Votes at a glance: key board actions Oct. 17, 2006

The following is a concise summary of actions recorded by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Oct. 17, 2006. Items with substantive debate are covered in separate articles.

- Item 11 (landmark designation): Ordinance designating 2151 Van Ness Avenue, St. Brigid's Church, as landmark #2502 pursuant to the Planning Code (Article 10). Clerk announced: "The ordinance is finally passed." (vote recorded during consent; roll calls indicate passage.)

- Item 13 (Public Defender staffing): Ordinance amending ordinance 203-06 to add positions (court alternative specialist, specialist I, and social workers). The item passed on first reading after an initial roll call produced 7 ayes and 4 nos. Later on the floor the board voted to rescind and revote; following the revote the ordinance again passed on first reading (final tally noted as 6 ayes, 5 no on revote; clerk recorded ordinance passes on first reading).

- Items 14 & 15 (finance/commercial paper): Ordinances authorizing an alternative to implement portions of Article 8B of the charter and approving issuance of commercial paper up to $150,000,000 for water/wastewater capital improvements. Both passed on first reading (roll call recorded unanimous passage where provided).

- Item 16 (mental health appropriation): Ordinance appropriating $950,000 of State health program revenues for mental health wraparound services for youth (FY 2006–2007), authorizing contractor reimbursement retroactive to Sept. 1, 2006. Passed on first reading (clerk recorded passage on first reading).

- Item 17 (Laguna Honda Hospital): Ordinance appropriating $2,166,000 of surplus revenues for Department of Public Health costs and salaries (retroactive FY 05–06). Passed on first reading (roll call recorded 10 ayes, 1 no).

- Item 19 (North Bayside intercity agreement): Resolution approving execution of an agreement among several cities on capacity ownership and cost sharing for North Bayside system facilities. Clerk: "The resolution is adopted."

- Items 20–22 (business & tax code, flower market permit, street artists): Item 20 (amendments to Business and Tax Regulations Code to allow petition thresholds for PBID formation) passed on first reading; Item 21 (sale of a street flower market permit at East Flower Market location) passed on first reading; Item 22 (temporary selling spaces for certified street artists at Harvey Milk Plaza for holiday season) adopted.

- Items 23–25 (appointments/confirmations): Item 23 (Rodney Fong to Port Commission) was continued to Oct. 24; Items 24 (Owen Stevens) and 25 (Claudine Chang Tuttaia) were subject to motions about missing Form 700 filings and ultimately were continued or referred to committee for additional review after debate and roll-call votes. The board agreed to make Form 700s available and scheduled further action (see transcript for divided votes and continuance schedule).

- Item 26 (appointment): Resolution appointing Supervisor Maxwell to the Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board; adopted.

- Item 27 (appointment): Resolution appointing Supervisor Daley to the Urban Counties Caucus; adopted.

- Item 28 (foot patrol pilot): See full article. Original file passed on first reading (8–3); expanded amendment adding Central and Richmond stations passed (6–5) and the amended file was referred back to committee.

- Item 31 (Islais Creek Muni maintenance facility eminent-domain hearing scheduling): The Board amended the calendar to change the hearing date and continued the item to Nov. 7 to allow MTA and City Attorney time to prepare the resolution of necessity.

- Items 31–37 (adoption without committee reference calendar): Several resolutions were adopted as listed on the consent/adoption calendar and the clerk recorded adoption of enumerated items.

— Ending: For the full roll-call details and the verbatim record of speakers, see the meeting transcript. The above summarizes recorded outcomes and next steps for matters that were procedural or had limited debate at this meeting.