Board passes consent and routine measures, approves bonds and contracts; highlights from Dec. 6 meeting

The Board of Supervisors on Dec. 6 approved a number of consent, administrative and routine agenda items with largely unanimous votes. Highlights include:

- General obligation and health-and-safety bonds: The board took items appropriating and authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds for seismic strengthening and other health-and-safety projects (items 12, 17 and 18). The ordinance to appropriate $176,000,000 of bond proceeds and a related resolution authorizing up to $350,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of taxable and tax-exempt bonds were acted on and adopted as presented.

- Microsoft/technology agreements: The Department of Technology and Office of Contract Administration were authorized to amend agreements with OnPoint Technology Sales, LLC for Microsoft online and Microsoft enterprise products (items 20–21) with increased not-to-exceed amounts and extended terms through May 31, 2017.

- HOPWA grant: The Department of Public Health was retroactively authorized to accept and expand a $1,400,000 HOPWA grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development through Nov. 30, 2019 (item 22).

- Public works and Port: The board forwarded an ordinance authorizing the Port to execute a project partnership agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for dredging near Pier 70, requiring a port match of approximately $3,100,000, and exempting certain local code requirements for the agreement (item 39 forwarded from Budget & Finance committee).

- Public Utilities Commission contract amendment: The board authorized the SFPUC general manager to execute an amendment to a planning and engineering contract for the Southeast Water Pollution Control Plant Headworks facility, extending the term through Dec. 19, 2023, and increasing the maximum compensation by $19,500,000 for a total not to exceed $33,500,000 (item 16).

- Other routine items: The board passed ordinances and resolutions on various topics including banner fee waivers for a Shop and Dine campaign (item 13), a health code amendment on alternate water source systems (item 10), a police code provision on multi‑unit building communications access (item 11 first reading passed; see separate coverage), and funding and program authorizations for public health and homelessness programs.

Votes: Where roll calls were recorded for individual items on the transcript, most passed unanimously. The Microsoft amendments, HOPWA grant, SFPUC contract amendment and the bond-related measures were all adopted by recorded roll call counts recorded as unanimous or by the votes reflected on the record.

Ending — follow-up: Many items in this list will require subsequent implementation steps by departments (contract execution, bond closing processes, grant acceptance paperwork and program administration). Items of greater material consequence (bonds, SFPUC contracts) were noted for future board briefings and committee reports by staff.