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While he was Mayor, he served as President of the U.S. Conference of Mayors from 1969 to 1970 and introduced a resolution at the 1971 annual conference calling for the U.S. to withdraw from the Vietnam War. In 1973, he ran for California State Assembly against San Leandro School Board Member Bill Lockyer but lost to Lockyer. Maltester remained active in San Leandro affairs, founding the Sentinels, a group of local businessmen that provided campaign contributions to local candidates and ballot measures. He also served as President of the San Leandro Chamber of Commerce and the President of the California League of Cities. The naming of this overpass was made through a California Senate Concurrent Resolution which passed in 1978. A plaque for the overpass was once mounted on the overpass that read “The construction of the railroad grade separation was made possible through the dedication and tireless efforts of Mayor Jack D. Maltester and Vice-Mayor Mario Polvorosa.” Bill Lockyer Bridge Bill Lockyer is a former state legislator who carried the 1987 bill to create the trail around the Bay shoreline. Bill Lockyer was born in Oakland on May 8, 1941. He received a B.A. in Political Science from UC Berkeley and a J.D. from the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law and a teaching certificate from California State University Hayward. His political career is outlined below: Treasurer, State of California, 2006-2015 Attorney General, State of California, 1998-2006 Senator, California State Senate, 1982-1998 President Pro Tempore, California State Senate, 1994-1998 Assembly Member, California State Assembly, 1973-1982 Member, San Leandro School Board, 1968-1973 PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND ROOMS Surlene Grant (City Hall South Offices Community Room) Surlene Grant was appointed to a position on the San Leandro City Council to fill a vacancy in the District 2 seat in 1998. She was subsequently elected by the voters to serve two full 4-year terms in 2000 and 2004. In doing so, Ms. Grant became the first African-American and the first person of non-European descent to be appointed or elected to the City Council in San Leandro, after more than a century of governance as an incorporated city. A key component of Ms. Grant’s tenure on the City Council was a determined effort to ensure that the City’s leadership better reflect the growing diversity of the community’s population. The success of these efforts is demonstrated by the increased diversity in recent years of both the City Council and staff. In 2012, the City 389