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The Government Audit and Oversight Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors met on October 15, 2026, at 6:30 PM under Chair Supervisor Stephen Sherrill. The committee considered six Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) amendments with city employee unions and 14 settlement agreements. Vice Chair Jackie Fielder and Supervisor Alan Wong were also present.
Good morning. This meeting will come to order. Welcome to the October 15th, 2026 regular regular meeting of the government audit and oversight committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. I'm Supervisor Stephen Sherrill, Chair of the Committee. We will shortly be joined by Vice Chair Supervisor Jackie Fielder and we have uh Supervisor Alan Wong. Our committee clerk today is Monique Creighton, and thanks to James Kwana of SFGov TV as well. 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 in public comment is called, please line up to speak on your right. Alternatively, you may submit public comment in writing either of the following ways. Email them to the government audit and oversight committee clerk at M-O-N-I-Q-U-E.C-R-A-Y-T-O-N at SFGOV.org. If you can submit public comment via email will be forwarded to the supervisors and also included as part of the official file. You may also send your written comments to via U.S. Postal Service to all to our office in City Hall. Number one, Dr. Carlton B. Goodlit Place, Room 244, San Francisco, California 94102. If you have documents you would 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 October 27th, 2026, unless otherwise stated. Great. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Today we're going to go slightly in order, never mind. Madam Clerk, can you please call items number one through six? Vice Chair Fielder, welcome. Can you please call items number one through six? Yes. Items one through six are six ordinances adopting and implementing the first amendment to the 2020 2024-2027. Memorandum of understanding between the city and county of San Francisco. And number one, International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, Local 21. Number two, Municipal Executives Association. Number three, Service Employees International Union, Local 1021. Number four, San Francisco District Attorneys Investigators Association. Number five, Labor's International Union, Local 261. And number six, United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry Local 38. Please note these six items will be forwarded as committee reports to the Board of Supervisors at their October 20th meeting. Great, thank you. These six items are obviously incredibly important. And thank you to DHR Director Carol Ison, Employee Relations Director Artist Graham for being here. And it sounds like one or both of you are going to present on behalf of our Department of Human Resources. So with that, I'd like to turn it over to you. And the unions themselves are listed there. An additional eight labor organizations that employee relations director Graham will cover in his presentation. Have also ratified their MOU extensions. And that will come back to the committee at a later date when those documents have been prepared for your consideration. Earlier this fall, by way of background, the mayor asked the city's labor leaders representing the city employee unions that had contracts expiring at the end of June of 2027 to consider an offer to extend the contracts by four years with guaranteed annual wage increases and a commitment of no layoffs through June of 2029, as well as uh the expansion of existing or creation of new labor management committees to discuss important issues affecting both the unions uh and the city.