Votes at a glance: key resolutions and ordinances adopted Aug. 15 by San Francisco supervisors

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a range of routine and substantive items during its Aug. 15 meeting. This "votes at a glance" summary lists the principal adopted items, with brief notes where the board directed further action or where discussion occurred.

- Items 1'13: Consent calendar adopted (no severances noted). - Item 14: Findings adopted to affirm the Planning Department's CEQA exemption determination for the project at 22930 Second Avenue (aka 7070 California Street); clerical date corrections made in three places. - Item 15: Ordinance amending Article 10 (UUT tax) / Business & Tax Regulations Code adopted on first reading. - Item 17: Ordinance amending the Planning Code to allow certain medical cannabis dispensaries to remain open during an 18-month application period and other amendments; passed (9 ayes, 1 no). - Item 20: Resolution authorizing Department of the Environment to enter into a contract with PG&E (authorizing implementation of an energy efficiency and demand-reduction program, up to $10,709,302); the board paused initially for departmental questions but ultimately adopted the resolution after confirmation that enterprise agency funds were used during a cash-flow period and would be replenished by the PG&E grant. - Items 21'25: Resolutions authorizing issuance/delivery of multifamily housing revenue bonds for the Alabama Street Senior and Alabama Street Family Apartments projects (bond ceilings read into the record); adopted. - Item 26: Ordinance (sole-source purchase for furniture/workstations for the main library) passed on first reading. - Item 27: Ordinance amending traffic code to extend parking restrictions for certain commercial vehicles passed on first reading. - Item 28: Resolution accepting STIP/federal transit funds for construction of the Muni Metro East maintenance and operations facility adopted. - Item 29: Resolution accepting gift of vacant real property adjacent to Kite Hill; adopted. - Item 30: Resolution authorizing the Department of Public Health to submit an interim progress report to continue HIV prevention grant funding (estimated annual recurring grant approx. $9,000,000); adopted. - Items 32 and 33: Planning-code amendment allowing other entertainment uses in Chinatown Visitors retail district (amendment of the whole adopted) and park-code amendment to adopt disability-access standards and authorize certain closures in Golden Gate Park (Sunday closure ADA compliance); both passed on first reading. - Item 34'37: Tax-exempt bond resolutions for All Hollows, Bayview, LaSalle and Shoreview Apartments adopted (these are part of the AIMCO rehabilitation package; see separate story). - Item 41: Fillmore Jazz CBD established after weighted-ballot vote (88.37% in favor); see coverage. - Items 42'43: Redevelopment Agency ground lease to Japanese American Religious Federation Assisted Living Facility (1881 Bush St.) approved following a public hearing and agency recommendation. - Items 44'46: Board affirmed Planning Commission EIR certification for Wharf J10 (item 44) after incorporating a Port letter committing to additional historic and soil-sampling steps; related items were tabled as noted above. - Item 55: Ordinance establishing parking-revenue-control equipment requirements and limited parking-tax amnesty passed on first reading; City Attorney and staff noted a possible need for trailing legislation on certain enforcement tools. - Items 56 and subsequent: Campaign finance reform ordinance was divided on a contested provision and otherwise advanced on first reading as amended; contested portion was re-referred to the Ethics Commission for additional review (see separate story).

Several other administrative appointments, settlements and proclamations were adopted under the adoption-without-committee and imperative calendars. Where the board requested additional information, staff was directed to report back (for example: Police staffing analysis for foot patrols; Port follow-ups on Wharf J10; Ethics Commission review of campaign finance item).