Good morning.

Good morning.

The meeting will come to order.

Welcome to the June 26th, 2024 meeting of the budget and appropriation committee, which was recessed on Monday, 20 June 24th.

I'm Supervisor Connie Chan, Chair of the Committee.

I'm joined by Vice Chair Rafael Mendelman, Supervisors Mayor Namalgar, and Shaman Walton.

Shortly by President Aaron Peskin.

Our clerk is Brett Halipa.

I would like to thank Corwin Cooley from SFGov TV for broadcasting this meeting.

Mr.

Clerk, do you have any announcement?

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Just a friendly reminder to those in attendance to please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices to prevent interruptions to our proceedings.

Should you have any documents to be included as part of the file, this should be given uh to myself, the clerk.

Public comment have been satisfied for all remaining undecided items on this agenda.

However, you may still submit public comment in writing until the approval of the full board in either of the following ways.

Email them to myself, the budget and appropriations committee clerk at B R E N T dot J A L I P A hat S F G O V dot ORG.

If you submit public comment via email, it will be forwarded to the supervisors and also included as part of the official file.

You may also send your written comments via U.S.

Postal Service to our office at one doc uh at City Hall at one Dr.

Carlton be good to place.

Room 244, San Francisco, California, 94102.

And Madam Chair, items acted upon today are expected to appear on the Board of Supervisors Agenda of July 9th, unless otherwise stated.

Madam Chair.

Thank you.

I just uh wanted to let the public know how we're going to proceed today.

This morning, we will finalize items and issues from last week's deliber uh from last week's um department and budget hearing and today's uh is really deliberation day um and then we can move forward with the balanced budget package to the full board.

We will not have public comments on today's items uh for the budget and appropriation committee.

Um this meeting is a recess meeting from the from um public common day uh from from the really the entire uh budget process and uh the the budget and finance committee is for the 1030, which is a uh uh reschedule um meeting.

So I I just want to be clear if you're here for budget and finance, please wait until 1030.

There will be public comments on those items on those agenda.

And with that, we have a few items from last week's department budget that we need to resolve, and um we need to handle those items first.

And so with that, Mr.

Clerk, can you please uh remind the committee uh and the public uh the items that we have before us today?

Uh yes, madam chair.

Um in today's meeting we will be uh considering items two, three, and four, which is the mayor's proposed budget for the departments of city and county for the fiscal years twenty twenty-four to twenty twenty-five and twenty twenty-five to twenty twenty-six.

Item three is the appropriation ordinance.

Uh item four is the annual salary ordinance.

Uh we have also yet to dispense with item number twelve, which is the ordinance amending the park code to authorized recreation and park department to charge a fee for reserving tennis and pickleball courts at locations other than Golden Gate Park Tennis Center.

Uh we and item number thirteen, which is an ordinance appropriating 400,000 of assessment appeals fee revenue from filing fees, hearing fees, and finding a fact fees collected in fiscal year 2023 to 2024 to support the assessment appeals board's cost of operation, including the development of online assessment uh appeals application filing system and also dispensing with the proposed AAO and ASO for the uh departments uh heard during our May budget hearings.

Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr.

Clerk.

So first I would like to dispen dispense with the following departments that were outstanding from uh last week, and some of these items we discussed but did not make uh uh did not announce a decision or clarify our decision.

Uh so first I I move that we um accept all outstanding budget and legislative analyst recommendation except for the following that we are rejecting, uh which is the DEC Department of Early Childhood for the sil facilities grant, um, and then also for the um departments of homelessness and supportive housing uh for the transgender subsidies.

So it's a CYHOM one, and then uh also rejecting is for the Human Rights Commission recommendation seven for the reinvestment initiative, and then also for the um uh public defender uh three, four, and five for the clean slate program, and then for the uh economic uh Office of Economic and Workforce Development is the downtown core, which is uh recommendation four and five.

So those are the lists of recommendations that we're rejecting.

Second by Vice Chair Oh wait, sorry.

Vice Chair Mandelman.

Um I just I um I want to start by thanking uh Chair Chian and your staff for um doing all the hard work over these last uh over this last week to try and uh get a sense of the committee, and I want to thank you for a number of the items of mine that you have um uh tried to accommodate.

I appreciate that very, very much.

And I think I mean I'm trying to track kind of what what I thought was up in the air out of last week, and the only item that I think I might uh have a question about um is whether we might want to look at the human rights commission.

Um not necessarily on the particular item.

I understand there may be a notion of getting us the same amount of money um, but allowing for some restructuring that uh that that department um thinks could be helpful to them.

I don't know much about the proposal, so I you know this might be not a good thing to do, but I I just wanted to kind of like at least I haven't had a chance to digest the idea, and so I just am a little that's the only one that I'm a little not sure about basically.

Sure I call you or could I respond to to that?

Yeah.

Okay.

I I think that what is happening here though, like uh so I want everyone to start thinking and understanding that some of these uh has implication also for the second year.

So meaning like you may be cost neutral on the first year, that it will then be different the second year, because we're really approving a two-year budget.