All decisions
about 130 Board decisions about Eugene Schmitz, in date order. Each links to its printed page.
- Mary Kirrane appeals the Wisconsin Street assessment; Supervisor Schmitz moved to sustain the appeal, and the vote continues.
- Proposed appointment of Edwin H. Lemare as Auditorium Organist was referred to the City Attorney for advice.
- Supervisor Schmitz's proposed anti-vivisection ordinance was referred to the Health Committee for review.
- Motion carried inserting $100,000 in the budget for relief of dependents of soldiers and sailors in service.
- Supervisors amended the salary of the bookkeeper for all the jails to $1,680 per year.
- Supervisor Schmitz moved to raise the Elections Department's six deputy salaries from $1,800 to $1,980 each, and the amendment carried.
- Supervisor Schmitz moved to cap salary increases at $15 per month for positions paying under $175.
- Sheriff's Department staff pay amendments for chief bookkeeper and assistants were debated; amendments carried, final outcome continues on next page.
- Supervisor Welch moved to amend the Treasurer's office salary list by setting the Assistant Bookkeeper pay at $2,100.
- Supervisors rejected a proposal to add 16 sheriff's keepers at $100 each per month.
- Supervisor Schmitz's motion to refer a Bureau of Municipal Research garbage report to a special committee carried.
- Board adopts condolence resolution for Justice of the Peace C. E. A. Creighton, who died.
- Board asks its Washington representatives to have November 11 declared a national holiday; motion carried.
- Board of Public Works authorized to take temporary charge of the garbage situation, with $5,000 set aside.
- Supervisor Schmitz moved that Public Works repair the streets in front of Adams School on Eddy Street; motion carried.
- Resolution endorsing a Victory Club benefit for discharged soldiers at the Civic Auditorium was referred to the Public Welfare Committee.
- City to pave Army Street at Fred W. Minkel's property
- Schmitz moved to cut Municipal Water Works appropriations by $7,500, but the motion died for lack of a second.
- Motion to cut $14,300 in Saturday half-holiday pay for city teams was defeated.
- Move to cut $50,000 Army Street wall turned down
- Motion to cut the main sewer extension budget from $30,000 to $20,000 was defeated.
- Supervisor Schmitz's proposal to cut the school repairs budget item to $150,000 was defeated.
- Motion to cut the Urgent Necessities Fund from $100,000 to $75,000 failed.
- Proposed raise of the sewer repairs assistant superintendent to $200 a month was referred to committee.
- Motion to cut a $182,000 lump-sum appropriation by $34,760 was referred to the Finance Committee.
- Motion to cut $17,500 from the Department of Elections budget of $228,000 failed.
- Proposal to drop $50,000 for Civic Center land
- Motion to cut San Francisco Hospital completion funding from $50,000 to $25,000 failed.
- Supervisors moved to pass the revised 1919 city budget to print after the Clerk read corrections.
- Supervisor Schmitz proposed union-scale wages for city engineers, draftsmen and surveyors; McLeran offered an amendment, and the outcome continues.
- Supervisor Schmitz moved to adjourn until nine o'clock, with debate on the miners' injunction resolution unfinished.
- Registrar certified the Fire Department salary initiative petition, and salary amendments were referred to Judiciary and Finance Committee.
- Salary petitions outside initiative measures were referred to the Judiciary and Finance Committee for a report by Monday.
- A proposed laundry license fee ordinance amending Section 45 was re-referred to the Judiciary and Finance committee.
- Board filed the Fire Wardens' charter amendment on fire officers' salaries, so it will not go on the ballot.
- Supervisor Schmitz gave notice of reconsideration of an action on convenience stations that had been indefinitely postponed.
- Work ordered to start on Aquatic Park at North Beach
- Supervisor Schmitz's ordinance requiring convenience stations at automobile supply stations was reconsidered and put back on the calendar.
- Supervisor Schmitz's proposed ordinance on public convenience stations at automobile supply stations was reconsidered; City Attorney advice was requested.
- Supervisor Schmitz asks that school children hear organ recitals free
- Police Committee is asked to arrange motorcycle police on Van Ness Avenue and Fell Street; referred.
- Special Committee was given thirty more days to report McSheehy's resolution on the care of tubercular patients.
- Police Department asked to strictly enforce speeding rules on Van Ness avenue, with two motorcycle officers assigned there.
- Claim for $1,263.60 yard work at Fairmount School was recommitted to the Finance Committee on Schmitz's motion.
- Consideration of a tubercular sanitarium proposal was postponed until 3 o'clock next Monday afternoon.
- Confirmation of the sale of city land to W. H. Lemmer was postponed one week after members were served an injunction.
- Decision on rejecting the Weimar offer for a tuberculosis sanitarium site was laid over to 3 o'clock next Monday.
- Supervisor Poteen introduced a resolution on police captains accepting federal fees for enforcing the Volstead Act.
- Romain Street land sold to Jennie M. Zichy for $355
- Board asked the City Attorney for an opinion on the maximum tax rate allowed under the Charter.
- Supervisor Schmitz moved that a copy of the moving picture theater ordinance be sent to local operators.
- Paul Eliel, director of the Bureau of Municipal Research, was ordered to appear before the Board to explain his criticism of supervisors.
- Schmitz moved that all future bills be printed in detail on the Calendar, and it was so ordered.
- Supervisor Power's request to reconsider a defeated bill creating additional city positions was laid over to next Thursday.
- Proposed zoning ordinance on the location of trades, industries and buildings laid over one week for members to review.
- Mayor asked to appoint a five-member committee to draft thanks to Wm. H. Crocker and Panama-Pacific trustees.
- Land below Telegraph Hill to be bought for a park
- The Board endorsed a Music Week in San Francisco from October 30 to November 6, sponsored by the Community Service Recreation League.
- Board passed for printing the citywide zoning ordinance dividing San Francisco into use districts, after property owner Robert Troy objected.
- Property owners' appeal against the Napoleon Street improvement was sustained, provided the street is put in passable condition.
- Notice of reconsideration on Landers Street withdrawn
- Board appointed Supervisors Scott, Bath and McSheehy to attend a Better Citizenship conference at the Palace Hotel.
- Clerk instructed to tell American Legion Post 40 that the Urgent Necessities Fund is available for relief of distressed ex-soldiers.
- Board ruled that the reserved section of the Chambers does not exclude interested citizens, except when officials or invited guests need it.
- Three revocable permits for 1,500-gallon oil storage tanks at downtown sites were proposed and sent to printing.
- Board set Friday at 10 a.m. for Committee of the Whole reconsideration of the proposed retirement ordinance.
- August Livernais allowed a garage and repair shop on Pacific Avenue
- Revocable permits for a laundry boiler, furnaces and an oil tank at three addresses were passed for printing.
- Baroni & Nespoli allowed a filling station on Mission Street
- Revocable permits granted to several firms and owners for gasoline storage tanks and a boiler.
- Standard Oil gets a filling station at Eleventh and Howard streets
- Gorman and Van Dorn allowed a furnace at 51-53 Tehama Street
- Ex-service men's resolutions on pay for Lincoln Highway work were referred to the Finance Committee and the Mayor.
- Board urged the Park Commission to pay ex-service men $5 per day, as the $25,000 work appropriation required; resolution ordered adopted.
- Bureau of Governmental Research report on Municipal Railway extension appropriations was referred to the joint Public Utilities and Finance Committee.
- Supervisor Schmitz proposed taking $300 from the Urgent Necessities Fund to refund Disabled Veterans' Auditorium rent; referred to Finance Committee.
- Schmitz's motion asking the District Attorney for a list of municipal employees belonging to the Ku Klux Klan carried.
- Clerk directed to prepare a resolution appropriating $2,500 for a municipal camping ground at Hetch Hetchy.
- Retirement ordinance amendment adding a pension rule for certain city employees was passed for printing.
- Park Commission urged to raise John McLaren's pay for pension loss
- Board received the special committee's report on buying the Market Street Railway Company and discharged the committee.
- Supervisor Schmitz's motion asked the Police Committee chairman to investigate cuts to police days off.
- Supervisor Schmitz moved that the city ask Golden Gate Ferry Company to build its ferryboats in San Francisco rather than Los Angeles; officials to appear before committee.
- Board of Public Works asked to list streets on Market Street Railway franchises that need repair.
- The Mayor was asked to appoint a five-member committee to attend a Santa Rosa conference on a Golden Gate bridge; Shannon, Robb, Schmitz and O'Shaughnessy were appointed.
- Amendment to salary Ordinance 5460 is pending, including Schmitz's motion to raise assistant probation officers' pay to $2,100.
- Supervisor Schmitz proposed that the Board set a Civic Center development policy at an early date.
- Rincon Hill regrading protest hearing continued for sixty days while protestants and the Chamber of Commerce seek a plan.
- Supervisor Schmitz proposed an amendment to the purchasing ordinance creating a Bureau of Supplies; the outcome appears on the next page.
- Proposed ordinance retitles two Sheriff's office positions, amending Ordinance 5460; vote not shown on this page.
- City Attorney's proposed resolution would authorize dismissal of the city's condemnation suit against Spring Valley Water Company; referred to committee.
- Arthur H. Draughon's petition for a ferry franchise between Richmond and San Francisco was referred to the Public Utilities Committee.
- Board deferred one week on overriding the Mayor's veto of the Masonic Avenue railway extension ordinance.
- City to auction a twenty-year lease on its Stevenson Street lot
- Supervisor Schmitz asks the Park Commission to protect Great Highway walkers
- A lease of certain city property will be offered at public auction on June 18, 1923, at 3 p.m.
- Supervisor McGregor asks $7,500 for rat extermination and plague control
- Supervisor Schmitz moved that the Mayor ask the Board of Works to repave Frederick Street between Cole and Clayton Streets.
- Property owners' appeal over retaining walls on Havens Street was laid over one week and set for a special hearing.
- Eighth Avenue rezoning sent back to the City Planning Committee
- Action on a Market Street Railway permit over plant noise was deferred for one week.
- One stenographer-typewriter position at $2,100 per year added to the Tax Collector's staff in the Additional Positions Ordinance.
- Board adopted a resolution expressing sympathy on the death of R. E. Queen, former Probation Committee member.
- Ordinance adding Underground District No. 14 on Mason, Taylor, Jones, Leavenworth, Hyde and Larkin streets passed for printing.
- Supervisor Schmitz proposed removing branch County Jail No. 2 from its residential district and building a new one; referred to committee.
- An ordinance to let the Board of Public Works issue permits for private-contract street work was referred to the Streets Committee.
- Board passed for printing a resolution approving many city bills, after striking items 47 and 48 for one week.
- Resolution asking the Judiciary Committee to prepare a charter amendment raising police and fire salaries was referred to committee.
- Schmitz moved that the Department of Electricity be asked to match private-employment pay for machinists, and it was so ordered.
- Supervisor Schmitz won a request for a City Attorney opinion on salary raise votes, and action on the salary ordinance was deferred.
- Bill No. 6728 was indefinitely postponed on Supervisor Schmitz's motion.
- Clerk to alert utility companies that water and gas mains must be laid before street pavements are built.
- Supervisor Schmitz moved that the committee ask Market Street Railway to stop McAllister cars on Polk's west side.
- Board took $940 from the General Fund to pay one month of additional salaries in the Department of Electricity.
- Resolution mourns architect Willis Polk, designer of the Mills Building and Pacific Union Club, adopted by rising vote.
- Fire Department salary schedule charter amendment was placed last on the November 1924 ballot.
- Proposed charter amendment would set new annual salaries for Fire Department officers and firemen, effective July 1, 1925, sent to voters.
- Supervisor Schmitz proposed a charter amendment setting new salaries for Police Department captains, lieutenants, sergeants and corporals.
- Corrected Charter Amendment 41 on Police Department salaries was presented and approved, with its text continuing on the next page.
- Board adjourns in respect for Judge Maurice T. Dooling
- Bill creating Underground District No. 16 on Clement Street from First to Thirteenth avenues passed for printing.
- Pacific Gas and Electric to replace gas lamps on Hartford Street
- Bay Cities Bridge Corporation's application for a toll bridge franchise to Alameda was continued to April 20, 1925.
- City land on Powell Street sold to the highest bidder
- Hearing on protests against improving Forty-eighth Avenue and Ortega Street, set for 2 p.m., outcome not printed.
- Zoning change for the north side of Sacramento Street near Mason Street was laid over two weeks.
- Supervisor Schmitz proposed asking the Registrar of Voters for an estimate of a city census; sent to Finance Committee.
- $20,000 proposed to light City Hall for the Diamond Jubilee
- Board laid over for one week a reconsideration of its refusal to pay John J. Dailey as special counsel.
- Mayor Rolph's proposed official census of San Francisco was referred to the Public Welfare Committee.
- The Joint Committee reported on spur track permit applications from Southern Pacific and Western Pacific railroads near Seventh and Berry streets.
- Supervisor Schmitz's resolution to cancel the city's Hetch Hetchy power contract with Pacific Gas and Electric was referred to the Public Utilities Committee.
- Proposed ordinance would move overhead wires underground on Union Street from Van Ness Avenue to Steiner Street.