All decisions
about 410 Board decisions about Arthur M. Brown, Jr., in date order. Each links to its printed page.
- Motion to advertise an April 4 meeting to buy the Sneath Ranch in San Mateo County for a jail carried.
- Supervisor Brown moved to cut about $20,000 in budget appropriations for Public Defender's office positions; the vote is not shown here.
- Supervisor Brown's motion to cut six Public Defender's office positions from the budget was withdrawn amid dispute.
- Daytime parking ban to be lifted on Battery and Sansome streets
- Proposed ordinance requiring locksmiths to get police permits and pay a fee was made a special order for October 24, 1932.
- Supervisor Brown moved to accept Berry-Ortmeyer Engineering Company's bid for garbage disposal; Supervisor Peyser moved to delay it four weeks.
- The Board took up Berry-Ortmeyer's bid to dispose of the city's garbage; the outcome is not on this page.
- Berry-Ortmeyer Engineering Company's bid to dispose of San Francisco's garbage was proposed for acceptance, then Peyser moved to lay it over four weeks.
- Bill setting bond requirements for city officers and employees was referred to the Municipal Personnel Committee on Brown's motion.
- Board sent garbage disposal report to Health Committee for a plan within forty-five days; Scavengers' Protective Union contract extended ninety days.
- Board postponed until July action on an ordinance imposing a license fee on wholesale peddlers of food products.
- Transient merchant permit and fee ordinance was laid over until July 17, 1933.
- Supervisor Brown's proposed ordinance on bonding city employees was placed on the calendar for next Monday.
- Supervisor Brown raised that the ordinance bonding City officials and employees was erroneously printed.
- Ordinance setting performance bond amounts for city officers and employees is laid over one week as a special order.
- Supervisor Brown's amendments to an ordinance on bonding city officers and employees were accepted, replacing bond wording with suretyship.
- Board adopted without objection Supervisor Brown's amendment letting unbonded city positions be grouped under one bond schedule.
- Park budget gained a $21,867 Mt. Davidson improvement; a motion to cut construction by $20,000 for convenience stations failed.
- Board put off the sewage bond surplus matter until 2:30 p.m. the next day.
- Supervisor Brown's amendment to Section 5 of the beverage permit ordinance was ordered without objection.
- Bill on insurance and bond rules for passenger vehicles for hire was laid over one week on Supervisor Brown's motion.
- Hearing on J. H. Stephenson's relief investigation recommendations was continued to next Monday at 3:30 p.m.
- A request from the San Francisco Model Yacht Club to change Spreckels' Lake in Golden Gate Park was referred to committee.
- Brown moved that the January 8 Board installation proceedings be broadcast by loudspeaker to the overflow crowd in City Hall's rotunda; carried.
- Supervisor Brown moved that the January 8 installation proceedings be broadcast by loudspeaker to the overflow crowd in City Hall.
- Supervisor Brown's motion to refer city ordinance codification to the Judiciary Committee was carried, with a recommendation to the Finance Committee for funds.
- Supervisor Brown proposed an amendment to the city automobile use ordinance; no final vote is printed on this page.
- Washington to be told San Francisco will condemn Candlestick Point
- Supervisor Brown's motion asks Public Works for detailed street work expenditure figures on jobs under $1,000; so ordered.
- Board sent the fill-and-cover garbage disposal question back to committee for further consideration.
- The Board postponed its vote on endorsing the state liquor-control constitutional amendment until April 2, 1934.
- Supervisor Brown moved that the report on street work under $1,000 be a special order of business at 2:30.
- Hearing on street work under $1,000 put off one week
- Joint Committee vote split 2-2 on recommending a one-year spur track permit for Bauer-Schweitzer Hop and Malt Company on North Point Street; absent members to be polled.
- Supervisors Brown and Gallagher moved that the Utilities Manager light Market Street and City Hall fully during the Knights Templar convention.
- Market Street to be lit up for the Knights Templar convention
- Helen M. Slattery's property assessment was reduced by $300 after a $1,000 reduction motion lost.
- Resolution 1500, calling an August 28, 1934 special election on city salary deductions, was adopted by a 6 to 5 vote.
- Supervisor Brown moved to rescind the referral to the Judiciary Committee of a resolution calling a special election on a salary-deduction charter amendment.
- Referral of a proposed Charter amendment and Resolution 1500 to the Judiciary Committee was rescinded, 6 to 5.
- Chair's ruling on rescinding the referral of Resolution 1500, a special election on a Charter amendment, was overruled.
- Board voted to recess until 2 p.m. August 1, 1934 to consider municipal employee salary reductions.
- Supervisor Brown's motion authorizing Recreation Department staff to invite the National Recreation Conference to San Francisco was adopted.
- Proposed charter amendment on publishing ordinances was laid over until 2 p.m. on motion of Supervisor Brown.
- Proposed charter amendment letting supervisors impose license taxes for revenue and regulation was laid over until 2 p.m.
- Proposed charter amendment removing the examination for fixing business places on license taxes was laid over until 2 p.m.
- A substitute charter amendment on business permits and license taxes was approved, replacing Amendments 4 and 5.
- Supervisor Brown's motion asked the Department of Public Works to finish its street repair report for the Board.
- Proposal for a conference on giving local labour and industry preference in city spending was laid over one week.
- Resolution 1455 fixes a December 10, 1934 hearing on an appeal over public proceedings for Fitzgerald Avenue.
- Reported abuses at San Francisco beer parlors were sent to the Public Welfare Committee for investigation and report.
- Board appointed Supervisors Brown, Colman and Gallagher to a committee on potential PWA projects for San Francisco.
- Supervisor Brown asked the Clerk to request a Bureau of Street Repair report from Public Works for next Monday's meeting.
- A motion to rescind the request to use Yerba Buena Shoals for the exposition failed on a 5 to 6 vote.
- Supervisor Brown moved to rescind a postponed motion asking the State Legislature to allow exhibition use of the shoals.
- Brown's motion to hear engineer James Walsh on South Basin conditions failed, short of the six votes needed.
- Supervisor Brown's motion to ask the State Legislature to allow Yerba Buena Shoals for an exposition was continued to April 11.
- Mayor asked to declare May 12-18 China Week to mark the 150th anniversary of the first commercial voyage to China.
- Supervisor Brown proposed asking the State Highway Commission to seek Navy permission to operate the Sears Point road.
- Board asked the Mayor to designate August 12-19, 1935 as Fleet Week and appoint a citizens committee.
- Supervisor Brown moved a message of greeting to the Navy fleet for Fleet Week, August 12 to 19, 1935; ordered sent.
- Proposed ordinance would let Market Street Railway Company run trolley buses on revised routes; amendments requiring bus crews of two lost.
- Disaster Preparedness Ordinance was rereferred to the Public Welfare Committee after the Building Trades Council objected to Section 13.
- Resolution 2217 accepting a federal grant of up to $243,000 for sewer construction in San Francisco was proposed by Brown.
- Federal grant offer of up to $263,688 for school buildings proposed for acceptance; vote continues on next page.
- A resolution proposed accepting a federal grant of up to $28,620 to reconstruct and improve the Palace of Fine Arts.
- Proposed acceptance of a federal grant of up to $50,575 for a school gymnasium building.
- A $324,860 federal grant for San Francisco waterworks, airport, streetcars and street lighting is proposed for acceptance.
- The city accepts a $153,450 federal grant to help build stream diversion works at Moccasin, Tuolumne County.
- President McSheehy asked to appoint a committee to attend Sacramento talks on Golden Gate Bridge approaches.
- Supervisor Brown proposed appointing an agent to plan and conduct a 1938 exposition on Yerba Buena Shoals.
- Supervisor Brown moved that the disaster preparedness ordinance be laid over until November 25, 1935.
- Supervisor Brown's motion asking the State Highway Commission to fund the Waldo approach to the Golden Gate Bridge carried.
- Board refers Supervisor McSheehy's bridge toll resolution to the City Attorney for an opinion on its powers.
- Sidewalk width on Brannan Street between The Embarcadero and Division Street was re-referred to the Streets Committee.
- Ordinance banning sale of damaged foodstuffs in San Francisco was referred to the Public Health Committee for a December 31, 1935 hearing.
- City rents offices from The Lurie Company for $880 a month
- Ada M. Martin protests widening Fulton Street out to the beach
- Supervisor Brown asked the Clerk to inquire of the Board of Health about lack of heating in theatre buildings.
- Clerk directed to prepare a memorial to Congress urging adequate Pacific Coast defense, following a Chamber of Commerce letter presented by Supervisor Brown.
- Whole subject of relief sent to the public welfare committee
- Supervisor Brown asked the City Attorney to renew earlier opinion requests on gasoline sales, Presidio roads and board liability.
- Supervisor Brown's motion to telegram California's senators protesting the Senate committee's Pacific Coast defense budget cut was carried.
- Supervisor Brown moved that the Mayor appoint a citizens committee to observe the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge; motion carried.
- Mayor asked to appoint a citizens committee to organise a disaster relief demonstration on April 18, 1936; motion carried.
- Supervisor Brown moved, seconded by Shannon, that the Board ask the federal government to issue a stamp for the Golden Gate Bridge opening.
- Proposed $480,000 for trolley buses replacing the H car line, extending service to the Marina and Bayview; discussion continued.
- Proposed amendment to Ordinance 8564 would set limits on public and commercial garages near churches, theatres and hospitals.
- Supervisor Brown moved that the Clerk ask the Chief Administrative Officer to extend the June 15 deadline on building law changes by one month.
- A $50,000 appropriation for the District Attorney's investigation of Police Department members passed on first reading.
- A resolution proposing a $3,220,000 bond issue for a Courts Building in the Civic Center was re-referred to Finance Committee.
- The Board asked the Chief Administrative Officer to consider contributions sending California athletes to the Berlin Olympic Games.
- The Board unanimously ordered the Clerk to write the Park Presidio Improvement Club confirming Supervisor Brown's account of the August 26 meeting.
- Supervisor Brown asked the Clerk to request facts on a fire hose contract split between Pioneer Rubber Mills and an outside firm.
- Mayor asked to name a tree-planting committee for McLaren Park
- Warren Shannon was proposed as a Golden Gate Bridge director for four years; final determination was postponed on motion.
- Board ordered a committee formed to take the Funston Avenue approach to the Golden Gate Bridge up with the State Highway Commission.
- Supervisors re-adopted the motion on the rapid transit subway question after Brown rejoined the meeting.
- Supervisor Brown moved to postpone the proposed Charter amendment on revenue bonds until next Monday; Havenner opposed postponement.
- Supervisor Brown's motion to delete a charter paragraph on public utilities bond issues failed, nine to two.
- Board carried a motion asking the Mayor to appoint a committee to greet the Santa Clara football team.
- Mayor Rossi's four appointees were confirmed as War Memorial Board trustees for six-year terms.
- Mayor authorized to make a contribution for Mid-West flood sufferers, with the amount left to his discretion; motion carried.
- Board recommended that city letterheads carry a Golden Gate Bridge opening and Fiesta notice, sent to the Chief Administrative Officer.
- Supervisor McSheehy was named the Board's delegate to Washington, D.C., for the Golden Gate Bridge Opening Celebration Committee, with city paying expenses.
- Chronicle plan would cut Bay Bridge tolls to twenty-five cents
- The Board approved a commemorative scroll honouring the Santa Clara Broncos' victory over Louisiana State University.
- The Board approved paying Supervisor McSheehy's travel to Washington, D.C., and back from City and County funds.
- The Board ordered a scroll prepared and sent to Santa Clara University to commemorate its football victory.
- Supervisor Brown moved to ask the Mayor to let City employees attend Fiesta events when work allows, and the motion carried.
- Supervisor Brown's motion refers the San Rafael traffic bottleneck to the Streets Committee for a report.
- Supervisor Brown moved to put the tax rate levy over one week, to a date before the September 15 deadline.
- Supervisor Brown's motion to send a committee of supervisors to the Redwood Empire convention at Boyes Springs carried.
- Supervisor Colman's proposal for an extra $60,000 for Chamber of Commerce publicity was tabled.
- Supervisor Brown's motion to recommend a citizens committee to consider rapid transit plans carried.
- Milton Marks asks to delay the Lyon Street zoning hearing
- Supervisor Brown moved to accept William P. Filmer's resignation from the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District board, effective midnight January 10, 1938.
- Market Street Railway told to repair the streets around its tracks
- Clerk directed to inform the Mayor that Major General Geo. S. Simonds, in charge of the Presidio, retires March 31.
- Supervisor Brown moved that the City Attorney prepare a message asking the Governor to include parking legislation in the special session.
- Supervisors debate sending the Governor a transcript and telegram about the $3.75M purchase; no outcome is shown here.
- Supervisor Brown's motion to telegram the Governor about the Bay Ferries purchase was ruled out of order.
- Supervisors debated sending the Governor a telegram and transcript about the Board's ferry purchase vote; no final decision is shown here.
- Board appointed a three-member committee to represent it at a Los Banos barbecue starting April 29, 1938.
- Supervisor Brown's appeal from the Chair's ruling on the ordinance was postponed to next Monday.
- Suspension of rules granted, 8 to 3, so the $5,000 appropriation could be reconsidered immediately.
- Brown moved to restore the matter deleted June 20 to the Citizens' Committee rapid transit report; outcome not shown.
- Ratto offered a rapid transit plan with a charter amendment
- Supervisor Brown moved to submit a charter amendment creating a Traffic Commission to city voters.
- Proposed charter amendment on electric system revenue bonds was referred to the Public Utilities Committee.
- Charter amendment creating a city electric revenue bond system was laid over one week and made a special order.
- Supervisor Brown's proposal on funds for supervisors' conference travel was referred to the Finance Committee.
- Argument for the railway bonds to go out with sample ballots
- Market Street Railway to be told the city intends to buy
- Post Street sidewalks narrowed between Market Street and Van Ness Avenue
- Supervisor Brown was appointed chairman of a Board committee to represent the city at the Cuesta Grade opening.
- Proposed ordinances to limit building heights and rezone Marina District land from light industrial to first residential were debated; no final vote appears here.
- Finance Committee recommends up to $2,000 for a joint Redwood Empire counties exhibit at the Golden Gate Exposition.
- Supervisor Brown proposed asking Congress to amend the Raker Act to allow sale of Hetch Hetchy power; referred to committee.
- $28,900 for widening and rebuilding nine streets with WPA labor
- Proposed amendments to the housing authority tax-exemption resolution were defeated by a vote of 10 to 1.
- Supervisor Brown moved to reject the Civil Service salary standardization schedule and ask for a partial schedule instead.
- Supervisor Brown's motion to postpone action on the salary standardization ordinance was ruled out of order; the Chair was sustained 6 to 4.
- Supervisor Brown's motion to consider the salary standardization ordinance seriatim was ruled out of order, and the ruling was sustained.
- Shops allowed at Nineteenth Avenue and Santiago Street
- Supervisor Brown moved to reconsider the February 14 passage of Bill No. 59, the salary standardization ordinance.
- The Streets Committee was asked to urgently consider widening Lombard Street using County Road Fund money.
- Supervisor Brown moved to repeal the salary standardization ordinance; the Board took the matter into Committee of the Whole.
- Motion to repeal the city's salary standardization ordinance failed, with two ayes and seven noes.
- Supervisor Brown's amendment to finance buying Pacific Gas and Electric properties with general obligation bonds failed.
- Supervisor Brown proposed amending the Pacific Gas and Electric purchase proposal to use general obligation bonds instead of revenue bonds.
- Supervisor Brown moved that the Board ask the Mayor to act on salary standardization after the May 19, 1939 vote.
- Supervisor Brown's motion moved the Raker Act power-sale amendment resolution into a Committee of the Whole hearing, carried 6 to 2.
- Kings Canyon National Park bill backed, then put off
- Amendment would limit housing to 750 units at McLaren Park
- Support for a Kings Canyon National Park put off
- Board asked the City Attorney to draft an amendment to Section 6 of the Raker Act and sent a committee to Washington.
- Supervisor Brown's amendments to limit the 3000-unit low-cost housing program were defeated; the resolution's final vote follows on the next page.
- The Board recommended the film "San Francisco Salutes You" to the Chief Administrative Officer, asking him to consider city sponsorship.
- All remaining applications for reduction or correction of assessments not otherwise acted on were denied.
- Assessment on a condemned building on Lot 16, Block 2609 was reduced by $900 to $100, granted unanimously.
- The Board, without objection, asked the Registrar of Voters to add registration places across the city and in hospitals.
- Mayor asked to devise ways to entertain visiting Los Angeles harbor commissioners and their party meeting in Oakland.
- Supervisor Brown's resolution on arbitration of a waterfront labour dispute was sent to a joint committee for hearing.
- Supervisor Brown proposed a resolution urging both sides of the water front dispute to submit to arbitration.
- Nine dismissed temporary firemen refused a hold-over list
- Board sent the Registrar of Voters a letter of appreciation for voter registration places outside City Hall.
- Bus and traffic-safety changes on Polk, Larkin and Ninth Streets debated; motion to subpoena the Police Chief pending.
- Board urges Exposition Commission to set adult admission at 25 cents, children 5 cents, and parking 25 cents.
- Board commended San Francisco police and fire department staff for their excellent work at the Exposition.
- Miss Tarpy's protest overruled and her sidewalk repair ordered
- Paint spray shop ordinance postponed to November 13, 1939, after groups protested its final passage.
- Proposed resolution backs the Mayor's plan to put $250,000 for the 1940 Exposition in the 1940-1941 budget.
- The San Francisco Junior Chamber of Commerce urged slum clearance and a housing project in Chinatown; Supervisor Brown had the letter sent to the U.S. Housing Authority.
- Supervisor Brown reported on a proposal requiring agreements when relief recipients mortgage or transfer property; the item continues.
- Appeal on rezoning west side of Gough Street from First to Second Residential was continued to February 13, 1940.
- Proposed $125,718 from PWA hospital bond surplus for Hassler Health Home, San Francisco Hospital and Laguna Honda equipment was re-referred to committee.
- Consideration of a $75,000 city contribution to a Chinatown low cost housing project was temporarily postponed while amendments on eliminations were debated.
- Board overrides the Mayor's veto of an ordinance
- A resolution urging the Legislature to consolidate county relief for employables and unemployables was called out and its consideration postponed.
- Resolution directing the City Attorney to sue the Controller to enforce Resolution 906 was referred to the Finance Committee.
- Supervisor Brown's motion asking Civil Service to credit Underwriters Patrol members in Fire Department exams was referred to Judiciary Committee.
- Board set Friday, May 24 at 11 a.m. to reconsider the Art Commission's band concert appropriation.
- Board referred budget suggestions from the Municipal Conference Committee letter to city departments for reply.
- Board approved the Art Commission's 1940-41 budget, which is $1,065 lower than the previous year.
- Supervisor Brown moved to cut municipal band concerts from the Art Commission budget as a test of opponents' sincerity.
- The Board approved the County Road Fund Budget, with items for per diem men excluded, by a vote of three to two.
- Supervisor Brown moved to rescind the $75,000 Chinatown Low Cost Housing Project appropriation pending City Attorney advice on legality.
- Analyses of the General and Street Construction County Road Fund budgets were read; the outcome continues on the next page.
- Motion to cut $200 from tire, tube and gasoline funds failed.
- Action on $230,000 for San Andreas outlet tunnel and pipe was postponed to May 24, 1940.
- Mayor's recommended salary corrections to several health and hospital budget positions were approved on motion by Supervisor Brown.
- Action on per diem men's compensation was postponed to a later session on motion by Supervisor Brown.
- Board carried an amendment reducing the automobile and truck replacement budget items by $5,000.
- Board approved the budget for the Police Exposition.
- Board motion to approve the Hetch Hetchy Power Operative budget failed, so its functions would cease July 1.
- Board deferred approval of the San Francisco Unified School District budget in protest against a substantial increase.
- The Board approved the Public Library budget as corrected and amended, including librarian salary changes.
- The Board approved the Adult Probation budget, Index 25, as presented.
- Supervisor Brown moved approval of the amended city budget; the vote is not printed on this page.
- The Board rejected the Public Works budget, including a $22,500 traffic consultant line.
- Board approved the budget for the Fire Department exposition.
- The Clerk read an analysis of the Public Welfare Department budget, Index 56; no outcome printed yet.
- The Board approved the Chief Administrative Officer's budget, cutting Publicity and Advertising to $320,000 by a 6-3 vote.
- Supervisor Brown moved approval of the Budget as amended; the vote is not printed on this page.
- Water Department item for a $140 San Andreas Outlet No. 3 shaft control gate was deleted from the budget.
- The Board approved the budget for the Detention Home as presented.
- The Board approved a $10 monthly pay increase for each affected class of librarians, replacing the Mayor's larger recommendation.
- Motion to adopt the remaining city budget failed after Supervisor McSheehy objected over the midnight hour and its legality.
- The Board ordered telegrams sent to Senators Johnson and Downey urging support for deeding Mint Avenue to San Francisco.
- Supervisor Brown moved that the Finance Committee consider his suggestions on tracking position reclassifications, and the motion carried unanimously.
- Supervisor Uhl moved to reconsider the $28,000 WPA appropriation for widening Post Street, refused by one vote.
- Ban on interurban buses near Chestnut Street sent back to committee
- Board endorses the Redwood Empire counties' state highway building requests
- Consideration of W.P.A. funding for widening Post Street was postponed to June 24, 1940 after a failed motion.
- Supervisor Brown moved to reconsider the $28,000 WPA-sponsored Post Street and Presidio Avenue widening appropriation; ruling reserved to next meeting.
- Board sends the matter to Finance Committee on July 12
- Complaint about single men on relief being sent to camps or cut off relief postponed to July 24, 1940.
- Supervisors Brown, Ratto and Schmidt were appointed to represent the Board at the Alameda County Fair in Pleasanton.
- Motion to rescind the Board's recess decision failed on a tied vote of four to four.
- Bill letting the Public Welfare Commission transport indigent persons to other counties or states passed for second reading.
- The proposed new traffic code was re-referred to the Fire, Safety and Police Committee after debate over police authority.
- The Board took the proposed resolution taxing incomes of non-resident workers into its own hands; debate continues on the next page.
- Committee instructed to raise Golden Gate Bridge highway sign discrimination complaint at Redwood Empire Association meeting in Ukiah.
- Supervisor Brown moved that the Board approve or disapprove the Public Welfare Department's November aid denials and discontinuances; McGowan sought a one-week delay.
- Board approved the Public Welfare Department's November 1940 supplemental aid recommendations, covering old age security aid, discontinuances and denials.
- Matter of wording on denial-of-aid notices referred to the City Attorney to draft a more suitable form.
- Theatre public-safety ordinance on aisles, stage fabrics and exits was re-referred to the Fire, Safety and Police Committee.
- Shoreline Highway recommendations sent back to committee
- Board asked to back the Redwood Empire Association's highway resolutions
- Brown's motion asking the Board of Education to study free school meals was referred to committee.
- Resolution mourns Selby C. Oppenheimer, managing director of the San Francisco Opera House, and extends sympathy to his widow.
- Part of Appleton Avenue near Holly Park Circle to be closed
- Supervisor Brown proposed a resolution urging vocational training to supply workers for the national defense program.
- Supervisor Brown's proposal that the Board of Education study free school meals for San Francisco children was referred to committee.
- Supervisor Brown's proposal to widen the Sacramento highway to four lanes was referred to the Streets Committee.
- Supervisor Uhl moved that the Board take no action now on returning harbor control to San Francisco; debate continues.
- Civil Service Commission asked to give supervisors summaries of personnel and salary changes in department budgets.
- Board opposes Assembly Bill 270, which seeks to repeal the prima facie parking tag law, and tells Sacramento.
- Supervisor Brown moved to appoint a committee to attend the Alameda County Fair; the communication went to the Chief Administrative Officer, and it was ordered.
- Motion to strip airport salary increases from the San Francisco Airport budget was defeated, leaving the budget unapproved.
- Supervisor Brown moved to include $50,000 in the budget to promote livestock shows at the Livestock Pavilion.
- Supervisor Brown moved to put street sweepers and chauffeurs on a per diem pay basis; no vote is printed here.
- Supervisor Brown raised a request for a report on projects financed from gasoline tax funds.
- Bus operator rules ordinance was refused passage for second reading and re-referred to the Fire, Safety and Police Committee.
- The Chair appointed all committee chairmen as a special committee to build goodwill with other California counties.
- Sherman, Clay & Company thanked for a piano for soldiers
- Plan to rename Greece Street Junior Terrace is put off
- Consideration of an ordinance raising one Municipal Railway laborer's pay to $145 per month was postponed.
- Supervisor Brown's motion asking the Public Welfare Commission to keep rehearing refused relief cases and extend relief if warranted was ordered.
- Supervisor Brown's motion asks the Chief Administrative Officer to study San Francisco's exhibit for next year's Sacramento Fair; approved without objection.
- The Board unanimously adopted a resolution appointing a committee to urge Congress to amend the Raker Act.
- Board resolution proposed to honour Daniel Gray Fraser, a former member of the Board of Public Works.
- Board asks the Mayor to recommend $5,000 from the Emergency Reserve Fund for the San Francisco Blood Bank; referred to Director of Health.
- Supervisor Brown's motion refers State Fire Marshal's recommendations on civilian small-fire handling to the Fire Department chief for investigation.
- Resolution asking the Mayor to appoint a committee on selling Hetch Hetchy power to war industries was tabled.
- Supervisor Brown's clipping on halted home building in San Francisco was referred to the Commercial and Industrial Development Committee.
- Motion to buy a new Board of Supervisors automobile was re-referred to the Finance Committee for review.
- Resolution asks the Mayor to call a citizens committee to organize a San Francisco Home Guard against possible attack.
- Supervisor Brown's motion to set the Publicity and Advertising Fund at $320,000 was postponed until a full Board is present.
- George Kemper was elected by unanimous consent as Director of the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District.
- Resolution asks the Mayor to call a citizens committee meeting to organize the San Francisco Home Guard.
- Motion to reconsider a $17,310 salary appropriation in the Public Works engineering bureau failed.
- Motion to delete $150,000 granted to institutional workers from the budget failed.
- Motion to strike about $260,000 in salary standardization raises from the budget failed.
- Public Health workers told to carry gas masks at all times
- The Board unanimously adopted a memorial resolution honouring John H. McCallum, a Public Utilities Commission member, who had died.
- Proposed lease to the Public Utilities Commission of Market Street Railway's transportation facilities, with an option to purchase, remained under consideration.
- Supervisor Brown's motion asked the Mayor's office for City policy on war risk insurance for city-owned buildings; the Finance Committee was appointed to inquire.
- Extra permit granted to the Market Street Railway Company
- Board tabled a resolution urging State Guard protection of Hetch Hetchy water facilities, and the Mayor's veto was sustained.
- Resolution to end free telephones for city officials was vetoed by the Mayor and referred to Finance Committee.
- Proposal asking the State Board of Equalization to bar unescorted women from city bars was referred to the City Attorney for legality review.
- Proposal asking the state to bar serving unescorted women at licensed premises unless seated away from bars was referred to the City Attorney.
- Police Committee's request asking the state Board of Equalization to bar unescorted women from city bars was referred to the City Attorney.
- Proposed charter amendment on acquiring Market Street Railway was sent back to the Judiciary Committee.
- Proposed charter amendment on Municipal Railway revenue bonds was referred to the Judiciary Committee.
- Public Utilities Commission to run the Market Street Railway purchase
- Supervisor Brown's amendment requiring revenue bonds be called at no less than par was unanimously approved.
- Housing Department building razing and lien ordinance was postponed to October 5, 1942 because the bill was not in proper legal form.
- Supervisor Brown asked the Police Department to consider signs allowing right turns against stop signals at permitted intersections.
- Supervisor Brown moved that the Board ask the Public Welfare Department its plans for people on WPA after the program ends.
- Right to cross Sixteenth Street near Seventh dropped from the franchise
- Supervisor Brown proposed health code changes allowing small game raising during rationing; the Chair referred it to committee.
- The Board ordered a congratulatory telegram sent to Governor Earl Warren, signed by all members, without objection.
- Board mourns John McLaren, maker of Golden Gate Park
- Supervisor Brown moved that any member able to attend the County Supervisors' Association meeting at Sacramento be authorized; approved without objection.
- Supervisor Brown urged a public hearing on a proposed 48-hour week for San Francisco workers in a labor shortage.
- The Board adopted a resolution expressing sorrow at the death of former Fire Commissioner Alfred Ehrman, by rising vote.
- Proposed ordinance approving a Civil Service Commission rule granting city employees leaves of absence for war-related work.
- Board ordered the clerk to draft a resolution thanking Laguna Honda Home Superintendent Charles Wollenberg for his early retirement.
- Board adopted a resolution urging the San Francisco legislative delegation to oppose changing Agricultural District 1-A's directors.
- Chair authorized to call Board meetings as needed to consider the city budget; motion carried six to one.
- A $6,000 Coordinator post for the San Francisco Price and Ration Board was approved, keeping Clay Miller in the job.
- Crown Realty Company's assessment on its building at 228-230 Post Street was cut by $12,000 to $6,000 after it had paid taxes.
- Supervisor Brown's proposed resolution on defense housing quality and locations referred to the Public Buildings committee.
- Finance Committee proposed amending the salary ordinance to define and pay overtime beyond the normal work week.
- Civil Service Commission and labour groups debated a proposed charter amendment for cost-of-living pay increases for city employees.
- Board asks Public Works to keep The Embarcadero clean, with refuse cans supplied, via the Chief Administrative Officer.
- Proposed repeal of the Park Code rule requiring official consent for meetings in parks was debated but not yet decided.
- Supervisor Brown moved that the President write to East Bay city leaders urging curfew laws like San Francisco's.
- Mayor asked to proclaim December 17, 1943, as Kitty Hawk Day, marking forty years since the first American airplane flight.
- Proposed amendment defining "other administrative and executive personnel" in the salary ordinance was re-referred to the Finance Committee.
- Supervisor Brown presents Resolution 3770 commending retiring Supervisor Warren Shannon for his years of service to the city.
- Bill regulating electrical musical devices and their impounding is put off until February 7, 1944.
- Voters to be asked to cancel the Market Street Railway's permits
- Supervisor MacPhee's resolution urges the Chief Administrative Officer to plan continued operation of the Farmers' Free Market during the war; opposed by produce dealers.
- Supervisor Brown's motion asking the Rules Committee to revise Board rules was noted as already being handled.
- Proposed cancellation of taxes on Housing Authority property was sent back to committee for further study, with added questions.
- Ordinance proposed to cancel property taxes and tax sales on Housing Authority-owned land in San Francisco; outcome continues on next page.
- Supervisors debated MacPhee committee's juvenile delinquency report; a motion to receive and file was made, and the final vote continues.
- Board ordered a charter amendment submitted to voters giving Fire Department members extra war-period pay, on the May 16, 1944 ballot.
- Charter amendment giving extra war-time pay to Fire Department members was sent to voters at the May 16, 1944 election.
- Fair federal juries plea put off to April 17
- Supervisor Mancuso proposed requiring the city seal on city-owned cars; Brown proposed letting department heads decide, and the vote is not printed here.
- Board postponed for two weeks the McLaren Park boundary and land purchase question, to September 11, 1944.
- Supervisor Brown proposed the Board recommend a new center-line striping style to the State Highway Commission; referred to Streets Committee.
- Proposed ordinance limiting resale prices for travel tickets and reservations; consideration continued to September 18, 1944.
- Mayor vetoed a bill letting city department heads decide whether to put the official seal on city cars; the Board's vote follows.
- Proposal to exempt the Museum Technician job from Charter residence rules was refused, rescinded, and continued to September 25, 1944.
- Ordinance proposed to add a $10,000 bond for the Tax Collector as License Collector, amending Bill 1280.
- Travel ticket sales bill sent back to committee because it named no enforcement agency.
- Consideration of a bill creating a Municipal Railway excess liability accident reserve fund was postponed to December 11, 1944.
- Proposed ordinance would let the Director of Public Health quarantine and examine people suspected of venereal disease.
- Committee on County, State and National Affairs considers asking the State Legislature to amend welfare residence rules for indigent aid.
- Supervisor Brown asked the Public Utilities Commission about letting school children use transit tickets after 5 p.m.
- Board endorsed a plan for the State Highway System to take over the Sausalito lateral bridge approach.
- Brown's substitute motion carried, asking the District's attorney whether the State could take over the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District.
- Supervisor Brown's request that the Clerk write to Ralph Nelson about State pension aid for teachers was ordered.
- Public Utilities Commission asked why seventy-five buses sit idle
- Supervisor Brown asked the City Attorney for an opinion on extending hours for half-fare school tickets.
- Supervisor Brown's motion to back state aid for teachers' retirement was referred to the County, State and National Affairs Committee.
- Board ordered a letter to the President welcoming San Francisco as site of the United Nations Peace Conference.
- Ordinance on used automobile dealer permits and penalties was postponed until February 26, 1945.
- Board re-referred to committee a resolution endorsing Governor Warren's plan of state aid to counties for indigent relief and a longer residence requirement.
- Increased license fees for businesses were adopted as amended, with their duration limited to the war emergency.
- Proposed ordinance creating a Municipal Railway excess liability accident reserve fund was postponed repeatedly and is now set for April 2, 1945.
- Supervisor Mancuso moved that the Board study Assembly Bill 2057 on state and county shares of unemployment relief costs.
- Board continued consideration of the City Attorney's opinion on cutting streetcar fares for school children until April 23, 1945.
- Consideration of City Attorney opinion on cutting street railway fares for school children continued to April 30.
- Motion to immediately reconsider the Board's earlier decision on a proposed establishment near a school failed.
- Trader Vic's proposed restaurant lease was amended to bar opening before 4:30 p.m. and until six months after the war.
- Board deleted pay for 10 vacant Park Department jobs, then approved the Park Commission budget as amended.
- Supervisors debate deleting the $10,000 water department general manager post held by Nelson Eckart, who is suing the City.
- Purchase of Pine Lake Canyon beside Sigmund Stern Grove urged
- Board reaffirmed its request that the Public Utilities Commission consider longer hours for school tickets.
- City Attorney ruled the Public Utilities Commission may reduce street railway fares for school children; consideration continued to May 28.
- Single-family zoning for two Taraval Street corners sent back
- Board moved to reintroduce a new Annual Salary Ordinance as an emergency measure, with corrected city job pay figures.
- State urged to build four-lane highways from the bridges to Sacramento
- Supervisor Brown's motion set a July 23, 1945 special hearing on sewage plant sites in Islais Creek.
- Supervisors debated a proposed $20,000,000 airport bond issue, and Supervisor Brown urged cutting it to $16,000,000.
- Sidewalk widths reset on Post Street between Market and Taylor Streets
- A proposed charter amendment would give severance pay to city and school employees laid off due to replacement, lack of work, or lack of funds.
- Proposed charter amendment on supervisors' number, $2,400 salary and committee pay goes to voters.
- Bill 3800, a traffic loading ordinance, was reconsidered, passed for second reading, then rescinded; its emergency clause was deleted.
- Proposal to extend sidewalk flower stand operating hours from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. is under consideration.
- Resolution adopted urging the Chief Administrative Officer to let blind people operate newsstands in public buildings.
- Supervisor Brown's motion asks the Streets Committee to press the State Highway Commission for a four-lane San Francisco to Sacramento highway.
- Board postponed for one week action on Assemblyman Maloney's request for $10,000,000 redevelopment aid bill A.B. 110.
- Brown's motion to send the minority salary report back to the Civil Service Commission was defeated.
- Supervisor Brown moved that the Chair appoint a committee to represent the Board at the Supervisors' convention in Eureka.
- Proposed street bench advertising permit rules stayed before the Board; a motion to refer them to commissions failed 3 to 8.
- Resolution proposed urging Congress to fund improved recreational facilities in Bay Area national forests, reported from committee without recommendation.
- Anglo California National Bank sells McLaren Park land for $150
- Residents fight the sale of homes for the Guerrero Street widening
- Transfer of $1,000 from the Board's legislative expense funds to auto repair, telephone and overtime was approved by vote.
- Resolution urging Congress to give armed forces members Social Security wage credits for their military service; the committee sent it without recommendation.
- Tree planting program postponed five weeks by vote of 7 to 4 until the budget is clearer.
- Supervisor Brown moved to postpone a proposed street tree-planting ordinance for five weeks, costing about $500,000.
- Resolution urges Hospitality House in Civic Center to stay open and fully operating for at least another year; vote continues on next page.
- City land on Jefferson Street near Taylor to be leased out
- A proposed Municipal Railway fare increase was referred to Committee of the Whole, with a hearing set for May 13, 1946.
- Board took the Municipal Railway fare increase into its own hands by motion, carried without objection.
- Deletion of the $10,000 South Drive reconstruction to Great Highway carried 6 to 4.
- Item 9 would authorize $12,500 to keep a historic ship at the foot of the Great Highway in repair; the vote is not yet shown.
- Brown's motion moved $160,000 of Gas Tax funds for streetcar-track street repairs into the Special Road Improvement Fund.
- Board postponed a $600,000 budget item until Monday at 8 p.m.
- Controller's budget adds four positions; Supervisor MacPhee's motion to delete two accountants was defeated.
- A $15,064 supplemental budget for emergency hospital surgeons on a 42-hour week was adopted, with a $9,550 overtime reduction.
- Food and sanitary inspection budget debated, with added housing inspector positions questioned; outcome continues on next page.
- The Board adopted the Public Welfare Department budget, as amended, with no objections.
- Supervisor Brown moved and the Board adopted the Laguna Honda Home budget as amended, with the painting cut.
- Consideration of the non-resident relief measure was postponed one week and set as a special order.
- Motion to eliminate the general clerk-stenographer post in the Public Utilities Commission budget carried, eight to two.
- Utilities engineering position transferred to an as-needed work order; motion carried without objection.
- A supplemental $86,535 for maintenance of minors in foster care was proposed, with debate over the rate paid per child.
- Two telephone operator jobs in the Water Department budget were eliminated by a motion carried on a vote.
- Brown's $25,000 appropriation for tree planting only was approved after debate over the Park Commission's capacity.
- A proposal to cut $247,465 from the $347,465 Municipal Railway supplemental budget was defeated; the main motion remained undecided.
- The Board approved a $26,000 budget item after Supervisor MacPhee deferred his vote until the Police budget.
- Superior Court budget adopted as amended, with supplements, carried without objection.
- Supervisors rescinded their earlier action on the Superior Court budget.
- Brown moves to cut the $600,000 Public Works yard building item to $30,000; Sullivan proposes $300,000 instead.
- Board asked the Mayor to appoint a committee to recommend a celebration of Gold Rush Days and California's admission to the Union.
- Board postponed for two weeks a request asking the Public Utilities Commission to consider weekly Municipal Railway passes.
- Ordinance on keeping live fowl and animals for sale was re-referred to committee after the Health Director sought an amendment.
- City land at Texas and Mississippi Streets opened to light industry
- The Clerk was directed to send Supervisor Mead a letter of sympathy for his wife's illness.
- Proposal to appropriate $70,000 from the Municipal Railway surplus for bus operator wages to run additional motor coaches.
- Board proposes petitioning the Public Utilities Commission to consider issuing weekly passes for Municipal Railway riders.
- Proposal to accept $644.06 returned salary from District Attorney Edmund G. Brown, with a motion to refuse it, under discussion.
- Board rejected a substitute motion to recess at the call of the Chair.
- Supervisor Christopher moves to take the Farmers' Market policy declaration out of committee for ballot placement.
- Board postponed for one week a $62,000 appropriation to buy a new Farmers' Market site.
- Resolution proposed urging the State Legislature to increase old-age pension payments; outcome is on the next page.
- Wires to go underground in Laurel Heights, formerly Laurel Hill Cemetery
- Supervisors tabled the Laurel Heights ordinance that would bury overhead wires there, with developers paying the extra cost.
- Proposed charter amendment on supervisors' number, pay and meetings was tabled, and consideration was postponed.
- Bill on selling city-owned property stays on the calendar for one week while the City Attorney writes an opinion on sale methods.
- Judiciary Committee moves to resubmit a charter amendment defining retirement provisions for miscellaneous officers and employees to voters.