Rules Committee recommends naming City Hall press room for reporter Barbara Ann Taylor

The committee considered an ordinance in the Administrative Code to name the City Hall press room in memory of Barbara Ann Taylor, a long-time legislative reporter who chaired the city hall press corps for decades. Chair Aaron Peskin said the full Board had previously passed a resolution urging the formal naming and expressed condolences to Taylor’s widower, Mark Maper, and her family.

David Pilpel offered brief public comment in support of the renaming. On a roll-call motion to send the item to the full Board with a recommendation, Supervisors Chan, Mandelmann and Chair Peskin each voted aye and the motion passed without objection. The item will proceed to the full Board for final action.

Next steps: the ordinance will be placed on the full Board’s agenda for official naming consideration.