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Votes at a glance: Key actions taken by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, March 31, 2009
Summary
The Board approved multiple ordinances, resolutions and appointments, including park irrigation rules, an Alameda Siphon funding resolution, a do-not-mail registry resolution, and the Balboa Park Station area plan on first reading. Several items were continued or referred to committee.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on March 31 recorded a series of votes and procedural actions across a broad agenda. Key outcomes:
- Consent agenda: Items 1 through 12 approved by roll call (11 ayes). An item (Item 3) was later continued at the request of Supervisor Dufty.
- Item 3 (Glen Canyon Restoration Project): Continued one week at the sponsor's request for additional language coordination with the deputy city attorney.
- Item 13 (110 The Embarcadero): Motion adopting findings to reverse the Planning Commission's mitigated negative declaration, as amended to include "past, current, and reasonably foreseeable proposed future projects." Approved (8 ayes, 3 noes).
- Item 14 (Film rebate ordinance, amendment to Administrative Code Section 57.8): Board approved an amendment to limit eligibility to productions whose filming commences on or after the ordinance's effective date; amendment passed (10 ayes, 1 no). Ordinance passed on first reading as amended.
- Item 15 (Park irrigation / recycled water requirement): Ordinance amending the Park Code to require the Recreation & Park Department to maximize water-use efficiency and use recycled water where available. Final passage recorded as adopted (7 ayes, 4 noes).
- Item 16 (Alameda Siphon No. 4 funding resolution): Resolution adopting CEQA findings and a mitigated monitoring and reporting program; adopted (11 ayes).
- Item 17 (UN Convention on the Rights of the Child): Board debated continuation and legal briefings; a motion to continue failed (3 ayes, 8 noes). The resolution was divided; the general endorsement carried; the further-resolved clause affirming youth due-process protections passed on a separate roll-call vote (8 ayes, 3 noes).
- Item 18 (do-not-mail registry resolution): Resolution urging state and federal action to create a do-not-mail registry; adopted (9 ayes, 2 noes).
- Items 19 through 23 (Balboa Park Station area plan package): Multi-part package approving zoning, general plan and administrative code changes to implement the Balboa Park Station area plan, and a resolution to pursue federal stimulus funding for the area; introduced and passed on first reading (11 ayes).
- Items 24'26 (appointments): Appointments to Police Commission, MTA Board and Golden Gate Bridge District approved (same house, same call).
- Item 27: Continued to later in the meeting; the board moved to other items.
- Item 30 (closed session): Board recessed to closed session for labor-negotiation briefing with the mayor's office and DHR; closed session convened.
- Item 31: Motion to convene as a Committee of the Whole continued and rescheduled to sit as a Committee of the Whole on April 28 (motion approved).
- Items 32 and 33 (St. Luke's temporary hospital and historic evaluation of 1912 building): Referred to committee for further review at the request of supervisors.
- Item 34 and others: Various items continued or amended as noted on the record (Item 34 continued to April; Item 38 amended for language clarifications and approved).
Roll-call tallies above reflect recorded board votes on the floor as read by the clerk during the meeting. Several items passed on first reading and will return for final passage in subsequent meetings.
