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Votes at a glance: Board approves multiple ordinances, resolutions and financing items on consent and first readings
Summary
On Aug. 18 the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed numerous consent items and first-reading ordinances covering property tax rates, PUC headquarters funding, transit equipment grants, contracts for historic streetcars, emergency hospital generators, and other measures. Several items were continued or recused as noted.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors cleared a broad slate of consent and non-controversial items at its Aug. 18 meeting, approving ordinances and resolutions by roll call and first readings across a range of city functions. The following lists key items the Board acted on, with outcomes and the details recorded in the meeting transcript.
- Consent agenda (Items 1–16): Approved by roll call; 10 ayes recorded. The Clerk noted the consent agenda items were considered routine and acted on together.
- Item 17 (land use): Ordinance ordering vacation of portions of Fairfax Avenue and West Point Road and related easements; passed final reading with 9 ayes, 1 no (Supervisor Daly recorded as "no").
- Item 18 (settlement): Ordinance authorizing settlement of Linda Corratti lawsuit against the city for $80,000; transcript records the ordinance finally passed.
- Item 19 (budget/appropriation): Ordinance appropriating approximately $194,200,000 to fund construction of the Public Utilities Commission headquarters at 525 Golden Gate Avenue for fiscal year 2009–10; passed first reading (10 ayes recorded).
- Items 20–23 (property tax rates): Four ordinances setting the City and participating districts' fiscal year 2009–10 property tax rates were taken together and passed in first reading ("same house, same call").
- Item 24 (grant agreement): Resolution authorizing the Municipal Transportation Agency (MTA) to enter a grant and cooperative agreement with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission to procure TransLink fare-collection equipment and services for up to approximately $29,100,000; adopted.
- Item 25 (certificates of participation): Resolution approving the official statement and delegating authority to the Director of Public Finance to sell certificates of participation related to 525 Golden Gate Avenue; adopted.
- Item 26 (contract award): Resolution authorizing a contract with Brookville Equipment Corporation to rehabilitate 16 historic streetcars for an amount not to exceed $18,700,000. The MTA reported an amendment to liquidated damages language: liquidated damages would be increased to $433.16 per streetcar per day (from $300) to better reflect lost revenue. Resolution adopted.
- Item 27 (financing): Resolution authorizing lease-purchase financing for emergency backup generators at San Francisco General Hospital in an amount not to exceed $25,000,000; adopted.
- Item 28 (certificates of participation): Resolution authorizing issuance of certificates of participation for multiple capital projects and delegating sale authority to the Director of Public Finance; adopted.
- Item 29 (designation): Resolution designating the Jewish Home of San Francisco as an evaluation and treatment facility for individuals 75 and older and authorizing a designation agreement; adopted.
- Item 30 (speed humps on Addison Street): Supervisor Ellsborn (Ellsberg) moved to continue the item to the Board's first meeting after recess to allow Supervisor Dufty to participate; motion seconded and passed.
- Items 31–32 (public works/sidewalk encroachments): Ordinances amending the public works code to treat unpermitted sub-sidewalk encroachments as public nuisances and to change appellate jurisdiction for minor sidewalk encroachment permits to the Board of Supervisors; both passed on first reading (same house, same call).
- Item 33 (street closure): Resolution closing McCoppin Street west of Valencia to vehicular traffic; Supervisor Daly recused due to proximity to property he owns; resolution adopted with 9 ayes recorded.
- Items 34–35 (appointments): Motion appointing an individual to the California State Association of Counties (item 34) approved (9 ayes); item 35, appointment to the Immigrant Rights Commission (Toye Moses) approved with 9 ayes and 1 no recorded.
- Items 36–39 (conditional use appeal for 1960–1998 Market Street): The Board granted a motion to continue these items to September (motion passed without objection after public comment was opened and no speakers objected to continuance).
- Items 42–44 (adoption without committee reference): Adopted by roll call (10 ayes recorded).
Several matters were continued, others were passed in first reading and will return for second reading or final passage at subsequent meetings. Where roll-call tallies were read into the record, this summary records counts as announced by the Clerk or presiding officer.
For items that passed on "same house, same call," the transcript records that the Board acted collectively and noted passage (first reading or final passage) as appropriate. Where a formal motion, recusal, or continuation was recorded, the transcript records the mover and second for that procedural action.
