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Board approves first reading of ordinance adding four grant-funded environmental positions
Summary
The Board passed, on first reading, an ordinance establishing four grant-funded positions in the Department of the Environment to perform energy-efficiency audits, with the Controller confirming the positions are coded as grant-funded for future tracking.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed on first reading an ordinance to add four positions to the annual salary ordinance for the Department of the Environment. The four positions were described as grant-funded positions intended for energy-efficiency work.
Supervisor Kathy (name as in record: Supervisor Asprey) questioned whether the positions would be exempt or permanent civil service roles, noting concerns that permanent civil-service hires created long-term budget and benefit obligations if grant funding ended. Controller Ben Rosenfield told the board, “the ordinance that's before you specifies these as g positions or grant funded positions so that they can be tracked, for potential elimination after the grant funds have expired.” He added that the human resources classification process is separate from the ordinance itself.
A staff representative identified only as Mark (Department of the Environment staff) told supervisors the positions “will be performing energy efficiency audits at commercial establishments and at multifamily housing.” After brief discussion the board took a roll-call vote; the ordinance passed first reading with 11 ayes.
Why it matters: the positions are intended to support energy-efficiency audits and improvements in commercial and multifamily buildings. Because they are coded as grant-funded, the ordinance explicitly provides a mechanism to track and, if necessary, eliminate the positions when grant funds expire.
What the ordinance does not specify: the transcript records no dollar amount for the grant, no job descriptions beyond the broad audit function, and no explicit duration. Supervisors asked about exempt versus civil-service status; the controller and staff indicated the positions are coded for grant tracking and the department expects them to be exempt, but final HR classification decisions are separate from this ordinance.
