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Board backs Center for Sustainable Gardening; resolution passes on roll call
Summary
The board voted to support the San Francisco Botanical Garden Society's proposed Center for Sustainable Gardening and encouraged the city to advance the appeals process; the Society plans to fund and donate the center to the city when complete.
San Francisco — The Board of Education on March 13 adopted a resolution supporting the proposed Center for Sustainable Gardening, a project led by the San Francisco Botanical Garden Society that the resolution says would expand environmental education and horticulture opportunities for SFUSD students.
Commissioner Rachel Norton introduced the resolution and described the Society's plan to pay for and construct the new nursery and then donate it to the City and County of San Francisco when complete. Norton told the board the Garden Society's educational activities reach more than 10,000 schoolchildren each year and that a modern facility would "enable students of all ages and backgrounds to learn about plants, horticulture, climate change, sustainability and measures they can take in their own homes and gardens." The resolution encouraged the city to move the appeals process forward.
The board suspended the rules to introduce the resolution and then adopted it by roll‑call vote. The clerk recorded one 'No' from Miss Feuer during the roll call and otherwise five ayes were recorded; the resolution passed.
What happens next: The resolution expresses the board's support and asks the city to continue processing required appeals; the Society and city will continue permitting and appeals steps outside the board's jurisdiction.
