Board of Supervisors - Regular Meeting
The Board of Supervisors addressed key urban issues, including a discussion with Mayor Lurie on Mission Street BART Plazas, and advanced legislation on cannabis cafes, drug-free supportive housing, and inclusionary housing, while continuing the city's budget process.
About this meeting
- Government Body
- Board of Supervisors
- Meeting Type
- Board Of Supervisors
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Meeting Date
- July 14, 2026
Published excerpts
Only published remarks appear here. The full transcript is not published.
111 sections (from 115 segments)
Good afternoon. Welcome to the July 14th, 2026 regular meeting of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll?
Thank you, Madam Clerk. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the San Francisco Peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramatushaloni have never ceded, lost, or forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the
Do you have any opening remarks? I do. Good afternoon, Board President Mandelman and members of the Board of Supervisors. I want to start by thanking each and every one of you for your partnership over the past 18 months. During that time we have made our streets safer, improved how we serve residents, and created conditions where families, businesses, and communities can thrive. The results from the first half of this year show that our approach is working and we are building on last year's momentum. During the first six months of 2026, overall, crime was down 22% compared to the same point a
Thank you, Mayor Lurie. Madam Clerk, please call the topic for District 9.
Supervisor Fielder, please ask your opening question.
Thank you, President Mandelman. Thank you, Mary Lurie, for being here. Mayor, as you know, the BART plazas have been a top priority for me since taking office. I'm encouraged that the Office of Economic and Workforce Development is leading a new interdepartmental effort that brings multiple city departments together to coordinate strategies and address the longstanding challenges that have impacted the mission. However, I'm still getting complaints from constituents and from small businesses and seeing for myself with my own eyes every day people suffering on the street with substance use diso
Supervisor, thank you. I appreciate it. And thank you for your shared interest ensuring our public spaces are safe and welcoming for all. And I would agree with you. It is not controversial to say that the conditions that 16th Street and 24th Street bar plazas have been unacceptable for far too long We must do better for the residents community commuters workers families and businesses who rely on these plazas every single day You and I agree on that and our team recognized that restoring these spaces will take sustained coordinated work We brought together city departments and outside partner
Supervisor, thank you, Mr. Mayor. Supervisor Fielder, you may now ask a follow-up question directly related to the opening question.
Thank you for that, Mr. Mayor. Can you elucidate more what metrics or benchmarks your office is using to measure success?
Thank you, Supervisor. Over the first month of our 90-day coordinated effort, we're seeing encouraging science that multi-agency approach is starting to make a difference. We're doing more proactive policing, which I know you in the residency community have asked for. Routine patrol checks are up 56% at 16th Street and 36% at 24th Street, with major increases in narcotics enforcement, moving violations, and felony arrests. At the same time, mental health and homelessness-related calls are declining, along with property crime around 24th Street. We've also expanded enforcement against illegal f
Mr. Mayor, you may now ask a question to Supervisor Fielder or to any other supervisor in attendance pertaining to the same topic, but not necessarily related to the previous question.
No, I appreciate it. Thank you, Supervisor. Thank you all, and I'll let you get down to business.
Thank you for coming to visit us, Mr. Mayor.
Madam Clerk, communications. Minutes before communications.
Thank you, Madam Clerk. Now let's go to approval of our meeting minutes.
Colleagues, could I have a motion to approve the minutes as presented and moved by Supervisor Chen and seconded by Supervisor Dorsey? Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll?
Without objection, the minutes will be approved after public comment as presented. And with that. Let's go to our consent agenda. Please call Items 2 through 4 together.
Without objection, these ordinances are finally passed. Madam Clerk, let's go to unfinished business. Please call item five.
I see many names popping up on the roster. I would like to speak first. I do not believe it is appropriate for me to speak first from the dais. So I'm going to ask Supervisor Walton, who will speak later, to take the dais while I'm talking.
Supervisor Walton admonished me not to look at his notes. Colleagues, I have circulated amendments that I would hope we will adopt today and then pass this ordinance on first reading by way of background to catch people up. This ordinance has been a long time in the making. City Attorney David Chu had heard from many departments over time that they were feeling burdened by the volume of reports that they were being asked to produce that in their mind nobody was reviewing and that we had a make work exercise going on that they were hoping someone would prune. And for many years, well, for years
Thank you so much, President Melvin, Supervisor Fielder.
Thank you, Supervisor Walton. Thank you, President Mandelman, for hearing community out on some of these reports and for allowing us more time to look into this legislation. I had several concerns with reports being removed or pared down, including reports raised by the Department on the Status of Women, which I'm glad to see were reconsidered. And I'm thankful to Maeve Skelly and President Mandelman's office for going over other concerns with my staff, Jennifer Frigno. I support the vast majority of code cleanup in this ordinance, removing outdated and obsolete reporting requirements and pari
Supervisor Walton. Thank you, President Mandelman. I just want to say that I think it's great that the city attorney, city departments, and board of supervisors, and everyone but the public had a chance to weigh in on this dense document, which affects everyone. These reporting requirements are in place for a reason. So I think you should be proud to make so many changes without anyone knowing what's happening. This really should have been separated and taken up after recess with a public process. There is a lot of information in here. There are a lot of changes in here. This document is very
Thank you, President Mandelman. I just want to start my comments by thanking you and your staff for a tremendous amount of work, and also City Attorney Chu and his staff for the many hours they spend on the legislation, and partners who have done this. As I previously stated, I do believe that the exercise to evaluate and assess the code and clean it up is an act of good government hygiene. I don't know if that's a phrase. Our code has become convoluted over time and it requires regular cleanup of obsolete sections, redundancies, purging of sections that are no longer useful. And I want to be
Thank you, Board President. Colleagues, when I first reviewed this legislation, I was concerned that it eliminated several vital reporting requirements that are foundational to informed policymaking on land use and housing. Many of these reporting requirements were crafted with input from communities and community-based organizations that rely on this information to protect tenants and expand affordable housing. Some examples include indicators to better understand how Progress towards meeting affordable housing is impacted by the loss of rent control unit through hundreds of no-fault eviction
Thank you supervisor Wong I Want to thank president Madelman and city attorney David Chu for working on this large piece of legislation Identifying the things that need code to clean up in our city city code it's very It's a very large code, and there's just so many requirements that city departments have. I also want to thank and acknowledge the groups, supervisors, and folks that reached out to President Mandelman and other folks to get this fixed so that we have more feedback on it and so that we can get it closer to moving forward. As a legislative aide, I worked on some legislation that s
Thank you. And thanks to my colleagues for thanking Maeve Skelly in my office. I'd also like to thank Melanie Mathewson previously for my office. They both done a ton of work on this. I would like to move the amendments I have described and circulated as seconded by Supervisor Sherrill. Can we take that without objection? Without objection, the motion passes. And then, Madam Clerk, could you please call the roll on the amended ordinance?
The ordinance is passed on first reading.
Colleagues, today I'm proud to recognize Lycée Francais de San Francisco in celebration of French American Heritage Month. It is especially fitting that we present this commendation today on Bastille Day, as we celebrate the enduring French ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity, as well as the longstanding friendship between France and the United States. Lycée has been part of our city for nearly six decades. It was founded in 1967 by a small group of parents and teachers, beginning with just 27 elementary students in a one-room schoolhouse on Geary Boulevard. Today, the Lycée serves app
Thank you so much, President Mandelman. Colleagues, in honor of Disability Pride Month, I want to proudly recognize Antonio Babytone Garcia for his unwavering kindness. Babytone, if you could come up and stand at the podium. I want to honor him for his dedication to service and the joy he brings to everyone around him. From day one, Baby Tone has been one of my biggest supporters. He has volunteered at countless community events. He has helped share information with families, greeted neighbors with a smile, and always stepped up when help was needed. Whether lifting boxes during the COVID-19 p
Thank you, Board President. May I have President Mr. David Hooper to come to the podium? Good afternoon, everyone. Today is my great honor to recognize the new Mission Terrace Improvement Association for over 75 years of services to the neighborhood. Founded in 1949, NMTIA has four study connections, hosting monthly meetings that connect residents with city departments, organizing neighborhood events, and creating opportunities for families, seniors, and youth to build friendships. Under MTIA's organizations, families look forward to beloved traditions, like our annual Fourth of July parade an
Can I invite Allegra Madsen and Kate Beauvais and anybody else from Frameline who wants to come on up to come on up? Just Allegra. Just Allegra. Words that have never been said. Okay. Colleagues, it is my honor today to present a special commendation to Frameline, which just this past June celebrated the 50th anniversary of their film festival. The Frameline Film Festival, also known as the San Francisco International LGBTQ Plus Film Festival, is the longest running and largest such film festival in the world, drawing more than 50,000 attendees each and every year. In addition to organizing an
OK, Madam Clerk, well, we made it a little way through our regular agenda. Let's go back to item six.
The ordinance is finally passed. Madam Clerk, please call item number seven.
Thank you, President Mandelman. Colleagues, I'm voting no on this charter amendment because of the sweeping changes it proposes to our citizen oversight bodies. San Franciscans passed Proposition E in November of 2024 to reduce duplication and increase the efficiency of our boards, commissions, and advisory boards, not to concentrate even more power in the hands of the mayor's office. to take a hatchet to commissions that provide oversight and transparency for the public, or to strip voters of the power to make future changes. While there may be some changes in this charter amendment that are
Thank you, President Mendelman. I do want to thank you and all co-sponsors on this legislation for the work that you have done. I do appreciate the effort of accepting the amendments at Ruth's committee. Therefore, while I appreciate that work, though, I am not going to be voting in support, not because I don't appreciate the work that's being done. It's just simply because I think the overall idea of eliminating some of these advisory bodies and commission is, in my opinion, not in the best interest of the city. So I totally just think that it's based on principle, but I appreciate the effort
And the charter amendment is ordered submitted. Madam Clerk, please call item number eight.
Thank you, Mr. President. Colleagues, I am so excited for the opportunity to send this measure to the ballot today and ask for your support. It will secure a steady source of funding for affordable housing and preservation through the expansion and the extension of the existing housing trust fund. to eventually reach $125 million by dedicating a portion of future growth of property values in San Francisco. This is important because it is not just more money, which we desperately need for affordable housing, but the way the money behaves is different than the way that we had it before. This wil
Thank you so much, President Mendelman. I do just want to state on the record that I think it is arbitrary to extend the Housing Trust Fund and increase the Housing Trust Fund and at the very same meeting vote to decrease occlusionary housing. To me, this makes no sense, but I am going to support this because I do believe that this is necessary, but to do this in the very same agenda, support decreasing inclusionary housing, makes absolutely no sense. Thank you, President Mandelman.
Colleagues, I'm proud to co-sponsor this measure. Thank you to Supervisor Malgar and her office for their leadership and hard work on this and bringing people together. We all agree that San Francisco needs to build more housing, but as we work to make it easier to build, we also need to make sure that working families, seniors, and young people can afford to remain part of our city. The Housing Trust Fund has helped create and preserve affordable homes and supported opportunities for first-time homebuyers. This measure will strengthen that fund over time while including reasonable protections
All right. Madam Clerk, please call the roll on this item.
Without objection, the charter amendment is ordered submitted. Madam Clerk, please call item number nine.
Colleagues, let's take this item. Same house, same call. Without objection, the ordinance is passed on first reading. Madam Clerk, please call item 10.
And I think we can take this item. Same house, same call. Without objection, the ordinance is passed on first reading. Madam Clerk, please call Items 11 through 13 together.
Same house, same call. Without objection, the resolutions are adopted. And please call items 14 and 15 together.
Same house, same call. Without objection, the resolutions are adopted. Madam Clerk, please call Items 16 and 17 together.
Same house, same call. Without objection, the resolutions are adopted. Madam Clerk, please call item number 18.
Same house, same call. Without objection, the resolution is adopted. Please call item 19.
Same house, same call. Without objection, the resolution is adopted. Please call item 20.
Same house, same call. Without objection, the resolution is adopted. Please call item 21.
Thank you, President Mendelman, colleagues. Of course, thank you so much to the... My apologies.
I jumped the shot. Then I think going back to 21, we will take 21, same house, same call. Without objection, the motion is approved. And then, Madam Clerk, you will please call items 22 through 37 together. And then we will allow our budget chair to talk to us. OK. Please call items 22 through 37 together.
Thank you, President Mendelman. Colleagues, as you are well aware, this is the first appearance of the budget before you. We will be casting our first vote next week on Tuesday, July 22nd, and the second vote the following. But simply today, I want to present to you the budget items with the chairing legislation that we have clerical amendments To the board spending plan and after my presentation to you for the amendments to board Spending plan that I'm going to then turn over to the mayor's budget office miss Eliza Pugh So she's going to present to you the technical adjustments provided from
I don't see any questions. Chair Chan, anything further? You've made a motion. Is there a second? Seconded by Chen and colleagues. Can we take that without... Oh, we can do that. We can take the amendment without objection. All right, so motion has been made, seconded, and the motion passes without objection. Okay. And then, Chair Chan, did you...
I do. And then I know that we also have to make an amendment to our city, our home spending plan. Again, also is on item 22. But there will be details that Supervisor Chen is going to walk us through on the amendments for the spending plan. So it will be second motion to also amend.
Okay, I'm going to speak on item number 28. Colleagues, as many of you know, I have been working with the mayor's office to negotiate a spending plan for our city, our home funds that the mayor's team, the board of supervisors, and community could all support powerfully. This year's proposal was thoughtful and carefully balanced it, but my office heard from many providers and community stakeholders concerns about the lack of additional long-term subsidies in the plan. After many conversations with providers and advocates, and partnership from the Mayor's Office, we have negotiated a modest inc
Thank you, President Mendelman. It's my mistake, colleagues. I'm rescinding that motion. There is not a need to amend the actual spending plan to reflect that because this is an agreement between Supervisor Chen directly with the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing on the spending plan. They can make the adjustments on their own. And so We're done with the motions to amend. We can no longer amend.
No more amending. I mean, we can do whatever we want to, but.
Okay. Great. So thank you, Chair Chan, for getting us through this year's budget process as you have the last four. Four. And so we cannot act on the budget until July 15th. So can I have a motion to continue these matters until the July 21st, 2026 board meeting, moved by Chen, seconded by Dorsey. And I think we can take that without objection. Without objection, the budget is continued to, and all of these items are continued to July 21st, 2026. Madam Clerk, please call item 38.
Same house, same call. Without objection, the ordinance is passed on first reading.
Thank you, President Mandelman. Colleagues, as I discussed at GAO Committee, I'm concerned about the impact of this ordinance on the decades-long, careful, and intentional planning that is focused on the Mission District. The Mission Area Plan is not a generic part of San Francisco. It is among the most studied, most contested, and most intentionally planned areas in the city's recent history. Treating it the same as the rest of the city within the on-site inclusionary percentages ignores everything that our planning processes were built to protect. The Mission has a unique planning history. T
Supervisor Fielder has made a motion, and Supervisor Melgar has seconded it. Supervisor Mahmoud.
Thank you, President Mandelman. I was happy to support this legislation committee, and I'm happy to support it here for final passage as well. It was abundantly clear from the technical advisory committee report that we need to do all that we can to move the needle on feasibility if we want to have any chance as a city to build the housing required to meet demand. The increase in the threshold for inclusionary fees from 10 units to 25 units in particular will help with the exact kind of midsize projects encouraged by the family zoning plan. When paired with the housing trust fund expansion tha
Thank you so much, President Mandelman. I wanted to explain my co-sponsorship of this item and address a couple of concerns that have come up from some of my colleagues and members of the public. For non-housing nerds, the way we set the inclusionary rate in San Francisco is the same as the rest of California. It has to be based on a NEXA study. This is since the Palmer decision many years ago. And the NEXA study really just is a calculation that looks like how much it costs to build a unit and how much a family of low income can afford. And as costs go up, that gets wider, that gap gets wider
Thank you, President Mandelman. Colleagues, I will respectfully be voting no on the proposed amendment. While we ultimately have the final policy decision over our inclusionary rates, we generally entrust the bulk of the policy making work on our inclusionary rates to a group of experts from the development and affordable housing community. They look at the data and provide us with recommendations as Land Use Chair Malgar just explained. And this time around the numbers showed that our rates are too high. And in fact the report showed that even zero is infeasible. While I frankly have reservat
Thank you, Board President. Carly, in the face of widening inequity and the historic and ongoing displacement of working class communities and communities of color, the city faces an extraordinary imperative to facilitate housing opportunity. This includes permitting more housing, facilitating its construction, ensuring affordability, and preventing further displacement. I want to support developers, to produce new housing, and I want to maximize our affordable housing. And that's why I have serious concerns about this legislation. It requires us to choose one over the other, rather than advan
Thank you. President Mendelman, I am a firm believer that in the supply of demand is that we need the supply of affordable housing, because we are demanding affordable housing, or really housing that people can afford, and that's what we have to build. Lowering the inclusionary requirements Once more, we actually did this two years ago. We have some parameters for it. That's including lowering the inclusionary percentage for the project that's already currently in the pipeline. It seems like it wasn't clearly with the budget and legislative analysis report that we recently commissioned had ind
Colleagues, San Francisco is in a housing production crisis. Over the past several years, construction costs have climbed, interest rates have increased, financing has become more difficult, and housing production has slowed dramatically. The city's own technical advisory committee concluded that our existing inclusionary requirements have become a significant barrier to new residential development under today's economic conditions. We cannot collect affordable housing fees from projects that are never built. We cannot require below market rate units in buildings that never leave the drawing b
All right, if nobody else is in the queue, I will just weigh in with a couple reflections. When I was young, when I was in grad school, The conversation about impact fees was very much about the ways in which those fees could make development pay for itself in a post-Prop 13 world where local governments would not otherwise over time be able to collect the property tax they needed to provide the amenities that would be needed for the new housing. In the subsequent 500 years since I was in grad school, the circumstances in California have changed and we have a colossal shortage of housing that
And the motion passes. Madam Clerk, could you please call the roll on the amended item?
Without objection, the ordinance is passed on first reading. But was that a, did I need to, do you want to rescind the vote?
How do we do this, Madam Clerk? Yes, motion to rescind the vote. Great. There's been a motion to rescind the vote. It has been seconded by Supervisor Chan. Can we take that without objection? Without objection, the motion passes. All right. Madam Clerk, could you please call the roll on the amended item again?
Without objection, the motion is approved. And Madam Clerk, let's go to our committee reports. Please call item number 41.
Thank you, President Mandelman. Colleagues, as you probably know, this legislation has been a work in progress and a labor of love of mine for more than two years now. I want to thank all my co-sponsors, especially Board President Mandelman, who has been an original thought partner from the start. I assume I speak for all of my co-sponsors when I acknowledge how worthwhile it has been to demonstrate an abundance of collaboration, even if it took a lot longer. In an evolving policy landscape at the state and federal levels, we have honored all good faith requests to find common ground with advo
Supervisor Dorsey has made a motion to amend the legislation. It has been seconded by Supervisor Sherrill. Supervisor Fielder.
Thanks, President Mandelman. Colleagues, firstly, I just want to say I do believe in having more abstinent or sober housing as an option for unhoused people who are in recovery from substance use disorder. So I support that spirit of the legislation, and I support the provision of this legislation that I think smartly administers a survey of permanent supportive housing residents, the aim of which is to assess their interest in abstinent housing. For that, I thank Supervisor Dorsey for taking on this work. However, I just first want to say I think the terminology in this legislation is problem
Supervisor Fielder has made a motion. Is there a second for seconded by Melgar? Supervisor Melgar.
Thank you so much. I wanted to start my remarks by thanking Supervisor Dorsey. When you first spoke to me about this legislation, that was over a year ago. You've been at this for a really long time. And this legislation actually has really moved. So I wanted to, first of all, thank you for your engagement and for incorporating my feedback and the feedback of others in the community. And I know that it took a lot of head and heart for you to do that, and I just want to appreciate you for that. I am uncomfortable in some of the similar ways as were described by Supervisor Fielder. And I think t
Supervisor Dorsey. Thank you, President Mandelman. I do want to address the terminology around drug-tolerant as distinct from drug-free and explain why. Throughout this process, I have consistently identified this as a hill I would absolutely die on. Those of us in the policymaking realm can sometimes adopt terms of art that we understand without fully appreciating that these euphemisms and slogans hold no intrinsic or intuitive meaning for the people they're designed to serve. There is nothing about terms like housing first or traditional PSH or low barrier or harm reduction housing that coul
Thank you, Board President. First, I also would like to acknowledge Supervisor Dorsey and the work that he and his team have put into this legislation. I recognize that he has spent a lot of time working on amendments to try to alleviate concerns from different stakeholders. I want to say that on the record that I am very supportive of sober housing solutions. At the same time, I do have some concerns about this legislation. I don't believe that our city should be implementing sober housing environments in a way that could cause harm to those who cannot live successfully in that environment. S
Thank you. Yes, I am in agreement and share the sentiment that thank you, Supervisor Dorsey, I think that it does take a lot of effort for the city to have alternatives. And I think that when Director Dan Tsai actually was appointed to his position, one of the questions was asked specifically about how do we really problem solve the fentanyl crisis in San Francisco. And I really appreciate his answer at that moment. And I think that that is where my approach is. to public health crisis when it comes to the drug crisis is that we have to meet people where they're at and that we need to provide
Colleagues, I'm proud to cosponsor this measure because at its core it is about giving people a chance. People working to overcome addiction deserve a chance to live somewhere that supports their recovery. Families with children, seniors, and residents who simply want a home free from illicit drug use deserve that chance too. San Francisco has tried many approaches with good intentions, but good intentions alone are not enough, and the results speak for themselves. Too many people remain trapped in addiction, too many residents feel unsafe in their own buildings, and too many people trying to
Nobody else is in the queue. Supervisor Dorsey, I want to thank you. This is one of those moments where I'm grateful for your presence on this board, grateful for your passion around getting San Francisco on a different path. And let's make no mistake, the path we're on is a distressing and disturbing one. The status quo is insane. The status quo in which so many folks living in permanent supportive housing developments are consigned to deal with the most outrageous behavior from their neighbors, and the managers of those buildings are unable to do anything about it because of government polic
Would be first. All right. Can you please call the roll on that amendment?
Madam Clerk, could you please call the roll on the second amendment, Fielder and Milgar?
Sorry. So there are? Five ayes. Five ayes. And the motion does not pass. OK. Madam Clerk, could you please call the roll on the amended item?
The ordinance is passed on first reading. Ah, Supervisor Chen.
I sincerely apologize. I would like to rescind my vote on item number 39.
So there's a motion to rescind the vote on 39. Is there a second? Seconded by Walton. Can we take that without objection? Without objection, the vote is rescinded. OK. And then Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll on item? You don't still need to talk, Supervisor Chad, right? All right. Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll on item 39?
And the ordinance is passed on first reading. Madam Clerk, please call item 42.
The resolution is adopted. Please call item 43.
Without objection, the motion is approved. Let's go to roll call.
Thank you, Madam Clerk. Colleagues, today I am introducing a resolution and also a BLA request. First, I'm introducing a resolution in support of continuing the Bayview shuttle. District 10 residents continue to face urgent transportation inequities that limit access to jobs, healthcare, education, grocery stores, and other essential services. This resolution is to encourage continued and sustainable funding and long-term support for the Bayview Community Shuttle Program, a critical equity and access initiative serving Bayview-Hunters Point. Far too long, transportation inequities have limited
Thank you, Madam. Colleagues, today I'm introducing a resolution urging Congress to pass H.R. 1667, the Acupuncture for Our Seniors Act. Under the current law, licensed acupuncturists are prohibited from being Medicare providers, significantly limiting access to this health intervention, which has been used as treatment for multiple health concerns, including cancer, infertility, substance use disorder, and chronic pain. The efficacy of acupuncture as a meaningful and effective treatment option for many medical conditions was validated when the ACA helped to increase access by allowing individ
Thank you, Madam Clerk. Colleagues, today I have one resolution and one BLA report. I'm introducing a resolution supporting California State Assembly Bill number 2564, authored by Assemblymember Chris Ward and coauthored by Assemblymember Ash Kalra. Retailers are using personally identifiable consumer data to charge some consumers discriminatory prices in what is being called surveillance pricing. consumers' characteristics and behaviors like location, demographics, browsing patterns, mouse movements on web pages, and shopping history are now being used against them to help corporations set in
Colleagues, today I'm introducing a motion to allow the board to call file number 260693, the Affordable Groceries Act's vacancy tax, from the Budget and Finance Committee to Committee of the Whole on July 21st. This measure needs to reach the full board by late July to make the November ballot. This motion preserves the only path left for this board and the voters to have a say. This motion, I'll remind, is not about the merits of the tax itself. It's about whether San Franciscans living in food deserts get a public hearing and a discussion on a policy that affects so many of our neighborhood
Thank you, Madam Clerk. Colleagues, today I am introducing a resolution to recognize August 2nd through August 8th, 2026 as National Health Center Week in San Francisco. Formed in 1982, the San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium is a brilliant example of the community health center legacy. Born from the civil rights movement of the 1960s, these centers seek to serve the underserved at a cost they can afford. Today, the clinic consortium is composed of 12 member clinics that tailor their services to meet the unique needs of the communities in which they are located. Each is rooted in and sha
Thank you. Madam Clerk, thank you. It was unclear to me that we rescinded the vote for item 39. It's not clear to me why we rescind the vote when we're already past item 41. And so I need to rescind that item 39 vote once more. But help me understand exactly what happened on item 39.
Any member can ask to rescind the vote on any item at any point.
But it was not clear to me that we were rescinding. It was not clear to me why we were rescinding the vote of item 39. When we pass it, I wish someone had explained why we were rescinding the vote. But I would like to rescind the vote then.
There is a motion to rescind. Is there a second? Seconded by Fielder. And we can take that motion without objection. I love voting on this item. Madam Clerk, please.
My apologies, but before we do so, help me understand, too, though, who was it that I assumed that Supervisor Chen made the motion to rescind the vote, and it was seconded by Supervisor Fielder? Walton. Why is it that we have to rescind the vote?
Hold on. Hold on. Wait a minute. I'm supposed to run this meeting. I'm sorry. I will just read the title quickly. It just was not clear.
Of course, I love to answer I Again, I think I said it I would love to advance both The housing trust fund and also continue to be keeping our city affordable to support our inclusionary rate so with that I I also said publicly that I am not supporting the legislation because we are forcing to choose one or the other, but not both. But I did say that I support Supervisor Fielder's amendment. So with that, I initially, I was confused. And so I voted, but I'm voting in support of Supervisor Fielder's amendment. Overall, as a legislation, even with the amendment that was adopted, and I'm still a
Thank you. I just would have wished that was, anyways, done two items before in a timely fashion, but thank you. I appreciate colleagues allowing me to resent the vote after the vote was rescinded.
Madam Clerk, please call the roll on item 39.
And the ordinance is passed on first reading. As amended. Madam Clerk. I think that takes us to general public comment.
There are no more callers. Thank you, Madam Clerk.
Public comment is now closed. Madam Clerk, could you please call the for adoption without committee reference agenda items 46 and 47 together?
Without objection, the resolutions are adopted. Madam clerk do we have any imperative agenda items?
And I believe, Madam Clerk, that brings us to the end of our agenda. Do we have any further business before us today? Thank you, Madam Clerk. We are adjourned.
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