San Francisco Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Committee Regular Meeting - July 9, 2025
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San Francisco Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Committee Regular Meeting - July 9, 2025
The Budget and Finance Committee, chaired by Supervisor Connie Chan and joined by Vice Chair Matt Dorsey and Member Joel Engardio, met on July 9, 2025, to consider 13 items including contract approvals, grants, bond sales, and two major policy initiatives: the "Open for Business" contract streamlining act and a citywide large vehicle parking restriction. Public comment was limited to one minute per speaker. The committee forwarded most items to the full Board with positive recommendations.
Consent Calendar (Routine Approvals)
- Item 2 (Treasure Island Loan): Resolution authorizing a $3 million loan from the Bay Area Housing Finance Authority to fund infrastructure for a 100-unit senior affordable housing project on Treasure Island. Approved unanimously.
- Item 3 (Cannabis Equity Grant): Resolution accepting $3,324,052.50 from the state for the Office of Cannabis's equity grant program. Approved unanimously.
- Item 4 (Mission Bay Ferry Landing): Resolution accepting a $28 million grant from the Water Emergency Transportation Authority for a new ferry landing. Approved unanimously.
- Item 5 (Seneca Wraparound Services): Resolution approving a $15,974,640 contract with Seneca Family of Agencies for wraparound services to at-risk youth and families. Approved unanimously.
- Item 6 (Meals on Wheels): Resolution approving a $37,127,237 grant agreement with Meals on Wheels for home-delivered meals to older adults. The funding remains flat, resulting in a 27% decrease in meals served and a growing waitlist. Approved unanimously.
- Item 7 (Sunol Valley Facilities): Resolution approving a $15 million contract with CDM Smith for engineering design services for Sunol Valley water facilities. Approved unanimously.
- Item 8 (Biosolids Digester Amendment): Resolution approving a $26.5 million increase to the Arcadis U.S. Inc. contract for construction management, bringing the total to $68.5 million, due to project delays. Approved unanimously.
- Item 9 (Naloxone Grant): Resolution accepting an in-kind gift of 600 units of naloxone valued at $14,400 from the state. Approved unanimously.
- Items 10-12 (GO Bonds): Resolutions authorizing the sale of $150 million in 2020 Health and Recovery Bonds (Series 2025G), appropriating the proceeds, and de-appropriating $160.5 million from a previous bond series. The funds will support behavioral health facilities and permanent supportive housing. The BLA noted that the 2020 bond was marketed to voters for 250 PSH units and 175 mental health beds by 2023, but those targets were not met. The committee approved the items unanimously after amending the appropriation ordinance to reflect updated cost estimates.
Public Comments & Testimony
- Item 1 (Contract Streamlining): Public comment was divided. Several speakers, including representatives from the San Francisco Labor Council and the Sweat-Free Procurement Advisory Group, opposed the legislation, arguing it would weaken labor standards and eliminate oversight. Others, including representatives from SPUR, Abundant SF, and small business owners, supported the measure as necessary to reduce bureaucratic inefficiency and improve government performance.
- Item 13 (RV Parking Restrictions): A large number of public commenters, mostly RV residents and advocates, opposed the citywide two-hour parking limit. They argued it criminalizes poverty, would displace families, and that the city lacks sufficient housing alternatives. Many speakers were Spanish-speaking immigrants. A few speakers supported the measure as a step toward addressing public safety and environmental concerns.
Discussion Items
- Item 1 (Open for Business Contract Streamlining Act): President Rafael Mandelman presented the legislation, which rewrites three procurement laws (Equal Benefits, Sweat-Free, McBride Principles), standardizes thresholds, repeals outdated laws, and establishes a new administrative review process for future procurement legislation. The city administrator's office detailed the changes. Supervisor Dorsey expressed strong support but noted that more reforms are needed. Supervisor Engardio questioned the elimination of the Sweat-Free Procurement Advisory Group. The committee voted to amend the ordinance to update effective dates and fix typos, then forwarded it to the full Board with a 2-1 vote (Chair Chan dissenting due to concerns about sunsetting labor standards). The committee also duplicated the file for further amendment.
- Item 13 (Large Vehicle Parking Restrictions): The Mayor's Office, HSH, and SFMTA presented a comprehensive plan to address RV homelessness. The ordinance imposes a citywide two-hour parking limit for large vehicles (over 22 feet or 7 feet high) and creates a Large Vehicle Refuge Permit program to exempt vehicles whose occupants are engaged with housing services. The plan includes outreach, a vehicle buyback program, 65 rapid rehousing slots, and non-congregate shelter. Supervisor Melgar, co-sponsor, described her experience with RV families in District 7 and emphasized the need for a permit system and housing pathways. After extensive public comment, the committee adopted amendments proposed by Supervisor Melgar and Chair Chan to improve the appeals process, allow for future permit exceptions, and require regular evaluation. The committee then forwarded the amended ordinance to the full Board unanimously.
Key Outcomes
- Item 1: Approved as amended (2-1) and forwarded to the full Board. A duplicate file was continued to the call of the chair for further amendments.
- Items 2-9, 10-12: All approved unanimously and forwarded to the full Board.
- Item 13: Approved as amended (3-0) and forwarded to the full Board.
- The committee will reconvene at 1:30 PM for the Budget and Appropriation Committee.
Meeting Transcript
Good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the July 9, 2025 meeting of the Budget and Finance Committee. I'm Supervisor Connie Chan, Chair of the Committee. I'm joined by Vice Chair, Supervisor Matt Dorsey, and member supervisoring Joan Guardio. Our clerk is Brent Halipa. I would like to thank Kalina Mendoza from EssexGov TV for broadcasting this meeting. Mr. Clark, 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, they should be submitted to myself, the clerk. Public comment will be taken on each item on this agenda. When your item of interest comes up in public comment is called, please line up to speak on the west side of the chamber to your right, my left along those curtains. And while not uh required to provide public comment, we do invite you to fill out a comment card and leave them on the trade by the television to your left and by the doors if you wish to be accurately recorded for the minutes. Alternatively, you may submit public comment in writing in either of the following ways. Email them to myself, the budget and finance committee clerk at B R E N T. A L I P A at SFGO 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 in City Hall at one Dr. Carlton Bigot Plates. Room 244, San Francisco, California, 94102. And finally, Madam Chair, items acted upon today, are expected to appear on the Board of Supervisors Agenda of July 15th, unless otherwise stated. Madam Chair. Thank you, Mr. Clark and colleagues. I think given today we have 13 items on the agenda and that we need to come back and return for the budget and appropriation committee in a timely fashion at 1 30. I will be limiting public comments today at to a limp one minute. And with that, um again, you know, we do have a several item on today's agenda with budget and legislative analyst report. So we will have department presentation first, followed by the budget and legislative analyst report, and then we will take questions and uh from this committee, then public comments. So board president Rafael Mendelman has requested that we take item number one a little bit later today. So with that, Mr. Clerk, so I'm gonna uh call items out of order today. So with that, Mr. Clerk, please call item number two. Yes, item number two is a resolution authorizing the Treasure Island Director of Treasure Island Development Authority to execute an affordable housing loan agreement with the Bay Area Housing Finance Authority under the Regional Early Action Planning Grant 2.0 priority sites pilot program for a total award of up to 3 million to be dispersed as an unsecured low interest loan from BAFA to the authority to fund design, permitting or construction of infrastructure improvements serving the Affordable Housing Parcel E 1.2 Senior Housing Project on Treasure Island with a loan term of three years from the execution date of the affordable housing loan agreement with the option for two one-year extensions, authorizing the authority to accept and expend funds of up to three million for eligible costs approved by BAFA and authorizing the Treasure Island Director to execute and deliver any documents, including a memorandum of agreement with Treasure Island Community Development LLC in the name of the authority that are necessary appropriate, who are advisable to accept and expend the priority sites funds from the BAFA. Madam Chair. Thank you. And today we have the city administrator's office here. I'm Sophie Hayward from the Office of the City Administrator, and I'm here on behalf of TIDA. I'm here before you this morning with an accept and expend resolution that would authorize TIDA to enter into a loan agreement with the Bay Area Housing Finance Authorities Priority Sites Pilot Program. The program would provide $3 million to fund improvements to support a senior affordable housing project on the west side of the island. The grant is structured as funding that TIDA provides the developer as a low-interest three-year loan to be repaid to the state by the island's uh master developer, and that's Treasure Island Community Developer or uh TICD. Construction must start within two years of the award. And just by way of an overview of the program, it's a pilot program through the California's uh Department of Housing and Community Development, and it provides funding via low interest loans to public agencies to support and catalyze affordable housing development on sites that are prioritized by these regional planning entities, in this case MTC, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, and the Association of Bay Area Governments A BAG. TIDA applied for priority sites funding in early 2024 in order to provide access to low interest capital for the developer to advance stage two's design permitting and construction on the west side of the island. I included a map here just to show the area that the funds would support, specifically a 100 unit senior housing, uh senior affordable housing development by Mercy Housing at site E1.2, but also infrastructure to support uh the surrounding streets. And just quickly, a timeline that highlights to me that with approval to move forward with accepting and expending these funds, we are ready to mobilize for construction really right away. So this is an exciting moment to advance the development of much needed affordable housing.
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