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Votes at a glance: Board approves bond appropriations, port revenue bonds, dispensary rule change and multiple appointments
Summary
The Board approved multiple consent items and resolutions with routine votes; notable actions included bond appropriations for airport capital projects, port revenue bonds, and a planning code change affecting medical cannabis dispensaries in Ocean Avenue.
At its April 2014 meeting, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a number of ordinances, resolutions and appointments on the consent calendar and during roll-call votes. Items with recorded outcomes included:
- Item 6: Ordinance to appropriate approximately $2,000,000,000 of proceeds from sale of bonds for capital improvement projects for FY2013–14; the board approved the ordinance and placed about $30,000,000 for Plot 700 development on committee reserve and the remainder on controller’s reserve pending sale. (Recorded as finally passed.)
- Item 7: Ordinance waiving temporary street space occupancy fees for Small Business Week sidewalk sales on specified dates — finally passed without objection.
- Item 8: Ordinance amending subdivision code on condominium conversion fee appeals and fee deferral — finally passed without objection.
- Items 9–11: Budget appropriations for fire department overtime, sheriff’s department overtime, and human services agency program revenues; several passed on first reading and committee referral as noted in the agenda.
- Item 12: Resolution retroactively approving a 10-year lease between North Beach Retail Associates and the City for premises at Taylor Street for Muni operator facilities — adopted.
- Item 13: Resolution finding Hall of Justice jail replacement fiscally feasible — adopted (see separate article for debate and roll-call details).
- Item 14: Resolution authorizing issuance of up to $30,000,000 in Port revenue bonds for capital improvements — adopted (roll call recorded 11 ayes).
- Item 15: Ordinance amending the Planning Code to require conditional use permits for new medical cannabis dispensaries proposed within 500 feet of an existing dispensary in the Ocean Avenue neighborhood commercial transit district — passed on first reading.
- Item 16: Resolution authorizing the Recreation and Park Department to accept and expend a $350,000 Nob Hill Foundation grant for Huntington Park playground renovation — adopted.
- Item 17: Resolution finding issuance of a Type 21 off-sale general license for a Financial District wine shop will serve public convenience — adopted.
- Items 18–20: Motions confirming/reappointing Joseph Marshall to the Police Commission (approved), reappointing Cheryl Brinkman to the Municipal Transportation Agency Board (approved), and the contested appointment for the Police Commission (see separate article on the appointment of Victor Huang after amendment).
- Items 21–22 (special orders): The board continued two committee-of-the-whole hearings to later dates: Item 21 (homeless outreach services reserve funds) continued one week to May 6; Item 22 (nonprofit rent stabilization services reserve funds) continued two weeks to May 13.
- Adoption calendar items (25–33): Board adopted multiple routine motions and policies; Item 28 (late-night transportation working group resolution) was adopted; Item 33 (revised board records-retention schedule) was approved. Several items were severed for separate consideration and continued or scheduled as noted above.
Where recorded, roll-call tallies in the transcript are noted; for many consent items the clerk announced unanimous or same-house, same-call passage without separate roll-call discussions. Items with substantive debate or separate roll-call tallies are covered in other articles.
