Good morning, everybody, and welcome to our June 15th, 2026 Rules Committee meeting.

I'm your chair's supervisor Shaman Walton.

I'm joined by Supervisor Alan Wong, and soon to be joined by President Mandelman.

Today's clerk is Victor Young, and I want to thank Jamie Eschevery with SFGov TV for making sure that this meeting is publicized and made available to the public.

Mr.

Clerk, do we have any announcements?

Yes, public comment will be taken on each item on this agenda.

When your item of interest comes up, public comment 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 myself, the rules committee clerk at VICTOR.yo N G at SFgov.org.

If you submit public comment via email, it will be included as part of the file.

You may also send us a written comment via US mail to our office in City Hall 1.

Dr.

Carlton B.

Good place, room 244, San Francisco, California 94102.

Please make sure the silence also phones and electronic devices.

Items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of June 23rd, unless otherwise stated.

That completes my initial announcements.

Thank you so much.

Would you please call?

Oh, before we go to item number one, I'd like to make a motion to excuse Supervisor Sherrill for today's meeting.

Yes, on the motion to excuse uh Supervisor Sherrow from today's meeting.

Uh member Wong.

Member Wong Aye.

Member Manelman.

Aye.

Madeline Aye.

Chair Walton.

Aye.

Walton aye.

That motion passes without objection.

Thank you.

Motion carries.

Please call item number one.

Item number one.

Is ordinary to mending the administrative code to change the name of the status of women's domestic violence program fund to the domestic violence shelter-based program fund.

Revise the purpose of the fund.

Establish the mayor's office of housing and community development or other agency designated by the mayor as the administrator of the fund with delegated duties.

Update the provisions regarding the fund to reflect state law changes related to fee collected by the county clerk for the fund and eliminate the requirement to deposit certain funds collected by the county clerk into the same sex domestic violence program within the fund.

Thank you.

President Mendelman.

Thank you, Chair Walton.

Um, the item before us today is an ordinance to update the administrative code sections governing the domestic violence shelter-based program fund.

The ordinance consists of a set of fixes that will help ensure that our laws reflect the reality of how gender-based violence prevention work is currently being delivered, administrated and funded in San Francisco.

Um the item may sound familiar, at least to you, Mr.

Chair.

Uh it was previously heard in rules committee in October of 2025.

Um, and at that meeting, we made the decision to continue the item to allow for more discussion and to uh address concerns that have been raised by the domestic violence consortium.

Since then, our office has worked uh closely with interested parties and uh the ordinance before you today reflects those efforts.

Um by back by way of background.

Uh the need for the item originated from the 2024 budget process, um, where it was contemplated that the gender-based violence grant portfolio would move from the department on the status of women to the mayor's office of housing and community development.

Um that transition is now well underway, has been underway for some time.

Mo CD conducted a comprehensive procurement process in late 2024 and early 2025, and new grant agreements with community organizations, community-based organizations took effect in early July of last year.

Um, despite that transition already being underway, our administrative code still assigns oversight of the domestic violence shelter-based program fund to the department on the status of women.

This ordinance corrects that outdated reference and finally moves administration of the fund to Mo C D, the department now charged with overseeing the work.

Um while working on the ordinance, I think thanks to Beverly Upton.

We also discovered some additional inconsistencies in the code.

State law changed in 2023 to require that $23 dollars from each marriage license fee be directed to support shelter-based domestic violence programming, but our code still refers to the old $8 amount.

This ordinance updates our code to match the $23 aligning with state law and there are other small changes, including updating the name of the fund to the domestic violence shelter-based program fund and the specification that no more than 8% of the funds be expended for administrative expenses, which is in accordance with state law.

As part of the code cleanup, this ordinance also originally contained a provision eliminating the requirement that domestic partnership fees be deposited into the same-sex domestic violence project fund to contest to contextualize prior to the legalization of same-sex marriage.