Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Municipal Finance topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Board approves bond measures, grants and routine items; several charter measures continued to next week
Summary
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on July 14 to place two general-obligation bond measures before voters, approved several grant and contract actions and adopted a set of routine resolutions and ordinances. Four proposed charter amendments were continued one week to allow required notice.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on July 14 approved a slate of financing, grant and administrative items, including resolutions to place two general obligation bond propositions before voters in November and a package of public-health and economic-recovery grants and contracts.
The board voted, by unanimous roll calls, to pursue two ballot measures: a Health and Recovery general-obligation bond and a Transportation and Road Improvement general-obligation bond. The health bond package and the transportation bond package require two-thirds approval of the full board to pass on first appearance; both measures advanced following the recorded roll call votes.
Why it matters: The measures, if approved by voters, would raise capital for mental-health, substance-use and homeless services (health bond) and for street and transportation improvements (transportation bond). The actions also set local procedures for oversight of bond expenditures and the election process.
Most important actions and votes - Items 7–8: Health and Recovery general-obligation bonds (approximate issuance described in the ordinance as $487,500,000). The board adopted the resolution and passed the ordinance on first reading by unanimous roll call (11–0). - Items 9–10: Transportation and Road Improvement GO bonds (approximately $140,000,000). Resolution and ordinance passed on first reading unanimously (11–0). - Items 11–17: A series of Department of Public Health contract amendments, grant acceptances and an Office of Economic and Workforce Development set of retroactive grant authorizations were approved unanimously. These included an amendment to a UCSF substance‑abuse treatment agreement and the acceptance of state grant funds for sexually transmitted disease work and several dislocated‑worker grants administered by OEWD. - Items 34–39: Resolutions introduced for adoption without reference to committee were adopted unanimously on first reading.
Other adopted items - Item 19: A resolution urging the city to confirm a County Veterans Service Officer candidate was adopted unanimously; the board noted a candidate had been recruited and that confirmation would follow committee review. - Item 20: A resolution urging departments to hold hotel referral and grievance policies transparent for people placed by the COVID‑19 response passed unanimously. - Item 21: A planning‑code amendment allowing certain consolidation of ground‑floor storefronts in the North Beach Special Use District passed on first reading unanimously. - Item 26: A resolution to rename a section of Willow Street as Earl Gage Jr. Street passed unanimously (see separate article for more details).
Procedure and charter measures Four proposed charter amendments (items 28–31) were continued one week under Board Rule 2.227 to allow the required minimum notice before submission to the voters. The board rescinded an earlier roll‑call and re‑voted to continue the measures; staff and supervisors discussed timing and committee scheduling before agreeing to continue the items to the July 21 meeting.
What the board did not do The board did not take final ballot action on the charter amendments at this meeting; the matters were postponed to meet statutory notice requirements and to allow time for additional committee consideration.
Meeting context: The meeting was conducted remotely under COVID‑19 emergency rules. Public participation included two separate property‑based business improvement district public hearings (Castro and Fisherman’s Wharf), discussed elsewhere in separate articles.
