# Board of Supervisors Minutes: July 26, 2016 - Meeting date: 2016-07-26 - Document type: minutes - Source format: PDF - Extracted pages: 49 - [Canonical HTML transcript](https://sfbos.info/documents/366/2016-07-26-minutes) - [Authoritative City source](https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=M&ID=499760&GUID=5BFF467B-A657-4EDC-8B6B-B01E045D9400) > This text was extracted for search and accessibility. The linked City source is the authoritative public record. ## Structured legislative records ### File 160381: Charter Amendment - City Responsibility for Maintaining Street Trees - Pages: 10-11 - Sponsors: Wiener - Vote 1: amendment - Action: o to transfer responsibility for the maintenance of street trees to the City and establish a special fund primarily to pay for such maintenance and the maintenance of trees on San Francisco Unified School District property; to amend the Business and Tax Regulations Code to add a special parcel tax primarily to fund the City’s maintenance of street trees and the maintenance of trees on San Francisco Unified School District property; to increase the City’s appropriations limit by the amount of the parcel tax for four years from November 8, 2016; and to affirm the Planning Department’s determination under the California Environmental Quality Act. Supervisor Wiener, seconded by Supervisor Avalos, moved that this Charter Amendment be AMENDED, AN AMENDMENT OF THE WHOLE BEARING NEW TITLE, by striking the special parcel tax on property owners to pay for the maintenance of street trees, establishing the Street Tree Maintenance Fund to pay for the maintenance and require an annual contribution of $19,000,000 to the Fund by the City, and provide the Mayor the authority to cancel the measure by January 1, 2017, based on the health of the City's budget. The motion carried by the following vote: - Ayes: Avalos, Breed, Campos, Cohen, Farrell, Kim, Mar, Peskin, Tang, Wiener, Yee - Vote 2: continuance - Action: Charter Amendment (Fourth Draft) to amend the Charter of the City and County of San Francisco to transfer responsibility for the maintenance of street trees to the City, establish the Street Tree Maintenance Fund primarily to pay for such maintenance and the maintenance of trees on San Francisco Unified School District property, and require an annual contribution by the City to the Fund of $19 million, adjusted annually for changes in aggregate discretionary City revenues; and to affirm the Planning Department’s determination under the California Environmental Quality Act, at an election to be held on November 8, 2016. Supervisor Wiener, seconded by Supervisor Avalos, moved that this Charter Amendment be CONTINUED AS AMENDED to the Board of Supervisors Special Meeting of July 28, 2016, at 8:30 a.m., and for the Board to convene as a Committee of the Whole to consider this Charter Amendment. The motion carried by the following vote: - Ayes: Avalos, Breed, Campos, Cohen, Farrell, Kim, Mar, Peskin, Tang, Wiener, Yee ### File 160582: Charter Amendment - City Responsibility for Maintaining Street Trees - Pages: 11 - Sponsors: Avalos; Mar - Vote 1: amendment - Action: 160582 [Charter Amendment - City Responsibility for Maintaining Street Trees] Sponsors: Avalos; Mar Charter Amendment (First Draft) to amend the Charter of the City and County of San Francisco to transfer responsibility for the maintenance of street trees from abutting property owners to the City; and affirming the Planning Department’s determination under the California Environmental Quality Act, at an election to be held on November 8, 2016. Supervisor Avalos, seconded by Supervisor Mar, moved that this Charter Amendment be TABLED. The motion carried by the following vote: - Ayes: Avalos, Breed, Campos, Cohen, Farrell, Kim, Mar, Peskin, Tang, Wiener, Yee ### File 150582: Initiative Ordinance - Business and Tax Regulations Code - Additional Utility Users Tax on Gas and Non-Renewable Electricity - Pages: 11 - Sponsors: Avalos - Vote 1: amendment - Action: 150582 [Initiative Ordinance - Business and Tax Regulations Code - Additional Utility Users Tax on Gas and Non-Renewable Electricity] Sponsor: Avalos Motion ordering submitted to the voters an ordinance amending the Business and Tax Regulations Code to impose an additional utility users tax on persons using electrical energy in the City equal to 2.5% of the charges incurred, subject to certain exemptions including an exemption for persons using electrical energy from certain renewable energy resources, and an additional utility users tax on persons using gas in the City equal to 2.5% of the charges incurred, subject to certain exemptions; and increasing the City’s appropriations limit by the amount of the additional tax for four years from November 8, 2016, at an election to be held on November 8, 2016. Supervisor Avalos, seconded by Supervisor Mar, moved that this Motion be RE-REFERRED to the Budget and Finance Committee. The motion carried by the following vote: - Ayes: Avalos, Breed, Campos, Cohen, Farrell, Kim, Mar, Peskin, Tang, Wiener, Yee ### File 160587: Charter Amendment - Non-Citizen Voting in School Board Elections - Pages: 11-12 - Sponsors: Mar; Campos, Cohen, Wiener and Kim - Vote 1: amendment - Action: 160587 [Charter Amendment - Non-Citizen Voting in School Board Elections] Sponsors: Mar; Campos, Cohen, Wiener and Kim Charter Amendment (First Draft) to amend the Charter of the City and County of San Francisco to authorize San Francisco residents who are not United States citizens but who are the parents, legal guardians, or caregivers of a child residing in San Francisco to vote in elections for the Board of Education, at an election to be held on November 8, 2016. ORDERED SUBMITTED by the following vote: - Ayes: Avalos, Breed, Campos, Cohen, Kim, Mar, Peskin, Tang, Wiener, Yee - Noes: Farrell ### File 160813: Charter Amendment - Affordable Housing and Community Development Hearings and Reports - Pages: 12 - Sponsors: Peskin; Kim and Mar - Vote 1: amendment - Action: 160813 [Charter Amendment - Affordable Housing and Community Development Hearings and Reports] Sponsors: Peskin; Kim and Mar Charter Amendment (Third Draft) to amend the Charter of the City and County of San Francisco, to require the Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD) and the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development (MOHCD) to propose five-year strategic plans for consideration and approval by the Board of Supervisors; to require OEWD and MOHCD to report to the Board of Supervisors regarding their annual work plans at least two times each fiscal year; and to provide that ordinances adopted under the processes set forth in the Charter regarding inclusionary housing requirements and regarding competitive selection for the expenditure of affordable housing funds and for the development of affordable housing on City-owned property under the jurisdiction of MOHCD shall supersede ordinances and rules adopted by the Board of Supervisors or the voters prior to March 1, 2017, at an election to be held on November 8, 2016. NOT ORDERED SUBMITTED by the following vote: - Ayes: Farrell, Tang, Wiener - Noes: Avalos, Breed, Campos, Cohen, Kim, Mar, Peskin, Yee ### File 160588: Charter Amendment - Housing and Development Commission - Pages: 12-13 - Sponsors: Peskin; Kim and Mar - Vote 1: other - Action: Department of Economic and Workforce Development and the Department of Housing and Community Development; to require the Commission to review and make recommendations regarding proposed development agreements and conveyance of certain surplus City property before the Board of Supervisors considers such proposals; to require the Commission to hold hearings and make recommendations regarding proposals to adopt or change inclusionary housing requirements for housing developments; to require the Commission to adopt rules creating competitive selection processes for the Department of Housing and Community Development’s expenditure of affordable housing funds and for the development of affordable housing on City-owned property under the jurisdiction of the Department of Housing and Community Development; and to provide that ordinances regarding inclusionary housing requirements and rules regarding competitive selection for affordable housing adopted under the processes set forth in the Charter may supersede ordinances and rules adopted by the Board of Supervisors or the voters prior to March 1, 2017, at an election to be held on November 8, 2016. ORDERED SUBMITTED by the following vote: - Ayes: Avalos, Campos, Kim, Mar, Peskin, Yee - Noes: Breed, Cohen, Farrell, Tang, Wiener ## Extracted text ### [Page 11](https://sfbos.info/documents/366/2016-07-26-minutes#page-11) Board of Supervisors Meeting Minutes 7/26/2016 160582 [Charter Amendment - City Responsibility for Maintaining Street Trees] Sponsors: Avalos; Mar Charter Amendment (First Draft) to amend the Charter of the City and County of San Francisco to transfer responsibility for the maintenance of street trees from abutting property owners to the City; and affirming the Planning Department’s determination under the California Environmental Quality Act, at an election to be held on November 8, 2016. Supervisor Avalos, seconded by Supervisor Mar, moved that this Charter Amendment be TABLED. The motion carried by the following vote: Ayes: 11 - Avalos, Breed, Campos, Cohen, Farrell, Kim, Mar, Peskin, Tang, Wiener, Yee Referred Without Recommendation from the Budget and Finance Sub-Committee 150582 [Initiative Ordinance - Business and Tax Regulations Code - Additional Utility Users Tax on Gas and Non-Renewable Electricity] Sponsor: Avalos Motion ordering submitted to the voters an ordinance amending the Business and Tax Regulations Code to impose an additional utility users tax on persons using electrical energy in the City equal to 2.5% of the charges incurred, subject to certain exemptions including an exemption for persons using electrical energy from certain renewable energy resources, and an additional utility users tax on persons using gas in the City equal to 2.5% of the charges incurred, subject to certain exemptions; and increasing the City’s appropriations limit by the amount of the additional tax for four years from November 8, 2016, at an election to be held on November 8, 2016. Supervisor Avalos, seconded by Supervisor Mar, moved that this Motion be RE-REFERRED to the Budget and Finance Committee. The motion carried by the following vote: Ayes: 11 - Avalos, Breed, Campos, Cohen, Farrell, Kim, Mar, Peskin, Tang, Wiener, Yee 160587 [Charter Amendment - Non-Citizen Voting in School Board Elections] Sponsors: Mar; Campos, Cohen, Wiener and Kim Charter Amendment (First Draft) to amend the Charter of the City and County of San Francisco to authorize San Francisco residents who are not United States citizens but who are the parents, legal guardians, or caregivers of a child residing in San Francisco to vote in elections for the Board of Education, at an election to be held on November 8, 2016. ORDERED SUBMITTED by the following vote: Ayes: 10 - Avalos, Breed, Campos, Cohen, Kim, Mar, Peskin, Tang, Wiener, Yee Noes: 1 - Farrell City and County of San Francisco Page 623 Printed at 10:07 am on 10/26/16 ### [Page 12](https://sfbos.info/documents/366/2016-07-26-minutes#page-12) Board of Supervisors Meeting Minutes 7/26/2016 Recommendations of the Rules Committee President Breed requested File Nos. 160813 and 160588 be called together. 160813 [Charter Amendment - Affordable Housing and Community Development Hearings and Reports] Sponsors: Peskin; Kim and Mar Charter Amendment (Third Draft) to amend the Charter of the City and County of San Francisco, to require the Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD) and the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development (MOHCD) to propose five-year strategic plans for consideration and approval by the Board of Supervisors; to require OEWD and MOHCD to report to the Board of Supervisors regarding their annual work plans at least two times each fiscal year; and to provide that ordinances adopted under the processes set forth in the Charter regarding inclusionary housing requirements and regarding competitive selection for the expenditure of affordable housing funds and for the development of affordable housing on City-owned property under the jurisdiction of MOHCD shall supersede ordinances and rules adopted by the Board of Supervisors or the voters prior to March 1, 2017, at an election to be held on November 8, 2016. NOT ORDERED SUBMITTED by the following vote: Ayes: 3 - Farrell, Tang, Wiener Noes: 8 - Avalos, Breed, Campos, Cohen, Kim, Mar, Peskin, Yee From the Board 160588 [Charter Amendment - Housing and Development Commission] Sponsors: Peskin; Kim and Mar Charter Amendment (Third Draft) to amend the Charter of the City and County of San Francisco, to create the Housing and Development Commission to oversee the Department of Economic and Workforce Development and the Department of Housing and Community Development; to require the Commission to review and make recommendations regarding proposed development agreements and conveyance of certain surplus City property before the Board of Supervisors considers such proposals; to require the Commission to hold hearings and make recommendations regarding proposals to adopt or change inclusionary housing requirements for housing developments; to require the Commission to adopt rules creating competitive selection processes for the Department of Housing and Community Development’s expenditure of affordable housing funds and for the development of affordable housing on City-owned property under the jurisdiction of the Department of Housing and Community Development; and to provide that ordinances regarding inclusionary housing requirements and rules regarding competitive selection for affordable housing adopted under the processes set forth in the Charter may supersede ordinances and rules adopted by the Board of Supervisors or the voters prior to March 1, 2017, at an election to be held on November 8, 2016. ORDERED SUBMITTED by the following vote: Ayes: 6 - Avalos, Campos, Kim, Mar, Peskin, Yee Noes: 5 - Breed, Cohen, Farrell, Tang, Wiener City and County of San Francisco Page 624 Printed at 10:07 am on 10/26/16