All decisions
about 160 Board decisions about Daniel C. Murphy, in date order. Each links to its printed page.
- The Board adopted the adverse committee report, rejecting proposed charter amendments on vacation pay, fire department repairs, pensions and street work.
- Board sent petitions for Charter amendments on Fire and Police Department salaries to the Registrar to check voter signatures.
- Supervisor Murphy introduced Charter amendments numbered 1 to 21, proposed for the November 1907 ballot.
- Hibernia Savings and Loan Society and other savings banks sued over funding for a municipal street railroad; City Attorney instructed to defend the suit.
- The Board adopted a resolution directing advertisement of the adopted charter proposals and placing them on the November 5, 1907 ballot.
- Parade rope sockets to be restored when Market Street is repaved
- The Board adopted Resolution 1184 ordering a partition built for the Mayor's secretary at a cost not exceeding $100.
- City Attorney instructed to dismiss an appeal in Langdon's suit over the title to the District Attorney office.
- Secretary of the Interior asked for the Lake Eleanor reservoir rights
- Resolution directs the Printing and Salaries Committee to prepare and print charter amendment circulars for voters.
- Charter Amendment No. 12, on opening and widening streets, is listed for the November 1907 ballot.
- Mayor authorized to give legal notice ending City tenancies of premises used by the City Attorney, County Clerk, District Attorney, Civil Service Commission and Sheriff.
- Board adopted Murphy's resolution stopping publication of two charter amendments, renumbering them, and ordering the ballot in numerical sequence.
- Resolution No. 1505 was adopted on Supervisor Murphy's motion, with Supervisor Sullivan voting no.
- Committees told to study streetcar accidents and report back
- Voters to be told of a clerical error in Charter Amendment 6
- Geary Street Railway's payment to the city to be changed
- License to be charged on billboards and advertising signs
- Bill requiring telephone companies to file statements and penalising failure to file was passed for printing.
- Bill regulating billboards and advertising signs was introduced and referred to the License and Orders Committee.
- Bill soliciting offers to sell San Francisco's water supply system to the City was passed for printing, on Supervisor Murphy's motion.
- Board of Public Works asked to get owners to remove earthquake ruins on three lots near Market Street.
- Pole and wire bill restoring underground Districts B and C was held over one week after amendments were proposed.
- A minority member of the Artificial Light Committee disputes the gas company's reported earnings and the proposed light, heat and power rates.
- The Assessor's list of clerical errors in the 1908-9 assessment roll was approved and adopted by resolution.
- A resolution proposes contracts to supply horses and buggies to city departments at $45 monthly each.
- The Board adopted the Committee of the Whole report starting its preliminary investigation of Spring Valley Water Company rates for 1908-09.
- Supervisor Pollok proposed a billboard and advertising sign licence tax; action was deferred one week.
- Telephone rates for fiscal year 1908-9 were made a special order of business for May 18, 1908.
- The Committee of the Whole continued its inquiry into telephone rates for Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company until March 10, 1908.
- Supervisor Murphy moved reconsideration of Bill 427, a liquor dealers' sealed package licence ordinance; outcome continues on next page.
- Committee of the Whole reported progress on telephone rate inquiry and asked to sit again on March 3, 1908.
- Proposal to let the Board appoint an assistant to the Superintendent of Free Markets was held over on Murphy's motion.
- United Railroads' Pacific Avenue poles sent to a committee
- Board's Committee of the Whole reported progress on fixing 1908 gas and power rates; the report was adopted.
- The Board fixed February 19, 1908 to begin the investigation of telephone company rates.
- The Board's Committee of the Whole closed its telephone-rates hearing on Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co., and the Board adopted its report directing a rates bill.
- Action on the sealed package liquor license ordinance, Bill 427, was deferred one week.
- The Mayor and Supervisors McLeran and Payot were added to the committee investigating city relations with Spring Valley Water Company.
- Bill 460 on selling launch tickets away from wharves was sent back to the Police Committee.
- Resolution 2119 was withdrawn from the Mayor and sent back to the Clerk of the Board.
- The Board allowed and ordered paid $36,052.15 in city demands on the Finance Committee's report.
- J. A. Dowling paid $15,867.03 for the Drumm Street sewer
- A bill taken up on final passage would require a permit and license fee for selling sealed liquor packages; the outcome appears on the next page.
- Some drinks declared not to be intoxicating liquors
- Supervisor Murphy moved reconsideration of Bill 525 fixing telephone rates; the motion carried, final outcome to follow.
- Board amended the 1908-9 water rate bill for Spring Valley Water Company, raising hydrant rates to $2.50; final passage not printed here.
- Attorney W. C. Cavitt heard on the Forty-seventh Avenue work
- Board adopted committee report awarding city supply contracts for 1908-9 to the lowest bidders, with some items referred.
- Supervisors referred a proposed ordinance declaring insanitary buildings nuisances to the Judiciary Committee.
- Ordinance declaring insanitary buildings nuisances was referred to the Judiciary Committee on Supervisor Murphy's motion.
- Board adopted committee report recommending a temporary overhead trolley permit for Sutter Street Railroad on lower Market Street.
- Supervisor McLeran had Bill No. 581 on regulating and prohibiting bonfires reconsidered after it passed unnoticed.
- Demands totaling $12,790.12 were allowed and ordered paid after Finance Committee review.
- Renaming of the Great Highway to Balboa Boulevard adopted
- Bill C31 proposing purchase of a lot in the Western Addition for a library building was passed for printing.
- Supervisor Murphy moved a resolution to carry forward certain appropriations from earlier budgets; outcome is on the next page.
- Demands of $51,407.53 on the Treasury sent to Finance Committee, which recommended payment; final vote continues next page.
- Resolution proposed for printing authorizes $36,008.50 in General Fund payments for supplies and services to several city suppliers.
- Supervisor Murphy moved to suspend the rules so the League of California Municipalities letter on Constitutional Amendment No. 1 could be considered.
- Board adopted a resolution urging voters to reject proposed Constitutional Amendment No. 1 on a corporate income tax.
- $1500 set aside for surveys of land lines at Lake Eleanor and Hetch Hetchy Valley adopted.
- Resolution proposed to modify Dillon & Hubbard's bond-service fee terms for the 1908 bond issue; outcome on next page.
- Bill proposing $600,000 in bonds to buy Hetch Hetchy Valley lands and build water works was passed for printing.
- Pacific Telephone, Home Telephone and Direct Line ordered to file required statements during January 1909.
- Clerk ordered to advertise sale of city improvement bonds, including fire, sewer, school and hospital bonds, for February 8, 1908.
- Grading of H Street to Forty-ninth Avenue referred to committee
- Board accepted an invitation from the California Promotion Committee to a luncheon on proposed auditorium plans.
- The Board adopted the Committee of the Whole's report on telephone rates and let the committee continue its inquiry into Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company.
- Board asked the Mayor to appoint a 25-member citizens committee to plan Governor-General James F. Smith's reception.
- Supervisor Murphy moved that overhead wire grounding be referred to the Committee of the Whole for mapping an underground district.
- The Board referred a resolution employing Professor C. L. Cory to report on Pacific Telephone and Telegraph's San Francisco operations, pay capped at $1200.
- Congress urged to confirm the Hetch Hetchy reservoir grant
- Mayor authorized to appoint a citizens committee to help secure Hetch Hetchy water rights from Congress in Washington.
- City Attorney Percy Long authorized to travel to Washington and argue for city water rights in Hetch Hetchy matter.
- Board commends city legislators for securing Congress's ratification of Hetch Hetchy water reservoir rights agreement.
- The Real Estate Board proposed extending the fire limits westward to Franklin Street; the hearing opened with speakers for and against.
- Board sets February 10 hearing on what telephone service may charge
- Frederick Street and H Street to be renamed Lincoln Way
- Supervisor Pollok asks the Mayor to press Public Works to enforce trench-filling rules on Sacramento Street; referred to committee.
- Supervisor Comte proposed a substitute ordinance banning slot, card and tape machines; it was referred to the Police Committee.
- The Board asked the Public Works Board to prepare plans and surveys for a Lake Eleanor dam to supply city water.
- Resolution apportions $6,065,820 from the February 1909 bond sale to fire, sewer and school bond funds.
- Crocker Estate Company allowed a switch track on Mission Street
- A resolution to accept the highest bid from National City Bank, Speyer and Company and N. W. Halsey for 1908 city bonds was under way.
- Board asks Governor not to sign street railroad bill
- Supervisor Murphy moved to lay over the telephone rates bill for one week, so it was not yet decided.
- Murphy's motion ordered the Clerk to tell the Board of Education that Frank McCoppin's name has no middle initial.
- Condemning land for the Isolation Hospital put off a week
- Supervisor Murphy moved that the Mayor appoint a committee to arrange the presentation of a French medal to San Francisco, and it was ordered.
- The Board hired Professor C. L. Cory to report on the valuation and operations of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company, due February 1, 1910.
- San Francisco Work Horse Association allowed a parade on Market Street
- The Mayor was authorized to appoint a 25-citizen committee to plan the city's Discovery Day celebration.
- Board ordered three telephone companies to file the statements required by Ordinance No. 342 during January 1910.
- Telephone companies Pacific Telephone, Home Telephone and Direct Line are directed to file required statements with the City.
- Supervisor Murphy moves to discharge the Committee on Street Names
- Board sets the procedure for the official canvass of the December 10, 1912 charter amendment election.
- Channel Street's dredging, needed because of dumped sewage, was referred to the Streets and Finance Committees.
- Telephone rate investigation put off to February 28, 1912, pending the proposed telephone merger.
- Charter amendment giving the Board power over Election Department employee discipline, leave and night work was adopted.
- The Board expressed confidence in Mayor Rolph and city representatives seeking a Hetch Hetchy water permit in Washington.
- City Attorney authorised to demand cancellation of an assessment against City-owned properties in Tuolumne County.
- Proposed charter amendment would let the Board close streets and govern buildings on the Panama-Pacific Exposition site, and transfer Lobos Square.
- The Board adopted a resolution directing the Publicity Committee to prepare pro-bond arguments and hold public meetings on the City Hall and Civic Center bonds.
- Board requested Southern Pacific not to remove its Ingleside spur track while the city still needs it.
- Board takes up a bill to license boxing exhibitions
- A resolution introduced by Supervisor Bancroft was laid over for one week.
- City Attorney asked to defend the Auditor in all lawsuits
- California Veterinary Hospital's permit on Fell Street repealed
- $200 set aside for a May Day stand in Marshall Square
- Resolution adopted asking the City Attorney to obtain a legal opinion from Dillon, Thompson & Clay on $8,800,000 City Hall bonds.
- Finance Committee recommended allowing $48,245.18 in city demands, and the Board ordered them paid.
- Supervisor Murphy's bill amending traffic sections of Ordinance 1857 was passed for printing, not yet final.
- J. F. O'Brien Co. paid $8,142.56 for the Brannan Street sewer
- Demands totaling $103,584.56 from the treasury were allowed and ordered paid after Finance Committee review.
- City fights Spring Valley water rate suit over court jurisdiction
- Ordinance repealing Ordinance No. 1525 was ordered printed, moving toward passage.
- Ordinance proposed letting the Auditor hire a stenographer-bond clerk and an expert at $1,500 each yearly.
- Special counsel Curtis H. Lindley's appointment for the city's municipal water supply acquisition was put off until August 19, 1912.
- A $3000 payment for special counsel Curtis H. Lindley's expenses on the water supply acquisition was put off until August 19, 1912.
- Board directed the Board of Election Commissioners to hold a November 26, 1912 election on Charter amendments.
- Charter amendment setting city funds for holiday celebrations, submitted by Supervisor Hayden, was refused adoption.
- Charter Amendment No. 18 on appointing police judges was recommitted to committee to add appointment by the Mayor.
- Charter Amendment No. 10, on when the Supervisors must levy city taxes, was proposed and introduced.
- Charter Amendment No. 9 removed political, religious and sex qualifications for city office and was adopted.
- Charter amendment raising the city's bonded debt ceiling above fifteen per cent was adopted, with a Panama-Pacific Exposition exception.
- Murphy's request that the City Attorney rule on a Jackson street line permit to the ferry was referred.
- The Board adopted an order for the Clerk to set the sequence of charter amendments on the December 10, 1912 special election ballot.
- Sutter Street Railway offered trolley rights on Market Street until 1929
- The Publicity and Judiciary Committees were directed to campaign for public understanding of the pending charter amendments.
- Supervisor Murphy introduced a bill letting Sutter Street Railway Company run cars on Market Street, passed to print.
- W. L. Holman Company given thirty more days for 43 streetcars
- A measure on conducting charter amendment elections was passed for printing, on Supervisor Murphy's motion.
- The Board set December 10, 1912 as the election date for proposed charter amendments and asked two experts to consult on traction.
- Board adopted resolution certifying the December 10, 1912 special election results on thirty-seven proposed charter amendments.
- The Board adopted a resolution asking the City Attorney to advise on the legal steps needed to carry out the Hetch Hetchy grant.
- Murphy's resolution making property owners pay for paving between Municipal Railway tracks was sent back to the Public Utilities Committee.
- H. A. Mason is directed to attend the Sacramento legislative session and report on pending bills for the Judiciary Committee.
- A delegation of the Mayor, City Engineer and City Attorney was authorized to go to Washington to urge passage of the Raker Bill.
- Trolley poles for the planned Municipal Railway on Van Ness Avenue are to stand at the sidewalk edges, not the road centre.
- Rincon Hill property owners' request for a 75 percent cut in assessed valuation was held under advisement, then denied by the Board.
- The Board's Committee of the Whole adopted a report directing a bill fixing telephone rates for fiscal 1913-1914.
- Judiciary Committee to prepare an election on the Market Street settlement
- Supervisors ordered the Mayor and Public Works to plan a celebration opening the Geary Street railway from the bay to the beach.
- Electrical contractors asked to reopen Ordinance 2827, which added a $50 master electrician licence fee; the matter was sent back to committee.
- The Mayor was requested to appoint a twenty-five member citizens committee to observe Columbus Day, 1913.
- Bill to appoint police protective women was passed for printing on Supervisor Murphy's motion.
- Weights and measures ordinance appointing a sealer and four deputies was laid over one week.
- Police Commission may appoint three women protective officers at $100 a month each; the ordinance was adopted.
- Board heard property owners protesting the Twin Peaks tunnel assessments and took the protests under advisement.
- Mr. Ahern's terminal franchise bill for Fourth Street was laid over one week and his statement referred to the Public Utilities and Streets committee.
- Hetch Hetchy bond money must go to water main extensions
- Lawrence J. Dolan was appointed Sealer of Weights and Measures at a salary of $2400 a year.
- City Attorney asked to draft an agreement for the city to buy physical property of the Presidio and Ferries Railroad Company.
- Supervisor Thomas Jennings designated to act as Mayor while Mayor Rolph is away from the city.
- Mayor authorized to sign agreement with United Railroads to reroute streetcars from Polk Street to Leavenworth Street.
- Board reconsidered and corrected its April 28, 1913 journal by inserting the omitted bill copy, then approved it.
- Board carried a motion asking that old employees of the presidio railroad be retained in city service.
- City to buy land at Seventeenth and Hampshire streets
- The City proposed acquiring a lease held by the Mee Estate for Municipal Railway land.
- Presidio and Ferries Railroad leased city land at Gough Street
- The Board passed a motion that, once the city acquires the Presidio and Ferries Railway properties, Public Works will control them.
- Southern Pacific franchise bill to lay railroad tracks in city streets was removed from the calendar for ninety days.