Board adopts interim budget, salary list and a string of resolutions; amends eviction ordinance on first reading

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 10-1 on June 29 to adopt interim appropriation ordinances for fiscal years ending June 30, 2022 and June 30, 2023, and approved a series of resolutions and administrative items. The board also passed, on first reading, an amendment to an administrative-code ordinance extending eviction protections for rent due between July 1 and Dec. 31, 2021, after a motion to correct a typographical error.

The interim appropriation ordinances — which appropriate estimated receipts and expenditures as of June 1, 2021, and create or continue positions paid from city funds — passed on a 10-1 roll call, with Supervisor Dean Preston recorded as the lone no vote. The board adopted multiple consent resolutions and contract amendments by unanimous votes during the meeting.

Why it matters: The interim appropriation ordinances set spending authority for the new fiscal year and allow city departments to continue operations while the full budget process proceeds. The eviction-protection ordinance, amended on a technical point, responded to last-minute state legislation that supervisors said may affect local authority.

Key votes at the meeting included:

- Ordinance amending the Administrative Code to prohibit landlords from evicting residential tenants for unpaid rent that came due between 07/01/2021 and 12/31/2021 where nonpayment was due to the COVID-19 pandemic (Item 2). Supervisor Dean Preston moved to amend a typographical error in the effective date (replace "2031" with "2021"). Motion to amend adopted and the ordinance passed on first reading with no roll-call objections.

- Interim appropriation and position ordinances for FY2021-22 and FY2022-23 (Items 4 and 5). Roll call: 10 ayes, 1 no (Preston). Ordinances finally passed.

- Resolution authorizing public works to accept and expend a $250,000 grant from the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District for the Pit Stop public toilet program (Item 6). Adopted unanimously.

- Multiple departmental contract amendments and term extensions, including behavioral health services agreements and grant amendments (Items 7 through 11). Each item passed unanimously on same-house, same-call votes.

- Motion to continue the special-order hearing and associated motions for a conditional use authorization appeal for 575 Vermont Street to the July 20 board meeting. Motion made from the dais and seconded by Supervisor Aaron Peskin; the board agreed to continue the hearing and take public comment on the continuance at the June 29 meeting; no public callers spoke on the continuance and the motion to continue carried unanimously.

Quotes from the dais capture the oversight and procedural steps. On the eviction ordinance, Supervisor Dean Preston said an intervening week brought a discovered typo and moved to amend the ordinance's page 5, line 11 to correct "2031" to "2021," noting the change would revert the item effectively to a first-reading posture and allow time to assess interplay with new state legislation. "Given that the state just passed or is in the process of passing AB 823, I believe the additional time will allow the board, my office and the city attorney some time to understand the interplay between the new state law and this ordinance," Preston said.

What the board will do next: The eviction ordinance will return for further consideration consistent with the procedural step taken at the meeting. The full budget and appropriation work will continue in committee and the board will finalize the annual budget through the regular calendar process.

Votes recorded in the official roll calls at the meeting were reflected live by the clerk and entered into the public record; these roll-call tallies are the definitive record for each motion and ordinance.