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Votes at a glance: key actions taken by the Board on Nov. 23, 2010
Summary
The Board approved a series of ordinances, resolutions and contracts during Tuesday's meeting, including a settlement, several code amendments, bond authorization, and multiple planning and environmental actions. Itemized outcomes and key details are listed below.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors took a number of recorded actions on Tuesday. Below are the principal items that received recorded roll-call votes or formal disposition in the meeting transcript.
Votes at a glance
- Item 3 — Settlement: The board approved an ordinance authorizing the settlement of Cheryl Austin v. City and County of San Francisco for $268,000 (inclusive of attorney fees and costs). Roll-call tally reported 10 ayes, 1 no; ordinance finally passed.
- Item 8 — Healthy Meal Incentive Ordinance: The board overrode the mayor's veto (see separate article) and adopted new Health Code sections 471.1–471.9 by an 8–3 vote.
- Item 9 — Historic property contract: The board adopted a resolution approving a historic property contract between Nakamura FLP (owner of 1818 California Street, the Lilienthal Orville Pratt House) and the city; recorded vote 11–0.
- Items 10–11 — Mobile food facility regulations: The board approved ordinances amending the planning code and several administrative codes to define and regulate mobile food facilities, including reclassifying mobile caterers and pushcart peddlers; these ordinances were finally passed.
- Item 12 — Health care services master plan: Ordinance requiring preparation of a health care services master plan passed on roll call (8 ayes, 3 no).
- Item 13 — Landscape irrigation controls: Ordinance amending the administrative code to require landscape irrigation controls for specified new construction and rehabilitation projects passed (10–1).
- Item 14 — Safe drug disposal ordinance: Supervisor McRaeeny moved amendments and then requested continuity; after meetings with stakeholders the item was continued to Dec. 7 for further negotiation with pharmaceutical industry representatives (motion to continue approved without objection). The clerk recorded that discussions with industry and additional amendments were ongoing.
- Item 15 — Health code nuisance updates: Ordinance amending the health code to update nuisance definitions and expand administrative penalties passed on roll call (11–0).
- Item 16 — Prevailing wage rates: Resolution fixing prevailing wage rates for various workers under city contracts was adopted (same house, same call).
- Item 17 — Public Utilities Commission bonds: Resolution approving issuance of water revenue and refunding bonds in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed approximately $600,000,000 for the Public Utilities Commission was adopted.
- Item 18 — Development fee calculation: Ordinance amending the building code to modify methods of calculating certain development fees passed on first reading.
- Items 19–20 — Better Streets and related general plan amendments: Ordinances approving the Better Streets plan and related code amendments passed on first reading; Supervisor Maxwell later moved a clarifying finding to reference the California Complete Streets Act and the finding was adopted before the first-reading vote.
All items above are recorded in the meeting transcript; some were passed on final vote, some on first reading, and one (item 14) was explicitly continued for further negotiation. Details such as ordinance numbers, effective dates, and implementation schedules were not always specified in the public roll-call discussion and will appear in the final published ordinances and minutes.
Selected context and next steps: Several items (notably the Healthy Meal Ordinance and the successor mayor process) received extended debate or separate coverage in the meeting record. For items continued or passed on first reading, final adoption or implementing actions will appear on subsequent agendas and in department rulemaking records.
