The Budget and Finance Committee, chaired by Supervisor Matt Dorsey with Vice Chair Cheyenne Chen and Member Danny Sauter, convened on September 23, 2026, at 6:15 PM to consider 16 agenda items. The committee approved 15 items and continued one item to a future meeting. All votes were unanimous (3-0).
This meeting will come to order. Welcome to the September 23rd, 2026 meeting of the Budget and Finance Committee. I am Supervisor Matt Dorsey, Chair of this committee, and I am joined today by my Vice Chair Cheyenne Chen and Member Danny Sauter will be joining us shortly. Our clerk today is Mr. Brent Halipa, whom we thank in advance for staffing and keeping us on track today. As well, we're appreciative to the entire team at SFGov TV for facilitating and broadcasting today's meeting. And that is especially true for our producer today, Mr. Jaime Eshaveri. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements? Thank you, Mr. 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, 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 trade by the television to your left by those doors if you wish to uh 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.j 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 to our office in City Hall at 1. Dr. Carlton, be good at the place. Room 244, San Francisco, California, 94102. And finally, Mr. Chair, items acted upon today are expected to appear on the Board of Supervisors agenda of September 29th, unless otherwise stated. Thank you, Mr. Clerk. Before you call item number one, I just want to remind our viewers and attendees that we have budget and legislative analyst reports for items two, three, twelve, fourteen, and sixteen on today's agenda. For those items, we will hear from the department and their presentation first, followed by our budget and legislative analyst. We will then facilitate uh questions from those of us on the committee and then invite a public comment. Uh now, Mr. Clerk, would you please call item number one? Yes, item number one is a resolution retroactively authorizing the human rights commission to execute a grant amendment between the city and county and Trans Canon Work Inc. fiscal sponsor for part of our Bay Area for the request for proposal number 85, HLGBTQI Plus and various communities grant to increase the grant amount by 150,000 for a total amount not to exceed 450,000 and to extend the grant term from December 31st, 2024 for a total term of January 26, 2024 through June 30th, 2025. Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mr. Clerk. Um, colleagues, this order this item was heard in committee last week, and you may recall we acted on several clarifying amendments from the department, um, which required us uh continuing it to this meeting. Uh we do have Samuel Thomas here from the Agency for Human Rights if there's any questions. Um I don't have any questions, but um, if there aren't, we can go right into public comment. Uh I don't see anyone on the roster with questions or comments. Um thank but thank you for being here, uh, Mr. Thomas. At this time, why don't we invite a public comment 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, Mr. Chair, we have no speakers.