Votes at a glance: May 13, 2008 Board of Supervisors meeting

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors convened May 13 and adopted multiple consent calendar items, ordinances and resolutions. The following is a summary of formal votes and outcomes recorded at the meeting.

Consent and routine items: Items 1 through 10 were approved as the consent agenda by a single roll call vote; the clerk announced "there are 11 ayes. The ayes have it." Several subsequent routine ordinances and motions were adopted on first reading and final passage as recorded in the clerk's roll calls.

Selected calendar actions recorded by the clerk during the meeting: - Item 12 (ordinance amending the planning code to extend the time period for certain medical cannabis dispensaries to obtain a permit from 03/01/2008 to 01/21/2009): Ordinance finally passed by roll call (10 ayes, 1 no). - Item 13 (ordinance to implement the Deferred Retirement Option Program approved by voters): Passed on first reading (10 ayes, 1 no). - Item 14 (ordinance authorizing retroactive expansion of a grant to the Department of Economic and Workforce Development, approximately $307,000, and creation of grant-funded positions): Ordinances passed on first reading (11 ayes recorded on roll call for the ordinance series). - Item 15 (ordinance authorizing the Department of the Environment to accept and expend approximately $200,000 from the Sidney E. Frank Foundation for outreach on a wave energy project and adding one FTE): Passed on first reading as announced by the clerk. - Items 16 and 17 (bond appropriations and revenue bond issuance for San Francisco International Airport capital projects): Announced by the clerk as passed on first reading and resolution adopted. - Item 18 (resolution authorizing a memorandum of agreement for Yerba Buena Island ramps, not to exceed $3,000,000): Resolution adopted by same-house, same-call vote. - Item 19 (resolution authorizing the Department of Public Health to enter into a $73,100,000 contract with the California Department of Health Care Services): Resolution adopted by same-house, same-call vote. - Item 20 (appropriation of approximately $270,000,000 in San Francisco certificates of participation to fund electrical reliability/combustion turbine projects): Listed and moved with related items; board later continued CT items as noted separately. - Item 21-23 (ordinances and resolution related to combustion turbine project agreements, environmental findings and certificates of participation): Considered together; supervisors moved and the board continued these items for one week (see separate article). - Item 25 (ordinance waiving temporary street space occupancy fees in certain areas on May 17 for Small Business Week): Passed on first reading (11 ayes). - Item 26 (lease to Juma Ventures, Inc., City Hall North Light Court): Adopted following Q&A (11 ayes recorded at roll call for the item as announced by the clerk). - Calendar items 29 through 35 (various resolutions and proclamations introduced for adoption without committee reference): Adopted by roll call; item 29 (urging the State Assembly to support AB 2153) passed 9 ayes, 2 noes as recorded by the clerk.

Notes: vote tallies are recorded as read into the record by the clerk during roll calls; where a specific tally was not read aloud in the transcript, the clerk announced adoption or "there are 11 ayes" and that wording is reflected above. For items that the clerk designated as "same house, same call," the clerk announced combined adoption in a single roll call.