Good morning.

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Welcome to the June 18th, 2026 regular meeting of the government audit and oversight committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

I'm Supervisor Steven Sherrill, Chair of the Committee, joined by Vice Chair Bilal Mahmood, and today by Board President Raphael Mandelman.

Committee clerk is Monique Creighton, our thanks to James Kwana of SFGov TV.

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Madam Clerk, can you please call item number one?

Yes, item number one is an ordinance submitting the administrative environment, health, labor, and employment park planning, police, public work, subdivision, transportation, and building inspection commission codes to modify numerous reporting requirements and procedures removing obsolete programs and requirements and other code cleanup.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

I think we're represented, we're joined here today by representatives from Supervisor Chen's office and also by Board President Mandelman.

Welcome.

Board President Mandelman, you are the lead sponsor on this item.

The floor is yours.

Thank you.

Chair Sherrill and thank you for uh and thank you, Supervisor Mahmoud, Vice Vice Chair Mahmoud, for uh making time on your calendar in a busy month to consider this piece of legislation.

Although my name is on it and I strongly uh believe in it and support it.

Um I want to be clear that the credit for this legislation goes to our city attorney and his staff who worked uh diligently to try and um put this together.

The reason I support this uh legislation, this exercise of trying to find uh reporting requirements that are outdated or uh duplicative or no longer make sense is my observation over the time that I've been on the board of supervisors that it is the natural tendency of legislators to legislate and to add requirements, and that as that happens over time, over years and decades, uh we make it harder and harder and harder uh for government to actually deliver services because people are spending more and more time reporting on the things that government is doing and relatively uh leaving less time to actually do the work of government.

So having regular uh uh exercises in going through the things that have accreted and figuring out what is uh what is out lasted its useful life is um I think very worthwhile.

And I think that it is something that this board of supervisors should be encouraging.

Um there this legislation has been kicking around for a very long time.

Uh it was introduced by the city attorney uh just about a year ago.

Um I know they had been working on this, I assume, for many, many months before because I assume a piece of legislation like this is a big chunk of work.

Um, and uh, you know, part of that last year I think has been uh time well spent, perhaps, in that you know, we took some time to go carefully through each of the changes and figure out if there were um any of these reports that uh maybe should be salvaged.

We found one.

Um I know other offices uh have found uh some that they want to try to preserve.

I believe that uh Supervisor Chen has uh some amendments.

I have uh, you know, amendments, a few amendments as well.

Um, but on balance, and the reason I wanted to insist that this board consider this, discuss it in a committee, and ideally forward this to the full board, is I think when people take on this kind of work, we we want to encourage that and uh more of this, please.

Um the city attorney's office reviewed, I think it's something more than 500 of these reports.

Um, most of these reports will stick around even after this legislation.

I think it's 336 or some number, something like that.

Uh those reports will continue to be required and delivered, and perhaps someone will review will read them or find them useful at some point.

Um, but uh uh the if the board acts on legislation reasonably in the form of what's been introduced uh north of a hundred of these reporting requirements will go away.

And I think that will be a positive thing uh for the city and county of San Francisco.

So the amendments that I have have been circulated, just to quickly run through what uh isn't in my amendments.

Um, we did uh determine that we thought it made sense to keep the Department of Human Resources reporting requirements about filed sexual harassment claims, and so uh on pages 238 to 240.

Uh the restoration of that reporting requirement is what's in there.

Um page 34, um, there's an update to a reference of uh what uh what body receives a report because uh the um the interagency planning and implementation committee uh is one of the bodies that was eliminated in the committee streamlining ordinance.

So we have streamlining overlapping with streamlining.

Um pages 25 and then 198 through 99.

We have some cross-reference corrections on page 348.

Uh we have an update to the ordinance's effective date on page uh 349.

Um, uh there's a new section 15 explaining that the amendments incorporate changes from two ordinances the board previously passed that are shown as existing code text, um, and then there's some corrections to the long title and list of sections on the first page.

That's what's in my amendments, um, which I hope this by uh I hope uh the members of the committee will make before forwarding this to the full board.

Um I believe there is a presentation from the city attorney's office.