Board approves multiple consent items, calls for temporary protected status for Philippines; one item sent to committee

The Board of Supervisors took a series of routine and adoption-calendar actions on Feb. 11, finalizing several ordinances and resolutions on the consent calendar and adopting a resolution urging federal temporary protected status for survivors of Super Typhoon Haiyan.

Key votes and actions

- Items 2–5: Several ordinances and resolutions on the consent calendar were finally passed by roll call (11 ayes recorded during the consent vote). The transcript does not specify the subject matter for items 2–5.

- Item 6 (Ordinance): The Board passed an ordinance calling a special election on June 3, 2014 to submit to voters a proposition to incur $400,000,000 in bonded debt to finance construction, acquisition, improvement and seismic retrofitting of neighborhood fire and police stations and other critical infrastructure. The ordinance also includes language authorizing landlords to pass through 50% of the resulting property-tax increase to residential tenants. The item was finalized “without objection.”

- Item 7 (Resolution): Adopted. The Board retroactively authorized the Department of Public Health to accept and expend an approximately $174,000 grant to participate in a program related to building resilience against climate-change effects.

- Item 8 (Resolution): Adopted. The Board retroactively authorized the General Manager of the Recreation and Park Department to execute a five-year lease with Coit Tower LLC for operation and management of Coit Tower with an initial annual base rent of about $662,000.

- Item 9 (Ordinance): Passed on first reading. The ordinance amends the planning code to revise deadlines for certain transit-impact development fee exemptions.

- Items 12 and 13 (Resolutions): Both adopted. Item 12 determined a premises-to-premises transfer of a type 21 off-sale general license and a type 42 on-sale beer-and-wine public-premises license for 1301 Van Ness Avenue would serve the public convenience. Item 13 determined a transfer of a Type 20 off-sale beer-and-wine license from 129 Carolina Street to 829 6th Street for Winehouse Limited would serve the public convenience.

- Adoption calendar (Items 16–24): Items 16 through 24 were placed before the board for adoption. Supervisor Cohen requested item 16 be removed and sent to committee; item 16 was described as a resolution expressing support for Senate Bill 837, the Kindergarten Readiness Act, and was referred to committee. A roll call was taken on items listed (19, 20, 201, 202, 203 and 24) and they were adopted (11 ayes). The transcript does not list the text of many of these items.

- Item 18 (Resolution): Adopted without objection. The Board adopted a resolution urging the U.S. Secretary of State and Department of Homeland Security to grant Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to citizens of the Philippines to support recovery after Super Typhoon Haiyan; Supervisor Campos sponsored the resolution and described the scale of the disaster and the immigration and humanitarian rationale for TPS.

What was not specified: Several items adopted by the board were not described in detail in the transcript (including items 2–5 and multiple adoption-calendar items). When the transcript did not include details, the item text is recorded as "not specified."

Votes and procedure notes: Many consent items were adopted either by unanimous roll call or "same house, same call" unanimous voice; item 16 was removed from the adoption calendar at Supervisor Cohen’s request and referred to committee.

Sources and evidence: The clerk’s roll call and the mayor/presiding officer’s announcements recorded in the meeting transcript as the board moved through consent and adoption calendars.