Board approves $1.9 million from COVID contingency reserve to aid Chinatown restaurants and food-service businesses

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Jan. 19 passed on first reading an ordinance appropriating $1,900,000 from the city—s COVID contingency reserve to the Human Services Agency to provide relief to restaurant and food-service businesses in Chinatown.

Supervisor Peskin introduced the ordinance and proposed a non-substantive amendment that adds language allowing the controller to reduce the appropriation and return funds to the contingency reserve to the extent state or federal funds are available for reimbursement, and to permit reprogramming of other local funds for the program. Supervisor Mandelmann seconded the amendment; the board adopted it by roll call vote and then approved the ordinance as amended on first reading, by unanimous vote.

The ordinance…