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San Francisco supervisors approve interim budgets, bonds and appointments; several ordinances pass first reading
Summary
In a lengthy session on June 15 the Board of Supervisors approved multiple routine and time‑sensitive items: interim consolidated budgets, bond issuances, reappointments and a set of ordinances and resolutions mostly passed on first reading. Several individual measures drew separate debate or recorded dissents.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors took roll‑call votes during its June 15 meeting on a series of consent and time‑sensitive items, advancing interim budgets, bond measures and personnel actions.
Major outcomes at a glance
- Interim budget and salary ordinances: Items 20–23, which together formed the interim consolidated budget and salary ordinances for the city’s fiscal cycle and the redevelopment and Treasure Island authorities, passed in the first reading with unanimous support recorded (11 “I”s in roll calls recorded for the consolidated interim votes).
- Lease revenue/refunding bonds (Item 24): A resolution approving issuance and sale of lease‑revenue refunding bonds for the city’s emergency communications and radio systems was adopted.
- Botanical Garden admission fees (Item 17): An ordinance amendment to clarify reporting of botanical gardens fees was adopted on first reading as amended. The roll call recorded 8 ayes and 3 noes; the item moved forward on first reading.
- Cell‑phone Specific Absorption Rate disclosure (Item 18): An ordinance requiring retailers to disclose SAR values for cell phones, with technical amendments to address retailer liability, passed on first reading with a recorded roll call of 10 ayes, 1 no.
- Neighborhood community justice task force (Item 19): The board adopted a final ordinance creating a neighborhood community justice task force and establishing its membership and duties (recorded as finally passed).
- Interim city‑related funding (Items 25–29 and others): A series of budget‑ and administrative‑code ordinances and resolutions (greens fees at Harding Park, board of appeals surcharge revisions, appropriations related to the Sheriff’s department, a $1,000,000 federal grant to the electric vehicle initiative, among others) were advanced on first reading or otherwise adopted per the consent calendar.
- Appointments and confirmations: The board confirmed reappointments to the Port Commission and to the City Hall Preservation Advisory Commission (Items 35 and 36) on the consent calendar.
Notable calendar motions and deferrals
- A contract item (Item 29) was continued by motion for 1 week after members asked for more time to review contract materials.
- A proposed measure about general obligation bonds for earthquake retrofit (Item 31) was continued to June 29 after discussion about timing and ballot placement; the motion to continue passed 7–4.
Roll‑call notations and procedure
Most consent items were approved by “same house, same call” (a common phrase used on the board’s consent calendar) and received unanimous or near‑unanimous roll calls when called individually. Where the transcript recorded tallies those are reported above; several first‑reading ordinances will return for final action in subsequent board sessions.
What it means: The actions kept the city’s fiscal and administrative business moving through the critical June budget cycle while preserving time for several contested or complex measures to receive fuller review.
