All decisions
about 110 Board decisions about John Ratto, in date order. Each links to its printed page.
- City Engineer asked to survey industry near Bauer Schweitzer's malt plant
- Appeals by James J. Lynch and others against the Garfield Street assessment were laid over one week by the Board.
- Appeals by James J. Lynch and others against the Garfield Street assessment were put off until February 13, 1934.
- Appeal to rezone property on Pine Street near Stockton Street from residential to commercial was laid over one week.
- Appeal to rezone property on Bay Shore Boulevard north of Wayland Avenue was laid over one week.
- Appeals by James J. Lynch and others against the Garfield Street assessment were laid over two weeks.
- Lynch and others appeal the Garfield Street improvement assessment; the hearing was laid over one week.
- Woodside Avenue paving appeal taken up in the afternoon session
- Supervisor asked for an investigation of city employees parking their automobiles around City Hall, and the Board ordered it.
- Fitzgerald Avenue grading appeal hearing pushed to January
- Fees for Department of Public Health inspections of milk, carcasses and slaughterhouses were laid over one week on Ratto's motion.
- Supervisors Ratto, Uhl and Roncovieri were appointed to represent San Francisco at the California State Fair in Sacramento.
- Board carried Ratto's motion urging Governor Merriam to finance the Waldo approach to the Golden Gate Bridge.
- Alemany, Army and Columbus named streets of major importance
- Supervisor Ratto moved to reconsider Bills 727 and 776; the motion carried 6 to 5 and was laid over one week.
- Supervisors Ratto, Mead, Shannon and Meyer were appointed to present the Shoreline Highway program at Sacramento on March 6, 1936.
- City Attorney to investigate a building standing on Oregon Street
- Lease of 333 Kearny Street put off at Brady's request
- Montague Pipe and Steel gets Seventeenth Street closed for storage
- Ordinance requiring aid recipients to repay the city via liens was laid over two weeks pending City Attorney opinion.
- Supervisors Ratto, Meyer and Mead appointed to represent San Francisco at the Sacramento State Fair.
- Streets Committee recommendation to expedite sidewalk narrowing on Valencia Street was struck from the calendar.
- Mayor asked to name a tree-planting committee for McLaren Park
- Supervisor Ratto presented a resolution asking the City Attorney to survey finances supporting a 50-cent Bay Bridge toll.
- The Board adopted a motion sending condolence messages to two civic club councils on the death of John F. Kelly.
- Skyline Boulevard extension to Woodwardia sent to the Streets Committee
- Protests against street improvement costs on Lincoln Way were referred to the Streets Committee for hearing.
- Supervisors debated a motion for the city to pay one-third of the Funston avenue approach cost; no vote shown.
- Supervisor Ratto moved that San Francisco pay one-third of the Funston avenue approach cost, as the State Highway Commission requested.
- Supervisors voted 7-2 for San Francisco to pay one-third of the Funston Avenue approach to the Golden Gate Bridge.
- Board approved sending a committee, with Supervisor Ratto representing it, to a Petaluma meeting on the Pacific Cavalcades.
- A committee was approved to attend the Redwood Empire Association meeting at Ukiah on February 11.
- Motion to appoint a committee representing San Francisco at the July 1937 Salinas Rodeo carried.
- Supervisor Ratto's motion asks the Board President to appoint a committee to observe Admission Day, September 9, 1937.
- Bonds for the Grant Avenue extension turned down
- The Board moved to appoint a committee to represent it at the State Fair.
- Architects' fees for WPA projects cut from $20,000 to $16,000
- Proposal to appropriate $15,000 for Adam and Eve Street, including a $1,100 land purchase, was defeated.
- G. Guglielmone's requested $400 building reduction for Block 134, Lot 21/22 was deferred, then denied.
- Supervisor Ratto's proposal to send a committee to a Sacramento highway funds conference was referred to Streets Committee.
- Buildings capped at 84 feet between North Point and Union Streets
- Supervisors' committee sought for State Fair Supervisors' Day in September
- Supervisor Ratto proposed that state diesel tax funds be earmarked to repay projects in three counties; referred to Finance Committee.
- The Mayor was asked to invite President Roosevelt to visit San Francisco and to appoint a reception committee if he accepts.
- Committee to study removing car tracks on Howard Street and Van Ness
- City Attorney proposed that the State Railroad Commission set ferry and Golden Gate Bridge rates between Sausalito and San Francisco.
- A committee was appointed to attend the Redwood Empire Association meeting at Ukiah on coming highway budget items.
- The Board asked the Governor to include $500,000 for Agricultural District 1-A in the special legislative session.
- The California Highway Commission asked San Francisco to confirm its $66,000 yearly contribution to Ocean Shore Highway; referred to Finance Committee.
- Board authorized the President to appoint a committee of supervisors to attend the Salinas Rodeo, July 14 to 17.
- Supervisor Ratto moved that the Board ask Walter Sullivan when his low-cost housing commission will report.
- Ratto proposed pledging $240,000 toward the next Joint Highway District No. 9 unit with San Mateo and Santa Cruz Counties; referred to Finance Committee.
- Board granted Ellen C. Guiney a $100 cut in the building assessment, making it $1,300.
- All future W.P.A. street widening projects involving work for private property owners sent to Joint Streets and Finance Committee.
- Assessment reduction requested by Eastern Hotel Co. on Lot 125, Block 225 was refused; recommendation accepted.
- Board denied property owners' protests against sidewalk assessments on Agua way and Douglas street, re-referring the appeal to Public Works for adjustment.
- Cost estimates asked for the Broadway and Bernal tunnels
- A proposed charter amendment creating a Traffic Commission was moved for submission to voters on September 27, 1938.
- Supervisor Roncovieri was appointed acting President pro tempore to sign warrants while President Shannon was ill.
- Supervisor Uhl's proposed charter amendment on permits and inspections was referred to the Finance Committee.
- Charter Amendment No. 1 on the Fire Department, amending Section 36, was ordered submitted to the voters on Ratto's motion.
- Traffic ordinance requiring full stops at arterial street intersections passed for second reading after a rescission and a Geary Boulevard amendment was re-referred to committee.
- Post Street sidewalk question put off another week
- Board members were asked to dress in western regalia at the next meeting to mark the Exposition's fiesta spirit.
- Supervisor Ratto proposed reconvening January 11, 1939 as a Committee of the Whole on salary standardization; the amendment took no action.
- Supervisor Ratto asked Public Works for a cost estimate of a subway or overpass near Bay Bridge Terminal.
- The Board asked its President to appoint a committee to attend the Redwood Empire Association directors' meeting in Ukiah.
- A committee was requested to attend the Redwood Empire Association directors' meeting at Ukiah.
- The City Engineer was asked to prepare highway recommendations for the Highway Commission's inclusion in the coming budget.
- The City Engineer was asked to prepare highway recommendations for the Highway Commission's coming budget.
- Street levels to be changed on Coso Avenue and nearby streets
- Supervisor Ratio's motion to appoint a committee to attend a Santa Rosa luncheon was ordered without objection.
- Grade change map for Coso Avenue, Stoneman, Aztec and Bonview Streets was referred to the Department of Public Works on Ratto's motion.
- Supervisor Ratto was appointed as the Board's representative at a Redwood Empire Association conference at Tucker Farm Center.
- A supervisor will join a highway commission inspection trip
- Gordon Berensen's building assessment was cut by $2,500 to $17,500 after the Board of Equalization heard his appeal.
- Property owners appeal sidewalk assessments on west Alemany Boulevard; the hearing opened and continues on the next page.
- The Controller is proposed as San Francisco's representative on the Alta California executive board; no decision printed yet.
- Supervisor Ratto's motion to send a committee to represent San Francisco at Santa Rosa highway hearings was approved without objection.
- Moving picture theatre ordinance postponed until March 4, 1940, after Supervisor Colman urged delay.
- Dog rabies vaccination ordinance sent to the health committee
- Dr. S. J. Onesti's 12th Street spur track put off
- Supervisor Ratto's motion to fund Sheriff's automobiles for jail transport was postponed at Supervisor Uhl's request.
- Mayor's budget approved as amended, after earlier motions to approve it and rescind chauffeurs' salaries failed.
- Board approved the Hetch Hetchy Power operative budget after an earlier attempt failed, eight votes to one.
- Budget positions the Mayor recommended, including a chauffeur and bookkeepers, were reinstated by a 9-0 vote.
- Weights and Measures Department budget (Index 59) approved for 1940-1941 by nine ayes, none opposed.
- Board approved the Assessor's 1940-41 budget as amended, by a vote of seven to two.
- The City Planning Commission's 1940-1941 budget of $15,315 was approved, a decrease of $2,150.
- Way cleared to close part of Wallace Avenue
- Land assessment appeals for lot 106, block 3 on The Embarcadero were re-referred to appraisers for reconsideration at a later meeting.
- On Ratto's motion, Aaron and Effie Lewis's building assessment was cut by $200 to $7,500; application taken under advisement.
- On Ratto's motion, Maude A. Taylor's building assessment was cut by $500 to $25,000; application taken under advisement.
- Supervisor Ratto's resolution asks the Mayor to proclaim August 15 and 16, 1941 for celebrating the Livestock Pavilion's opening in Visitacion Valley.
- The Chair was authorized to appoint a committee to attend the State Chamber of Commerce annual meeting in Oakland.
- Supervisor Ratto moved that the Clerk request a weekly Sacramento legislative calendar from San Francisco's representative, and it was ordered.
- Supervisor Ratto asked the City Attorney to prepare preliminary legislation forming a joint highway district to improve Geneva Avenue.
- The Board adopted a resolution of sympathy on the death of Cornelius F. Collonan, a former City Planning Commissioner.
- Consideration of conditions for sidewalk flower-vending stands, including a 9 p.m. closing hour, was postponed to February 3, 1941.
- Supervisor Ratto presented a proposed resolution endorsing Assembly Bill 1134 to create a California advertising and publicity commission.
- City Attorney asked for an opinion on whether the Planning Commission may hear a second rezoning petition after denial.
- Supervisor Ratto moved that the Clerk urge San Francisco's legislators to back state funding for Geneva Avenue improvement.
- Supervisor Ratto moved that a committee be appointed to represent San Francisco at the California State Fair.
- Annual salary ordinance setting pay for all city positions for fiscal 1942 was postponed until June 16, 1941.
- Building assessment on lot 202 reduced by $100 to $700 by a 7-1 vote.
- Supervisor Ratto proposed referring the rent allowance question for indigent families to the Public Welfare Committee.
- Supervisor Ratto's motion sent the relief rent allowance matter to a joint Finance and Public Welfare committee, passed 6 to 1.
- Protests against paving assessments on streets beside the Potrero Low Rent Housing Project were set for hearing.
- $49,000 voted for traffic signals on Lombard Street and Nineteenth Avenue
- Pensioner owners' protests against the Brunswick Street paving assessment were overruled and the assessment confirmed.
- Supervisor Ratto moved that Streets Committee members attend the State Highway Commission meeting in Los Angeles; motion carried.
- Supervisors Colman and Brown appointed to represent the Board at the United States Conference of Mayors in Washington.