Street Footbeat Officer in Richmond Station.
Office Trent is trilingual, fluent in English, Cantonese, and Chiu Chau.
Often seen engaging and conversing with residents and merchants on the corridors.
And I know this to be true because when I visit the corridors, whenever I bump into him, and whenever uh along with other merchants, they love him.
They really do.
And just resident just love Officer Trem and just recognize him everywhere he goes, and that is the kind of officer we need.
I want to highlight recent uh recent incidents that really exemplify um Officer Tren's outstanding service, professionalism, and kindness.
Officer Trent saw a senior waiting at the bus shelter that is not in service.
He immediately recognized him as someone who frequent Clement Street and was not able to go home by himself.
Officer Trent called for approval, gave the gentleman the right home, and connected with the family with information about SFPD's medical bracelet to help first responders in case of future emergency.
So thank you.
Thank you, Captain Lee.
Thank you, Officer Tran, for going above and beyond in your service to the Richmond Station and San Francisco.
And I believe that Captain Lee have a few remarks first, but I also see I see.
Even though we're just on the other side of Arguello, I'm very lucky to benefit from uh Richmond Station, Captain Lee, your leadership.
And thank you for being such stewards of our community and for leading uh you are community first.
You're compassionate, you're empathetic.
Um, and you see the people who live and work um in the district in the in the the Richmond every day.
So thank you very much.
And Supervisor Chan, thank you very much for honoring these two heroes.
Thank you.
Uh good afternoon, Supervisor Chan, Supervisor Cheryl, President Mandelman, and members of the Board of Supervisors, Commander Amy Horwitz, representing the police department, and members of the community.
Thank you for the opportunity to be here today and for recognizing Officer Jimmy Tran with this special commendation.
I would first like to thank Supervisor Connie Chan for her continued partnership and unwavering support of public safety, our neighborhoods and the men and women of the San Francisco Police Department.
We are also grateful to the entire Board of Supervisors for your leadership and support of our city employees who serve the people of San Francisco every day.
It is truly an honor to recognize Officer Jimmy Tran.
Jimmy represents the very best of San Francisco.
He was born and raised in the Richmond district, attended local public schools, and chose to dedicate his life to serving the same community that helped shape who he is today.
Officer Tran is not only an outstanding police officer, but also a compassionate and professional public servant.
Whether he is walking the Clement Street footbeat, helping residents and merchants, or building trust with our community members, Jimmy consistently goes above and beyond the call of duty.
As a husband, father, and proud son of San Francisco, Officer Tran exemplifies the values we strive for in policing, service, integrity, empathy, and community partnership.
On behalf of Richmond Station and the San Francisco Police Department, I am proud to stand beside Officer Jimmy Tran today.
Congratulations, Jimmy, and thank you for your dedication and service to the city and county of San Francisco.
Thank you, President of the Board of Supervisors, members of the Board of Supervisors, Commander Hurwitz, City Hall staff, and members of the public.
To be honest, I came here with a little hesitation in light of recent events.
Two nights ago, one of our officers were injured in the line of duty, and I was on that call.
And what I saw that night was a department that came together seamlessly when it mattered most.
Officers ran towards danger and did so without any hesitation.
They did the job.
The fact that I was brought here today was about taking a moment to help an elderly person out in the Richmond district.
That too is also a job.
Aside from running towards danger, taking the time and slowing down for the person in front of you is also an important role.
Before I go any further, I'd like to thank my wife who holds support at home so that I can focus on the job at hand.
And without her love, support, and sacrifice, I cannot focus on my daily job.
To my colleagues at Richmond Station and across the department, you're also a big reason why I show up to work every day.
You keep on coming despite having hard days, some more taxing than others.
But you keep on showing up.
And that to me is the honor behind wearing this uniform.
Today I am accepting this award, not for myself, but for my wife, who supports me day in and day out, for the Richmond District, the community that played a role in raising me and shaping me to be who I am today, and that I'm proudly to serve.
For my colleagues at Richmond Station, who provides a positive working environment for me to go to work every day, for the officer fighting to have a full recovery at the hospital bed right now as we're speaking, and for everyone else who's gonna be putting back on this uniform tomorrow just to do this job all over again.
Thank you very much.
This moment belongs to everyone.
Good afternoon, colleagues.
Today I'm honored to recognize Tara Castro.
Recognizing her for her outstanding dedication, leadership, and service to the students, families, and staff of AP Giannini Middle School in the Utter Sunset, where my younger brother went.
Before I begin, I also want to acknowledge the principals, educators, and school leaders who are here with us today.
Thank you for your service and for the important work you do every day to support our students, teachers, and school communities.
Your presence here speaks volumes about the respect and admiration that Tara has earned throughout her career.
Tara has been teaching middle school since 2011 and has been a cornerstone of the Giannini community since 2012.
Over the years, she has taught social studies and English language arts across multiple grade levels, helping students develop not only academic skills, but also confidence, curiosity, and a love of learning.
In addition to her work in the classroom, Tara has served as a teacher leader in the English language arts department, an instructional coach, and a mentor to fellow educators.
She has also enriched student life by leading a writing club and a cooking club, creating opportunities for students to explore their interests and build meaningful connections.
What makes Terra truly exceptional is the care, authenticity, and passion she brings to her work each day.
She creates a learning environment where students feel supported, challenged, and empowered to succeed.
Her ability to build strong relationships with students and families has made a lasting impact on countless young people and her colleagues consistently describe her as a trusted leader, collaborator, and source of support.
Beyond academics, Tara helps foster a school culture rooted in respect, belonging, and high expectations.
She embodies the very best of public education and represents the profound difference that dedicated teachers make in the lives of their students and in our communities.
Tara, on behalf of the residents of District 4 and the city and county of San Francisco, thank you for your years of service, your commitment to your young people, and your countless contributions to APG.
Thank you so much to Supervisor Wong and the Board of Supervisors for this honor.
Thank you also to Dr.
Christina Jung, who is here with me for nominating me for this commendation and for being here today.
I also have my husband Colin and a former student Max and his mom Stacey, who also works at our school.
So thank you to them.
This means so much to me.
It gives me the chance to reflect on and communicate how grateful I am for my students, my colleagues, and this career.
I really enjoy going to work every day to teach the young people of San Francisco.
Some of my sixth graders literally run into the classroom asking, What are we doing today?
I do get irritated by this sometimes because I hear that question probably 10 times per day, and by June each year, my patience is held together with a paper clip and some scotch tape.
But when I look closer at the sixth grader asking, what are we doing today?
I can see that it comes from a place of eagerness, curiosity, and joy.
Sixth graders sometimes act like teens, but they still skip down the hallways when they're having a good day and give daisy chain necklaces and cool rocks they found to their teachers.
As the students get older in seventh and eighth grade, their joy looks a little less obvious, but I've learned it's still there.
It's the smiley face drawn in a corner of the whiteboard on their way out of the room.
Or a kid who wants to read what he wrote out loud to me before turning it in.
It warms my English teacher's heart when I hear my teenage students say things like, This book was really good, or can you read my conclusion?
Or is this how you use a semicolon?
Nice.
Some of them are taller than I am, but they're still kids inside, and they thrive with guidance, encouragement, and support.
For the adults at a middle school, providing the kind of support and guidance that teens need will really do a number on your nervous system.
I feel so grateful for my colleagues at APG Anini Middle School who provide that support every day to students.
They listen deeply and seriously to their students throughout the school day, even if it's about something adults might classify as silly, but is bringing a student to tears.
I'm also inspired by how encouraging my fellow teachers are to our students, reminding them of things we all need to hear, like it's okay to try difficult things and make mistakes.
The patience they have is incredible, and I'm so grateful to do this work alongside them.
The moments of human connection at a middle school are constant and can give you emotional whiplash.
Within a two-minute time span, you might have interactions that are frustrating, then sad, then hilarious.
I'm so grateful to ride this middle school roller coaster in the Sunset District of San Francisco and grateful that I get to connect with the joy of our San Francisco youth and be with them on their journey of growing up.
Let's continue to work together as a city to support the vital work of public education and honor the work being done in schools like you're doing here today.
Thank you.
Thank you, President Mandelman.
Colleagues, today I rise to celebrate an extraordinary public servant, a respected leader, and a dedicated member of the San Francisco family, Darrell Robinson.
For more than three decades, Darrow has devoted his career to serving the people of San Francisco through the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency.
Beginning his journey in 1989, he rose through the ranks through hard work, expertise, and unwavering commitment to excellence, and along the way, he helped modernize critical transportation infrastructure, supported innovative technology projects, strengthen operations, and ensure that the systems our city rely upon every day continue to serve residents efficiently and effectively.
Bodero's legacy extends far beyond projects, programs, and accomplishments.
Those who have worked alongside him know him as a mentor, a problem solver, and a leader who believed in creating opportunities for others.
He fostered a culture of inclusion, championed fairness and equity, and invested in growth and success of the people around him.
His leadership helped shape not only the work of the agency, but also the careers of countless colleagues who benefited from his guidance and support.
Through his dedication, professionalism, and integrity, Darrell has helped make San Francisco a better place for residents, workers, and visitors alike.
I want to extend my deepest gratitude for your years of faithful service to this city.
Your contributions have left the lasting mark here in San Francisco, and your leadership will continue to inspire those who follow in your footsteps.
As you begin this well-earned retirement, we celebrate not only your remarkable career, but also the countless lives you've touched along the way.
Congratulations, Daryl, and thank you for your extraordinary service to San Francisco.
And Daryl, before you speak, uh I believe we have your supervisor Victoria Wise, who is here to say a few words on behalf of Director Kirschbaum, who couldn't be here, of course, because she is in her own MTA Board of Directors meeting.
Indeed, uh President Metalman, members of the Board of Supervisors, thank you for this opportunity to acknowledge this incredible person, Daryl, who has done so much for SFMTA, but also for the city as a whole.
I met Daryl when he was managing our meter shop, which by the way is no small job.
We're talking about a budget of 20 million dollars, and we're talking about maintaining and operating 26,000 meters in the city of San Francisco, and he did an exemplary job in that, which is why he was promoted to run the entire operations of the city.
And we're talking about the sign shop, we're talking about the paint shop and the temporary sign shop for special events, all the things, all the bread and butter things that SFMTA does to make our city run.
The person behind that is Daryl, and he has been outstanding, not in just executing the day-to-day work that we do, but of growing a leadership team behind him.
He is leaving behind incredible leaders in that organization and a really, really strong team for which I am personally grateful for Daryl, and that's an incredible legacy that you are uh leaving us with the city and SFMTA in particular.
I also want to tell you guys he's exemplary public service employee because he, when I call him to solve problems, the answer is always let me see how I can figure it out.
Let me see how I can navigate certain unique situations or how can I make something work.
The answer for Darrell is always yes, and that exemplifies the very kind of public servants that we want to be in why I'm so proud to have him as a colleague.
The other thing that I would tell you about Daryl, he is a team player with a capital T.
Daryl has told me many, many times teamwork is what makes the dream work, and that has become the motto of the streets division of SFMTA.
And we use that every single day, and that is how we operate, and that is how we serve the city today.
So, with that, I just want to tell you that Darrell is the heart and soul of my division, and I'm gonna be very sad to see him go, but honestly, also very excited for you to spend more time with your family.
It's been an honor serving with you, Daryl, truly.
Thank you.
Thank you, uh Supervisor President, as well as um Supervisor Walton and all the supervisors.
It's been an honor and privilege to serve the citizens of San Francisco.
But I wanted to tell a little bit of history as how I arrived to serving the to becoming the person I became as a young kid growing up in the Baby Hunters Point.
I was I'm the product of uh the first generation of kids that were bust around the schools in San Francisco.
And uh as a result of that, uh, one uh October in 1974, um, a couple of my colleagues uh uh went to the swimming pool at Martin Luther King Swimming Pool and they actually drowned.
Um, as a result of that, my parents and my community came together and we activated to to get City Hall to put a building over the swimming pool itself.
By me seeing that at an early age, it really inspired me to do so as well, to be advocate internally and what changes I can make within San Francisco.
So over the years I've done so.
Um I also want to say thank you to Victoria Wise, Julie uh Kirstbaum for entrusting me to lead uh the streets of San Francisco to make the modernization of the modern changes that have made, whether it be bike lanes, whether it be bus lanes, whether it be crosswalks or stop signs, my team, in fact, um, throughout the COVID and uh different events have always been in the forefront of making those changes.
Um I just want to say thank you to the supervisors as well as to my family and to the community, and thank you very much.
All right.
And I would like to invite up Tom Horn.
Along with his husband of forty-two years, Caesar.
All right, I'm a oh.
After me, all right.
I get all right.
So you have you have friends and fans who are lining up to uh to speak about you after I speak.
Um I'm a big fan of Tom Horns, um, and it is uh uh a great honor to be able to recognize him today for his extraordinary service over many decades, advocating for the LGBTQ plus community, uh, his work to advance civil rights, um, his philanthropy and um his commitment to strengthening the arts.
Um long before uh LGBTQ plus rights gained mainstream acceptance and recognition, Tom understood that the law could serve as a powerful tool for protection and justice.
After he graduated from UCLA law school, he began uh his career as a public defender, taking on cases his peers would not, including defending gay men being prosecuted under sodomy laws.
His advocacy eventually brought him to the ACLU, where he uh took over as legal director of its New Mexico chapter.
As legal director, his work challenging sodomy laws that criminalized gay existence would help lay the foundation uh along with a lot of other folks for the eventual overturning of those laws across the United States in 2003.
Tom moved to San Francisco in 1976.
We are lucky for it.
Uh and he has continued his work uh defending people targeted by institutional homophobia and working to over overturn outdated and unjust laws.
Recognizing the lasting le that lasting legal protections require political power and or and community organizing.
He got involved with the budding gay rights movement in San Francisco, working alongside leaders like Harvey Milk to ensure that uh the community would no longer be ignored by those in power.
The morning after the white night riots, Tom arrived at the courthouse with several other lawyers to defend the many gay activists that had been arrested for protesting the outrageously lenient sentence given to Harvey Milk's assassin.
That collection of lawyers would become uh the Bayer Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom, or Bailiff, now the nation's oldest and largest association of LGBTQ plus legal professionals.
Of course, Tom's leadership has extended far beyond the courtroom.
In 1981, then Mayor Diane Feinstein appointed Tom to the Board of Trustees of the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center.
We will not be adding term limits to the War Memorial Board, friends.
At the time, Tom was one of only three gay commissioners in the city.
He oversaw the restoration of the historic War Memorial Opera House and championed greater inclusivity in the arts, including sponsoring San Francisco Opera's first ever Pride concert.
And he currently serves as president of the Board of Trustees.
At the height of the HIV AIDS epidemic, Tom stepped forward.
He joined the board of the Caposi's Caposi Sarcoma Education and Research Foundation, which would become the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.
There he helped raise and um and direct resources toward life-saving research, education, and compassionate care during one of the city's darkest moments.
After the death of his friend and Bay Area reporter founder, Bob Ross, Tom stepped up again to serve as publisher of the Bay Area Reporter between 2004 and 2013.
In that role, he helped preserve one of the nation's most important LGBTQ plus newspapers, ensuring that the community's stories, struggles, and triumphs are documented and shared.
He has also served as president of the Bob Ross Foundation, supporting HIVAIDS services, LGBTQ plus civil rights organizations, and cultural initiatives throughout San Francisco, including the Twin Peaks Pink Triangle that goes up every June in honor of Pride.
And it is in this role that we have all benefited because the Bob Ross Foundation pays what's the bill for all of our pride and other uh LGBTQ celebrations over in the mayor's balcony.
So thank you for that as well.
Tom is also a committed internationalist and uh a um on a Francophile um taboot.
Um he has uh helped create and co and uh chaired the San Francisco Paris Sister City Committee.
He was instrumental in establishing Villa San Francisco, an artist residency project.
The Republic of France has given Tom numerous recognitions for his work, and in 2021, he was awarded the Legion of Honor by President Emmanuel Macron, and that is the highest award uh France has to give.
Additionally, Prince Albert II, the Prince of Monaco, uh appointed Tom honorary consul general of Monaco in San Francisco in 2009, ensuring an endless stream of paperwork for Tom Horn to do for uh folks who may be visiting from Monaco.
Um, Tom Horn, you're gonna hear from some of my colleagues, but we love you to pieces.
We're grateful for you.
Um you have lots more to do, so um, you know, don't let this be uh uh a permission to like to let up because uh because uh we're looking forward to your continued contributions.
But um we wanted to give you a little bit of well-deserved and long-overdue honoring uh for this pride.
With that, Supervisor Melgar.
Thank you, President Mandelman.
Thank you for honoring Tom Horn.
Um, and I am a big fan of Tom Horns.
I have personally uh benefited you have saved my skin for your wonderful relationships.
Um thank you for recognizing um his contributions but also his internationalist project.
Alors je dois vous remercier en France, comme il faut.
Merci pour être l'ambassadeur de San Francisco at notre cité sort at Paris.
Uh, pour tout ce que vous avez fait pour la langue française, pour la culture française, vous donnez cette.
Tom, I want to um add my voice to the praise for everything that you have uh done for our community and for our city, but I think for me especially, I want to express my gratitude.
Um that you took the helm of the Bay Area reporter, and I know I have come to realize just how important having a news organization of that caliber to record um the extraordinary history that the LGBTQ community has had in this city.
Um I think more than any news organization or publication that I'm aware of in the city.
There's more continuity and institutional memory from the BAR, and I just have over the years really appreciated the opportunity to work uh with all the journalists and editors and reporters there, but it wouldn't be possible without the leadership that you um brought and the stability that you had and what you did to make sure that it was digitized and preserved for history.
I think that is a history that is really going to be influential.
So thank you so much for your leadership on that.
Tom Horn, the floor is yours.
Thank you so much, President Mandelman.
Um, Madame Le Conseiller Municipal, uh Supervisor Dorsey and uh Supervisors.
It's a great honor to be here today.
It was almost fifty years to the day that uh I moved permanently to San Francisco in 1976.
And I came here as a young lawyer, just wanting to be with people that were like me, and uh and just ply my ply my trade.
And uh little did I know that uh over the course of the next 50 years I would be dropped in the center of the political and cultural heart of San Francisco, and it truly has changed has changed my life.
And I met the love of my life, uh 42 years ago, plus, so uh I'm very uh grateful for the kind words that all of you have spoken and for this gesture, but I simply have to say that what I have received from San Francisco is so much greater than anything I can ever give to San Francisco.
So thank you, President Madeline, thank you, Supervisors.
Um, I'm getting next to you.
And then we'll get to that over there.
I work, I work for him now.
Be good to him.
All right.
All right.
So Madame Clerk, I think that takes us back to committee reports.
Please call item forty-four.
Item 44 was considered by the land use and transportation committee at a regular meeting on Monday, June 1st, 2026, and was recommended as a committee report.
It is a resolution to urge state officials to support California State Senate Bill 436, the Keeping Californians Housed Act, which seeks to prevent displacement by extending the notice period for renters to pay or vacate from three days to 14 days, bringing California in line with other states.
Please call the roll.
On item 44, Supervisor Chen.
Chen I, Supervisor Dorsey.
Dorsey I, Supervisor Mahmood, Mahmoud I, Supervisor Mandelman, Manselman, I, Supervisor Melgar, Melgar I, Supervisor Sauter, Soder I, Supervisor Cheryl, Cheryl I, Supervisor Walton, Walton I, Supervisor Wong, Wong I, Supervisor Chan.
Chan I, there are 10 eyes.
And without objection, the resolution is adopted.
Madam Clerk, please call item 45.
Items 45 through 48 were considered by the rules committee at a regular meeting on Monday, June 1st, 2026, and were recommended to the full board.
Item 45 itself is the ordinance to amend the administrative code to create the North Beach Entertainment Zone, the Ferry Building Entertainment Zone, the Belden Place Downtown Activation Zone to authorize the outdoor consumption of alcoholic beverages during an entertainment zone event starting at 11 a.m.
rather than noon, and affirm the CEQA determination.
I think we can take this same house, same call without objection.
The ordinance is passed on first reading.
And please call items 46 to 48 together.
Item 46 was a recommended as amended with a new title, adding the name of the appointee.
It is a motion to confirm the reappointment of Kevin Benedicto term ending April 30th, 2030 to the police commission.
Item 47 was recommended as amended with a new title to approve the mayor's nomination for the appointment of Lawrence Lowe to the police commission for a term ending April 30th, 2030.
And item 48 was amended, recommended as amended with a new title to approve the mayor's nomination for the reappointment of Matty Scott to the police commission for a term ending April 30th, 2030.
And we can take these same house, same call.
Without objection, the motions are approved.
And let's go to roll call.
First up on roll call for introduction to today is Supervisor Chen.
Thank you, Supervisor.
Supervisor Dorsey.
Thank you.
Supervisor Mahmoud.
Thank you.
Supervisor Mandelman.
All right.
Um I have two items today.
First, I'm introducing actually I have several items.
I'm going to submit some of them, but I got two I'm going to talk about.
Um I'm introducing a resolution to add uh the commemorative street name, Dr.
Carlota Tejedor Del Portillo Way, to the section of Bartlett Street between 21st and 22nd.
I want to thank Supervisor Melgar for your co-sponsorship of this.
The block is uh home to uh the back side, or depending on your perspective, it is one side of the City College of San Francisco Mission Campus, which Dr.
Del Portillo helped establish and where she served as dean for many years.
Dr.
Del Portillo is a pioneering civic leader who's decades of public service and work as a teacher, counselor, and college dean, helped expand educational access and opportunity for underserved communities.
Her career in education began in 1972 when she started work as a counselor at uh City College's Skills Center.
At the time, City College had begun offering some classes at various locations in the mission district.
Dr.
Del Portillo, recognizing the importance of securing a permanent home for programs focused on education, job training, and citizen citizenship in the mission, worked alongside other Latino educators to organize Keepers of the Dream, a group dedicated to establishing a city college campus in the neighborhood.
This group, which grew to include community leaders, teachers, and other staff, advocated for establishment of this campus for decades and finally achieved that with the opening of the Valencia mission Campus in 2007.
Dr.
Del Portillo served as dean of that campus for decades, overseeing instructional programs and supporting generations of students.
She often described it as her fifth daughter.
She arrived early each day and stayed until the last student had left.
At the mission campus ribbon cutting ceremony, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi joined Dr.
Del Portillo to celebrate the monumental achievement, reflecting on their long-standing relationship and recalling that her first political fundraiser was held at Dr.
Del Portilla's Del Portillo's home.
She served under every San Francisco mayor from George Musconi to Ed Lee and broke barriers as the first Latina appointed to the Human Rights Commission, Civil Rights Commission, and Fire Commission.
She also played a key role in integrating the fire department, and in 1990, she became the first Latina elected citywide to the San Francisco Unified District Board of Education without prior appointment and went on to serve two terms.
In that regard, she's a little bit like Supervisor Melgar.
Dr.
Del Portillo also helped found the Mexican American Political Association in San Francisco and the Latino Democratic Club and was active in numerous Democratic clubs, including the Raul Wallenberg Democratic Club and the Alice B.
Toklis LGBTQ Democratic Club.
In addition to founding the mission campus, she consistently championed responses to the social and economic inequities of the mission and the broader city.
She co-founded the Mission Hiring Hall, a nonprofit that provides counseling training and job placement services for low and moderate income San Franciscans.
She served on its board for more than 20 years and was a driving force behind program development and fundraising.
She was also instrumental in establishing the construction administration training program at City College, and the which is now the Construction Administration Professional Services Academy or CAPSA, and helped open pathways to stable careers for thousands of restaurants.
She led the Latino Hispanic Fundraising Committee for the Maine Public Library, which sponsored the community meeting room and commissioned a three-dimensional mural celebrating Latin American literature.
And her legacy is further honored in District 8 in the Glenport Park Library, which bears her name in its children's section in recognition of her dedication to literacy and community investment.
And even in retirement, she's remained deeply committed to educational equity.
In 2010, she founded Friends of the Mission Campus, a foundation that has awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars in scholarships to city college students, transforming lives through access to education and job training.
Throughout her life, she's exemplified the very best of civic leadership, serving as an advocate, mentor, and volunteer whose enduring impact continues to strengthen communities across San Francisco.
This commemorative street naming is a way to honor her for that extraordinary service to the city and county.
I want to thank Dr.
Juanita Owens as well as Dr.
Del Portillo's family for championing this street renaming and working with my office, especially Grace Wong on this project.
I also want to thank Supervisor Fielder's office for their collaboration.
They've been super helpful.
And again, thank you, Supervisor Belgar, for your co-sponsorship.
And then, secondly, colleagues, I am introducing today an ordinance to streamline the process by which San Francisco designates landmarks and historic districts under Articles 10 and 11 of the planning code.
A number of us have been pursuing landmarkings of various individual landmarks and districts.
And for those of you who have been through this process, you know that it is long and arduous, and there are many steps to it, and it should be long and arduous with many steps and careful consideration of whether the buildings and potential districts being considered actually merit designation.
But in conversations with the planning department, it's become clear that there are there's a little bit of streamlining that we could do here that would make uh make this a little um uh easier on the staff who are doing the work uh and um on on the broader community.
One change is to allow the Historic Preservation Commission to initiate and recommend approval of a proposed designation at the same hearing rather than having multiple hearings provided the proper notice has been given for both actions.
Under our current law initiation and recommendation are treated as separate steps, and so they require sort of double visiting, uh consolidating where appropriate would eliminate that redundant split in what's generally a single decision.
Um there are other uh changes that we'll discuss in land use uh more to um clean up several procedural requirements that have accumulated over the years and add friction to the designations without really serving any particular process, any particular um uh benefit.
Um, the legislation does not change the substantive standards for designation uh or the criteria for what qualifies as a landmark.
Um the historic preservation commission's authority remains the same.
I think we have one of the most uh robust and um and serious uh landmark designation processes, probably in the state of California.
Um we're gonna keep that uh just make it a little bit more user friendly.
Um I do want to thank Rich Sucre, Alex Westoff, uh uh Pilar Lavalli uh and the rest of the uh preservation staff and the planning department for their assistance um in helping with this legislation.
I want to thank uh SF Heritage for their uh review and partnership.
Um I want to thank some of the commissioners on the Historic Preservation Commission who've been very engaged.
I want to thank my legislative aide, uh Renil Bajoy, uh Calvin Ho actually did some work on this as well when he was in my office.
Um, and the rest I submit.
Thank you, Mr.
President.
Supervisor Milgler.
Thank you, Madam Clerk.
Uh, today I have to in memoriams.
Um I would ask that we close this meeting in memory of George Jongshing Lim, who passed away peacefully on May 19th, 2026 at San Francisco's Chinese hospital after his battle with bone cancer.
He will be remembered as a father, grandfather, uncle, granduncle, and friend to many.
He is survived by his wife, Irene Huey Sha Lim, along with his older son Victor and his wife Vivian, his younger son Vincent, and two beautiful grandchildren, Leonard and Abigail.
George was born in Toshan, China on uh June 5th, 1953.
He was a younger child raised single-handedly by his mother, Nikiu Lao Lim.
At age five, he immigrated to Hong Kong from China on the by way of Macau.
He graduated from primary school, but because of economic constraints, George ended his studies early and started working.
After receiving his immigration visa in 1972, George immigrated to the United States along with his sister's family on December 27th, 1979 to rejoin their father and mother in San Francisco.
He enrolled in San Francisco Adult School, studying ESL, and took various courses at City College.
George became close friends with many of his immigrant classmates.
He became fluent in English, and in addition to Chinese, George often helped translate and explain official documents back and forth, providing support for any immigration employment or legal needs his relatives and friends faced.
In 1979, George married his wife Irene in Hong Kong.
After Irene immigrated to the US, they raised two sons, Victor and Vincent in North Beach.
George loved his family and emphasized the importance of Chinese language and culture with his children, and often read the Chinese newspapers and books to Victor.
He also loved spending time with his grandchildren, playing games and exploring neighborhood events with them.
George worked as a busboy, waiter, clerk, typewriter, repair specialist, bartender, and garment factory tailor.
In many locations, including at the renowned uh Cantonese opera singer, La Kim Long, Kim Ling Restaurant, the historic Ming's Restaurant in Palo Alto, Chinatown's Far East Cafe, Four C's Restaurant, U.S.
Postals, RingCon Annex, and various garment factories in the Bay Area.
In his later years, he served as an in-home support service worker, supporting his parents in law.
George loved to hang out in Chinatown.
During his spare time playing chess at the San Francisco Chinese Chess Association and Portsmouth Square with his friends.
He also frequented the local library to read current events and the latest stock developments.
He overcame many health challenges, including beating gastric cancer during the pandemic with chemotherapy and surgery, but unfortunately the cancer metastasized last year, causing his health to decline rapidly.
George Jongshing Lim will be greatly missed by his family, all of his relatives and friends.
He would have turned 73 this Friday.
I want to express my deepest condolences to Victor Lim, a friend, former fellow board aide, now with the public health department, his wife Vivian Poe, and their whole family.
It is with great sadness that we mourned the passing of Anthony Tony Fasio, a beloved husband, father, grandfather, friend, mentor, and one of San Francisco's most influential political strategists.
For nearly five decades, Tony was woven into the fabric of San Francisco civic life.
After arriving in San Francisco in 1968 and graduating from San Francisco State University, he dedicated himself to organizing communities, strengthening labor movements, supporting nonprofit organizations, and helping shape the political landscape of San Francisco.
Tony's professional accomplishments were extraordinary.
As a founder of Winning Directions, he helped redefine political direct mail and campaign communications, earning national recognition in more than 100 poly awards.
His expertise, creativity, and strategic vision influenced hundreds of campaigns across the country and helped train generations of political professionals.
Tony's commitment to service extended far beyond politics.
As chair of the board of Mission Language Vocational School, MLVS, he helped create opportunities for countless San Franciscans seeking education, job training, and a pathway to a better future.
He remained devoted to causes that uplifted working people in underserved communities throughout his life.
Tony, alongside with his wife Marie Jobling and Sandy and Jeff Morey, led the determined group that helped envision and advance what became San Francisco's Dignity Fund, a landmark commitment to ensuring dedicated funding and services for older adults and people with disabilities.
Their work helped create lasting structural support for communities that are too often overlooked in city budgeting and policy decisions.
The impact of that effort continues to be felt every day across San Francisco.
My heart goes out to my former co-worker, his wife Marie Jobling, and his children, Amy, Joey, and Becky.
We are grateful for Tony's lifetime of service and for the example he set through a life dedicated to helping others.
The rest I submit.
Thank you, Supervisor Melgar.
Supervisor Sauter.
Thank you.
Supervisor Cheryl.
Thank you.
Supervisor Walton.
Thank you.
Supervisor Wong.
Colleagues, today I would like to take a moment to honor the life of Michael Durand, who passed away on May 30th, 2026 at the age of 70.
I'm joined by my colleague, Supervisor Chen in recognizing Michael through today's in-memorium.
Supervisor Chan also worked closely with Michael for many years, and I'll share a few words after her roll call remarks.
Thank you, Supervisor.
Supervisor Chan.
Thank you, colleagues, and thank you.
Yes.
Joined by Supervisor Alan Wong, I would like to adjourn today's meeting in memory of Michael Duran, who passed away May 30, 2026.
Michael was a publisher, editor, videographer, photographer, and a musician based in San Francisco.
Although Michael was born and raised in Long Island, New York, the west side of San Francisco is his home, and where he had spent the majority of his life.
Before devoting his career to journalism, he worked as a photographer and event producer traveling the world.
In fact, he was a colleague to my sister-in-law traveling around the world together as event producer.
So he certainly was a close family friend.
He purchased the Richmond Review and Sunset Beacon newspapers in 2019 after working with founder Paul Coswiski.
In his tenure as publisher and editor in chief of the Richmond Review and Sunset Beacon, he grew the size of the paper and the team of people creating them.
Now there are more than 50 contributing editors, writers, and photographers who worked to put both papers together each month, many of whom are students' interns from local high schools and college programs.
Michael brought the papers to social media and online to Richmond SunsetNews.com, amassing online advertisements and a monthly online readership of more than 25,000 people from all over the world.
He paved the way for new streams of revenue for the local publications, including patron account where neighbors and local business could support this community effort.
In a time when the COVID 19 pandemic shattered many neighborhood papers, Michael's leadership ensured that residents of San Francisco, especially those in the west side, would not go without access to free quality journalism by and for our community.
In addition to his career, Michael was a beloved friend, brother, mentor, talented musician, and supporter of his community.
He will be greatly missed.
And Michael certainly will be missed.
The last time Michael made a video, a personal video sent to me was him playing piano for his knee for his niece during the Thanksgiving.
And that is the kind of person that Michael was and so beloved and so kind.
Eventually rising through the ranks to become the first African-American chief of technical services.
Despite being born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Vincent was a San Franciscan at heart, staying faithful to his favorite foods, the Seven Mile House Burger, and original Joe's buttercake.
Vincent passed away peacefully on April 29th after a well-lived life at the ripe age of 77.
In his honor, we would like to posthumously declare his birthday March 24th, 2026 as Vincent Michael Williams Day.
And the rest I submit.
Thank you.
Thank you, Supervisor Chan.
Seeing no other names on the roster, Mr.
President.
I want to make some remarks forward.
Supervisor Wong.
Thank you, Supervisor Chan.
Colleagues, today I would like to take a moment to honor life of Michael Durant, who passed away last Saturday.
Like Supervisor Chan, I worked closely with Michael for many years.
Michael was many things a publisher, editor, photographer, musician, mentor, and storyteller.
He was also a longtime District 4 resident.
But for many of us on San Francisco's West Side, he was a person who helped preserve the identity of our neighborhoods.
Through the pages of the Sunset Beacon and the Richmond Review, Michael chronicled the life of our communities.
He celebrated local achievements, highlighted neighborhood challenges, and documented the people and institutions that make the Sunset and Richmond District special.
In doing so, he created a lasting record of who we were, what we valued, and how our communities evolved over time.
What made Michael's work so meaningful was his understanding that the stories closest to home matter.
He recognized that a school performance, a small business opening, a community event, or a local volunteer could be just as important to residents as any headline making national news.
Because of Michael, countless people and moments that might otherwise have faded with time were remembered.
There is much more that can be said about Michael's life and contributions.
But today I want to express my gratitude for all that he gave to San Francisco.
His work strengthened the bonds that connect neighbors to one another and fostered a deeper appreciation for the communities we call home.
On behalf of the residents of District 4, the community Michael called home for so many years, I extend my deepest condolences to Michael's family, especially his sister Bonnie, as well as his friends, colleagues, and all those whose lives he touched.
May we honor his memory by continuing to invest in our neighborhoods, support local journalism, and celebrate the people whose stories help define our city.
Thank you.
Thank you, Supervisor Wong, Mr.
President.
Let's go to public comment.
At this time, the board welcomes your public comment.
Please line up on the right hand side of the chamber along the curtains.
You may speak to the minutes as presented.
Items 51 and 52, the items on the forward option without committee reference agenda, and general matters not on today, not on the published agenda, but must be within the board's subject matter jurisdiction.
Will the first speaker come forward?
Everyone will be provided two minutes.
Hello, everyone.
Thank you for having me here today.
I first would like to start with a report from the Kapoor Foundation, which reported on how data centers are disproportionately placed in already vulnerable and marginalized communities.
With that being said, we do have a data center already in Bayview, which has been known to be largely black and brown people pushed into that community.
We also have a data center in FIDE.
Um some really concerning um stats on what data centers are consuming.
Um they consume about um per year enough electricity to uh fuel the state of Ohio.
So that's 176 terawatts per hour, and that's from the Department of Energy um report in 2023.
Um, and by the environmental energy environmental and energy study institute, um, they report that data centers consume five million gallons a day, which is enough to um provide 10 to 50,000 people in a town.
Um, and so with these, there are a lot of concerns environmentally on air pollution, heat exposure, for agrochemical, noise pollution, and water strain, all of which affects people's health, respiratory heart diseases, reproductive endocrine, uh sleep disturbances, and so many more that we already know based on data that's out there.
Um, so I would like for a budget to be set aside for the research, possibly disclosure of proposed data centers, um, billing the companies, not the communities, um, and more public discussions around this.
Thank you.
Thank you for your comments.
Next speaker.
Good afternoon, Peter Warfield.
I'm head of Library Users Association.
PO Box 170544, San Francisco, California, 9411 7-0544.
And Library Users 2004 at ProtonMail.com.
Pope Leo the 14th has very recently published an encyclical concerning AI and the need for it to be for humanity and human values, not just profit.
And we are more and more uh becoming aware as we read about all sorts of very serious issues, including what the speaker has mentioned with regard to environment, heavy use of electricity and water and land, and down to individual use, for example uh helping teenagers commit suicide, uh, which the New York Times reported on last fall and others have as well.
Unfortunately, the library, whose budget you will shortly be approving, has mostly uncritically touted tech and use of tech, exposing library users and the rest of our community and the world to a host of serious potential and actual problems.
And the library, unfortunately, has repeatedly violated open government law to discourage and shrink public comment about uh what it's been doing with respect to tech and other things as well.
Uh, on the complaint of a retired librarian, the Sunshine Task Force three months ago ruled that the Library Commission had for about a year been systematically and repeatedly uh cutting the time for public comment unlawfully because they didn't want to hear criticism from members of the public.
Uh, that included about tech, but it also included about poor morale, bad management, and so on and so forth.
Please keep that in mind as you do the budget.
Thank you.
Thank you for your comments.
Next speaker.
Hello, my name is Alex Wood, and I live at 24th Street and Osage in the Mission District.
Being so close to Mission Street is exciting, convenient, and entertaining.
I love the mission.
It's my home.
My apartment in the mission also has a direct view of Osage Alley between the restaurant Paprika and Mission Dance Studio.
And that is the reason why I'm here today.
I'm not here to demonize the unhoused or people fighting addiction, but I am here to highlight compounding issues I see rising in the mission neighborhood.
Dozens and dozens of times a day, people choose to publicly urinate, defecate, and deal and abuse illicit drugs in OCH Alley every single day.
Even with a public restroom, right across the street at 24th Street Bart Plaza, people still choose to quickly relieve themselves in the alley.
Along with the large amount of human waste and drug abuse, I've also witnessed prostitution and multiple physical assaults.
On Wednesday, May 27th, there was a man masturbating outside my window with his red sweatpants pulled down to his ankles.
When I called police for help, they never showed up, and there was zero follow-up.
It makes me wish Officer Tram and Captain Lee worked in my neighborhood.
When police are present at the BART Plaza, the crowds selling fence goods do leave, but often drift into residential streets, or in my case, Osage Alley 2 abuse drugs.
I regularly see crowds of up to eight or nine people at once gathering to smoke crack, fentanyl, or other illicit drugs right outside my bedroom window.
They also relieve themselves in the alley as well.
Because my district supervisor Jackie Fielder is not present, I am asking the district supervisors who are here for help.
I implore you to look into possible ways the city can prevent or deter criminal activity from repeating every single day in Osage Alley.
Thank you for your comments.
Apologies for cutting you off.
We are providing everyone the same two minutes.
Next speaker.
Good afternoon, Board President Mandelman and board members.
And uh again, I note the absence of District 9, and you've heard a resident uh speak uh to that very issue.
Uh I think that in solidarity uh with the supervisor, none of you should be giving awards to members of the public or members of the thing until that issue is resolved.
And I don't know where your lack of solidarity came from, but uh I think that you've uh created a monster by this.
I don't know how Supervisor Fielder can uh sponsor uh legislation legislation uh when she's not uh uh uh present or in an abstention.
Uh I wish the the legal department would look into that.
But I on another another lighter issue, uh I am here to to uh plea for the right to smoke.
Uh smoking is becoming draconian, as you know that uh our former governor uh Schwarzenegger smoked, uh, and I think it's actually a constitutional right.
Uh you may laugh, but uh on the on the uh uh New Year's Day, I was not able to have a barbecue, which I traditionally do.
Uh uh, because the barbecue would give off smoke, and the night before the city and county had a uh uh had a Fourth of July, not a Fourth of July, had a had a fireworks, and so it was limited.
Um the right to smoke uh uh this is pretty critical because we have politicians who are in Los Angeles who are legislating.
Thank you for your comments.
Next speaker.
Hi, good afternoon.
I'm Barry Toronto, uh happy pride, and good luck to everybody who has something on the ballot today.
Um I uh miss Angela, I hope she comes back soon.
Um anyway, uh two issues I want to address.
Um, first, I urge you again to do another resolution regarding autonomous vehicles.
You should be able locally to have some control, such as a geofence when you have a major parade, such as gay pride's coming up, and are they gonna stay away from the creating traffic?
Sometimes you get a line of six or seven of them at a time and and they interfere, as you notice, and now off the freeways, they can't deal with puddles.
Uh I thank uh supervisor, uh, supervisor for holdings hearings on this issue.
So work with with him to um to create legislation and to do a resolution to your state legislators to to ask that you can have some control over it.
Uh control over possibly having it open to low-income people and also to where they can go.
Because because uh because and also they learn bad behavior of other drivers, because I've seen them do illegal turns, etc.
So it's not like they just follow the law all the time, they have a mind of their own, which I hope it doesn't extend further out.
We won't go that far.
The next one is I I couldn't hear because the speakers are not always well placed in this room.
It's better to hear this online.
But Ira Sandler owned uh 1015 Folsom.
1015 Folsom used to be something else before that.
I won't say it because it might out me at all.
But it was a but it was closed for a few years due to the aid scare.
But then he took it over and made it the best nightclub in the nineties.
So I think he should be honored.
I don't know where he lived, but you should honor him, may he rest in peace.
The chronicle had a great article about him.
You should read the article and and uh yes, it's paper and and figure out how to honor.
Thank you, Mr.
Toronto.
Next speaker.
Hello.
Um, with what I saw during this election cycle, I hope the modern day plantation owners, CEOs, billionaires do not succeed in aiming your rage against your neighbors.
And we instead keep it directed at those that are enacting and funding states violence.
Because there is no one in the U.S.
government who has clean hands when it comes to supporting domestic state violence against our most vulnerable, such as the disabled, homeless, and imprisoned.
We cannot excuse nor deify any U.S.
government representative.
And here is a short list of some atrocities, America and the American government is currently committing.
The US government is still trying to subjugate Mexico and South America, currently starving Cuba, trying to use Kenya as a quarantine zone for Americans infected with Ebola, supplying arms for Israel's genocide against Palestine, slaughtering people in Iran and in the Caribbean, exploiting so many African countries for our cell phones and shit.
Um, stripping voting protections from black Americans and ultimately all Americans.
I mean, let's hope we can continue voting, right?
Uh, America is in full swing in torturing people in concentration camps and prisons.
America's pushing rabid misogyny, racism, homophobia, transphobia, queer phobia, especially via, you know, these uh AI bots and uh social media and all the bots that fled social media posts.
Um America is also partaking greatly in destroying our only habitats we humans have the earth with uh all these data centers that were uh referenced earlier, all in the name of profit and power.
Also, let's kick Geo Group out of the tenderloin.
Thank you for your comments.
Next speaker, good afternoon, supervisors.
Uh, I would like to begin by thanking you all for the time and energy you commit to the betterment of our city.
My name is Alex Laulio, and I'm a junior at Stewart Hall High School.
I've lived in near I've lived in District 8, just steps from the mission for the last 14 years.
In that time, I've watched the food landscape in my neighborhood change.
Small markets have closed, and the need is becoming increasingly visible.
The SF Marin Food Bank currently has a wait list of roughly 6,000 people in San Francisco alone.
That is not a charity problem, it is a system problem.
I'm not here to ask for more spending.
I understand that the city is in a tight budget year.
I'm here to ask for two things that do not require new funds.
First, stronger coordination between city departments and nonprofit partners so that resources are not duplicated and fewer people are missed.
Second, active help from this board in identifying underutilized public spaces that could support community markets, the dignified grocery store and farmers market style that the food bank is expanding upon.
San Francisco already evaluates public land for housing, transportation, and recreation.
Food access should be a part of this conversation.
I'd rather live in a city where nonprofit responsibility gets smaller every year because public systems work effectively.
I hope you'll help us move in that direction.
Thank you.
Thank you for your comments.
Next speaker.
Good afternoon, supervisors and clerks of the board.
Happy election day.
My name is Joyzanne, and I have the privilege of being the acting director for the San Francisco Youth Commission.
I will be speaking on agenda item number 52.
This year, 2026 marks the 30th anniversary of the San Francisco Youth Commission.
The commission is just a little older than me.
It was put on the ballot in 1995 as proposition F, and 60% of San Franciscans said yes, there should be a youth commission in the city and county of San Francisco.
The inaugural class was sworn in in 1996.
Over the years, the commission advocated for transformative justice, increasing use civic engagement, making our city government accessible to all youth, and of course, free muni for youth, which benefits so many young people, eighteen and under every day, so that transportation is not a barrier for them to go to school, work, and explore San Francisco.
The commission also has so many alumni who have committed to public service after leaving the commission to continue doing good work for communities all around.
Our celebration is this Thursday, June 4th at 5 p.m.
in the North Light Courts downstairs.
We invite you all, the clerk's office, your legislative aides, office volunteers, and interns to join us for this momentous milestone.
The commission thanks Supervisor Malgar for introducing the resolution to come to commemorate our 30th anniversary, and we thank Supervisors Chan, Dorsey, Chen, Walton Mahmood, and Sauter for co-sponsoring.
I urge a unanimous yes on this resolution.
Thank you.
Thank you for your comments.
Next speaker.
President, Board of Supervisors, my name is Mark Leach.
These are my teamsters, your nurse managers.
I'm here in front of you today as a last resort.
DPH has made a decision to reassign nursing leadership.
We called for the typical meet and confer and attempted to convince DPH that they were making a mistake.
Those meetings have proved pointless.
The city, the civil services process is broken, and nobody in leadership has shown any willingness to modify the decision that's been made.
MCAH that stands for Maternal Child Adolescent Health.
Nearly 100 years of serving San Francisco's mothers and babies with a team of MCAH and coordinated CBOs.
Dr.
Zay Malawa was a city employee at MCAH briefly.
She left to run her own CBO.
That CBO relies on the city and MCAH for funding, just like the dozen or so other CBOs doing the same exact work.
They all care about improving outcomes for mothers and babies.
Dr.
Malawa has made a full-time job of undermining the leadership at MCAH.
She filed relentless information requests, cherry picked data, and presented to the mayor's office, the health commission, and select members of this board.
Her efforts are now being rewarded as DPH has decided to reassign over 40 years of leadership in this practice area to completely unrelated areas elsewhere in DPH.
Some of the top nursing leaders in MCAH started out as clients of these programs.
They raised children while pursuing their nursing careers.
They are now highly educated Black and Latina women with master's degrees.
They are living role models for their clients.
And as hard as it may be to hear, there has been a failure in leadership.
A CBO receiving city funding maligns your workforce, and your leadership never talks to the employees.
They ignore the concerns and reassigns them to unrelated nursing roles.
The opinions and manipulated stats were taken at face value, and permanent PCS nursing employees are now being reassigned under the guise of budget savings.
This decision is a waste of talent and a waste of money.
We are asking for respect.
We are asking each of you for a conversation.
We are asking to be on the Board of Supervisor Committee agendas.
The health commission agendas and thank you for your comments.
Thank you.
Good afternoon, Board of Supervisors.
My name is Meg Buckwalter.
I manage two of the home visiting teams Mark mentioned for women and children in San Francisco, including one specifically for pregnant women to access prenatal care and begin substance use treatment.
Both programs directly support the mayor's priorities and the new strong starts initiative, also mentioned by Mark.
I'm here because proposed changes to MCAH, maternal child and adolescent health are being made without the right people at the table, and with information that, as you have already heard, is not accurate.
We have been told these cuts are budget driven, but I can tell you directly on Friday, I had to submit my budget to the state.
We have left money on the table.
We will be turning unspent funds to the state rather than being allowed to maintain our staff.
These reductions are not only unnecessary, they are avoidable.
The people we serve are among the most vulnerable in the city, pregnant people, newborns, families, fighting to stay healthy and housed.
I urge you to pause these changes and bring the correct stakeholders into the conversations before any decisions are finalized.
Because I have to ask you, what will this city do when babies are being born on the street again?
Because we have not had babies born on the streets since the inception of our programs.
Thank you.
Thank you for your comments.
Before the next speaker, we do have a board rule that prohibits audio, sounds of uh opposition or support.
So if you would like, you can show your support fingers, but please um uh we we want to hear the speakers' comments.
Next speaker.
Yeah.
This doesn't mean for short people.
Sorry, I have to move it down.
Good afternoon, members of the board.
My name is Michelle Salas, and I am a nurse manager within MCAH within DPH.
I am here today because I believe this board deserves accurate information before making decisions that will affect some of our city's most vulnerable residents.
The data and narrative about preterm births in San Francisco that have been presented to justify proposed cuts to MCH and home visiting are incomplete and in critical ways.
They are wrong.
Before any vote is taken, I respectfully urge this board to pause and examine what the numbers actually show.
Home visiting is not overhead, it is intervention.
Our public health nurses go into homes that clinics cannot reach.
They identify postpartum depression before it becomes a crisis.
They connect families to services before a child welfare case is ever open.
They reduce emergency room visits, hospitalizations, and long-term costs that are that fall squarely on the city's budget.
These programs do not serve people, they save money, do not just serve people.
They save money.
The return on investment for evidence-based home visiting is well documented nationally, and our local outcomes reflect that.
Every dollar cut today will cost the city far more advanced down the line in emergency services, in acute care, and in generational costs of untreated need.
What is also being overlooked is this.
You cannot gut the structure and expect the programs to stand.
By removing the leaders and managers of home visiting, these proposed changes are placing the programs themselves in danger and with them the most vulnerable people in our community.
Mothers, newborns, families already on the edge.
The infrastructure that supports frontline nurses is not bureaucracy.
It is the backbone that ensures safe and consistent accountable care.
I'm not here to be adversarial.
I'm here because the people doing the work and the families depending on it have not had a seat at the table.
We are asking for one.
Thank you for your comments.
Next speaker.
Thank you, Board of Supervisors, for this opportunity for us to citizenry to speak.
My name is Bill Lowe.
I'm an artist.
I'm a graduate of the Yale School of Art.
I'm a longtime resident of the Bay Area.
I love San Francisco.
I am an artist who, owing to this time of political and existential crisis, has had to pivot to doing social justice activism using my art.
I have connected with a revamped organization known as Stop AI.
800 VIPs, including leading experts in the field of AI, signed a public statement in October of last year.
A statement put out by the Institute of Life calling for a stop to the development of artificial intelligence, specifically AGI for artificial general intelligence, unprecedented artificial intelligence, autonomous in nature.
I have a bone to pick regarding San Francisco Library, San Francisco AI Week's presentations of December 11 to 17 of last year, heavily sponsored by Pro AI program partners.
I refer you to the free hand out at the library.
One city one book brochure.
Dr.
Fayfe Lee is a wonderful scientist and pioneer of AI, and while vocal about the importance of human-centered AI cited by Jeff Hinton, Faye Haley is not considered an alarmist or a doomer.
Artificial general intelligence, they believe poses an existential threat to humanity.
What does existential mean?
The distinct possibility that this frontier technology technology that, if built, would surpass humans not only in intelligence but in capability as well.
Capabilities which would allow AI's AI agents to pursue their own aims and goals, aims and goals which will be out of alignment with human needs, human values, our priorities.
As Stephen Hawkins warned us, this superior intelligence would supersede us, meaning take us out.
Thank you for your comments.
Are there any other individuals who would like to provide public comment?
Please come forward.
This is where the this is general public comment.
Yeah, yeah.
Do we have my slide deck from last week?
I know I messaged the.
No, we do not.
Okay.
So then.
Let me see if I can try to bring it up on my phone.
Okay.
I'm going to start the speaker's time.
Okay.
Let's see if it works.
SFGov.
Yes.
Is that okay?
Okay.
Hi.
My name is Jessica Pessico.
Here's my credentials.
Okay.
There's more on a brand ambassador as well.
A volunteer and a fashion designer.
So we did talk about the fixing the overlapping the bus routes.
Okay.
It doesn't look that good right here because of the uh ma'am.
I'm pausing your time.
There's no electioneering.
This is election day.
So if there's any electioneering that you're doing, we need to redirect your comments.
It's not.
As well, fixing the bus routes.
And we're gonna be talking about um I know there was a discussion about um making um housing stability, the oversight committee fund, and how we wanted to make sure that those meetings were not canceled anymore.
Um recently they've been canceled, and we just want to make sure that those meetings still take place.
Um we also I know there was the SF drug free housing mandate that occurred, right?
If that is the case and it did get passed, which I did believe it did, then could we please um put some conditions on that?
Because this could be pretty costly, and also we want to make sure that we're assessing the right people and that people are um using some systems in a right place and that they're safe.
Because we don't want people doing it outside on the street, and we don't want to put people in prison.
Um we want them to get mental health instead.
Um the other issue we're talking about is um consumer protections, and we're also gonna talk about um uh vision care and some of our dental care.
We need more funding.
Um please hit me up if you need to don't thank you for your comments.
Seeing no other individuals coming forward for public comment, Mr.
President.
All right, public comment is now closed.
Uh Madam Clerk, please call the for adoption without committee reference agenda items 51 and 52.
Items 51 and 52 were introduced for adoption without committee reference.
A unanimous vote is required for adoption of a resolution on first appearance.
Any supervisor may require a resolution on first appearance to go to committee.
Madam Clerk, please call the role on these items.
On items 51 and 52, Supervisor Chen.
Chen I, Supervisor Dorsey, Dorsey, Supervisor Mahood, Mahmood I, Supervisor Mandelman.
Aye, Mandelman, I, Supervisor Melgar, Milgar I, Supervisor Sauter, Soder I, Supervisor Cheryl, Cheryl I, Supervisor Walton, Walton I, Supervisor Wong, Wong I, Supervisor Chan, Chan I there, 10 Eyes.
Without objection, the resolutions are adopted.
Madam Clerk, do we have any imperative agenda items?
We have no imperative agenda items today.
Could you please read the in memoriums?
Yes, today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals.
On behalf of Supervisor Melgar and President Mandelman for the late Mr.
Anthony Tony Fazio, and on behalf of Supervisor Melgar for the late Mr.
George Zhang Xing Lim.
And on behalf of Supervisor Chan and Supervisor Wong for the late Mr.
Michael Durand.
Colleagues, that brings us to the end of our agenda.
Madam Clerk, do we have any further business before us today?
That concludes our business for today.
Thank you.
We are adjourned.
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Discussion Breakdown
Summary
San Francisco Board of Supervisors Regular Meeting – June 2, 2026
The board convened with 10 members present (Supervisor Fielder excused) and approved a lengthy consent calendar encompassing routine ordinances, resolutions, and contract amendments. The meeting also featured commendations for public servants, adoption of policy resolutions, and public comments on data centers, food access, nursing leadership reassignments, and youth commission anniversary.
Consent Calendar
- Minutes of April 21 and April 28, 2026, approved unanimously.
- Items 1–7 (routine ordinances and resolutions) passed on first reading with 10 ayes.
- Item 8 (administrative code amendment establishing hate crime reward fund) finally passed.
- Item 9 (parking tax exemption extension for nonprofit school events through 2035) passed on first reading.
- Items 10–11 (appropriation of $195 million in GO bond proceeds and bond issuance authorization) passed.
- Items 12–13 (Healthy San Francisco and City Option agreements, $41.6M and $52.8M respectively) adopted.
- Items 14–16 (behavioral health contract amendments with Crestwood Behavioral Health, Richmond Area Multi-Services) adopted.
- Item 17 (PUC engineering contract amendment, $13M total) adopted.
- Items 18–19 (Medline supply agreements, $301M and $165M totals) adopted.
- Item 20 (Behavioral Health Services Act three-year plan) adopted.
- Items 21–22 (airport lease terminations) adopted.
- Items 23–24 (Ukrainian refugee grants: $300,000 and $200,000) adopted.
- Items 25–27 (homelessness services contracts with Dish SF and St. Vincent de Paul) adopted.
- Items 28–29 (Tenderloin Housing Clinic grant amendments, $42.5M and $303.6M totals) adopted.
- Item 30 ($14.5M grant for Powell Street Improvement Project) adopted.
- Item 31 (lease amendment for 1455 Market Street, 502,000 sq ft) adopted.
- Item 32 (pretrial services contract with SF Pre-Trial Diversion Project, three-year term) adopted without objection. Supervisor Dorsey noted it was sent without recommendation due to a transition to the Adult Probation Department; intended to fund for one year with two years on reserve.
- Items 33–36 (PUC revenue bonds and appropriations: $1.138B power, $1.1B wastewater, $570M water) passed on first reading.
- Item 37 (building code fee adjustments) passed on first reading.
- Items 38–39 (Proposition J certifications for private contractor cost comparisons) adopted.
- Item 40 (public library grant acceptance of $1.1M) adopted.
- Item 41 (surveillance technology policies for DPW drones and illegal dumping cameras) passed on first reading.
- Item 42 (resolution supporting state AB 1837 for video enforcement of transit/bike lanes) adopted, 9–1 (Supervisor Walton voting no).
- Item 43 (resolution recognizing United Airlines 100th anniversary) adopted, 10–0.
Public Comments & Testimony
- Data centers: A speaker from the Kapoor Foundation reported that data centers are disproportionately placed in vulnerable communities, citing environmental and health impacts; requested budget for research, disclosure, and community billing.
- Library and technology: Peter Warfield (Library Users Association) expressed concern over uncritical library promotion of AI and tech, citing environmental costs and open government violations by the Library Commission.
- Mission District conditions: Alex Wood described chronic public urination, defecation, drug use, and assault in Osage Alley; called for police follow-up, noting no response to a May 27 incident.
- Smoking rights: A speaker argued for a constitutional right to smoke, citing restrictions on barbecues and fireworks.
- Autonomous vehicles: Barry Toronto urged a resolution to allow local geofencing for parades and better regulation of AVs; also suggested honoring Ira Sandler of 1015 Folsom.
- General critique: A speaker condemned U.S. government support for state violence, Israel's actions, and corporate exploitation; called for removal of Geo Group from the Tenderloin.
- Food access: Alex Laulio (junior at Stewart Hall High School) asked for stronger city-department coordination on food access and use of underutilized public spaces for community markets.
- Youth Commission: Joyzanne, acting director of the San Francisco Youth Commission, urged unanimous support for a resolution commemorating the commission’s 30th anniversary; celebration set for June 4.
- MCAH nursing leadership reassignment:
- Mark Leach (teamsters/nurse managers) argued that DPH’s reassignment of maternity health leaders was based on flawed information from a CBO (Dr. Zay Malawa); requested board and health commission hearings.
- Meg Buckwalter (home visiting program manager) stated proposed cuts are not budget-driven; unspent state funds are being turned back; urged pause to include stakeholders.
- Michelle Salas (nurse manager, MCAH) said data on preterm births used to justify cuts is incomplete; home visiting saves money; cutting leaders endangers programs.
- AI risk: Bill Lowe (artist, Stop AI) warned of existential threat from artificial general intelligence; criticized library’s uncritical promotion of AI during SF AI Week.
- Housing/food/drug policies: Jessica Pessico urged meetings of the Housing Stability Oversight Committee not be canceled; asked for conditions on the SF Drug-Free Housing Mandate; requested more funding for vision/dental care.
Commendations
- District 1: Supervisor Chan recognized Captain Kevin Lee (26-year law enforcement veteran, Richmond Station) and Officer Jimmy Tran (born/raised in Richmond District, trilingual footbeat officer). Both spoke, with Tran noting a recent officer injury and thanking his wife, Richmond Station, and the community.
- District 4: Supervisor Wong recognized Tara Castro (middle school teacher at AP Giannini since 2012), lauded for her care, leadership, and student relationships. Castro spoke about the joy and challenges of teaching middle school.
- At-Large: Supervisor Walton recognized Darrell Robinson (SFMTA, 37-year career), noting his rise from meter shop manager to head of street operations. Victoria Wise praised his teamwork and problem-solving. Robinson spoke of growing up in Bayview-Hunters Point and advocacy.
- At-Large: President Mandelman recognized Tom Horn (LGBTQ+ advocate, former legal director of ACLU New Mexico, Bay Area Reporter publisher, War Memorial board president). Supervisors Melgar and Dorsey praised his career. Horn said what he received from San Francisco is greater than anything he could give.
Discussion Items
- Item 42 (AB 1837): Presented without debate; roll call vote (9–1) with Supervisor Walton voting no.
- Item 44 (SB 436 – Keeping Californians Housed Act): Recommended by committee; adopted 10–0.
- Items 45–48 (entertainment zones and police commission appointments): Item 45 (North Beach, Ferry Building, Belden Place entertainment zones) passed on first reading. Items 46–48 (reappointment of Kevin Benedicto, appointment of Lawrence Lowe, reappointment of Matty Scott to Police Commission) approved without objection.
- Supervisor Introductions:
- Supervisor Mandelman: Introduced resolution for commemorative street naming “Dr. Carlota Tejedor Del Portillo Way” on Bartlett Street, honoring the late educator and civic leader; and an ordinance to streamline landmark/historic district designation process (does not change substantive criteria).
- Supervisor Melgar: Submitted two in memoriams (George Jongshing Lim and Anthony “Tony” Fasio).
- Supervisor Chan: Submitted in memoriam for Michael Durand (publisher of Richmond Review and Sunset Beacon).
- Supervisor Wong: Submitted in memoriam for Michael Durand (joint with Chan) and for Vincent Michael Williams (posthumous birthday declaration).
Key Outcomes
- Consent calendar (items 1–7, 8–9, 10–11, 12–13, 14–16, 17, 18–19, 20, 21–22, 23–24, 25–27, 28–29, 30, 31, 32, 33–36, 37, 38–39, 40, 41, 42, 43) passed, mainly without objection.
- Item 42 (AB 1837) adopted, 9–1 (Walton opposed).
- Item 44 (SB 436) adopted, 10–0.
- Items 45–48 passed without objection.
- In memoriams approved for Anthony Fasio, George Jongshing Lim, Michael Durand, and Vincent Michael Williams.
- Board adjourned in memory of the listed individuals.
Meeting Transcript
Good afternoon, welcome to the June 2nd, 2026 regular meeting of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll? Thank you, Mr. President. Supervisor Chan. Chan present, Supervisor Chen. Chen present, Supervisor Dorsey. Dorsey present, Supervisor Fielder, Fielder not present. Supervisor Mahmoud. Mahmoud present, Supervisor Mandelman, present. Mandelman present, Supervisor Melgar. Melgar present, Supervisor Sauter. Saudter present, Supervisor Cheryl, Cheryl present, Supervisor Walton. Walton present, and Supervisor Wong. Wong present. Mr. President, you have a quorum. Thank you, Madam Clerk. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramatushaloni, 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 Rama Tushalone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as First Peoples. Colleagues, will you join me in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance? I pledge allegiance, the flag, United States, America to the Republic, which stands on way in the liberty, and on behalf of the board, I want to acknowledge the staff at SFGov TV. Today that is especially James Kawana. They record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam Clerk, do you have any communications? Thank you, Mr. President. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors welcomes you all to be here in attendance in the board's legislative chamber. And when you're not able to be here, you can watch the proceeding, which is airing live on SFGOV TV's Channel 26, as well as live streaming at SFGOVTV.org. You may submit your public comment in writing by sending an email to BOS at sfgov.org or use the postal service. Just address the envelope to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. The number one, Dr. Carlton B. Goodlitt Place, City Hall, Room 244, San Francisco, California, 94102. And if you 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. Thank you, Mr. President. Um, Ms. President, my apologies. In line with the request made by Supervisor Fielder that she be excused from uh meetings until June 30th, the motion would be in order today to consider her request for today's meeting. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Thank you. Uh can I have a motion to excuse Supervisor Fielder from today's meeting? The motions made by Supervisor Dorsey and seconded by Supervisor Chen. Um colleagues, I think we can take that without objection, without objection, Supervisor Fielder is excused from today's meeting. Uh Madam Clerk, let's go to approval of our meeting minutes. Yes, April 21st, 2026, and April 28th, 2026 board meeting minutes.