All decisions
about 100 Board decisions about A. Arnold D'Ancona, in date order. Each links to its printed page.
- Resolution asking the Governor to call a special legislative session to ratify charter amendments was laid over again for one week.
- Board adopted a resolution sending the Clerk's office salary roll and duty assignments to committees for examination.
- Board adopted a motion sending Bill No. 273 on pole and wire removal and a Sutter Street Railway track resolution to the Public Utilities Committee.
- Clerk of the Board ordered to supervise the Municipal Commissary Department for the rest of August 1907 and transfer its property.
- Public Utilities Committee asked to study bond-funded projects and prepare recommended plans, resolutions and ordinances.
- Bill 278, on removing poles and overhead wires, was made a special order for Thursday at 2 p.m.
- Resolution would have the Board of Public Works and Auditor set aside bond money before honoring claims; text continues on next page.
- Mayor Taylor raised the Parkside Transit Company franchise matter; its outcome continues on the next page.
- City Attorney was directed to start condemnation of land for a new County Jail and Hall of Justice additions; referred to committee.
- The Board postponed the ordinance banning overhead poles and wires within city limits until its next meeting, after amendments.
- Western Pacific Railway's application for a steam railroad franchise was referred to committees for study.
- A resolution laid over from a prior meeting was postponed until the November 12, 1907 meeting.
- Board adopted the committee report postponing indefinitely requests to cancel the Home Telephone and Overhead Trolley franchises, leaving the question to courts.
- Resolution to sell a street railroad franchise on Twentieth avenue was amended to move the bid deadline to January 27, 1907, and passed for printing.
- City Engineer asked to report on the Geary Street road
- Payment to Century Electric Company for Hall of Records electric fixtures was sent back to the Finance Committee.
- Schmieden Estate Company asked to sell land for a children's playground
- Board adopted a resolution directing the Clerk to prepare a detailed statement of the condition of each budget fund.
- Clerk invited Modesto and Turlock irrigation districts to a committee meeting on Tuolumne River water rights.
- Supervisors Brandenstein, Sachs and Brenner were appointed as the Finance Committee, so ordered.
- Resolution adopted directing the Clerk to solicit offers for sale of certain lands in the Children's Playground, Block 397.
- Board ordered that Mayor Taylor be authorized to appoint the committees of the Board of Supervisors.
- Boards were asked to meet the committees on an auxiliary fire-protection water system and its bond issue.
- Sutter Street Railway told to remove its Market Street trolley wire
- Sutter Street Railway's overhead trolley on Market Street to be denied
- Committees were added to consider Bill No. 273 on removing poles and overhead wires and Sutter Street Railway tracks.
- Sutter Street Railway told to stop rebuilding its Market Street tracks
- Spring Valley Water Company was directed, as amended to requested, to complete its pipe line from Baden to Ocean View.
- The Clerk of Supervisors was directed to supervise the Municipal Commissary Department for the rest of August 1907.
- A proposed petition asking the governor to call a special legislative session on charter amendments was postponed.
- Horace G. Platt given the floor on the Geary Street railway
- Resolution asks Public Works to make contractors complete Washington Grammar and Laguna Honda schools.
- Parkside Transit Company's Sunset District street railway franchise was put off until Monday, September 30, 1907.
- Board accepted Parkside Transit Company's written agreements to grade Twentieth Avenue, plant trees and sell its railroad to the City.
- J. Ayers's application to keep a 60-horse stable at Golden Gate and Devisadero was denied; Seidelberg was allowed to speak.
- City Attorney asked whether Sutter Street Railway may use Market Street
- Board approved $1500 for repairs to the Almshouse bakery, oven and stairways.
- Resolution requires Board of Supervisors approval before bond-money demands are audited and paid.
- Board asks the Governor to call a special legislative session so voters' charter amendments on city bonds and fire water systems can be ratified.
- Bill offered to declare Fortieth Avenue a boulevard
- The Justices' Clerk appointment of Geo. S. McCoud was recommended, then set aside on file until new business.
- City gives up the $720,000 purchase of the Geary Street Railroad
- Board indefinitely postponed the United Railroads franchise for streetcar tracks on Sixteenth Street between Kansas and South Streets.
- Board rejected George B. Wilcutt's bid for the Devisadero-Mission cross-town streetcar franchise, citing a third-party conflict.
- Board requires the President of County Line Water Company to appear and explain cutting domestic water supply to Reis Tract residents.
- Supervisor D'Ancona proposed that the Streets, Sewers and Parks Committee study creating spur track districts; referred to committee.
- Resolution asks the City Attorney whether the city may require utilities to erect certain poles on public streets.
- Boxing exhibition permit for February 1909 given to Mission Athletic Club instead of North End; laid over one week.
- Assessor Washington Dodge was granted permission to leave the state for up to sixty days after July 26, 1908.
- San Francisco Gas and Electric ordered to light Sutter Street
- A resolution adopted with no subject on this page
- Temporary trolley permit proposed for Sutter Street cars on Market Street
- City Hall's dome to be lit on July 14
- $26,401.99 paid to San Francisco Gas and Electric for July
- Supervisor D'Ancona moved that the Gas and Electric Company remove listed arc and gas street lamps; the vote follows on the next page.
- Three new arc lamps ordered on De Long Street
- Clerk could not verify signatures on the utility takeover petitions
- Five new arc lamps ordered on Twenty-sixth and nearby avenues
- San Francisco Gas and Electric to add and remove street lamps
- San Francisco Gas and Electric to install seven new arc lamps
- Board directed the Gas and Electric Company to install and remove street lamps at several San Francisco locations.
- Arc lamps added on Phelan Avenue, removed from Sixth Street
- Six new gas lamps ordered for South Park
- Resolution authorizing a $26,294.72 payment to the San Francisco Gas and Electric Company for November 1908 lighting, passed for printing.
- Gas, electric and power companies, including Sutro Baths, must file revenue and cost statements by February 13, 1909 for rate-setting.
- Seventeen new arc lamps ordered, three of them on Sansome Street
- Supervisor Connolly introduced a resolution on a professional boxing permit for the Pacific Athletic Club.
- D'Ancona introduced a bill capping electric light rates at nine cents per thousand watt hours for 1909-10.
- A one-year contract to light city streets and public buildings was awarded to San Francisco Gas & Electric Company.
- Proposed ordinance would fix maximum electric light and power rates for the city for July 1, 1909 to June 30, 1910.
- The Board adopted a resolution directing the Clerk to advertise for proposals to light city streets and public buildings.
- Bill 414 proposes a streetcar franchise to George B. Willcutt along Divisadero-Mission crosstown route, subject to stipulations.
- United Railroads offers to share Valencia and 18th street tracks with a proposed crosstown streetcar line.
- Resolution directs the San Francisco Gas & Electric Company to install and remove street lamps at listed locations.
- A proposed resolution to add $10,000 for street lighting was referred to the Finance Committee by Supervisor D'Ancona.
- San Francisco Gas and Electric ordered to install more arc lamps
- San Francisco Gas and Electric ordered to install new street lamps
- Gas and Electric Company ordered to install arc and gas street lamps at many locations and remove two gas lamps.
- San Francisco Gas and Electric to light the Mission Street viaduct
- Board asks trustees of California Woman's Hospital to report on the hospital's future after reports it would close; passed for printing.
- San Francisco Gas and Electric ordered to install new street lamps
- Copy of the letter sent to the Sutter Street Improvement Club
- San Francisco Gas and Electric told to install new arc lamps
- City Attorney asked for his opinion on the federal court case
- San Francisco Gas and Electric told to light the Great Highway
- Poles and concrete squares ordered removed from Van Ness Avenue
- Motion to adopt the committee's 95-cent gas rate report for 1909-1910 failed on a vote of 7 to 11.
- The Board adopted a resolution directing the Gas and Electric Company to install and remove street lamps at listed locations.
- Payment of $28,290.09 to San Francisco Gas and Electric Co. for June 1909 lighting was passed for printing.
- San Francisco Gas & Electric told to remove Fillmore Street lamps
- Resolution proposed on motion of Supervisor D'Ancoin directing the Gas and Electric Company to install arc lamps at several locations.
- San Francisco Gas and Electric to add and remove street lamps
- San Francisco Gas and Electric told to remove Fremont Street lamps
- A proposed ordinance orders two garbage incineration plants built, spending up to $300,000 from Garbage System bonds, passed for printing.
- Hospital for Children allowed a new building on California Street
- Resolution directing the Gas and Electric Company to install and remove street lamps at listed locations; passed for printing.
- Board directs the San Francisco Gas and Electric Company to install arc lamps and gas street lights.
- Board adopted a resolution requiring heat, light and power companies to file revenue and cost statements by February 15, 1910.
- San Francisco Gas and Electric told to install new street lamps
- Board accepted donated downtown electroliers from the Downtown Association, to be lit and maintained by the city.
- San Francisco Gas and Electric ordered to install new street lamps