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Mario Polvorosa was known as a “San Leandro legend,” Polvorosa was best known for his philanthropic promotions and getting difficult tasks completed on behalf of the San Leandro community. Mr. Polvorosa became politically active when he replaced Louis Borre on the city council on Nov. 1, 1965. He served on the council until he was elected Vice-Mayor on May 5, 1975. Jack D. Maltester replaced Helen Lawrence as councilmember when she resigned in January 1948. He served a few short months before he began his own campaign for City Council in April 1948. He was elected to the City Council in 1956 and then became Mayor in 1958. In 1962, Maltester became the first mayor elected directly by the residents of San Leandro rather than by the city councilmembers. He was subsequently re-elected in 1966, 1970 and 1974. Mr. Maltester was forced to leave office after serving twe nty consecutive years due to the implementation of term limits for councilmembers. One of the more significant aspects during Maltester’s service as Mayor included proposing a Committee on Human Rights and Responsibilities in 1963 in response to the Civil Rights Movement. The City Council rebuffed his initiative 3 times. On May 6 1967, he testified on housing discrimination at a hearing of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights when the 1970 U.S. Census showed San Leandro to be 99% white. 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 131