All decisions
about 430 Board decisions about Marvin E. Lewis, in date order. Each links to its printed page.
- Proposed resolution would let the City Attorney aid the state Attorney General in the tidelands title suit.
- Supervisor Lewis urged higher fines for double parking, and the matter was referred to the Police Committee.
- Proposed resolution asks Congressional representatives to press federal agencies to release San Francisco office space for returning professionals.
- Lewis moved that testimony in the Municipal Railway inquiry be taken under oath; Christopher seconded; debate continued.
- Public Utilities Commission and Municipal Railway officials were called to explain two months of streetcar and bus operations.
- Supervisor Lewis suggested recessing the Board meeting while questioning of Municipal Railway chief engineer Turner continued.
- Jailer pay range of $230-260 was proposed and referred to the Civil Service Commission.
- Captain of Watch pay range of $260-300 was proposed and referred to the Civil Service Commission.
- Proposed $130-180 salary range for Book Repairer was referred to the Civil Service Commission.
- Proposed $200-300 salary range for Dental Hygienist was referred to the Civil Service Commission.
- Proposed $400 monthly salary for Emergency Hospital Surgeon was referred to the Civil Service Commission.
- Book Repairer job referred to Civil Service Commission with proposed salary range $135-205.
- Supervisor Lewis's motion to hear transit plans at the Public Utilities Committee was ruled out of order.
- Supervisor Lewis proposed a city public relations bureau to explain municipal operations; it was sent to the Finance Committee.
- Supervisor Lewis moved a motion questioning parking fines in yellow zones, after a press statement by Deputy Chief Riordan.
- Cap of 275 acres proposed for McLaren Park
- Seventh Street sidewalk widths put off for another week
- Supervisor Lewis proposed a resolution asking the Mayor to appoint a citizens' committee to bring the United Nations to San Francisco.
- Supervisor Gallagher referred the missing confidential Municipal Railway transit report matter to the Joint Finance and Public Utilities Committee.
- Supervisors debate whether to override Mayor Lapham's veto of Proposal 5502, which would require streetcar schedule changes be filed with the Board.
- Supervisor Lewis proposed a public hearing to set the boundaries of a blight area under the Urban Redevelopment Act.
- Rising vote of thanks given to O.P.A. staff for their work on the streetcar fare case.
- Law Library shelving got $1,000 as a capital expenditure in the budget, subject to the City Attorney's opinion.
- Motion to delete a $3,120 Sergeant-at-Arms position from the Board of Supervisors budget was defeated.
- A motion to cut $1,500 from the public library budget failed, with 3 ayes and 5 noes.
- Motion to delete the $18,000 Mission Park irrigation system failed on a 5-5 vote, so the item stays.
- Supervisors voted 6 to 4 to delete a $5,000 appropriation for new paddocks.
- Lewis's motion to delete a $32,500 Lincoln Park irrigation system appropriation lost for want of a second.
- Proposed $20,000 for plans for a courts building was debated; outcome not printed here.
- Street signs funded by a $50,000 capital expenditure, approved 6 to 4 with one member absent.
- Lewis moved to rescind all Board playground actions taken since the recreation budget was reopened; outcome not yet shown.
- $8,000 sought for playground land at Baker and Greenwich Streets
- Proposed contract would let the Housing Authority hold $151,974.90 in a Slum Clearance Revolving Fund to buy and demolish slum dwellings.
- Board voted to rescind its earlier action on the railroad budget, reopening the question of its funding.
- Proposal to delete a new traffic checkers superintendent post at the Municipal Railway was defeated on a tie vote.
- Supervisor Lewis's motion requiring the Annual Salary Ordinance by May 1st failed for want of a second.
- Board voted 10 to 0 to refer the license tax charter amendment back to committee for further hearings.
- Board debated whether to confirm the sale of city property to Mr. Christensen; a motion to postpone one week was made.
- Proposed ordinance would authorize sale of Water Department land, Alameda County Parcel 52 near Niles.
- Civil Service Commission directed to survey city salaries; Supervisor Lewis's motion postponed the matter one week.
- Closing part of Corwin Street put off to August
- A letter commending the Board of Education for its successful summer school programme was approved without objection.
- Supervisor McMurray's proposal for budget investigator positions was referred to the Judiciary Committee without a vote count.
- One acre of Water Department land in Sunol offered for sale
- Supervisor Lewis moved that the Park Commission appear before the Board to explain the condition of the beaches; the motion carried.
- One acre of Water Department land in Sunol offered for sale
- Lewis moved to rescind the Board's order putting a Section 24 license tax charter amendment to voters; Mancuso's motion postponed consideration to the next meeting.
- Mothers ask for swings and slides in Lafayette Square
- Supervisor Lewis moved to rescind the Board's order submitting a proposed Charter Section 24 amendment to voters.
- Board unanimously carried a motion directing the Clerk to send sympathy to Mayor William O'Dwyer of New York City on his wife's death.
- The Board urged preparing state legislation to prohibit dumping garbage at sea, for the 1947 State Legislature session.
- Legislative Representative asked to prepare a state bill for subvention to San Francisco for juvenile detention and probation facilities.
- Board expresses appreciation to Congressman Richard J. Welch for his wire on a second Bay crossing.
- Supervisor Lewis asked that the San Francisco municipal code be completely redrafted and revised; outcome not printed here.
- The Municipal Railway operations investigation was sent to the Public Utilities Committee for review.
- Furniture trades wage proposal passed for second reading after Supervisor Mead's deletion of concrete truck drivers' section was referred to Civil Service Commission.
- Robert J. Dolan was appointed Acting Clerk of the Board while Clerk John R. McGrath was absent.
- Committee recommends asking the City Planning Commission to prepare a general redevelopment plan for District 1, Western Addition.
- Bill 4486 was sent back to the Finance Committee for further review without objection.
- Consideration of the investigation into Municipal Railway operations was continued to March 3, 1947.
- Attorney Francis McCarty's request to negotiate the sale price of Sunset District school land was re-referred to Finance Committee.
- Supervisor Lewis's motion to rescind the re-referral of Bill No. 4466 on traffic penalties was lost.
- Consideration of Bill No. 4531 on vehicle towing was continued one week by motion of Supervisor Lewis.
- Mrs. Alma Spreckels was invited to appear February 24 to discuss a ship exhibit she sponsors at Treasure Island.
- Proposal No. 6533, a resolution on municipal assessment, was sent back to committee.
- Salary range of $600-750 approved for the office of Recorder.
- Board postponed its investigation of Municipal Railway operations for two months on Supervisor Lewis's motion.
- Salary range of $185-215 approved for the Janitor position.
- Salary range of $195-225 adopted for the School Janitor classification.
- The committee rescinded its earlier action on the Supervisor of Athletics position, R105; carried by 9 votes.
- A substitute setting a five-day, forty-hour week for the Superintendent of Jails, with time off for overtime, was adopted.
- Supervisor Lewis's motion to hold a May 12 public hearing on urban redevelopment failed on a 5-3 vote.
- Supervisors continued consideration of Bill No. 3954, a garage fire-safety ordinance, for one week.
- Proposal asking the Mayor to set up a transportation and traffic coordinating council was continued to April 14, 1947.
- Supervisor Lewis moved asking the Park Commission to pause Market Street tree planting; a substitute referral to committee lost.
- Supervisor Lewis's motion asking the Manager of Utilities to appear April 14 on transportation expert reports was approved.
- Consideration of Proposal 6673, a resolution on transportation planning, was continued for one week.
- Motion asking the Manager of Utilities to appear before the Board on transportation reports was tabled.
- Proposed resolution asks Congress to let cities tax federal government property in San Francisco.
- Board voted to withdraw letters on pending Sacramento legislation from the County, State and National Affairs Committee for its own consideration.
- Supervisor Lewis's motion to appeal the President's ruling on summarizing communications lost for want of a second.
- Board debated a charter amendment on cable car operation for the November ballot; an amendment was offered and a substitute to refer it back failed.
- Motion to refer Bill 4084, on licensing certain businesses and occupations, to the Finance Committee was lost.
- War Memorial services of other departments reduced to $10,000, then restored to $12,000 by rescission.
- Proposal to delete $600 for monument and statue maintenance was defeated.
- The motion to adopt the Bureau of Engineering budget, as amended, was defeated by the Board.
- A motion to adopt the Public Utilities Commission General Office budget was ruled out of order.
- The War Memorial budget was adopted as amended, 9 to 2, after the janitor position was restored.
- Board carried Lewis's motion requiring its approval before the $200,000 for Master Plan consultants is spent.
- Lewis proposed amending holiday pay rules in the Annual Salary Ordinance; no vote recorded on this page.
- Board adopted Proposal 6774 exempting five City Planning Commission positions from charter residence requirements.
- Proposed amendments to Article 23 building code on lateral forces were defeated, five votes to four.
- Motion to adopt the Advisory Board's Building Code amendment report was lost for want of a second.
- Board rejected a Structural Engineers' Association amendment to the Building Code's lateral forces article.
- Motion to approve Advisory Board recommendations on garage ventilation in the proposed Building Code lost by six to four.
- Lewis's proposal exempting one- and two-family dwellings from the stairway door rule failed on a 5-5 vote.
- Board failed 5-5 to approve the Advisory Board's recommendation on plaster board after repeated rescission votes.
- A motion to set up a Budget Efficiency Committee was postponed, as the Board first took up license tax item No. 19.
- Board invites the Utilities and Airport managers to a July 7 special order on the Master Airport Plan.
- Supervisor Lewis moved to rescind the July 14 approval of a $20,000,000 Municipal Railway bond issue pending a committee report.
- Supervisor Lewis's motion to rescind the 1939 bond resolution for Muni rehabilitation was continued for one week.
- A proposed $5,000,000 bond for public parking lots and garages was taken up; Supervisor Lewis moved an amendment.
- Motion to rescind referral of a courtroom proposal for new Superior Court judges was defeated.
- Board continued for one week a resolution urging the Governor to act on construction of a second Bay crossing.
- Board overruled the President's ruling on Gallagher's plan for a committee studying a second bay crossing.
- Motion to suspend the rules to immediately consider Proposal 7110 was lost.
- Lewis's motion to rescind the postponement of Proposal 7110 was ruled out of order; the President's ruling was sustained.
- Supervisor Lewis's motion to sit as a committee of the whole on opening trails on Water Department land in San Mateo County was lost.
- Supervisor Gallagher authorized to represent the city at the state Chamber of Commerce convention in Los Angeles; motion carried.
- Board directed the Clerk to write to Toledo, Ohio, requesting its salary standardization system details.
- Amherst Street to be improved just north of Silliman Street
- Cooperative apartment eviction rules were re-referred to committee for further hearings.
- Salary standardization communications from city employees' union and Civil Service Commission were referred to the Finance Committee.
- Proposal for a campaign to register voters for the June 1948 primary was still under discussion.
- Air raid warning service meeting sent to committee
- Kolbs' Macondray Lane driveway sent back to committee
- Rules Committee proposed amending Board Rule 42 on floor privileges; an amendment lost and the matter stayed pending.
- Resolution asks the Mayor to appoint a citizens' committee to welcome distinguished visitors to San Francisco.
- Supervisor Lewis proposed that city departments' postage meters carry a Portola Festival message; outcome not printed on this page.
- Lake Street rezoning appeal argued by attorney Milton Marks
- Park Department overtime and holiday pay appropriation of $3,250 re-referred to Finance Committee.
- Board voted 6-4 to rescind its backing of a ballot argument for buying the California Street Cable Railroad.
- Proposed building code change on gasoline filling stations postponed one week without objection.
- Proposed building code definition changes for gasoline and service stations postponed one week without objection.
- Fire Department services budget of $53,642 restored to the 1948 budget after an amendment carried.
- Motion to raise Portola Festival and Centennial Year funding from $150,000 to $200,000 was defeated after reconsideration.
- The Board invited State Public Utilities Commission members to a June 9 hearing on a Third and Townsend railroad terminal.
- Supervisor Lewis asked that charging owners for street light installation in new subdivisions be referred to committee.
- Board set discussion of installing street signs as a special order for July 26, 1948.
- Earlier approval of a $250 five-day Block 19 lease to Ringling Bros. circus was rescinded; consideration continued.
- Supervisor Lewis raised a City Attorney opinion that proposed policy declarations on selling the Municipal Railway conflict with charter Section 179; sent to committee.
- Supervisor Lewis asked Public Welfare to separate aid grants from discontinuances; Mancuso's amendment was referred to Finance Committee.
- Tax levy ordinance for fiscal 1948-1949 was moved for second reading; the outcome is not printed here.
- Supervisor Lewis withdrew his motion to pass the proposed tax levy for second reading.
- Supervisor Lewis was permitted to write to Bay Area transportation district delegates proposing Bay Area Council administer the new Authority.
- Atlas Realty Company to get $2,200 and part of Montana Street
- Proposal to waive the statute of limitations on Strother's back-salary suit against the city was debated; no vote yet.
- Rules Committee's ordinance on legislative procedure was continued one week and set as a special order for November 8.
- Board postponed action for one week on a $3,000 settlement of Mary Skillen's sidewalk tripping claim.
- Board passed a resolution urging the December 14, 1948 second bay crossing hearing be held in San Francisco instead of Sacramento.
- Plans to widen California, Post and Third Streets to be dropped
- No. 40 car line to be abandoned below Holy Cross Cemetery
- Consideration of a Joint Army-Navy Board rapid transit report and Bay tube resolution was continued five weeks.
- Motion to hear four departments on the DeLeuw transportation report was lost for want of a second.
- Lewis's motion to set a special order to hear from four former Mayor's Administrative Planning Council departments was defeated.
- Flower stand's move from Fifth Street to Powell Street put off
- The Board approved sending copies of a commendation resolution honoring Fire Department crews for decorating fire houses at Christmas to each fire house.
- $42,000 transfer for Market Street trolley coaches temporarily put off
- Supervisor Lewis proposed that the Board get staff to study reports and prepare legislation for it.
- The Board referred a proposed Bay Area rapid transit system resolution, based on an Army-Navy report, to the City Planning Commission.
- Supervisor Lewis proposed acquiring four blocks behind Di Maggio's Restaurant for leased parking, referred to committee.
- Buying Sutro Baths for recreation sent to committee
- Resolution urges observance of Negro History Week, February 6-12, 1949; adopted by unanimous vote.
- Supervisor Lewis asked the Public Utilities Commission to explain its increase of school tickets from 3½ to 5 cents; referred to commission.
- Finance Committee's $5.5M appropriation for Municipal Railway rehabilitation was postponed one week.
- Supervisor Lewis asked the Clerk to ask the City Attorney about proposed legislation to preserve Chinese architecture in Chinatown; the Clerk was directed to secure information.
- An adoption vote with no subject on this page
- Mayor-disapproved ordinance on auctioning tax-deeded property was postponed one week; no new date printed.
- Proposal asking the Public Utilities Commission to cut school children's car ticket price from 5 cents to 3.5 cents was postponed.
- Supervisor Lewis asked the Mayor's Cabinet to pursue eminent domain for downtown off-street parking and one-way streets; the Clerk was directed to write a letter.
- City asks Public Utilities Commission to hear monorail proposal
- Supervisor Lewis's proposed $650 maximum pay for the school buildings maintenance supervisor was defeated.
- Supervisor Lewis's motion to recess the Board until Wednesday morning was defeated, leaving the Finance Committee salary recommendations pending.
- Supervisor Lewis withdrew his motion to raise the Utilities Audits supervisor's pay from $800 to $1,000.
- Supervisor Lewis's proposed pay decrease for Governorman was ruled out of order, not sent to Civil Service.
- Supervisor Lewis withdrew his motion on a proposed $1,250 rate for the Hetch Hetchy Bureau manager.
- Supervisor Lewis's motion to reduce pay for several power plant jobs lost for want of a second.
- Board postponed for one week a $14,590.50 appropriation to remodel rooms in the Civic Auditorium.
- Board took up cancelling the Lake Merced boat and fishing lease held by Charles Kay and Michael Shrum; decision continues next page.
- Supervisor Lewis moved to table File No. 3968; the outcome is not shown on this page.
- The Board urged the state to enact A.B. 986 and 987 on personnel in the Superior Court Secretary-Jury Commissioner's office.
- Lewis moved that the Clerk ask the Warehousemen's Association about difficulties storing agricultural products, and the motion carried.
- Irving Street parking change put off a week
- Legion of Honor museum director's trip to art museum conferences in Cleveland and Chicago considered; consideration continued.
- Lafayette Street southbound one-way designation was adopted, then rescinded and continued for a week.
- The Board asked the Public Utilities Commission to study the Jenkins Municipal Railway report and report back on possible legislation.
- Colby Street grade change sent back to committee
- Proposal to spend $700,000 buying Angel Island was defeated by the Board.
- Board voted to sit as a Committee of the Whole to hear whether garage and service station attendants' pay rates were improper.
- Resolution urging the U.S. Senate to fund ship construction failed suspension and was referred to committee.
- Resolution urging arbitration of the warehousemen's strike failed a suspension vote and was sent to the Commercial and Industrial Development Committee.
- Resolution 8990 was adopted unanimously by rising vote after the Board suspended its rules.
- City Attorney asked to seek an early cable strike settlement
- Resolution asking the Park Commission to consider improving and beautifying Twin Peaks was moved to do pass.
- Supervisor Lewis moved that letters go to Oakland and Alameda County proposing a joint committee on a rapid transit district; motion carried.
- Resolution urging a public view area and restaurant on Christmas Tree Point was adopted, as amended to name three commissions.
- Supervisor Lewis moved a $5,000 supplemental appropriation for the Bay Area rapid transit citizens' committee; referred to Finance Committee.
- Mayor's veto of a resolution asking for a citizens' advisory committee on the Bay Area rapid transit district was re-referred to committee.
- The Clerk was directed to tell the Registrar that ballot arguments lack the required signatures under Section 183.
- Supervisor Lewis moved to rescind the Board's earlier approval of discontinuing part of the No. 28 bus line.
- Proposed resolution would disapprove abandoning part of the No. 28 Municipal Railway bus line between Alemany Boulevard and Sickles Avenue.
- A final passage vote with no subject on this page
- Supervisor Lewis's $5,000 motion for a Bay Area rapid transit citizens' committee was placed on the Board's November 14 calendar.
- Mayor vetoed File 4859, a resolution urging the State Public Works Department to build more San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge approaches.
- $95,000 for street lighting on O'Farrell, Ellis and Eddy put off
- The Board voted 7 to 4 to rescind its earlier $5,000 appropriation and mayoral committee for Bay Area rapid transit.
- Citizens' committee on a Bay Area rapid transit district granted $5,000 for its operation, after a rescission and re-vote.
- Mayor asked to appoint a citizens' committee to prepare a program for a Bay Area rapid transit district, adopted without objection.
- Supervisor Lewis's proposed endorsement of a South America fashion trip by a manufacturers' association was referred to committee.
- Bush and Pine Streets studied for white lines and lower speeds
- Supervisor Lewis asks the Recreation Department for a report on athletic fields and 1947 recreation bond spending.
- Supervisor Lewis asked the Recreation Commission to report on the Recreation Bond Program on January 16, 1950.
- Supervisors debate a proposed ordinance banning employment discrimination by race or religion and creating an equal opportunity commission; still pending.
- Supervisor Lewis's amendments to the proposed Fair Employment Practices ordinance, File 4636, were carried six to five, adding a fifteen-month duration.
- Supervisor Lewis's motion to defer the pending fair employment practices measure until February 1 was rejected by the Board.
- Supervisor Lewis's employment discrimination recommendations were referred to the Judiciary Committee after the Board reconsidered the measure.
- Supervisor Lewis moved to withdraw his motion to reconsider the rejected anti-discrimination in employment ordinance; debate on the motion followed.
- Supervisor Lewis withdrew his motion to reconsider the fair employment ordinance, which had been refused second reading.
- Morning stopping ban on Bush Street sent back to committee
- Twenty-four minute parking limit dropped on California, Bush and Sansome
- Resolution congratulating Congregation Emanu-El and Congregation Sherith Israel on their centennial observances was adopted.
- Supervisor Lewis asked owners of Sutro Forest property to show cause why it should not be used for community redevelopment; referred to committee.
- Lewis moves that city officials meet with Alameda County and state officials on Bay Bridge approaches.
- Supervisor Lewis presented a resolution in memory of Sid Grauman, and the Board suspended its rules to consider it.
- Resolution endorsing the Camp Fire Girls' annual candy mint sale adopted.
- Board sets a special order for Monday, March 20 to discuss strict enforcement of the curfew law.
- Board commended the Fire Department for its work fighting a four-alarm fire at Larkin and Turk Streets.
- Lewis's motion to press the District Attorney, Police Department and Juvenile Court for strict curfew enforcement failed for lack of a second.
- The Board adopted a resolution asking for correction of dangerous and obnoxious conditions at China Beach.
- Supervisor Lewis's amendments carried, letting the Recreation and Park Commission lease stadiums and recreation grounds without competitive bids; the charter measure stays pending.
- A proposed charter amendment to hire a private claims agent for Municipal Railway and utility claims was referred to Judiciary Committee.
- Supervisors Lewis and Christopher jointly presented a resolution in memory of Louis S. Goldstein.
- Board adopted a resolution urging public observance of May as Movie Month.
- Supervisor Lewis's motion asking the District Attorney to explain curfew enforcement was referred to the Police Committee.
- Rules Committee's proposed ordinance on legislative procedure was put off for one week.
- Consideration of the Board's Rules of Order was continued for one week.
- Consideration of a resolution rescinding the Board's Rules of Order was continued for one week.
- Consideration of a resolution setting regular Monday Board meetings was continued for one week.
- Proposal to move one chauffeur to a 48-hour week stays open after a request to withdraw it failed.
- Earlier adoption of the Public Utilities Commission General Office budget was rescinded by the Board.
- Supervisor Lewis moved to rescind the Board's adoption of the Public Utilities Commission General Office budget; a call of the Board was defeated.
- Motion to put one chauffeur on a 48-hour week instead of 40 was defeated by the Board.
- Fire Department budget adoption was defeated 6 to 4 and then withdrawn, after the Board cut one Lieutenant line to 160 employments.
- Motion to rescind adoption of the City Attorney's budget was defeated by six votes to four.
- The Board adopted a resolution congratulating Miss Pat Sheehan on being selected Miss San Francisco of 1950.
- A committee was appointed to work out a park site for the California Centennial, to keep $250,000 in state funding.
- Supervisor Lewis presented Resolution 9988; its outcome appears on the next page.
- Supervisor Lewis's resolution urges federal authorities to give San Francisco its proper share of military and naval reconversion projects.
- Emergency $12,044 appropriation for Electricity Department overtime in the Plant Division was continued one week.
- Evening stopping ban proposed for Mason Street between Bush and Market
- Supervisor Lewis's motion asks the Real Estate Department and City Planning Commission for a list of possible public housing sites; adopted without objection.
- Settlement paying $5,000 to Shipowners' and Merchants' Tugboat Company over a $16,784.55 judgment was continued one week.
- Postponed for two weeks the approval of sites for 3,000 low-rent housing units proposed by the Housing Authority.
- Plan to transfer temporary public housing to the Housing Authority was postponed two weeks; Bay View residents oppose 3,000 units.
- Board passed a motion asking city officials to submit proposed amendments to state bill S.B. 194 to committee.
- An appeal to modify a building setback line at Fifteenth Avenue and Judah Street, denied by the Planning Commission, was continued.
- Resolution adopted accepting eight United Nations flags from the American Association for the United Nations of Northern California.
- Proposed rule requiring police chief permits for private detectives and guards who carry weapons was re-referred to committee.
- Board adopted a resolution asking the Mayor to appoint a citizens' committee to welcome the 1950 World Series participants.
- The Board adopted a resolution commending Adolph P. Schuman for his contributions to fashion.
- Committee resolution asks the General Rent Advisory Board to investigate removing rent control on units renting at $85 or more.
- Plan to make alleys crossing Van Ness Avenue between Pine and Market one-way was put off by a continuance motion.
- City Attorney asked who controls parking rules and one-way streets
- Supervisor Lewis moved adoption of Resolution 10693; the final vote is not printed on this page.
- Parking meters for Sixteenth Street put off a week
- Board adopted a resolution removing all references to the Palace of Fine Arts from Resolution No. 8718.
- Clerk of the Board directed to prepare an ordinance on a Finance Committee recommendation; text continues on the next page.
- Proposal to let the Police Commission handle curb painting was deferred one week and set for March 12, 1951.
- Handing curb painting to the Police Commission put off
- Supervisor of School Janitors pay range of 360-430 (class C-112) approved by a vote of 6 to 5.
- Motion to set the Bookkeeper salary range at $290-350 failed.
- Proposed Elevator Operator salary range of $210-250 failed and was not approved.
- Assistant Supervisor of School Janitors pay range of 310-340 (class C-111) approved by a vote of 6 to 5.
- Motion to set the Court Room Clerk salary range at $370-440 passed.
- Board passed an emergency amendment to the Traffic Code's curb parking rules to fix lettering on traffic citations.
- Proposed $50 pay increase for the Public Utilities Commission personnel director was rejected.
- Proposed salary range of $280-330 for the group supervisor job was rejected by the Board.
- Salary range of $320-380 for child welfare workers was approved by the Board.
- Motion to reject a $30 monthly raise for the Airport Maintenance Chief failed for want of a second.
- Motion to reject a $30 monthly raise for the Assistant Superintendent of Airport Operations failed, 2-8.
- Board began debating a proposed bailiff salary range of $320-360 per Civil Service Commission recommendation; no decision shown on this page.
- Motion to reject a proposed $120 raise for the Superintendent of Street Repair failed.
- Proposed $33.33 pay increase for the Bureau of Light, Heat and Power chief engineer was rejected.
- Proposed $40 pay increase for an engineering analyst position was rejected.
- Proposed $50 pay increase for the Municipal Railway general claims agent was rejected.
- Pay range of $200-230 set for the city's kitchen helper job class.
- Motion to reject a $20 monthly raise for the Superintendent of Power House failed.
- Motion to reject a proposed $50 raise for the Superintendent of Maintenance and Repair, Hetch Hetchy failed.
- Motion to reject a proposed $50 raise for the Superintendent of Airport Operations failed.
- Motion to reject a proposed $100 raise for the city architect position failed.
- Rezoning refused at Nineteenth and Ocean Avenues
- Supervisor Lewis proposed a citizens' committee to arrange a dinner for the Stewart Chevrolet basketball team.
- Lewis proposed a special order for April 16 to hear fair employment compliance reports; a substitute motion lost.
- Board adopted a resolution urging the Legislature to enact Senate Bill 549, creating a Bay Area Rapid Transit Commission.
- Supervisor Lewis proposed naming the Pitch-Putt Golf Course for George MacRae; it was referred to committee for lack of a second.
- $102,800 goes to improving playgrounds and recreation areas
- Supervisor Lewis's request to place the Fair Employment Practices ordinance on the May 14 calendar was allowed over Mancuso's objection.
- Board holds a hearing on progress of the voluntary fair employment practices program under Resolution 9510.
- Motion asking the City Attorney whether the Board may create a city car pool was defeated by six votes to five.
- Board commended the San Francisco Junior Chamber of Commerce for its Miss San Francisco beauty contest.
- Supervisor Lewis's substitute to the fair employment ordinance failed 3 to 8, so penalties for violations remain in the measure.
- Citywide rules on sewer use, garbage grinders and sewage service charges were continued for one week for closer study by members.
- Board adopted a substitute resolution asking the Chief Administrative Officer and Park Commission to study acquiring Angel Island from the federal government.
- Board asks City Attorney to determine whether court action can stop the State Board of Equalization's new public utility assessment formula; resolution adopted.
- Board unanimously adopted a resolution in memoriam for John O. Gantner, sponsored by Supervisors Lewis and Halley.
- Bid to undo Eleventh Street and Potrero Avenue track removal fails
- Charter amendment letting city officers and employees live outside San Francisco remains under consideration; Supervisor Lewis proposed a retirement board filing change.
- Supervisor Lewis's resolution urging federal relaxation of home-building rules for moderate-income people was referred to committee.
- Supervisor Lewis moved to hold the minimum lot size ordinance in committee for ninety days; debate continues.
- The Director of Traffic explained the Police Department had not enforced one-way rules on Stevenson Street, and the Board took no further action.
- Board adopted a resolution asking for an investigation of a monorail transit system for the Bay Area Rapid Transit district.
- The Board adopted a resolution in memoriam for Ellis E. Levy, presented by Supervisors Lewis and Gallagher.
- Board adds John K. Hagopian to the list of names sent to the Governor for Bay Area Rapid Transit Commission appointment.
- Board amended and adopted a resolution favoring Proposition G, a supervisors' pay increase, after adding Los Angeles County salary figures.
- The Board rescinded its earlier referral of an anti-fluoridation committee's letter to the Judiciary Committee, with no objection.
- Newspaper advertisement urged to correct the fluoride ballot argument
- The Board adopted a resolution commending Optimist Clubs and asking the Mayor to proclaim National Optimist Week.
- The Board adopted a resolution asking the Mayor to designate November 22-24, 1951 as United Nations Defenders of Freedom Days.
- The Board directed the Clerk to send thanks to the Citizens' Committee that backed Proposition G, the supervisors' pay increase.
- Resolution urging the Golden Gate Bridge district to hold Waldo Approach widening plans in abeyance; referred to committee.
- Motion proposed to prepare a $28,850 supplemental appropriation to finish the city records survey and set up a record center.
- Supervisor Lewis moved to continue for two weeks the proposal asking the Bridge District to defer widening Waldo Grade.
- Board refused to adopt Supervisor Lewis's measure asking the Bridge District to halt widening of Waldo Grade.
- Supervisor Lewis's resolution urges the President and Secretary of Defense to let returning Korean veterans visit San Francisco.
- Motion to hold a special Board meeting on December 12 to set a policy on refinancing the Bay Bridge lost.
- Board postponed the sewer use and service charge ordinance for three weeks, pending Water Department billing figures requested by Supervisor Lewis.
- Repeal of the Market Street safety zone rule called up
- Supervisor Dewey Mead was elected President of the Board of Supervisors by a 10-0 vote.
- Supervisor Lewis moved that the Board president write to four bay area county boards proposing joint meetings; no vote is printed.
- The Board adopted a resolution commending [name withheld], jointly presented by all members.
- Supervisor Lewis's motion for a night hearing on heat rules for apartments failed for want of a second.
- Proposed rule barring vehicle stopping on six downtown streets from 4 to 6 p.m. was put off one week.
- A proposed parking ban on Market Street between Fremont and Tenth streets was continued one week.
- Proposed changes to sixty-minute parking limits on Market and Mission streets were continued one week.
- Proposed change to stopping hours on parts of Mission and Sutter Streets was continued one week.
- Lifting the Market Street parking ban put off a week
- Board authorized the City Attorney to represent the city before the State Utilities Commission on Key System's rate increase request.
- Protests over street intersection work at Rutledge, Peralta and Franconia were continued for one week.
- Supervisor Gallagher, Finance Committee chairman, presented supplemental salary recommendations; votes not yet shown.
- Supervisor Lewis's substitute salary range of $290-340 for [name withheld] lost by a 4-7 vote.
- The Board refused a proposed salary range of $390-460 for Courtroom Clerk, classification B152.
- Resolution honouring the late [name withheld] was unanimously adopted by rising vote.
- Resolution adopted asking the Mayor to appoint a citizens' committee to plan Palace of [name withheld] repairs at no city cost.
- Resolution asking the Mayor to appoint a citizens' committee to arrange receptions for returning armed forces members was adopted.
- Resolution asking the Mayor to appoint a citizens' committee for the Palace of [name withheld] was vetoed and continued to April 28.
- The Board added Resolution 12224 language to the Bay crossings policy item and then temporarily postponed it.
- Resolution commending Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts and Sea Scouts for the 1952 Scouting Exposition was moved; vote not printed on this page.
- Board set a special order meeting on West Portal parking for May 26th, inviting merchants and the Parking Authority.
- Board memorializes the Federal Housing Authority to remove temporary war housing at Candlestick Cove so the Bayshore Freeway can be completed.
- Board motion asking presidents of four Bay Area county boards to meet about mutual problems was adopted.
- Proposal to continue federal rent control past April 1953 was referred to the Joint County, State and National Affairs Committee.
- The Board re-adopted a resolution asking the Mayor to appoint a citizens' committee for [name withheld], September 21, 1952, after the Acting Mayor returned the earlier version unsigned.
- The Board adopted a resolution congratulating [name withheld].
- [name withheld] County's get-out-the-vote challenge accepted
- Ordinance authorizing the Mayor and his secretary to attend a Vienna conference passed for second reading, with expenses capped at $5,000.
- Board voted to rescind its earlier re-referral of File 9239, on county jail prisoners working on public works.
- A vote with no subject on this page
- Board adopted the Sheriff's rules for county jail prisoners performing labor under Ordinance 7572.
- The Board accepted The Guardsmen's invitation to attend their December 13 open house at California and Laurel Streets.
- Supervisor Lewis's motion to call his policy measure on non-city matters from the Rules Committee was withdrawn.
- The Board asked the Mayor to appoint a citizens' committee for Human Rights Week, December 10-16, 1952.
- Stone Lantern of Peace from the children of Japan accepted
- Supervisor Lewis asked authorities to clear City Hall south ramp parking reserved for supervisors; outcome not printed.
- Lewis asked that federal employees' Civic Center parking privileges be examined, and the request was referred to Police Committee.
- Supervisor Lewis asked the Finance Committee to study a $100,000 city share of Bay Area rapid transit planning; continued two weeks.
- The Board adopted a resolution asking the Mayor to proclaim February 15, 1953, as Chinese New Year Festival Day.
- The Board adopted a resolution urging the state to pass S.B. 109, funding the Bay Area Rapid Transit Commission.
- Board continued general discussion of the 1953-1959 Capital Improvement Program for three weeks.
- Supervisor Lewis's resolution urges preparing bond issues to fund the long-range comprehensive transportation plan for San Francisco.
- Supervisor Lewis's proposed five-cent downtown fare resolution was continued for two weeks, pending committee consideration.
- [name withheld] was written to, urging enactment of S.B. 109 for state funds toward Bay Area rapid transit.
- Resolution urges the Public Utilities Commission to study a five-cent shoppers' fare on Muni downtown; adopted.
- Board backs a state bill restoring the Palace of
- State asked to give up Louisiana and Georgia Street land
- Supervisor Lewis moved to rescind the earlier refusal of a $330 overtime appropriation for the Public Utilities Commission.
- Reconsideration of the vote to arrange a dinner with San Mateo County supervisors carried, 7 to 1.
- Supervisor Lewis proposed that the Public Utilities Commission survey B and J line riders before any bond issue; referred to committee.
- Supervisor Lewis raised the practice of 'pullers' operating in the downtown area, referred to committee; outcome continues.
- Board votes to reconsider its earlier motion authorizing the president to arrange a dinner meeting with San Mateo County supervisors.
- Board urges opening the Sloat Boulevard island to Lake Shore shops
- The Board unanimously adopted a resolution in memory of [name withheld] by rising vote.
- Coaster derby [name withheld] while another site is sought
- The Board adopted a resolution commending the Boy Scouts for the Scout-O-Rama held at the Cow Palace.
- Board backs a southern bay crossing from Army and Third Streets
- Supervisor Lewis's motion asks the Public Utilities Commission to reconsider rejecting a five-cent downtown shopper's fare.
- Supervisor Lewis asks that the Shoppers' Special serve the financial district
- Supervisor Lewis's request to investigate federal employees' special parking privileges near their offices was continued one week.
- A five-cent special shopper's fare in downtown San Francisco was tabled by the Board after a divided vote.
- Supervisor Lewis asked for a study of downtown transit speeding and Shoppers' Special routes; the request was referred to Public Utilities Committee.
- The Board adopted a resolution endorsing a cancer fund-raising dance to be given by The Collegians.
- San Bruno Avenue zoning case put off another week
- The Board adopted a resolution congratulating Louisiana and New Orleans on the 150th anniversary of the [name withheld].
- Board clerk authorized to request a $100,000 supplemental appropriation for San Francisco's share of the Bay Area Rapid Transit survey.
- Resolution authorizing city officials to attend the Redwood Empire Association convention in Lake County, adopted.
- Right turns from Polk Street into Market Street to be banned
- Motion proposed to call from committee a measure urging surplus Presidio land be released for private development.
- The Guardsmen seek a sports car race in Golden Gate Park
- Board adopted a finding that extending the five-cent shuttle fare to June 30, 1954 needs no tax subsidy this year.
- Directors of the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District were elected by resolution, adopted by nine ayes.
- Resolution 14009 was adopted, though its subject is not printed on these pages.
- Supervisor Lewis moved adoption of a measure to abandon the 17 bus line; the final vote is not printed on this page.
- Disapproval of the Public Utilities Commission's proposed abandonment of part of Municipal Railway Line 36 adopted.
- Resolution disapproving abandonment of part of Municipal Railway Line No. 29 was adopted by ten votes to none.
- Supervisors debated $372,331 from airport bond funds for a sewage treatment plant at the San Francisco Airport, and a motion to re-refer it to committee was made.
- Supervisor Lewis asked committee to study banning parking on hilly Powell Street [name withheld] and California; referred to Police Committee.
- Proposed charter amendment on Municipal Railway operator pay formulas was continued for one week.
- Shopper's Special bus to the Civic Center Auto Park put off
- Proposed charter amendment on comparable-city and street railway pay standards was continued for one week.
- Shopper's bus line extended to the Civic Center Auto Park
- Supervisor Lewis moved to rescind the Board's earlier defeat of McCarty's amendments to the pending charter measure, and it carried.
- A motion to have the Director of Civilian Defense appear before the Board on civilian defense needs failed, one vote to ten.
- Supervisor McCarty moved that the ordinance extending water fluoridation to all city customers pass; debate continues.
- The Board adopted a resolution asking the Mayor to proclaim May 8-16, 1954 as Youth Week.
- Board adopted a resolution urging the Public Utilities Commission to study a permanent five-cent shoppers' bus service.
- Lewis's motion to raise Municipal Railway advertising from $23,400 to $35,000 was lost for want of a second.
- Lewis took his measure barring Board recommendations on State or Federal ballot proposals off committee for the next meeting.
- Legislation banning parking on Powell Street between Sutter and California Streets was called from committee and placed on the June 14 calendar.
- A motion carried with no subject on this page
- Board adopted a resolution congratulating [name withheld] on her selection as Miss California.
- Proposal to remove part of Taylor Street from the no-stopping list was re-referred to the Police Committee.
- Equalization hearing on 35 firms' possessory interest assessment appeals continued, with debate over whether the Board needs its own reporter.
- Extension of Evans Avenue from Hunter's Point Boulevard proposed
- Minnatoma parking site name change and lease form were refused after [name withheld] said approval would make his plan impractical.
- Motion to rescind approval of leases for the Minnatoma and Fifth and Howard parking plazas was defeated.
- Resolution 14890 on file 12431 was adopted on Supervisor Lewis's motion.
- Resolution adopted asking city boards and offices to allow posting of a candidates' night notice.
- Supervisor Lewis moved that the Board return to its committee system, referring Joint Committee matters to standing committees; the outcome is not printed here.
- Motion for the full Board to meet every Thursday instead of a joint committee failed for lack of a second.
- Clerk asked to learn how the Parking and Transit Council plans to spend $45,000 on Municipal Railway integration.
- Finding on financial effect of a five-cent shopper's fare on Mission Street, Fifteenth to Army, adopted.
- $5,000 voted for a sewer from Bertita Street to Alemany Boulevard
- Board takes one-way street plans for Post and O'Farrell Streets out of committee for its December 13 calendar.
- The Board adopted a resolution authorizing correction of clerical errors in the 1954-1955 assessment roll, raising some taxes payable.
- Consideration of an appeal to rezone property on Geary Boulevard near Twenty-eighth Avenue was continued for one week.
- Geary Boulevard rezoning appeal put off; the appellants were absent
- Rules suspended to take up the Post and O'Farrell one-way plans