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San Francisco supervisors approve broad consent package including DOJ grant for 50 police positions and SFMTA curbside EV charging permit program
Summary
On May 5 the Board of Supervisors adopted a slate of ordinances and resolutions on consent, including a retroactive $6.25 million DOJ grant to fund about 50 police positions, an SFMTA curbside electric-vehicle charging permit program, labor MOUs, and multiple contract approvals and grant acceptances.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on May 5 adopted a broad consent calendar that included ordinances and resolutions affecting public safety staffing, transportation policy, labor contracts and human services funding.
Among measures finally passed were an ordinance retroactively authorizing the Police Department to accept a $6,250,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice COPS Office to fund approximately 50 new police officer positions for the period Oct. 1, 2025, through Sept. 30, 2030, and related salary-ordinance amendments. "Without objection, the ordinance is finally passed," the president said after the clerk called the item.
The board also approved three memoranda of understanding with city employee unions covering the police and firefighters (items 7–9), and an ordinance (item 11) amending administrative and public-works codes to authorize the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency to establish a curbside electric-vehicle charging-station permitting program and to impose administrative penalties for violations.
Other consent actions included: a first-reading appropriation of $1.5 million from the general reserve to the Public Defender to cover projected salary and benefit increases (item 12); two sizable resolutions authorizing agreements with the Department of Disability and Aging Services (items 13 and 14) as presented; a retroactive Department of Public Health grant acceptance for adolescent HIV research (item 15); a $50,000 state grant for ADA restroom improvements (item 16); and a package of planning, transportation and public-works ordinances addressing street-use permits, housing-code inspection deadlines and transfer of certain utility infrastructure authority to the Public Utilities Commission.
Clerk calls were used throughout; most measures were adopted "same house, same call" and recorded as passed without recorded objection. The board president noted staff at SFgovTV (Kalina Mendoza) who provide live recordings and transcripts of meetings.
The board took the consent calendar and the cluster of new-business items as routine, voting unanimously where required and advancing items that require additional readings as appropriate. The measures will be reflected in the city files and next steps included implementation by the relevant departments and contract managers.
The meeting moved next to separate, contested and informational items, including a public hearing on blight-abatement assessments, a contested education-resolution vote and the introduction of new public-health legislation.
