The Budget and Finance Committee met on December 10, 2025 (last meeting of calendar year 2025), chaired by Supervisor Connie Chan with Vice Chair Matt Dorsey and member Supervisor Cheyenne Chen present. The committee advanced multiple grant acceptances and contract/lease amendments to the full Board of Supervisors (expected to appear on the December 16, 2025 Board agenda unless otherwise stated), continued one elections-fee ordinance to the call of the Chair, and approved Board/Clerk budget guidelines for FY 2026-2027 and FY 2027-2028.
Item 1: SFFD FEMA grant for breathing apparatus (SCBA)
Item 2: SFPUC dams/reservoirs engineering—GEI Consultants amendment
Item 3: Treasurer-Tax Collector delinquent debt collections software (CSS) contract amendment
Item 4: Homelessness prevention—HSH grant agreement with Catholic Charities (FEPCO)
Item 5: Interim lease extension—La Cocina at 101 Hyde (city-owned property)
Item 6: Department of Elections—ballot argument fee increase ordinance
Item 7: DPH—Community Forward SF medical respite/sobering center amendment
Item 8: DPH—Bayview Hunters Point Foundation outpatient behavioral health amendment
Items 9–12 (grouped): DPH retroactive grant accept/expand items (housing/homelessness and HIV)
Items 13–14 (grouped): Planning appeals surcharge ordinance and Board/Clerk budget guidelines hearing
Good morning. This meeting will come to order. Welcome to the December 10th, 2025 meeting of the Budget and Finance Committee, also last one for this year, 2025. I am Supervisor Connie Chan, Chair of the Committee, and I'm joined by our Vice Chair, Matt Dorsey. Supervisor Dorsey. Good to have you. Good to be here. And also we're joined by Supervisor Cheyenne Chin. Our clerk is Brent Haliba. I would like to thank Sue Ednaws from SFGovTV for broadcasting this meeting. Mr. Clerk, 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 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 for your name 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 or our office in City Hall at 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place. room 244 San Francisco California 94102 and finally items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of December 16th unless otherwise stated. Madam Chair. Thank you, Mr. Clerk. And before we call the item number one, and just like to remind the public that we, for the items that we have budget and legislative analyst report, we usually go to the department presentation, budget and legislative analyst report, and then we will have questions and comment from the body. Then we will go to public comment. And with that, Mr. Clerk, please call item number one. Yes, item number one is a resolution retroactively authorizing the Fire Department to accept and expend a grant in the amount of approximately $2.7 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to purchase self-contained breathing apparatus units for the performance period of September 26, 2024 through September 25, 2026, hand-waiving indirect costs. Madam Chair. Thank you, and today we have the Fire Department here. Good morning, Madam Chair, members of the committee. Mark Corso, Deputy Director of Finance and Planning at the Fire Department. I'm joined by Assistant Deputy Chief Mike Mullen of our Support Services Division to present on our next item. It's a fiscal year 2023 FEMA assistance to firefighters grant in the amount of about $2.6 million. This is for the purchase of self-contained breathing apparatus, which is the breathing packs and bottles that our firefighters use to actively fight an incident. Obviously, this is a very crucial piece of safety equipment for our frontline members, and this would be a complete replacement for all units that we have in the department. We lasted a full replacement about 10 years ago through another FEMA grant. Obviously, given the cost of these items, these are very difficult for us to replace given budget constraints, so we are very thankful for FEMA for approval of this award. This is for all frontline members in the department, so since that time, 10 years ago, There's been numerous safety upgrades to these equipment, so we're very happy to be procuring these new models across the board for all members, given the safety enhancements that are included. There's a grant match of about $275,000, which is incorporated