Board adopts consent calendar and multiple resolutions; key approvals include airport contracts, park capital funds, Mills Act property contracts

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a wide consent calendar and multiple standalone items during its final December meeting. Several items were adopted without extended debate, recorded as routine or consent actions.

Key approvals on the consent calendar and subsequent roll calls included:

- Ordinance (final passage) amending the planning code to permit certain enlargements, alterations or reconstructions that exceed permitted density if other conditions are met (Item 14). Speaker: clerk noted final passage.

- Ordinance (first reading) appropriating approximately $9,200,000 for Recreation and Park Department capital improvement program for fiscal year 2013–14 (Item 15) — passed on first reading.

- Resolutions approving airport professional services agreements: elevator maintenance with ThyssenKrupp Elevator Corporation not to exceed $11,000,000 for 2014–2018 (Item 16); escalator and moving walk maintenance with Thiessen Corp not to exceed $17,000,000 for 2014–2018 (Item 17) — both adopted.

- Resolution authorizing the Fire Department to accept and expand an approximate $1,800,000 grant to upgrade and replace defibrillator inventory (Item 18) — adopted retroactively.

- Resolution fixing prevailing wage rates for public works under city contracts (Item 19) — adopted.

- Resolution authorizing a mutual termination agreement for a Port of San Francisco lease (Item 20) — adopted.

- Resolution approving an airport amenities and business services lease with Airport Travel Agency for a seven‑year term with a minimum annual guarantee of $180,000 and total minimum about $1,300,000 (Item 21) — adopted.

- Resolution approving transfer of real property at Macalester Street and Ash Alley for approximately $4,600,000 (Item 22) — adopted; Supervisor Kim spoke in support emphasizing surplus school district property to be converted to affordable housing on related parcels.

- Resolution adopting the Healthcare Services Master Plan and commending the Department of Public Health and Planning Department for community input (Item 23) — adopted.

- Resolution approving the city’s refugee services annual plan for FY 2012–13 (Item 24) — adopted.

- Resolution determining that issuance of a Type 42 (on‑sale beer and wine) license for Resolute at 678 Geary Street will serve the public convenience (Item 25) — adopted.

- Motions to appoint individuals to various advisory committees (Items 26–29) — approved.

- Resolutions 30–40 (minus item 36) approving Mills Act historical property contracts for specified addresses — adopted as committee reports (roll call recorded 9 ayes on that set).

- Resolutions adding honorary names for alleys and streets (Items 42–44) and an ordinance clarifying employers covered by the Family Friendly Workplace Ordinance (Item 45, first reading) — adopted or passed on first reading as noted.

- Final adoption roll calls later in the meeting cleared items 48–52 by recorded vote; item 50 (a resolution supporting a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing in California) was continued to January 14 at the sponsor’s request.

Several items were introduced for future action during the meeting, including a nonbinding resolution calling for state law amendments on the Ellis Act and an environmental ordinance limiting single‑use plastic bottled water on certain city properties; those introductions will be referred for committee consideration.

Votes recorded on consent and adoption items were routinely unanimous where roll calls were taken (many recorded as 11 ayes). The Mills Act packet (items 30–40 minus 36) showed a separate roll call that recorded nine ayes and two absences for that vote.