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Votes at a glance: Board approves multiple routine grants, resolutions and ordinances
Summary
On March 18 the Board of Supervisors approved a series of consent and routine items including grant acceptances, technology gifts for public Wi-Fi, contract authorizations and committee referrals. These items were taken largely without extended debate; this roundup lists key votes and actions recorded on the meeting file.
At its March 18 meeting the San Francisco Board of Supervisors enacted a number of routine and consent items by roll-call or without extended floor debate. Below are key items recorded on the agenda and their outcomes.
Highlights and outcomes - Item 12: Authorized the Office of the City Administrator to accept a $440,000 Rockefeller Foundation grant to hire a chief resilience officer and added one grant-funded position (passed, roll-call 11-0). - Item 13: Retroactively authorized the Department of Technology to accept and expend a $700,000 gift of equipment, software and services from Ruckus Wireless for free Wi-Fi along Market Street (passed, roll-call 11-0). - Item 14: Authorized acceptance of a $600,000 gift from SF Citizens Initiative for Technology and Innovation (Google-funded) to provide free Wi-Fi at parks and plazas (passed, same house/same call). - Item 15: Authorized acceptance of a $270,000 gift from Cisco for additional public Wi-Fi locations (passed, same house/same call). - Items 16-20: A series of departmental grant acceptances and authorizations for public-health programs, contract renewals and MOHCD expenditures (each passed, same house/same call). - Item 23: Ordinance to dissolve the community oversight committee regarding enforcement of marijuana offenses (passed first reading, same house/same call). - Items 26-27: Planning-code amendments and related resolutions regarding alcohol licenses and proposed street vacations in the Hunters Point Shipyard/Candlestick Point redevelopment area were advanced as committee reports (passed first reading or adopted as committee report). - Items 30-31: Additional consent adoptions on the calendar were adopted by roll-call without objection.
Why it matters: These items authorize grant-funded positions, accept technology gifts to expand free public Wi-Fi in parks and on Market Street, and advance planning and land-use items to committee or for first reading. Most were passed without extended debate as routine or committee-report items.
Ending: Supervisors noted that several of these items will return for further committee review or subsequent readings where required; the Board recorded unanimous or near-unanimous support on these routine actions.
