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Votes at a glance: key ordinances, settlements and appropriations approved Nov. 3, 2015
Summary
At its Nov. 3 meeting the Board approved numerous consent and noncontroversial items, including surveillance requirements for firearms dealers, appropriations for port and parks bonds, multiple settlement authorizations, the seismic safety loan program appropriation, and a large DPH contract amendment.
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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a slate of consent and noncontroversial items at the Nov. 3, 2015 meeting. These measures were largely on the consent calendar or passed with minimal discussion; the record below summarizes key actions and recorded outcomes.
Items approved without extended debate - Item 1–4: Consent calendar items (routine); approved unanimously on roll call (11 ayes). - Item 5: Ordinance amending the Police Code to require firearms dealers to install and operate video surveillance equipment and to transmit records of all ammunition sales to the police department. Passed unanimously (final passage). - Item 6: Ordinance appropriating approximately $26,000,000 (including $20,800,000 in fund balance, $665,000 in settlement proceeds, and $4,200,000 deappropriated from surplus capital project expenditures) to Port Commission capital projects. Passed unanimously. - Item 7: Ordinance re-appropriating $3,500,000 of City taxable general obligation bonds, series 2015A, for the seismic safety loan program in the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development for FY2015–16. Passed unanimously. - Items 8 & 9: Ordinances implementing Amendment No. 7 to the memorandum of understanding with Firefighters Local 798 Units 1 and 2 for specified terms and conditions of employment for FY2015–18. Passed unanimously. - Item 10: Appropriation from Clean and Safe Neighborhood Parks bond series proceeds to Recreation and Park Department and Port Commission (roughly $52.5 million placed on controller’s reserve pending bond sale). Passed unanimously. - Items 11 and 12: Ordinances authorizing settlements (City v. State of Nevada matter for $400,000; and AIG Property Casualty Company claim for $70,000). Passed unanimously. - Item 13: Ordinance changing official sidewalk width and affirming the Planning Department's CEQA determination for the Silver and Revere intersection. Passed unanimously. - Item 15: Ordinance to de-appropriate and appropriate $4,100,000 of Hetch Hetchy revenue-funded projects and proceeds from renewable energy bonds for small renewable projects, FY2015–16. Passed unanimously on first reading (11 ayes). - Item 16: Resolution authorizing the Department of Public Health to amend its contract with HealthRight 360 for fiscal intermediary services to enable services to approximately 30,000 clients for children's mental health wraparound and emergency housing stabilization services for a total contract not to exceed $92,300,000 (through 6/30/2019). Adopted unanimously. - Item 17: Resolution authorizing the Treasurer to execute agreement with the State Board of Equalization for implementation of the local prepaid mobile telephony services collection act. Adopted unanimously. - Item 18: Resolution authorizing a long-term interconnection agreement with the Port of Oakland for use of the Davis Electric Transmission substation to serve Treasure Island/Yerba Buena Island, 20-year term and a guaranteed maximum cost of $7,000,000. Adopted unanimously. - Item 20: Resolution (not specified in detail in the oral record) taken up after continuance of Item 19; the resolution passed unanimously when considered. - Item 21: Resolution authorizing the Port of San Francisco to accept and expend approximately $1,400,000 from DHS Port Security Grant Program (retroactive to 9/1/2014–8/31/2016). Adopted unanimously. - Item 23: Ordinance designating 350 University Street (University Mound Old Ladies Home) as a landmark; passed unanimously on first reading. - Item 25: Interim zoning controls for signage in the Transit Center District and between Folsom, Harrison, Essex and Second Streets to restrict size and illumination of new signs near parks or open space — adopted as amended with an 11 p.m. illumination cutoff; adopted unanimously. - Items 28–30: Items considered for immediate adoption without reference to committee; approved unanimously by roll call.
Other procedural actions - Item 19 was continued to Nov. 17 at the request of Supervisors and after a motion to continue; Item 20 was adopted as scheduled.
Notes on votes - The record includes roll-call tallies for many items; where the transcript records "same house, same call" the items were taken as final passage without recorded individual debates and recorded as unanimous.
Provenance: Multiple consent and agenda items are recorded in the meeting transcript and cited below.
