Board adopts consent and routine resolutions, including FEMA grant and multiple housing bond declarations

At its April 14 meeting the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a large package of consent and routine items that drew little substantive debate and were adopted by "same house, same call" or unanimous votes.

Key items approved or adopted without extended discussion: - Items 1'4: Consent calendar items 1 through 4 were approved unanimously early in the meeting. - Item 6: Resolution retroactively authorizing the Fire Department to accept and expend approximately $1,500,000 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for upgrades to exhaust extractor systems in various fire stations. The board adopted this resolution unanimously. - Item 7: Resolution affirming a categorical exemption under the California Environmental Quality Act for the San Francisco International Airport Plot 700 development; adopted unanimously. - Item 8: Real property lease authorization for a ground-floor portion of 100 Avenue with monthly base rent of $7,800; approved unanimously. - Item 9: Modification No. 1 to the International Terminal Equipment Maintenance and Operating Agreement (San Francisco Terminal Equipment Company) to increase vendor services funding by $3,000,000 for passenger verification services (new total not to exceed $21,000,000); adopted unanimously. - Items 10'2: A series of resolutions declaring the city's intent to reimburse certain expenditures from proceeds of future multifamily housing revenue bonds and authorizing applications to the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee for projects at multiple addresses (items listed in the agenda). Supervisors approved these items together without objection. - Item 24: Planning-code amendment to permit certain exceptions from off-street parking/loading requirements in residential mixed districts; passed unanimously on first reading. - Item 26: Amendment to building code regarding sources used to determine annual adjustments to construction cost schedules; passed first reading unanimously. - Item 27: Ordinance to amend the health code to prohibit public performances of wild or exotic animals; passed unanimously on first reading. - Item 30: Resolution denouncing Indiana Senate Bill 101 and similar measures that permit discrimination under claims of religious freedom (amended language to "urge" rather than "direct" the City Attorney); adopted unanimously after brief discussion. - Item 31: Resolution declaring April 14, 2015, Equal Pay Day in San Francisco and commending the American Association of University Women for awareness work; adopted unanimously.

Where board members asked follow-up questions about specific consent items, staff noted either that the departments would provide more detail if needed or that items had previously been vetted in committee. For items that require further administrative steps (for example certain leases or bond applications), board action authorized staff to proceed with the required filings or negotiations.

Because many of these items were adopted without extended debate, the board did not alter substantive policy directions in this package beyond existing departmental authority and standard approval processes. Several supervisors used the consent package to highlight constituent concerns (for example Supervisor Kim's comments on month-to-month leases and rent impacts), and the board recorded unanimous approvals where stated.

The board moved to other agenda items following the consent votes, and a number of introduced hearings and in memoriams were read later in the meeting.