Yesterday's Board meeting started off with some chuckles from the board and more than one supervisor showed up late for Question Time with Mayor Lee. How rude! Here, from SFGovTV footage, we see Supervisor Kim strolling in during the Pledge of Allegiance:

We don't mean to seem like we're harping on Miss Kim for the pledge thing again, because really - who cares? But shouldn't there be rules governing these sorts of things? Like, maybe you should wait until the batter is out of the box, so to speak. Moot point though: Jane Kim is Chair of the Rules Committee, so she doesn't follow the rules, she makes the rules. +1 for Jane Kim...?

As Madame Clerk called QT with Ed Lee as the first order of business, a convivial air wafted through the People's Chambers. President Chiu and Mayor Lee shared a funny joke while Supervisor Mar took a second to (finally) take his seat before reading his question on affordable housing. Unfortunately neither Mar's question, nor anybody else's, elicited any new policy announcements from His Temporariness. So we're forced to bestow -6 on Mayor Lee. (That's one for each question yesterday.) It's baffling, really, that a Mayor who actually gets stuff done for once is somehow back at negative one billion points. But he's always got his friends, right?

The first agenda item to get anything more than a speedy vote was the update to the Housing Element. Despite being a freshman on the board, Supervisor Wiener has been carrying this one for a while, which is a task Supervisor Mirkarimi called "quixotic". We're pretty sure that means Supervisor Campos is Sancho Panza, but we'll leave the literary interpretations to Supervisor Avalos. The Housing Element passed on a 8-3 vote. +1 to Scott Quixote and +0.5 to Mirkarimi for standing up and using quixotic in a complete sentence.

All the Treasure Island stuff finally passed, obviously. Supervisor Kim thanked everyone for working tirelessly. She also made a face like someone in the peanut gallery just farted:

After the air cleared, she spoke a little bit about the Western SoMa community stabilization policy, pointing to the Housing Element's goal of building 60% affordable housing (which the city isn't hitting) as the key point in the resolution. It passed unanimously, so all that hot air probably wasn't necessary, but it must feel good to let out another 11-0 windfall. No extra points though, because we're still confused about how she got a +1 for showing up late.

After a round of appointments the Board surrendered themselves to nearly four hours of public comments on the Beilenson Hearing. (The one about cutting health care services for the poor and indigent.) There's no vote on the matter because it's part of the budget talks, so we tuned out until Roll Call for introductions. By then everyone in attendance had already cleared the room.

Mirkarimi/Mar/Avalos introduced a new joint that will name San Francisco a "summer learning city", which is a very progressive resolution because kids need to be learning in the summer, duh. Although if that urban farming thing takes off, there could be a conflict as kids start skipping summer learning opportunities to tend to their crops and such.

President Chiu introduced legislation that would borrow $170 million to repair the War Memorial Veterans Building. We can get behind this because we'd hate to see the Herbst Theater fall apart (and sure, the Japanese Peace Treaty was drafted in the War Memorial), but Supervisor Farrell is apparently not happy about selling off shares of the lease. We propose they settle any issues on this item with a boxing match at Kezar Pavilion, just for kicks.

Campos called for a plaque on the ARC AIDS Vigil at UN Plaza. Timely and appropriate, so it's +1 for Campos. Campos also explained Clerk Calvillo's absence last week by thanking her for her participation in the AIDS Lifecycle ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles. 545 high fives for the Clerk of the Board - one for every mile she rode last week. Bravo, madame clerk, we salute you.

On the Imperative Agenda, Supervisor Farrell moved to recognize IBM on their 100th anniversary. That seems less than imperative if you ask us, but whatever - let's all go home before everybody starts getting grumpy and ruins the kumbaya vibe from all these +1s.

We end on a four-way tie for first, with Jane Kim somehow sneaking her way in to second place. Yeah, we're confused too.

Final Rankings (This week's changes in parentheses.)
7 Mark Farrell (No change)
7 Sean Elsbernd (No change)
7 Ross Mirkarimi (+0.5)
7 Scott Wiener (+1)
6 Jane Kim (+1?)
4 Malia Cohen (No change)
4 David Campos (+1)
3.5 Carmen Chu (No change)
1 David Chiu (No change)
-1 Eric Mar (No change)
-3 John Avalos (No change)
-1 Billion Mayor Ed Lee (-6)