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Board finalizes bond and budget items, adopts MOUs and other routine measures
Summary
The Board approved a suite of ordinances and resolutions on the consent calendar, including SFPUC bond authorizations, interim budget ordinances, labor memoranda of understanding and other items, most passed unanimously on the consent or first‑reading calendars.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors used its consent and adoption calendars to finalize a range of routine and finance items at the June 2019 regular meeting. Several multi‑million dollar SFPUC bond authorizations and appropriations, interim budget ordinances and labor memoranda of understanding were adopted, most without debate.
Major finance and bond measures: Items 32 through 35, grouped by the clerk, included ordinances authorizing SFPUC power and water revenue bond appropriations and authorizations:
- Item 32: Ordinance to appropriate approximately $28,000,000 of power and water revenue bond proceeds for SFPUC capital projects and to reappropriate and move several project appropriations (transcript description summarized by staff). - Item 33: Amend Ordinance 1402‑18 to authorize increases in SFPUC tax‑exempt or taxable power revenue bonds in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $200,000,000. - Item 34: Amend Ordinance 1403‑18 to authorize increases in SFPUC water revenue bonds in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed approximately $514,000,000. - Item 35: Ordinance to appropriate $26,000,000 of proceeds for SFPUC's water enterprise capital improvement program and to reappropriate other water system project appropriations.
All four SFPUC bond ordinances were finally passed by the Board without objection and recorded as unanimous final passage.
Budgets and MOUs: The Board also approved the proposed interim budget ordinances (items 36 and 37), which appropriate estimated receipts and enumerate positions for the coming fiscal years, and two labor MOUs (items 38 and 39) implementing collective‑bargaining agreements effective July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2022 (SEIU and Teamsters contracts were recorded).
Other notable items on consent and first reading: The Board approved an ordinance expanding the displaced tenant preference in city affordable housing programs (item 40) and introduced or passed on first reading a bond measure placement for a March 3, 2020 special election (item 41) to incur bonded debt of $628,500,000 for seismic retrofit and emergency response facility projects — Supervisor Mar described that bond as delivering "$140,000,000 in crucial investments" for Westside emergency infrastructure and thanked PUC staff for additional commitments.
How the Board handled consent: Many items were bundled for "same house, same call," meaning they were taken together and passed without separate debate unless severed by a supervisor. Where an item was severed, it was called separately and recorded in the minutes.
Ending: These routine and finance votes set appropriations, bond authority and labor terms that will shape the city's capital program and operations in the coming fiscal year. The transcript shows unanimous or near‑unanimous consent votes for the listed measures; follow‑up implementation will occur through department capital and contract processes.
