All decisions
about 420 Board decisions about James McSheehy, in date order. Each links to its printed page.
- Supervisor McSheehy asked for guards or bulkheads at Seventh and Channel streets; the land is under the Harbor Commission.
- Supervisor McSheehy requested a transcript of the January 8, 1932 inaugural ceremonies; it was referred to Finance Committee.
- Move to undo rezoning at Jackson and Fillmore streets is defeated
- Supervisor McSheehy moved that the salary ordinance be sent back to the Finance Committee, so no salaries are cut.
- Salary ordinance amending pay rates for city positions was laid over one week on McSheehy's motion.
- Board refused to cut the Employees' Retirement System budget by $90,000; a $750 court reporter was approved.
- Amendment to cut $100,000 from the street lighting contract in the Public Utilities Commission budget failed.
- Proposed ordinance would bar unpermitted loud speakers projecting sound outdoors, with the Chief of Police issuing limited permits, and repeal Ordinance 8689.
- Board adopts a resolution expressing regret at the passing of citizen Frank J. Monahan and sympathy to his family.
- Board of Equalization approved the Advisory Committee's report recommending assessment reductions for several individual properties.
- Supervisors approved the Advisory Committee's report recommending reduced assessments for some properties and denying the remaining applications.
- The Board approved a motion that next year's assessment affidavit form show the reduction amount the applicant requests.
- Board approved a motion changing next year's assessment affidavit form to show the reduction amount the applicant asks for.
- Proposed ordinance on impounded animals and animal experimentation was laid over one week for revision, to September 12, 1932.
- Supervisor McSheehy moved to substitute the minority report for the majority report on the refuse collection ordinance.
- Proposed charter amendment barring supervisors from interfering with department appointments and discipline was refused submission to voters.
- Resolution asks the Board president to appoint three members to attend the County Supervisors' Association meeting in Los Angeles.
- Amendment carried to appoint the entire Board to study housing destitute people in public buildings this winter.
- Board laid over the proposed $2,160,000 relief bond sale for one week pending a Controller report on relief finances.
- Proposed ordinance licensing wholesale and coal peddlers was put off for two weeks after debate, with a motion to postpone for three months defeated by amendment.
- The City Attorney was ordered to draft a charter amendment placing the Fire Marshal and Deputy Fire Marshal in the Fire Department.
- Charity Workers' Protective Union demanded better unemployment relief treatment; the matter was referred to the Citizens' Relief Committee.
- Superintendent Charles Wollenberg's request for more money for rent, bread and light was referred to the Citizens' Relief Committee for report.
- Revised Section 6 of the beverage ordinance, allowing permit revocation only after verified charges and a hearing, was adopted.
- Section 9, barring permits for saloons, public bars and barrooms, was stricken from the beverage ordinance on McSheehy's motion.
- Milk ordinance amended to set raw milk rules; a motion to take it from committee lost 4 to 11.
- Board debates splitting San Francisco property tax payments into installments, with a substitute setting May 8, June 2 and June 20 proposed.
- Supervisor Peyser was excused from the meeting at 5:15 p.m. by a carried motion.
- Ordinance setting bond requirements for city officers and employees was laid over one week on McSheehy's motion.
- Proposed ordinance would put a $3,000,000 school bond to city voters on June 27, 1933 to replace fire-trap schools.
- Supervisors Peyser and Canepa proposed a resolution opposing the Riley-Stewart Tax Plan on the June 27 ballot.
- Motion passed asking the Civil Service Commission to attend the June 26 Board meeting on municipal employees' political activity.
- Supervisor McSheehy's motion to send postcard notices to arbitrarily assessed property owners failed.
- Supervisor McSheehy moved that the Judiciary Committee report on the effect of a new sales tax; referred to two committees.
- Board deferred an impartial survey of city relief standards; a motion to send hearing evidence to the Grand Jury failed.
- A petition from Mr. Lee and 500 Sunset District owners seeking lower assessments was referred to the Assessor.
- Herman Work's tuberculosis case was referred to the Health Committee so the boy could get hospital care.
- The Board agreed to hear the United Front Hunger March Committee, which demanded relief committee seats and accident insurance for relief workers.
- Board asks the Clerk not to evict John Williams at 1647 Folsom Street while he confers with relief administrators.
- An appeal over the City Planning Commission's denial of a rezoning from First Residential to Light Industrial was laid over one week.
- Sorrow recorded for John Gallagher, foreman gardener in Golden Gate Park
- Supervisor Sam Breyer was chosen temporary chairman of the new Board by voice vote with no objection.
- Board moved to submit welfare residence appeals for four people to the State Department of Social Welfare for decision.
- Board adopted an amendment to Rule 32 requiring communications criticising a supervisor's conduct to go first to the President.
- The Board thanked the committee that appeared before the State Board of Equalization on the tax limit.
- Supervisor McSheehy presented a resolution mourning three San Francisco police officers, Groat, Conlon and Porter, who died.
- Supervisor Havenner moved that the City Attorney press the conference of city attorneys on Bay Bridge transportation, including State Toll Bridge Authority control.
- The Board added a $3,000 item to ventilate the Supervisors' chambers, passed by a 9 to 1 vote.
- Finance Committee directed to study whether refinancing the city's bonded debt could save about $2,000,000 yearly in interest.
- Registrar of Voters authorized to charge costs of the August 13, 1935 special election to existing appropriations.
- $500 cut moved on J. D. Costigan's Jessie Street lofts
- A. Melander's proposed $600 assessment reduction was rejected by the Board, and the application was denied.
- Assessment appeal by M. A. S. Dell'Era denied after a $150 improvements reduction motion failed.
- Vivia Bogdan's building at 2670 Bush Street had its assessment reduced by $100 on Supervisor McSheehy's motion.
- A motion to reduce Timothy J. O'Connor's assessment at 1121 Mission Street by $200 was defeated.
- $250 cut sought on James Donahue's Pacheco Street house
- Board authorized the Registrar of Voters to pay election officers for the August 13, 1935 special election at salary-ordinance rates.
- Earnest Tiegel's assessment appeal for 1723 Union Street was denied after Supervisor McSheehy's $1,000 reduction motion found no second.
- $200 cut sought on R. M. Merrill's Eighteenth Street property
- $1,874 cut sought on Caroline Lorentzen's Jackson Street building
- Supervisor McSheehy proposed asking the City Attorney for a report on PG&E's use of city streets without a franchise.
- Market Street Railway to swap Harrison Street tracks for trolley buses
- Resolution urges the City Attorney to require railroads using the Bay Bridge lower deck to pay a set share of the loan.
- Board approved a motion sending a letter of sympathy to the family of William O'Connell, Hibernia Bank's chief clerk.
- Apartment owners' complaint about Bay Bridge vehicle tolls made a special order of business for November 4, 1935.
- McSheehy's motion to draft a memorial resolution for Sara McKenna carried.
- Supervisor McSheehy moved that the Public Utilities Commission report on underground conduit work done with Pacific Gas and Electric Co.; motion carried.
- Special committee proposes City Attorney and Board President confer with Los Angeles attorney S. B. Robinson on Hetch Hetchy power revenue bonds.
- Sidewalk widths on First Street between Howard Street and The Embarcadero referred to the Streets and Public Utilities Committee.
- Supervisor McSheehy presented a minority report on underground wires and moved the resolution be referred to Public Utilities Committee.
- Board asked the Mayor to appoint a citizens committee for the Memorial Day observance; motion carried.
- The Board instructed the Clerk to order Public Works photographs of overhead wires at an estimated cost of $7.
- The Board authorized the President to appoint members to attend the County Supervisors' Association Convention in Eureka.
- The Board adopted unanimously a resolution expressing sorrow at the death of attorney Herbert Choynski.
- The Board adopted unanimously a resolution mourning Felton Taylor, secretary of the Public Utilities Commission, and sending condolences.
- Judiciary Committee was authorized to consult and cooperate with other committees during the Code Ordinance hearings.
- The Board rescinded its earlier action eliminating four War Memorial janitors after the trustees' representative objected to the cuts.
- $480,000 for a Van Ness trolley bus line referred to committee
- Trolley bus plan for Van Ness Avenue draws sharp objections
- Supervisor McSheehy moved that the Clerk ask the Board of Education for high school students to act as Supervisors; motion carried.
- Supervisor McSheehy proposed a special committee to revise the building code; the motion was referred to the Building Committee.
- Proposed $3,220,000 bond issue for a Courts Building in the Civic Center; outcome continues on the next page.
- Appeal to rezone the southwest corner of Sixteenth Avenue and Cabrillo Street was continued to July 27, 1936.
- Supervisor Uhl proposed a resolution calling for a conference between Market Street Railway and Municipal Railway on rapid transit.
- Special committee chairman McSheehy moved that its Hetch Hetchy report be approved, requiring the city to build its own distribution system.
- Ordinance on vehicles in public parks was refused final passage, then re-referred to the Education, Parks and Recreation committee.
- Board ordered transcripts made of rapid transit meetings and future ones, with copies sent to all supervisors.
- The board agreed by motion, carried, to appoint a three-member committee to attend the State Fair at Sacramento.
- Supervisors McSheehy, Mead and Meyer were appointed to represent the Board at the State Fair in Sacramento.
- The Board authorized the Clerk to order transcripts of records needed for the rapid transit debate.
- Supervisors McSheehy, Shannon and Ratto were appointed to represent San Francisco at the Oakland Admission Day celebration.
- Board carried a motion appointing Supervisors McSheehy, Shannon and Roncovieri to attend the American Shore Beach Conference in Los Angeles.
- Supervisor Shannon proposed a resolution asking that O'Toole and Cahill attend Washington's September 30 power conference on Hetch Hetchy power.
- Adoption of the federal grant request for school buildings was rescinded and the matter kept on the calendar for one week.
- Supervisor McSheehy proposed raising San Francisco election officers' pay to $8 per day; the motion was referred to the Finance Committee.
- Supervisors failed to suspend rules for a billboard ban near the Bay Bridge approach; the bill was continued to October 26, 1936.
- Consideration of Plan No. 7 for Hetch Hetchy power distribution was continued to November 9, 1936 for further review.
- McSheehy proposed placing the Hetch Hetchy Power Plan of Distribution No. 7 before voters at the next special election.
- Board postponed until November 17 its decision on putting rapid transit or Hetch Hetchy power distribution to voters.
- Supervisor McSheehy proposed submitting municipal distribution of Hetch Hetchy power to San Francisco voters; debate continued.
- Supervisor McSheehy moved that the Board submit municipal distribution of Hetch Hetchy power to voters at the next election; vote pending.
- Supervisor McSheehy proposed a charter amendment to finance the municipal power distribution system; debate continued, no vote shown.
- Supervisor McSheehy proposed that San Francisco voters decide on municipal distribution of Hetch Hetchy power at the next appropriate election.
- Supervisor Colman opposed McSheehy's motion to put power and rapid transit measures on the ballot, urging hearings on rapid transit first.
- Supervisor McSheehy proposed that the Board submit municipal distribution of Hetch Hetchy power to city voters; debate continued.
- Supervisor McSheehy proposes that the Board submit municipal distribution of Hetch Hetchy power to voters at the next election.
- Motion to approve Plan 7 for city-owned electric power is put over until Monday.
- Board ordered a matter about PG&E's unanswered communications made a special order for 2:30 p.m. next Monday.
- Board orders 25 copies of the Hetch Hetchy power discussion transcript printed.
- The Board postponed its Hetch Hetchy power distribution Plan No. 7 meeting to Thursday morning at ten o'clock.
- Made to approve city ownership of the electric supply
- Motion proposed to approve Plan No. 7 for city ownership of San Francisco's electric supply, to be sent to the Interior Secretary.
- Supervisor McSheehy moved to approve Plan 7 for city ownership of San Francisco's electric supply; the vote is not shown here.
- The Board voted to oppose Pacific Gas and Electric's application to build a power plant on the Feather River.
- Supervisor McSheehy's letter asks the City Attorney about a charter amendment giving Civic Auditorium oversight to elected officials.
- Supervisor McSheehy may send Interior Secretary Ickes a telegram urging a prompt decision on Plan No. 7 for Hetch Hetchy power.
- Supervisor McSheehy proposed sending a telegram to the Secretary of the Interior urging quick action on Hetch Hetchy Plan 7.
- A request for free use of Polk Hall for a maritime strike mass meeting was referred to the Chief Administrative Officer.
- Supervisors agreed to take up Havenner's proposed revenue-bond charter amendment for an electric distribution system at a later Thursday meeting.
- Supervisors debated Charter Amendment No. 1 on a Hetch Hetchy power system, proposed for submission to voters; the final recommendation is not printed here.
- Board debates a charter provision on how Public Utilities Commission system revenues must be spent on bonds, repairs, depreciation and surplus; no vote yet.
- Proposed two-thirds vote requirement for acquiring the power system was defeated by a 5 to 6 vote.
- Board added City Attorney's wording and moved to recommend a Charter amendment keeping utility revenues separate unless the Charter expressly provides otherwise.
- Supervisors rejected McSheehy's amendment requiring a two-thirds Board vote to approve acquiring the power system, by 4 votes to 6.
- Amendment requiring Board resolution approval of the method and cost of acquiring the power system was adopted, 10 to 1.
- The Chair appointed Supervisors McSheehy, Uhl and Ratto to attend a State Supervisors Committee meeting on WPA projects.
- Water rates from the Public Utilities Commission moved for adoption
- Funston Avenue bridge approach referred to the Committee of the Whole
- The Funston Avenue approach to the Golden Gate Bridge cost-sharing deal with the state was laid over one week.
- Motion asking the Mayor to appoint a successor to resigned Supervisor Havenner failed, 2 ayes to 7 noes.
- Board calls a March 2, 1937 special election on Charter amendments and voter-initiated ordinances for the city.
- A proposed charter amendment setting City Planning Commission pay and conflict-of-interest rules was disapproved.
- Charter amendment on Police Department and compensation insurance payments was stricken from the calendar without objection.
- Charter amendment to Section 21 on the Board's power of hearing, inquiry and subpoena was approved for submission to voters.
- Proposed charter amendment on police department and compensation insurance payments removed from the calendar, its subject covered elsewhere.
- Proposed charter amendment adding Section 61(a) on the Public Welfare Department was held over temporarily.
- Proposed charter amendment would create a Public Welfare Department, with its outcome printed on the next page.
- A charter amendment adding Section 172.1 on the Health Service System was ordered submitted to city voters.
- Proposed Charter amendment on supervisors' number, pay and meetings was deferred; it would set pay at $4,000 a year.
- Proposed charter amendment creating a Public Welfare Department was ordered submitted to city voters for the March 9, 1937 special election.
- Proposed charter amendment on the City Planning Commission was refused submission to voters by unanimous consent.
- Board ordered arguments for several charter amendments and the anti-picketing repeal printed with the March 9, 1937 sample ballots.
- Mayor requested to appoint a Citizens' Committee for observance of Columbus Day, October 12, 1937; motion carried.
- City to pay a third of the Funston Avenue bridge approach
- The full Board was appointed to attend the Supervisors Association convention at Sacramento, March 10 to 12.
- Printing of arguments for Charter Amendments 11 and 12 is to be paid by the City and included with sample ballots.
- Horace C. Clifton confirmed as War Memorial Trustee, replacing John A. McGregor, who resigned.
- Proposed ordinance would move $600 from the emergency reserve to pay a part-time criminal attorney in the District Attorney's office.
- Board carried motion asking the Mayor to appoint a citizens' committee for the Memorial Day observance on May 30, 1937.
- Proposal to appropriate $600 from the Emergency Reserve for a part-time criminal attorney was laid over one week and deferred.
- Amendment to the District Attorney's office salary ordinance was laid over one week on McSheehy's motion.
- Supervisor McSheehy asked the Clerk to write Manager Cahill, requesting a hearing for W. J. Corr's rapid transit plan.
- Action on the Laurel Hill Cemetery removal bill was put off until June 21, 1937.
- Supervisor McSheehy's motion would put the Public Utilities Commission's $52.7M subway and rapid transit plan to voters as a bond proposition.
- Supervisor Uhl proposed urging congressmen and senators to secure a 10 per cent WPA wage increase; vote not shown on this page.
- Supervisor McSheehy moved to postpone further hearing and action on proposed downtown street extensions for two weeks.
- The Board ordered sympathy expressions sent on the deaths of Louis Reardon and Edith Tally.
- Ordinance to remove Calvary Cemetery bodies was continued two weeks to May 10, 1937, on Supervisor McSheehy's motion.
- Board proposes declaring intent to put revenue bonds for Hetch Hetchy power distribution to voters.
- Proposal to resubmit Hetch Hetchy hydro-electric power revenue bonds to voters failed on a five-to-five tie.
- Asphalt workers' wage adjustment request was raised by Mr. O'Connor; outcome continues on the next page.
- $17,500 allowed from the unappropriated balance to buy land for the La Salle Avenue extension.
- Lulu B. Skellenger's assessment on Block 1204, Lot 21 was reduced by $300, from $2,700 to $2,400.
- Karoline Schweizer's property assessment was reduced by $300 on motion of Supervisor McSheehy.
- Julia Arata's assessment on Block 164, Lots 20 and 21 was reduced by $500 with no objection.
- Jacob Egitkonoff's assessment appeal was re-referred to the appraisers.
- Supervisors McSheehy and Uhl moved a $200 reduction for Jacob Egitkonoff; sent back to Appraisers.
- Rachel Lewis's assessment was cut by $500 after the Assessor had already reduced it to $25,000.
- Supervisor McSheehy moved M. D. F. Bngle's assessment from $450 to $300, and it was ordered.
- Assessment appeal of Gus Niederholzer approved with a $200 reduction, moved by McSheehy and seconded by Uhl.
- Robert P. Troy's assessment was reduced to $500 on Supervisor McSheehy's motion, no objection.
- James B. Spencer's assessed value was reduced by $300 on Supervisor McSheehy's motion, no objection.
- F. F. Ashton's building assessment was reduced by $350 on Supervisor McSheehy's motion, no objection.
- Robert P. Troy's land-value reduction request was sent to appraisers, then denied.
- H. F. Schmidt's assessed value was reduced by $500 on a McSheehy motion seconded by Uhl.
- Assessment for Anna Coffer on Block 664 Lot 3 reduced by $1,000 on Supervisor McSheehy's motion.
- Wm. Kearney's property assessment was cut by $300, moved by Supervisor McSheehy, with no objection.
- Assessment appeal by J. E. Steffens was sent for recheck, then denied by the appraisers.
- Bessie E. Sanborn's assessment was reduced by $300 on a motion by McSheehy, seconded by Uhl.
- D. J. McCarthy's assessment for Lot 9B, Block 598 was reduced from $9,500 to $8,000 after recheck.
- S. Johnson's assessment for Lot IIA, Block 252 was reduced by $500 on Supervisor McSheehy's motion.
- Carolina Linder's assessment appeal was granted a further $800 reduction, setting the value at $10,000.
- Geo. Chalmers's property assessment was reduced by $5,000 after appraisers recommended it; no objection was raised.
- A. Helbing's assessment on Franklin Street cut by $1,000
- A. Helbing's assessment on Block 718 Lot 12 reduced by $1,000 after a 6-2 vote.
- Helene Blemburg's property assessment was reduced by $500 after Supervisor McSheehy's motion and amendments were debated.
- A carried vote with no subject on this page
- Supervisor McSheehy asked that the Castro-Divisional Highway matter be presented at the Board's next meeting.
- Protesting owners appealed a City Planning Commission rezoning of a Chestnut and Webster streets corner; hearing continued to September 6, 1937.
- Officials asked to report on the Market Street parking ban's effect
- Protest over the Conkling Street assessment continued a week
- Proposed amendment to the refuse collection ordinance, with licensing and rate limits, would go to voters at the November 2, 1937 election.
- Parking ban hearing continued to September 27 after merchants' protests
- Supervisor McSheehy moved to appoint a committee to seek $2,000 for water engineers studying San Francisco's water rates.
- Mayor asked to appoint a committee to represent San Francisco at the United States Conference of Mayors in November 1937.
- Resolution mourning philanthropist William Henry Crocker adopted by rising vote; supervisors appointed to attend his funeral.
- McSheehy's motion for $2,000 to hire engineers to investigate a public utility failed, the City Attorney opined, lacking six votes.
- Ordinance adding $500 for a part-time Water Department physician was laid over one week.
- Board laid over a $500 supplemental appropriation for a part-time Water Department physician for one week.
- Board authorized the Masters, Mates and Pilots committee to ask the Public Welfare Department for employment consideration.
- A $10,000 appropriation from the Mayor's Reserve Fund for Civil Service examinations was set as a special order for January 24, 1938.
- Request for office and assembly hall for the Unemployed Relief Council referred to the Mayor.
- Supervisors refused passage of an $8,500 appropriation for Civil Service Commission examinations, after reducing it to $2,000.
- Public Utilities Committee recommends against asking Congressman Richard J. Welch to resign from the Golden Gate Bridge district board.
- Krigbaum's protest over the Six Minute Ferry franchise was laid over one week, to March 7, 1938.
- Market Street Railway told to end service on Twentieth Avenue
- Board postponed action on the Governor's request to approve buying the San Francisco Bay Ferries franchise until March 14, 1938.
- Supervisor McSheehy moved to lay over the proposed purchase of Bay ferries for one week, until March 14, 1938.
- Proposed resolution directs the City Attorney to tell PG&E it must apply for a franchise to keep supplying San Francisco.
- McSheehy, Ratto and Mead appointed by the Chair
- Proposed resolution urges state to buy Bay vehicular ferry franchises, eliminating ferries competing with bridges.
- Public Utilities Committee proposes telling PG&E to apply for a franchise to keep supplying San Francisco electricity and gas.
- Supervisor McSheehy presented a resolution urging the State of California to assume the burden of social welfare and relief costs.
- Proposed purchase of Bay ferries under a Governor's plan to the state Toll Bridge Authority; text continues next page.
- Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District asked to report its receipts and disbursements since the bridge opened.
- Board referred applicants' old age pension complaints, including Mrs. Dickenson's delayed application, to the Public Welfare Department by eight votes to three.
- Supervisor McSheehy moves that the Police Department requisition forty men to fill vacancies in the department.
- A motion backing additional police patrolmen for the Police Department failed on a vote of 4 to 5.
- Supervisor McSheehy urges a $3,000 Public Utilities Commission study of PG&E capital investments to support a possible power bond issue.
- Supervisor McSheehy moved asking the Public Utilities Commission president to call a special meeting on a $3,000 appropriation.
- Board reaffirmed instructing the City Attorney to sue Pacific Gas and Electric for past street use if no deal by June 1.
- $20,000 sought for an addition to the Golden Gate Park Conservatory
- Board rescinded its franchise motion and chose to negotiate with PG&E for back payment for street use, suing if talks fail.
- $50,000,000 power bonds to come before any other bond issue
- Civil service salary clause in the Annual Salary Ordinance sent back to the Finance Committee by a six-to-five vote.
- Chair's ruling was sustained on McSheehy's appeal against rescinding Colman's motion on the Hetch Hetchy franchise.
- Board moved to appoint a three-member committee to attend the Miners' Jubilee in Oregon.
- Board moved to appoint a three-member committee to attend the Native Sons' celebration in Vallejo.
- A. C. and F. I. Griffith's building assessment on Block 6081 Lot 43 was reduced by $100 to $1,400.
- Supervisor McSheehy's request for a City Attorney opinion on late assessment applications was referred.
- William Bruce's building assessment was reduced by $1,000 to $33,000 on motion by McSheehy.
- Tony Arabogdon's assessment appeal granted; building assessment cut by $250 to $3,750.
- Building assessment reduction of $500 requested by Louis and Eva Wolf on Lot 252, Block 1189 failed; application denied.
- The Board of Equalization granted H. and M. Bush a $500 reduction on their building assessment, making it $14,400.
- Underground overhead wiring ordinance postponed one week to August 1, 1938, on Supervisor McSheehy's motion.
- Proposed ban on smoking and open flames on wharves and piers within city limits; motion to postpone it failed.
- Proposed citywide ban on smoking and open flames on wharves and piers was refused second reading, and reconsideration was requested.
- The Board sat as a Committee of the Whole to hear supporters of a proposed charter amendment on a municipal electric system.
- Supervisor McSheehy asked the Public Utilities Commission for gross receipts of municipal buses, April to July 1938.
- Board ordered the arguments for and against Bond Proposition No. 8, on the Market Street Railway purchase, made part of the record.
- Mayor Rossi and Supervisor McSheehy asked to debate the railway bonds
- McSheehy's $15,000,000 bus plan for the Market Street Railway tabled
- Gas tax money proposed for Nineteenth Avenue and Alemany Boulevard work
- City Planning Commission allowed heavy industry at Davis and Pacific
- On the Castro Street line ruled out of order
- Resolution proposes authorizing Supervisor McSheehy to visit Los Angeles to study utility use of city streets.
- Committee reported on a City Planning Commission request to rezone property in the Marina District; outcome continues on next page.
- A motion to send the bus-purchase ordinance back to committee failed; the ordinance stayed before the Board.
- Supervisor McSheehy moved to lay the Finance Committee's salary resolution on the table, postponing action on it.
- The Finance Committee's resolution was sent back to committee for further study, with no objection.
- $8,320 to run streetcars at the Bay Bridge Terminal
- Postponement of the Housing Authority cooperation agreement resolution was carried until Wednesday, January 26, 1939.
- Nineteenth Avenue and Rivera appeal found defective by the City Attorney
- The Board granted the California Federation for Political Unity use of the Supervisors' Chambers on February 10, 1939.
- $228,000 for a trolley bus line from Beale to Army Street
- Carpenters protested the Junior College construction contract award, and the matter was referred to the Director of Public Works.
- Merryman's petition against the salary standardization ordinance, with 33,670 signatures, was referred to the Registrar of Voters.
- Board considers a bill letting the Public Welfare Commission give emergency relief to dependent non-residents of San Francisco.
- Supervisor McSheehy asked Public Works to review whether Miss Mary Tarpy's sidewalk could be narrowed to avoid her expense.
- The Board voted to reconsider its earlier enactment of the salary standardization ordinance, clearing the way for its repeal.
- Supervisor McSheehy moved to hold a $1,500,000 surplus cushion, with further utility profits cutting electric rates; the motion is still pending.
- The Chair referred the Yerba Buena Shoals airport question, over objection, to the Public Utilities Committee rather than Public Welfare.
- Motion to send the resolution back to committee was lost; the resolution was then refused adoption.
- Supervisor McSheehy moved to suspend the rules on a resolution asking the Civil Service Commission for a salary standardization report; outcome not shown.
- Board recommended that the Coordinating Committee help complete the agricultural pavilion in Agricultural District 1A quickly.
- Supervisor McSheehy presented a resolution proposing to amend the salary schedule for per diem and other city classifications, following rejection of Ordinance No. 60.
- The Board approved the Park Department budget on Supervisor McSheehy's motion, after the contested land purchase item was debated.
- Employees' Retirement System budget of $2,686,375 was postponed so the Actuary could answer Supervisor Brown's question on the fund.
- Miguel Street to go first on the street work list
- Supervisors debated earmarking $12,000 from unallocated funds to improve Miguel Street; no final vote is printed.
- Kings Canyon National Park bill backed, William Denman urging it
- Reconsideration of the resolution asking to amend the Raker Act on Hetch Hetchy power was denied.
- Board extended the deadline for purchasing dog licenses to August 1, 1939.
- Ivan J. Schuraviev's building assessment was cut by $350 to $13,150, with no objection.
- Committee's original recommendations, Nos. 24 and 25 on the calendar, were tabled on Supervisor McSheehy's motion.
- Robert P. Troy's request to cut the building assessment by $700 was refused by the Board of Equalization.
- Public Welfare Committee resolution requests federal surplus food stamp program for San Francisco relief recipients; outcome continues on next page.
- Consideration of the Paint Spray Ordinance was continued to July 31, 1939, over objections from supervisors McGowan and Mead.
- Robert P. Troy's assessment appeal was continued after Supervisor McSheehy moved a $1000 building reduction, with no second recorded.
- Proposed bus permit for Market Street Railway Company postponed one week, to Monday, August 28, 1939, for study.
- Board adopted a motion forming a committee to seek ways to place dismissed temporary firemen on a hold-over list.
- Consideration of proposed gas and electric franchises postponed to Monday, September 11, 1939, at 2 P.M.
- Resolution urges President and Congress to remove the federal prison on Alcatraz Island and replace it with a statue.
- Supervisor McSheehy moved a committee to find ways to keep dismissed temporary firemen on a hold-over list; Supervisor Colman objected.
- Consideration of a resolution asking the Mayor to negotiate a San Francisco transportation plan was postponed to September 11, 1939.
- A proposed charter amendment would let Municipal Railway platform men work as bus operators without losing seniority, for voters on November 7, 1939.
- A resolution proposes asking Congress to remove the Alcatraz federal prison and replace it with a Pacifica statue.
- Supervisor McSheehy's resolution to replace the Alcatraz prison with a statue of Pacifica was tabled.
- Mr. Caubu's proposal held over to October 9 for the whole Board
- Consideration of the Public Utilities Commission's water rate report was postponed until October 23, 1939.
- Supervisors debated patent chimney permit fees; a committee report setting 50-cent and $1 flue fees was moved for adoption.
- Supervisor McSheehy presented a resolution, from the Exposition Committee, to close the Golden Gate International Exposition early on October 29, 1939.
- Supervisor McSheehy moved that the Board ask the Mayor to push the Utilities Commission to adopt Resolution 542's water policy.
- Proposal to allow overnight street parking citywide was refused passage after the committee recommended against it.
- Board will reconsider its October 23, 1939 vote on Supervisor McSheehy's report to Manager Cahill on water rates.
- Reconsideration of Supervisor McSheehy's water rate motion was postponed to December 18, 1939 at 2:30 P.M.
- Supervisor McSheehy requested a Health Department report on the status of removing bodies from city cemeteries; ordered without objection.
- Flat water rates put off again to January 22
- Proposed ordinance to cut small theatres from 399 to 299 seats moved into Committee of the Whole; Bridge Theatres, Inc. objects.
- Board weighs overriding the Mayor's veto of the license tax ordinance; postponement motions for one to three weeks are pending.
- Supervisor McSheehy's motion to refer the Mayor's license tax veto to a joint committee failed for want of a second.
- Supervisor McSheehy moved that the notification of officials rule be referred to the Rules Committee; no objection was raised.
- Supervisor McSheehy's motion asking the Mayor to press the Public Utilities Commission for flat water rates was defeated.
- Reconsideration of a motion seeking flat water rates, repeatedly postponed, is set for this January 22, 1940 session.
- Relief committees unanimously adopted a proposed program to consolidate relief for employables and unemployables in California.
- Market Street Railway's bus permit ordinance was postponed to February 13, 1940, after the City Attorney withheld approval.
- Supervisors McSheehy, Ratto and McGowan appointed to urge Sacramento passage of the 1940 Exposition appropriation.
- Board asked the Building Department to withhold a building permit from S. F. Johnson for his Lyon Street property, pending a Finance Committee report.
- The chair was authorized to appoint three supervisors to attend the League of California Cities conference in Fresno.
- Supervisor Ratto was authorized to represent the Board at the Peninsula Division League of California Cities meeting in Burlingame.
- Clayton Street rezoning appeal put off to March 18
- Board adopted resolution asking courts to rule on legality of using city funds for Purcell's traffic survey.
- Mission residents protest two more low cost housing projects
- Supervisor McSheehy's proposal to route street work finance matters through the Finance Committee was referred to the Rules Committee.
- Supervisor McSheehy moved for a public hearing on disposing of Hetch Hetchy power and postponing the Washington committee trip.
- Dr. S. J. Onesti's 12th Street spur track put off
- Supervisor Mead was appointed to act as temporary President until President Shannon returns.
- Motion asking the Fire, Safety and Police Committee to refrain from acting on taxicab and sedan rates failed.
- Board puts off the Seals Stadium housing letter until Chinatown project
- A $1,500 emergency appropriation for the City Attorney's office was postponed until May 27, 1940.
- The $4,000 special investigations budget for the railway was cut by $2,000 after a roll-call vote.
- Controller's office presented an itemized list of the Assessor's contractual services appropriation at the Board's request.
- Consideration of the Assessor's budget was continued to Thursday at 10:00 A.M. on Supervisor McSheehy's motion.
- Supervisor McSheehy moved to delete the $2,050 traveling expense from the Public Utilities Commission budget.
- Water Department public-building lighting budget cut from $135,000 to $110,000 by vote.
- Supervisor McSheehy dropped his motion to delete $2050 in travel expenses from the Public Utilities Commission budget.
- Discussion of a proposed $62,000 cut to the $760,000 street lighting budget was temporarily postponed.
- Controller was asked to allow an extra $500 for Supervisors McGowan and Shannon's Washington expenses, if funds are available.
- Police Department 1940-41 budget of $3,537,465 was discussed and its consideration postponed to a later session.
- Motion to delete a $3000 physician position from the budget failed on a six-to-three vote.
- Supervisors reduced the Coordinating Council contractual services budget by $200, from $915 to $715, after the Chair reversed his ruling.
- Consideration of per diem salary standardization was postponed temporarily on Supervisor McSheehy's motion.
- Controller's 1940-1941 budget of $406,163 proposed for approval; outcome not printed on this page.
- A compromise gives per diem park employees a 20 cent daily raise, costing $36,000 a year; no final vote shown here.
- The earlier agreement to close debate on the budget at 11:45 was rescinded by the Board.
- Clerk read the proposed 1940-41 school district budget of $11.4M, up $753,204 from last year.
- Park workers switched from daily to monthly pay
- Board postponed until June 17, 1940, further consideration of an ordinance regulating and licensing mechanical amusement devices.
- Proposed ordinance regulating merchandise vending machines was postponed to June 24, 1940, pending a City Attorney opinion on legality.
- Proposed fee on electrical musical machines debated; motion to send it back to committee failed, and the ordinance continues.
- The Board refused to rescind its passage for second reading of the mechanical amusement devices licensing ordinance.
- Supervisors approved an official inspection trip of Hetch Hetchy and Water Department properties, leaving San Francisco June 25, 1940.
- Board sustained the Chair's ruling that a motion to read a telegram by individual members was out of order.
- Board ordered the President to appoint a usual committee to attend the Native Sons' Admission Day celebration in Sacramento.
- Board adopted by rising vote a resolution of sympathy on the death of retired Fire Captain Bernard F. Hanlon.
- Motion to refer the Sunset corner rezoning bills to the Director of Property failed, leaving the rezonings pending.
- Proposed rezoning of corners on Irving, Judah, Taraval and Vicente Streets was referred to the Director of Property for a value report.
- The Board reduced the building assessment of Gustaf and Esther Carlson by $200 to $6,200.
- Motion to cut Emily and Mary Torres's building assessment from $2,700 to $2,450 failed on a 5-2 vote.
- Building assessment of Emily and Mary Torres reduced by $250 to $2450 on Supervisor McSheehy's motion.
- Board rescinded passage of the United Air Lines airport lease bill and continued consideration to July 22, 1940.
- Board authorised the President to appoint a three-member committee to attend the League of California Municipalities convention in San Diego.
- Motion urging the Mayor to ask the Interior Secretary to suspend the Hetch Hetchy power injunction was referred to the Judiciary and Public Utilities committee.
- Board adopts a memorial resolution expressing sympathy on the death of veteran Police Officer Francis Joseph Kerr.
- Proposed ordinance would give city employees two-week annual vacations, sent up from Judiciary Committee without recommendation.
- Hetch Hetchy power resolution held over after McSheehy asks reconsideration
- Supervisors approved adding the Crystal Palace Free Public Flower Market stand on Market Street to the flower stand ordinance, and postponement was proposed.
- The Board unanimously adopted a resolution of sympathy on the death of Jerry W. Dineen, a Public Works employee for twenty-three years.
- Board ordered a charter amendment on military leave for city employees and eligible list holders submitted to voters on November 5, 1940.
- Charter amendment on retirement credit for city employees inducted into the military was ordered submitted to voters.
- Board ordered a charter amendment on retirement credit for employees on military service submitted to voters, as amended.
- Supervisors agreed without objection to strike fine-disposition Section 132 from the proposed traffic code, which continues.
- Board rescinded its earlier action, amended, and sent to voters a charter amendment granting leaves of absence to city workers entering military service.
- Supervisors approved Supervisor Uhl's amendment to the Health Service System charter provision; a motion to submit it to voters follows.
- Voters are asked to amend Charter Section 153 to give leaves of absence for wartime military service.
- The Board unanimously agreed to begin each Monday meeting with the pledge of allegiance to the flag.
- Mechanical amusement devices licensing ordinance was re-referred to Finance Committee after debate over Police Department permit control.
- Agreement with California Toll Bridge Authority to paint the city's pipe line on the Bay Bridge is proposed.
- Uhl proposed a substitute asking departments to list married women employees' husbands' addresses; the Board set it for October 28.
- Supervisor McSheehy moved to postpone indefinitely a resolution asking departments to list husbands of married women employees.
- Resolution asking departments to list husbands of married women employees was indefinitely postponed by the Board.
- Shelter sought for bus riders at South Van Ness and Army
- Proposed closing of a portion of Appleton Avenue between Patton Street and Holly Park Circle, with utility easements kept.
- Board opposes Southern Counties gas tax initiatives and urges a new formula; the matter was referred to committee.
- Proposed ordinance giving the Chief Administrative Officer and Controller power to enforce franchise and permit conditions was postponed to January 13, 1940.
- Clerk to ask officials whether swimming at Crystal Palace Baths can be offered to school children; ordered without objection.
- Charter amendment on revenue bonds for a city electric distribution system was sent to a committee of the whole hearing on September 11.
- Proposed $11,070 appropriation from the Water Surplus Fund; Supervisor McSheehy moved re-reference to Finance Committee.
- Motion to send the $11,070 proposed expenditure to Finance Committee for an itemized statement failed.
- Motion to postpone the county land sale for one week was defeated, 3 to 8.
- City to sell surplus County Jail land in San Mateo County
- Board backs a bill to cut Golden Gate Bridge tolls
- Supervisor McSheehy's resolution asking the Mayor to direct police funds to traffic lane painting was referred to the Joint Streets and Finance Committee.
- Supervisor McShechy moved that five supervisors be appointed to attend the county supervisors convention in Sacramento.
- Proposed ordinance would appropriate $50,000 from the Water Department surplus for irrigation and a water supply in Sunol.
- Supervisors voted six to four to refer the Water Department's Sunol Walnut Orchard appropriation to a joint committee.
- Proposed amendment adding one electrical draftsman at $200 to Public Works salary ordinance was postponed.
- Board authorized its committee to hire a stenographer to record the Los Angeles counties meeting on relief.
- Meeting agreed Assembly Bill 1617 should be approved, raising the State tuberculosis subsidy to $7 per week.
- Joint Judiciary and Finance Committee authorized to study ways to secure San Francisco a larger share of state money.
- Alta California, Inc.'s report on the Sacramento Supervisors' Convention was referred to the Judiciary Committee.
- Supervisors debate painted curb zones and move to have Police and Public Works survey curb space taken by gas stations and garages.
- Proposed ordinance setting a $12.50 quarterly license fee for streetcar advertisers was postponed to March 31, 1941.
- Supervisor Uhl moved the Board endorse the Governor's veto of a state relief bill; the vote is not on this page.
- Consideration of the $875 airport ordinance creating two new positions was postponed.
- Supervisor Colman's communication on parking meters was referred to the Public Utilities Committee.
- Board referred Supervisor Colman's parking meter communication to a joint Public Utilities and Streets Committee for study.
- Supervisor McSheehy moved that five members be appointed to represent San Francisco at Pasadena's New Year's Day parade.
- Supervisor McSheehy raised enforcement of the Market Street Railway Company's franchise street-repair duties, and the City Attorney agreed to review the bill.
- Transfer of $55,000 from Turk Street to Army Street reconsidered
- The Board reduced the building assessment of Strauss Building Corporation's lot 11-12, block 311 to $15,750.
- Norma Anderson's building assessment was cut by $500 to $1,500 on motion by Supervisor McSheehy.
- Owen Brady's application for a $300 building assessment cut failed on motion by Supervisor McSheehy, after a vote split 4 to 2.
- John Bodley's assessment appeal on Mission Street property was taken under advisement by the Board.
- Board confirmed appraisers' recommendation on the Francesconi assessment after McSheehy's $200 reduction motion failed for want of a second.
- Etta L. Sherer's building assessment was reduced by $300, to $1,500, on appeal.
- A motion to cut Raymond A. Mahoney's building assessment by $500 failed on a tie vote of 5 to 5.
- Condolence letter sent to family of retired firefighter
- Supervisor McSheehy moves that the County Supervisors Association urge a special legislative session on relief measures.
- Proposed ordinance on unattended vehicles, bus smoking and fines postponed until September 2, 1941.
- Board appointed a committee, led by McSheehy, to represent it at the Admission Day celebration given by the Native Sons.
- Board appointed members to attend the County Supervisors Association mid-season convention at Sacramento.
- Board rescinded its earlier order to put a proposed Charter amendment on changing the Assessor's election date on the ballot.
- A proposed charter amendment would let the city finance an electrical system through revenue bonds, not taxes, and is under discussion.
- Call to clear Union Square Garage debris sent to committee
- Motion asking the Public Welfare Commission to rehear refused relief cases was referred to the Public Welfare Committee.
- Supervisor McSheehy moved that the Public Welfare Commission rehear refused relief cases and extend relief if warranted.
- Supervisor McSheehy proposed a committee confer with Public Welfare on ending Sharp's Park Camp as an indigent clearing house; referred to committee.
- Sharp's Park resolution refused; a committee of three sought instead
- Board urges the Public Utilities Commission to consider cutting water rates and ending the meter system.
- Board unanimously adopted a resolution mourning Daniel Gray Fraser, a former Board of Public Works member, and sending sympathy to his family.