All decisions
about 310 Board decisions about Leo T. McCarthy, in date order. Each links to its printed page.
- Citizens' committee for St. Patrick's Day approved.
- Buying the Allyne property at Green and Gough Streets studied
- Ordinance amending Health Service System plans and employee contribution rates was taken up for second reading.
- Proposed changes to city employees' health service plans and contribution rates were continued for one week.
- City praises a [name withheld] veterans' chapter
- Five city officials granted leave to travel out of state.
- Proposal to create a Human Rights Commission to investigate unfair neighborhood practices was continued for two weeks.
- Extra city lawyer for employee pension board voted down
- Proposal to create a Human Rights Commission to investigate unfair neighborhood practices was continued for one week.
- Consideration of an ordinance creating a Human Rights Commission to investigate unfair neighborhood practices was continued one week.
- Parts of Larkin, Grove and Fulton Streets to close
- Human Rights Commission plan for bias complaints sent back to committee.
- Traffic signals agreed with Daly City for Geneva and Santos
- The Board endorsed the week of June 22, 1964, as Adoption Week.
- Resolution 870-64, moved by Supervisor McCarthy, was adopted by the Board on an eight-to-none vote.
- Part of Buchanan Street to close temporarily
- Clerical fixes and clarifying wording to human rights law approved
- Proposed city human rights commission to investigate bias; not yet final.
- [name withheld] appeal of the assessment of block 980 lot 6 was heard, with attorney John E. Sullivan examining the valuation under oath.
- [name withheld] condominium assessment appeal for block 7504A lot 4, valued at $9,330, was taken under advisement.
- San Francisco Redevelopers, Inc. contests the condominium assessment on Block 7504A, Lot 29; the outcome continues on the next page.
- The Board refused [name withheld] request to reduce the assessed valuation of his building after the motion to lower it failed.
- Thomas F. Murphy's property assessment reduction request was taken under advisement; the Property Director recommended no reduction.
- Request to bring battleship USS Missouri to SF put off a week.
- Everitt Briard's appeal over his condominium assessment was taken under advisement after he called it unfairly assessed.
- $120,000 Muni transit study put off one week.
- [name withheld] condominium assessment appeal for Block 7504A Lot 14 was taken under advisement; the Director recommended no reduction.
- [name withheld] condominium assessment appeal for Block 7504A Lot 6 was taken under advisement; the Director recommended no reduction.
- [name withheld] condominium assessment appeal for Block 7504A Lot 15 was taken under advisement; the Director recommended no reduction.
- [name withheld] condominium assessment appeal for Block 7504A Lot 7 was taken under advisement; the Director recommended no reduction.
- [name withheld] condominium assessment appeal for Block 7504A Lot 24 was taken under advisement; the Director recommended no reduction.
- [name withheld] condominium assessment appeal for Block 7504A Lot 10 was taken under advisement; the Director recommended no reduction.
- [name withheld] condominium assessment appeal for Block 7504A Lot 13 was taken under advisement; the Director recommended no reduction.
- [name withheld] condominium assessment appeal for Block 7504A Lot 8 was taken under advisement; the Director recommended no reduction.
- [name withheld] condominium assessment appeal for Block 7504A Lot 20 was taken under advisement; the Director recommended no reduction.
- [name withheld] applied to reduce his condominium assessment on block 7504A, lot 6; outcome continues on next page.
- Gross's condominium assessment on block 7504A lot 20 was reduced from $9,330 to $7,930.
- Condo tax value cut for one owner
- Flats' tax value cut for one owner.
- [name withheld] condominium at block 7504A lot 25 had its assessed value reduced from $9,330 to $7,930.
- [name withheld] condominium assessment in block 7504A, lot 13 was reduced from $15,260 to $12,970.
- [name withheld] condominium assessment on block 7504A lot 24 was reduced from $13,695 to $11,640.
- [name withheld] condominium assessment in block 7504A, lot 10 was reduced from $14,945 to $12,705.
- Plan to drop Crosstown tunnel support sent to committee.
- Condo tax value cut for one owner
- Condo tax value cut for one owner.
- Assessment applications Nos. 22 through 31 were taken under advisement by the County Board of Equalization, with no reduction recommended.
- Proposed ordinance banning feeding of birds in public places and trapping pigeons was continued for two weeks.
- Board adopted a no-stopping rule on the south side of Townsend Street from Third Street about 430 feet west.
- Four corners marked at Haight, Ellis and Grove Streets, adopted
- Right-turn-only lane set on Market Street at Fifth
- Pigeon feeding ban postponed a week; final vote still due.
- Board's fair-housing stand against State Proposition 14 sent to committee.
- Board continued the hearing on the Project Area A-2 redevelopment plan until October 5, 1964.
- Rules for how supervisors pass laws put on hold.
- City sends congratulations to [name withheld] of Malta
- City congratulates
- Western Addition redevelopment plan postponed to October 5.
- Agency asked to avoid luxury housing and delays on cleared sites
- A motion to add housing and open-space covenants to the Western Addition A-2 cooperation agreement with the Redevelopment Agency failed on a 5-5 tie.
- Supervisor McCarthy presented a resolution commending [name withheld]; its outcome is not printed on this page.
- Market Street planners and the transit district asked to report
- City formally protests planned closing of Hunters Point shipyard
- City commends a resident
- Officials granted leave to travel out of state
- Officials granted leave to travel out of state.
- Permit for [name withheld] fire alarms to city system advances.
- Relatives of welfare recipients must help pay for their support.
- Emergency aid extended to needy non-residents through February 1965
- City endorses a youth town meeting event
- Supervisors formally commended
- Request for 120-day pause on Treasure Island housing bids sent to committee.
- Changes to city workers' health plan rates put off a week.
- Police get state link for reporting stolen cars, awaiting final vote.
- Relatives must help pay for family members on welfare aid
- Next Market Street progress report set for June 28
- Board holds memorial tribute to
- Five commission and board leaders granted out-of-state leave
- The Board moved to refer five pending State bills, including a housing conciliation commission and racial restrictions on property, to the Rules Committee.
- $5.1 million for public assistance sent to committee.
- Finance Committee presents the 1965-1966 city budget to the Board
- Study of a possible city income tax sent to committee.
- Anti-poverty program plan sent back to committee for review.
- Urges amendment of the 1963 Immigration and Nationality Act.
- Endorses SB 1279, increasing local community services for alcoholics under the State Department of Public Health.
- City asks for change to 1963 federal immigration law
- City backs University of the Pacific medical school in San Francisco
- City backs state bill expanding local services for alcoholism
- Speed limits for Evans Avenue and the Great Highway advance
- Overtime parking fine change put off again.
- The Board asked the Market Street Design Task Force to give each supervisor a technical analysis of the Market Street plans within four weeks.
- Saint Francis Memorial Hospital congratulated by the city
- Housing Code amended so dwelling units must have heat maintaining 70 degrees, adopted as amended.
- Plan to borrow for War Memorial Center upgrades.
- Joseph Warren commended by the city
- Study urged on redesigning the Civic Center and Montgomery transit stations
- [name withheld] commended by the city
- City Attorney to review the Candlestick Park race contract after deaths
- Proposed charter amendment for partly district-elected Board of Education members stalled after a pay-raise amendment failed.
- Lawn Bowling Club gives $1,600 of gear to Golden Gate Park
- Relatives of welfare recipients must help pay their support.
- Resolution calling public attention to German-American Day, October 2, 1965, was adopted.
- Proclamation for [name withheld] 1,000th Christian anniversary requested
- Delegates sent to ask the state to rethink the waterfront freeway
- $100,000 Golden Gate Freeway study sent back to committee
- Official praise for
- Supervisor McCarthy asked the City Attorney to draft legislation creating a two-year Municipal Cultural Study Commission.
- Leaves of absence for several city officials approved
- City welcomed visiting Jewish congregation delegates
- Grant Avenue closing for the Chinese New Year parade sent to committee
- Resolution commending and congratulating [name withheld] was adopted.
- Parks chief allowed to attend a national city meeting in Washington
- Bay Area Rapid Transit District station names were taken up; the outcome appears on the next page.
- Supervisor McCarthy asked for hearings on improving coordination of city transportation and traffic policy, and the request was referred to committee.
- Supervisor Peter Tamaras granted leave to be out of state
- Urges Congress to fully use U.S. shipyards; sent to committee.
- Proposed social work school at State College put on hold.
- Allyne House preservation put on January 3 agenda
- Honored the memory of a resident
- Western Addition housing report request sent to committee.
- War Memorial asked whether UN flag flying meets trust terms
- Ripley Street paving bill put off for a week
- Paulist Fathers congratulated as Old St. Mary's Church becomes a landmark
- Request for a new aging office put off a week.
- Supervisors pay tribute to the late resident
- Supervisors ask for a [name withheld] citizens committee.
- Consideration of a proposed Technical Advisory Committee on Aging and Senior Citizens Council was continued until funding is before the Board.
- Mayor asked to appoint St. Patrick's Day citizens committee
- City commends Miss Chinatown U.S.A. of 1966
- Survey of city trainee jobs sent to committee for review.
- Pay raise for sheriff's sergeants approved.
- Businesses urged not to back restrictive trade practices
- Fix for a clerical error sent to committee.
- An adoption vote with no subject on this page
- City declares intent to join a juvenile court supervision program
- Winding Way residents commended for improving their own street
- Child released from duty to support parent on state aid
- Board amended the proposed supplemental agreement with the Redevelopment Agency on relocation, senior housing and covenant terms for Yerba Buena.
- [name withheld] appointment to Housing Authority confirmed
- Policy on underwater rapid transit to Marin set aside for now.
- Board tabled a proposal giving equal preference to an underwater transit and vehicle crossing study to Marin County.
- An adoption vote with no subject on this page
- City lawyer joins case on ending San Joaquin train at Bakersfield
- The Board adopted a resolution commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the proclamation of the Irish Republic.
- City commends Upper Noe Valley Neighborhood Council
- City marks 50 years since Irish Republic was proclaimed
- Survey of city service priorities sent to committee.
- Part of Grant Avenue to close for May 6
- Supervisors honour the late local priest
- City honours
- City opposes state senior property tax break as written
- State asked to open federal money for the Davis Street station
- An adoption vote with no subject on this page
- Board marks the death of
- Health Code amended to allow burial of church officials and other designated persons within city limits; passed for second reading.
- Assessment application by Mary B. Kelly for block 1814, lot 3 is on the reduction-granted list.
- Frank Gallagher's building assessment appeal for block 6600, lot 13 continues to the next page without a decision.
- [name withheld] property assessment application was continued one week for the Assessor to report on comparable properties.
- Tax value of one building cut to $56,680
- [name withheld] assessment appeal for Block 6530, Lot 7 is under consideration, with the Assessor's Office recommending a reduction.
- Board continued [name withheld] property assessment appeal for one week, with the Assessor to submit comparables.
- Tax value of one building cut by $1,590
- [name withheld] assessment appeal for Block 2686 Lot 39 was continued one week.
- [name withheld] assessment application for Block 1803, Lot 23 is still pending.
- [name withheld] and [name withheld] building assessment was reduced by $3,500 after the Board approved McCarthy's motion.
- Flaviot and [name withheld] building assessment was reduced by $1,000 after the Board approved McCarthy's motion.
- Part of Orange Alley closed for twelve days in August
- Tax value of one building cut by $7,000
- City mourns Jesse C. Colman, who died
- [name withheld] possessory interest assessment equalization application was continued to August 9, 1966.
- Tax appeal hearings set for evenings of August 10 and 11
- City asked state to extend time for tax hearings
- [name withheld] and [name withheld][name withheld] assessment application for block 7511, lot 2 was taken under advisement because the applicant was absent.
- McCormick & Company's [name withheld] Division assessed value was increased $39,941, and its appeal was continued.
- Joseph Stadler Co.'s property assessment appeal was taken under advisement; the Assessor recommended no reduction.
- The Lurie Co's property assessment appeal for block 255, lot 2 was taken under advisement by the Board.
- [name withheld] property assessment appeal for block 1774, lot 41 was taken under advisement by the Board.
- Tax assessment appeals from eight businesses, including Halo Sales Corp. and [name withheld] & [name withheld], taken under advisement with no decision.
- The Board adopted a resolution recommending continuation of an open-end state budget for public assistance costs.
- Report on jail inmates' complaints requested; sent to committee.
- Board continued the proposed improvement of Madison and Pioche Streets, with $31,500 city aid, to September 12, 1966.
- Charter amendment on Fire Bureau inspections and permit consolidation was ordered submitted to voters, passing 10 to 1.
- City commends groups fighting juvenile delinquency
- Proposed improvement of Madison and Pioche Streets between Valmar Terrace and Gambier Street, with $31,500 city aid.
- City marked Malta's second anniversary of statehood
- Consideration of current plans for Market Street rapid transit stations was temporarily postponed by the Board.
- A joint working agreement for leasing property and building the Washington Square Parking Project was taken up; its outcome is not yet printed.
- The Board invited [name withheld] and [name withheld] to explain why they severed their association with BARTD.
- Board commends William Reed
- Supervisor McCarthy asked the mayor, Civil Service Commission and Human Rights Commission for ideas to find jobs for unskilled workers.
- Appeal over shops on Haight Street put off to November 28
- Board voted to hire a court reporter to transcribe the testimony of [name withheld] and [name withheld] on their BART consulting.
- $40,000 voted as an emergency to fix Elsie Street
- New rules for TV installers and repairers sent to committee.
- City asks state to keep paying its share of welfare costs
- Appeal over shops on Haight Street put off to November 21
- Improvement of Madison and Pioche Streets between Valmar Terrace and Gambler Street, with $31,500 city aid, was continued to November 21, 1966.
- Supervisors commend museum director for art show
- Supervisors honour a community member as [name withheld] of the Year
- Shops refused on Haight Street east of Broderick Street
- The Board adopted a resolution congratulating [name withheld].
- Low ceilings opposed for the Powell and Montgomery transit stations
- Board adopted a resolution congratulating the University of San Francisco soccer team.
- City honours [name withheld] memory
- Tax on entertainment tickets sent to committee.
- Federal government refused the city's grant request for surveys and plans for the Butchertown redevelopment area; referred to committee.
- Narrowing Lincoln Way sidewalks put off one week.
- Board backs state plan to tax homes and businesses at different rates
- Board commends
- Officials send congratulations to
- City accepts donated Navy jet fighter for [name withheld] Park
- City workers' 1967 pay schedule still under review.
- City commends Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Supervisor McCarthy asked the Clerk to send Mr. and [name withheld] a congratulatory letter.
- The Learner Company's assessment appeal for 2200 Jerrold Avenue was denied; the company claimed its inventory was exempt as foreign commerce.
- Commendation given to a local clergyman
- Meat cutter pay increase passes first reading; final vote pending.
- Revised pay levels for city workers adopted as a substitute
- Pay scales for most city and non-teaching school staff passed
- Extra pay for fire staff doing higher-rank work passed
- Praise for Northwestern National Insurance Company approved
- Congratulations to St. Brendan's eighth-grade basketball team
- Jenkel-Davidson Optical tax appeal put off to a later hearing.
- Pommon's Tower Market at 635 Portola Drive received a property tax reduction under a compromise settlement the Board approved.
- Abercrombie & Fitch Co.'s property value application for 220 Post Street is listed, outcome not shown.
- Butchertown Industrial Park urged for jobs and a wider tax base.
- [name withheld] & [name withheld] tax appeal put on hold.
- Supervisors opposed a state change to county Medi-Cal payments
- Four pending state bills on property assessment, gas tax, toll bridge bonds and dwelling taxes were referred to the State and National Affairs Committee.
- Supervisors backed federal funding for health and welfare
- Consideration of the charter amendment creating an analyst bureau for the Board was continued to May 1, 1967.
- Board honors police chief [name withheld] for 25 years' service
- The Board adopted a commendation for General [name withheld], visiting San Francisco for Armed Forces Day in May 1967.
- Commendation of General [name withheld] for his Armed Forces Day visit was adopted.
- D. N. & E. Walter Company's assessment application 377 was continued to May 8, 1967, as no representative could attend.
- Citizens' committee set up to plan Memorial Day observance
- The Board adopted a motion to hire a court reporter for Redevelopment Agency presentations.
- Federal transit aid deal put off until May 22.
- Move to keep publicity budget at Mayor's level turned down
- Board adopted a commendation for [name withheld], who won the Fire Department's outstanding chef contest.
- Commendation adopted for Charles J. Vassallo, appointed Vice-Consul to San Francisco by the State of Malta.
- Board passed on second reading, as amended, an ordinance continuing retirement allowances after death for certain retirees.
- Board plans August hearing on relocating people displaced by redevelopment
- Study of retirement benefits for city workers sent back to committee.
- Board commends the Docent Council of the de [name withheld] for volunteer guide service in its collections.
- Six-year public works spending plan turned down
- State engineer [name withheld] presented a report on future San Francisco-Marin Bay crossings, sent to committee for hearings.
- Police and fire budget changes sent to committee.
- The Board commended [name withheld] for sponsoring a volunteer street tree planting program in Upper Noe Valley.
- California State Automobile Association's Hayes Street footbridge put off
- [name withheld] was commended by the Board for privately raising funds to build a swimming pool at Hunters Point.
- Muni operator pay schedules advanced; not final.
- Change to police and fire pay-setting dates delayed.
- Charter amendment defining time of war in Section 145.01 was continued to August 21, 1967.
- Committee asked to study North Bay transport policy
- Longer vacation for long-serving city workers delayed.
- Charter change for home repair loans put off a week.
- Sheriff's staff benefits charter change put off a week.
- Speakers heard on the Alemany Boulevard access appeal
- Board postponed its hearing on relocation of people displaced by redevelopment to October 9, 1967.
- Alemany Boulevard access appeal put off to [name withheld] 5.
- Fire-staff dispute process change put off a week.
- Proposed charter amendment would let the city borrow to set up a revolving fund for residential property rehabilitation loans.
- Hotel room tax increase from 3% to 5% for a sports arena-convention center was rescinded by the Board, pending further amendment.
- Hotel tax rise to 5% for sports arena moves to final vote.
- Charter change to allow business licence taxes put off a week.
- Supervisors ask city to proclaim Irish Festival Week
- Supervisors voted down hearing for group seeking Vietnam troop vote
- Supervisors' official argument for Prop B, budget analyst office, approved
- Clerk to forward ballot-argument endorsements to voter office
- Supervisor McCarthy proposed hearings on a sports arena and convention center in the Yerba Buena redevelopment area, and the matter was referred to committee.
- Board adopted a resolution authorizing ballot argument favoring Proposition N on taxing sellers or manufacturers at fixed places.
- Request to Congress on pension-income rule sent to committee.
- Former police chief [name withheld] honored for an Irish-American award
- Commendation adopted for [name withheld], chairman of the General Committee of the Second Annual Irish Festival Week.
- Supervisor McCarthy asked the Redevelopment Agency and Housing Authority for a list of non-profit housing in Western Addition Area A-2; the Board agreed.
- City praises bridge district's move to halt second-deck planning
- City praises Multi-Culture Institute's program on inter-group understanding
- Drivers must stop at Masonic Avenue and Waller Street
- City urges state to give counties $155 million property tax relief
- Urging re-review of Hunters Point fill permits; sent to committee.
- Committee set up to plan San Francisco Founding Days events
- Committee set up to plan St. Patrick's Day events
- $17.5 million sewer and water bond put off for a week.
- Labor leader [name withheld] praised for City of Hope humanitarian award
- Consideration of a city job residence requirement amendment was temporarily postponed by the Board.
- City agrees to share cost of new Sloat-area traffic signals
- Consideration of a resolution backing state bill AB 20 on income tax withholding was continued to March 11, 1968.
- Madison and Pioche Streets paving bills put off again
- Supervisors commended a nurse for veterans care.
- Consideration of a resolution asking that BART make no financial commitments until refinancing is agreed was continued to April 1, 1968.
- Request to reverse state denial of city design-study funds; no vote shown.
- City urged blood donations for Veterans Week, May 26 to June 1
- Sewer work near 23rd and Minnesota Streets approved
- Board honors citizens including [name withheld] and [name withheld] council
- Consideration of the Police Department's proposed loan of two Army helicopters for traffic control was continued, then temporarily postponed.
- Proposed amendments to the Embarcadero-Lower Market redevelopment plan were temporarily postponed by the Board.
- Supervisor Francois urged a policy directing redevelopment tax increments to low-cost housing for people displaced by redevelopment projects.
- McCarthy moved that the Planning Commission reconsider corner-lot premium rules in the C-3-0 district; referred to committee.
- Report asked on drag racing at Broad and Capitol Streets
- Judges asked to hear city lawyers before halting city lawmaking
- The Board continued consideration of reaffirming the Economic Opportunity Council as San Francisco's community action agency to July 8, 1968.
- Anti-poverty agency's role put off to July 8.
- City's membership in Bay Area governments group put off to July 22.
- Vote on staying in Bay Area group put off.
- Leaves of absence granted to Supervisors Blake, Pelosi and von Beroldingen, [name withheld] and Ohieyer, with permission to leave the State.
- Federal grant to set up city Office of Aging; outcome not shown.
- Justice Investors may dig a garage for the Chinese Cultural Center
- McCarthy's request that the Public Utilities Commission report on land revenue to offset railway deficit was granted.
- An adoption vote with no subject on this page.
- Warrants paid to [name withheld] and [name withheld].
- Map approved for widening Lyell and Bosworth Streets at San Jose
- Tax roll correction for one property approved; building value cut