Good morning.

The meeting will come to order.

Welcome back from Summer Recess.

This is the September 4th, 2024 meeting of the Budget and Finance Committee.

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

I'm joined by Supervisor Mayor Malgar shortly by our Vice Chair, Supervisor Rafael Mendomin.

I would like to thank Kalina Mendoza and Janie Lee from SFGov TV for broadcasting this meeting.

Mr.

Clark, do you have any announcements?

Thank you, manager.

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And finally, Madam Chair, items acted upon today are expected to appear on the Board of Supervisors' agenda of September 10th, unless otherwise stated.

Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr.

Clark.

And before we call item number one, like to just remind everyone that for those that items that we have budget and legislative analyst reports, um, which is items one, three, five, eight, and nine on today's agenda.

For those items, we will have the department presentation first, followed by the budget and legislative analyst, then we will take questions, then public comment.

With that, Mr.

Clark, can you please call item number one?

Yes, item number one is an ordinance deappropriating approximately 400,000 from general city responsibility and 150,000 from municipal transportation agency, and reappropriating 50,000 to the arts commission for mural artwork in West Portal, 125,000 to children, youth, and their families for picnic tables at Commodore Slote Elementary, uh playground improvements and seating at Sunny Side Elementary and a new playground at Jefferson Elementary.

Uh, approximately 163,000 to the Department of Public Works for maintenance of Westwood Park Pillars uh benches at Monterey and Genesee.

Parklet planting in Inner Sunset, meeting in planting on Marietta Drive, hand fence repairs at Edge Hill Way, uh 13.2,000 to the public library for digital literacy courses.

49,000 to recreation and park for renovation of the Marview Way Trail and 150,000 to the Municipal Transportation Agency for Traffic Calming on Yerbabuena Avenue, Yillowa Street, Laguna Honda Boulevard, Rockaway Avenue, and Monterey Boulevard and a public parklet on Slow Hearst in fiscal year 2024 to 2025.

Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr.

Clerk.

And we have Supervisor Mayor Namgar, who's the sponsor of this item.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Did you want the budget and legislative analysts to report it first?

Or should I go ahead?

Okay, thank you.

So this is our annual uh legislation for participatory budgeting.

Um, it is uh a movement that was started actually by uh former supervisor David Chu in District Three.

Um and my predecessor Norman Yi uh started doing it in district seven, and I have carried it on because the community loves it, and it is a way for everyone to uh prioritize where we should be putting our public dollars to improve the public realm.

Um it is a ton of work.

I see Emma Heiken here, uh, my legislative aide who has uh ushered the process through this year.

Um, you know, because we have had so much conversation about contracting and uh management of contracts in our city.

We have um improved this uh system that we use for participatory budgeting to make sure that we uh keep up with any of the changes that the um uh uh administrator has made uh to the process, but also that it is super transparent um and democratic, which is really important.

So, you know, we start by uh identifying uh the categories, and we involved many, many citizens in district seven to uh that the projects to uh you know participate, and then it is a democratic voting process where everyone sees where it's going, where the um departments participate and cost analysis and uh viability.

Uh, I'm really proud of the lists that uh ended up this year because I think it is geographically very spread out.

We try to make the folks who participate in these processes represent the diversity of district seven in terms of age, ethnicity, language, capacity, gender.

Um so um I am really proud of what ensued.

We have done a lot of collaboration as you can see with public schools and neighborhood associations.

Um, and um I highly recommend that my other colleagues, if they want to do this, we are happy to share our manuals and how-to's.

Uh, it is a lot of work, but it is well worth it.

Um so thank you, Chair, for allowing me to present on this item.

Thank you, Supervisor Malgara.

I indeed uh in agreement that it's a lot of work, and let's go to the BLA report.

Good morning, Supervisors Nick Winard from the budget legislative analyst office.

Item one is an ordinance that de-appropriates uh 399,950,000 um from a general fund uh appropriation and within the general uh city responsibility cost center and then uh another 150,000 dollars from MTA and then reappropriates that funding to a variety of projects uh ranging from 13,000 to 50,000.

We detail the projects on page two of the report.