All decisions
about 120 Board decisions about Adolf Koshland, in date order. Each links to its printed page.
- Clerk directed to advertise for sealed bids to print the Board's ordinances.
- The Mayor is asked to proclaim Tuberculosis Sunday, urging citizens to help prevent and eradicate the disease.
- Clerk directed to advertise for bids on stationery, printed books and blanks for city departments, July 1912 to June 1913.
- Supplies Committee directed to award a contract for motorcycles for the Police Department.
- The H. O. Harrison Company was awarded a $5,000 contract for one motor ambulance for the Department of Public Health.
- E. B. Carr and Herman Wachter allowed stables for their horses
- Supply Committee authorized to contract for repairs and repainting of the Supervisors' automobile.
- Pacific Gas & Electric was requested to install street lamps on Montgomery and Union streets and electric service at Engine House No. 20.
- The Board asked the Public Welfare Committee to study open-air instruction for school children and suitable school building designs.
- Board resolution warns job seekers against coming to San Francisco, citing surplus labor; referred to Public Welfare Committee.
- Motion carried to have the Publicity Committee suggest Mme. Tetrazzini sing at the 1915 Exposition opening.
- Motion lost to ask the City Attorney about Turk Street land
- Board adopted a resolution routing city typewriter and adding machine repairs through the Committee on Supplies.
- Board asks how many shacks remain inside the fire limits
- Mayor to auction Relief Home horses Mollie, Nellie and Queenie
- Supplies Committee recommended awarding A. Carlisle & Co. the $3,225 contract to engrave 8,800 City Hall bonds.
- The Board adopted a resolution directing the clerk to advertise for bids on supplies for city departments and institutions.
- Supervisors adopted an amendment to the budget appropriating $10,000 to fund municipal bands for small city parks.
- Supervisors reduced the Urgent Necessities Fund to $90,000 and set aside $10,000 for a municipal band.
- Supervisors rejected a proposed $25,000 budget amendment to install a modern uniform municipal accounting system.
- Board awarded the Exposition bond printing contract, $1,475, to the Mysell-Rollins Bank Note Company.
- Board awarded D. D. Lowney a $944 contract to supply two sprinkler wagons for Public Works.
- Clerk directed to return certified checks to unsuccessful bidders on Supplies Committee instructions.
- Contracts for books for city offices for fiscal 1912-1913 were awarded to five named firms.
- The Board awarded the 1911-12 Delinquent Tax List publishing contract to the James H. Barry Company at 4.75 cents per line.
- The Committee on Supplies was authorised to sell two surplus electric motors at public auction after advertising.
- The Board of Public Works was authorized to advertise for bids to install underground conduits on Geary Street for Municipal Railway cables.
- The Clerk was directed to advertise for proposals to supply metal book racks and furniture to city departments.
- Neal Publishing Company was awarded the contract to print 500 copies of City Attorney's opinions at $1.06 per page.
- Board awarded additional fiscal 1912-1913 supply and materials contracts to more than thirty firms.
- Board took up a contract award for two motor patrol wagons, with the outcome continuing on the next page.
- Contract for thirty cast-iron police boxes awarded to Rudgear-Merle Company for $1,320.
- Board awarded H. S. Crocker Co. a $486 contract for eight metal book racks for the Recorder.
- General Fireproofing Company gets the $800 county file case contract
- Exposition Committee directed to prepare San Francisco photographs and exhibits for the 1913 Leipsic building trade exhibition.
- Pacific Gas & Electric to install arc lamps on Taraval Street
- Supervisor Koshland's motion to exempt the Treasurer's deputies from proposed Charter Amendment No. 1 was carried.
- Contract for one motor runabout awarded to Studebaker Corporation of America for $800.
- Supplies Committee directed to auction ten surplus horses from the Relief Home for Aged and Infirm.
- The Board ordered water, gas, electricity and telephone corporations to file property inventories by November 15, 1912.
- Resolution awards A. H. Andrews Company a $1299.50 contract to furnish chairs for the Hall of Justice courtrooms.
- A resolution to return downtown electroliers to the Downtown Association was sent back to the Lighting and Rates Committee.
- The Board asked the City Attorney to report a plan for the city to operate the Presidio and Ferries Railway after its franchise ends.
- Board proposed buying eggs in the open market after Sherry-Freitas Company failed to deliver contracted cold storage eggs.
- Mrs. J. J. Kenny allowed a one-horse stable on Twenty-sixth Avenue
- Bill to limit Fire Department vehicles to twenty-five miles per hour was refused passage, then referred to the Streets Committee.
- Proposed ordinance requiring dogs to be muzzled was passed for printing.
- Rucker-Fuller Desk Company was awarded a contract to furnish the Police Courts in the Hall of Justice.
- Sale of city junk at auction to Healy-Tibbitts Construction and P. Cooper Iron & Metal for $959.50 confirmed.
- The Supplies Committee was directed to prepare specifications for furnishing 9275 municipal street railway bonds.
- The Superintendent of Supplies was directed to hand over stored property to the Sealer of Weights and Measures.
- Public service corporations directed to send presidents or managers to a valuation committee meeting on January 7, 1913.
- Board adopted a rule requiring department heads to file yearly lists of supplies, printing, books and stationery by February 15.
- Board ordered the Clerk to advertise for sealed bids to lithograph 1700 Hospital-Jail Completion Bonds, opened February 3, 1913.
- Auto Sales Company was awarded the contract for a one-ton truck for the Relief Home, for $2175.
- A resolution asking the Municipal Railway to exchange transfers with United Railroads at Polk and Kearny was sent to committee.
- Resolution proposed to award fiscal 1913-1914 supply contracts for city institutions to ten named firms.
- The Clerk was directed to advertise for proposals to supply street cleaning wagons, flushers, sprinklers and street cleaners.
- Bill proposing an assistant clerk as inspector of supplies at $100 monthly was referred to the Finance Committee.
- Sheriff asked to stop using striped cloth for clothing of misdemeanor prisoners in County Jail.
- Marshal Hale, Fairfax Whelan and Charles Belshaw asked for monuments to Baker and Broderick in the Civic Center; the matter was referred to committee.
- Kee Lox Typewriter Supply Company was awarded the city carbon paper contract at fifty cents per 100 sheets.
- City offices were reminded to file inventories of personal property with the Clerk by December 31 each year.
- The Valuation Committee's subcommittee was allowed to employ a stenographer to transcribe its hearing records.
- City Attorney was asked to advise whether the city may use the Belt Railroad to carry passengers.
- City Attorney was asked to advise whether the city can force streetcar companies to exchange transfers.
- Mysell-Rollins Bank Note Company awarded a $369.75 contract to lithograph 1700 Hospital-Jail Completion Bonds.
- Studebaker wins the $800 runabout for the street cleaning superintendent
- Koshland's motion that the Finance Committee investigate shifting of budget funds was carried.
- Supervisor Koshland's motion asked the Health Committee to investigate the need for school inspection through the Board of Health; ordered.
- Supervisor Koshland asked the Public Utilities Committee to act to compel United Railroads to extend its service.
- Board asked the Police Commission to revoke junk dealer Boyarsk & Stern's licence at 1343 Mission Street.
- Clerk directed to advertise for bids on annual supplies for city departments for fiscal year 1913-14.
- Proposed April 1913 ballot measure to condemn Spring Valley Water Company properties was withdrawn by Koshland's motion.
- Proposed ballot measure to buy Spring Valley Water Company properties for $37,500,000 was withdrawn before the election.
- The Supplies Committee was directed to auction off horses no longer needed by city departments.
- Board directed the Clerk to advertise for proposals to buy twenty motorcycles for the Police Department.
- Phillips & Van Orden Company awarded contract to print 1,000 Official Grade Books for $818.90.
- Proposal for the Clerk to advertise for motorcycles for the Police Department; outcome continues on the next page.
- The Supplies Committee was directed to sell old, useless material held by the Fire Department at public auction.
- Joseph Holle wins a $5,300 contract for twenty police motorcycles
- Board asks the Spring Valley Water Company to report on steps being taken to increase San Francisco's water supply.
- The Clerk was directed to publish a pamphlet showing street grades, adopted by the Board.
- The Clerk was directed to advertise for bids supplying city offices with stationery and printing for 1913-1914.
- Board expresses regret at the death of pioneer citizen Frederick Hess, longtime editor of the German Demokrat.
- The Board confirmed the Supplies Committee's auction sale of old fire hydrants to M. Greenberg's Sons at $2.50 each.
- The City Attorney was ordered to bring mandamus proceedings to compel Spring Valley Water Company to extend its water mains.
- Koshland proposed funds for two battalion chiefs and high-pressure water system upkeep in the Fire Department budget.
- $3000 was appropriated for the Supplies Committee in the budget after reconsideration.
- Supervisors rejected Koshland's proposal to add $10,000 to the street lighting appropriation.
- Proposed $10 monthly pay increase for city janitors was lost on a tie vote.
- Supply contracts for city institutions and departments for fiscal 1913-1914 proposed for award to named firms.
- Concrete retaining wall ordered on Francisco Street at Leavenworth
- Resolution authorizing the Lighting Committee chairman to press for better street lighting during a strike.
- The Clerk was ordered to offer John Arnold's 440-page transportation report for sale at 50 cents a volume.
- Bids for coffee and cement were rejected, and the Clerk was told to readvertise for proposals under new specifications.
- Coffee bids were refused passage and cement bids were sent back to the Supplies Committee after a protest by Caswell Company.
- City Attorney asked for an opinion on whether L. M. Benjamin's offered street flushers infringed a patent.
- The Board unanimously voted its appreciation for Paul Ost's work in fixing the electricity rates.
- Unneeded liquors held by the Police Department property clerk transferred to San Francisco Hospital for medicinal use.
- Contracts for furnishing books to city offices for fiscal 1913-1914 were awarded to named bidders by Resolution No. 9543.
- The Supplies Committee reported on a resolution awarding a cement supply contract; the Board's decision continues on a later page.
- Proposal asking Public Works to draft specifications and bids for 85 dump wagons was refused passage.
- Resolution adopted asking Board of Public Works to estimate cost of a fuel oil system for the County Jail.
- Board readopted resolution to humanely destroy four old, unfit horses from the Relief Home, after reconsideration.
- Board exchanges its Peerless automobile for a KisselKar, paying the Pacific KisselKar Branch $2600.
- Mysell-Rollins Bank Note Company printing the railway bonds for $2,300
- Health Committee was asked to investigate ways to protect sewer cleaners from noxious gases.
- G. Nozawa refused an oil tank at 1315 Eddy Street
- All bids to lithograph Municipal Street Railway bonds were rejected and the notice was ordered readvertised.
- Canton Art Metal Company was awarded a $590 contract for eight metal book racks in the Recorder's office.
- Board asks City Attorney to drop Pacific Gas and Electric's suit blocking its gas and electricity rate ordinances.
- Pacific Gas and Electric sued over Mission Street lamp overcharges
- Contract to print the Underground Water Supply report awarded to Phillips & Van Orden for $1,184.
- Pacific Gas and Electric does not own the Polk Street lamps
- Resolution proposed directing City Attorney to sue Pacific Gas and Electric to recover electrolier overcharges.
- Contract to lithograph Municipal Street Railway bonds awarded to Britton & Rey for $1,250.
- The Board asked the City Attorney whether Pacific Gas and Electric may legally charge rates above the Board's fixed maximum.
- Substitute resolution awards a contract for two motor ambulances for the Department of Public Health to Winton Motor Car Company.
- Clerk directed to advertise for sealed bids on two motor patrol wagons for the Police Department, opening November 3, 1913.
- Clerk directed to advertise for proposals for one five-passenger automobile for the Police Department's Detective Bureau.
- City Engineer is asked to submit a plan for a cheaper street lighting system.
- Board refused to send four policemen's 1911 pay claims back to the Finance Committee.