Yikes, we've got 53 items on the agenda for tomorrow's Board of Supervisors meeting. That's about twice as many items as last week's meeting that clocked in at nearly five hours long after all the debate on the Housing Elements plan. Most of this week's items are forgettable administrative bits, but with a handful of items related to Treasure Island development, we won't to tune out for too long. So here's our list of what's actually important or interesting on tomorrow's agenda:
Item 3: Cesar Chavez Sewer System Improvement. Supervisor Cohen has been on a roll the past couple weeks with these redevelopment initiatives to clean up the Bayview and Hunter's Point. Now she's taking on the real dirty work and grabbing a $669,000 grant from the EPA to clean up the sewer system in her district.
Item 4: Brown Grease Recovery and Biofuel Demonstration Project. With so many taquerias, San Francisco must surely be sitting on a lake of of usable biofuel, right? Eric Mar needs nearly a million bucks to prove restaurant runoff can be a useful fuel source.
Item 17: Yellow Pages Ban. With amendments made and concerns largely answered, expect President Chiu's Yellow Pages band to finally pass tomorrow. It'll take effect next year in May, but in the meantime expect purveyors of paper directories to bring their lawsuits down on City Hall.
Item 25: Excluding Stock-Based Compensation from Payroll Expense. Ross Mirkarimi's first stab at cleaning up the payroll tax in the wake of the Twitter/Tenderloin tax break. It's not as comprehensive as the efforts President Chiu and Supervisor Farrell have been working on, but the ordinance would exclude stock options from taxable income until 2017.
Items 26 - 36: All related to the Treasure Island Development Plan. The board will covering all of the Mayor's ordinances and resolutions related to the Treasure Island Plan: CEQA findings, zoning amendments, transportation plan, a homeless assistance agreement - this could take awhile...
Item 37: Safe Drug Disposal Information. Mirkarimi has been pushing for proper prescription drug disposal for awhile now and with this ordinance, any business selling prescription drugs would have to post flyers telling you how to get rid of all those extra pills.
Item 38: Allowing a former appointed mayor to obtain city employement. Everybody wants Temporary Mayor Ed Lee to get his old job back as City Administrator after this next mayor's race is over.
Items 41-45: Redevelopment Leases. Five items, all sponsored by Malia Cohen, that would give the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency control over land in her district for redevelopment purposes.
Item 47: Declaring May 15-21 "Public Works Week". President Chiu would like to take this week to recognize the hard working people at DPW.
Item 48: Installation of Rubber Sidewalks. Malia Cohen needs a $12,600 grant to install sidewalks made out of recycled tires. Wait, what? Where are these rubber sidewalks going to be installed? Our interest is piqued.
Item 49. National Safe Boating Week. Sean Elsbernd would like to proclaim next week, May 20-29th as "National Safe Boating Week" in the city and county. We take it Mr. Elsbernd doesn't get invited to yacht parties much.
Outreach Advertising and Neighborhood Outreach Advertising for FY2011-2012. An unnumbered resolution that would designate El Reportero as the official outreach newspaper for the Hispanic community, the Bay Area Reporter would be the official outreach paper for the LGBT community and the West Portal Monthly would become the official neighborhood outreach paper for West Portal. So much for hyper-local blogs being the next big thing.
Lawsuits and settlements: Items 7-9 are lawsuit settlements totaling nearly $1.7 million. Item 18 appropriates $2,2850,000 for legal expenses stemming from a lawsuit between Ivana Kirola and the City over alleged ADA violations.
Finally, lots of communications in the Clerk's mailbag this week. Some highlights:
- 30 postcards from concerned citizens regarding shark fin soup.
- 7 letters opposing sidewalk sitting ban.
- 1 letter from Summer Hararah, regarding alleged racial bias in the DA's office.
- 1 letter from a concerned citizen regarding "the same panhandlers sitting and lying on Market Street near the Embarcadero."
- 1 letter from Candice Combs, "regarding the bureaucracy and alleged anti-business rhetoric that is thriving in San Francisco."
The full board agenda is available here and the meeting thing kicks off at 2 p.m. on Tuesdays. For those of you who like to follow along from home, you can stream it live on SFGovTV.org.
