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Votes at a glance: Board passes public safety and budget measures, continues land-use item
Summary
On Oct. 24 the Board adopted a mix of ordinances and resolutions: Laguna Honda appropriation, pilot foot patrol ordinance, first-reading violence-prevention appropriation, and business improvement district resolutions passed; a massage-establishment ordinance was continued for outreach.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Oct. 24 acted on a series of ordinances and resolutions across public health, public safety and local economic matters. Below is a concise summary of the formal actions recorded on the meeting docket.
Laguna Honda Hospital appropriation (Item 16) The board adopted an ordinance appropriating funds to cover increased costs at Laguna Honda Hospital retroactive to fiscal year 2005-2006. The clerk's roll call recorded 9 ayes and 1 no; the ordinance was finally passed.
Massage-establishment planning code amendment (Item 17) The board considered an ordinance amending various sections of the Planning Code to define massage establishments and to require conditional-use permits for non-incidental massage businesses. Supervisor Dufty proposed, and supervisors approved, a friendly amendment to exempt businesses where the only massage is public-facing chair massage with customers fully clothed. Supervisor Ma moved to continue the item to give additional outreach time; the board continued the item two weeks to Nov. 7 (as announced in the hearing record).
Foot-patrol pilot program (Item 18) The board adopted an ordinance to create a one-year pilot program requiring foot patrols in specified crime-impacted policing districts (Northern, Park, Mission, Ingleside, Taraval, Southern and Bayview), with reporting and review of effectiveness. The roll call recorded seven ayes and three noes; the ordinance was finally passed.
Violence-prevention appropriation (Item 20) An ordinance was introduced and passed on first reading to appropriate $2,258,089 of general fund reserves for violence-prevention programs. The allocation described on the record included $1,880,548 for the Police Department (salaries and overtime), $268,018 for Adult Probation (salaries, overtime and equipment), $49,523 for Juvenile Probation overtime, and $60,000 for the Sheriff's Department overtime, with retroactive payment authorization for police and sheriff overtime. The record indicates the funds would be placed on reserve pending review of actual expenditures.
Business and community benefit districts (Items 29 and 30) Resolutions establishing or authorizing formation steps for community benefit districts passed: the Fisherman's Wharf Portside Community Benefit District resolution (Item 29) and a Central Market Community Benefit District resolution (Item 30). Both items were adopted under "same house, same call." The resolutions set public-hearing processes and assessment ballots as required by law.
Other consent and procedural items The board adopted several consent calendar items and routine resolutions, including changes to parking regulations, law library fee distributions, and an extension for the utility undergrounding task force to complete work by Jan. 31, 2007 (an amendment advanced by Supervisor Dufty). The board also approved an imperative calendar resolution and several commendations.
Where vote tallies were recorded during roll calls, those numbers are listed above. Items with continued action (for example, the massage-establishment ordinance) were explicitly held for further outreach and committee consideration.
