Just before Monday’s fourth anniversary of the Iraq War, the Board of Supervisors approved a resolution Tuesday that urges the U.S. Congress to secure immediate and safe withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.

It comes as Congress is considering President Bush’s proposal to spend billions of more dollars on the Iraq war, and as local anti-war residents look to San Francisco Democrat and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to end the war.

Supervisor Chris Daly, who drafted the resolution, said the war dollars are “big chunks of money that do have an impact on local government.”

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The resolution is part of a pattern by the board, having approved a number of other nonbinding resolutions criticizing Bush and opposing the war that have occasionally placed The City in the national spotlight. The board’s tendency to weigh in on non-local issues has also drawn criticism, even from some of its own members.

At least one supervisor is re-examining the appropriateness of these kinds of resolutions now that Pelosi has become the House speaker.

“Ordinarily, this is a resolution that I would automatically vote against,” Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier said. “Given what our congresswoman has been doing in Congress and the leadership that she has taken, I think that this is actually an appropriate time for something like this to show our support to Congresswoman Pelosi and what she is doing.”

Supervisor Ed Jew, the one vote in opposition, said that while he also opposed the war, the board should only focus on local issues.

“I believe that we have a war here in San Francisco — here in the Western Addition and the Bayview. And we need to address issues like homelessness, and Muni and making sure that we do our job at repairing potholes,” Jew said. “We need to concentrate on the issues on hand within the county of San Francisco.”

Goodbye, schoolyard food trucks

The Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a ban on food trucks within 1,500 feet of The City’s middle and high schools. The crackdown comes as San Francisco Unified School District officials and parents of students say the trucks park in front of the schools, enticing students to leave campus and purchase junk foods — soda, candy, cookies. The trucks are blamed for undermining efforts to ensure a healthy diet for students to counter the growing trend of childhood obesity and its related diseases, such as diabetes. Four years ago, the school district passed a resolution mandating the removal of soda and junk food from all district cafeterias and vending machines.

jsabatini@examiner.com