What happened on Monday, 27 September 2021
STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE, Senate, Committees, Legislative, Arkansas
Witnesses told the committee that clinical site vaccine requirements and federal directives for military personnel are disrupting nursing education and raising personnel and unemployment questions; UAMS and the Arkansas National Guard outlined their policies and legal constraints.
San Francisco County, California
Board of Supervisors approves resolution to rename street in Alice Griffith housing project.
San Francisco County, California
The committee recommended multiple seat assignments and reappointments for Assessment Appeals Boards 1 and 2 and forwarded three nominees to the Ballot Simplification Committee to the full Board, recording unanimous committee support on roll calls.
San Francisco County, California
Speakers urge city officials to enforce ILO legislation to protect tenant rights and affordable housing.
San Francisco County, California
The committee unanimously recommended an emergency ordinance to temporarily extend COVID-era limits on no-fault residential evictions (restricting evictions to nonpayment, violence or health-and-safety grounds), forwarding the measure to the full board with a positive recommendation.
STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE, Senate, Committees, Legislative, Arkansas
Arkansas legislators reviewed several competing congressional maps and alternatives at a State Agencies & Govt'l Affairs Senate meeting, with sponsors arguing population balance and critics and local officials urging preservation of county lines and community ties.
San Francisco County, California
Supervisors approve amendments extending funding duration for affordable housing to five years.
San Francisco County, California
The committee voted to forward an ordinance to repeal the city employees' privacy rule (chapter 12B) and allow voluntary collection of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) data from employees and applicants, with DHR to develop anonymous aggregate reporting and privacy protections.
San Francisco County, California
Stefani advocates for amending housing fund radius to address District 2's affordable housing crisis.
San Francisco County, California
At a lengthy hearing, planning and rent-board officials reported on short-term rental (STR) registration and enforcement and on intermediate-length occupancy (ILO) implementation. Staff described application backlogs, roughly 1,600 active registered hosts, about 600 pending applications, budget and staffing for OSTR, and enforcement outcomes; tenant advocates urged more aggressive enforcement and inclusion of STRs/ILOs in the city housing inventory.
San Francisco County, California
Supervisors review updates on short term and intermediate length occupancy rental legislation
San Francisco County, California
Board invites public participation via phone and online for agenda items commentary.
San Francisco County, California
The Rules Committee approved clarifying amendments to an ordinance expanding the definition of "interested parties" and restricting solicited (behested) payments by officials, then continued the bill to Oct. 18 for further drafting and city-attorney review; the committee recorded unanimous committee support in two roll calls.
San Francisco County, California
Olga Karajakin questions the need for connecting sexual orientation to HIV stigma.
San Francisco County, California
The committee unanimously recommended initiation of landmark designation for the San Francisco Eagle Bar (396–398 Twelfth St.), citing the bar’s 40-year history as an LGBTQ leather community anchor; the Planning Department and Historic Preservation Commission recommended designation.
San Francisco County, California
Supervisor Haney supports designating San Francisco Eagle Bar as a landmark for its cultural significance.
San Francisco County, California
Emergency ordinance aims to prevent residential evictions amid ongoing COVID-19 pandemic challenges.
San Francisco County, California
Supervisors unanimously recommend tenant protection report to the full board for approval.
San Francisco County, California
Committee unanimously supports designating the Eagle as a landmark for the leather community.
San Francisco County, California
Supervisors discussed amendments to allow social-service and philanthropic uses in Chinatown mixed-use districts under conditional use authorization; two amendments were identified as substantive by the city attorney and the committee moved to continue the item one week (Oct. 4) after adopting technical changes.
San Francisco County, California
Supervisors unanimously approved amendments to earmark roughly $4.5 million in inclusionary-housing fees for 100% affordable projects near the Geary Masonic Special Use District, expanding the eligible radius to 1.5 miles and extending the local-use window to five years before funds revert citywide.
San Francisco County, California
The Land Use and Transportation Committee voted unanimously to recommend renaming Donner Avenue (Alice Griffith public housing) “Charlie Way” to honor longtime Bayview-Hunters Point community leader Charlie Walker; the item will move to the full Board of Supervisors.