All decisions
68 Board decisions about Edward J. Brandon, in date order. Each links to its printed page.
- A. Kohn paid $5,583 for building Engine House No. 3
- Bill No. 3988, permitting plaster board in building construction, was ordered recommitted to the Building Committee.
- Ten contractors were granted time extensions to finish City Hall construction work, on the unanimous recommendation of the Board of Public Works.
- Board granted three groups free use of Exposition Auditorium rooms for April 1916 events and rehearsals.
- Resolution urges all San Franciscans to join the Red Cross, aiming for 25,000 members by April 18, 1916.
- The Board granted the Verein Oesterreich use of Exposition Auditorium halls on September 17, 1916.
- Substitute resolution approves salary demands of Louis Levy as Auditorium superintendent, sent to print, $1,451.65 set aside.
- Board approved a $100,000 Civic Center Fund item, later reduced to $80,000.
- Sewer repairs, maintenance and reconstruction appropriation raised to $144,000 by amendment.
- Tenement house inspectors cut from three to two in the budget, saving $1,500, after a motion by Brandon carried.
- M. J. Brandenstein allowed a spur track on Second and Stanford
- Terschuren, Grosjean and Sedgley allowed a spur track on North Point
- McAllister Street to be paved between Parker Avenue and North Stanyan
- Federal Construction given sixty more days on Rhode Island Street
- Bill 4167 to fully accept seven newly paved street roadways was passed for printing.
- National Carbon Company allowed a spur track across Brannan Street
- Hearing on testing metal lath and plaster board was put off to August 14, 1916, pending a Fire Department report.
- The Pacific Horticultural Society was granted free use of Larkin Hall in the Exposition Auditorium for a flower show, subject to a $15 overhead payment.
- Board referred property owners' appeal against the Circular Avenue assessment to the Street Committee for a two-week report.
- Evans Avenue assessment appeal put off two weeks
- Sanitary Reduction Works incinerator called a nuisance; garbage sorting proposed
- E. T. Holmes's appeal against the assessment for improving Rivera Street was laid over one week.
- Ordinance ordering certain street work, with contract authority for the Board of Public Works, was passed for printing on Brandon's motion.
- Ordinance ordering paving and curbs on Alabama, Revere and Berlin streets passed for printing.
- Ordinance to accept a pipe organ gift from the Panama-Pacific Exposition Company was passed for printing.
- Resolution adopted directing the Clerk to reserve the Exposition Auditorium main hall for municipal organ recitals.
- The Board sent a bill to appoint William R. Gallagher as Exposition Auditorium organ tuner back to committee.
- The American League of California was granted free use of the Exposition Auditorium Main Hall on April 24, 1917.
- Two organizations were granted permission to rent Exposition Auditorium halls for a February 1918 ball and a July 1917 event.
- Mohawk Avenue paving put off six months at Supervisor Brandon's motion
- Property owners' appeal over the Railroad Avenue assessment was put off by Supervisor Brandon until July 30, 1917.
- Substitute motion passed asking Public Utilities and Finance Committees to provide bus service during the street railway strike in three districts.
- Finance Committee proposal to spend $392,000 from the Southern Pacific land sale on schools and an aquatic park was deferred.
- Supervisor Power's resolution would set aside $60,000 for teacher and janitor pay increases; the Board postponed action one week.
- Supervisor Gallagher's report urging $60,000 for street repairs was laid over for one week.
- Bureau of Governmental Research asks for Hetch Hetchy cost figures
- Supervisor Brandon moved to let the Auditorium Committee continue the municipal symphony concerts despite an estimated deficit.
- Ralph Pincus was granted permission to rent the Auditorium's Main Hall for Italian war film screenings from November 24 to December 2, 1917.
- $1,026 for Parnassus Avenue work referred to two committees
- Ordinance raising Treasurer's office salaries referred to the Finance Committee by Supervisor Brandon's motion.
- Supervisors granted the Armenian and Syrian Relief Committee and the Lafayette Club free use of the Auditorium in January 1918.
- Supervisor Power's statement was laid on the table by a vote of 14 to 3.
- Supervisor Brandon's motion to expunge references to Supervisor Power's statement from the day's record was carried.
- Board voted 12 to 3 to expunge Supervisor Power's statement of December 31, 1917 from the journal.
- The Police Committee presented a bill regulating free lunches and food giveaways by liquor retailers, without recommendation.
- J. G. Harney given ninety more days on Balboa Street
- County Council of Defense was granted permission to rent the Auditorium Main Hall for an evening event.
- Time extensions granted to Mangrum & Otter for San Francisco Hospital kitchen and Flinn & Treacy for Fairmount School yard paving.
- H. K. Snow's Inter County Express freight permit between San Francisco and San Jose was passed for printing.
- Four contractors were granted 60-day extensions to finish fittings for the southeast wing of San Francisco Hospital.
- Mangrum & Otter granted a second 30-day extension to finish kitchen equipment work at San Francisco Hospital.
- Cost of Municipal Railway tracks on Union Street to be estimated
- Bill proposed to investigate buying part of United Railroads' street railway for the Municipal Railway; passed for printing.
- Brandon's motion to deny all pending assessment reduction applications taken under advisement was carried, seven to two.
- The Board approved the Assessor's report on referred assessment applications, after an amendment to insert Sunset and Richmond exceptions failed.
- Proposed resolution would let named organizations rent Auditorium halls once rental deposits are paid.
- The Board asked the Mayor to appoint a committee to attend opening of the old Hall of Records cornerstone on August 18, 1918.
- Supervisor McSheehy charged the Board of Public Works with improperly appointing architect J. Reed Jr. for the Monroe School building.
- Laundry with boiler allowed on Castro Street despite neighbours' objections
- Jesse Miller gets a cleaning works on Presidio Avenue
- $60,743 paid to the Nunan executors for Civic Center land
- Public Works asked for funds for temporary garbage handling at $150 a day after the Sanitary Reduction Works shut down during the influenza epidemic.
- The Board referred a resolution thanking those who helped during the influenza epidemic, and commending Owl Drug Company, to the Public Health Committee.
- Mayor to sign a deal for United Railroads' Taraval Street tracks
- G. C. Wilson asked for a Memorial Hall for War Veterans in the Civic Center; the project was referred to the Committee on Returning Soldiers.
- Eighteenth Avenue lot to be sold after school board rejects it
- Proposed private sale of city-owned land on Eighteenth Avenue in the Richmond District, released by the Board of Education as unsuitable for a school.
- Proposed street work bill passed for printing on Supervisor Brandon's motion; the street is not named on this page.