All decisions
75 Board decisions about Charles Boxton, in date order. Each links to its printed page.
- Bill letting the Board of Health remove persons with smallpox, cholera and other contagious diseases was sent back to committee.
- Parkside Transit Company asked for a 25-year franchise to run a streetcar line across western San Francisco; decision still pending.
- Board directed the Board of Education, Library Trustees, Health Board, Sheriff and Police Commission to decide on bond-funded building construction under Ordinance 1767.
- James A. Devoto was appointed special counsel for Public Works and Public Health at $250 per month.
- Supervisor Boxton moved to defer discussion of assessment equalization to the next Board of Equalization sitting, and it was so ordered.
- Board passed an ordinance barring undertaking and embalming establishments in homes and residential areas without a Board of Supervisors permit.
- Supervisors considered a bill requiring Public Works inspection of chimneys before use; the committee recommended passage as amended.
- Proposed ordinance letting the Board of Health remove persons with contagious diseases was laid over again.
- Proposed amendment to the chimney inspection ordinance was postponed indefinitely, so it will not proceed.
- The Board urged military commanders to be as lenient as possible with afflicted citizens after the earthquake.
- Ordinance suspending enforcement of the pound rules for animals running at large passed for printing for ninety days.
- Board accepted Spring Valley Water Company's invitation to inspect its reconstructed pipes and reservoirs on May 19, 1906.
- Mayor was asked to appoint a 25-citizen committee to arrange and fund the 1906 Memorial Day observance.
- Supervisors passed the 1906-1907 city budget ordinance for printing after a public hearing on expenditures.
- Presidio and Ferries Railroad's trolley plan put off pending engineer's report
- Mayor asked to appoint a twenty-five citizen committee to celebrate the Fourth of July, using the budgeted appropriation.
- Complaint against San Francisco Gas over unlit Shotwell Street referred
- Supervisor Boxton moved that the Special Committee on Water Supply meet June 20, 1906 to consider water supply proposals.
- Supervisor Boxton's motion directs the Public Buildings Committee to investigate the condition of all public buildings except schools.
- Board accepted Andrew McCreery's offer of the northeast corner of Eighth and Mission streets as a temporary City Hall site.
- Supervisors referred Bill 42, requiring the Presidio and Ferries Railroad to run cars electrically where grades allow, to the Committee of the Whole.
- Supervisor Boxton complained that frame structures were being built within the fire limits; the matter was put under advisement.
- Plans asked for a municipal building at Eighth and Mission Streets
- Paul Mavrich's request to reduce a $140 assessment to $100 was taken under advisement by the Board.
- Ordinance letting the Board of Health remove persons with smallpox, plague and similar diseases was laid over one week.
- Supervisor Boxton's resolution asks the Streets, Sewers and Parks Committee to estimate cost of temporary street signs in the burnt district.
- Proposed grade changes on Golden Gate Avenue between Jones and Leavenworth streets were laid over for one week after protest by J. B. Carson.
- Golden Gate Avenue grade change taken up, protestants heard
- A uniform grade asked for Golden Gate Avenue between Taylor and Hyde
- Bill proposed amending the chimney inspection ordinance by adding a new Section 12 on inspections; no outcome printed here.
- Supervisor Boxton's bill would let the Board appoint architects for city buildings without competitive plans, amending Ordinance 1767.
- Estimate sought for rebuilding the sewer on Haight Street
- Resolution adopted asking the Board of Public Works to pay Street Sweeping Department workers every two weeks instead of monthly.
- Spur track permit holders must file copies of their permits with the Clerk within ten days, to restore destroyed records.
- Supervisor Boxton moved to address criticism of Bay Cities Water Company's proposed water source for San Francisco.
- Ordinance proposed to offer $1,087,200 in sewer bonds and $486,000 in street bonds for sale on November 5, 1906.
- Parkside Realty Company was granted permission to lay temporary railroad tracks on certain city streets, passed on first reading as Bill No. 101.
- McKinley School to be built at Fourteenth and Castro Streets
- Proposed sale of $1,087,200 in sewer bonds and $480,000 in street bonds, with bids to be received December 17, 1906.
- Supervisor Boxton's proposed building law amendment requiring openings for gas and electric meters was referred to the Joint Committee on Fire and Artificial Lights.
- United Railroads allowed temporary tracks on Sixteenth Street for the wholesale district
- Relief and Red Cross officers ordered to appear at the meeting
- Board of Education asks for the South End School on Girard
- Agnes Walker allowed a sanitorium at 718 Broderick Street
- Supervisor Boxton's motion sends the question of using city property for refugee camps to several committees for study.
- Hearing on Mayor's suspension of District Attorney Wm. H. Langdon was continued to December 3, 1906.
- Bill 128, a declaratory ordinance for an auxiliary fire-protection water system, passed for printing.
- City declares its intention to build an overhead electric trolley road on Geary Street
- Board postponed opening United Railroads' bid for a Sixteenth Street streetcar franchise by two weeks.
- Proposed rule requiring fire protection equipment in one-story theaters was postponed one week on Supervisor Boxton's motion.
- The Board resolved to submit a bond proposition to voters to buy land to preserve Telegraph Hill, per the City Engineer's list.
- The Board accepted the Union Trust Company's amended bid to buy $75,000 of city street bonds at par.
- United Railroads of San Francisco bid for a Sixteenth Street railroad franchise from Kansas to South Street; a resolution to award it was introduced.
- Adopted: $10,000 appropriated for repairing various city streets, to be spent by the Board of Public Works.
- $10,000 set aside to repave Sixth Street from Market Street
- Proposed ordinance extending the area where crude oil may be refined, amending Ordinance No. 302.
- Supervisor Kelly objected to petitions circulated among members for unofficial amateur boxing permits.
- Supervisor Lonergan's ordinance on renovating room interiors in city buildings was recommitted to the Hospital and Health Committee.
- Union Trust buys $75,000 of street bonds to widen Sutter Street
- Parkside Transit Company's proposed railway franchise was placed under action deferred on this page.
- Bay View School to be built for up to $119,000
- Parkside Transit Company's railway franchise bill was postponed one week by the Board.
- Board orders the City Engineer to report on plans and costs for an auxiliary water system for fire protection.
- Action on the United Railroads Sixteenth Street franchise put off
- Supervisor McClushin's bill requiring private water tanks to connect for fire use was sent back to the Fire Committee.
- Action on the United Railroads Sixteenth Street franchise put off
- The Mayor is asked to appoint a citizens committee to arrange the Memorial Day observance in 1907.
- A franchise ordinance for the Parkside Transit Company was deferred, with its text continuing on the next page.
- Resolution asks the Mayor to appoint a twenty-five member committee to arrange the July 4, 1907 celebration.
- L. H. Mooser was appointed to appraise lands for the County Jail site under the Bond Issue, and Resolution 997 was repealed.
- Proposal to change the height limit for frame buildings in the city was laid over one week.
- Supervisor James L. Gallagher chosen acting Mayor while Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz is detained in Sheriff's custody.
- Bill offered to build the Oceanside, Berkshire Street and Bergerot schools
- Wm. Mooser granted seventy more days to complete plans and specifications for the new City and County Hospital.
- P. P. Quinn given ninety more days on Laguna Honda School