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Votes at a glance: Board advances ordinances including tobacco flavor ban, kindergarten-to-college fund, airport and water bond appropriations
Summary
The Board approved multiple consent and ordinance items without objection, including a tobacco flavor ban, a kindergarten-to-college administrative code item, and several bond and appropriation measures for transit, airport and water projects; most passed unanimously on first reading or as resolutions.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on June 27 approved a series of consent and ordinance items with minimal debate, moving a number of administrative, bond and appropriations measures forward on the consent calendar or by unanimous voice vote.
Key items taken without substantive debate
- Flavored tobacco ban (Item 10): The board passed an ordinance to amend the health code to prohibit retailers from selling flavored tobacco products including menthol cigarettes; the ordinance passed unanimously.
- Kindergarten-to-College Fund (Item 11): An administrative-code ordinance establishing the kindergarten-to-college fund passed unanimously on first reading.
- Transit bond reappropriation (Item 12): The board approved reappropriating approximately $26.2 million in bond proceeds from slower-moving projects into ready-to-go transit projects to accelerate Muni and pedestrian-safety improvements; sponsors framed the move as accelerating voter-approved transportation bonds.
- Airport and hotel bond appropriations (Items 13 and 22): The board approved appropriations related to airport capital plan bonds to support the SFO Hotel Project and various airport commission capital plan bonds; votes were unanimous on first reading or by resolution as noted in the agenda.
- Water enterprise bonds and property acquisition (Items 14, 15 and 16): The board approved appropriations related to water enterprise revenue bonds and a resolution authorizing the acquisition of several parcels for park uses, with unanimous support.
Other routine business
- Early care and education contracts (Items 17 and 18) and other resolutions (items 19-24) authorizing various contracts, designations of outreach periodicals and bond issuances were adopted without objection.
Procedure
Most consent items were taken under "same house, same call" and passed unanimously. Several items required eight votes or specific procedural steps; those were taken with the required majorities and recorded as passed on first reading or adopted as resolutions.
