All decisions
about 560 Board decisions about Robert H. Mendelsohn, in date order. Each links to its printed page.
- City urges state to give counties $155 million property tax relief
- City backs creating a health planning council
- Supervisors commended [name withheld] for helping end teachers' strike
- Mayor asked to proclaim U.[name withheld], April 21-27
- Assembly Constitutional Amendment 27 on voting requirements was sent to the State and National Affairs Committee at Supervisor Mendelsohn's request.
- Honours for a retiring nurse, a labour leader, and a church anniversary
- Proposed approval in principle of Midtown Park Corporation's offer to acquire the Midtown Park Project as moderate-priced housing.
- Supervisor Mendelsohn asked the Recreation and Park Department to study southeastern pier facilities for children's fishing; the request was granted.
- An adoption vote with no subject on this page.
- Commendation for federal health officials who helped summer jobs program
- Radio and TV businesses could skip a city tax; sent to committee.
- City endorsed State Proposition 5 on hospital building loans
- City urged a yes vote on higher school tax limit, Proposition I.
- Approval in principle of railhaul refuse disposal to Lassen County was continued to November 18, 1968.
- Supervisor Mendelsohn's request that the Mayor and Recreation and Park Department study funding windmill repairs in Golden Gate Park was granted.
- Board urges naming new Diamond Heights high school for
- Federal agency urged to clear fences blocking Fort Funston and Miley
- Child care and pre-school plan for Hunters Point sent to committee.
- Memorial resolution for [name withheld] adopted
- New citywide housing rules postponed to February 10.
- A new citywide Housing Code, with a proposed minimum heat amendment, is debated and its consideration continues.
- Board continued the new citywide Housing Code to March 10, 1969 after a proposed heat-requirement amendment.
- Health Committee's new citywide Housing Code was amended by Supervisor Mendelsohn and sent on for second reading, with debate continuing.
- Proposed new Housing Code was amended in two votes, then temporarily postponed by the Board.
- Proposed increase in taxicab and sedan rates, disapproved by the Mayor, was referred to the Fire, Safety and Police Committee.
- Mayor's school consultant contract sent to committee.
- Board urges governor to proclaim April 4 as Martin Luther King Day.
- Mayor's taxi fare veto shelved for now.
- Mayor asked to plan celebrations for BART's Transbay Tube
- City asked federal officials to reconsider closing Camp Parks Job Corps
- Board referred bills SB 1012, SB 929 and AB 327 to the State and National Affairs Committee.
- City accepts $1,000 from a church to light the Mount Davidson cross
- Supervisor Mendelsohn presented Resolution 367-69; the Board's decision is not printed on this page.
- Rush vote on summer jobs call voted down
- Supervisors urge Mayor to create more summer jobs
- Board postponed to September 8, 1969 a proposal to haul city refuse to [name withheld], rescinding Resolution 734-68.
- Fire Patrol retirement credit measure sent to voters.
- $20,000 foundation and $60,000 federal funds accepted for Haight-Ashbury children's day care
- Leaves of absence approved for [name withheld], [name withheld], [name withheld], London and [name withheld], October 1969.
- Supervisors agreed to hear airport BART extension study
- Resolution urging San Franciscans to attend the [name withheld] memorial service at Temple [name withheld] was adopted.
- Supervisors urge state to restore Frederick Burk School money
- Midtown Park rent increases approved; income study for moderate housing ordered
- Plan letting civilian police staff direct traffic sent to committee.
- Board declares January 17, 1970
- Emergency funds for welfare aid and job training sent to committee
- Supervisor Mendelsohn asked the City Attorney to draft a resolution urging federal funds for the Federally Assisted Code Enforcement Program; no objection, Clerk directed to comply.
- Supervisor Mendelsohn reported public complaints about dirt and debris at Ocean Beach and asked the Recreation and Park Department to act.
- [name withheld] Restaurant refused permission to expand at the Fairmont Hotel
- Certificate of honour awarded to
- The Board refused to overturn the Planning Commission's denial of a conditional use to enlarge [name withheld] Restaurant at the Fairmont Hotel.
- Mayor may apply for federal money for 1970 youth jobs
- Two supervisors sent to Washington to back city's housing plan
- Supervisors suggested order for June ballot measures
- City College blood drive praised; donors urged to give
- Clerk directed to ask Public Works for a recommendation on making Monterey Boulevard and Gennessee Street a stop intersection.
- A final passage vote with no subject on this page
- Water rate revision heard at public hearing and adopted
- Two Superior Court judges approved to attend a judges' workshop
- Signed endorsements of proposed Charter amendments and bond issues may be accepted late for the June 2, 1970 ballot pamphlet, adopted without objection.
- Ballot argument favoring the school bond Proposition A was temporarily postponed pending a Board of Education representative.
- City urges support for State Proposition 1 health bond
- Supervisors Feinstein and Mendelsohn asked Matson Navigation Company about ship sewage dumping at Pier 35, and the Clerk was directed to comply.
- Board asked the Board of Education to note the $2,267,000 cut for Hunters Point schools and suggested joint talks.
- [name withheld] would work with the Board on public health matters through UCSF Medical Center from July 1, 1970.
- Supervisors asked Matson Navigation Company to explain its sewage-dumping rules for ships docked at Pier 35.
- Board urges state to pause Delta water canal construction
- Local bank to handle two-week pay for youth jobs approved
- Supervisor Mendelsohn's commendation of the Lowell High School Symphony Orchestra for representing San Francisco at Expo 70 was sent with no objection.
- The Deputy Sheriff's Association asked the Board to move sheriff's staff into the state PERS pension; the request was referred to committee.
- $175,000 for handicapped recreation center sent to committee.
- State asked to restore Frederick Burk School funding
- Embarcadero lots' height limit rise to 65 feet sent to committee.
- City thanks crews who brought Alcatraz light beacon back
- Policy on neighbourhood school projects sent to committee.
- SF SPCA to run city's animal pound on temporary contract
- Board postponed to July 6, 1970 its resolution opposing AB 363 unless it names the Association of Bay Area Governments for transport planning.
- Supervisor Mendelsohn asked the City Attorney to advise whether special inspection fees for moderate-income housing are possible.
- Appeal against denial of a change from R-3 to R-4 use at 1343-45 Seventh Avenue continued to July 27, 1970.
- Appeal over refused rezoning of 1343-45 Seventh Avenue from R-3 to R-4 was continued to July 27, 1970.
- Appeal over trailer rentals at 1200 Ninth Avenue put off
- Supervisor Mendelsohn asked a committee to consider starting a rehabilitation program for retarded young people.
- The Board adopted a twenty-five cent cable car fare or valid transfer in place of token or cash fare.
- Police extra-hours pay rule sent to committee for study.
- City endorses federal bill on alcohol abuse treatment
- Board continued the appeal seeking a change from R-2 to C-2 at 3975 Alemany Boulevard to September 14, 1970.
- City leases a Golden Gate Avenue office for code enforcement staff
- Fluoride plant spending sent back to committee.
- Appeal over 3975 Alemany Boulevard rezoning put off
- Old Mint Building preservation endorsement sent to committee.
- Leaves of absence granted to several city commissioners and a supervisor
- City's mental health services plan for 1971-72 approved
- Appeal over 3975 Alemany Boulevard rezoning put off
- Supervisor Mendelsohn asked Public Works to recommend local laws cutting non-reusable solid waste; request granted.
- Stadium service charge proposed on teams using Candlestick Park
- Supervisor Mendelsohn asked Public Works to consider "Go Slow, Children Playing" signs on the 200 block of Cresta Vista Drive; granted.
- Board continued to October 19, 1970 a $4.39M Water Department appropriation for a [name withheld] fluoridation plant and pipeline.
- Water Department appropriation of $4,390,000 for [name withheld] fluoridation plant and pipeline put off to October 19.
- $4.39 million water project split; both parts still pending.
- Appropriation of $3,870,000 for water system capital improvements was debated by Supervisor Mendelsohn; outcome is not printed here.
- Board passed on first reading an ordinance appropriating $335,176 to various departments for operations and equipment, creating nine positions.
- Mayor asked to name November 12 Imogen Cunningham Day
- Board consents to a joint hearing on the proposed [name withheld] redevelopment plan, set for November 23, 1970.
- Proposed housing rules on corridor openings and building heat.
- A commendation letter is sent to [name withheld], called the Father of Public Health in California.
- Supervisor Mendelsohn asked Oakland, [name withheld] and the State how they handle limited-tenure appointments; the request was referred to committee.
- Request to bar South [name withheld] Nam's vice president as official guest refused
- New plaza at Seventh and Market named United Nations Plaza
- Measure postponed; subject not in this record.
- Health director may sign deal to hand out extra food
- Supervisor Mendelsohn presented a resolution urging the State to give tax relief to non-income producing residential property owners.
- Industrial waste discharge rules and fees delayed to January 11.
- Industrial waste rules and fees delayed again, to January 18.
- Mendelsohn's request that the City Attorney draft a resolution urging State passage of a surplus food bill was granted.
- Yearly fixed bills budget advances; Port salary part sent to committee
- Consideration of a mental health clinic lease at 3817 Twenty-fourth Street was temporarily postponed for more information.
- West Portal BART subway scrap plan sent to committee.
- Proposal to raise taxicab and sedan fares was refused adoption and a motion to refer it to committee followed.
- Board asks rights commission to probe high-interest loans at cheap hotels
- Board adopted a resolution hoping Soviet Jews can celebrate Passover with greater freedom.
- Measure passed; subject not in this record
- Youth summer jobs at Public Works via gas tax; result unclear
- Asks state to override veto, stopping the Southern Crossing.
- Board continued a $34,000 emergency appropriation for the Public Pound's contractual services to June 7, 1971.
- Amendment on school heads' job security put on hold for legal review.
- State bill on private sexual conduct laws put off to July 12
- Appointments to hospital study group put off to July 6.
- Hospital oversight council appointments postponed to July 12.
- Public hearing held on a proposed amendment to the Yerba Buena Center redevelopment plan to allow a hotel.
- Need for temporary housing for Yerba Buena displaced people declared.
- Appointments to the council studying San Francisco General Hospital were continued for one week.
- City backs state funding to keep Frederic Burk School open
- Extra sick leave for injured non-uniformed city workers sent to committee.
- Mendelsohn asks about saving hotels in the Yerba Buena project
- Better benefits for survivors of some early retirees; pending.
- Supervisor Mendelsohn asked the City Attorney to draft legislation creating a nonprofit to finance middle-income housing.
- Board urges support and jobs for Vietnam veterans on Veterans' Day
- Ordinance adding $285,754 to expand methadone maintenance programs passed on first reading, cutting $250,811 in Public Health salaries.
- City honors Inner Sunset planning group
- Garage site on Stockton and Bush Streets delayed to December
- Sutter-Stockton parking garage expansion delayed to December
- Social offices building purchase delayed to December 13
- New animal control rules passed first vote, with changes.
- Rules for Board's power to summon witnesses sent to committee.
- Board asked San Francisco's Washington representatives to sponsor legislation to prevent another oil spill in the Bay.
- Plan to enlarge Finance Committee put off to January 24.
- Sheriff may seek federal money for jail equipment; vote not shown.
- Mendelsohn asks how to reopen the Golden Gate Park animal farm
- Sheriff's $15,000 supply request; decision follows.
- Bayview agency adds seven job classes; decision follows.
- Thomas J. Mellon confirmed as Chief Administrative Officer, effective March 1, 1972.
- $80,114 approved for temporary school crossing guards
- Federal money continued for building code enforcement in three neighbourhoods
- Federal relocation and property acquisition compliance assurance to HUD was adopted for San Francisco.
- Willie L. Brown Day proclamation dropped; a formal version to follow.
- Animal welfare commission seats for 1972 terms.
- Proposed $6,050,000 bond for street and parkway lighting improvements was sent to Finance Committee.
- $6.05 million street-light bond vote sent to committee.
- Police Commission asked to delay closing Park and Southeast stations
- City attorney asked to draft law letting animal commission add alternates
- Board approves extra budget estimates for its own office
- Proposed charter change moving the General Municipal Election to September was continued to April 13, 1972.
- Surplus money moved for City Hall room work and a replacement car
- Charter amendment moving the general municipal election to September was rescinded from the ballot and tabled.
- List of Proposition B backers accepted for voter handbook
- Main Post Office neighbourhood plan request turned down.
- Muni service cuts to be reviewed at public hearing.
- Proposal to divide $8.40 sewer charge more fairly sent to committee.
- Supervisors to hold public hearing on city's annual budget April 24
- Sheriff gets $94,000 for food, as an emergency
- Finance Committee recommends raising staff meal, guest cottage and laundry charges in the budget's administrative provisions, pending Board action.
- Extra budget money for salary-linked costs approved
- Disability transfer job pay rates added to city pay plan
- Proposal to seek land and water conservation funds for Lake Merced was referred to the Finance Committee.
- Board adopted a motion letting the Controller correct budget expenditure classifications and file a list of transfers.
- Immediate hiring for vacant Recreation Superintendent job put off.
- Controller allowed to fix budget transfers and clerical errors
- Park money approved for improvements at John McLaren Park
- Money-lending business tax change proposed; result not shown here.
- Annual city budget for 1972-73 adopted with supervisors' changes.
- Supervisors asked the Police Commission to weigh the vote against closing Park and Potrero stations before closing more.
- Spending of $421,943 across departments; outcome not shown.
- Spending of $968,750 across departments; outcome not shown.
- Oakdale and Newcomb Avenues closure approved after hearing
- No decision recorded in this entry
- Egyptian-owned property tax cancellation sent back to committee
- City budget analyst appointment proposed; no vote shown.
- Transit union's education committee may get payroll deductions; vote postponed
- Computer priority committee plan sent back to Finance Committee.
- Golden Gate Equestrian Centre wins the Golden Gate Park stables
- Measure passed; subject not in this record
- Supervisor Mendelsohn asked the federal General Services Administration to let [name withheld] and [name withheld] use Pier 3 at Fort Mason for a Christmas fair.
- Sewer charge tied to water use proposed; result not shown.
- Transit union proposed for city payroll deduction list.
- Clerk may pass on endorsements of bonds and charter changes
- Required back payments to welfare recipients sent to committee.
- New Social Services offices to be bought and renovated; result not shown.
- Transit workers' union group added to payroll deductions; result not shown.
- City moves to buy Stockton and Bush land for more parking
- Rally Enterprises to run bicycle parking in Golden Gate Park
- St. Francis Circle underpass funding sent back to committee.
- Chamber use granted for Bay Area coastline planning meeting
- Opposition to federal prison in Civic Center put off.
- Opposition to Civic Center federal prison put off.
- Supervisor Mendelsohn asked the Clerk to ask the Employees Retirement System whether city funds are invested in United Air Lines stock; approved.
- Social services staff pay boost of $529,590 proposed.
- Board sent congratulations to a scientist on an honor
- Embarcadero BART station to be built now; $6.5M reserved for West Portal
- Board asks San Mateo sheriff to deputize airport security staff
- Federal money to hire traffic court officer proposed.
- Civil Service jobs trimmed from 34 to 20 proposed; see next entry.
- Human Rights salary change put off until March 12.
- Registrar of Voters job change put off until March 12.
- Human Rights job change put off until March 12.
- Proposal: Registrar of Voters pay rate, tied to delayed measure.
- Salary standardization ordinance for city employees was continued to March 12, 1973 after amendments were refused.
- Drug-treatment alternative to jail under consideration.
- City sells $1.48 million in water bonds to a bank group
- Changes to the city's 1973-74 budget approved.
- [name withheld] congratulated on being elected her class treasurer
- City sells $5.25 million in bonds for Market Street rebuilding
- Bid to sell $1.5 million in street and park light bonds accepted
- City sells $20 million in harbor improvement bonds to banks
- Sheriff's Administrative Chef job sent back to committee.
- Proposal: Sheriff's $3,852 pay and new chef job.
- Repayment of $121.36 to an employee put off a week.
- California Academy of Sciences allowed to expand in Golden Gate Park
- Supervisor Mendelsohn moved to let the North Central Coast Coastal Zone Commission use the Chambers on May 9, 1973.
- Proposed extra money for Public Health and Social Services.
- Subject only here; outcome not shown in this entry.
- Mayor's revenue sharing plan backed, more urged for Haight-Ashbury health care
- Subject only here; outcome not shown in this entry.
- Public hearing on city budget set for April 23, 1973
- California Academy of Sciences allowed to expand in Golden Gate Park
- Subject only here; outcome not shown in this entry.
- Donations to drug treatment programs accepted as matching funds
- Federal money for city planning and community programs proposed.
- Lawsuit settlement with Xerox and a moving firm proposed.
- Public Works Code price set at $9.89, proposed.
- Old payment to one person may be reissued; time limit waived.
- Mayor's economic development office leases space at 1182 Market Street
- Contract for federal lobbying help in Washington proposed.
- Moves $3 million from bond payments to cover sewer shortfall, proposed.
- Corrections to some wrong 1970-72 property assessments proposed.
- Filling a vacant coroner's investigator job proposed.
- Budget changes for city planning, courts, and health proposed.
- City budget for 1973-74 delayed until May 21.
- Proposed money for three planners to review environmental reports.
- Gifts from donors for Recreation and Park department; result not shown.
- Health plan payments split out to each city department
- Pay rates set for disability transfer jobs
- Controller may move budget money between departments
- Property taxes on Italian consulate building cancelled
- $2,500 from The San Francisco Foundation for the Kearny Street Workshop
- Some 1969-72 property tax assessments corrected, lowering taxes
- Controller may fix budget spending categories
- City budget for 1973-74
- Muni plan for 49 new jobs awaits final vote.
- Muni plan for 37 jobs, cut from 38; final vote not shown.
- Police training grant put on hold at department's request.
- City leases Gough Street property from [name withheld] and
- Forged city payments written off; payees to get new checks
- Proposed: city money shifted for police diversion, hospitals and summer programs.
- Emergency funds approved to keep a Mission child care program running
- Revenue-sharing $1.7 million for arts, fire, opera house
- Welfare office overtime and temporary pay money delayed to June 25.
- Revenue-sharing $1.7 million for arts, fire, opera house
- Police extra-duty pay money delayed to June 25.
- Proposal: groups using public facilities would pay for extra police.
- $180,000 in gas tax money released to rebuild Judah Street
- Proposed: Port seeks money for public outdoor recreation sites.
- Four new aging commission jobs put off one week.
- Changes to Yerba Buena Center redevelopment plan put off until Oct 1.
- Soviet harassment of Israeli and American athletes condemned
- Water quality fund may be used more broadly; sent back for revisions.
- Hearing on Yerba Buena Center environmental review moved to [name withheld] 11
- Aging commission funding of $62,084 taken up; no result shown.
- Request for $3,938 to join county supervisors' association approved
- Proposed charter amendment exempting school district paraprofessionals from civil service rules was ordered submitted to voters.
- Supervisors' office funds shifted to hire a federal housing fiscal officer
- Clerk's office approved to request $14,000 more for printing
- Ballot argument backed for Proposition F on park lands
- An adoption vote with no subject on this page
- Approval of Yerba Buena Center redevelopment plan and its environmental report.
- Mayor asked to proclaim [name withheld], October 1-6
- Approval of Yerba Buena Center redevelopment plan and its environmental report.
- Money to restore Palace of [name withheld] colonnades proposed.
- 166-170 Otis Street to be taken for a social services building
- Financing approved for a city office building at 150-170 Otis Street
- Hearing on objections to Planning Commission's denial of a use change near Clipper Street was postponed one week.
- Planning Commission overruled on two-family housing near Clipper and Douglass Streets
- Proposed athletic fund for police officers.
- Francis Street closed for four days for a street festival
- Mayor and four officials granted time away from duty
- Public library's small working fund raised from $3,000 to $5,000; vote delayed.
- City may accept $973.83 from one person to settle claim; vote delayed.
- Building permit fees may pay for earthquake gauges; vote delayed.
- $4,500,900 sought for public works capital improvement projects
- Donated horse for police mounted unit awaiting vote.
- City urges Austria to lift halt on Soviet Jewish emigration
- More time given to award the Asian Art Center security contract
- Request to keep Sausalito base yard at current site; vote not shown.
- Some owners' 1969-73 property tax bills to be cut; vote delayed.
- Vacant electrician job at War Memorial to be filled now; vote delayed.
- City approved federal money to study dangerous crash spots.
- Proposed limit on candidate campaign spending; outcome not shown.
- Motion to let a California Senate committee use the Board's chambers on November 21, 1973 was refused.
- Leaves of absence for five city officials approved.
- Vote proposed on about $45M for schools and Hall of Justice.
- Tax cancellation on university-acquired land put off to November.
- Extra state money for police information system put off.
- Proposal for city to run federal job training program.
- Old property tax refund for a church put off.
- Tax refund for Catholic Social Service property put off.
- Proposal to have the Arts Commission join two arts groups.
- Applied Urbanology sublets 1208 Market Street to the planning department
- Transit staff pay change put off to November.
- Release of old city conditions on Pleasanton land put off.
- City asked federal government to keep funding Hunters Point program
- $311,000 for city departments' equipment and repairs put off.
- Pay raise for transit staff put off to November.
- Tax refund for Little Chapel church property put off.
- Study of transit to Golden Gate recreation area put off.
- Ripley Street rezoning to fewer homes passed first vote; not final.
- Insurance company's refund request for transfer tax turned down
- Promotion exams for two city jobs approved
- Federal money accepted to study economic recovery at Hunters Point shipyard
- New building rules for elevator lobby smoke barriers; not final yet.
- Tax cancellation and refund for church youth property put off.
- City's claim on one patient's hospital care put off.
- Tax cancellation for Chinese Methodist Church property put off.
- Fast hiring for a vacant health department job put off.
- Extension of leases for city offices put off to December 3.
- Chief Probation Officer to seek more juvenile court grant money
- The North Point and Bay Street rezoning appeal is put off
- Port Commission budget and harbor fund rules put off to December 10.
- Permission was granted for the North Central Regional Coastal Zone Conservation Commission to use the Board's Chambers on January 24, 1974.
- Board schedules public hearing on December 17, 1973 on a proposed fare discount for BART and Muni transfers.
- Home repair loan program passed first vote with changes.
- District Attorney pay schedule change pushed to February 4.
- Civil Service office equipment money advances; final vote needed.
- Several city officials granted leaves of absence in January.
- Resolution granting leaves of absence to several city officials, including Public Utilities and Police commissioners, was adopted.
- Buchanan Street closed to cars between Post and Sutter
- Pay raise formula for city workers proposed by a supervisor.
- Charter amendment reorganizing the Fire Department was continued to March 11, 1974, with a pending motion to amend.
- Supervisor Mendelsohn asked the State Department of Education to help San Francisco schools; no objection, Clerk directed to send the letter.
- Cable TV franchise rules sent back to committee.
- Call on state to repeal one-cent sales-tax increase; vote not shown.
- Resolution adopted urging the State Legislature to end tax advantages enjoyed by California oil companies.
- Resolution urging the State Legislature to ban foreign political party uniforms was re-referred to committee by Supervisors Mendelsohn and Kopp.
- Board passed on second reading, as amended, a Planning, Housing and Development Committee recommendation whose subject is not printed here.
- Consideration of the 1974-75 city budget was continued to May 20, 1974.
- A resolution asking the State Legislature to ban foreign political party uniforms was sent back to committee.
- Board adopts the 1974-75 annual city budget, with ordinances to follow by May 24, 1974.
- A motion directing the Controller to transfer Public Works building repair and capital funds was proposed; its vote continues on the next page.
- The Board adopted a motion directing the Civil Service Commission to set pay rates for disability transfers in the salary ordinance.
- The Board adopted a motion authorizing the Controller to adjust interdepartmental budget appropriations and correct clerical errors.
- Controller authorized to correct expenditure object classifications and file a list of transfers.
- Board considered the 1974-75 city budget, with a motion to amend it per committee lists adopted.
- Budget amendments restoring positions and deleting listed funds in the annual budget were adopted by the Board.
- Granted the North Central Coast Commission permission to use the Board chambers for a June 27, 1974 meeting.
- Supervisor Mendelsohn's request that the City Attorney draft a gasoline price-posting ordinance was granted.
- Supervisor Gonzales named official delegate to [name withheld] sister-city conference
- Public Defender may fill vacant investigator job now; no result shown.
- One-hour parking limit on Lombard Street to be lifted
- Cole Street closed between Oak and Page for a block party
- City lawyers told to seek court order against federal housing office.
- Buchanan and Post Streets closed for the Annual Obon Festival
- City backs fixes for HUD-linked loan problems; legal action possible
- Supervisors put change to who appoints the Clerk on November ballot.
- Charter amendment to require a two-thirds vote on certain supplemental appropriations was amended and continued to July 22, 1974.
- City pays tribute to the late Earl Warren
- Gas pump-price posting rule proposed; mayor sent it back.
- Use of the Board's chambers granted to the North Central Coast Commission for a September 26, 1974 event.
- The Board scheduled a public hearing on October 7, 1974 on delinquent garbage collection charges, to declare special assessments.
- Taxes for city and schools set for 1975; Mayor's veto stood
- City of Paris landmark appeal put off to October 7
- City tax rate of $12.95 for 1975 sent to committee.
- Tax rates for 1974-75 put off; vote still to come.
- Property tax rates for 1974-75 city and schools; vote not shown.
- Revenue changes for the 1974-75 tax levy put off.
- City budget adjusted so the tax levy can proceed; vote not shown.
- Board amended the 1974-75 budget ordinance to support a $12.63 tax rate; a further amendment seeking $12.54 was moved.
- Sets this year's city and school taxes; not final yet.
- Gas stations to post pump prices; final vote later.
- The Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board was granted use of the Board's Chambers on October 22, 1974.
- Board scheduled a Committee of the Whole hearing on the Port's fiscal situation for October 28, 1974.
- City commends Institute of Applied Ecology and backs its funding bid
- Kevin Brown allowed a driveway and brick porch on Baker Street
- Supervisor Mendelsohn proposed that everyone invited to the Committee of the Whole hearings be summoned by subpoena; vote not yet recorded.
- Supervisors debated whether the Chair may subpoena witnesses who fail to appear at the hearing on the American President Lines matter.
- $3,938 payment to county group voted down
- Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board's request, through [name withheld], to use the Board Chambers for an honours ceremony was denied.
- Mendelsohn moved to let the Chair issue subpoenas to invited witnesses who fail to appear; debate continues, with no vote shown.
- Supervisor Kopp moves that subpoenas be issued to shipping line officers and a former Port director over Port leases.
- Public works chief's South America trip OK'd in principle, paid by gift
- Noe Street closed between 14th and 15th Streets
- Supervisors urged Sears to delay closing its Mission store
- Supervisor Mendelsohn asked the Recreation and Park Department to investigate conditions at the San Francisco Zoo; the Clerk was directed to send the request.
- Recreation and Park asked to investigate conditions at the Zoo
- Mayor asked to proclaim Career Education Week, March 17, 1975
- Motion to let the Mayor's Office of Community Development use the Board Chambers for a December 9, 1974 hearing was refused.
- [name withheld] backed in principle for a Performing Arts Center
- Registrar of Voters' request for use of Room 228 by the Republican County Central Committee was granted.
- [name withheld] backed in principle for a Performing Arts Center
- [name withheld] named as the site for a Performing Arts Center
- Transit Task Force urged to spare West Portal Park land
- Transit Task Force urged to spare West Portal Park land
- Board took up a resolution endorsing inauguration of continuous countywide service; the outcome continues on the next page.
- Departments told to review vacant jobs and unspent project money.
- Board to congratulate Israel on its 27th anniversary.
- West Portal station recreation space request set aside.
- Ongoing countywide voter sign-up plan delayed to March 10.
- City urges enforcement against job bias based on religion or ethnicity
- Board granted the California Coastal Zone Conservation Commission permission to use the Board Chambers on May 22, 1975.
- Voter sign-up program backed countywide, with new registration sites
- City formally honours the late
- Lake Merced proposed as sewage plant site.
- Lake Merced sewage plant site put off until a later meeting.
- Rules for condos and co-ops; outcome not shown here.
- [name withheld] named alternate to coastal zone commission
- Yerba Buena lawsuit settlement steps; no vote shown.
- Senator Turuiey was granted permission to use the Board Chambers for a Senate Aging hearing on May 15.
- Budget debate pushed to May 19; not final.
- The Budget and Governmental Efficiency Committee presented the proposed 1975-76 city budget, whose consideration was continued to May 19, 1975.
- Consideration of a Yerba Buena Center arbitration dismissal and settlement ordinance was continued to May 27, 1975.
- The city budget submitted by the Mayor, with Budget Committee amendments, was adopted by the Board.
- Board refused to adopt the 1975-76 city budget on a 5-6 vote, then rescinded that vote.
- The city's 1975-76 annual budget was adopted with committee amendments, after an earlier adoption vote was rescinded and reconsidered.
- Adoption of the city's 1975-76 annual budget was refused; the roll call result continues on the next page.
- Meeting adjourned in memory of a former resident and others
- Supervisor Mendelsohn moved that the Civil Service Commission set pay rates for certain city jobs in the Annual Salary Ordinance.
- Amended 1975-76 city budget and job lists; final vote not shown.
- Study of surplus city and school land put off until June 9.
- Citywide voter sign-up program with paid helpers; decision not shown here.
- Bay Area governments group chosen to plan water pollution control
- Car wrecking yard appeal at 175 Quint Street withdrawn.
- Board passed the rent control ordinance for second reading as amended, nine to one, with Molinari opposed.
- Citywide voter registration drive plan [name withheld] to June 30.
- Board continued to June 30, 1975, the $25,000 appropriation for the citywide voter registration program after the Mayor's veto.
- Mayor disapproved rental anti-bias law; final vote postponed.
- Money for voter registration drive; Mayor disapproved; vote delayed.
- Back pay for plumbers and related crafts delayed to July 14.
- Mayor disapproved rental anti-bias law; final vote postponed.
- Proposed ban on barking dogs put off to July 21.
- Landlords barred from turning away families with children.
- Emergency $70,000 for Haight-Ashbury clinic approved
- Voter registration money of $25,000 proposed.
- Business tax rates and exemptions put off to August.
- Proposed payroll tax rule changes put off to August.
- A resolution adopted as amended, then disapproved by the Mayor
- Business tax changes, including for publishers, put off to September.
- Payroll tax rule changes put off to September 2.
- The North Central Coast Regional Commission was granted permission to use the Board Chambers for an evening meeting on September 25, 1975.
- Mayor's veto of federal jobs spending plan set aside for now.
- Ordinance 213-75 was sent back to committee after Supervisor Mendelsohn's substitute motion was adopted.
- The Mayor's request to use the Board Chambers for community development hearings was granted.
- Money taken back from various city departments' budgets; vote not shown.
- Asks mayor to move tax-rate deadline from [name withheld] 15 to [name withheld] 30.
- Mayor's veto of police and fire pay measure challenged; result not shown.
- Police and fire discipline ballot measure; outcome not shown.
- Federal money for public-service jobs approved; city funds not used for pay
- Business tax rate changes put off until September 8.
- A vote to continue with no subject on this page
- Business tax rates and exemptions proposed; outcome not shown
- Payroll tax rules change proposed; outcome not shown
- Parking garage tax rise, 10% to 15%, voted down
- 62 police officers to start earlier, costing $250,000 more
- San Bruno Mountain review postponed to September 29.
- Police and firefighter jobs need approval before being refilled
- 1975-76 city budget changes advance; final vote still needed.
- School district tax for 1976 moves toward final vote.
- Board asks state to recheck downtown commercial property values.
- Court reporters' pay schedule change advances; final vote needed.
- Police Department funds cut advances; final vote still needed.
- City proclaims November 1, 1975 as [name withheld] &
- City backs state bill for property tax help to disabled people
- Urging state to give homes lower property tax rates than businesses
- Right-to-food policy proposal; vote not shown here.
- Board continued consideration to December 15, 1975 of a nonprofit corporation to build a recreation center in Yerba Buena.
- Federal community-development money plan put off to December 15.
- Court settlements of $250 to $1,500 passed second reading
- Public Health new job titles and pay scale still pending.
- Sister-city ties with Seoul, Korea proposed; no vote shown.
- Official praise for [name withheld] proposed; no vote shown.
- City asks state not to set local TV rules for football
- Public Health staff pay change delayed to December 22.
- City workers' savings plan proposed; final vote not shown.
- Community gardens' park fund application; vote not shown here.
- Revised water rates for city and suburbs; no vote shown.
- Water department must review some rate-setting rules and report back
- Water rate changes proposed for city and suburbs; vote not shown.
- Measure passed; subject not in this record.
- City opposes federal criminal justice bill, as amended
- Supervisors asked state to reject a regional transit fare increase
- Land for sewage plant expansion; result not shown here
- Charter amendment giving veterans' credits in Civil Service examinations was continued to March 29, 1976.
- Extra budget plan for the city's legislative office approved
- City urges state jobs commission to protect gay workers
- City finds no tax money needed for new water rates
- Move to block new water rates voted down
- Supervisors congratulate Israel on its 28th anniversary
- Supervisors recess to discuss city worker pay talks
- Supervisor Mendelsohn moved to place a Charter amendment on pay for certain city officers and employees on the ballot.
- Board rescinded its earlier vote to place a charter amendment on compensation of certain city officers and employees on the ballot.
- Stadium tax break for tickets $5.01 or less proposed; outcome not shown.
- Proposed tax break for cheap stadium tickets still pending.
- Proposed tax break for cheap stadium tickets still pending.
- The Board continued the sidewalk repair assessment against [name withheld] and [name withheld] at 2456 Jackson Street to May 10, 1976.
- Support for state bill against restrooms where most charge a fee proposed.
- Commendation of [name withheld] American citizens' league proposed.
- Mayor asked to proclaim a Family Service Week in May
- City backed ballot measure cutting votes needed to tax banks, corporations
- City backed ballot measure letting car tax money fund local parks
- City backed ballot measure to allow charity bingo games
- Resolution 405-76 was adopted, though its subject is not shown in this page's text.
- City backed state bills on nuclear fuel and waste disposal
- Methadone program data services contract with Bitsmith approved
- City backed ballot measure letting older lower-income residents delay property tax
- City asks pause on Mission Street traffic plan until more hearings
- City backs Goodman Group's bid for federal arts grant
- Support for a state coastal conservation bill proposed.
- Proposal to send Muni pay charter change back to committee.
- Mayor's choice for chief administrative officer considered.
- Limit on closing arguments at airports hearing voted down
- $90,000 home-buyer program money taken back
- Attempt to rush business tax change through failed
- Tax bills pulled from committee for an immediate vote
- City asks state: gas tax may fund streets and transit
- Proposal to endorse mayors' call for new national priorities.
- Payroll tax increase extended to June 30, 1977.
- 1976-77 city spending plan voted down.
- Business tax increase extended to June 30, 1977
- Parking space tax rate increase proposed.
- Board to back Mayor's emergency on the tax rate.
- City backs mayors' call to change national priorities.
- City backs state Proposition 14, the farmworkers' initiative
- Federal funds for transit juvenile-violence project postponed.
- Residency rule question for city employees goes to state
- Higher fines for illegal dumping and littering proposed; vote delayed.
- Fourth draft charter amendment fixing salaries and benefits of carmen was taken up out of order and its consideration continued.
- Littering and dumping penalty rules amended, still waiting for final vote.
- Money for Mayor's temporary staff pay put off for now
- $82,000 moved from the Haight Street Theater to street improvements
- Opposition to state tax-shift plan put off to March.
- City urging state on property tax reform; outcome not shown here.
- Support for shifting taxes from buildings to land sent to committee.
- Support for putting journalist shield law in state constitution approved
- San Francisco urges [name withheld] to restore civil and human rights
- San Francisco urges federal officials to sign disability-rights rules
- Elections office sets voter guide format, with panel approval
- City backs state changes to job rules on sexual orientation
- City backs state bill banning campaign money moved to other candidates
- City backs state bill stopping candidates repaying themselves from donor money
- City backs state change to some court clerks' pay and numbers
- Support for a state bill on candidate party labels shelved.
- District Attorney crime prevention money proposed.
- Deal with the Highway Patrol to clear abandoned vehicles
- Animal control appointment put off to July 18.
- Supervisors backed state bill raising Superior Court staff pay
- Support for state court-staff pay bill; result not shown.
- City backs state bill setting BART bosses' pay and expenses
- Supporters' argument for Proposition I, retirement benefits, approved