# Board of Supervisors Minutes: July 15, 2025

- Meeting date: 2025-07-15
- Document type: minutes
- Source format: PDF
- Extracted pages: 32
- [Canonical HTML transcript](https://sfbos.info/documents/1100/2025-07-15-minutes)
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## Structured legislative records

### File 250597: Business and Tax Regulations Code - Early Care and Education Commercial Rents Tax Baseline - FYs 2025-2026 and 2026-2027

- Pages: 8-9
- Sponsors: Mayor
- Vote 1: first-reading
  - Action: 250597 [Business and Tax Regulations Code - Early Care and Education Commercial Rents Tax Baseline - FYs 2025-2026 and 2026-2027] Sponsor: Mayor Ordinance modifying the baseline funding requirements for early care and education programs in Fiscal Years (FYs) 2025-2026 and 2026-2027, to enable the City to use the interest earned from the Early Care and Education Commercial Rents Tax for those baseline programs. (Fiscal Impact) PASSED ON FIRST READING by the following vote:
  - Ayes: Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Engardio, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill, Walton

### File 250598: Accept and Expend Grant - Retroactive - Immigration Defense Unit - Crankstart Foundation - Amendment to the Annual Salary Ordinance for FYs 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 - $3,400,000

- Pages: 9
- Sponsors: Mayor; Mahmood
- Vote 1: first-reading
  - Action: 250598 [Accept and Expend Grant - Retroactive - Immigration Defense Unit - Crankstart Foundation - Amendment to the Annual Salary Ordinance for FYs 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 - $3,400,000] Sponsors: Mayor; Mahmood Ordinance retroactively authorizing the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $3,400,000 from the Crankstart Foundation to expand the capacity of the Immigration Defense Unit to meet the increased demand for immigration defense services for the period of March 1, 2025, through March 1, 2029; and amending the Annual Salary Ordinance No. 191-24 (Annual Salary Ordinance, File No. 240596 for Fiscal Years (FY) 2024-2025 and 2025-2026) to provide for the addition of four grant-funded positions, in Class 8177 Attorney (3 FTEs) and in Class 8173 Legal Assistant (1 FTE). (Public Defender) PASSED ON FIRST READING by the following vote:
  - Ayes: Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Engardio, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill, Walton

### File 250599: Administrative Code - Vehicle Registration Fees and Police Fingerprint Identification Fund

- Pages: 9
- Sponsors: Mayor
- Vote 1: first-reading
  - Action: 250599 [Administrative Code - Vehicle Registration Fees and Police Fingerprint Identification Fund] Sponsor: Mayor Ordinance amending the Administrative Code to authorize fees for vehicles registered to a San Francisco address to fund law enforcement programs related to fingerprint identification of persons involved in crimes committed while operating motor vehicles, in accordance with California State law, and to establish the Police Fingerprint Identification Fund to receive the fee revenue. (Supervisor Fielder voted No on First Reading.) PASSED ON FIRST READING by the following vote:
  - Ayes: Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Engardio, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill, Walton
  - Noes: Fielder

### File 250600: De-appropriation - San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Capital Projects Budget - $86,916 - FY2025-2026

- Pages: 9-10
- Sponsors: Mayor
- Vote 1: first-reading
  - Action: 250600 [De-appropriation - San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Capital Projects Budget - $86,916 - FY2025-2026] Sponsor: Mayor Ordinance appropriating and de-appropriating for a total net de-appropriation amount of $86,916 to previously approved Ordinance No. 124-24 for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Capital Projects Budget and Supplemental Appropriation in Fiscal Year (FY) 2025-2026. (Public Utilities Commission) (Fiscal Impact) PASSED ON FIRST READING by the following vote:
  - Ayes: Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Engardio, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill, Walton

## Extracted text

### [Page 9](https://sfbos.info/documents/1100/2025-07-15-minutes#page-9)

Board of Supervisors                            Meeting Minutes                                               7/15/2025



250598 [Accept and Expend Grant - Retroactive - Immigration Defense Unit - Crankstart
       Foundation - Amendment to the Annual Salary Ordinance for FYs 2024-2025 and
       2025-2026 - $3,400,000]
            Sponsors: Mayor; Mahmood
            Ordinance retroactively authorizing the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office to accept and expend
            a grant in the amount of $3,400,000 from the Crankstart Foundation to expand the capacity of the
            Immigration Defense Unit to meet the increased demand for immigration defense services for the
            period of March 1, 2025, through March 1, 2029; and amending the Annual Salary Ordinance No.
            191-24 (Annual Salary Ordinance, File No. 240596 for Fiscal Years (FY) 2024-2025 and 2025-2026)
            to provide for the addition of four grant-funded positions, in Class 8177 Attorney (3 FTEs) and in
            Class 8173 Legal Assistant (1 FTE). (Public Defender)
            PASSED ON FIRST READING by the following vote:
                 Ayes: 11 - Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Engardio, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill,
                 Walton


250599 [Administrative Code - Vehicle Registration Fees and Police Fingerprint
       Identification Fund]
            Sponsor: Mayor
            Ordinance amending the Administrative Code to authorize fees for vehicles registered to a San
            Francisco address to fund law enforcement programs related to fingerprint identification of persons
            involved in crimes committed while operating motor vehicles, in accordance with California State law,
            and to establish the Police Fingerprint Identification Fund to receive the fee revenue.
            (Supervisor Fielder voted No on First Reading.)
            PASSED ON FIRST READING by the following vote:
                 Ayes: 10 - Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Engardio, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill, Walton
                 Noes: 1 - Fielder


250600 [De-appropriation - San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Capital Projects
       Budget - $86,916 - FY2025-2026]
            Sponsor: Mayor
            Ordinance appropriating and de-appropriating for a total net de-appropriation amount of $86,916 to
            previously approved Ordinance No. 124-24 for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Capital
            Projects Budget and Supplemental Appropriation in Fiscal Year (FY) 2025-2026. (Public Utilities
            Commission)
            (Fiscal Impact)
            PASSED ON FIRST READING by the following vote:
                 Ayes: 11 - Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Engardio, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill,
                 Walton




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