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Board approves labor memoranda, budgets and bond measures; dozens of items pass in bulk votes
Summary
The Board of Supervisors approved a package of budget, bargaining-unit and capital items on June 19, including interim budgets, multiple MOUs on first reading, grants for housing programs, and a first reading of a $425 million seawall bond ordinance.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on June 19 handled a broad set of budget, labor and capital items, approving the interim budget and salary enumerations, adopting memoranda of understanding for multiple unions on first reading, authorizing housing and HUD grants, and advancing a $425 million general obligation bond for the Embarcadero Seawall on first reading.
Key outcomes (at a glance):
- Interim budget and salary ordinances (Items 2'5): The board approved the interim budget and related annual salary ordinance for city departments for fiscal years ending June 30, 2019 and 2020; Treasury Island Development Authority and Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure interim budgets were also approved. (Items 2'5 adopted without objection.)
- Labor memoranda of understanding (Items 7'19): The board took a bundled vote on 13 ordinances adopting and implementing MOUs between the city and a variety of unions (firefighters, SFPOA, municipal executives, Union of American Physicians and Dentists, SEIU local units, Transport Workers Union, craft coalitions, and IFPTE Local 21). Staff said the package updates pay and terms and implements access and training provisions; supervisors thanked the negotiating teams. The items were taken together; the roll call recorded the packet as approved on first reading (recorded vote reflected 10 ayes and one absence on the roll call for that group). The board recorded additional roll calls where noted in the minutes.
- Budget & legislative analyst contract adjustment (Item 6): A 3% cost‑of‑living adjustment to the base contract was approved, increasing the contract by approximately $67,000 to a new FY 2018'19 amount of about $2,290,000.
- Housing and grant approvals (Items 20'5): The board approved a grant agreement with Brilliant Corners to provide scattered‑site housing and rental subsidy administration to seniors and adults with disabilities (Item 20), not to exceed about $17,000,000 for 2018'2023; the board also adopted several HUD grants for Emergency Solutions Grant, HOPWA (housing for persons with AIDS), Community Development Block Grant and HOME funds covering various multi‑year terms (Items 22'5). Those resolutions were approved without objection.
- Treasure Island, OCII interim budgets (Items 4 and 5): Resolutions approving interim budgets for the Treasure Island Development Authority and the Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure were adopted without objection.
- Acquisition of below‑market condo (Item 21): The board approved the city's acquisition of a below‑market‑rate condominium at 1160 Mission Street, Unit 812, for up to $300,000 to hold for resale under the city's inclusionary program. The board adopted a sponsor amendment to correct a date on pages referenced and approved the resolution as amended unanimously.
- Landmark designation (Item 27): Planning code amendment to designate the Phillips Building (234'246 First Street) as a city landmark was adopted on first reading.
- Renaming Phelan Avenue (Item 29): The board adopted a resolution renaming Phelan Avenue between Flood Avenue and Ocean Avenue to Frida Kahlo Way (sponsor: Supervisor Yee). The resolution was adopted unanimously.
- Cannabis dispensary health code amendment (Item 30): An ordinance allowing the Department of Public Health director to extend 120‑day authorizations for medical cannabis dispensaries to sell adult‑use cannabis in multiple 90‑day periods passed on first reading unanimously.
- Food vendor baseline assessment (Item 31): A resolution urging the Sheriff's Department and DPH to conduct a baseline assessment of existing custodial food vendors against Good Food Purchasing Standards passed without objection.
- Appointments and reappointments (Items 32—3, 34): The board approved a series of appointments and reappointments to successor‑agency and oversight boards; specific roll calls are recorded in the minutes (for example, Item 33, appointment of Carolyn Ransom Scott to successor agency commission, passed unanimously). Item 34 (mayor's reappointment of John Ram to oversight board) recorded nine ayes and two absences on the roll call.
- Embarcadero Seawall bond (Items 39—0): The board sat as a Committee of the Whole for a public hearing on a proposed $425,000,000 general obligation bond to finance seawall strengthening and related infrastructure; after a short hearing the ordinance calling the special election was passed on first reading by unanimous roll call. The board heard a small number of public speakers in support of the bond and advanced the ordinance for placement on the November ballot.
Other notes: Many of these items were taken "same house, same call" (bundled) and approved without extended debate. Several supervisors publicly thanked negotiators, city staff and community organizations who worked on the packages.
Ending note: The June 19 consent and roll‑call votes moved a wide set of budget, labor and capital measures forward; most passed unanimously or by routine roll call. Individual project appeals and larger planning‑code items were handled separately and drew the more extended debate.
