All decisions
about 220 Board decisions about Alexander T. Vogelsang, in date order. Each links to its printed page.
- Geary Street, Park and Ocean Railway's deadline to cease operation is extended thirty days from January 16, 1912.
- Board directs joint committees, with Spring Valley Water Company, to devise a plan extending water service to districts lacking supply.
- Resolution adopted authorizing the Mayor to sign an agreement with the Geary Street, Park and Ocean Railway Company over its Geary Street roadbed.
- Board appoints an advisory committee to study acquiring the Spring Valley Water Company's properties.
- Ordinance declaring the public need to acquire Spring Valley Water Company properties for the Lake Eleanor-Tuolumne water system was passed for printing.
- Proposed: City Attorney to advise on protecting city rights in Home Telephone sale to Pacific Telephone.
- Board asks the Department of Electricity for details of Bay Cities Home Telephone's street conduits and pole lines; resolution adopted.
- The Board fixed September 5, 1912 at 8 p.m. to hear the proposal for municipal control of the waterfront.
- The Board approved City Engineer plans for Municipal Railway construction on Market Street from Kearny to Sansome streets, except safety stations and Post Street special work.
- Board of Public Works was directed to advertise for bids to construct the Geary Street railway car house.
- Supervisor Vogelsang proposed that the Board inspect Spring Valley Water Company properties ahead of a possible bond election to buy the system.
- Board adopted a resolution urging courtesy and polite demeanor from all city employees toward members of the public.
- Declaratory bill to acquire land and build a permanent City Hall in the Civic Center was passed for printing and then referred.
- Declaratory bill proposing a city-owned water supply using Lake Eleanor and the Tuolumne River was referred to the Public Utilities Committee.
- Stable permits at 116 Stillman Street and Andover Avenue sent back to Public Health Committee after neighbours protested.
- City Attorney asked to seek land for opening Fair Avenue
- A bill calling a March 28, 1912 special election on bonds for a City Hall and civic center was passed for printing and adopted.
- Committee report on buying Spring Valley Water Company's properties adopted; a purchase ordinance and advisory committee were recommended.
- Board urges remaining Geary Street Railway construction be done by public contract, with Public Works preparing plans.
- Notice proposed of a March 28, 1912 special election on a bond for a City Hall and Civic Center.
- Board of Public Works to buy $350,000 in Geary Street streetcars
- The Board instructed the City Attorney to sue Pacific Telephone and Bay Cities Home Telephone over the disputed transfer of telephone properties.
- Street railway companies asked to file schedules showing cars and headways on each line by next Monday.
- City Attorney asked to advise on Southern Pacific Railway's rights to lay tracks on Mission District streets.
- Bill repealing weights and measures Ordinance 1650 referred to Judiciary Committee instead of indefinite postponement.
- Late bid from H. S. Crocker Company was returned unopened because it arrived after the proposal deadline.
- Geary Street Railroad men to be preferred for Municipal Railway jobs
- The City Attorney was asked to keep pressing the lawsuit against Sutter Street Railway Company despite settlement talks.
- Supervisor Vogelsang moved to let the Board of Public Works contract with PG&E for power to run the Municipal Railway.
- Mayor authorized to sell iron yokes removed from the Geary Street Railroad roadbed, with proceeds credited to the railway.
- Board asked United Railroads of San Francisco to file plans of new cars for its city system.
- Vogelsang's motion created a Valuation Committee to study utility property values for setting water, light, power and telephone rates.
- Proposed ordinance for city acquisition of a telephone system was deferred after a sixteen-to-zero vote on its content.
- Declaratory ordinance for a city-owned telephone system passed for printing on Supervisor Vogelsang's motion.
- The Board solicited offers to sell the city an existing telephone system, with proposals due by October 21, 1912.
- Board adopted a policy directing immediate water service extensions to city districts lacking adequate supply, with plans from the committee.
- United Railroads' letter on running municipal railway cars on Point Lobos avenue was referred to the City Attorney to prepare an agreement.
- Proposed charter amendment on Section 11 of Article XIII taken up; Judiciary Committee recommended it in favor with changes.
- The Board asked for a draft settlement with United Railroads over outer Lower Market Street tracks and Sutter Street cars.
- Charter amendment proposing suspension and removal of elected officers other than Supervisors is considered; outcome continues on next page.
- Street levels changed on Fifteenth Avenue and Pacheco Street
- Bonds fixed for Municipal Railway conductors and motormen
- P. Mon's laundry permit argued, then sent back to committee
- The Board of Public Works was ordered to prepare plans for extending water service to outlying San Francisco districts.
- Union Iron Works to build twenty-three of the city's new streetcars
- United Railroads gives up franchise on Folsom Street and the Embarcadero
- Proposed repeal of Ordinance 1650 on weights and measures, including the office of Sealer, awaiting a vote.
- Special meeting on traction problems set for Friday, February 28, with engineer J. R. Bibbins, adopted.
- Voters are asked to approve a $3,500,000 bond for a municipal street railway system, sent to the ballot.
- Board re-affirms approval of Raker's Hetch Hetchy bill and urges Congress to pass it for San Francisco's water supply.
- Vogelsang's resolution asks the City Attorney to seek a compromise making Pacific Telephone pay the city's 2 percent franchise fee; it was sent to committee.
- Resolution asking the State Railroad Commission to help fix San Francisco telephone rates was referred to committee.
- Board of Public Works directed to contract out Hetch Hetchy pasture lands in Tuolumne County for hay cropping.
- Resolution proposes improving street railway terminal facilities at the Ferry, foot of Market Street, to ease crowding.
- Board of Public Works is directed to negotiate transfer exchange between United Railroads and Municipal Railway at Kearny and Larkin streets.
- The Board adopted locations and authorized the Mayor to apply to federal authorities for the Hetch Hetchy reservoir and aqueduct.
- Hayden's bill to abolish the weights and measures fee system was referred to the Judiciary Committee.
- Supervisor Vogelsang proposed offering $87,000,000 to buy Spring Valley Water Company's properties, excluding Lake Merced lands and other listed items.
- Ordinance proposed to order construction of part of the municipal water system; passed for printing.
- Railway service on Brannan Street to the Pacific Mail Dock proposed by resolution; outcome not yet shown.
- Board sets special meeting February 28 to discuss streetcar traction problems with engineer J. R. Bibbins.
- Contract with Rincon Publishing Company to print John R. Freeman's Hetch Hetchy water supply report is proposed for ratification.
- City Electric Company was permitted to install underground conduits on Post Street to allow the Stockton Street tunnel construction.
- Board of Public Works directed to seek bids for advertising in Municipal Railway cars, with specifications to be reported first.
- Public service companies to be allowed to serve charities free
- Matt I. Sullivan was unanimously elected chairman of the Advisory Water Committee, succeeding Curtis H. Lindley.
- Streetcar tracks to run from Geary Street to the Great Highway
- Presidio and Ferries Railroad allowed to end service on Baker Street
- Telephone Rates Committee report on telephone rate charges referred to the Grand Jury; Supervisor Vogelsang moved to call attention to it.
- The Publicity Committee was directed to prepare literature explaining the Board's position on the Lower Market Street railway settlement.
- United Light and Power to lay wires under Market Street
- Board urges Congress to acquire telegraph and telephone systems for a federal network serving local and interstate communication.
- Board ended traffic expert Bion J. Arnold's services and moved his office furniture to the Board of Supervisors.
- City invites offers to sell it any San Francisco street railway
- Proposed municipal streetcar system along Van Ness Avenue, California and Geary streets was passed for printing.
- Board proposes amending the San Joaquin Valley Railway's track grant
- Clerk John S. Dunnigan is given leave of absence to go to Washington to press the Hetch Hetchy bill.
- City Electric Company allowed to lay conduits under Tenth Street
- A 75-cent gas rate bill was passed for printing after the Board deadlocked; it is not yet law.
- Board declared Bion J. Arnold's employment continuous to May 7, 1913 and authorized warrants of $2,622.04 and $11,158.22.
- City Engineer asked to study locating and rebuilding Market Street safety stations with the Municipal Railway.
- The Board approved and continued R. Woodland Gates as Washington representative for Hetch Hetchy at $250 monthly, plus a $1,250 demand.
- Supervisor Vogelsang's amendment sent the franchise matter to the City Attorney and Public Utilities and Streets Committees.
- Supervisors passed a $3,500,000 bond ordinance for a municipal street railway system serving Market, Van Ness, California and Geary streets.
- Supervisor Vogelsang moved that a bond issue ordinance for street railway extensions from the Embarcadero to the Exposition grounds be passed for printing.
- Motion to send the weights and measures ordinance to the City Attorney lost, leaving the amended bill unpassed.
- Supervisor Jennings proposed a resolution directing the Fire Commissioners to lay off one fire boat after the State withdrew its share; Vogelsang's motion to delay failed.
- Congress urged to pass Raker's bill granting water rights through Yosemite
- Voters to decide on $3.5M of bonds for municipal streetcars
- Board resolves to give Secretary Franklin K. Lane the freedom of the city and a public reception on his arrival in California.
- Notice given of an August 26, 1913 election on a $3.5M bond for a municipal street railway extension; passed for printing.
- City Electric Company allowed to lay conduits under Polk Street
- Vogelsang's motion sent both sign-permit reports to members and set a special hearing for August 18, 1913.
- City Electric Company allowed eight temporary poles on Kansas Street
- City Electric Company allowed sixteen temporary poles on Kansas Street
- A $3,500,000 bond ordinance to build a municipal railway system across San Francisco was proposed and its vote continues next page.
- City Attorney asked to solicit offers from the Presidio and Ferries Railway Company for sale of useful properties to the City.
- Proposed plan lets property owners get Hetch Hetchy water mains if they buy city water bonds; passed for printing.
- Pacific Gas and Electric allowed new poles on Forty-first Avenue
- Resolution proposes extending the Municipal Railway along Masonic Avenue to serve a new Recreation Park baseball ground.
- United Railroads seeks a curve track at California and Presidio
- Edward D. Wilbur was allowed to withdraw his own papers on a proposed Southern Pacific depot at Third and Townsend.
- Board urges Civil Service Commission to reinstate four former Presidio and Ferries Railroad employees to city railway jobs.
- Board extends birthday congratulations to Supervisor Charles A. Murdock on his seventy-third birthday.
- Board resolves to investigate heat supply rates and directs the Lighting and Rates Committee to report.
- Public Utilities Committee is directed to examine United Railroads' car service increase for the 1915 Exposition.
- Supervisor Vogelsang moved a resolution on filing maps of the Cherry Valley Reservoir site, passed for printing.
- Supervisor Power proposed a resolution recommending the Christmas Tree Festival be free, with Discovery Day proceeds funding part of it.
- Proposal to study extending Municipal Railway streetcars to a proposed North Beach ferry slip was referred to the Public Utilities Committee.
- Ordinance accepting the terms of the federal Hetch Hetchy water grant is proposed; the final vote is not shown here.
- Clerk ordered to procure 500 copies of the proceedings on the purchase of Spring Valley Water Company properties.
- Declaratory ordinance to acquire Spring Valley Water Company properties for a city water supply was passed for printing.
- Board of Public Works is directed to advertise for bids for an 8.5-mile road to Hetch Hetchy Dam.
- A resolution proposed filing the Cherry Valley Reservoir Site map with the Land Office to secure federal rights of way for the city's water supply.
- The city accepted R. C. Scott Advertising Company's $8,025 offer for advertising space in Municipal Railway cars.
- Board directs Public Works to induce the owners of the Call building to reduce its Third Street sidewalk width.
- United Railroads asked to build and operate a street railway on Richland Avenue between Mission and Andover streets.
- Board policy set that abutting property pays for full-width pavement on unaccepted streets, except the City furnishes heading blocks along rails.
- City Electric Company allowed three poles on Divisadero Street
- United Railroads is requested to repair its crossings on California Street from Twelfth to Thirty-third Avenue.
- Well to be bored at the pumping station on Leland Avenue
- All city departments were directed to report workers' compensation accidents to the Clerk, who forwards them to the State Board.
- Ordinance to buy underground conduit for municipal railways was passed for printing on first introduction.
- Secretary of War asked for a streetcar line through Fort Mason
- Board authorized the City Attorney to dismiss a condemnation suit against the John Center Company for unneeded railway land.
- City Electric Company allowed to put up poles along Folsom Street
- Resolution adopted directing the Board of Public Works to build a Municipal Railway extension through Fort Mason to the Transport Dock.
- Board of Public Works asked to study and report the cost of extending the Municipal Railway to Powell or Mason Streets.
- City Electric Company allowed to put up poles on Tenth Street
- Southern Pacific need not regrade Townsend Street for five years
- Buying the Cowell land to ease Ferry traffic sent to committee
- Board of Public Works asked to put paving between tracks into the Masonic Avenue Municipal Railway extension specifications.
- Resolution on reinstating employees of the Presidio and Ferries Railroad Company under civil service charter provisions is proposed.
- Mayor to deal with United Railroads over Stockton Street tracks
- F. T. Martens allowed to lay water mains on Jennings Street
- R. C. Scott Company authorized to advertise inside Municipal Railway cars for up to three years.
- Municipal streetcar line extended along Masonic Avenue from Geary to Turk
- United Railroads to give up its Washington Street tracks for $9,978
- Board took up a proposed dog muzzling ordinance after rabies deaths were reported; the vote is not printed on this page.
- City's $48,000 share of the Stockton Street tunnel put off
- City Engineer was asked to study and estimate the cost of augmenting the Columbia Heights water supply.
- United Railways cars to be rerouted off Turk and Eddy streets
- Resolution proposed to have Public Utilities and Water Rates committees pass upon water extension applications.
- United Railroads to link its Clay Street and Powell Street tracks
- Buildings on Seventeenth Street to be sold at public auction
- Ocean Shore Railroad agrees to pay for new Potrero Avenue tracks
- Resolution adopting the location of a transportation road to Hetch Hetchy Dam was adopted, supporting the city's water supply.
- An ordinance banning profane or obscene language on telephone calls was referred to the District Attorney for a legal opinion.
- Land at York and Mariposa streets bought for a streetcar barn
- F. E. Knowles offers to sell land along Division Street
- The City Attorney was directed to dismiss condemnation proceedings for lots in Stanford Heights Addition needed for a reservoir.
- Vogelsang moved to refer a request to drop San Francisco's support for a 150,000 population consolidation amendment to the Public Utilities Committee.
- The Mayor was authorised to sign Forestry Service stipulations for a transportation road to the Hetch Hetchy dam site.
- The Public Utilities Committee was authorised to draft a licence amendment making auto passenger vehicles pay for street use.
- Clerk directed to ask the Board of Underwriters how gasoline storage permits in high-value districts affect fire hazard and insurance rates.
- Rerouting of cars Nos. 4, 17 and 20 set as a special order for September 28, 1914.
- Consideration of the Advisory Water Committee's report on buying Spring Valley Water Company properties was postponed to a special order on September 28, 1914.
- The City Attorney recommends accepting James Samuel Burch's offer to sell land for Hetch Hetchy for $1700.
- Supervisor Andrew J. Gallagher was granted a sixty-day leave of absence from November 3, 1914, to leave the State.
- Publicity Committee ordered to publish September 1914 Board proceedings on the water question in the Municipal Record.
- William Good was permitted to connect a water service to the Relief Home mains and pay Spring Valley rates.
- Board authorized the City Attorney to hire Tuolumne County District Attorney Rowan Hardin for $500 in a Poopenaut Valley power site case.
- Supervisor Deasy's resolution asking that Police Department cap purchases be held in abeyance was referred to the Police Committee.
- Proposed sixty-day rerouting of Turk-Eddy, Parkside and Hayes streetcar lines, referred to the Public Utilities Committee.
- Turk and Eddy streetcars to be rerouted for a sixty-day trial
- Church Street cable railroad proposal was laid over to December 15, 1914 after protests about cost and operation.
- Road route to Hetch Hetchy dam site approved
- Supervisor James E. Power was granted a fifteen-day leave of absence to leave the State, starting December 16, 1914.
- The Board granted Utah Construction Company sixty more days to finish the Hog Ranch to Hetch Hetchy dam road.
- Supervisor James Power's leave of absence was extended fifteen days from January 1, 1915.
- Resolution proposed to adopt reservoir, dam and canal tunnel sites for the Hetch Hetchy water supply.
- Board adopted a policy deferring new Municipal Railway cars and equipment until the Church Street railroad extension to Thirtieth and Church streets is completed.
- The Board approved United Railroads' application for a temporary streetcar double branch-off at Polk and Francisco streets.
- The Board directed the Public Works Board and Municipal Railway to arrange operation of the California Street extension from Thirteenth Avenue.
- Charter Amendment No. 18 on elections and recall was deferred to a special order on January 29, 1915.
- Bill No. 3605 proposing changes to the hackney carriage and taxicab ordinance was introduced by Supervisor Vogelsang; outcome continues.
- Finance Committee reports on paying contractors for teams not working Saturday afternoons; outcome continues on the next page.
- Proposed resolution solicits offers from water supply owners for sale of a water system to San Francisco, to be considered February 1915.
- Ordinance fixing official bond amounts for Board of Public Works officers and employees was referred to the Public Welfare Committee.
- Resolution asks United Railroads whether it will agree to joint use of its tracks on Market and Church streets.
- Board solicits offers to sell a water supply system to San Francisco, for the Lake Eleanor-Tuolumne project.
- The Board adopted a resolution inviting offers to sell the Spring Valley water system to the city, due by February 1, 1915.
- Supervisors adopted a resolution to condemn land on Church Street for the Municipal Railway extension to Thirtieth and Church streets.
- A resolution adopting the tunnel aqueduct location for the Hetch Hetchy water supply was passed for printing.
- J. B. Rogers was granted ninety days' extension to finish a well-drilling contract on the Fire Department lot on Forty-fourth avenue.
- Board asked the Mayor and City Attorney to negotiate with United Railroads for joint use of Market and Church street tracks.
- Supervisor Walsh's resolution asking Spring Valley Water Company to disclose its bonds and bondholders was referred to the Public Utilities Committee.
- J. B. Rogers given twenty more days on Well No. 617
- Ordinance repealing the 1896 order banning street car transfers was passed for printing.
- Supervisor Vogelsang moved to rescind earlier action on a charter amendment extending the merit system; the motion carried 18 to 0.
- Bids to be called for the Church Street railway extension
- Charter amendment giving the Board of Supervisors, not election commissioners, power to fix the registrar's salary was ordered submitted to voters.
- Panhandle Club asks the Board not to confirm Plan No. 9
- Board resolved to furnish printed arguments for the Charter amendments, due to the Board by February 15th.
- The Chief of Police was asked to assign a traffic officer as car dispatcher at the foot of Market Street.
- The Board adopted a resolution asking the Mayor to appoint a 25-person committee to receive President Wilson at the Panama-Pacific Exposition.
- United Railroads allowed to run cars on Market Street's outer tracks
- Associated Oil's Van Ness Avenue station denial put off again
- Supervisors voted 11 to 6 to indefinitely postpone a resolution on the Spring Valley bond purchase and Hetch Hetchy financing.
- Board postponed indefinitely a proposed $7,000,000 bond issue to extend the Spring Valley Water system.
- Supervisor Power proposed asking the Board of Public Works to light dark Chestnut Street between Fillmore and Divisadero; amendment pending.
- Supervisor Vogelsang's jitney bus ordinance regulating for-hire passenger vehicles on city streets was laid over one week.
- Board directed the Clerk to reply opposing in principle the reconveyance of Islais Creek lands to the State without compensation.
- A proposed ordinance would regulate jitney buses carrying passengers for hire on city streets, requiring permits and bonds.
- Proposed amendment would allow concrete street pavements citywide outside restricted districts, with special permits; outcome not shown on this page.
- J. B. Rogers given forty more days to drill a well
- Advisory committee appointed to study the city's possible purchase of Spring Valley Water Company properties.
- Matt I. Sullivan was unanimously elected chairman of the Advisory Water Committee, succeeding Curtis H. Lindley.
- Supervisor Vogelsang moved an ordinance requiring street railways to seat platform men on named Municipal and United Railways lines; no vote printed.
- Revocable permission for San Francisco Veterinary College to run a veterinary hospital on the east side of Tenth is considered.
- The Board voted to increase the Assessor's arbitrary list of unreturned personal property assessments by 10 per cent.
- Ralston Iron Works was granted fifteen more days from July 26, 1915 to finish installing steel lockers in the Municipal Car Barns.
- Mayor asks City Attorney Long about talks with the United Railroads
- Bill letting the Board of Public Works prepare plans and contracts for the Hetch Hetchy water system was passed for printing.
- Pacific Gas and Electric ordered to light the Stockton Street tunnel
- $1,850.50 more set aside for Church Street railway right of way
- The City Attorney reported that recent appropriations for water rates litigation are being examined; outcome continues on the next page.
- $45,000 to buy playground land in the Mission and Noe Valley
- Hearing on the Mayor's veto of Supervisor McCarthy's resolution put off until next Monday at three o'clock.
- Takes effect at once; Church Street rail materials taken up
- City Engineer ordered to list Spring Valley Water Company properties needed for a Sierra water supply.
- The Board proposed offering to sell certain street railway lines to the United Railroads; the outcome is not yet shown.