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Votes at a glance: Board adopts multiple ordinances and resolutions including housing subsidy and campaign code amendments
Summary
The Board approved a slate of routine and numbered items on Nov. 3, including consent items, a rental subsidy program, campaign code amendments, CEQA findings for the Exploratorium relocation, cable car museum agreement, and multiple administrative responses to grand jury reports. Vote tallies are listed where recorded.
At the Nov. 3 meeting the San Francisco Board of Supervisors acted on a series of routine and committee items. The clerk recorded roll-call tallies for each vote; below are the items and outcomes as announced at the meeting.
- Items 1–9 (consent agenda): Approved by roll call (11 ayes). The clerk announced "There are 11 ayes." These were taken as routine and passed together after item 6 was severed for separate discussion earlier in the agenda process.
- Item 10: Motion adopting findings and reversing the Planning Department's exemption determination for the 430 Main Street / 429 Beale Street project (environmental review). Supervisor Daley moved an amendment to correct a typographical error on page 2, line 7; the amendment passed and the motion was approved.
- Item 11: Ordinance creating a rental subsidy program to establish a need-based local housing subsidy for homeless families. The clerk announced "This ordinance is finally passed." (vote recorded as adopted by same-house, same call.)
- Item 12: Ordinance amending the campaign and governmental conduct code to refine and conform definitions, streamline reporting requirements, and make clarifying changes. Passed by roll call (11 ayes).
- Item 13: Resolution retroactively approving the Municipal Transportation Agency management and operations agreement for the Cable Car Museum. Adopted via same-house, same-call.
- Items 15 and 14 (Exploratorium relocation): Item 15, CEQA findings for the Exploratorium Relocation Project, was adopted so that the board could then consider Item 14, a 66‑year lease for Pier 15 and part of Pier 17 and related parking agreements and licenses. Both were adopted by same-house, same-call; Supervisor Elliot announced he is a cosponsor for the lease resolution.
- Items 16 and 17 (police code amendments relating to entertainment and extended-hours permits): These were debated and are separately covered in a dedicated article. The clerk recorded 10 ayes and 1 no on the package vote.
- Item 18 (cat declaw ban): Covered separately; clerk announced 9 ayes and 2 noes on first reading.
- Item 19: Resolution adopting findings that retention and expansion of the wholesale produce market are fiscally feasible (Administrative Code, Chapter 29). Adopted by roll call (11 ayes).
- Item 20: Resolution responding to the civil grand jury report "Use It or Lose It" regarding surplus SFUSD real property: Adopted via same-house, same-call.
- Item 21: Resolution responding to the civil grand jury report regarding SFUSD recommendations: Adopted after the board approved a typographical amendment (motion to amend passed without objection) and then adopted via same-house, same-call.
- Items 24–29 (adoption without committee reference): Adopted as a block by roll call; the clerk announced 10 ayes (one supervisor absent at that call).
Where the clerk announced specific tallies in the transcript, they are reported above. For other same-house, same-call items the board announced adoption during the meeting without individual roll-call tallies being read aloud. If additional details are required (full ordinance texts, final readings, or vote-record names for each roll call), those documents will be available in the city clerk's official minutes and the ordinance/resolution texts filed with the clerk's office.
Summary: The meeting combined several substantive policy discussions that led to separate coverage and a larger group of routine and committee items that were passed in bundles or by same-house, same-call votes.
