# Board of Supervisors Minutes: February 11, 2025 - Meeting date: 2025-02-11 - Document type: minutes - Source format: PDF - Extracted pages: 22 - [Canonical HTML transcript](https://sfbos.info/documents/1062/2025-02-11-minutes) - [Authoritative City source](https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=M&ID=1281731&GUID=B715B21E-BEBC-424F-8941-4D4CE80CE99A) > This text was extracted for search and accessibility. The linked City source is the authoritative public record. ## Structured legislative records ### File 241172: Business and Tax Regulations Code - Commercial Vacancy Tax Exemption - Pages: 6-7 - Sponsors: Chan; Engardio and Melgar - Vote 1: final-passage, likely final - Action: 241172 [Business and Tax Regulations Code - Commercial Vacancy Tax Exemption] Sponsors: Chan; Engardio and Melgar Ordinance amending the Business and Tax Regulations Code to exempt from the commercial vacancy tax beginning on January 1, 2025, any taxable commercial space located in a named neighborhood commercial district or named neighborhood commercial transit district in which a City public infrastructure or construction project has a construction duration of more than 180 days in a calendar year, and from January 1, 2022, through December 31, 2024, any taxable commercial space located in the Taraval Street Neighborhood Commercial District or the Inner Taraval Street Neighborhood Commercial District. (In accordance with Section 2909 of Article 29 of the Business and Tax Regulations Code, passage of this ordinance by the Board of Supervisors requires an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the Board of Supervisors.) Ordinance No. 015-25 FINALLY PASSED by the following vote: - Ayes: Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Engardio, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill, Walton ### File 250040: Administrative Code - Core Initiatives to Strengthen City’s Responses to Homelessness, Drug Abuse, Mental Health Needs, and Related Crises - Pages: 7 - Sponsors: Mayor; Dorsey, Engardio, Sherrill, Mahmood, Sauter and Mandelman - Vote 1: final-passage, likely final - Action: ements for contracts, grants, and leases necessary to accelerate the City’s response to homelessness, drug overdoses and substance use disorders, mental health needs, integrated health needs, and public safety hiring (the “Core Initiatives”); 3) delegate to the Mayor the authority to approve certain types of contracts, grants, and leases for Core Initiatives under Charter Section 9.118, if the Board of Supervisors has failed to act within 45 days; 4) suspend until January 2026 the requirement under Chapter 23 of the Administrative Code that the Board of Supervisors approve leases, if the lease is for a Core Initiative; 5) authorize the City until January 2026 to accept gifts, grants, and other donations of up to $10 million for Core Initiatives; 6) clarify the authority of the Controller to transfer surplus funds to support Core Initiatives; and 7) authorize the Office of the Mayor for six months to solicit donations from various private entities and organizations to support the City’s work on the Core Initiatives, notwithstanding the Behested Payment Ordinance. (Fiscal Impact) (Supervisor Walton voted No on First Reading.) Ordinance No. 010-25 FINALLY PASSED by the following vote: - Ayes: Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Engardio, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill - Noes: Walton ### File 250041: Appropriation - General Reserve - Municipal Transportation Agency - Portsmouth Square Garage Parking and Transit Fares - $526,000 - FY2024-2025 - Pages: 7-8 - Sponsors: Chan; Chen, Mandelman, Sauter and Fielder - Vote 1: first-reading - Action: 250041 [Appropriation - General Reserve - Municipal Transportation Agency - Portsmouth Square Garage Parking and Transit Fares - $526,000 - FY2024-2025] Sponsors: Chan; Chen, Mandelman, Sauter and Fielder Ordinance appropriating $526,000 from the General Reserve to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency to support free two-hour parking in the Portsmouth Square Parking Garage from January 28, 2025, through February 28, 2025, and transit fares for the Lunar New Year Parade weekend on February 15 and February 16, 2025, for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024-2025. (Fiscal Impact) Supervisor Fielder requested to be added as a co-sponsor. PASSED ON FIRST READING by the following vote: - Ayes: Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Engardio, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill, Walton ## Extracted text ### [Page 7](https://sfbos.info/documents/1062/2025-02-11-minutes#page-7) Board of Supervisors Meeting Minutes 2/11/2025 250040 [Administrative Code - Core Initiatives to Strengthen City’s Responses to Homelessness, Drug Abuse, Mental Health Needs, and Related Crises] Sponsors: Mayor; Dorsey, Engardio, Sherrill, Mahmood, Sauter and Mandelman Ordinance amending the Administrative Code to 1) provide that the existing waiver of competitive procurement rules for certain contracts and grants to support projects addressing homelessness will sunset in May 2029; 2) suspend until January 2026 the competitive procurement requirements for contracts, grants, and leases necessary to accelerate the City’s response to homelessness, drug overdoses and substance use disorders, mental health needs, integrated health needs, and public safety hiring (the “Core Initiatives”); 3) delegate to the Mayor the authority to approve certain types of contracts, grants, and leases for Core Initiatives under Charter Section 9.118, if the Board of Supervisors has failed to act within 45 days; 4) suspend until January 2026 the requirement under Chapter 23 of the Administrative Code that the Board of Supervisors approve leases, if the lease is for a Core Initiative; 5) authorize the City until January 2026 to accept gifts, grants, and other donations of up to $10 million for Core Initiatives; 6) clarify the authority of the Controller to transfer surplus funds to support Core Initiatives; and 7) authorize the Office of the Mayor for six months to solicit donations from various private entities and organizations to support the City’s work on the Core Initiatives, notwithstanding the Behested Payment Ordinance. (Fiscal Impact) (Supervisor Walton voted No on First Reading.) Ordinance No. 010-25 FINALLY PASSED by the following vote: Ayes: 10 - Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Engardio, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill Noes: 1 - Walton NEW BUSINESS Recommendations of the Budget and Finance Committee 250041 [Appropriation - General Reserve - Municipal Transportation Agency - Portsmouth Square Garage Parking and Transit Fares - $526,000 - FY2024-2025] Sponsors: Chan; Chen, Mandelman, Sauter and Fielder Ordinance appropriating $526,000 from the General Reserve to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency to support free two-hour parking in the Portsmouth Square Parking Garage from January 28, 2025, through February 28, 2025, and transit fares for the Lunar New Year Parade weekend on February 15 and February 16, 2025, for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024-2025. (Fiscal Impact) Supervisor Fielder requested to be added as a co-sponsor. PASSED ON FIRST READING by the following vote: Ayes: 11 - Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Engardio, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill, Walton City and County of San Francisco Page 104 Printed at 1:19 pm on 3/14/25