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Budget & Finance Committee advances contracts, grants and housing bond steps to full Board
Summary
The committee voted 3-0 to forward a package of contract modifications, grant acceptances and bond steps — including airport contracting extensions, a $2M DHS grant, amendments for Central Subway design, and housing financings — while members pressed staff on contracting out, procurement and cost growth.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Committee on July 15 advanced a slate of items to the full Board, approving contract modifications, grant acceptances and preliminary housing-finance actions with unanimous 3-0 committee recommendations.
Chair Sandra Lee Feuer presided over the remote meeting. Committee members moved or approved motions on items ranging from a 15-year lease for a Department of Public Health site to modifications extending airport contracts, a $2 million Department of Homeland Security grant for the Department of Emergency Management, Central Subway design amendments and multiple housing bond and financing steps. Each item was returned to the full Board with a positive recommendation unless otherwise noted.
Why it matters: the committee’s actions clear administrative and financing hurdles needed to implement near-term capital and service decisions — from airport operations to homelessness programs — and set up final votes and contract execution at the Board of Supervisors.
Key outcomes at a glance: Chair Sandra Lee Feuer and Supervisors Shamai Walton and Rafael Mandelmann recorded 3-0 committee recommendations to forward: Item 1 (amendment to the 10-year capital plan); Item 2 (333 Valencia lease); Item 3 (Cognient airport security contract modification); Item 4 (Hallmark Guest Services modification); Item 5 (Vanderlande maintenance modification, amended per BLA); Item 6 (DEM $2M DHS grant); Item 7 (Central Subway design amendment); Item 8 (Tenderloin Housing Clinic master-lease grant, amended per BLA); Items 9–11 (bond-inducement/TEFRA hearings for three affordable housing projects); Item 12 (PLHA application for approximately $52M); Item 13 (SFUSD general obligation bond resolution); and Item 14 (filed hearing on an educator parcel-tax initiative). Several items included staff presentations, BLA recommendations and brief public comment where callers were present.
What committee members pressed staff to clarify: several airport-related items prompted questions about whether work could be done by city civil-service employees rather than contractors; Chair Feuer asked that the airport review staffing options before the next contract renewal and discussed adding reporting language for that review. Supervisors also sought post-completion lessons-learned for the Central Subway project and questioned large noncompetitive contracts in the homelessness portfolio, given current public scrutiny of emergency contracting.
Next steps: all advanced items will appear on the full Board agenda (noted by staff to likely appear on July 21, 2020) for final action, award or filing as appropriate.
