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Board approves large bond appropriations and PUC revenue‑bond authorizations; passes surveillance‑technology ordinance
Summary
The Board of Supervisors adopted a broad consent package including a $195 million bond appropriation for health and capital projects, authorizations for PUC revenue bonds (power, wastewater, water/Hetch Hetchy), and finalized an ordinance updating surveillance technology policies for public works use of drones and illegal‑dumping cameras with ALPRs.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a wide consent package and several finance measures during its June 9 meeting.
On the consent calendar the board adopted an ordinance to appropriate approximately $195,000,000 in bond proceeds for the Department of Public Health, Department of Public Works, Recreation and Park (Brecken Park) and the Municipal Transportation Agency for property acquisition and capital improvements across fiscal years 2025–26. The clerk described the appropriation as funding health care, nursing and mental‑health facilities, pedestrian and streetscape improvements and related costs; the board took the item "same house, same call" and the ordinance was finally passed.
The board also approved four PUC‑related measures authorizing the issuance of power, wastewater and water revenue bonds and related refunding bonds and appropriations (items 6–9) in aggregate principal amounts described by the clerk (including approximately $138.1 million for power, about $1.1 billion for wastewater and approximately $570 million for water/Hetch Hetchy projects). Those items were adopted without objection.
A corrected item read aloud by the clerk replaced an earlier, misread title: item 11 was restated as an ordinance updating surveillance technology policies for Public Works' use of unmanned aerial devices and for an illegal‑dumping camera system that would use automatic license plate reader (ALPR) technology. The board took this item "same house, same call" and the ordinance was finally passed.
Votes at a glance: the consent and finance items were adopted by unanimous "same house, same call" action or by recorded roll calls of 10 ayes where noted; item 25 (an OEWD grant amendment) passed with 9 ayes after Supervisor Walton recused.
Why it matters: the appropriations and bond authorizations move large capital funds into city departments and authorizes significant borrowing by the PUC; the surveillance policy ordinance updates city policy on aerial devices and camera systems and may affect privacy and enforcement practices under Public Works' operations.
What’s next: specific project agreements, contract modifications and CEQA determinations referenced to individual items will be handled by the implementing departments and return to the appropriate committees or the board as required.
