Budget & Finance Committee: roll-call outcomes on contracts, shelter hotels, health and housing measures

At its Feb. 9 meeting the Budget & Finance Committee acted on a slate of administrative and funding items. The committee forwarded multiple contract amendments and financing measures to the full Board of Supervisors with positive recommendations and delayed a few for additional review.

Parking and transportation: Items 3 6 were four retroactive contract amendments for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency to correct contract amounts and extend terms for garage-management agreements. The amendments adjust several contract totals by multimillion-dollar amounts (for example, an increase of about $3.5 million on the Fifth & Mission Garage amendment) and the committee voted to forward items 3 6 to the full Board with a positive recommendation.

Shelter-in-place hotels and HSA contracts: The committee considered emergency agreement amendments for hotel sites used in the city's shelter-in-place program. Item 7 (Americania Hotel) was continued for one week at the sponsor's request. Item 8 (Hotel Whitcomb/1231 Market Street) was amended to reflect a BLA correction to the food budget and then forwarded with a positive recommendation. HSA staff said the Whitcomb extension would extend the term and increase the not-to-exceed amount to about $79.26 million (BLA identified a $285,161 correction to the food line, reducing the not-to-exceed to roughly $78.97 million).

Airport and public-safety contracts: The committee approved modification No. 2 to Covenant Aviation Security's contract to exercise an option through June 30, 2024, and increase the not-to-exceed amount; airport staff and BLA discussed how the contract budget accounts for minimum-compensation (MCO) wage adjustments and modest medical-cost increases. The committee forwarded the amendment to the full Board with a positive recommendation.

Health and human services contracts: DPH and HSA presented several contract amendments. Item 11 approved an amendment to a DPH agreement with Bayview Hunters Point Foundation, increasing the not-to-exceed by about $3.6 million and extending the term; the committee forwarded the amendment. Item 12 asked for a retroactive amendment to extend and increase a Chinese Hospital contract to provide up to 23 skilled-nursing surge beds (minimum 13 monthly beds purchased). BLA recommended a six-month extension and a solicitation to seek lower rates; DPH and Chinese Hospital argued that licensing and certification timelines and the need for surge-capacity continuity justified a 12-month extension. The committee forwarded the amendment to the full Board.

Housing and capital: The committee approved a ground lease and loan (not to exceed $26.75 million) to finance a 63-unit, 100% affordable project at 78 Haight/120 Octavia with 32 transitional-age-youth units and an on-site child-care parcel; the item was forwarded to the full Board with a positive recommendation. A separate loan item (Item 15) was continued to the call of the chair.

Budget clerks and internal budgets: The clerk of the Board presented draft budgets for the Board of Supervisors and the Clerk's office for FY2022'23 and FY2023'24 including staffing changes and a temporary Assessment Appeals Board position; the committee authorized submission of the draft budgets to the Mayor and Controller.

Across the meeting, the committee relied on BLA analyses; items that included retroactive emergency procurement were discussed with attention to certification, oversight and fiscal controls. Vote tallies and specific roll-call results are recorded in committee minutes and in the actions array below.