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Votes at a glance: Board passes measures on airport financing, leases, agreements and appointments
Summary
On May 16 the Board approved several consent items, appropriations and agreements including airport bond proceeds, concession leases at SFO, contract extensions and appointments; several items were continued or re‑referred to committee.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors conducted routine and consent business during its May 16 meeting and recorded a series of votes. Below is a concise roundup of action items taken at that meeting and outcomes recorded in the official transcript.
Key outcomes (selected):
- Items 1–9 (consent agenda): Approved unanimously (11 ayes).
- Item 10 — Airport financing ordinance: The board finally passed an ordinance to appropriate approximately $4.8 billion of proceeds from revenue bonds or commercial paper for airport capital projects (FY2016–17) and place $2.1 billion on controller’s reserve and approximately $2.7 billion on board reserve; passed unanimously.
- Item 11 — Fleet procurement (zero‑emission vehicles): Passed on first reading as amended (see separate article).
- Item 12 — Moscone Center Garage transfer (SFMTA property): Supervisor Kim requested a continuance to 05/23/2017; motion to continue passed without objection.
- Item 13 — Retroactive authorization to accept a gift to the Department of Public Health ($665,000 from San Francisco General Hospital Foundation): Supervisor Sheehy moved to refer the item to budget committee for consideration of staffing and positions; motion to re‑refer passed without objection.
- Items 14–16 — Planning code/1500 Mission Street special use items: Passed unanimously (items required higher thresholds where noted; transcript records final passage).
- Item 17 — Agreement to use property at 1515 South Van Ness as temporary housing and services for homeless persons: Ordinance finally passed unanimously.
- Item 18 — Ordinance to increase contractor minimum wages (changes to administrative code): Supervisor Sheehy moved to re‑refer the item to the budget committee; motion passed without objection.
- Items 19–26 — Airport concession lease authorizations (Terminal 3 / Boarding Area F): A batch of resolutions authorizing multi‑year concession agreements was adopted unanimously; initial minimum annual guarantee figures listed per vendor in the meeting record.
- Item 27 — Department of Public Health contract extension for clinical and financial software ($87,400,000 total through 06/30/2020): Adopted unanimously.
- Item 28 — SFPUC professional services agreement with HDR Engineering ($17,000,000 through July 2023): Adopted unanimously.
- Item 29 — Juvenile Probation Department grant ($17,000) retroactive authorization: Adopted unanimously.
- Items 30–33 — HUD annual entitlements (CDBG, ESG, HOPWA, HOME): Mayor’s office authorized to accept and expend HUD entitlement funds for specified programs; items adopted unanimously.
- Items 35–38 — Liquor license issuances/transfers: Several licenses approved; one item (36) was severed and re‑referred to committee by Supervisor Kim and seconded by Supervisor Peskin.
- Appointment items (39–46): A number of commission and advisory committee appointments and reappointments were approved (roll calls recorded in transcript; several passed unanimously; one nominee for the Arts Commission was approved with 7 ayes, 3 noes on item 41).
- Item 48 — Appropriation to PUC wastewater enterprise ($5,000,000 from reserves for claims and legal expenses arising from winter storms): Forwarded from Budget & Finance Committee and passed first reading; roll call recorded.
- Items 53–56 — Adopted without reference to committee: adopted unanimously per roll call recorded in the transcript.
Several items were continued, re‑referred to committee, or held for separate review as noted above.
Votes and tallies: The transcript records roll calls for multiple batches, most showing unanimous adoption. Where a specific tally is given in the transcript (for example, the 11‑0 consent votes and the 9‑2 split on an appointment), that tally is noted above; where the transcript does not list a roll call for a specific passage it records “same house, same call; without objection” and the clerk recorded the item as adopted.
Why it matters: Many of the approved items are routine administrative actions and contract authorizations, but several carry budgetary and contractary consequence (airport financing, large IT contract extensions and utility professional services) or affect housing and land‑use pathways that are significant at the policy level.
What’s next: Several items — notably HomeSF (item 34) and the Moscone Center Garage transfer (item 12) — were continued to the May 23 meeting for additional committee or board review.
