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At-a-glance: key motions and votes from the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Dec. 4, 2007
Summary
The board approved routine consent items, several grant acceptances and ordinances, appointed members to outside bodies, continued several planning/environmental items, and approved selection of outside counsel for an ethics-related matter. This roundup lists formal actions taken during the Dec. 4 meeting.
The Board of Supervisors handled numerous routine and substantive items on Dec. 4, 2007. The meeting included the consent calendar, multiple grant acceptances, ordinance approvals on first reading, several appointments, and motions to continue or refer several planning and environmental appeals. Below is a concise, itemized accounting of the formal actions that were recorded in the meeting minutes and roll calls.
Votes and formal actions (high level)
- Consent calendar (Items 1'8 as read at the start of the meeting): Items 1'8 were adopted by roll call (the clerk recorded 10 ayes on the consent agenda). The consent calendar included routine administrative resolutions and the initial reading/passage of various ordinances listed on the agenda.
- Item 9 (376 Eureka Street environmental exemption): Motion to continue one week made by Supervisor Dufty and seconded; the board continued the item 1 week.
- Item 10 (ordinance amending agreement with U.S. Department of Energy, Western Area Power Administration for scheduling coordination and delivery of low-cost electric power to Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island): Adopted on roll call; the clerk recorded ayes and no objections (ordinance passed on first reading/final reading as recorded).
- Item 11 (funds for street resurfacing, FY 2007'008): Ordinance passed on first reading (roll call recorded 10 ayes).
- Item 12 (initiate landmark designation for Metro Theatre, 2055 Union Street): Resolution to begin landmark designation was adopted by the board.
- Item 13 (authorize Mayor's Office of Housing to accept and expend $100,000 from the California Department of Housing and Community Development and participate in CalHome): Resolution adopted by voice vote on the consent calendar.
- Items 14'16 (appointments to Urban Counties Caucus and California State Association of Counties board representation): Resolutions appointing Supervisors Chu and McGoldrick were adopted by roll call.
- Item 17 (rules committee matter re suppression order): Motion made by Supervisor Sandoval to continue the item to the board's first meeting in January; continued to Jan. 8, 2008.
- Item 18 (board sitting as committee of the whole: public review of proposals for outside counsel in an official-misconduct matter): At the 3:00 PM special order the board accepted the offer of services from Professor Robert Weisberg (Stanford) to advise the board and authorized the clerk to enter into an agreement; motion made by Supervisor Sandoval, second by Supervisor Amiano; action approved without objection.
- Item 19/35 (hearings relating to the oil spill response; item 35 amended to set hearing on Jan. 29): The board amended item 35 to schedule a committee-of-the-whole hearing on the city's oil-spill response for Jan. 29 and continued item 19 to that date.
- Item 29 (resolution authorizing Dept. of Emergency Management to accept and extend a federal pass-through grant approximately $1,700,000): Adopted by roll call (10 ayes recorded).
- Item 30 (ordinance authorizing DEM to retroactively accept and expend a COPS grant of approximately $5,700,000): Ordinance passed on first reading (consent calendar entry; roll call recorded as passed on first reading).
- Item 31 (ordinance amending Planning Code section 304.5 to require a qualified health planner in institutional master plans for medical institutions): Passed on first reading as recorded.
- Items 21'4 and 25'8 (appeals and planning department exemptions for projects at 2721 Pierce Street and 3424 Jackson Street): The board continued/held those items to future dates as requested by the parties (several were continued to Jan. 8, 2008 or Feb. 26, 2008 as recorded in the transcript).
- Item 34 (motion requesting the legislative analyst research J-Power USA and parent company J-Power): Motion passed with recorded tally (6 ayes, 3 noes as recorded by the clerk).
- Adoption without committee reference calendar (Items 36—4): A set of resolutions honoring volunteer organizations, adopting procedural motions, and approving final maps were approved by roll call (9 ayes recorded on the adoption calendar as noted by the clerk).
Context and notes
- Several items were continued at the board's request to allow additional staff work or negotiation (planning/environmental appeal items and the oil-spill hearing date change are notable examples).
- The board selected outside counsel assistance for a pending official-misconduct matter by accepting an offer from Professor Robert Weisberg and authorizing the clerk to prepare an agreement; board members discussed the differences between private law firm representation and a pro bono academic option but ultimately approved retention of Weisberg for advisory representation in the matter.
- Numerous routine resolutions, ceremonial recognitions, and final map approvals were adopted without extended debate; the clerk recorded roll-call tallies on the consent and adoption calendars as indicated above.
This roundup summarizes formal actions and recorded outcomes as captured in the Dec. 4 meeting transcript. Individual items will return to committee or the board for further action where the transcript records a continuance or further drafting requirement.
