Good morning.

The meeting will come to order.

Welcome to the September 17, 2025 meeting of the Budget and Finance Committee.

I'm Supervisor Carney Chen, Chair of the Committee.

I'm joined by Vice Chair, Supervisor Matt Dorsey, and Supervisor Cheyenne Chen, who is filling in for Supervisor Joan Guardio today.

Our clerk is Brent Halipa.

I would like to thank uh Colina Mendoza from Essex Cup TV for broadcasting this meeting.

Mr.

Clark, 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 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 and 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 required to provide public comment, we do invite you to fill out a comment card and leave them on to trade by the television to your left 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.j.

P A at SFGO V.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 1.

Dr.

Carlton Big of the Place.

Room 244, San Francisco, California, 94102.

And finally, due to our observance of Rosh Hashanah, items acted upon today are expected to appear on the Board of Supervisors' agenda of September 30th, unless otherwise stated.

Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr.

Clark.

And before we call uh item number one on the agenda, we will need to excuse Supervisor Engardio.

I move to excuse him in a roll call, please.

And on that motion, excuse Supervisor Engardio from attending today's meeting.

Vice Chair Dorsey.

Hi.

Dorsey, I.

Member Chen?

Chen.

Aye.

Chair Chan.

I.

Chan I.

We have three eyes.

The motion passes.

Uh also just for general reminder that we uh for items that have budget and legislative analysts report.

Um, we typically go to the department presentation, budget and legislative analysts report, then comments and questions from this body, then we'll go to public comment.

And so with that, Mr.

Clerk, please call item number one.

Yes, item number one is an ordinance amending the administrative code to create a procurement legislative analysis authority for the city administrator.

Revise or create threshold dollar amounts for application of various contract requirements tied to the statutory minimum competitive amount, horse statutory federal single audit standard, reorganized, standardized and narrow.

Chapter 12F, uh relating to the McBride principles concerning Northern Ireland, including sunset of the ordinance in 2035.

Repeal 12J relating to city business with Burma and narrow coverage of and reduced meeting requirements in Chapter 12L, relating to the certain nonprofit organizations receiving funds from the city and amending the labor and employment code to reorganize, standardize, revise exemptions and waivers narrowing coverage, create threshold dollar amount for application tied to the statutorily based minimum competitive amount, and update Article 131 relating to non-discrimination under city contracts, including sunset of the ordinance in 2036, and repeal Article 132 relating to non-discrimination under city property contracts, while incorporating some of its provisions under Article 131, reorganized standardized revised exemptions and waivers, narrowing coverage, create a threshold dollar amount for application tied to the statutorily based minimum competitive amount and update Article 151 relating to city procurement of sweat-free goods, including abolition of the sweat-free procurement advisory group and sunset ordinance, uh sunset ordinance in 2035, and repeal Article 141, relating to salary history and the hiring process of city contractors.

Article 142 relating to criminal history and the hiring and employment process of city contractors and article 161 relating to in earned income credit forms for employees of city contractors.

Madam Chair.

Thank you, Mr.

Clerk.

And um, first I want to thank uh board president uh Raphael Mendelman uh for his um commitment to making sure that we can um continue to work on this legislation.

This is not the duplicated file.

This is the actually file that return from uh the full board and that uh with President Mendelman, and thank you to also the city administrator's office, uh, particularly uh Molly Peterson, our contract reform manager, that we now come to the sets of amendments before you today, colleagues.

Um but first I would like to, if I may, call on uh Malini Metheson, legislative A to President Mendelman.

Thank you.

Good morning, Chair Chan, Vice Chair Dorsey, Member Chen.