Votes at a glance: San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Sept. 18, 2007 — key outcomes

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Sept. 18 took many routine and consent calendar actions and also recorded several individual roll‑call outcomes. Items on the consent calendar and those described below were adopted by unanimous or near‑unanimous votes where noted.

Key outcomes (selected):

- Ordinance authorizing the Office of the Public Defender to accept and expand a $70,000 grant from the Zellerbach Family Foundation for a court specialist position focusing on children of incarcerated parents — ordinance finally passed (roll call recorded as unanimous for that ordinance in the minutes).

- Bond/park financing resolution: The board adopted a resolution declaring public interest and necessity for park, recreation and open space improvements and a ballot bond measure (estimated $185,000,000) and set a path to consider the bond ordinance and expenditure plan in the finance committee in coming weeks; roll call recorded 10 ayes and 1 no on the public interest determination.

- Hospital appropriations: An ordinance appropriating approximately $5,600,000 in combined patient revenue and Medi‑Cal funds to support salary‑related costs for Laguna Honda Hospital and San Francisco General was passed on first reading (recorded unanimous roll call in the minutes).

- Revenue and tax ordinances for fiscal year 2007–08: The board placed the annual revenue and tax ordinances on the calendar (items related to city, community college district, unified school district and BART levies) and handled several as 'same house, same call' consent items for adoption.

- Airport, transit and public‑safety contract resolutions: Several contracts and grants were approved by standard resolution on the consent calendar — for example, a Transportation Security Administration grant for airport canine explosives detection and a municipal railway contract increase for light‑rail work were adopted by unanimous consent.

- Liquor‑license transfer (1001 South Van Ness to 845 Market Street): After public comment and a hearing, the board declined to adopt the resolution that had determined the transfer would serve the convenience and necessity of the community; the resolution was not adopted following a roll call (see meeting record for roll‑call details and statement by Supervisor Dufty citing police data and overconcentration concerns). The board recorded the resolution as not adopted.

- Civil Grand Jury responses: The board adopted several resolutions responding to civil grand jury reports on topics including greenhouse gas emissions, disabled parking and police department staffing; those were adopted unanimously by roll call.

Routine and consent items: Numerous other ordinances, contract approvals and budget transfers were taken under 'same house, same call' and adopted (airport grants, public health contracts including a San Francisco Community Health Authority contract for universal health insurance services for children and young parents, retroactive contracts for medical licensing and maintenance, and other routine budget/contract items). Minutes record unanimous or near‑unanimous adoption for many of these consent items.

Ending: The meeting produced a mix of routine approvals, budget and contract actions and a small number of contentious matters that required individual roll calls and further review (notably the Davies EIR decision and the divided vote on the medical cannabis ordinance described in separate articles). For specific roll‑call tallies and ordinance numbers, refer to the clerk’s certified minutes and ordinance/resolution files for Sept. 18, 2007.