# Board of Supervisors Minutes: February 11, 2025

- Meeting date: 2025-02-11
- Document type: minutes
- Source format: PDF
- Extracted pages: 22
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## Structured legislative records

### File 250047: Fundraising for Services Related to Immigration, LGBTQ+ Rights, Environmental Protection, Reproductive Rights, and Racial Equity - Behested Payment Waiver

- Pages: 14
- Sponsors: Mandelman; Engardio, Dorsey, Sauter, Sherrill and Mahmood
- Vote 1: adoption, likely final
  - Action: Office of the Mayor, Office of the City Attorney, and Office of the City Administrator, and the head of each division, office, and department under the supervision of the City Administrator, to solicit donations from various private, nonprofit, philanthropic, and other entities to support 1) the urgent provision of legal services related to the creation and enforcement of immigration laws, regulations, and policies, including litigation and regulatory reform efforts at the local, state, and federal level and non-legal services and support for the City’s immigrant communities; 2) goods and services, including legal services, related to defending and supporting LGBTQ+ rights; 3) goods and services, including legal services, related to defending and supporting reproductive rights; 4) goods and services, including legal services, related to defending existing environmental protection laws and promoting environmental protection efforts; and 5) goods and services, including legal services, related to racial equity initiatives, all notwithstanding the Behested Payment Ordinance. Supervisor Mahmood requested to be added as a co-sponsor. Resolution No. 056-25 ADOPTED by the following vote:
  - Ayes: Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Engardio, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill
  - Absent: Walton

### File 240873: Planning, Health Codes - Inclusionary Housing Ordinance, Non-Potable Water Exemption

- Pages: 14-15
- Sponsors: Mayor; Sauter and Mahmood
- Vote 1: first-reading
  - Action: 240873 [Planning, Health Codes - Inclusionary Housing Ordinance, Non-Potable Water Exemption] Sponsors: Mayor; Sauter and Mahmood Ordinance amending the Planning Code to permit the use of California Debt Limit Allocation Committee tax-exempt bond financing and tax credits under the Tax Credit Allocation Committee for certain affordable housing projects that provide additional affordable units or deeper affordability levels than required by the Inclusionary Housing Ordinance, and require the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development to report on such projects; amending the Health Code to exempt such affordable housing projects from compliance with the requirement that new buildings be constructed, operated, and maintained using alternate water sources for non-potable uses; affirming the Planning Department’s determination under the California Environmental Quality Act; making public necessity, convenience, and welfare findings under Planning Code, Section 302; and making findings of consistency with the General Plan and the eight priority policies of Planning Code, Section 101.1. PASSED ON FIRST READING by the following vote:
  - Ayes: Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Engardio, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill
  - Absent: Walton
- Vote 2: other
  - Action: City and County of San Francisco Page 111 Printed at 1:19 pm on 3/14/25 Board of Supervisors Meeting Minutes 2/11/2025 Recommendation of the Rules Committee Supervisor Fielder Excused From Voting Supervisor Chen, seconded by Supervisor Chan, moved that Supervisor Fielder be excused from voting on File No. 250121. The motion carried by the following vote:
  - Ayes: Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Engardio, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill
  - Absent: Walton
  - Excused: Fielder

### File 250121: Appointment, Local Agency Formation Commission - Supervisor Jackie Fielder

- Pages: 15
- Vote 1: approval, likely final
  - Action: 250121 [Appointment, Local Agency Formation Commission - Supervisor Jackie Fielder] Motion appointing Supervisor Jackie Fielder to the Local Agency Formation Commission, term ending February 4, 2027, or the conclusion of her term as a Member of the Board of Supervisors. (Clerk of the Board) Motion No. M25-013 APPROVED by the following vote:
  - Ayes: Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Engardio, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill
  - Absent: Walton
  - Excused: Fielder

## Extracted text

### [Page 14](https://sfbos.info/documents/1062/2025-02-11-minutes#page-14)

Board of Supervisors                              Meeting Minutes                                                 2/11/2025




COMMITTEE REPORTS
            Supervisor Walton was noted absent at 2:39 p.m.



Recommendation of the Government Audit and Oversight Committee


250047 [Fundraising for Services Related to Immigration, LGBTQ+ Rights, Environmental
       Protection, Reproductive Rights, and Racial Equity - Behested Payment Waiver]
            Sponsors: Mandelman; Engardio, Dorsey, Sauter, Sherrill and Mahmood
            Resolution authorizing the Office of the Mayor, Office of the City Attorney, and Office of the City
            Administrator, and the head of each division, office, and department under the supervision of the City
            Administrator, to solicit donations from various private, nonprofit, philanthropic, and other entities to
            support 1) the urgent provision of legal services related to the creation and enforcement of
            immigration laws, regulations, and policies, including litigation and regulatory reform efforts at the
            local, state, and federal level and non-legal services and support for the City’s immigrant
            communities; 2) goods and services, including legal services, related to defending and supporting
            LGBTQ+ rights; 3) goods and services, including legal services, related to defending and supporting
            reproductive rights; 4) goods and services, including legal services, related to defending existing
            environmental protection laws and promoting environmental protection efforts; and 5) goods and
            services, including legal services, related to racial equity initiatives, all notwithstanding the Behested
            Payment Ordinance.
            Supervisor Mahmood requested to be added as a co-sponsor.
            Resolution No. 056-25
            ADOPTED by the following vote:
                 Ayes: 10 - Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Engardio, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill
                 Absent: 1 - Walton



Recommendation of the Land Use and Transportation Committee


240873 [Planning, Health Codes - Inclusionary Housing Ordinance, Non-Potable Water
       Exemption]
            Sponsors: Mayor; Sauter and Mahmood
            Ordinance amending the Planning Code to permit the use of California Debt Limit Allocation
            Committee tax-exempt bond financing and tax credits under the Tax Credit Allocation Committee for
            certain affordable housing projects that provide additional affordable units or deeper affordability levels
            than required by the Inclusionary Housing Ordinance, and require the Mayor’s Office of Housing and
            Community Development to report on such projects; amending the Health Code to exempt such
            affordable housing projects from compliance with the requirement that new buildings be constructed,
            operated, and maintained using alternate water sources for non-potable uses; affirming the Planning
            Department’s determination under the California Environmental Quality Act; making public necessity,
            convenience, and welfare findings under Planning Code, Section 302; and making findings of
            consistency with the General Plan and the eight priority policies of Planning Code, Section 101.1.
            PASSED ON FIRST READING by the following vote:
                 Ayes: 10 - Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Engardio, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill
                 Absent: 1 - Walton
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### [Page 15](https://sfbos.info/documents/1062/2025-02-11-minutes#page-15)

Board of Supervisors                            Meeting Minutes                                             2/11/2025




Recommendation of the Rules Committee


Supervisor Fielder Excused From Voting
            Supervisor Chen, seconded by Supervisor Chan, moved that Supervisor Fielder be excused from voting
            on File No. 250121. The motion carried by the following vote:
                 Ayes: 9 - Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Engardio, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill
                 Excused: 1 - Fielder
                 Absent: 1 - Walton


250121 [Appointment, Local Agency Formation Commission - Supervisor Jackie Fielder]
            Motion appointing Supervisor Jackie Fielder to the Local Agency Formation Commission, term
            ending February 4, 2027, or the conclusion of her term as a Member of the Board of Supervisors.
            (Clerk of the Board)
            Motion No. M25-013
            APPROVED by the following vote:
                 Ayes: 9 - Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Engardio, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill
                 Excused: 1 - Fielder
                 Absent: 1 - Walton

            Supervisor Walton was noted present at 2:45 p.m.



ROLL CALL FOR INTRODUCTIONS
            See Legislation Introduced below.




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