Board of Supervisors adopts package of ordinances and resolutions including SFO funding, grants and leases

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors adopted a package of ordinances and resolutions on Feb. 6, 2018, approving funding and agreements that city officials said support airport facilities, public-safety equipment, public health programs and cultural venue leases.

The most prominent actions included a first-reading ordinance to appropriate $1,100,000 to the San Francisco International Airport building structures and improvements project in support of a Police Training Support Facility; authorization to accept federal and state grants for police and public-health programs; a three-year lease extension with the Transportation Security Administration at SFO; and approval of leases and amendments for civic and cultural venues.

Why it matters: The items affect capital projects and ongoing operations for city departments and partner agencies, from airport operations to public health and cultural facilities. Several items also reappropriate or accept outside grant funding, shifting how city programs will be financed through 2018 and 2020 in some cases.

The board voted on each item either by roll call or by unanimous adoption without objection. Item highlights and outcomes follow.

Votes at a glance - Item 1 — Ordinance (first reading): Appropriation of $1,100,000 (airport forfeiture/asset seizure fund and SFO program budgets) to the building structures and improvements project for an SFO Police Training Support Facility. Outcome: Passed on first reading (roll call: 11 ayes). Yes: Supervisor Aaron Peskin; Supervisor Sandra Fewer (recorded as Ronan/Safae/Sheehy roster in roll call transcript — board clerk recorded 11 ayes); President London Breed; Supervisor Malia Cohen; Supervisor Mark Farrell was not on the roll call in the transcript; supervisors present and recorded as voting yes: Ronan; Safai; Sheehy; Stephanie; Tang; Yi; Breed; Cohen; Feuer; Kim; Peskin. (Tally recorded by clerk: 11 ayes.)

- Item 2 — Resolution: Conveyance/acceptance of easements from the California Department of General Services for property at 100 Armory Drive relating to the West Side recycled water project. Outcome: Adopted unanimously without objection.

- Item 3 — Resolution: Retroactive authorization for the Police Department to accept and expand a $165,000 FEMA grant for safe-boat refurbishment and life-extension work (through 08/31/2020). Outcome: Adopted unanimously without objection.

- Item 4 — Resolution: Retroactive modification to a lease with the Transportation Security Administration (three-year extension through 10/31/2020; annual rent not to exceed approximately $6,000,000). Outcome: Adopted unanimously without objection.

- Items 5 & 6 — Resolutions: Retroactive authorizations for Department of Public Health grants (approx. $173,000 from Public Health Foundation Enterprises for a DOT Diary program; approx. $309,000 from the California Department of Public Health for local oral health programs supporting Proposition 56). Outcome: Adopted unanimously without objection.

- Item 7 — Resolution: Amendment to the lease with BGCA Management, LLC for the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium (99 Grove Street). Outcome: Adopted unanimously without objection.

- Item 8 — Resolution: Authorization for the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing to accept and expand a $10,000,000 grant from the California Department of Housing and Community Development for expansion of navigation centers. Outcome: Adopted unanimously without objection.

- Item 9 — Ordinance (first reading): Amendment to the planning code's inclusionary housing rules to allow on-site and off-site inclusionary units to be rental units rather than ownership units, or alternatively to require a contract showing exemption under the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act; conforming amendments made. Outcome: Passed on first reading, unanimously.

- Item 10 — Ordinance (first reading): Creation of underground districts (No. 3601) on Second Street from Bryant to Townsend Streets and affirmation of the Planning Department's CEQA determination. Outcome: Passed on first reading (roll call: 11 ayes).

- Item 11 — Ordinance (first reading): Amendment to the housing code to require single-stall restroom facilities and hotels, including single-room-occupancy hotels (SROs), to be made available to all residents regardless of gender or gender identity and to require signage indicating the same. Outcome: Passed on first reading, unanimously; multiple supervisors added their names as cosponsors.

- Item 12 — Resolution (committee report): Authorize the Director of the Real Estate Department to negotiate purchase/sale or lease agreements with Caltrans to provide homeless services on Caltrans property. Outcome: Adopted unanimously on the floor after committee report.

- Items 16 and 17 were taken later in the meeting. Item 16 was adopted unanimously. Item 17 (see separate article) concerns a Planning Department CEQA exemption for 2417 Green Street that the board reversed by motion.

What the board said: Several supervisors made brief introductory remarks or requested co-sponsorships; most items were taken with the procedural formula “same house, same call” and adopted without extended debate.

Next steps: Many ordinances passed on first reading, so they will return for a second reading or final adoption at a subsequent meeting per city rules. Grants and lease modifications may be executed in accordance with the adopted resolutions' terms.

Notes: The board's clerk recorded roll-call tallies for several items and verbally confirmed unanimous adoption for multiple others.