The Budget and Finance Committee met on July 15, 2026, chaired by Supervisor Connie Chan, with Vice Chair Matt Dorsey and Member Danny Sauter. Chair Chan announced her intention to step down at the end of July, receiving thanks from colleagues. The committee acted on 17 items, including contracts, land deals, housing projects, the Sheriff's Office overtime budget, and a ballot measure. Most items passed unanimously, but the Sheriff's overtime and foreclosure exemption measure prompted extended discussion.
Item 1 – Early Educator Wage Support Contract Amendment
Items 3 & 4 – PG&E Land Acquisition (India Basin) and Easement (McLaren Park)
Item 5 – Lease for Former Fog City Diner Site (1300 Battery St)
Item 6 – Pasha Terminal Agreement Amendment (Pier 80)
Item 7 – In-Kind Gift of Consulting Services (Fuse Corps)
Items 8 & 9 – Affordable Housing Projects (1234 Great Highway & 1939 Market St)
Items 10-12 – Citywide Contracts (Microsoft, Copiers, Plumbing)
Item 14 – Sheriff’s Office Overtime Appropriation
Items 13, 15, 16 – HSH Lease & Ambassador Services
Item 17 – Ballot Measure to Eliminate Foreclosure Transfer Tax Exemption
Good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the July 15. Um the budget and finance committee. Uh, I am Supervisor Connie Chan, Chair of the Committee. I am joined by Vice Chair, Supervisor Matt Dorsey, and member Supervisor Danny Sauter. Uh uh, our clerk, it's Brent Halipa. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcement? Thank you, Madam Chair. Just a friendly reminder to those in attendance to please silence also silence all cell phones and electronic devices uh to prevent interruptions to our proceedings. And should you have any documents to be submitted as part of the file, it 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.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 Big Place. Room 244, San Francisco, California, 94102. And finally, Madam Chair, items acted upon today, are expected to appear on the Board of Supervisors agenda of July 21st, unless otherwise stated. Madam Chair. Thank you, Mr. Clerk. And before you call item uh one, uh colleagues and uh to everyone here, I would like to take the privilege of the floor, if I may, to uh make some remarks. So as everyone and uh well colleagues, as you know, I have made no secret of my intention to step down as chair of the budget committee at the end of this month in July. I will also not be chairing the committee next week on July 22nd, and have already requested that Vice Chair Dorsey run that meeting. So making today my last meeting as chair of this committee. Um if I may serving these last four years as chair of the budget and finance and budget and appropriation committees, uh guiding the board board's work on the city's annual budget process has been a privilege. Uh I have been very honored that my colleagues and two different board presidents have entrusted me with our crucial charge to oversee the committee's work to ensure we're upholding the highest standards of oversight for our city's contracts, leases, and spending, guarding against corruption and misconduct, safeguarding our public dollars, and I believe that work that we have done together these past four years have fulfilled that charge, and we have upheld the public's trust. And when I say we, I just also wanted to give special thanks to Francis Shea, um, who has been really uh my partner in this um chairing the budget committees. So finally, I do want to recognize and thank everyone who are the backbone of this committee, because let's face it, us politicians, uh the elected come and go, but the people who are here every day to make sure that we can do this job well, they are the vital part of the system that served the public. So first and foremost, thank you. Our clerk Brent Halipa um and the entire team at the clerk's office. And of course, our budget and legislative analyst team, led by uh Nick Matnar. Thank you. And Christina, thank you. Uh and then uh, of course, our controller team with, of course, you know, Greg Wagner, but really Devin is the real one who does the real job here in the committee, Devin McCaulay. Uh, and of course, the mayor's budget director, Sophia Kittler and her team. Thank you. Uh, and last but not least, uh, and never really least, I would like to thank the SOGov TV team and apologize wholeheartedly for butchering their names every week on a weekly basis. So for the final time, I would like to thank, and I know that I will still make this not right, but please forgive me. Matthew, thank you so much to Matthew Eknall, Jaime Avateri, Suze Eat Nose, Eugene Labadia, Kalina Mendoza, uh James Kawana, and Jeanette uh Eknotov from ASICAF TV for podcasting this meeting. So now, on to the meeting, because we have to get back to work. Um just a reminder to the public. We will have the budget and legislative analyst report for most of the items on today's agenda. And uh for those item, as I as a chair have set it up to be uh is that uh is that uh I oftentimes has the department presentation first, followed by the budget and legislative analyst, then we take questions and public comment. And the reason why I have done this um just it may not be the same uh after this.