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Votes at a glance: Board approves emergency and routine items unanimously on March 24
Summary
During its March 24 meeting the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed multiple routine and emergency items, including ratification of mayoral emergency actions, pharmaceutical purchasing agreements, a tax‑exempt loan resolution, a liquor‑license transfer determination, and several adoption‑without‑reference items.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on March 24 voted unanimously on a series of consent and regular‑agenda items. The following motions and resolutions were adopted without recorded opposition.
- Items 1 and 2 (consent): adopted unanimously. The clerk announced "there are 11 ayes." (roll call recorded at start of meeting.)
- Item 3: Motion to concur in the actions taken by the mayor on March 11 and March 13, 2020, related to the local COVID‑19 emergency (ratification of mayoral emergency actions). Passed unanimously (11 ayes).
- Item 4: Ordinance to repeal prior ordinances and reenact provisions of the Administrative Code to update the hotel conversion ordinance and affirm the CEQA determination; passed first reading unanimously.
- Items 5 and 6: Two resolutions authorizing retroactive agreements between the Department of Public Health and McKesson Corporation for group pharmaceutical purchasing (item 5, not to exceed $400,000,000 over five years) and McKesson Plasma and Biologics LLC for pharmaceutical products and biologics (item 6, not to exceed $300,000,000 over five years). Adopted unanimously.
- Item 7: Resolution approving tax‑exempt financing under Internal Revenue Code section 147(f) for a loan not to exceed $23,000,000, with proceeds to support a California nonprofit public benefit corporation for educational facilities at two addresses; adopted unanimously.
- Item 8: Resolution determining that transfer of a Type 48 on‑sale general public premises liquor license to Buzzworks at 365 Eleventh Street will serve the public convenience of the city; adopted unanimously.
- Items 24–30: Adopted without reference to committee (unanimous votes recorded). Several items were adopted by unanimous roll calls during the meeting.
Votes: the clerk recorded unanimous votes (11 ayes) for each of the listed items at the time of the roll calls. Where the clerk referred to first reading or to subsequent scheduling (e.g., ordinance first reading), the motion recorded the Board's procedural action rather than final ordinance adoption.
For more detail: individual files and ordinance/resolution texts for each item are part of the Board's agenda file and may include full contract amounts, ordinance numbers and other attachments.
