All decisions
about 260 Board decisions about Alfred Roncovieri, in date order. Each links to its printed page.
- Repeal proposed for the ordinance regulating the sale of firearms
- Resolution to keep the Calvary Cemetery removal bill on the calendar pending court rulings was defeated.
- Salary ordinance adding city positions amended: court stenographers raised to $3,600 a year, with further amendments continuing.
- Teachers' pay and other school department costs were split into separate Common School Fund appropriations in the budget.
- Finance Committee report recommends $400,000 more for teacher salaries; the motion to adopt it continues on the next page.
- Motion to grant Adolph Uhl the floor to speak on jail matters was lost by the Board.
- Proposed raise to $4,200 each for police court stenographers was referred to Finance Committee; police judges' pay approved.
- Roncovieri's $100,000 tubercular sanitarium item was sent to the Finance Committee.
- Board passed for printing, as amended, an ordinance on where traffic signals and safety zones go on city streets.
- Supervisor Roncovieri proposed a charter change capping urgent-necessity budget appropriations at two per cent.
- Supervisor Roncovieri proposed Charter Amendment No. 35, requiring competitive civil service exams for city school teachers, for voter approval.
- Roncovieri's motion to put a larger urgent necessity fund to voters failed.
- Board adopted a motion looking with disfavor on raises for city officials who have not justified them before the Board.
- Departments were asked to curtail spending to cover the deficit created by the $50,000 flood-relief appropriation.
- The Board approved a motion to consider employing retiring clerk Tom Cleary as an expert to write San Francisco's early history.
- Supervisor Roncovieri's motion asked the City Architect to study garage space under streets and the War Memorial site; carried.
- Roncovieri's motion asking the Judiciary Committee to prepare legislation joining San Mateo and San Francisco counties was carried.
- Motion carried to turn the entire fourth floor of the Hall of Justice over to the Police Department.
- Supervisor Roncovieri's motion to give the entire fourth floor of the Hall of Justice to the Police Department carried, with a further amendment pending.
- Supervisor Roncovieri's motion ordered copies of the City Attorney's bridge correspondence sent to members and the City Attorney.
- Charter fund budget appropriations for playground, park, library and other city funds were listed; a Portola Festival publicity amendment lost.
- Motor bus service proposed for the Marina District along Chestnut Street
- Valencia Theater's assessed improvements were reduced from $20,000 to $100 after the motion carried.
- Supervisor Gallagher was appointed to represent San Francisco at the Marin County Fair in Novato.
- Carl G. Larsen's Golden Gate Heights gift proposed as a park
- Western Pacific Railroad's entry into San Francisco endorsed
- Financing for opening Theresa Street from Alemany Boulevard to Cayuga Avenue was deferred until the City Attorney rules on its status.
- Protest against a permit to enlarge a door for Ray Manufacturing Company on Milton Street was postponed one week and referred to a joint committee.
- Supervisor Roncovieri brought up a proposed ornamental lighting assessment district on Hyde Street, to be calendared for the next meeting.
- Supervisor Koncovieri proposed that the Board of Health confer with architects on whether the San Francisco Hospital enlargement would mar its buildings; referred to committee.
- Roncovieri proposed paying expenses for supervisors staying in Yosemite Valley after the convention; sent to Finance Committee.
- Property owners appealed the City Planning Commission's refusal to rezone Bernal Avenue property to commercial; the hearing was laid over one week.
- Supervisor Roncovieri asked the City Attorney whether relatives of people accidentally killed by police can be compensated; ordered.
- Motion to put off the Chestnut Street zoning question was lost
- City Attorney's zoning opinion on Chestnut Street entered in the minutes
- Supervisor Roncovieri's motion to postpone action on the Mayor's staffing letters for one week failed.
- Board asked to back the Veterans of Foreign Wars poppy sale
- A resolution mourning actress Emilie Melville, who died at 82, is proposed; its outcome continues on the next page.
- Roncovieri moved that the City Attorney be asked whether selling the entire Hetch Hetchy bond issue is necessary.
- The Board adopted Resolution 414 asking the President to appoint five supervisors to the Redwood Empire Association convention in Eureka.
- Proposed citywide refuse collection ordinance for the November 1932 ballot was laid over until September 14, 1932.
- Names of the Governor and State Toll Bridge Authority members were added to the Bay Bridge commendation resolution.
- Board carried a motion to accept the Governor's invitation to attend Transbay Bridge bid opening in Sacramento.
- Board appointed Supervisors Roncovieri, Shannon and Miles to attend the Redwood Empire Association's 13th annual convention.
- Motion to print the day's proceedings in full in the record was ordered without objection.
- Director of Property Joseph Phillips was instructed to study and report on the ventilation system of the Board chambers.
- The Health Committee's report on garbage disposal was put off until Thursday, March 22, 1934.
- Recommendation from the Public Health Committee to call for bids on garbage disposal was laid over one week.
- Motion to approve the Mayor's 50 per cent salary-deduction restoration failed.
- Mary F. Maass's apartment assessment at 250 Twenty-first Avenue was reduced by $500 after a motion carried.
- Supervisors amended the proposed relief ordinance so Citizens' Relief Committee members are confirmed by the Board rather than appointed, 6 to 2.
- Controller asked to furnish the Board a breakdown of the tax levy showing mandatory and permissive items.
- Board adopted Supervisor Roncovieri's motion asking the Clerk to prepare indices of budget departments.
- Board adopted Roncovieri's motion that the Clerk total all budget requests and show needed tax rate increases.
- The Board voted to reject the San Francisco Sanitary Service Company's garbage disposal Bid No. 7 after the City Attorney ruled it illegal.
- Supervisor Roncovieri's motion postponed the garbage matter to June 17, 1935, to let the Ludwig Incinerator's engineer study it further.
- Board proposed accepting Sanitary Fill Company's garbage disposal bid and directed the City Attorney to prepare its franchise.
- Public Utilities Committee advances a bill letting Market Street Railway replace streetcars with trolley buses on Eighteenth and nearby streets.
- Hugo Ekedahl's assessment reduction request for 1642 Larkin Street was referred back to the Board of Appraisers.
- William Rippon's assessment reduction request for the 19th and San Carlos streets corner was referred back to the Board of Appraisers.
- Supervisor Roncovieri's motion sending the Director of Property to take sworn affidavits from two invalid ladies was ordered.
- $150 cut for Sarah Vizzis, a brewery working all night nearby
- Garbage disposal hearing postponed from July 29 to August 5, 1935, at 2 p.m.
- Agnes Heneshalajian's request to reduce the assessment of 1485-87 Twentieth avenue was denied.
- Board postponed action on the Bay Bridge terminal site at The Embarcadero until Tuesday, August 20, 1935.
- Garbage disposal franchise ordinance granted to Sanitary Fill Company was adopted after its second reading.
- Board agreed not to delete from the budget whatever sum the Mayor allows for the Democratic Convention.
- Supervisor Havenner was nominated and elected president of the Board of Supervisors by a vote of ten to none.
- Supervisor Warren Shannon was appointed to Joint Highway District No. 9, replacing former Supervisor Gallagher.
- Supervisor Roncovieri moved that the Governor be asked to invite San Francisco to a tax conference in Sacramento.
- Proposed $40,000 supplemental appropriation for new voter registration passed for second reading.
- Question of duplicated publicity by the Redwood Empire Association and State Chamber of Commerce referred to the Finance Committee.
- Supervisor Shannon was delegated to attend the County Supervisors' meeting in Sacramento on July 24, 1936.
- Action on Hetch Hetchy power distribution plans put off until August 31.
- Supervisor Roncovieri moved that the Controller be authorized to print a San Francisco Examiner tax article for distribution.
- The Board adopted a motion instructing the Clerk to write a memorial letter for Prentiss Cobb Hale.
- Supervisor Roncovieri's motion asks the Controller to estimate tax rates for a proposed $52,700,000 rapid transit subway bond issue.
- Supervisor Roncovieri's proposed amendment on approving utility bonds was suggested for tabling and was not voted on.
- Supervisor Roncovieri proposed a charter amendment requiring revenue bond proposals to clear utility, engineering, controller and administrative review; no vote recorded.
- Supervisor Roncovieri moved to suspend Rule 17 so the Board could hold free and open discussion on the transit question.
- Supervisor Roncovieri moved to postpone the Funston avenue bridge approach matter until the next afternoon.
- Golden Gate Bridge District asked about the Funston Avenue approach
- Board carried a motion asking the Utilities Manager to estimate subway revenues offsetting its $53,000,000 cost.
- Bills allowing removal of bodies from San Francisco cemeteries were continued to March 21, 1937, after a request for postponement.
- Health Service System charter amendment on members choosing their own doctors was deferred for future consideration.
- Board amended proposed charter Section 35 on the Police Department, approving changes to paragraph seven and deleting rank wording; a pay amendment was withdrawn.
- President Shannon read a county supervisors' communication from C. E. Greer about protesting state relief legislation; the outcome continues on the next page.
- Supervisor Roncovieri's motion to set the cleaners and dyers code ordinance as a special order for February 23 carried.
- Board carried a motion asking the City Attorney whether it may regulate tavern closing hours by ordinance under police power.
- Board members were invited to test travel routes to the Bay Bridge head on March 2, 1937.
- Board authorized its President to name members to attend urgent matters at the State Legislature in Sacramento.
- Turk Street proposed for the gas tax street list, put off
- Supervisor Roncovieri moved to re-refer J. A. Chevalier's assessment application to Appraisers; so ordered.
- J. A. Chevalier's assessment appeal was re-referred to the appraisers.
- Mary Peterson's property assessment was reduced by $100 on motion of Supervisor Roncovieri.
- Supervisor Roncovieri's motion authorizing the Finance Committee and Controller to prepare bond maturity dates was carried.
- Supervisor Colman's proposal to include $60,000 in next year's budget for Chamber of Commerce publicity was postponed two weeks.
- Supervisor Roncovieri proposes printing a detailed schedule of the 1937-38 $3,871 tax rate on all city tax bills.
- Board sends a three-member committee, including the Controller, to the California State Conference in Los Angeles.
- Resolution urges Congress to pass the Dingel Bill, allowing federal money for city airport development and maintenance.
- Supervisor Roncovieri moved that Warren Shannon be elected Board President for the ensuing two years.
- Supervisor Roncovieri moved that the Clerk ask the Public Welfare Department for details on old age pension appeal rights.
- Board asked Exposition officials not to sign contracts spending $275,000 for a livestock exhibition pending review of Supervisor Ratto's resolution.
- Supervisor Roncovieri's motion returned the Civil Service Commission's salary standardization report for further study, without prejudice.
- Citizens' Committee on Rapid Transit report urging a Traffic Commission charter amendment is debated; a motion to delete parts is pending.
- Supervisor Ratto was empowered to submit San Francisco's certified list of highway sectors to the state.
- Overhead walkway to Market Street put off to after the Exposition
- Hetch Hetchy power distribution referred to Finance and Judiciary Committees
- Supervisors agreed all members would inspect the Hetch Hetchy Dam during the President's anticipated visit.
- Pierre and Marie J. Unere's building assessment on lot 15, block 145 was reduced by $350 to $6,400 on motion.
- Supervisor McSheehy urged the Board to reject a proposed charter amendment on traffic and Market Street Railway control; the vote is not printed here.
- Supervisor Roncovieri moved that the Clerk ask the Golden Gate Bridge District for data on its vote; ordered.
- Tunnel proposed under Broadway from Larkin Street to Mason Street
- Utilities Commission asked what $20,000,000 buys of the Market Street Railway
- $24,480,000 bond issue moved for the Market Street Railway purchase
- Board voted 9 to 1 to rescind its earlier vote on buying the Market Street Railroad.
- Amended resolution on a fair railway price sent to the Board
- $24,480,000 railway bond resolution presented again
- Traffic Commission to negotiate a fair Market Street Railway price
- Supervisor Roncovieri's motion asks the Public Utilities Commission for an extension of Plan No. 7 for Hetch Hetchy power distribution; ordered.
- Supervisor Roncovieri moved final passage of an ordinance putting a $24,480,000 bond to buy Market Street Railway properties to voters.
- Finance Committee was authorized to approve arguments favoring the Market Street Railway bonds and present them to the Registrar of Voters.
- Railway bond election ordinance put off to September 1
- Argument for the railway bonds to go out with sample ballots
- Board postponed until September 23, 1938 the proposed $55M charter amendment for a city electric distribution bond.
- Appeal on removing set-back lines on Castenada Avenue postponed one week to October 17, 1938.
- Appeal against removing set-back lines on Castenada Avenue at Ventura Avenue was deferred one week to October 17.
- Streets Committee sent to the State Highway Commission in Sacramento
- Line abandonment plan sent back to the Public Utilities Committee
- Supervisor Dewey Mead temporarily appointed to the Finance Committee while the President is absent.
- Supervisor Roncovieri's motion to adopt the Finance Committee's salary standardization report was not pressed and lapsed.
- The Controller was ordered to investigate Civil Service and Bureau of Governmental Research cost reports on salary increases.
- Supervisor Roncovieri proposed a resolution directing the Controller to investigate conflicting estimates of the city's salary standardization cost.
- Organist post for the Recreation Department at $50 per call was sent back to Finance Committee.
- Supervisor Roncovieri's motion to reject the salary standardization schedule was ruled out of order by the Chair.
- Motion proposes approving some salary standardization rates and sending questioned compensations back to the Civil Service Commission.
- The Board went on record opposing federal proposals to tax municipal bonds and asked Senators and Congressmen to oppose them.
- The Board moved to invite Assemblyman Ray Williamson to speak on the pending Harbor Bill; the Chair agreed to act.
- The Board approved the municipal expenditure budget for fiscal year 1939-1940, as amended, by nine votes to one.
- The Board approved the tentative San Francisco Unified School District budget of $10,464,213 for 1939-1940 as presented.
- New budget item proposed for Joint Highway District No. 10
- Raker Act resolution put off until all members are present
- Divisadero Street bus resolution adopted, then the action rescinded
- Proposed ordinance would cut the annual licence fee for non-profit shooting galleries to $12.
- Bill No. 326, a gas franchise ordinance with a $200,000 purchase price, was re-passed for second reading after the Board set aside its September 1939 action.
- Supervisors moved to set aside the September passage of gas franchise Bill No. 325 and re-pass it for second reading.
- Repeal of the 1939 license tax ordinance postponed to January and sent back to the Finance Committee.
- Supervisor Roncovieri moved to postpone final passage of the license tax repeal and refer it to the Committee of the Whole.
- Supervisor Roncovieri's motion postpones final passage of the license tax repeal ordinance until January and refers it to Committee of the Whole.
- Warren Shannon was re-elected President of the Board of Supervisors for two years by unanimous vote.
- Proposal to change relief administration costs between the state and the city was referred to the Controller for study.
- Appeal against abolishing a 5-foot set-back line on Lyon Street near Jefferson Street is heard; outcome not yet recorded.
- Proposed amendment to the Municipal Code would allow health institutions, homes for the aged and nursing homes in second residential districts.
- Motion proposed to budget funds to buy the Johnson and Franchesci Lyon Street property; referred to Finance Committee.
- Supervisor Roncovieri renewed his motion for six traffic lanes on widened streets, even reducing sidewalks to nine feet.
- Supervisor Roncovieri moved to postpone the $2,325 de Young Museum appropriation until April 29, 1940.
- Motion to deny salary increases in the 1940-1941 budget tied to reclassified jobs was referred to the Civil Service Commission.
- The Board rescinded its earlier action on an unnamed matter, and a motion to take it up on May 23 failed.
- The Treasurer's budget for 1940-1941 was approved as presented to the Board.
- The Board of Permit Appeals' budget of $8,100 for 1940-1941 was approved by the Board.
- The Public Defender's budget of $19,405 for 1940-1941 was approved by the Board.
- A motion to delete $480 for hire of autos, trucks and teams in the Assessor's budget failed.
- Board added $75,000 to the budget for a proposed low-cost housing project in Chinatown, less a $16,500 loan balance.
- The Clerk read the Superior Court budget analysis, which rises from $240,720 to $247,370 for 1940-1941.
- Motion to rescind the $75,000 Chinatown housing appropriation was postponed until the City Attorney gives an opinion.
- The Board approved the whole Health Department budget by seven ayes to two noes, with McSheehy and Schmidt voting no.
- Board inserted a $75,000 appropriation for the Chinatown low-cost housing project into the budget, though the Mayor had not recommended it.
- Supervisor Roncovieri moves to cut $25,000 for Park Department soil
- Board refuses $28,000 for widening Post Street and Presidio Avenue
- Supervisors postponed consideration of the merchandise vending machine ordinance until June 12, 1940, at 2 P.M.
- Ordinance regulating electrical musical devices was postponed until June 12, 1940 on Supervisor Roncovieri's motion.
- Consideration of the merchandise vending machine ordinance was postponed until June 12, 1940, on Supervisor Roncovieri's motion.
- Mechanical amusement devices ordinance passed for second reading, setting police inspection and impoundment rules for coin-operated machines citywide.
- Universal Advertising offers $50,000 a year for rubbish bin advertising
- $28,000 set aside to widen Post Street and Presidio Avenue
- Two-family homes proposed at Taraval Street and 36th Avenue, northeast corner
- Rezoning proposed at 36th Avenue and Taraval Street, southeast corner
- Several zoning matters, including rezoning near Judah Street and Irving Street, were postponed until July 8, 1940.
- Board finally passed the proposed W.P.A. sponsorship ordinance after reconsidering its earlier defeat on final passage.
- Consideration of the merchandise vending machines matter was postponed to July 8, 1940 at 3 P.M.
- Consideration of the electrical musical devices matter was postponed to July 8, 1940 at 2:30 P.M.
- Bill 682 was finally passed after the Board rescinded its earlier refusal, following a dispute over parliamentary procedure.
- Consideration of electrical musical devices was continued to July 15, 1940 at 2:30 P.M.
- Consideration of merchandise vending machines was continued to July 15, 1940 at 3 P.M.
- Ordinance licensing electrical amusement devices was continued to July 24, 1940, at 3 P.M.
- Consideration of the ordinance regulating electrical musical devices was postponed to Monday, July 29, 1940.
- Supervisor Roncovieri presented a draft Occupational License Revenue Ordinance and asked for a July 29, 1940 hearing.
- Motion to adopt the license tax section on real estate and business opportunity brokers failed, three to five.
- Motion to amend the outdoor advertising definition section failed; no action was taken on the suggestion to combine sections 186 to 191.
- Motion to amend the section prohibiting unlicensed advertising failed.
- Motion to amend the section on when license fees are payable failed.
- Motion to amend the section requiring data to be furnished to the Tax Collector failed.
- Proposed change to the license tax on house cleaning businesses failed.
- Proposed change to the license tax on laundry offices failed.
- Proposed change to the license tax on warehouses failed.
- Proposed change to the license tax on water filter companies failed.
- Motion to amend the license section for dyeing and cleaning offices failed; Samuel Cerf spoke for cleaners and dyers.
- Motion to adopt the license tax section on assayers failed, three votes to five.
- Motion to adopt the license tax section on Custom House brokers failed, three votes to five.
- Motion to adopt the license tax section on bootblack stands failed, three votes to five.
- Merchandise brokers' license fee was reduced from $50 to $10, and the Grain Exchange manager opposed Section 84.
- Section 84 of the business license tax ordinance was rejected, so its motion to adopt failed on a vote of three to five.
- Motion to amend the loans and financing section of the license ordinance failed.
- Proposed change to the license tax on employment offices failed.
- Proposed change to the license tax on transfer and draying companies failed.
- Proposed change to the license tax on general occupations failed.
- Proposed change to the license tax on stage line agencies; outcome not shown on this page.
- Suspension sought until 1941 of the Hetch Hetchy power injunction
- Board of Supervisors postponed reconsideration of its Hetch Hetchy power distribution commitment to Secretary Ickes until August 26, 1940.
- Motion to recess and postpone the resolution for a special hearing failed, so the Board kept considering it.
- Ordinance changing licensing and regulation of coin-operated mechanical amusement devices was taken up for reconsideration by the Board.
- The Finance Committee was appointed to attend the California State Chamber of Commerce annual meeting in Los Angeles.
- Sarah Rose's assessment appeal was taken under advisement after appraisers recommended no reduction.
- Consideration of the sidewalk flower-stand permit ordinance was postponed to January 13, 1941, after operators objected to a 9 o'clock closing hour.
- Authority to sell state-deeded tax-delinquent property at public auction was re-referred to the Finance Committee.
- Green Zone parking-hours change was continued on the calendar to March 17, 1941 for a committee-of-the-whole hearing.
- A proposed emergency ordinance would revise how the Board of Education pays teachers' salaries, amending the salary ordinance.
- Controller asked to help the Clerk prepare the proposed budget copy for publication; referred to Finance Committee.
- Sportsmen's group asked the Board to back a state bill removing 'fish' from the city's game refuge; motion to refer to the Public Utilities Commission.
- Board asked the Fire Commission to name by May 21, 1941 which budgeted house to drop for Holly Park.
- Board approved the 1941-1942 budget of the Board of Permit Appeals.
- A motion to move surplus funds into office supply accounts for the Clerk of the Board was postponed until June 30, 1941.
- The Board unanimously adopted a resolution mourning the death of Judge Frank H. Dunne and sending condolences to his family.
- Supervisor Roncovieri withdrew his motion for the Controller to transfer surplus funds for Board of Supervisors office supplies.
- Resolution to exempt the zoo director and a zoological expert from charter residence requirements was proposed by the Park Commission.
- Carlo Matraia's assessment application for block 325 was denied; the appraisers' recommendation of no reduction was confirmed.
- Supervisor Uhl proposed raising monthly rent allowances for relief recipients from $10 to $15 for two persons.
- Motion made to add an emergency Section 2 to the tax rate ordinance; the roll call continues on the next page.
- Tax rate ordinance for 1941-1942 proposed for final passage as an emergency measure so tax anticipation notes can be sold.
- Board chambers were made available to Colonel Lyon and Army authorities on December 17, 18 and 19 for instruction.
- Blackout plan to switch off outside lights at nine debated
- A proposed salary schedule for institutional service jobs such as cooks and waiters would take effect July 1, 1942.
- Board approved the Public Works County Roads construction budget, as amended, by an 8 to 3 vote.
- The Board approved the Water Department's wartime civilian defence emergency budget of $47,439 as presented, over the Finance Committee's objection.
- Board approved the Department of Public Works county roads construction budget, Index 48, as amended.
- $51,000 restored in budget for Joint Highway District 10
- Manager of Utilities presented a replacement civilian defense budget for Hetch Hetchy Water Supply totalling $38,820; outcome not printed.
- Supervisor Roncovieri moved to approve a $32,359 supplemental budget for the Civilian Defense Council; the vote is not shown.
- Proposed ordinance barring personal use of city-owned motor vehicles was tabled by the Board.
- Finance Committee authorized to negotiate a better plan than the Mayor's proposal for buying Market Street Railway properties.
- Clerk authorized to print and distribute all reports on the proposed Market Street Railway lease-purchase plan.
- Supervisor Roncovieri moved that five members be appointed by the President to represent the Board at the League of California Municipalities conference in Los Angeles.
- Roncovieri reviews the Funston Avenue approach to the Golden Gate Bridge
- Laurel Hill Cemetery Association's assessment was proposed for reduction to last year's $5,400; the final vote continues on the next page.
- City Attorney asked to report on how to proceed over the final costs of the Funston Avenue bridge approach.
- Proposed charter amendment on selling revenue bonds was debated and amended by the Board; the final vote is not shown here.
- The Mayor was requested, without objection, to appoint a citizens' committee to campaign for the Market Street Railway revenue bond amendment.
- Dogs to be barred from Union Square and Huntington Square
- Finance Committee asked to consider an appropriation for San Francisco to host the Regional Development Council meeting.
- The Board sustained the Chair's ruling in a tied vote, so Supervisor Roncovieri's appeal on referral to Finance Committee failed.
- Supervisor Roncovieri's motion to study state subvention formulas was ruled out of order and referred to the Finance Committee.
- Supervisor Roncovieri's motion to approve a City Attorney amendment on railway worker seniority failed on a roll call vote.
- The Board twice refused to send the Drifting Sand Ordinance back to committee, so the sand-cover measure stays under debate.
- Board referred the Library Trustees Secretary salary request, asking for $300 to $400, to the Civil Service Commission.
- Proposed emergency appropriation of $15,700 from the Water Surplus Fund to guard Water Department properties.
- The Board sent the $1,950 public address system plan for the chambers to the Chief Administrative Officer to report back.
- Supervisor Roncovieri's earlier Columbus Day committee resolution was rescinded, after a similar resolution by Supervisor Mead was adopted instead.