All decisions
63 Board decisions about A. Comte, Jr., in date order. Each links to its printed page.
- Supervisor Comte introduced a resolution asking the City Attorney for an opinion on paying liquor license refund claims.
- George S. McComb appointed clerk of the Justices' Court
- Recorder told to cancel tax sales on two wrongly taxed lots
- Lot near Dolores Street taxed twice and wrongly sold
- Supervisor Comte's motion to make the Merchants' Association pole and wire removal communication a special order for December 16 carried.
- Water rate reports and bills were laid over one week, and a hydrant service figure was amended from $50,000 to $100,000.
- Refund of $1,257.80 in taxes illegally collected from University of California property proposed to the Regents.
- Comte's newspaper report on a garage fire caused by dripping oil was sent to the Fire Committee.
- Covered metal bins to be required for garbage collection
- A resolution adopted with no subject on this page
- Pacific Building owners ordered to stop work on their sidewalk canopy
- Proposed $200,000 for urgent street repairs and sewer reconstruction was sent back to the Streets Committee.
- A $200,000 resolution for urgent street repairs and sewers was sent back to the Streets Committee.
- Supervisor Comte moved a resolution asking the City Attorney whether the city may issue certificates against uncancelled bonds.
- Comte moved that 1902 water rates be kept for 1908-9, and the new water rate Bill 444 was passed for printing.
- Motion carried authorizing the City Attorney to appear for the City in probate proceedings over Joseph Boardman's will.
- Proposed ordinance raising saloon liquor licences to $1000 a year was made a special order for March 23, 1908.
- Proposed ordinance licensing wholesale liquor dealers at $500 a year was made a special order for March 23, 1908.
- J. A. Dowling's paving charge at Polk and Lombard streets corrected
- Ordinance requiring a posted notice on premises where engines, boilers, oil tanks, stables or laundries are erected was adopted.
- City Attorney asked to sue to recover naturalization fees the County Clerk kept for his own use.
- Supervisor Comte moved that the Hospital and Health Committee report a bill amending or repealing sanitary Ordinance 369.
- Elm Avenue would be wiped off the city map
- Water rates for 1908-9 were held for final action while a committee investigates the Spring Valley Water Company.
- Supervisor Connolly was ordered appointed to the committees vacated by Stafford's resignation.
- Resolution rejecting all bids for shoeing Police Department horses was recommitted to the Police Committee.
- An ordinance regulating bill posting, sign painting and outdoor advertising, with a license tax, was passed for printing.
- Tax lien suits against B. M. Graney to be dropped
- Bill 579 making it unlawful to possess devices that prevent correct gas or electric meter readings was passed for printing.
- Ladies' First Spiritual Aid Society allowed a ball without license fee
- Barnum & Bailey's Circus allowed five days off Market Street
- City Attorney to act against squatters at Kearny and Chestnut streets
- Washington Athletic Club's request for a December 1908 professional boxing exhibition permit was laid over one week.
- Ordinance requiring posted notices where engines, boilers, hospitals and similar premises are proposed was passed for printing.
- Resolution granting the Occidental Athletic Club permission for a February 1908 boxing exhibition was indefinitely postponed.
- The Board amended its Rule 8 so no one but a member or ex-Mayor may address it without majority consent.
- The Board adopted a rule limiting non-members to five-minute addresses and requiring majority consent to speak before it.
- Bill regulating business occupations by minor children in public places was referred to the Police Committee.
- Board asked Philadelphia to let the Liberty Bell be exhibited on the Pacific Coast in 1909.
- The City Attorney was authorized not to appeal a court ruling that struck down electrical mechanics' deposit Ordinance 679.
- City Attorney asked to appeal a Superior Court ruling on the validity of Ordinances 401 and 627.
- Tax sale canceled on Julius Magnin's lot on Hancock Street
- Bill No. 815 would let bicycle and motorcycle racks be placed on sidewalks; it was introduced by Supervisor Connolly and later adopted.
- Chief of Police and Board of Police Commissioners asked to enforce Ordinance G41 against dumping dirt and rubbish on sidewalks.
- St. Luke's Hospital offers land to open Duncan Street
- The Board repealed the Western Pacific Railway Company's blasting permit for grading, since all the work had been completed.
- The Recorder was directed to cancel an erroneous 1908 tax sale certificate on Lot 20, Sunnyside, after taxes were found paid.
- Bill amending sign ordinances on signs on fire escapes referred to the Building Laws Committee.
- Supervisor Comte proposed repealing the ordinance appointing a caretaker for voting machines.
- Recorder directed to cancel a 1908 tax sale certificate wrongly issued to the State on a Reis Tract lot.
- Two old blasting permits held by Pacific Coast Dredging and Henry L. Smith were repealed, as their work was complete.
- The Tax Collector was directed to withdraw certain erroneously assessed property from the 1908 tax sale.
- A bill to ban smoking on wooden wharves, piers and bulkheads citywide was recommitted for further consideration.
- Ordinance proposed to bar paying wages with non-negotiable evidence of indebtedness; passed for printing.
- Precita Club and two others allowed free charity masquerade balls
- A proposed ordinance requiring fenders on street cars was referred to the City Attorney on railroad liability.
- Hugh Craig's petition for a $10 refund of an insurance solicitor's license tax was denied by the Judiciary Committee report.
- Recorder ordered to cancel a state tax sale certificate on Kahrs property, because the 1908 taxes had been paid.
- Supervisor Comte moved that the Buildings Committee investigate alleged lack of fire escapes on school buildings.
- Tax sale cancelled on Oliver J. Bailey's Carl Street lot
- Tax sale cancelled on Mary and Katheryn Ryan's Leavenworth Street lot
- The Board asked the City Attorney whether the 1909 liquor licence ordinance conflicts with the Charter.
- Insurance company's $6500 compromise offer to pay the Public Library for 1906 fire losses was accepted.