Votes at a glance: Board approves consent ordinances, first readings and routine measures

At its Tuesday meeting the San Francisco Board of Supervisors cleared a broad consent calendar including ordinance amendments, grants and first-read approvals across municipal departments. The items were treated as routine or passed on first reading unless members requested separate consideration.

Highlights and outcomes from the consent calendar and related items (roll-call tallies are noted where recorded in the minutes):

- Items 1'3 (consent cluster): Routine matters adopted by roll-call in the consent procedure. (Recorded roll-call: consent items collectively approved on voice/roll calls; multiple unanimous, as reflected in minutes.)

- Item 4: Ordinance amending the annual salary ordinance to add and delete various job classes for pay period Jan. 17 through June 30, 2010. The ordinance passed on final reading (vote recorded: 7 ayes, 3 noes).

- Item 5: Ordinance amending residential rent stabilization (extension of just-cause protections). The board took action on the first unamended file and passed that ordinance on final reading (7 ayes, 3 noes). The sponsor moved and the board duplicated the file and the duplicate was amended to focus just-cause protections on non-rent-controlled buildings affected by foreclosure and continued to Feb. 9, 2010 for further consideration.

- Item 6: Ordinance amending the rent ordinance to restrict owner move-in evictions for households with children; the sponsor requested a continuance until the next meeting and the board continued the item.

- Items 7'0: A series of departmental ordinances and appropriations passed in first reading, including measures to (a) require elective officers to reimburse the city for dignitary security costs when the security is provided for campaign-related travel (item 7; passed first reading, recorded vote 7 ayes, 3 noes), (b) adjustments to building inspection revolving funds and staff additions (items 8', 10) and (c) a variety of grant acceptances for energy and public-safety programs (items 11', 12, etc.).

- Item 13: Ordinance appropriating approximately $1,700,000 from the library capital improvements fund to capital projects at Bayview and Visitacion Valley branches; passed in first reading as part of the consent actions.

- Item 17: Ordinance authorizing Department of Emergency Management to accept and spend a Homeland Security grant of approximately $2,000,000; passed on first reading.

- Items 39' 50 (adoption without committee reference): Routine resolutions and approvals on a range of municipal matters were adopted in a single roll-call series unless severed; two items (39 and 41) were severed for separate comment and action. Where recorded, roll-call tallies are included in the board minutes.

Why it matters: The board's consent calendar advances routine administrative and budgetary actions needed to operate city departments and to accept grant funds and capital allocations. Several higher-profile items (notably rent-stabilization changes and dignitary-security reimbursement) were separated for discussion or handled as multi-step actions.

Votes and notable motions: Specific recorded vote tallies included the 7-3 outcomes on certain rent- and salary-related ordinances noted above. For all consent items handled by global roll-call where the clerk reported 10 ayes, the board recorded adoption in the minutes.

Next steps: Several items continued to specified later dates for additional committee work or final reading, notably the duplicated rent-stabilization file that was continued to Feb. 9, 2010 and the owner-move-in eviction ordinance continued to the next meeting for additional amendments.