San Francisco BOS Budget Committee Finalizes FY 2025-2027 Budget on June 25, 2025
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San Francisco BOS Budget Committee Finalizes FY 2025-2027 Budget on June 25, 2025
On June 25, 2025, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Budget and Appropriations Committee, chaired by Supervisor Connie Chan, convened multiple recessed sessions to finalize the Mayor’s proposed budget for fiscal years 2025-2026 and 2026-2027. The meeting spanned from approximately 6:15 PM to after midnight, with several recesses for negotiations. The committee voted on numerous fee ordinances, technical adjustments, and the contentious Our City, Our Home Fund reallocation. The final budget package was forwarded to the full Board of Supervisors with a positive recommendation, though the committee acknowledged the budget was painful due to an $800 million deficit.
Consent Calendar
- Items with public comments already satisfied were moved forward en bloc, including business fee waivers (Item 4), City Hall short-term license fees (Item 7), and Public Works fee modifications (Item 8).
Discussion Items
- Fee Ordinances and Amendments: The committee accepted several amendments requested by the Mayor’s Budget Office and department heads. Key items included:
- Item 9 (Environmental Health Permits): Technical amendment to correct the long title, passed 5-0.
- Item 12 (DBI Fee Adjustment): Amendment to memorialize fee increases recommended by the Building Inspection Commission; continued to July 9, 2025, for fee noticing, passed 5-0 after rescinding earlier vote due to need for Mayor’s approval.
- Items 15 and 16 (Park Code – Golf Course and Recreation Program Fees): Amendments accepted to adjust cost recovery caps (50% for youth, seniors, disabilities) and scholarship policies; Item 15 continued for second public comment, Item 16 forwarded to full board.
- Our City, Our Home Fund Reallocation (Item 17): The most debated item. The committee voted to reduce the reallocation from $88.5 million to $34.8 million and cap future revenue flexibility at $19.1 million with a simple majority appropriation (instead of the voter-mandated two-thirds supermajority). The amendment passed 4-1 (Supervisor Walton dissenting). Supervisor Walton argued for respecting voter intent. Supervisor Fielder expressed strong opposition, calling it a threat to democracy. The item was sent to full board without recommendation due to the contentious nature.
- Technical Adjustments (Round 2 and 3): Mayor’s Budget Office presented adjustments aligning expenditures with updated revenue projections, correcting positions across multiple departments, and rebalancing overhead. The budget grew by approximately $5 million in year one and $2.9 million in year two.
- Budget Package Adoption: The committee voted to accept Budget and Legislative Analyst recommendations and the final budget spending plan, then forwarded the Budget and Appropriation Ordinance and Salary Ordinance to full board with positive recommendation (5-0).
Key Outcomes
- Budget Package (Items 2 and 3): Forwarded to the July 8 full board with a positive recommendation after incorporating BLA recommendations and technical adjustments.
- OCOH Fund (Item 17): Forwarded to full board without recommendation (5-0) with amendments reducing reallocation to $34.8 million and capping future flexibility at $19.1 million, requiring only simple majority for appropriation.
- Various Fee Ordinances (Items 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 16): Approved and forwarded to full board with positive recommendations, except Item 12 (DBI) and Item 15 (Golf Course) continued for further public comment.
- Homelessness Expenditure Plan (Item 18): Approved and forwarded with positive recommendation.
- Committee Recesses: The meeting recessed multiple times to continue negotiations; the final budget agreement was reached late in the evening.
- Public Comments: Stated as already satisfied for all acted-upon items; no live public comment was taken during the meeting.
Meeting Transcript
Good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the June twenty-fifth, twenty twenty-five meeting of the recess budget appropriation committee from Monday, June 23rd. I am Supervisor Connie Chan, Chair of the Committee, and I'm joined by Vice Chair, Supervisor Dorse, Matt Dorsey, Supervisors Joe Ingardio, Shaman Walton, and President Rafael Mendelman. Our clerk is Brent Halipa. I would like to thank uh Sue Etnals and Eugene Lombardia from SFGov TV for broadcasting this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements? Thank you, Madam Chair. Just a friendly reminder to those in attendance to please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices while you're in the chamber to prevent interrupt uh to prevent interruptions to our proceedings. Should you have any documents to be included as part of the files, they should be submitted to myself, the clerk. However, you may still submit public comment in writing in either of the following ways until board approval. Email them to myself, the budget and appropriations committee clerk at B R E N T. P A at S F G O V dot O R G. 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 in City Hall at one. Dr. Carlton, we good place. Room two forty-four, San Francisco, California, nine four one oh two. And thank you, Madam Chair. That concludes my announcements. This morning, we will be continuing conversations with the administration to finalize items and issues from last week's deliberations in order to forward a balanced budget package to the full board. We will not have public comments today. Continue in creating or establishing these positions, enumerating and including therein all positions created by charter or state law for which compensations are paid from city and county funds and appropriated in the AAO. Authorizing appointments or continuation of appointments there too, specifying and fixing the compensations and work schedules thereof, and authorizing appointments to temporary positions and fixing compensations, therefore, before the both for the fiscal year is ending June thirtieth, twenty twenty-six and june thirtieth, twenty twenty-seven. Madam Chair. Thank you. And colleagues, uh, I want to say we're still in conversation, and we have yet to be able to present a proposal uh to you as well as to the public at the moment. So we're still finalizing outstanding issues, so we will be recessing the committee until 1 p.m. today. San Francisco government television. It's building life and belong to your slipping away from far too many. Too many parents are asking whether they raise their kids here. Too many young people are wondering if they if they'll be able to stay in the city that they call home. That's why today I am proud to introduce our family zoning plan at the board of supervisors. So we can make San Francisco affordable now and for generations to come. This legislation will help us create the kind of neighborhoods that we all want. Safe, walkable communities with small businesses on the corners and parks down the block. It updates parts of a zoning code that hasn't changed for over fifty years. In the nineteen seventies, much of San Francisco was downzoned, making it harder to build the kinds of iconic small apartment buildings we now cherish. The very homes that make our city vibrant and livable became nearly impossible to create. Sir, my partner and you are being of here. Come down and talk to us. My name is Michael Taylor, and I'm being of youth by the end of Michael. Come down and talk to us. Come down and talk to us. Michael. Michael. We may have to go by home.
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