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Board adopts multiple ordinances and resolutions; Proposition 16 resolution referred to committee
Summary
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a slate of consent and adoption items on March 23, 2010, including bond authorizations, ordinances raising recordation fees, and resolutions on wireless facilities and fiber infrastructure; a resolution opposing Proposition 16 was referred to Land Use Committee for hearing March 29.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday carried a series of ordinances and resolutions spanning redevelopment agency bonds, wastewater revenue bonds, fee changes and policy resolutions.
Consent and adoption items passed largely by roll call or by "same house, same call" procedures after members were polled. Items approved included multi-million-dollar bond authorizations for the Redevelopment Agency and the Public Utilities Commission, a change to the recordation fee, grant acceptances for the Department of the Environment and the Office of the Public Defender, and several planning and policy resolutions.
Highlights of actions recorded in the official agenda and the public record during the meeting:
- Resolutions approving issuance by the Redevelopment Agency of bonds not to exceed $28,000,000 (Item 8) and amending the agency's budget to increase tax-increment bond proceeds and authorize expenditures not to exceed $28,800,000 to pay the Supplemental Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund (Item 9) were adopted.
- An ordinance amending the Administrative Code to increase the recordation fee from $2 to $3 for recording real estate instruments passed first reading (Item 10).
- An ordinance authorizing the Department of the Environment to accept and expand a U.S. Department of Energy Solar America Initiative grant of approximately $71,000 and to add one grant-funded position passed first reading (Item 12).
- The Office of the Public Defender was authorized to retroactively accept an expended grant of approximately $167,000 and to add one grant-funded social worker position to the annual salary ordinance (Item 13).
- An ordinance and resolution concerning wastewater revenue bonds to finance wastewater enterprise projects were approved in first reading and adoption respectively (Items 14 and 15); the resolution set an aggregate principal not-to-exceed amount of $282,400,000.
- A resolution approving retroactive lease authority at 1 Market Plaza for the Department of Emergency Management was listed and adopted following discussion (Item 16).
- A resolution authorizing the Department of Public Works to apply for roughly $5,000,000 in state grade separation funds from the California Department of Transportation for the Gerald Avenue railroad bridge reconstruction was introduced and continued for one week at Supervisor Maxwell's request to allow partners time to refine local hiring language (Item 17).
- An ordinance amending the Market and Octavia Area Plan to integrate a historic resource survey passed first reading (Item 18); interim zoning controls for the Bayshore Corridor were imposed by resolution (Item 19).
- A resolution urging the Department of Technology to respond to a Google request for information about building a fiber network with protections to maintain city control over fiber infrastructure was adopted (Item 20).
- An ordinance adding Department of Emergency Management dispatch services for additional police services passed first reading (Item 21).
- A resolution urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to study health impacts of wireless facilities, urging the Federal Communications Commission to update standards as necessary, and asking the California congressional delegation to seek federal changes to the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was adopted (Item 22).
During the adoption-without-committee portion of the agenda, Items 24 through 29 were adopted en bloc by roll call. Item 23, a resolution opposing Proposition 16 (an initiative constitutional amendment that would add a two-thirds vote requirement for local public electricity providers), was severed from that group and referred to the Land Use Committee; a hearing was scheduled for Monday, March 29.
Where specific vote tallies were recorded on the transcript, the record shows 10 ayes for the roll calls called during the meeting on multiple group votes. Many individual items were adopted "same house, same call," and the transcript records adoption without further roll-call detail for those items.
