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Board approves $132 million in federal grants for ports, transit, buildings, charging and public health; places several awards on reserve pending budget review
Summary
The Board of Supervisors voted to accept and expend multiple federal grants covering ferry electrification, transit and bike improvements, building decarbonization, EV charging, public health programs and refugee services, totaling roughly $132 million; several awards were placed on board reserve pending budget committee review.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Jan. 14 approved a package of federal grant acceptances and expenditures covering multiple city departments and policy areas, including the Port of San Francisco, Public Works, the Department of Public Health, Recreation and Parks, the Department of the Environment and the Human Services Agency.
President Mandelmann opened a committee of the whole to consider 15 accept-and‑expend items that cumulatively total more than $132 million. The board and department staff described the awards as time‑sensitive federal opportunities that the city applied for and won in recent months.
Key awards summarized by department included: - Port of San Francisco: a $55,380,000 Environmental Protection Agency Clean Ports Program award to support the nation’s first high‑speed zero‑emission ferry network, including a Mission Bay landing; the award requires a $15,500,000 match (including SFPUC contributions) and will fund electrification infrastructure and a maritime workforce program. (Item 17) - Public Works: a $20,000,000 U.S. Department of Transportation RAISE grant for the Bayview Connections project, including bus rapid transit lanes, separated cycle tracks and widened sidewalks; the Candlestick Point developer will contribute $26,000,000 toward the balance. (Item 11) - Department of the Environment: an Inflation Reduction Act award of about $19,900,000 to support building performance standards for large existing buildings and a separate federal award of nearly $15,000,000 to install up to 300 public EV chargers across the city. (Items 5 and 8) - Department of Public Health: multiple health grants, including an increase to an STD prevention award bringing the five‑year total to approximately $13,635,302, and a $1,600,000 Department of Justice grant to form an overdose fatality review. (Items 14 and 16) - Human Services Agency: a $832,804 award for refugee support services and a $223,673 CalAIM award for services for justice‑involved individuals. (Items 12 and 9)
Department directors and grant teams briefed the board on scopes, local matches and planned next steps. Several items were handled as retroactive acceptances where the awards had already been executed and required board ratification.
Because several items lacked completed fiscal-impact reports at the time of the meeting, the board placed those awards on the board reserve and delegated authority to the Budget and Finance Committee to review the completed files and authorize release of funds. Item 10 (a $750,000 MTC pedestrian and bicycle safety award for Visitation Avenue) was referred back to the Budget and Finance Committee for its regular process rather than being approved in the expedited package.
All items considered in the expedited package were adopted as amended by the board; most votes recorded in the transcript were unanimous roll calls (11 ayes) where roll calls were called.
Board members and staff said the accelerated approach was used to secure time‑sensitive federal funding that is likely to become harder to obtain with the pending federal administration change. The board reserved oversight by requiring Budget and Finance review before funds are released from reserve.
