All decisions
about 130 Board decisions about Edward I. Wolfe, in date order. Each links to its printed page.
- Board adopted Wolfe's resolution asking the City Attorney to interpret Charter rules on resolutions and the Mayor's approval.
- The Board named its presiding officer to visit Mayor Rolph and offer help signing bonds or public documents.
- Board adopted a resolution mourning Lieutenant-Governor John Eshleman and sending sympathy to his widow and family.
- Mayor appointed five supervisors to represent the Board at Lieutenant-Governor Eshleman's funeral.
- Board considered a resolution asking the City Attorney to settle the State's condemnation suit by deeding city land in India Basin for nominal consideration; postponement lost.
- The Board endorsed Congressman Julius Kahn's effort to win a federal pension for J. C. Perry, an aged post office employee.
- Supervisor Deasy's resolution asking the Mayor to declare a Good Friday half holiday was referred to the Public Welfare Committee.
- Pacific Gas and Electric may use the Municipal Railway's underground conduit
- Supervisor Wolfe's motion sending the Housing Committee to a state housing conference in Los Angeles, paid by the City, was ordered.
- Streetcar extension proposed along Market Street
- Special fund item of $30,000 for work in front of city property was listed; its outcome continues on the next page.
- The District Attorney's office budget of $71,000 for salaries and expenses was approved as recommended by Finance Committee.
- Board appropriated $6,000 for the school department to buy additional land for the Sherman School.
- Board set aside $3,000 for a dental clinic to be run by the Board of Education.
- Board added an assistant bacteriologist at $1,500 to the Board of Health budget, requested by Dr. Hassler.
- $30,000 of Good Roads money sought for Marina Boulevard
- Supervisor Wolfe's resolution to recess the Board until 1 a.m. Saturday was adopted by eighteen votes.
- The Board reconsidered and rescinded its earlier apportionment of the Good Roads Fund, reopening road spending decisions.
- Mayor Rolph vetoed Resolution 12979 appointing Mabel Hobson as temporary telephone operator at City Hall at $85 monthly.
- Supervisors asked Wm. S. Scott and Wm. F. Humphrey to appear next Monday about plaster board and metal lath tests.
- Board set its next meeting to hear interested parties on testing button lath against metal lath for Class A buildings.
- Interested persons were told to attend the Board's August 7, 1916 meeting on button lath testing.
- Tax refund claims from the Geary Street Railroad levy put off
- Stenographer James M. Kessen's salary increase to $125 monthly was referred to the Finance Committee.
- Appropriation to investigate Modesto-Turlock irrigation district requirements was taken up; outcome appears on the next page.
- Clerk instructed to attach approval certificates only to tax claim demands named in peremptory writs of mandate.
- Refusal of Joseph Levy's stable at 340 Fell Street voted down
- Supervisor Wolfe moved that the Health Committee investigate a sheep corral at Silliman and Holyoke streets and stop work meanwhile.
- Proposal to change pensions for families of firefighters killed or injured on duty was ordered submitted to voters for the November 7, 1916 election.
- Proposed charter amendment would change Police Court judges, officers, night sessions and judicial terms; the outcome continues on the next page.
- Voters are asked in November 1916 to extend police pensions to families of officers killed or injured on duty.
- Joseph Levy asks to keep nine horses at 340 Fell Street
- Supervisor Wolfe's motion carried, directing the clerk to prepare an ordinance prohibiting sheep driving and maintenance in the University Mound District.
- Board refused Joseph Levy permission to keep a nine-horse stable at 340 Fell Street.
- Specifications for a logging-road engine under Hetch Hetchy Water Supply Contract No. 19 were approved by resolution.
- National Laundry's $598.05 ambulance damage claim put off a week
- Specifications for copper wire for the Lower Cherry River Power Development, Hetch Hetchy Contract No. 18, were approved.
- Supervisor Wolfe moved that Mr. Hubbard and others be notified to attend the Public Utilities Committee meeting on Fillmore Street transfers.
- Supervisor Kortick and City Engineer O'Shaughnessy were instructed to attend the naval station site conference.
- Board deferred Frank M. Barrett's application to keep a 35-horse stable at 467 Eleventh Street until courts decide.
- Ordinance proposed to order construction and delivery of motor buses and direct a Public Works contract.
- Board adopted Wolfe's substitute resolution thanking the New York Bureau of Municipal Research and pledging to use its recommendations; the referral motion also carried.
- A proposal to send the four-track Market Street streetcar question to voters was defeated 12 to 6, with the final vote not shown.
- Proposed: city pays $50,000 balance on Sanitary Reduction Works and takes possession; a substitute would reject pending garbage bids.
- Board reconsiders denying Elizabeth Stanton a stable at 438 Twenty-third Avenue
- Supervisor Wolfe proposed an ordinance letting the Board of Public Works hire Robert M. Searls as special counsel on Hetch Hetchy.
- Board referred the Fillmore and Union streets transfer dispute to committee and asked United Railroads to restore transfers.
- Changes to the free telephone list, to fit the city's allowance of one thousand, were referred to committee.
- Supervisor Nelson proposed amending the standard loaf of bread to twelve ounces; made special order for next Monday.
- Ocean Shore Railroad asked to repave Twelfth Street beside its tracks
- The Mayor was authorized to invite the 1918 Associated Advertising Clubs convention to San Francisco.
- Tourists' Association of Central California's $5,000 now and $15,000 next budget was referred to Finance Committee; the rest of the report was adopted.
- Pierson, Roeding Co. granted a 60-day extension to deliver insulators for the Lower Cherry River transmission line.
- Mayor Rolph's proposal to invest $1,000,000 of surplus city funds in Liberty bonds was referred to the Finance Committee.
- Mrs. Classen and Mr. Di Rosa protest paving Mohawk Avenue
- Board adopted a resolution of sympathy to Supervisor James E. Power on the death of his father.
- Supervisors asked the Finance Committee to find up to $5,000 for the National Red Cross Fund, motion carried unanimously.
- The Board authorized the Mayor to appoint a committee to receive and entertain the visiting Belgian Mission.
- Supervisors to attend opening of Church Street Muni line
- Cyclops Iron Works was granted a seventy-day extension to deliver a crane for the Lower Cherry power development.
- The Board of Education asked for $60,000 to raise teacher and janitor salaries; referred to Finance Committee, outcome pending.
- Eugene Conlin argues for the Dominican Fathers' Steiner Street station
- Board adopted a resolution directing the City Engineer to confer with United Railroads on a valuation for possible city purchase.
- Proposal to let the Board of Public Works buy a motor truck for the Municipal Railway was referred to committee.
- Five White motor bus chassis to be bought at $3,780.10 each
- Board pledges 100 tickets for the 319th Engineers band benefit
- Resolution proposed to approve a $6 daily truck rental agreement with Peninsular Land and Investment Company.
- Bus service asked along the Great Highway from Kirkham Street
- United Railroads allowed double tracks on Army Street for war work
- Resolution adopted barring supervisors and committee chairmen from hiring anyone or incurring city debt without prior Board approval.
- A bill directing the Board of Public Works to prepare plans for an elevator at Laguna Honda Station was passed for printing.
- Supervisor Wolfe moved Bill No. 4944, prohibiting passengers from talking with street railway operators, with its outcome not shown on this page.
- Bay Shore Delivery Company's freight permit hearing was deferred one week on Supervisor Wolfe's motion.
- A hearing on Inter County Express Company's motor truck freight permit between San Francisco and San Jose was set for May 20, 1918.
- Wolfe moved a five-year freight trucking permit for W. Condon and H. Phillips's Bay Shore Delivery Co. over city streets.
- Municipal bus service proposed along the Great Highway
- Committee on Commercial Development was authorized to confer with the Chamber of Commerce and State Harbor Commissioners on harbor development.
- Taxi and sight-seeing car stand rules for Market, Geary and Stockton streets passed by the Board.
- Joseph V. De Ryana allowed a truck line to Gilroy
- Bill 5013 would let the Mayor contract Edwin H. Lemare as Auditorium organist for one year; reconsideration notice withdrawn.
- Sight-seeing cars barred from standing on Market Street most hours
- Resolution proposed to let the Sonora Abstract and Title Company convey Tuolumne County lands to the United States.
- Conference asked on streetcar congestion on lower Market Street
- Ordinance letting the Board of Public Works buy Hetch Hetchy materials without formal bids during wartime passed for printing.
- Supervisor Wolfe moved that two members be sent to Washington to seek a $1,000,000 federal appropriation for transport to Union Iron Works.
- Motion to seek federal money for railway transport to Union Iron Works was postponed one week.
- Board of Public Works asked for payment of Hetch Hetchy construction material claims; the claims were referred to the Finance Committee and City Attorney.
- Supervisor Wolfe's motion to send a two-member committee to Philadelphia for federal aid for a railway to Union Iron Works was referred to committee.
- Board passed a motion letting Jewish city employees who wished observe the Day of Atonement off.
- Board authorized the Mayor to agree with the Government to build a Municipal Railway line from Evans Avenue to Hunters Point.
- Supervisors asked the Mayor to inform the United States President about the results of gauze masks in San Francisco; motion carried.
- Supervisors planned a reception for ex-President Taft at City Hall, and Wolfe moved that the Secretary issue a press statement on it.
- Jos. McCormick agreed in the record that he claims no city salary beyond ninety days after he resigned.
- City Attorney authorized to consent to a judgment letting the United States take a railroad right-of-way in exchange for Palace of Fine Arts land.
- Proposed bill repealing Section 4 of Ordinance 2929 on dance permits was deferred one week after a favorable committee report.
- Supervisor Wolfe moved that a five-member committee be appointed to meet with Spring Valley Water Company about the city's water purchase.
- Wolfe proposed asking the Railroad Commission to arbitrate a fair valuation of Spring Valley Water Company properties.
- Chair authorized to appoint an entertainment committee to work with existing convention committees; ordered so.
- Mayor forwards a $1,000 bequest from Fritz Olsen in his late mother's name for charity; Board action not yet shown.
- Supervisor Wolfe moved that a three-member committee be appointed to draft resolutions honouring the late I. W. Hellman.
- Mayor and Clerk authorized to sign a federal stipulation for Cherry-Eleanor-Tuolumne water conduit rights of way.
- Board sent thanks to Hawaiian island officials for hospitality shown to Mayor Rolph, carried unanimously.
- Supervisor Wolfe's motion set aside 3:30 p.m. next Wednesday to hear Samuel Shortridge on teacher salary increases.
- The Board asked the City Attorney whether airport landowners at the Marina may end leases on short notice.
- Hoefer and Reinhart allowed an amateur telegraph wire across Rivoli Street
- Supervisor Wolfe proposes that the Board endorse Senator Hiram Johnson as the Republican presidential candidate.
- Board of Public Works authorized to buy one hundred steel streetcar wheels from Cambria Steel Company at $50.25 each.
- Supervisor Wolfe moved to welcome visiting Rabbi Stephen A. Wise and urge public donations for relief in Palestine.
- Summary not public in this release
- Supervisor Wolfe moved that a charter amendment on acquiring public utilities be submitted to voters.
- Charter amendment letting the city sell school and water bonds below par, with interest capped at 5.5 per cent, was placed on the ballot.
- Proposed charter amendment would remove water bonds from the 15 per cent debt limit; debate continues on the next page.
- Schmitz's convenience-station ordinance for oil stations was sent to the City Attorney for an opinion on its legality.
- A resolution opposing Constitutional Amendment No. 12, a tax for the State University, was laid over one week.
- Charter Amendments Nos. 28, 29 and 30 endorsed for the coming election, aimed at self-supporting public utilities and water supply.
- Proposed ordinance would let Board of Public Works lease Municipal Railway car advertising rights for five years; passed for printing.
- Board of Public Works would end the existing streetcar advertising contract and lease the rights to R. C. Scott Advertising Company for five years at $11,250 yearly.
- City land near Yosemite proposed for a tourist camp and lodge
- Board carried Supervisor Wolfe's motion appointing Supervisors Wolfe, Bath and Welch to draft resolutions honoring the slain officers and sheriff.
- Committees report on the Spring Valley Water Company's offer to sell its properties for $37 million; a minority report objects.
- Ordinance calling a special election on buying Spring Valley Water Company properties was brought up for final passage.
- Supervisor Wolfe's motion directing the Clerk to prepare the procedure for calling bids under the Garbage Disposal Ordinance carried.
- Nelson proposed a Municipal Railway extension from Potrero Avenue to Church Street; Wolfe's motion sent it to the Public Utilities Committee.
- Supervisor Wolfe moved that Jewish employees be allowed to take off next Monday for a Jewish holiday; so ordered.
- Board carried Wolfe's motion asking Public Works to report on feasibility and cost of City garbage collection.
- The Board continued the Rincon Hill regrade hearing to November 15th to decide the street slope and who pays.
- A proposed ordinance on refuse collection, licensed collectors and maximum collection rates was passed for printing.
- The Board asked the City Attorney what powers it has over a disputed ballot count in the 9th precinct of the 24th district.
- Parkside Boosters' Club's request on the Taraval Street extension was referred to the City Engineer for a speedy report.
- Resolution asks the Public Utilities Committee to pair the Spring Valley Water purchase with the Market Street Railway sale vote; referred.
- Supervisors Wolfe, Suhr and Powers appointed to draft resolutions on the death of Congressman Elston.
- Ordinance to let the Board of Public Works contract for twenty new Municipal Street Railway cars passed for printing.