The Budget and Finance Committee, chaired by Supervisor Connie Chan, met on July 8, 2026, to consider 13 items including grants, audits, bond issuances, and health service rates. The committee approved all items, referring them to the full Board of Supervisors with positive recommendations.
Good morning. Good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the July 8, 2026 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 Danny Sauter, our clerk. It's Brent Halipa. I would like to thank Eugene Labadia from SFGov TV 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. And 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 in 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 and 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 July 14th, unless otherwise stated. Madam Chair. Thank you, Mr. Clerk. And before we call the items on the agenda, I would like to just remind the public that we have budget and legislative analyst reports for items one, eight, and ten on today's agenda. And so for those items, we will have the department presentation first, followed by the budget and legislative analyst. Then we will take questions and public comment. So with that, Mr. Clark, please call item number one. Yes, item number one is an ordinance amending the administrative code to increase the minimum grant award amount requiring board of supervisors approval for acceptance and expenditure from 100,000 to the greater of 1 million or the federal single audit threshold amount set by the United States Office of Management and Budget starting October 1st, 2026. Require Board of Supervisors approval of a grant increase only if it raises the grant to the approval threshold for the first time or increases a previously approved grant to either 110% of or more of the previously approved amount or 200,000 or more above the previously approved amount. Authorize the controller to make rules governing the acceptance and expenditure of any grants or grant increases that do not require board of supervisors approval, exempt gifts of legal services and litigation related expert services from the requirement that department obtain Board of Supervisors approval to accept gifts valued above 10,000 and make other non-substantive organizational changes to the sections of code relating to cash revolving funds and acceptance and expenditure of grant funds. Madam Chair. Thank you, Mr. Clerk and colleagues. This is an item that we continue from the June 6 June 17th budget and finance committee due to the substantive amendments. Um I believe we did have presentation and we did have the budget and legislative analyst report. Um so with that I I don't see any name on the roster. I believe we could go to public comments on this item. Yes, we are opening public comment for this item number one. If we have any members of the public who wish to address this committee, Madam Chair, we have no speakers. Seeing no public comments, public comment is now closed. Colleagues, I would like to move this item without further discussion to full board with positive recommendation and a roll call, please. And on that motion, by Chair Chan, to refer this ordinance to the full board with a recommendation. Vice Chair Dorsey. Chan, aye, we have three ayes.