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Votes at a glance: Board passes consent calendar, multiple resolutions and several ordinances to first reading
Summary
The Board approved the consent agenda and adopted or advanced several items including Port and Airport leases, MTA bond-authorizing ordinances (first reading), a photovoltaic license agreement, and a package of housing and economic development actions.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on April 10 conducted a long consent and adoption calendar and took multiple formal actions. Highlights below summarize outcomes recorded in the meeting transcript; where roll-call tallies were recorded in the chamber, they are included.
- Consent agenda (items 2–24): Approved by roll call; clerk recorded 11 ayes. These items were finalized as a block.
- Item 25 (Port-related ordinance for America's Cup improvements): Announced as finally passed (no separate roll call recorded in the transcript excerpt).
- Item 26 (campaign public financing code amendments): The ordinance was split for separate votes. The main body of the legislation (the “corpus”) passed on roll call with 11 ayes. A separate portion of the ordinance (section on page 15, lines 1–4) passed on a later roll call 8 ayes, 3 noes.
- Item 27 (SFPUC master license agreement for photovoltaic projects on San Francisco Unified School District buildings): Resolution adopted; clerk recorded 11 ayes.
- Item 28 (airport lease and use agreements): Adopted (same house, same call) as recorded.
- Item 30 (Office of Economic and Workforce Development grant acceptance of $1,350,000): Resolution adopted (same house, same call).
- Item 32–34 (MTA revenue-bond enabling ordinances and appropriations related to 2012 series bonds): Passed to first reading (clerk announcement: "passed in the first read"). These ordinances authorize MTA revenue bonds and appropriations for parking garage/refunding and transit/garage capital projects.
- Item 35 (planning/building fee waivers for Small Business Month in May): Passed to first reading (announced by clerk).
- Item 36 (foreclosure-resolution): Adopted as amended; roll call recorded 11 ayes.
- Item 37 (planning code amendments on eating and drinking establishments): Passed to first reading as amended; roll call recorded 11 ayes.
- Item 43 (SFMTA stroller resolution): Adopted as amended; roll call recorded 11 ayes.
The clerk recorded and announced vote totals when roll-call votes were taken; other items were handled "same house, same call" and recorded as adopted by the clerk. Some ordinances were advanced to first reading rather than final passage; subsequent readings will be required per the city’s legislative process.
