Like my sophomore year prom date, this week’s meeting was short and generally dull. Between campaigning for themselves and other people, I’m guessing our supervisors are a bit tuckered out right now. A few items of note:
(1) In an astonishing victory of drama over reality, Supervisor Jake McGoldrick invoked Brown v. Board of Education to justify his opposition to Supervisor Carmen Chu’s resolution urging the Board of Education to make geography one of several factors to be considered when assigning children to public schools. (Download sfusd_resolution.pdf.) I’ve never witnessed anyone rant so passionately about a document that has no legal effect. Apparently it worked, though - the resolution failed.
(2) Supervisor Sandoval’s anti-blight ordinance passed unanimously. (Download antiblight_ordinance.pdf.) When Supervisor Chris Daly asked an excellent question about how the Department of Public Works (which has authority to enforce the new law) and the Department of Building Inspection (which enforces building codes) will coordinate, he was given the lame answer that the departments “are talking.” I am in favor of having an anti-blight law, but things that could become a fiasco in this City’s government usually do. Let’s keep an eye on this one.
(3) McGoldrick’s ordinance banning the sale of tobacco on all City-owned property also passed unanimously. (Download tobacco_ban_ordinance.pdf.) The ban will only be included in new leases and renegotiated old leases. So, in 15 years when you can’t buy cigarettes at Fisherman’s Wharf, you’ll know why.
-Melissa
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