All decisions
48 Board decisions about Gerald O'Gara, in date order. Each links to its printed page.
- O'Farrell Street proposed for gas tax street money
- A motion asked the Acting Chairman to attend the Civilian Defense Council and report on civilian defense status.
- Board asks Mayor and Civilian Defense Council to appoint two night inspectors for incoming fruits and vegetables; consideration continued to February 2.
- Emergency ordinance proposed to grant relief to dependent non-residents, appropriating $12,500, was re-referred to committee.
- Board sent the non-resident emergency relief ordinance back to committee and asked the Controller for a new draft and City Attorney opinion.
- Resolution asking the Civil Service Commission for revised X-ray technician salary schedules was referred to Finance, Legislative and Civil Service committees.
- Resolution asks the Civil Service Commission to report salary standardization recommendations for bookkeepers and senior bookkeepers.
- A substitute Bill 1601 is proposed to require Mayor approval before vacated civil service positions are filled.
- Proposed resolution authorising $500,000 in Airport Bonds to improve the San Francisco Airport in San Mateo County.
- Motion to postpone city salary standardization schedules was defeated, so the Board keeps the matter moving.
- Supervisor O'Gara moved to postpone city salary standardization until all proposed schedules are submitted; the matter was put over.
- Proposed ordinance amending the salary standardization ordinance to set new clerical service pay schedules effective July 1, 1942.
- Board voted 7 to 4 to postpone the salary standardization bill until after the Finance Committee meets the Mayor.
- Salary standardization ordinance adding medical, nursing, recreation and water service pay schedules is put off pending Mayor talks.
- A resolution on the Reber bay plan, urging a federal investigation, is proposed; its text continues on the next page.
- State asked to weigh liquor permits between Ellis and California Streets
- Repeal of street photographer licences put off a week
- Committee re-referred a proposal asking the Mayor to create a Commission of Public Relations; the outcome continues on the next page.
- Consideration of relief for technical non-residents was continued to Monday, May 25, 1942.
- Proposed repeal of the city's rules regulating and licensing street photographers, Bill 1685, is considered.
- Bill to regulate and license street photographers was indefinitely postponed on Supervisor O'Gara's motion.
- Board postponed consideration of the Mayor's office budget until a full Board is present.
- Supervisor O'Gara asks the Public Welfare Commission and Mayor how the 1942-43 budget provides for indigent technical non-residents.
- Market Street Railway given an added permit to run buses
- Supervisor O'Gara moved to invite Frederick H. Meyer to a July 6, 1942 hearing on the Market Street Railway lease-purchase proposal.
- Supervisor O'Gara moved asking the Mayor to submit a plan for unified Municipal and Market Street railway operation.
- Bridget Dougherty's assessment appeal for land on N. Santiago between 34th and 35th Avenues was taken under advisement, not decided.
- Bridget T. Dougherty and N. Santiago's land assessment on a lot between 34th and 35th Avenues was cut by $100 to $3,540.
- The City Attorney was asked to advise the Board on the deadline for proposed charter amendments for the November election.
- Board re-referred a bill regulating going-out-of-business sale permits to the Police Committee after a Better Business Bureau request.
- Request for two deputy City Attorneys to prepare charter amendments was refused adoption, four ayes to six noes.
- A charter amendment setting the Recreation Commission's powers and duties was ordered submitted to voters, moved by Supervisor O'Gara.
- Voters will decide a charter amendment giving the Recreation Commission exclusive control of playgrounds and recreation centres.
- Proposed charter amendment on the Underwriters' Fire Patrol salvage corps was postponed to September 14, 1942, then referred back to committee.
- Supervisor O'Gara proposed a charter amendment on limited tenure appointments for submission to voters at the November 1942 election.
- Proposal to amend charter Section 9 on Board of Supervisors powers goes to November 1942 voters.
- Proposed charter amendment on Fire Department pay rates was ordered submitted to voters at the November 3, 1942 election.
- Fire Department proposed a substitute charter amendment creating a three-member fire commission, with $1,200 annual pay for each commissioner.
- Supervisor O'Gara moved that the Clerk prepare two conflicting charter amendments on Board size and the Mayor's term; debate continues.
- Fire and Police Department pay and retirement charter amendments were combined and approved to go to voters together.
- Board ordered submitted to voters a charter amendment bringing Legion of Honor and de Young museum employees under civil service.
- Proposed charter amendment would require a two-thirds Board vote before Municipal Railway street car or bus lines are abandoned, sent to voters.
- Charter amendment giving city employees in military service retirement credit was ordered submitted to voters.
- Further consideration of nursing home permit notice rules was postponed until October 5, 1942, pending City Attorney advice.
- Bill 1848 on nursing home permit notice was amended to 200 feet and moved for second reading; a one-week delay was proposed.
- Wartime emergency ordinance letting buildings be used for human habitation under waivers was finally passed after reconsideration.
- Supervisor MacPhee presented a bill, recommended by the Finance Committee, to bar use of departmental surpluses.
- Board postponed until November 16, 1942 a resolution letting retired city employees keep pensions while working.