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Votes at a glance: key ordinances and resolutions adopted Feb. 4 by San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Summary
At its Feb. 4 meeting the San Francisco Board of Supervisors adopted a wide consent agenda and multiple individual resolutions and ordinances, including tax levies for a Pier 70 special tax district, lease approvals for city offices, grant acceptances, and code amendments. Most consent items passed unanimously; the meeting also recorded several
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Feb. 4 approved a large consent calendar and several individual items covering taxes, leases, grants, code updates and appointments. Most measures were adopted unanimously; a handful of items were continued or recorded separate votes.
Key outcomes on the consent calendar and related items included:
- Items 1'18: Adopted as the consent agenda on a unanimous roll-call vote. The clerk recorded the agenda as routine and no items were severed.
- Items 19 and 20: Two ordinances levying special taxes for special tax district No. 2019-1 for the Pier 70 condominiums (items called together). The ordinances were finally passed.
- Item 21: Appropriation of $2,700,000 from the general reserve for City College class reinstatement (separate article details that vote, passed 7-4).
- Item 22: Resolution authorizing Public Works to accept and expend an approximately $260,000 grant from BART for the Pit Stop public toilet program (continued one week to Feb. 11 at the department's request so the acting DPW director could review the file).
- Item 23: Ordinance amending the planning code to allow a limited restaurant use in the Jackson Square Special Use District; passed unanimously on final reading.
- Item 24: Resolution establishing San Francisco's FY 2019-20 California Constitution appropriations limit (approx. $5,500,000,000); adopted unanimously.
- Item 25: Lease approval for 1271'1275 Mission Street for San Francisco Digital Services (6-year term with options); adopted unanimously.
- Item 26: Second amendment grant agreement with the Institute on Aging for the Community Living Fund, increasing the grant to a total of approximately $11,600,000 (July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2021); adopted unanimously.
- Items 27'29: Three retroactive authorizations for Fire Department grants (California OES and FEMA) to purchase apparatus and equipment; adopted unanimously.
- Item 30: Office of Cannabis acceptance of an approximate $1,338,000 state grant for the local equity grant program; adopted unanimously.
- Items 31—3: Resolutions and a ground lease amendment to refinance and support affordable housing projects, including an amendment and restatement of a long-term ground lease for a 100% affordable 82-unit development at 249 Eddy/161'165 Turk Street; adopted as noticed.
- Item 33: Ordinance amending the plumbing code related to cross-connection control and backflow prevention testing; passed first reading unanimously.
- Item 34: Ordinance abolishing the North of Market Affordable Housing Fund and depositing related revenues in a citywide fund; passed on first reading unanimously.
- Item 35 and Item 40 (medical cannabis permit relocation and hotel conversion ordinance) were continued to Feb. 25 at sponsors' requests.
- Items 36 and 37: Two alcohol-licensing resolutions recommending ABC impose conditions for new liquor licenses at 685 Market Street (The Lark Bar and Cask); adopted unanimously.
- Item 38: Ordinance authorizing the Department of Public Health to join health care group purchasing organizations and enter related contracts without competitive bidding; passed on first reading unanimously.
- Item 39: Honorific ordinance to name the City Hall rotunda for late Deputy City Attorney Burke E. Delventhal; passed on first reading unanimously with multiple supervisors cosponsoring.
- Items 41 and 42: Motions to reappoint members to the Small Business Commission and Bicycle Advisory Committee; approved unanimously.
Committee reports: Land Use and Transportation Committee forwarded items 47 and 48 related to a land disposition agreement for property at 639 Bryant Street and an intent to vacate sidewalk portions near 301 Mission (Millennium Tower structural upgrade); both were forwarded and passed on first reading.
Several other items were discussed in new business and public comment; the board recorded in-memoriam adjournments and approved a separate resolution urging the Department of Homeland Security to comply with a court order in a deportation case (item 52), which passed unanimously after public testimony and sponsor remarks.
Most consent items were routine and adopted unanimously; items explicitly continued or returned for additional review are listed above. The clerk's roll call recorded unanimous approvals on multiple ordinances and resolutions and specific vote tallies where recorded (e.g., Item 21 recorded 7 ayes, 4 nos).
