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Votes at a glance: key Board actions, March 6, 2007
Summary
The Board adopted multiple ordinances and resolutions on March 6, 2007, including appropriations for community safety cameras and public-health backfill, interim zoning controls, environmental and procurement measures, and concurrence with the mayor’s emergency declaration for a Vallejo Street rock slide.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a range of items on March 6, 2007. Below are the key adopted actions, their brief descriptions and roll-call outcomes as recorded in the meeting transcript.
- Item 20 — Ordinance appropriating $24,840 of general fund reserves to purchase and install two community safety cameras at Haight and Webster Street (Department of Telecommunications and Information Services, FY 2006–07). Result: Ordinance finally passed on roll call; recorded tally 9 ayes, 2 noes.
- Item 22 — Ordinance appropriating $850,000 of property-sale proceeds from the Homeless and Low-Income Housing Fund to the Mayor’s Office of Housing for FY 2006–07. Result: Passed on first reading (roll call recorded as passed on first reading).
- Item 23 — Ordinance amending Administrative Code chapter on Health Service System. Result: Ordinance finally passed.
- Item 24 — Ordinance appropriating $641,973 of general fund reserve to backfill reduced federal funding for AIDS services in the Department of Public Health (FY 2006–07). Result: Ordinance finally passed (roll call recorded as passed).
- Imperative agenda — Concurrence with the mayor’s emergency declaration for the Vallejo Street rock slide (North Beach). Result: Board concurred; motion approved; public comment closed and Brown Act findings adopted on the imperative agenda.
- Item 27 — Ordinance amending an MOU (Union of American Physicians and Dentists, Unit 8 CC). Result: Ordinance finally passed.
- Item 30 — Resolution urging the Municipal Transportation Agency to consider a reduced $30 FastPass for 18–21 year-olds. Result: After amendments and close roll calls the Board adopted the urging resolution, 6 ayes, 5 noes (see full article on the item for details).
- Item 31 — Ordinance amending the Park Code to prohibit consumption of alcoholic beverages in South Park. Result: Passed on first reading; roll call: 11 ayes.
- Item 32 — Ordinance amending Administrative Code Section 6.4 to require recycled-content materials to the maximum extent feasible (amendment clarified definition of 'feasible'). Result: Passed on first reading, 9 ayes, 2 noes.
- Item 33 — Resolution authorizing the Department of the Environment to accept and expend a $200,000 grant from the Sidney E. Frank Foundation for energy project stakeholder engagement. Result: Passed on first reading.
- Item 36 — Urgency ordinance imposing a 45-day interim moratorium on installation of microcell (small cell) equipment; Planning Department and industry agreed to a 45-day continuance to April 17. Result: Approved without objection; moratorium scheduled for a 45-day period.
- Item 37 — Interim zoning controls requiring conditional-use authorization for demolition of residential structures (six months or until permanent legislation adopted), amended on the floor. Result: Passed on first reading; roll call recorded 6 ayes, 5 noes.
- Items 38/39 — Appropriations to support repairs to the Geneva Avenue car barn (Recreation and Park) and greening at Alameda Boulevard (Public Works). Result: Passed; roll call recorded in favor.
- Item 43 — Resolution and related actions regarding the wild parrots of Telegraph Hill including tree pruning and replanting and a sole-source agreement with Ted Kipping Tree Shapers LLC; accepted a gift from Northeast San Francisco Conservancy. Result: Approved; roll call recorded 9 ayes, 1 no.
This roundup lists the principal final actions recorded on the transcript. For items that passed on first reading, further readings or committee processing may be required before final ordinance adoption. For detailed debate and the full vote record on contested items, see the articles above (notably the Muni FastPass resolution, the interim demolition controls and the recycled-content ordinance).
