Board adopts consent and adoption items including utility, public-works and grant measures

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on May 19 moved through multiple consent and adoption items, taking roll-call votes or unanimous "without objection" actions on a set of ordinances, resolutions and motions. Several items were acted on quickly as part of the consent calendar or by unanimous voice/roll-call; one item (item 8) was called back later and tabled.

Key items recorded in the hearing record (selected from the clerk's reading):

- Items 1 through 7: Passed as the consent calendar (roll call recorded 10 ayes). - Item 8: Resolution to approve an amended report of assessment costs for Public Works regarding inspection/repair of blighted properties. The item was pulled earlier and later tabled after Supervisor Christensen moved to table; the board tabled item 8 without objection. - Item 9: Ordinance to reappropriate approximately $9,600,000 within several departments to fund projected overtime increases (sheriff, emergency management, fire, public health, public utilities commission) and to place approximately $92,000 of the sheriff's appropriation on controller's reserve; required a two-thirds vote for a $105,000 allocation to the Public Utilities Commission. The ordinance was finally passed unanimously on the board floor. - Item 10: Ordinance authorizing the Public Utilities Commission to use pro forma agreements to purchase and sell electricity and related products for the municipal electric utility and community choice aggregation program; finally passed unanimously. - Item 11: Ordinance appropriating $1,750,000 from wastewater enterprise fund reserves to pay claim settlements and related costs from December 2014 storms; passed on first reading unanimously. - Item 12: Resolution to retroactively authorize the Department of the Environment to accept and expend a $1,300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy for neighborhood-level solar-plus-storage planning; adopted unanimously. - Item 13: Resolution authorizing SFMTA commercial lease at 44 Ellis Street for Le Jules USA, Inc.; adopted unanimously. - Item 14: Motion for a status update on Board responses to civil grand jury recommendations on rising sea levels; approved unanimously. - Item 15: Ordinance to amend the Planning Code to require conditional-use authorization for certain ground-floor office uses in identified neighborhood commercial districts (Castro, Fourth Street/Noe Valley, Upper Market, Market Street West of Octavia); passed on first reading unanimously. - Items 16 and 17: Ordinances related to historic designation of the Western Manufacturing Company building (category change) and suspending banner fees for Lawton Alternative School; both passed on first reading unanimously. - Items 28 through 33: Items considered for immediate adoption without committee reference; roll call recorded 10 ayes and the items were adopted unanimously.

Several of these items were taken "same house, same call" or "without objection" as recorded in the transcript; roll-call tallies where given showed ten ayes for the consent and adoption items. Item 8 was tabled to allow further work with property owners and Public Works as described by Supervisor Christensen.

For full details including ordinance/resolution numbers and the administration reports, see the official clerk file for the May 19 meeting.