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Budget & Finance Committee forwards multiple grants and contracts; continues Bayshore lease for follow‑up
Summary
The committee advanced several items (grants for Twin Peaks trail, Energy Watch outreach, SoMa alleyway improvements; bus rehabilitation contract; HIV prevention funding) and continued the SFMTA Bayshore lease for one week to get additional analyses.
The Board of Supervisors Budget & Finance Committee voted to send multiple items to the full Board with recommendation, and continued a single complex lease matter for further information.
Items moved forward without objection included: a $131,041 Habitat Conservation Fund grant for Twin Peaks Trail; a $156,000 CPUC/PG&E augmentation for the city's Energy Watch outreach; a $1,381,000 federal congestion management grant for South of Market alleyway improvements (with total project cost shown as $2,340,400); a contract to rehabilitate roughly 80 diesel buses (agreement not to exceed about $19.1 million, subject to certification of additional funding); and an application to continue CDC HIV prevention funding (S.F. expects about $7.5–8 million for local programs).
One item—the proposed 20‑year lease at 2650 Bayshore Boulevard (item 6)—was continued for one week so SFMTA can provide a net present value analysis, relevant excerpts of its real‑estate master plan and supporting lease comparables. The committee also asked SFMTA to clarify whether Phase‑2 tenant improvements would be financed by the landlord or paid up front.
Public comment included workers and union representatives reporting substandard conditions at Pier 70, which SFMTA says the lease would help address. Committee members asked for more data tying the Bayshore site to the agency—s long‑term facility strategy before bringing the lease to the full Board.
The committee adjourned after handling the agenda.
