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Votes at a glance: key Board of Supervisors actions, Nov. 10, 2009
Summary
At its Nov. 10 meeting the San Francisco Board of Supervisors adopted multiple ordinances and resolutions, including a veto override on a sanctuary ordinance and several public-safety and procurement items. The board advanced a number of other measures on first reading and referred contested budget items back to committee.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors took the following recorded actions at its Nov. 10, 2009 meeting (selected agenda items and recorded outcomes):
- Items 1'5 (Consent agenda): Adopted by roll call. Clerk announced "There are 11 ayes." Outcome: adopted.
- Item 6: Motion to override the mayor's veto of an ordinance amending the sanctuary ordinance. Vote: 8 ayes, 3 noes. Outcome: veto overridden (see separate article).
- Items 7 and 8: Ordinances amending the police code relating to places of entertainment permits and to extended-hours premises (application, approval, amendment, suspension, revocation and transfer of extended-hours premises; penalty changes). Vote: 9 ayes, 1 no. Outcome: ordinances finally passed.
- Item 9: Ordinance amending the health code (prohibiting the declawing of cats except when necessary [agenda text]). Vote: recorded as 8 ayes, 2 noes. Outcome: ordinance finally passed.
- Item 10: Ordinance appropriating $18,000,000 of an unallocated reduction to state revenues and adjusting Department of Public Health expenditures and reserves for FY 2009-10 (agenda text). Vote: recorded as 10 ayes. Outcome: ordinance passed on first reading.
- Item 11: Ordinance appropriating approximately $7,000,000 to add positions in the Department of Public Health (see separate article). Initial roll-call recorded 7 ayes, 4 noes; clerk later ruled the motion had failed because it required eight votes to pass. Outcome: motion failed at that time; later rescinded and re-referred to committee.
- Item 12: Ordinance amending the annual-salary ordinance to add job classes (DPH). Vote: recorded as 7 ayes, 4 noes; the ordinance passed on first reading. Later the board voted to rescind the votes on items 11 and 12 and re-refer both to committee; that motion passed 8-3.
- Item 13: Ordinance authorizing payment of a $10,000 reward (information leading to arrest/conviction in the death of Jaquane Williams). Vote: unanimous roll call recorded as 11 ayes. Outcome: passed on first reading.
- Item 14: Ordinance authorizing payment of a $10,000 reward (information leading to arrest/conviction in the deaths of Giovanni Banks and Michael Hill). Outcome: passed on first reading (adopted without objection on house, same call).
- Item 15: Resolution approving a three-year Port Commission lease for surface parking with Priority Parking California LLC. Vote: 9 ayes, 2 noes. Outcome: adopted.
- Item 18: Resolution condemning TV and radio ads by Californians for Population Stabilization; adopted without objection.
- Item 19: Resolution commending Del Monte Corporation for keeping its headquarters in San Francisco; adopted with an amendment clarifying historical wording.
- Items 20'1 (adoptions without committee reference): Adopted by roll call; the clerk recorded 11 ayes.
Why it matters: The meeting included routine consent actions, multiple final-passage ordinances related to public safety and health, and several ceremonial and administrative resolutions. The most contested items involved midyear DPH budget and staffing items, which were ultimately rescinded and re-referred to committee pending clearer revenue certification.
Speakers who appeared during votes: multiple supervisors and clerk recorded roll calls. Recorded roll-call tallies and outcomes above reflect the clerk's statements in the transcript.
