The Government Audit & Oversight Committee met on December 4, 2025 (regular meeting) under Chair Supervisor Jackie Fielder, with Vice Chair Supervisor Danny Sauter and Supervisor Cheryl in attendance. The committee considered (1) a behested payment waiver to support fundraising for India Basin Waterfront Park, (2) three Mills Act historic property tax contracts, (3) a reimbursed SFPD agreement for supplemental security services at Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco residence, (4) a hearing on the City’s nonprofit monitoring and capacity-building program, and (5) a package of settlements of lawsuits and unlitigated claims. Items approved by the committee were expected to appear on the Board of Supervisors’ agenda on December 16, 2025, unless otherwise stated.
Good morning. This meeting will come to order. Welcome to the December 4th, 2025 regular meeting of the Government Auto and Oversight Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. I'm Supervisor Jackie Fielder, Chair of the Committee, joined by Vice Chair Danny Sauter and soon Supervisor Cheryl. The Committee Clerk is Monique Creighton, and our thanks to Jaime Echeverry of SFGovTV for staff in this meeting. Madam Clerk, do you have any announcements? Yes. 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 your right. Alternatively, you may submit public comment in writing in either of the following ways. Email them to the Government Audit and Oversight Committee Clerk at monique.crayton at sfgov.org. You can 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 US Postal Service to our office in City Hall Number one Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett place room 244 San Francisco, California 94102 if you have documents you like to be included as part of the file Please submit them to me before the end of the meeting Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices to prevent any Interruptions to today's proceedings Finally, items acted upon today are expected to appear on the Board of Supervisors' Agenda of December 16, 2025, unless otherwise stated. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Can you please call item one? Yes. Item number one is a resolution authorizing the mayor, officers, and employees of the Office of the Mayor, Recreation and Park Commissioners, commissioners, and officers, and employees of the Recreation and Park Department to solicit donations for India Basin Waterfront Park Initiative from nonprofits, private organizations, grant makers, and foundations for six months, effective upon approval of this resolution, notwithstanding the behested payment ordinance. Thank you. And today we're joined by Ms. Lisa Branson, Director of Partnerships at the Recreation and Parks Department, who will be presenting on this item. Ms. Branson, please go ahead. Thank you, Chair Fielder. Good morning, Supervisor Sauter. I'm Lisa Branston, Director of Partnerships at the Recreation Park Department. And as the clerk noted, I'm here today to ask you to approve a resolution granting certain members of the mayor's office and recreation and park staff a six-month waiver of the behested payments ordinance so that we can continue to assist with fundraising for the India Basin Waterfront Park Public-Private Partnership. And just for some background, India Basin is an ambitious four-way public-private partnership established to build a world-class park in Bayview-Hunter's Point neighborhood in deep partnership with the community. Walking shoulder to shoulder with the department on this project are three non-profits, Trust for Public Land, San Francisco Foundation, and perhaps most importantly, our community non-profit partner, the A. Philip Randolph Institute. Through the work, we've already turned a vacant lot purchased by the department in 2014 into a thriving park. We're now in the process of turning the adjacent underperforming park into an inspirational public space. A little background about why this is so important in this neighborhood right now. As you can see from the slide, the community bears many of the markers of the city's most underserved neighborhoods. Poor health outcomes, poor educational outcomes, and low household incomes. Part of the reason for this is because it is a neighborhood where the city's traditionally placed infrastructure that no one else wanted, power plants and sewer treatment plants. An important goal of this project is to