Budget and Finance Committee forwards 12 items to full Board, including downtown financing plan and port emergency
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Summary
The Budget and Finance Committee on Jan. 28, 2026 forwarded a dozen items to the full Board of Supervisors with positive recommendations, including grants for housing and parks, a $40 million waterfront advisory contract, a $10 million port emergency declaration, and a tax‑increment plan to spur downtown conversions.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Committee met Jan. 28 and voted to send a package of resolutions and ordinances (items 1–12) to the full Board with positive recommendations.
Major actions included forwarding a state Pro Housing Incentive grant acceptance for the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development; a $38.6 million amendment to the Department of Public Health contract with HealthRight360 for withdrawal management and residential treatment; a $22.1 million increase and extension to the SFMTA towing and storage contract with TEGSCO LLC; three grants for India Basin Shoreline Park totaling roughly $11 million; a $40 million, five‑year program advisory contract for the Port of San Francisco’s Waterfront Resilience Program with Jacobs Engineering; an emergency declaration to stabilize Dry Dock No. 2 at Pier 68; the approval of a Downtown Revitalization and Economic Recovery Financing District financing plan using future property tax increment to subsidize office‑to‑residential conversions; and philanthropic grants to local mayoral offices, including $7 million from Bloomberg Philanthropies for the Mayor’s Office of Innovation and $700,000 from Tipping Point Community for a director of strategic partnerships.
Votes and formal motions - Item 1 (MOHCD CalHCD PIP grant): Motion to forward to full Board with positive recommendation (mover: Vice Chair Matt Dorsey). Roll call: Dorsey—aye; Sauter—aye; Chan—aye. Outcome: passed (3–0). - Item 2 (ALT/VoIP ordinance): Motion to forward with positive recommendation (mover: Chair Connie Chan). Roll call: Dorsey—aye; Sauter—aye; Chan—aye. Outcome: passed (3–0). - Item 3 (DPH/HealthRight360 amendment): Motion to forward with positive recommendation (mover: Vice Chair Dorsey). Roll call: Dorsey—aye; Sauter—aye; Chan—aye. Outcome: passed (3–0). - Item 4 (SFMTA towing contract amendment): Motion to forward with positive recommendation (mover: Chair Chan). Roll call: Dorsey—aye; Sauter—aye; Chan—aye. Outcome: passed (3–0). - Items 5–7 (India Basin Shoreline Park grants; item 5 amended to be retroactive): Motion to amend item 5 as requested and to forward all three items to the full Board with recommendation. Roll call: Dorsey—aye; Sauter—aye; Chan—aye. Outcome: passed (3–0). - Item 8 (Port/Jacobs professional services): Motion to forward with recommendation (mover: Supervisor Souder). Roll call: Dorsey—aye; Sauter—aye; Chan—aye. Outcome: passed (3–0). - Item 9 (Port emergency declaration for Dry Dock No. 2): Motion to forward as amended. Roll call: Dorsey—aye; Sauter—aye; Chan—aye. Outcome: passed (3–0). - Item 10 (Downtown Revitalization Financing District financing plan): Motion to forward with positive recommendation (mover: Vice Chair Dorsey). Roll call: Dorsey—aye; Sauter—aye; Chan—aye. Outcome: passed (3–0). - Items 11–12 (Bloomberg grant to Mayor’s Office of Innovation; Tipping Point grant to mayor’s office): Motion to accept amendments and forward to full Board with recommendation; roll call: Dorsey—aye; Sauter—aye; Chan—aye. Outcome: passed (3–0).
What happens next All items that the committee approved are expected to appear on the Board of Supervisors agenda on Feb. 3, unless otherwise noted in the record. Several items are contingent on state or federal approvals (for example, the waterfront project’s eligibility for Army Corps funding) or on follow-up budget actions (grant matches and supplemental appropriations described in presentations).
