# Board of Supervisors Minutes: February 27, 2018 - Meeting date: 2018-02-27 - Document type: minutes - Source format: PDF - Extracted pages: 28 - [Canonical HTML transcript](https://sfbos.info/documents/492/2018-02-27-minutes) - [Authoritative City source](https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=M&ID=595822&GUID=33955D68-37CA-4489-B316-A29B2011F24B) > This text was extracted for search and accessibility. The linked City source is the authoritative public record. ## Structured legislative records ### File 180100: Accept and Expend Grant - Association of Bay Area Governments - Bay Area Regional Network - Energy Efficiency Program Implementation - $511,017 - Pages: 12-13 - Sponsors: Yee - Vote 1: adoption, likely final - Action: 180100 [Accept and Expend Grant - Association of Bay Area Governments - Bay Area Regional Network - Energy Efficiency Program Implementation - $511,017] Sponsor: Yee Resolution retroactively authorizing the Department of the Environment to accept and expend grant funds from the Association of Bay Area Governments in the amount of $511,017 to perform energy efficiency program implementation, as part of a Bay Area Regional Energy Network program, an energy efficiency program, for the term from January 1, 2018, to December 31, 2018. Resolution No. 056-18 ADOPTED by the following vote: - Ayes: Breed, Cohen, Fewer, Kim, Peskin, Ronen, Safai, Sheehy, Stefani, Yee - Excused: Tang ### File 180058: Initiative Ordinance - Business and Tax Regulations and Administrative Codes - Commercial Rents Tax - Early Child Care and Education - Pages: 13 - Sponsors: Kim; Yee, Ronen, Fewer and Peskin - Vote 1: amendment - Action: 180058 [Initiative Ordinance - Business and Tax Regulations and Administrative Codes - Commercial Rents Tax - Early Child Care and Education] Sponsors: Kim; Yee, Ronen, Fewer and Peskin Motion ordering submitted to the voters, at an election to be held on June 5, 2018, an Ordinance amending the Business and Tax Regulations Code and Administrative Code to impose an additional tax on the gross receipts from the lease of commercial space in the City, in the amount of 1% for warehouses and 3.5% for other commercial uses, to fund the Babies and Families First Fund for quality early care and education for children from birth through five years of age and the General Fund; exempting from the additional tax rents from industrial, artist, non-formula retail, nonprofit, and government uses; increasing the City’s appropriations limit by the amount collected under the new tax for four years from June 5, 2018; and affirming the Planning Department’s determination under the California Environmental Quality Act. (Economic Impact) Supervisor Yee, seconded by Supervisor Peskin, moved that this Motion be TABLED. The motion carried by the following vote: - Ayes: Breed, Cohen, Fewer, Kim, Peskin, Ronen, Safai, Sheehy, Stefani, Yee - Excused: Tang ### File 161109: Planning Code, Zoning Map - Establishment of Geary-Masonic Special Use District - Pages: 13-14 - Sponsors: Stefani; Safai - Vote 1: first-reading - Action: 161109 [Planning Code, Zoning Map - Establishment of Geary-Masonic Special Use District] Sponsors: Stefani; Safai Ordinance amending the Planning Code to establish the Geary-Masonic Special Use District in the area generally bounded by Geary Boulevard to the south, Masonic Avenue to the east, and Assessor’s Parcel Block No. 1071, Lot Nos. 001 and 004, to the north and west, respectively, amending Sheet SU03 of the Zoning Map; affirming the Planning Department’s determination under the California Environmental Quality Act; making findings of consistency with the General Plan, and the eight priority policies of Planning Code, Section 101.1; and adopting findings of public convenience, necessity, and welfare under Planning Code, Section 302. PASSED ON FIRST READING by the following vote: - Ayes: Breed, Cohen, Fewer, Kim, Peskin, Ronen, Safai, Sheehy, Stefani, Yee - Excused: Tang ## Extracted text ### [Page 13](https://sfbos.info/documents/492/2018-02-27-minutes#page-13) Board of Supervisors Meeting Minutes 2/27/2018 Referred Without Recommendation from the Budget and Finance Committee 180058 [Initiative Ordinance - Business and Tax Regulations and Administrative Codes - Commercial Rents Tax - Early Child Care and Education] Sponsors: Kim; Yee, Ronen, Fewer and Peskin Motion ordering submitted to the voters, at an election to be held on June 5, 2018, an Ordinance amending the Business and Tax Regulations Code and Administrative Code to impose an additional tax on the gross receipts from the lease of commercial space in the City, in the amount of 1% for warehouses and 3.5% for other commercial uses, to fund the Babies and Families First Fund for quality early care and education for children from birth through five years of age and the General Fund; exempting from the additional tax rents from industrial, artist, non-formula retail, nonprofit, and government uses; increasing the City’s appropriations limit by the amount collected under the new tax for four years from June 5, 2018; and affirming the Planning Department’s determination under the California Environmental Quality Act. (Economic Impact) Supervisor Yee, seconded by Supervisor Peskin, moved that this Motion be TABLED. The motion carried by the following vote: Ayes: 10 - Breed, Cohen, Fewer, Kim, Peskin, Ronen, Safai, Sheehy, Stefani, Yee Excused: 1 - Tang Recommendations of the Land Use and Transportation Committee 161109 [Planning Code, Zoning Map - Establishment of Geary-Masonic Special Use District] Sponsors: Stefani; Safai Ordinance amending the Planning Code to establish the Geary-Masonic Special Use District in the area generally bounded by Geary Boulevard to the south, Masonic Avenue to the east, and Assessor’s Parcel Block No. 1071, Lot Nos. 001 and 004, to the north and west, respectively, amending Sheet SU03 of the Zoning Map; affirming the Planning Department’s determination under the California Environmental Quality Act; making findings of consistency with the General Plan, and the eight priority policies of Planning Code, Section 101.1; and adopting findings of public convenience, necessity, and welfare under Planning Code, Section 302. PASSED ON FIRST READING by the following vote: Ayes: 10 - Breed, Cohen, Fewer, Kim, Peskin, Ronen, Safai, Sheehy, Stefani, Yee Excused: 1 - Tang City and County of San Francisco Page 126 Printed at 9:41 am on 3/30/18