The Budget and Finance Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors met on May 13, 2026, at 6:15 PM (though the transcript begins with "Good morning," suggesting a possible discrepancy between the scheduled time and the recording). Chair Connie Chan presided, joined by Vice Chair Matt Dorsey and Member Danny Sauter. The committee considered five items, including a long-term parks funding agreement for Hunters Point Shipyard, an $8.5 million loan to the San Francisco Zoological Society, the annual designation of official city newspapers, and a lease amendment for a cargo airline at SFO. All items were approved and forwarded to the full Board of Supervisors for the May 19 agenda.
The committee also reminded the public that the Budget and Appropriation Committee would meet at 1:30 PM that afternoon to begin budget hearings with enterprise agencies.
Good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the May 13, 2026 meeting of the Budget and Finance Committee. I am Supervisor Connie Chan, Chair of the Committee. I am joined by Vice Chair, Supervisor Matt Dorsey and Member Supervisor Danny Sauder. Our clerk is Brent Haliba. I would like to thank Kalina Mendoza from Essex of TV for broadcasting this meeting. Mr. Clerk, 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 files, 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 by 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 trade 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 and 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 Hat S F G O V dot O R G. 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 be good at place. Room 244, San Francisco, California, 94102. And finally, items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of May 19th, unless otherwise stated. Madam Chair. Thank you, Mr. Clerk. Uh and before we call item number one, like to just remind the public that we have budget and legislative analyst reports for items two and five on today's agenda. And for those items, we will have the department presentation first, and then followed by the budget and legislative analyst. Um then we will take questions and public comment. And to also for the general public, we will have budget and appropriation committee this afternoon, and that's when the city department of enterprise agencies will come before this body. So this is still the budget and finance committee. And so with that, Mr. Clerk, please call item number one. Yes, item number one is a resolution authorizing and approving an agreement with the successor agency to the redevelopment agency of San Francisco, acting in its capacity as the legislative body of community facilities district number eight, Hunters Point Shipyard Maintenance District. How for the city to receive funding for its operation and maintenance of the Hunters Point Shipyard Phase One Parks and Open Spaces, and to authorize the recreation and park department and the San Francisco Arts Commission to coordinate the operation and maintenance. Madam Chair. Thank you. And today we have um OCI. Yes, Office of Community Infrastructure and Investments here. Yeah, thank you. Uh good morning, Chair Chan, Vice Chair Dorsey and Supervisor Sabter. I'm Mark Slutskin, the Deputy Director of Office of Community Investment Infrastructure, OCII. I'm here with the Recreation and Parks Department and the San Francisco Arts Commission. Uh we are here to present the community facilities uh agreement for the funding and management of the open space and public art and shipyard phase one. Uh the hilltop area of uh the shipyard phase one has seven hundred and sixty-seven units of housing and thirteen and a half acres of park and open space. And due to dissolution, we are required to transfer the open space to the city. Here we have a map of the hilltop area. The areas in green show the parks, pocket parks, and larger open space. The orange uh circles is where the public art is located.