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Rules Committee advances a slate of uncontested appointments and tests consent agenda
Summary
The Rules Committee moved multiple advisory-board and commission nominees to the full Board with recommendation, piloting a consent agenda for uncontested appointments; no items drew formal opposition, and several nominees spoke briefly in support of their reappointments.
Chris Daley, chair of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Rules Committee, opened the meeting by saying the committee would try a consent agenda for ‘‘items that I deemed to be largely non, controversial’’ to speed consideration of single-applicant appointments.
Using that approach, the committee bundled several routine nominations and advanced them to the full Board. The clerk said items 1–7 would be acted on by a single roll call vote unless a committee member or member of the public asked to pull an item for separate consideration; no one requested removal and the consent agenda was adopted without objection.
The committee heard multiple appointment items in sequence. For Item 8, the committee considered three appointments to the Graffiti Advisory Board (terms ending 04/10/2011). Committee members noted one…
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