Votes at a glance: Board approves GO bonds, housing financing, grants and code enforcement report on May 20, 2025

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on May 20 adopted a large consent calendar of ordinances, resolutions, contracts and motions covering city borrowing, housing finance, grants for food and human services, property actions, liquor license findings and multiple other routine actions. The board also adopted a Department of Building Inspection (DBI) report of delinquent charges with an amended list of properties.

Key financial votes on the consent calendar included three general‑obligation (GO) bond measures and related resolutions. The board on a roll‑call vote approved an ordinance to appropriate $194,000,000 of GO bond proceeds from series 2025F to multiple city departments for health, safety, transit and streetscape improvements, and adopted resolutions authorizing the sale and issuance of GO bonds for amounts described in staff materials (the board recorded 11 ayes on the items). The items were taken together as items 1 through 3.

Housing actions approved on the consent calendar included a ground lease and adjusted loan agreement for a 160 Freelon Street affordable housing project and authorization for multifamily housing revenue notes and related financing to support the development (items 11–12). The board also authorized a Treasure Island Development Authority grant application seeking up to $50,000,000 from the California Strategic Growth Council and Department of Housing and Community Development (item 13), and approved a purchase/easement agreement with BART for a small access and construction easement (item 10).

The board authorized multiple grant agreements to support food assistance and related services: a Human Services Agency agreement with Glide Foundation for a free meals program (approximately $14,100,000) and a Department on Disability and Aging Services agreement with San Francisco Marin Food Bank (approximately $12,600,000) for program years 2025–2029 (items 7–8). It also adopted a resolution to retroactively authorize acceptance of a regional catastrophic preparedness grant (approximately $2,700,000) for the Department of Emergency Management (item 6).

The board approved several smaller appropriations and administrative changes, including a $250,000 reappropriation to the Department of Children, Youth and Their Families to support District 10 safety planning and HOPE SF site services (item 4) and an administrative‑code amendment to allow expedited acquisition of fire apparatus (item 5).

Several other routine matters passed on the consent calendar: sale of a roughly 46,000‑square‑foot portion of an SFPUC parcel in South San Francisco for $132,000 (item 9); liquor license determinations for two off‑sale shops (items 16–17); the appointments of Megan Thurlow to the Public Utilities Commission and Rebecca Saroyan to the Board of Appeals (items 18–19); and various settlements and district or commission actions (items 30–33). Many items were taken “same house, same call” and adopted without recorded opposition.

The board also handled the Department of Building Inspection’s annual report of delinquent charges. DBI presented the report dated April 21, 2025, and staff said they had held in‑house hearings and provided notices to property owners in advance. During the meeting DBI and counsel noted several properties would be removed from the list; the board adopted item 21 with the amended report by roll call (11 ayes). Senior housing inspector Matt Luton presented the department’s report; DBI senior inspector Alan Davidson — who said he is retiring after a long career — participated in the discussion and noted several properties had been cleared in advance of the hearing.

Several human‑services contract amendments were also adopted, including a 5th amendment extending and increasing a contract between the Department of Public Health and the Bayview Hunters Point Foundation (an 18‑month extension and an increase of approximately $1,270,000, for a total of $18,000,000) (item 15). The Human Rights Commission was authorized to execute a retroactive grant amendment extending a Lavender Youth Recreation and Information Center contract through Dec. 31, 2023, for $300,000 (item 14). The board took both of those items without recorded objection.

Other items adopted by the board at the meeting included a resolution declaring intent to renew the Dogpatch and Northwest Potrero Hill Green Benefit District and setting a committee hearing and public hearing process (item 33), and a package of administrative settlements and authorizations transmitted from committee (items 30–33). The board also passed a range of ceremonial commendations and in memoriam resolutions during the meeting.

A full list of consent actions, including the exact motion language and any recorded roll‑call tallies, appears below under “Actions.” Members of the public who wanted to dispute individual DBI assessments were advised to meet with DBI staff; counsel for one property owner said a pending superior court enforcement action exists and asked the board to modify or remove the assessments for that property while settlement negotiations continue.

The remainder of the Board’s May 20 agenda included the Junipero Serra conditional‑use appeals (covered in a separate article), ceremonial recognitions for AAPI Heritage Month and QTAPI Week, and the presentation of multiple commendations.