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Board approves package of ordinances and grant acceptances; key reappointment fails
Summary
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Dec. 5, 2006 approved a number of ordinances and grant acceptances on first reading or final passage, including a controversial police foot-patrol ordinance and multi-million-dollar property purchases funded by COPs. A resolution to confirm the Redevelopment Agency's reappointment of Benny Yeh failed.
San Francisco — The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Dec. 5, 2006 approved a broad set of ordinances, resolutions and grant acceptances in a single session, while voting down a reappointment to the Redevelopment Agency.
The board passed consent items 1 through 8, adopted finance-related motions, authorized several federal homeland security grants for the Department of Emergency Management and approved a major appropriation using Certificates of Participation (COPs) to purchase office buildings. An ordinance authorizing expanded police foot patrols was finally passed by a recorded vote of 7–3.
The package included: - Consent items 1–8: considered routine and adopted by roll call. - Item 9: motion adopting finance-related action disapproving a categorical exemption for 2564 Sutter Street — approved (roll call recorded as part of consent handling). - Item 10: an ordinance regarding police foot patrols — passed (7 ayes, 3 noes). - Item 12: ordinance amending campaign and government code regarding gifts to city officers — passed on first reading (10 ayes). - Item 13: resolution reappointing Supervisor Tom Ammiano to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission — adopted (9 ayes). - Items 23–25: ordinances authorizing acceptance and expenditure of federal Homeland Security grants for emergency management and extending certain grant-funded positions — passed on first reading. - Item 19: an ordinance appropriating $162,000,000 of COP revenue to purchase two buildings and related improvements — passed on first reading. - Item 26: ordinance approving sole-source designation for certain health and behavioral services contracts — passed on first reading.
One contested item failed. The board voted on Item 11, a resolution to confirm the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency's reappointment of Benny Yeh. After a motion to continue the matter tied at 5–5 and failed, the board proceeded to a roll call on the confirmation and the resolution failed on a 4–6 vote.
Several items were passed only on first reading and will return to the board for final passage at a later date. Where roll-call tallies were read into the record, those tallies govern the official outcome.
