# Board of Supervisors Minutes: July 25, 2023 - Meeting date: 2023-07-25 - Document type: minutes - Source format: PDF - Extracted pages: 49 - [Canonical HTML transcript](https://sfbos.info/documents/940/2023-07-25-minutes) - [Authoritative City source](https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=M&ID=1113725&GUID=FFC85AF6-AD37-489D-A9B4-C4542E771D11) > This text was extracted for search and accessibility. The linked City source is the authoritative public record. ## Structured legislative records ### File 230850: Supporting Workers’ Rights to Free Speech and Contract Implementation - Pages: 35-36 - Sponsors: Chan; Mandelman, Preston, Melgar, Stefani, Peskin, Ronen, Walton, Safai and Engardio ### File 230848: Findings Reversing the Categorical Exemption Determination - 1151 Washington Street Project - Pages: 36 - Vote 1: approval, likely final - Action: 230848 [Findings Reversing the Categorical Exemption Determination - 1151 Washington Street Project] Motion adopting findings to reverse the Planning Department’s determination that the proposed project located at 1151 Washington Street is categorically exempt from environmental review. (Clerk of the Board) Motion No. M23-121 APPROVED The foregoing items were acted upon by the following vote: - Ayes: Chan, Dorsey, Engardio, Mandelman, Melgar, Peskin, Preston, Ronen, Safai, Stefani - Absent: Walton ### File 230846: Urging Contributions to Ameliorate the Effects of Slavery - Pages: 36-37 - Sponsors: Walton; Chan, Preston, Ronen, Safai and Dorsey - Vote 1: amendment - Action: Preston, Ronen, Safai and Dorsey Resolution urging city contractors that have participated and/or profited from slave trades to make voluntary contributions to ameliorate the legacy of slavery. Supervisors Safai and Dorsey requested to be added as co-sponsors. Supervisor Walton, seconded by Supervisor Ronen, moved that this Resolution be AMENDED, AN AMENDMENT OF THE WHOLE BEARING NEW TITLE, on Page 1, Line 3, by adding ‘the City Administrator and City Controller to encourage’, and Lines 17-18 by adding ‘, through the City Controller’s office’; on Page 2, Lines 4-7, by adding ‘WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 275-06 requires that the Office of the City Administrator encourage all contractors subject to the ordinance to make voluntary contributions to an account to be used to ameliorate the legacy of the slavery era on persons subjected to slavery and their descendants; and’; and on Page 3, Lines 11-13, by changing ‘city contractors that have participated and/or profited from slave trades to make’ to ‘the Office of the City Administrator and City Controller to send letters to all City vendors covered by Ordinance No. 275-06 to encourage them to make’. The motion carried by the following vote: - Ayes: Chan, Dorsey, Engardio, Mandelman, Melgar, Peskin, Preston, Ronen, Safai, Stefani, Walton - Vote 2: adoption, likely final - Action: Resolution urging the City Administrator and City Controller to encourage city contractors that have participated and/or profited from slave trades to make voluntary contributions to ameliorate the legacy of slavery. Resolution No. 407-23 ADOPTED AS AMENDED by the following vote: - Ayes: Chan, Dorsey, Engardio, Mandelman, Melgar, Peskin, Preston, Ronen, Safai, Stefani, Walton ## Extracted text ### [Page 36](https://sfbos.info/documents/940/2023-07-25-minutes#page-36) Board of Supervisors Meeting Minutes - Final 7/25/2023 230848 [Findings Reversing the Categorical Exemption Determination - 1151 Washington Street Project] Motion adopting findings to reverse the Planning Department’s determination that the proposed project located at 1151 Washington Street is categorically exempt from environmental review. (Clerk of the Board) Motion No. M23-121 APPROVED The foregoing items were acted upon by the following vote: Ayes: 10 - Chan, Dorsey, Engardio, Mandelman, Melgar, Peskin, Preston, Ronen, Safai, Stefani Absent: 1 - Walton Supervisor Walton was noted present at 5:55 p.m. Severed from the For Adoption Without Committee Reference Agenda Supervisor Walton requested that File Nos. 230846, 230847, and 230851 be severed so that they may be considered separately. 230846 [Urging Contributions to Ameliorate the Effects of Slavery] Sponsors: Walton; Chan, Preston, Ronen, Safai and Dorsey Resolution urging city contractors that have participated and/or profited from slave trades to make voluntary contributions to ameliorate the legacy of slavery. Supervisors Safai and Dorsey requested to be added as co-sponsors. Supervisor Walton, seconded by Supervisor Ronen, moved that this Resolution be AMENDED, AN AMENDMENT OF THE WHOLE BEARING NEW TITLE, on Page 1, Line 3, by adding ‘the City Administrator and City Controller to encourage’, and Lines 17-18 by adding ‘, through the City Controller’s office’; on Page 2, Lines 4-7, by adding ‘WHEREAS, Ordinance No. 275-06 requires that the Office of the City Administrator encourage all contractors subject to the ordinance to make voluntary contributions to an account to be used to ameliorate the legacy of the slavery era on persons subjected to slavery and their descendants; and’; and on Page 3, Lines 11-13, by changing ‘city contractors that have participated and/or profited from slave trades to make’ to ‘the Office of the City Administrator and City Controller to send letters to all City vendors covered by Ordinance No. 275-06 to encourage them to make’. The motion carried by the following vote: Ayes: 11 - Chan, Dorsey, Engardio, Mandelman, Melgar, Peskin, Preston, Ronen, Safai, Stefani, Walton Resolution urging the City Administrator and City Controller to encourage city contractors that have participated and/or profited from slave trades to make voluntary contributions to ameliorate the legacy of slavery. Resolution No. 407-23 ADOPTED AS AMENDED by the following vote: Ayes: 11 - Chan, Dorsey, Engardio, Mandelman, Melgar, Peskin, Preston, Ronen, Safai, Stefani, Walton City and County of San Francisco Page 757 Printed at 3:24 pm on 4/26/24