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Committee backs retroactive $25.4M contract to expand childcare facility grants
Summary
The Budget & Finance Committee recommended that the full Board approve a $25.4 million renewal with Low Income Investment Fund to administer San Francisco’s Childcare Facilities Fund (2017–2020), funded largely by expanded childcare development impact fees.
Supervisor Norman Yee chaired the committee as staff presented a request to retroactively approve a contract with the Low Income Investment Fund to administer the San Francisco Childcare Facilities Fund for 07/01/2017–06/30/2020.
Graham Dodson of the Office of Early Care and Education and Candace Wong of the Low Income Investment Fund described the contract as an 'up to' amount intended to fund predevelopment, capital, renovation and repair grants and provide facility-related technical assistance, project management and training. The staff presentation said the contract amount is $25,377,250 and includes a 10 percent contingency of $2,307,023. Speakers said the contract draws on childcare development impact fees, which a 2015 ordinance expanded to apply to residential projects as well as hotel and office development.
Supervisor Norman Yee and other committee members pressed staff on how the contract amount ties to impact fee revenues and what happens if collections fluctuate. Candace Wong said the amount is based on projected fee collections and a three-year pipeline of projects; unspent funds for a fiscal year would carry forward to later years. Sevin Campbell of the Budget and Legislative Analyst’s office said the contract is 'not to exceed' $25,400,000 (base $23,000,000 plus $2,300,000 contingency) and that spending above the contract would require further board approval. The BLA report shows $12.4 million budgeted in the first year with lower projections in later years.
Supervisor Katie Tang moved to send the item to the full Board with a positive recommendation; with no objection the committee passed the motion. The committee record indicates the contract will be funded in part by the citywide childcare development impact fees and carries the BLA’s recommendation to approve.
The full Board will receive the contract and the BLA report, which includes projected year‑one funding levels and notes the contingency amount. The committee did not record a roll-call vote indoors the hearing; the motion passed by unanimous consent.
