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Budget committee advances consent slate including $2.7B SFO reserve release and property-tax system contracts
Summary
The Budget & Finance Committee on Nov. 1 voted without objection to send a package of routine and substantive items — including a $2.7 billion release for SFO capital projects, multifamily housing bond and lease for 1950 Mission, retroactive DPH contract amendments, and three contracts for a multidepartment property-tax system — to the full Board with positive recommendations.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors’ Budget & Finance Committee on Nov. 1 advanced a group of consent and recommended items to the full board, including several finance and contract matters the committee said needed timely action.
Chair (President) Malia Cohen called for consideration of the committee’s agenda and the following items were sent to the full board with a positive recommendation and without objection: the controller’s proposed Eleventh Amendment to the JobApps applicant-tracking contract (extension and spending increase), the release of approximately $2.7 billion from board reserves to continue San Francisco International Airport’s capital-improvement plan, multifamily revenue bond authorization and a 75-year ground lease for a 100%-affordable project at 1950 Mission Street, a retroactive amendment for uncompensated-care reimbursement recovery services with Health Advocates (Department of Public Health), an amendment extending the JCDecaux revenue agreement for public toilets and kiosks pending the final design approval process, and three contracts to replace or modernize San Francisco’s property tax assessment and collection systems (Procurements for Grant Street Group, Sapient, and Carahsoft as reported by the assessor, treasurer and controller).
On each item, department presenters and the budget office provided briefings and the Budget Legislative Analyst recommended approval where appropriate. When discussion or clarifying questions arose, staff supplied follow-up commitments (for example, DPH said the retroactive amendment was due to protracted negotiations; the assessor’s office and treasurer explained the longer-term operations and maintenance spend included in their 12-year contracts). Public comment was limited and the committee took up no roll-call votes; motions to advance each item passed “without objection,” the procedural form the committee uses where consensus exists.
The committee set one high-profile measure — the proposed ordinance imposing audits and remedial requirements for large refuse generators — for further consideration and amendment and continued that item to Nov. 15 for additional stakeholder review. Other items advanced to the full board will appear on the Board agenda per the clerk’s announcement.
Next procedural steps: items advanced will be calendared for the Board of Supervisors. The zero-waste ordinance will return to Budget & Finance on Nov. 15 with amendments and additional analyses requested by committee members.
