Supervisor Connie Chan says she will step down as Budget & Finance Committee chair

Supervisor Connie Chan announced during the July 15 Budget and Finance Committee meeting that she will step down as chair of the committee at the end of the month and that Vice Chair Matt Dorsey will run the committee’s July 22 meeting. Chan, who introduced herself at the start of the meeting as the committee chair, said she has served as chair of the budget and appropriation committees for four years and described the role as a privilege.

Chan used her remarks to thank committee staff and outside partners by name — including clerk Brent Halepa, Budget and Legislative Analyst staff Nick Menard, Controller office staff and Mayor’s budget director Sofia Kittler — and praised the public broadcasting staff who produce the committee’s televised meetings. She said her practice of pairing department presentations with the Budget and Legislative Analyst reports has aimed to give supervisors a fuller picture of agenda items before questions and public comment.

Vice Chair Matt Dorsey and member Supervisor Danny Sauter each offered brief thanks and praise on the record. Chan said she will continue to participate on the Board of Supervisors but that today was her last meeting chairing the committee. The committee immediately proceeded to its agenda items; Chan presided for the remainder of the session.