The Budget and Finance Committee met on November 19, 2025 (Chair Connie Chan, Vice Chair Matt Dorsey, Member Bala Mahmood) to review four fiscal items involving elections reimbursement appropriations, an SFPUC easement agreement revision, a Department of Public Health (DPH) contract amendment for HIV-related rental subsidies, and a retroactive FEMA grant acceptance for the Fire Department’s new training facility/EOC. All items were forwarded to the full Board with positive recommendations on 3-0 votes. The Clerk noted that, due to Thanksgiving week, items acted on were expected to appear on the Board of Supervisors agenda on December 2, 2025.
Item 1 — Department of Elections: State reimbursement appropriation (~$4.5M) for November 2025 special election (Prop. 50)
Item 2 — SFPUC: Revised easement purchase/sale terms with Sunol Glen Unified School District (not to exceed $50,000)
Item 3 — DPH: Contract amendment with Catholic Charities for HIV rental subsidies (total not to exceed ~$13.4M through 2031)
Item 4 — Fire Department: Retroactive FEMA grant acceptance (~$637k) for new training facility/EOC (Aug 1, 2024–Apr 20, 2027)
Good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the November 19, 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 Supervisor Bala Mahmoud. Our Clerk is Brent Halepa. I would I'd like to thank Jamie Atcheverry from SFGovTV for broadcasting this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements? Yes, 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 files, it should be submitted to myself, the clerk. Public comment will be taken on each item of 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 the tray 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 brent.jalipa at sfgov.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, be good with place, room 244, San Francisco, California, 94102. And finally, due to the Thanksgiving week, items acted upon today are expected to appear on the Board of Supervisors' agenda of December 2, unless otherwise stated. Madam Chair. Thank you, Mr. Clerk. And before we call on item number one, for the general public, for all items that has that budget and legislative analyst report, we would typically go to the department presentation, then we go to the budget and legislative analyst, and then we will take questions and public comments. And so with that, Mr. Clerk, please call item number one. Yes, item number one is an ordinance appropriating approximately $4.5 million of state cost reimbursement revenue to the Department of Elections to support costs associated with the statewide November 2025 special election in fiscal year 2025 to 2026. And this ordinance requires two-thirds approval vote of all members of the Board of Supervisors for approximately $4.2 million pursuant to the charter. Madam Chair. Thank you, Mr. Clark, and today we have Department of Elections Director John Nords. Good morning, supervisors. So the purpose of the ordinance before you today is to allow the city to utilize state funding totaling around $4.5 million to reimburse the city for its costs associated with conducting the November 4, 2025 statewide special election. This amount represents an estimate of expected costs that the Department of Elections submitted to the state before the election. At this time, the department has yet to finalize its actual costs for the November election, and the department must report final election-related costs to the Secretary of State's office by February 20, 2026. Although final actual election-related costs haven't been set, we still expect these funds to cover the city's expenditures to conduct the November 2025 election. Finally, the state legislation authorizing these reimbursement funds indicates that counties can apply any remaining funds to cover costs associated with conducting the statewide June 2nd 2026 election and I could take any questions but I think it's the BLS report now yeah morning supervisors Nick Menard from the budget legislative analyst office item one is an ordinance that would appropriate about 4.5 million dollars of state revenue that was not in the Department of Elections budget. The revenue was provided by the state to all counties in California to offset the cost of the special election that took place November 4, 2025 related to Proposition 50. We summarize the spending on page three of our report.