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Votes at a glance: key Board actions on March 13, 2012
Summary
The Board approved consent items and a series of ordinances and resolutions, including adoption of consent items, passage of a bicycle-parking ordinance, and authorization for a homeland security grant and fingerprint submission to state and federal agencies.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on March 13 took roll-call votes on multiple ordinances and resolutions. Major outcomes included unanimous or near-unanimous approval of consent items and passage of individual measures on city grants, leases and administrative code changes.
Key results
- Items 2–8 (consent agenda): Adopted by roll call; 11 ayes. The clerk announced those ordinances were finally passed and resolutions adopted.
- Item 9 (DPW appropriation for Jefferson Street streetscape design): The ordinance authorizes approximately $707,000 in fund balance to the Department of Public Works for design work; the clerk announced the ordinance was finally passed.
- Item 10 (environment code — bicycle parking in existing commercial buildings): Passed on roll call, 9 ayes, 2 noes; the ordinance was finally passed.
- Item 11 (Department of Emergency Management: retroactive acceptance and expenditure of a 2011 Homeland Security Program grant, approx. $1,400,000, and creation of one grant-funded position): Passed on roll call; 11 ayes (ordinance passed in first reading).
- Items 12–18 (airport leases, library grant, recreation and parks grant, tax-exempt bond authorization, port lease): Adopted by same-house, same-call votes; clerk recorded adoption of the listed resolutions and leases.
- Item 19 (ordinance on participation in federal counterterrorism activities): Passed on first reading as amended, 6 ayes, 5 noes (see separate article for debate and amendments).
- Item 20 (resolution authorizing fingerprint submission to the Department of Justice and FBI): Adopted by roll call; 11 ayes.
- Item 21 (administrative code amendments for centralized online database of advisory-body appointments): Passed on first reading.
- Item 22 (appointment to the San Francisco Local Agency Formation Commission): Motion approved; roll call showed nine ayes (excusal for appointee noted).
- Items 26–28 (adoption without committee reference): Adopted by roll call; clerk recorded 11 ayes.
Motions and other calendar actions
- Item 25 (opposition to Assembly Bill 1678 on food-truck proximity to schools): Supervisor Wiener moved to table Item 25 after amendments to the bill were reported; the motion to table was granted without objection.
- Item 29 (authorization to prepare ballot arguments and rebuttals for the June 5, 2012 consolidated general municipal election): The board approved motions assigning supervisors to prepare opposition or proponents’ arguments for specified measures; the clerk recorded approval of the motion as amended.
The clerk and staff recorded roll-call tallies for the items noted above; items with no substantial discussion were handled by same-house, same-call votes.
