The San Francisco Board of Supervisors came under pressure Tuesday to accept a draft proposal on reparations that includes $5 million for each eligible Black adult resident, a budget-busting figure increasingly embraced by supporters as the baseline.

The evening meeting drew a packed house of people offering public comment in favor of the San Francisco reparations advisory committee’s draft, which drew national attention when its recommendations were released in December.

“We want to make sure that you understand that this is not charity, that we are not asking for a favor,” Tinisch Hollins, the reparations panel’s vice chair, said at the meeting. “What we are asking for, what we are demanding for, is a real commitment to what we need to move things forward.”

The proposals receiving the most attention call for giving eligible residents a one-time $5 million cash payment, paying off personal debt, guaranteeing annual incomes of at least $97,000 for 250 years and turning apartments into privately owned condominiums available to current tenants for $1.

The recommendations have been dismissed as unrealistic. A Hoover Institution analysis found that implementing those four financial proposals alone for the city’s estimated 35,445 Black adult residents would cost about $200 billion, or nearly $600,000 per non-Black resident.

The city’s 2022-23 budget was $14 billion. Even so, supervisors expressed support for the draft report, blaming the media for hyping the $5 million figure while overlooking the 110 other recommendations made by the San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee.

“I really do hope all of us in city leadership, especially with these attacks coming from around the nation and from conservative and racist forces across the country and in this city, speak up loud and clear and proud in defense of and in support of the reparations advisory committee’s recommendations and make them happen as soon as possible,” said Supervisor Dean Preston.

The board is not expected to vote on the proposals until after the committee delivers its final report in June.