# Board of Supervisors Minutes: July 28, 2026 - Meeting date: 2026-07-28 - Document type: minutes - Source format: PDF - Extracted pages: 39 - [Canonical HTML transcript](https://sfbos.info/documents/2158/2026-07-28-minutes) - [Authoritative City source](https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=M&ID=1429946&GUID=6AAB7A5B-CA8B-42C6-8F3F-0DB3363A22BC) > This text was extracted for search and accessibility. The linked City source is the authoritative public record. ## Structured legislative records ### File 260598: Administrative Code - San Francisco Self-Insurance Surety Bond Fund - Pages: 8-9 - Sponsors: Mayor - Vote 1: final-passage, likely final - Action: 260598 [Administrative Code - San Francisco Self-Insurance Surety Bond Fund] Sponsor: Mayor Ordinance amending the Administrative Code to authorize the City Administrator to pause, reduce, or return the annual contributions by the departments that contract for Public Works under Administrative Code Chapter 6 to the San Francisco Self-Insurance Surety Bond Fund. FINALLY PASSED by the following vote: - Ayes: Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill, Walton, Wong ### File 260599: Business and Tax Regulations Code - Early Care and Education Commercial Rents Tax Baseline - FYs 2026-2027 and 2027-2028 - Pages: 9 - Sponsors: Mayor - Vote 1: final-passage, likely final - Action: 260599 [Business and Tax Regulations Code - Early Care and Education Commercial Rents Tax Baseline - FYs 2026-2027 and 2027-2028] Sponsor: Mayor Ordinance modifying the baseline funding requirements for early care and education programs in Fiscal Years (FYs) 2026-2027 and 2027-2028, to enable the City to use the interest earned from the Early Care and Education Commercial Rents Tax for those baseline programs. (Fiscal Impact) FINALLY PASSED by the following vote: - Ayes: Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill, Walton, Wong ### File 260600: Health Code - Patient Rates for Fiscal Years 2026-2027 and 2027-2028 - Pages: 9 - Sponsors: Mayor - Vote 1: final-passage, likely final - Action: 260600 [Health Code - Patient Rates for Fiscal Years 2026-2027 and 2027-2028] Sponsor: Mayor Ordinance amending the Health Code to set patient rates for services provided by the Department of Public Health for Fiscal Years 2026-2027 and 2027-2028. FINALLY PASSED by the following vote: - Ayes: Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill, Walton, Wong ### File 260655: Administrative Codes - Weights and Measures Fees - Pages: 9 - Sponsors: Mayor - Vote 1: final-passage, likely final - Action: 260655 [Administrative Codes - Weights and Measures Fees] Sponsor: Mayor Ordinance amending the Administrative Code to increase certain utility meter fees and authorize the Controller to annually adjust device fees for weights and measures and utility meters up to the maximum allowable under state law. FINALLY PASSED by the following vote: - Ayes: Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill, Walton, Wong ### File 260601: Funding Reallocation - Our City, Our Home Fund - Homelessness Gross Receipts Tax - Services to Address Homelessness - Pages: 9 - Sponsors: Mayor - Vote 1: final-passage, likely final - Action: 260601 [Funding Reallocation - Our City, Our Home Fund - Homelessness Gross Receipts Tax - Services to Address Homelessness] Sponsor: Mayor Ordinance temporarily suspending the cap on the use of Homelessness Gross Receipts Tax revenues to fund short-term rental subsidies; and finding that temporarily allowing for increased expenditures on short-term rental subsidies will further the purposes of the Our City, Our Home Fund pursuant to Business and Tax Regulations Code, Section 2811. (Fiscal Impact) FINALLY PASSED by the following vote: - Ayes: Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill, Walton, Wong ### File 260602: Neighborhood Beautification and Graffiti Clean-Up Fund Tax Designation Ceiling - Pages: 9-10 - Sponsors: Mayor - Vote 1: final-passage, likely final - Action: 260602 [Neighborhood Beautification and Graffiti Clean-Up Fund Tax Designation Ceiling] Sponsor: Mayor Ordinance adopting the Neighborhood Beautification and Graffiti Clean-up Fund Tax designation ceiling for tax year 2026. FINALLY PASSED by the following vote: - Ayes: Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill, Walton, Wong ### File 260543: Police Code - Penalties for Prohibited Discharge of Fireworks - Pages: 10 - Sponsors: Wong; Sherrill, Melgar, Sauter, Dorsey and Mandelman - Vote 1: final-passage, likely final - Action: 260543 [Police Code - Penalties for Prohibited Discharge of Fireworks] Sponsors: Wong; Sherrill, Melgar, Sauter, Dorsey and Mandelman Ordinance amending the Police Code to provide penalties for the prohibited discharge of fireworks, including that a first offense is punishable as an infraction with a fine not less than $125 or more than $250, and a second and any subsequent offenses within five years of a prior offense are punishable as misdemeanors with a fine not less than $250 or more than $750, or imprisonment in the County Jail of not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. (Supervisors Fielder and Walton voted No on First Reading.) FINALLY PASSED by the following vote: - Ayes: Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill, Wong - Noes: Fielder, Walton ### File 260486: Accept and Expend Grant - Retroactive - California Department of Parks and Recreation - General Fund Specified Grant - Sunset Dunes Striping and Signage Project - $200,000 - Pages: 10 - Vote 1: adoption, likely final - Action: 260486 [Accept and Expend Grant - Retroactive - California Department of Parks and Recreation - General Fund Specified Grant - Sunset Dunes Striping and Signage Project - $200,000] Resolution retroactively authorizing the Recreation and Park Department to accept and expend a grant from the California Department of Parks and Recreation from the General Fund Specified Grant for the Sunset Dunes Striping and Signage Project, in the amount of $200,000 for a grant performance period starting July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2028. (Recreation and Park Department) ADOPTED by the following vote: - Ayes: Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill, Walton, Wong ### File 260711: Accept and Expend Grant - Jain-Trivedi Fund - “Be The Jury” Program - $250,000 - Pages: 10-11 - Sponsors: Mayor; Mandelman - Vote 1: adoption, likely final - Action: 260711 [Accept and Expend Grant - Jain-Trivedi Fund - “Be The Jury” Program - $250,000] Sponsors: Mayor; Mandelman Resolution authorizing the Office of the Treasurer and Tax Collector to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $250,000 from the Jain-Trivedi Fund for the purpose of increasing juror per diems to qualifying low-income jurors in criminal cases in the San Francisco Superior Court through the “Be The Jury” program from August 1, 2026, through July 31, 2031. (Treasurer-Tax Collector) ADOPTED by the following vote: - Ayes: Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill, Walton, Wong ## Extracted text ### [Page 9](https://sfbos.info/documents/2158/2026-07-28-minutes#page-9) Board of Supervisors Meeting Minutes - Draft 7/28/2026 260599 [Business and Tax Regulations Code - Early Care and Education Commercial Rents Tax Baseline - FYs 2026-2027 and 2027-2028] Sponsor: Mayor Ordinance modifying the baseline funding requirements for early care and education programs in Fiscal Years (FYs) 2026-2027 and 2027-2028, to enable the City to use the interest earned from the Early Care and Education Commercial Rents Tax for those baseline programs. (Fiscal Impact) FINALLY PASSED by the following vote: Ayes: 11 - Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill, Walton, Wong 260600 [Health Code - Patient Rates for Fiscal Years 2026-2027 and 2027-2028] Sponsor: Mayor Ordinance amending the Health Code to set patient rates for services provided by the Department of Public Health for Fiscal Years 2026-2027 and 2027-2028. FINALLY PASSED by the following vote: Ayes: 11 - Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill, Walton, Wong 260655 [Administrative Codes - Weights and Measures Fees] Sponsor: Mayor Ordinance amending the Administrative Code to increase certain utility meter fees and authorize the Controller to annually adjust device fees for weights and measures and utility meters up to the maximum allowable under state law. FINALLY PASSED by the following vote: Ayes: 11 - Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill, Walton, Wong 260601 [Funding Reallocation - Our City, Our Home Fund - Homelessness Gross Receipts Tax - Services to Address Homelessness] Sponsor: Mayor Ordinance temporarily suspending the cap on the use of Homelessness Gross Receipts Tax revenues to fund short-term rental subsidies; and finding that temporarily allowing for increased expenditures on short-term rental subsidies will further the purposes of the Our City, Our Home Fund pursuant to Business and Tax Regulations Code, Section 2811. (Fiscal Impact) FINALLY PASSED by the following vote: Ayes: 11 - Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill, Walton, Wong 260602 [Neighborhood Beautification and Graffiti Clean-Up Fund Tax Designation Ceiling] Sponsor: Mayor Ordinance adopting the Neighborhood Beautification and Graffiti Clean-up Fund Tax designation ceiling for tax year 2026. FINALLY PASSED by the following vote: Ayes: 11 - Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill, Walton, Wong City and County of San Francisco Page 8 Printed at 2:42 pm on 7/29/26 ### [Page 10](https://sfbos.info/documents/2158/2026-07-28-minutes#page-10) Board of Supervisors Meeting Minutes - Draft 7/28/2026 Recommendation of the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee 260543 [Police Code - Penalties for Prohibited Discharge of Fireworks] Sponsors: Wong; Sherrill, Melgar, Sauter, Dorsey and Mandelman Ordinance amending the Police Code to provide penalties for the prohibited discharge of fireworks, including that a first offense is punishable as an infraction with a fine not less than $125 or more than $250, and a second and any subsequent offenses within five years of a prior offense are punishable as misdemeanors with a fine not less than $250 or more than $750, or imprisonment in the County Jail of not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. (Supervisors Fielder and Walton voted No on First Reading.) FINALLY PASSED by the following vote: Ayes: 9 - Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill, Wong Noes: 2 - Fielder, Walton NEW BUSINESS Recommendations of the Budget and Finance Committee 260486 [Accept and Expend Grant - Retroactive - California Department of Parks and Recreation - General Fund Specified Grant - Sunset Dunes Striping and Signage Project - $200,000] Resolution retroactively authorizing the Recreation and Park Department to accept and expend a grant from the California Department of Parks and Recreation from the General Fund Specified Grant for the Sunset Dunes Striping and Signage Project, in the amount of $200,000 for a grant performance period starting July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2028. (Recreation and Park Department) ADOPTED by the following vote: Ayes: 11 - Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill, Walton, Wong 260711 [Accept and Expend Grant - Jain-Trivedi Fund - “Be The Jury” Program - $250,000] Sponsors: Mayor; Mandelman Resolution authorizing the Office of the Treasurer and Tax Collector to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $250,000 from the Jain-Trivedi Fund for the purpose of increasing juror per diems to qualifying low-income jurors in criminal cases in the San Francisco Superior Court through the “Be The Jury” program from August 1, 2026, through July 31, 2031. (Treasurer-Tax Collector) ADOPTED by the following vote: Ayes: 11 - Chan, Chen, Dorsey, Fielder, Mahmood, Mandelman, Melgar, Sauter, Sherrill, Walton, Wong City and County of San Francisco Page 9 Printed at 2:42 pm on 7/29/26