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Supervisors advance ordinance to create City Hall Preservation Fund for centennial
Summary
The subcommittee advanced an ordinance to establish a City Hall Preservation Fund to support centennial programs and raise an estimated $1 million–$3 million for capital repairs; the budget analyst recommended amendments including a $100,000 Board approval threshold, expenditure reporting, and a 06/30/2016 sunset.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Budget & Finance Subcommittee advanced an ordinance to establish a City Hall Preservation Fund intended to raise private donations for the building’s 100th anniversary programs and immediate capital needs. Chair Mark Farrell called the item, and Bill Barnes of the City Administrator’s Office told the committee the fund would support educational tours and lectures and raise between $1,000,000 and $3,000,000 to address pressing repairs such as lighting efficiency upgrades, dome stabilization and window work.
The budget analyst recommended amending the ordinance to require Board approval by resolution for acceptance and expenditure of gifts exceeding $100,000, to require reporting of expenditures in the Feb. 1 annual report to the Board, and to include a sunset date of June 30, 2016. "We recommend that you amend the proposed ordinance to require board of supervisors approval by resolution to accept and expend gifts exceeding $100,000," the budget analyst stated during the meeting. The analyst also noted the city’s administrative code currently requires Board approval for gifts of cash or goods with market value greater than $10,000, a rule the proposed ordinance otherwise did not fully mirror for expenditures.
Chair Farrell opened public comment; no members of the public spoke on the record. Farrell moved to accept the budget analyst amendments and to approve the ordinance as amended; the motion was recorded in the transcript as carried without opposition. The ordinance as discussed would create a Category 8 fund, report donor sources and (per the analyst’s amendment) report expenditures to the Board annually. The presenters said the fund would be used for centennial programs and for capital needs identified by City Hall staff.
If approved by the full Board (the committee noted items acted on today will appear on the April 9, 2013 Board agenda), the fund’s expenditures over $100,000 would require a separate Board resolution and the fund would sunset on 06/30/2016 per the analyst’s recommendation.
