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Board approves wide slate of ordinances, appropriations and resolutions
Summary
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a bundle of routine and substantive items including development-fee rule changes, health department budget additions and multiple resolutions related to housing, public-works projects and JobsNow funding during its May meeting.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a series of ordinances, resolutions and contract actions during its May meeting, passing routine consent items and several substantive measures including a new rule on development-fee collection, supplemental funding for the Department of Public Health and multiple contract and grant actions.
The board voted to pass the consent calendar and then approved several individual items. Among the measures the board finalized were: an amendment to the planning and administrative codes requiring the Department of Building Inspection to collect development fees before issuing the first building permit and to verify in-kind public improvements before issuing a first certificate of occupancy; an appropriation to cover approximately $20.8 million in Department of Public Health cost overruns for fiscal year 2009–10 (passed on first reading); and a resolu tion to amend the Laguna Honda Hospital design agreement increasing its design contract from about $44.6 million to $50.8 million.
Other adopted actions included authorization for the director of elections to keep public safety officers’ residential addresses confidential on voter affidavits (with telephone and email stripped and voted on separately), a resolution authorizing criminal-background checks for emergency-medical-technician certification, and a grant application endorsement for the Cesar Chavez Street redesign project to augment greening and storm-water features. The board also approved a contract for the sheriff’s inmate telephone services and a fiscal-feasibility finding for a runway safety area project at San Francisco International Airport.
Several items were passed “same house, same call” or without objection after members asked to take related items together during the roll call. A handful of items required divided votes or roll-call tallies; for instance, the board approved the measure reversing certification for the 555 Washington Street project (Item 14) on a 7–4 roll call.
These approvals position the city to proceed on multiple capital and operational items, and several will affect departmental budgets and contracting during the coming fiscal year. The board also heard introductions and charter amendments on several governance topics (see related article on charter amendments introduced).
