Budget & Finance Committee forwards nine items to full Board, including park grants and advertising contract amendments

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Budget & Finance Committee voted June 9 to send nine items to the full Board with positive recommendations, including state park grants for two parks, amendments to two SFMTA advertising contracts that reduce minimum guaranteed payments during the pandemic, a Department of Public Health grant, a 10‑year extension for the Treasurer’s lockbox system, a $15,000 greening donation, a $6 million philanthropic grant for restorative justice, and the release of $2.3 million in bond funds for a floating fireboat station.

The items matter because they combine capital investments, pandemic‑era revenue adjustments for transit advertising, and new or expanded program funding that will reach the full Board on June 15. Chair Matt Haney opened the remote meeting and directed each presentation; several items required retroactive approvals because grant performance periods began before legislation was finalized.

Rec & Park asked the committee to recommend that the Board authorize acceptance and expenditure of a California State Parks Community Revitalization grant in the range described by staff for the India Basin Shoreline Park playground project. Toni Moran said, “I am requesting the budget and finance committee recommend that the Board of Supervisors authorize the Rec and Park Department to apply for, accept, and expend a California State Parks grant in the amount of $5,768,000 to support the construction of a new playground at India Basin…