This was a regular meeting of the San Francisco Budget and Finance Committee, chaired by Supervisor Connie Chan, with Vice Chair Matt Dorsey and Member Danny Sauter. The meeting covered 19 agenda items, including tax exemptions, grants, lease agreements, and contracts. Public comment was limited to one minute per speaker. The committee took action on all items, with several being sent to the full Board of Supervisors with recommendations, one continued, and one sent without recommendation.
The committee unanimously approved an ordinance retroactively extending for 10 years (through December 31, 2035) an exemption from the parking tax for special parking events operated by volunteer-led nonprofits on school district property benefiting San Francisco public schools, with a $10,000 per-event revenue cap. The fiscal impact is minimal, with foregone tax revenue not exceeding $33,800 in any given year. The motion passed 3-0.
Good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the May 27, 2026 meeting of the budget and finance committee. I'm Supervisor Connie Chan, chair of the committee. I am joined by Vice Chair, Supervisor Matt Dorsey and Member Supervisor Danny Sauter. Our clerk is Brent Halipa. I would like to thank Jamie Evercherry from EssexGov 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, this 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 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 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. Sf 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 1. 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 June 2nd, unless otherwise stated. Madam Chair. Thank you, Mr. Clerk. And today we will be limiting our public comments to one minute. And that would like to remind the public that we have our budget and legislative analyst reports for most of the item today. So the way it works will be we will have the department presentation first, followed by the budget and legislative analyst. Then this committee will take questions. And then we will go to public comments after all the discussion. So with that, Mr. Clark, please call item number one. Yes, item number one is an ordinance amending the business and tax regulations code retroactively to January 1st, 2026 to extend for 10 years to December 31st, 2035, an exemption from the parking tax and certain related requirements for a limited number of special parking events operated by volunteer-led nonprofit organizations on school district property to benefit school uh San Francisco public schools and earning less than 10,000 per event from rent. Madam Chair. Thank you. And before I call on the Office of the Treasurer and Tax Collector colleagues, I would like to make a brief remark just to kind of provide context of this legislation and how it came about. Um this legislation um or uh this ordinance reauthorizes and extends an existing long-standing exemption that allows parent teacher association to operate limited parking events on San Francisco Unified School District property without being subject to the property tax uh uh without subject to the property parking tax. Um the prior authorization expired at the end of 2025, so this legislation reenacts the program retroactive to January 1st, 2026 and extends it through December 31st, 2035. The program is narrow in its scope. Events must occur on San Francisco Unified School District property. The proceeds must exclusively benefit San Francisco public schools. The revenue from any individual event is capping at $10,000. So the fiscal impact is minimum based on reasons reporting, foregone parking tax revenue has not exceeded 30 3,800 in any given year. So with that, we'll go to the um our office of treasure and tax collector. I think you covered it great, so I'm happy to take any questions if you have any. My apologies. No, no, that's great.