All decisions
about 770 Board decisions about James E. Power, in date order. Each links to its printed page.
- Joint Board of Fire and Police Commissioners recommends exempting the Chief of the Electricity Department from residence qualification.
- Resolution proposed asking the Mayor to appoint a committee for the Discovery Day observance.
- Three telephone companies are directed to file required statements during January 1915 under Ordinance No. 342.
- Spring Valley Water Company and other water suppliers are required to furnish annual statements to the Board.
- Board debates the Spring Valley Water Company's offer to sell its properties to the city; Power moves to read earlier offers first.
- Paul Oest and N. Randall Ellis were appointed expert assistants to the telephone rates committee for 1914-1915.
- Supervisor Power moved that the rejected Spring Valley Water purchase offers be placed before the Board for reference.
- Telephones and Rates Committee authorized to appoint an official stenographer for the telephone rates investigation.
- Southern Pacific franchise for a new terminal was laid over one week after Supervisors demanded changes.
- Resolution urging the Board of Education to keep existing teachers' salaries was refused passage, six ayes to nine noes.
- Proposed ordinance setting maximum telephone rates in San Francisco for 1914-1915 was passed for printing.
- Supervisor Power moved that the Lands and Tunnels Committee reopen the exchange of lands for an aquatic park at North Beach.
- Clerk to obtain a Board of Public Works report on the Groveland to Hetch Hetchy telephone line and Oakdale avenue.
- City Engineer must estimate the cost of Bion Arnold's Surface Plan for a Municipal Railway across Golden Gate Park.
- The Clerk was directed to prepare a statement of all bond funds and give each member a copy.
- Proposed $250 iron fence for Edison School was recommitted to the Building Committee after Supervisor Walsh proposed $125.
- Board set a Committee of the Whole hearing on February 19, 1914 on telephone rates for 1914-1915.
- Public Works asked why grading of Oakdale Avenue is delayed
- Ordinance regulating sale of bread, meat and other commodities was recommitted to the Judiciary Committee on Supervisor Power's motion.
- Resolution adopted asking the Clerk to prepare a statement of available and unsold bond funds.
- The Board asked the Park Commissioners to build dressing rooms at convenient places along the ocean beach.
- P. F. Dundon calls the Beach Street paving unnecessary
- Supervisor Power moved to reduce money for School Department buildings; the outcome continues on the next page.
- Board approved $6,000 to buy additional land for the Sherman School yard.
- A $1500 stenographer clerk position for the Superintendent of Schools was added to the budget.
- A proposed $3,500 for additional kindergartens was passed temporarily.
- Supervisor Power withdrew his proposal to raise the $5000 assessment roll extension to $6000.
- City Attorney asked whether the 1914-15 budget's new positions need fourteen affirmative votes to pass.
- City Attorney asked to advise on legal steps to bring the Great Highway under Public Works jurisdiction.
- Board allowed a temporary steam railroad on Potrero Avenue for a test; the permit is revoked if vibration is found.
- City land in the old Mission Creek bed to be sold
- The Board began considering plans to extend the Municipal Railway along Church Street; the outcome continues on the next page.
- Board of Public Works asked to report whether the Globe Theater on Mission Street is safe to use after repairs.
- City Engineer asked about new wells for the Richmond and Sunset
- Supervisor Power's motion asking the Board of Public Works to report on alterations at the Globe Theater carried.
- The Board recommended that the Board of Education and Playground Commission cooperate to create a downtown playground at Bush and Stockton streets.
- Resolution asking the Board of Public Works to keep the Hall of Records in the Civic Center plan was referred to committee.
- Resolution urging the Board of Education to restore seven dismissed school janitors was refused adoption.
- The Public Utilities Committee was instructed to arrange the official opening of the Potrero Avenue Municipal Railway branch.
- Supplemental report asked on the extension to Twenty-second and Church
- Board instructed Pacific Telephone and Telegraph to install switchboard service for the Underwriters' Fire Patrol, paid by the patrol.
- Mayor's veto of an outdoor park permit at Van Ness Avenue and Market Street was put off until October 13, 1914.
- Mayor's veto of the outdoor park permit put off a week
- Moving picture advertising rules referred to two committees
- Proposal asking the Board of Education to consider leasing the school lot at Stockton and Bush streets was laid over one week.
- Water Inspector ordered to investigate complaints that Spring Valley Water Company requires fixtures to raise rates.
- Bill proposed to let ferry and depot solicitors use the word taxicab without a meter; passed for printing.
- A proposed charter amendment on civil service coverage of city offices and employments was taken up; its outcome continues on the next page.
- Supervisor John C. Kortick was appointed to the Water Service and Rates Committee, filling Supervisor Gallagher's vacancy.
- Board authorized the City Attorney to stipulate that Spring Valley Water Company's new main extensions may be added to property value.
- Supervisor Power moved a resolution urging that the Palace of Fine Arts at the Exposition be preserved; outcome continues on next page.
- Charter Amendment 21 gives the elected Superintendent of Schools a vote on the Board of Education, sent to voters.
- Board passed for printing the ordinance fixing 1915-1916 water rates for Spring Valley Water Company customers.
- Power proposes spending $9,000 from the 1904 bond issue to buy land for Monroe School yard, referred to committee.
- Supervisor Power's resolution urging transfer of the Palace of Fine Arts land from the Presidio to San Francisco was referred to committee.
- Board adopted a resolution asking each water company offering a sale to submit a statement of capital needed for sixty million gallons daily.
- Bids to be called for the Church Street streetcar extension
- The Board voted to reconsider its earlier vote on a proposed charter amendment concerning the Superintendent of Schools.
- Board adopted Power's motion on the Finance Committee report about full pay for teams used half-time on Saturdays.
- Congratulations sent to Panama-Pacific International Exposition officials on the successful opening in San Francisco.
- Proposal to set aside Western Addition Block 73, occupied by the High School of Commerce, for school use was sent back to committee.
- Murdoch's motion to give the whole block to the Board of Education for a playground was sent back to the Buildings Committee.
- Stable permits for Marron, Krough and Brignette, and Chervin were proposed for denial; Marron's permit was sent back to committee.
- Board asked the Mayor to appoint five supervisors to confer with United Railroads over the threatened strike.
- A motion to endorse a state bill on buying the frigate Independence failed on a vote of 8 to 9.
- Proposals opened for rubber matting in the new San Francisco Hospital
- Mrs. J. C. Stewart's $750 claim for rental of sewer cleaning machinery was referred to the Judiciary Committee.
- A. De Bretteville asked the Spring Valley Water Company to install a meter at 2030 Vallejo Street after a disputed bill increase.
- Juvenile Court assistant's salary raised from $960 to $1,080 by amendment carried by the Board.
- Supervisors raised the school building repair and portables appropriation to $111,400, with final action not shown here.
- Daniel Webster School building and land were proposed at $90,000 plus $30,000 for added land, final action not shown.
- Supervisors raised the Emergency Hospital nurses appropriation from $5,760 to $6,480 for six nurses at $1,080 each.
- Daniel Webster School's new building and adjoining land appropriation was fixed at $120,000 by amendment.
- Land for the Adams, Fremont and Hancock school yards was fixed at a combined $46,500 by amendment.
- $25,000 allowance for teachers' outside experience added on Supervisor Power's motion, 16 to 2.
- Supervisor Power proposed adding $60,000 for new elementary school teachers; the vote is not shown here.
- Teachers' salaries appropriation was reduced from $1,721,000 to $1,670,000 by amendment.
- Teachers' salary appropriation was proposed at $1,670,000, plus new funds for elementary and high school teachers and experience.
- New $10,000 for high school teachers added on Supervisor Power's motion, 14 to 4.
- A new school site and building for Monroe, Balboa Park or Bernal district was added at $10,700 on Education Board advice.
- Superintendent's auto allowance raised from $550 to $850 by amendment on Supervisor Power's motion.
- Motion to reconsider the $50,000 Ocean Beach esplanade approval lost, so the approval stands.
- Proposed maximum telephone rates for 1915-1916 citywide were passed for printing on Supervisor Power's motion.
- Water rate ordinance for 1915-16 was amended in committee, with rates capped at prior injunction levels, and sent to print.
- Supervisors propose settling the City's claim to India Basin land and streets condemned by the State for $10,000 total.
- P. Broderick's land bought for a school for $9,725
- Pacific Gas and Electric told to light Fourth Street's 95 lamps
- M. Hefron's application to rent the Auditorium for December 31, 1915 was approved.
- Finance Committee recommended against Supervisor Power's $45,000 Mission playground appropriation, which was laid over until budget consideration.
- The Board instructed the Board of Public Works to repair the pavement on Filbert Street between Columbus Avenue and Jones Street.
- Folsom Street property owners lose their appeal; assessment confirmed
- Moultrie Street assessment appeal denied and the charge confirmed
- Supervisors postponed a resolution rejecting pending garbage disposal bids and creating a committee until December 26, 1916.
- Supervisor Power moved to summon Flinn & Treacy to explain unpaid rebates for Folsom Street work; the motion carried.
- Board proposed $2,500 from school buildings funds to repair schools damaged by a recent storm, passed for printing.
- Board proposed $1,837.50 payment to Phillips and Van Orden for printing the book of general ordinances, passed for printing.
- Supervisor Gallagher proposed deeding city streets in the Islais Creek Basin to the State in a condemnation suit for nominal consideration.
- Board voted to reconsider and rescind its earlier approval of John Keogh as Municipal Band leader; an amendment to postpone was offered.
- Bessie Mae Duden, widow of a man killed in Twin Peaks Tunnel, to receive $4500 in weekly installments; passed for printing.
- Seven city payments for Municipal Railway power, City Hall, S. F. Hospital and Hetch Hetchy work were passed for printing.
- Potrero Avenue to be graded and paved to San Bruno Avenue
- United Railroads files taxable receipts for the Gough Street Railroad
- McGilvray-Raymond Granite paid $1,200 for granite at the City Hall dome
- Mariposa Street to be paved outside the municipal car barn
- F. Rolandi to build the Hetch Hetchy railroad for $1.5M
- Supervisor Power proposed $1,500 of emergency supplies for the Board of Health's Relief Home, passed for printing.
- Arthur Arlett allowed a public garage on Stockton Street
- An ordinance repealing the Hetch Hetchy employees' insurance ordinance was passed for printing on Supervisor Power's motion.
- Resolution authorizing payments from city bond funds to contractors and suppliers for City Hall, libraries, a hospital and water works was passed for printing.
- Board proposed appropriations for Relief Home boiler and foundations, school, fire and police building repairs, and City Hall moves.
- Downtown Association urging a joint plan to light Market Street
- Board adopted $197.29 in appropriations for Exposition Auditorium supplies, City Hall telephone work and County Jail signs.
- Board approves up to $1,500 for extra work rearranging the power plant at the Relief Home.
- Pacific Gas and Electric paid $40,427.88 for lighting streets and buildings
- Resolution repeals a 1703 rule for separate Saturday team pay rolls, pending Finance Committee investigation.
- Iron stairway to be built from the Eighteenth Street viaduct
- The Board authorized nine claims for city expenses, including hospital supplies, Engine House No. 3 work, playground and Municipal Railway items.
- The Board set aside funds for a new Engine House No. 4, Hetch Hetchy water work and planning the Market Street extension.
- Resolution directing Board of Public Works to furnish Department of Elections space in new City Hall, up to $2,000, passed for printing.
- Supervisor Nolan's bill regulating telephone service in City Hall was taken up; a motion let the Superior Courts keep private exchanges.
- Curbs and sidewalks ordered outside the Glen Park School
- Board instructed the Supplies Committee to advertise for bids for fuel oil and gasoline, delivered from July 1, 1916.
- Supervisor Nelson proposed $250 for cots for tuberculosis patients; the proposal was referred to Finance Committee.
- United States Steel paid $36,138.27 for Church Street railway rails
- Proposed ordinance orders extension of municipal water works in the University Mound district.
- Hayden moved to act on a committee report on appointing a leader for the municipal band; the outcome continues on the next page.
- Title Insurance refunded $499.65 of tax on railway right-of-way land
- Authorizes $68,328 in payments for City Hall work, hospital supplies and other city accounts; passed for printing.
- Board proposes $595 to hire two more telephone operators for the City Hall switchboard; passed for printing.
- Supervisor Power proposed spending up to $1,695.65 to furnish the Department of Elections' rooms in the new City Hall.
- Supervisor Power proposed $6,600 from Urgent Necessities for tubercular patient beds at San Francisco Hospital; passed for printing.
- Board appropriated City Hall bond funds for small extra work, including desks, locks, shelving and steam maintenance, paid to several contractors.
- Clarendon and Burnett avenues to get a strip of pavement
- Sixty dollars moved across to finish the water works extension
- Board proposes setting aside funds for moving fire company buildings, sewer and street repairs, and City Hall fittings; outcome not printed here.
- Railroad Avenue to be graded between Hollister Street and San Bruno
- Healy-Tibbitts paid $1,415.24 for the Fifth Street sewer
- A street resolution sent back to the Streets and Sewers Committee
- Junipero Serra School yard improvement proposed
- $3,881.25 paid to Bessie Mae Duden after her husband's death
- A resolution to set aside $10,000 for school painting, repairs and fire protection was passed for printing.
- Proposes appropriating about $10,500 for sanitary measures, building repairs, and hospital rent for April to June 1916.
- Expenditures from several city funds were authorized for payments to contractors on City Hall work and Hetch Hetchy water supply.
- Alterations proposed to the south leaf of the Third Street bridge
- Joseph J. Phillips paid $600 for his damaged Hetch Hetchy Buick
- Authorizes payment of about twenty city department bills to vendors for fuel, hay, milk, water, and repairs.
- Proposed emergency hospital for outlying southern districts was laid over one week after committee recommended it.
- Joint committee reports inspecting forty-three school buildings for inadequate fire escapes; the motion to adopt the report is pending.
- $3,000 set aside for painting and repairs to school buildings
- Eleven city construction payments, totalling about $190,000, were proposed for passage to print for Good Roads, Muni and library works.
- Pedestrian approach to be built at Ward Street for $300
- Clerk directed to list old papers for City Attorney review, then destroy those without legal or historic value.
- Departments asked to approve temporary employees' salary demands early so they are paid before the regular payday.
- $800 for sidewalks at the Glen Park School on Brompton Avenue
- Emergency hospital asked for the Ocean View and Ingleside districts
- City Attorney advised against appealing a court ruling that justices of the peace are owed higher salaries; Power moved to approve demands.
- Supervisor Power presented Resolution 12824 proposing appropriations; its amounts are printed on the next page.
- Proposed appropriations for railway material, City Hall skylight glass, and a Glen Park School sidewalk on Brompton Avenue.
- Proposed $1,500 from urgent necessities funds for emergency supplies for the Board of Health.
- $7,500 set aside for Hultgren land for the Daniel Webster School
- Supervisor McLeran's resolution requiring all City Hall offices to use the main telephone switchboard was laid over one week.
- A resolution moved by Supervisor Power sets aside and appropriates city funds; its outcome continues on the next page.
- City Attorney to buy right of way for Twin Peaks Boulevard
- Paul Revere School on Tompkins Street put off a week
- $400 to paint the cells at the City Prison
- Twenty payments to named claimants from city funds were authorized and passed for printing, including $5,000 for Hetch Hetchy right of way.
- Engine House No. 17 proposed on Mint Avenue near Fifth Street
- Resolution providing $5,000 for City Attorney to buy more land for the Hetch Hetchy water supply was passed for printing.
- Thomson Bridge Company's Third Street bridge work charged at $3,000
- The Clerk's office was ordered closed on Election Day, Tuesday, May 2, 1916, as a legal holiday.
- The Board authorized payments from city funds for construction, supplies, pensions and fire equipment to named claimants, passed for printing.
- Bakewell & Brown paid $15,526 for City Hall architectural work
- Railway through the Twin Peaks Tunnel to Sloat Boulevard put off
- Payments to Pacific Gas & Electric, Spring Valley Water and other contractors and charities authorized from city funds, passed for printing.
- Five city payments for water, paving, electricity, carpets and hardware were passed for printing.
- Board appropriated $3,034.26 to equip forty-one more tuberculosis beds at San Francisco Hospital for May and June 1916.
- Paul Revere School on Tompkins Street put off again
- Proposed $2,011.30 appropriation to furnish the Nurses' Home at Isolation Hospital; outcome not shown on this page.
- $31,250 set aside to build Engine House No. 8
- $110 for wardrobe cabinets in the Widows' Pension Bureau
- Fifteen claims and payments totalling about $29,000 were authorized for passage to print, including settlements for retaining wall damage on Ord Street.
- Daniel Webster School proposed on Twentieth Street between Texas and Missouri
- The lump sum city budget presented by the Finance Committee was passed for printing, with line items to be considered one by one.
- The Streets Committee report, citing a $150,000 Good Roads Fund estimate from State automobile taxes, was presented for adoption.
- Board refused to approve $25,000 for improvement of city lands after the chair ruled the item eliminated.
- Supervisor Power's proposal to cut Supplies Committee expenses from $3,000 to $1,800 was defeated.
- The pupil nurse appropriation was raised from $15,000 to $22,464 and approved by the Board.
- Board approved a lump sum of $2,250,000 for the school department, with the dental clinic funded from it.
- Board took up funding for four health inspectors of schools at $900 each; outcome not yet shown.
- Board approved $2,250,000 in common school fund money for school department items 750 to 775a.
- Supervisor Welch presented a resolution on the Good Roads Fund; its outcome is not shown on this page.
- $30,000 for Marina Boulevard struck from the budget
- Move to strike the $10,000 for widening San Jose Avenue
- Move to strike the $40,000 for extending Twin Peaks Boulevard
- Telegraph Hill boulevard money moved to be struck out
- City budget fixed for the year ending June 30, 1917
- Supervisor Power's motion cut the Civil Service Commission inspection item from $6,000 to $5,000; the Board passed it 18 to 0.
- The Board cut the Auditorium salaries, maintenance and equipment budget from $15,000 to $10,000, passing it 18 to 0.
- The Board struck the $1,200 messenger item from the Recorder's Office budget, passing it 18 to 0.
- Supervisor Power moved to change the Police Department motor vehicle maintenance budget; the outcome continues on the next page.
- The Board reduced the Assessor's Office extra clerks item from $50,000 to $45,000.
- The Board reduced the City Attorney's rate litigation item from $20,000 to $15,000.
- The Board inserted $1,200 for school superintendent travel and incidentals into the budget, passing it 18 to 0.
- The Board reduced the Supplies Committee expenses from $3,000 to $2,000, passing it 18 to 0.
- The Board reduced Finance Committee expenses from $17,500 to $15,000, passing it 18 to 0.
- The Board instructed the Clerk to restore all increased salaries to their original amounts, except guards, passing it 18 to 0.
- The Board cut tuberculosis home-inspection nursing funds from $12,000 to $5,000, passing it 18 to 0.
- Board reduced the street paving and repaving budget item from $684,000 to $672,035.
- The Board reduced the work-in-front-of-City-property item from $54,000 to $30,000.
- Supervisor Power's motion cut the Fire Department motor apparatus purchase from $150,000 to $100,000; the Board passed it 17 to 1.
- The Board cut the Recorder's copyists appropriation from $40,000 to $36,000, passing it 18 to 0.
- The Board reduced the furniture appropriation for public buildings from $25,000 to $22,500, passing it 18 to 0.
- Supervisor Power moved to pass for printing authorizations of payments from city funds to contractors, railways and suppliers.
- Supervisor Power proposed appropriating city funds; the amounts and outcome continue past this page.
- $21,500 set aside for a sewer in Oakdale Avenue
- Supervisor Power proposed reappropriating $1,600 left unspent from a $2,530 general building repairs appropriation.
- Supervisor Power moved appropriations of $2,307.50 for City Hall clock, $3,960 for Redding School heating, and $675 for lockers.
- The Board reconsidered an ordinance granting spur track privileges to John Bollman Company, then laid it over one week.
- $18,504.14 paid to Pacific Gas & Electric for streetcar power
- Central Emergency Hospital to be built at Grove and Polk streets
- Reconsideration of a bill granting John Bollman Company a daylight switching privilege on Bluxome and Fourth streets was laid over one week.
- Supervisor Power proposed amending salary sections of the Additional Salaries Ordinance for the Auditor, District Attorney and Fire Commission staff.
- $11,500 set aside to improve Sanchez and Cumberland streets
- $35,000 set aside to improve Potrero Avenue
- $115 spent on master keys for the City Hall doors
- City Attorney given $1,000 to buy land for two boulevard extensions
- Ordinance proposed to order wooden paving blocks for the Board of Public Works; outcome not shown on this page.
- The Board reconsidered its refusal of John Bollman Company's daylight switching privilege on Bluxome and Fourth streets and laid it over one week.
- The Board denied all tax assessment applications held under advisement, on Supervisor Poicer's motion.
- The Board approved the Assessor's report on matters referred to him, on Supervisor Poicer's motion.
- Supervisor Power proposed a resolution protesting a federal inheritance tax that would reduce California's revenue, including school funds.
- New piles ordered under the south approach of Sixth Street Bridge
- Board of Supervisors approved the Assessor's Arbitrary List of property assessments, after rejecting a 25 per cent increase.
- Supervisor Power moved that the Assessor's clerical error list be accepted; outcome not shown on this page.
- $64,579 to C. L. Wold Company for the Daniel Webster School
- Board reconsidered and adopted a resolution rejecting May 1916 bids for potato supply to city departments, ordering readvertisement.
- Resolution providing $2000 for restoring street monument lines was re-referred to the Finance Committee by Supervisor Power.
- Joseph E. Marron allowed a dairy boiler at 2018 Fillmore Street
- District Attorney's request for $2500 to prosecute the preparedness parade bomb outrage was referred to Finance Committee.
- Finance Committee recommended filing Walsh's resolution extending free circulation of the Municipal Record, and the Board filed it.
- City bills paid, including $11,077.50 to Spring Valley Water for hydrants
- Supervisor Power moved nearly $200,000 in appropriations for a hospital, fire house, City Hall work, streets and sewers.
- $4,470 more voted for the Daniel Webster School
- Resolution authorizes payments to contractors, suppliers and others from city funds, including street and sewer work claims.
- A $5,800 appropriation for City Attorney's expense on the purchase of Hetch Hetchy land was passed for printing.
- Expenditures totalling many thousands of dollars to named claimants, including PG&E, Rolandi and orphanages, were passed for printing on Supervisor Power's motion.
- Dr. Guy Manning's $50 expenses to attend a Washington infantile paralysis conference were approved.
- Resolution 13238 approved small appropriations for street crossings, the Isolation Hospital and City Hall offices, 16 ayes.
- Hearing on the France Avenue extension put off two weeks
- City bills paid, including $6,750 for the Juvenile Detention Home
- Minna Street improvement appeal taken up between Tenth and Eleventh
- $5,000 set aside to examine properties in Tuolumne County
- Water bills of $747.04 and $788.92 for the Relief Home were passed for printing.
- Supervisor Power moved Bill No. 4206 levying city taxes and revenue for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917.
- Addition to Mission High School ordered at Eighteenth and Church
- Ordinance raising the Board's stenographer-typewriter salary to $1,500 a year was passed for printing on first reading.
- $1,715 paid to George F. Lynch for St. Mary's Avenue land
- Fire protection water mains ordered north of Pacific Avenue
- Tax refund judgment claims for the Geary Street Municipal Railroad approved after court-ordered writs of mandate.
- $4,565 paid to C. C. Morehouse for plastering City Hall
- Resolution proposed to authorize payments to contractors and utilities, including $17,075.24 to PG&E.
- A bill amending the Southern Pacific Railroad John Bollman spur track permit was laid over one week on Supervisor Power's motion.
- Board instructs committees to study a bond issue to buy land for manufacturing sites in southern San Francisco.
- Charter Amendment No. 20 on police pension fund revenue and member contributions was presented to the Board with a committee recommendation.
- Voters will decide a charter amendment on police judges' terms, shortened to six years, after objections from police judges' attorneys.
- Charter Amendment No. 22 proposes a yearly special tax for specific improvements instead of a bond issue; its outcome is not on this page.
- Supervisors ordered a charter amendment on city deposits in banks submitted to the voters.
- $56,003 set aside for street paving and repairs in October
- Sale of school lots west of Arguello Boulevard put to voters
- Board sets aside $2500 from urgent necessities to light City Hall and Civic Center for the Path of Gold celebration.
- Sewers proposed for La Playa and the Great Highway
- Daytime use of Bluxome Street spur tracks sent to committee
- A resolution authorizing expenditures was passed for printing on motion of Supervisor Power.
- Supervisor Power's resolution to spend $1,945 renovating the Hall of Justice interior was passed for printing.
- $2,588.50 set aside to repair Fire Department roofs
- Resolution proposed to authorize payments to city contractors and suppliers for hospitals, Relief Home, fire, police and parks.
- Supervisor Power's motion inviting press and the Mayor's office on the Hetch Hetchy trip was ordered.
- Supervisors authorized payments to contractors for sewer construction on Sloat Boulevard and Oakdale Avenue.
- Supervisor Power proposed setting aside $1,096.25 for the City's share of paving Capitol Avenue between Lobos and Farallones streets.
- Supervisor Power proposed a resolution on completing Civic Center; its text continues on the next page.
- $490 set aside for oil burners for the hospital cooking ranges
- $598.05 paid to National Laundry after an ambulance crash
- Sewers proposed for Somerset and Felton Streets
- Five thousand dollars moved from Urgent Necessities to furniture for public buildings; the resolution was recommitted.
- $24,250 set aside for the Mission High School Annex
- Board authorized payments to contractors and suppliers for parks, City Hall, hospital, railways and fire department.
- Hotaling Estate Company refunded $1,475.70 in protested taxes
- Buying the sliding land on Laidley Street favored for a playground
- Sewers ordered for Somerset and Felton Streets
- Plans and specifications ordered for cutting coping and curbing from old City Hall foundations in Civic Center; passed for printing.
- Plans ordered for a room and balcony in the Assessor's main office; passed for printing.
- $36,500 set aside for the La Playa and Great Highway sewers
- Ordinance amending staffing and salaries in the Tax Collector's office, including tunnel accountant posts, passed for printing.
- $425 set aside for a sidewalk at the Farragut School
- $4,000 to buy Green Street land for the Sherman School
- Proposed $1,500 payment to R. Cereghino and others for sewer flood damage passed for printing.
- $1,500 for R. Demartini and others flooded near Lake Geneva
- $3,500 payment of a judgment for rights of way to open Chenery and Diamond Streets proposed; outcome continues.
- Karl Ehrhart paid $4,143.02 for the Oakdale Avenue sewers
- Plans ordered for a room and balcony in the Assessor's main office, passed finally on Supervisor Power's motion.
- Tibbitts-Pacific paid $5,075.01 for the Sloat Boulevard sewer
- Supervisor Welch's bill banning refuse delivery except in containers was referred to the City Attorney.
- The appeal against the Santa Marina Street assessment was laid over three weeks despite the contractor's objection.
- Supervisors were asked to authorize payment of fourteen city claims, including school construction, hospital supplies and street repairs.
- Supervisors proposed appropriating $17,841.90 for Somerset and Felton street sewers and $17,000 toward Railroad avenue.
- Supervisor Power moved to postpone the Board's proposed trip to Hetch Hetchy, and it was so ordered.
- Board rescinded its $1,065 appropriation for City Hall directories and bulletins, which had come from the Civic Center bond fund.
- $17,841.90 set aside for the Somerset Street sewers
- National Laundry seeks $598.05 for damage from a city ambulance
- Supervisor Power's resolution moved $300 to the Sealer of Weights and Measures miscellaneous budget and was adopted 14 to 1.
- Supervisor Power proposed moving $250 from street lighting funds to building repairs; the vote continues past this page.
- A $1,500 emergency supplies resolution for the Relief Home was passed for printing on Supervisor Power's motion.
- A $1,988.05 appropriation for Path of Gold celebration lighting was laid over one week.
- Repairs to County Jails Nos. 2 and 3, totalling $2,075 in carpentry, heating, electrical and roofs, were proposed.
- J. D. Hannah paid $13,032.51 for the Ocean Beach Esplanade
- $1,505 proposed for carpentry at County Jails Two and Three
- A $2,500 appropriation for the District Attorney's prosecution of the July 22, 1916 bomb outrage was passed for printing.
- $2,500 from the County Roads Fund was proposed for right of way on Sloat, Park Hill, Hunter's Point and Marina Boulevards.
- Sewer proposed for Guttenberg Street, south from Mission Street
- Eighteen payments authorized from city funds to contractors and suppliers, including school and hospital construction work, for amounts totalling several thousand dollars each.
- Resolution proposes refunding $1,249.63 to Southern Pacific Company for a duplicate assessment on San Bruno Avenue; outcome continues on the next page.
- National Laundry paid $598.05 after an ambulance hit its automobile
- Property owners object to paving Mohawk Avenue from Mission Street
- The Board passed for printing authorizations of payments including $12,000 to Chas. Hock for San Francisco Hospital work.
- National Laundry paid $598.05 after an ambulance hit its automobile
- Anderson & Ringrose paid $25,275 for the Juvenile Detention Home
- Sewers proposed for Orizaba and Stanley Streets through the Merced lands
- Proposal to move $13,000 from the Fire Department salary account to buy motor apparatus, passed for printing.
- Ocean Shore Railroad's coal unloading on Twelfth Street called a nuisance
- Proposed appropriations of $94,693.75 for December 1916 sewer repairs, street cleaning and street paving were passed for printing.
- National Laundry paid $598.05 after an ambulance hit its automobile
- Routine payments totalling $28,584.34 to paving, water, printing and other suppliers were proposed for printing.
- Supervisor Power's appropriations resolution sets aside funds for sewer, street and Hetch Hetchy work; the vote is not printed here.
- Proposed $2,320 set aside for lands for Hunters Point Boulevard, passed for printing.
- Otis Elevator paid $2,885 for the Juvenile Court elevators
- Money for Fire Department building plans indefinitely postponed
- A resolution authorizing fourteen city payments, including Redding School, Paul Revere School and San Francisco Hospital work, was passed for printing on Supervisor Power's motion.
- Payments to contractors and suppliers for fire engine houses, the Public Library, San Francisco Hospital, Municipal Railways and parks were proposed and passed for printing.
- Storm water outlet proposed for the Lake Street sewer
- Ocean Shore Railroad asked to stop freight at Twelfth and Mission
- Board of Supervisors pledged to appropriate $30,000 to cover a Health Department deficit this fiscal year.
- Outfall proposed for the Jackson Street sewer at Pier 3
- $2,000 for a bridge over Islais Creek at Evans Avenue
- Resolution to pay Spring Valley Water Co. $600.28 for water supplied to the Relief Home was passed for printing.
- Nineteen payments to city suppliers, contractors and claimants were proposed and passed for printing.
- Appropriations for Hetch Hetchy water works, street, building and school repairs were adopted, funded from several city accounts.
- Thomas and Margaret Mathison paid $6,000 for their Chenery Street lot
- Board proposed paying Thomas H. Kortick $17,000 for land needed for the Fairmount School.
- Board proposed paying Louis and Filomena Nessier $7,152.50 for land added to the Fairmount School site.
- A resolution authorizing expenditures to named claimants was passed for printing, with its details on the next page.
- Board authorized payments to contractors for Twin Peaks Tunnel, Municipal Railways, Paul Revere School and hospital work; list continues.
- The Board postponed the garbage dumping question for four weeks after objections from property owners, the Scavengers' Union and others.
- A resolution to cancel sixteen old unpaid Treasury demands totalling small sums was referred to the Auditor.
- Bridge to be built on Evans Avenue at Selby Street
- City pays for January repairs to police, fire and health buildings
- $45,000 set aside for paving and repairing streets in January
- Supervisor Power presented appropriations resolution 13824; its outcome is not printed on this page.
- Payment of $533.92 to Spring Valley Water Company for water supplied to the Relief Home was proposed by Supervisor Power.
- Double assessment cancelled for the S. F. Orchestra on Post Street
- Board authorized dozens of city payments to contractors, suppliers and institutions, including a library granite contract and Hetch Hetchy work; list continues.
- Protests taken up against the new street to Park Hill Avenue
- Michael and Ane Tomasich paid $4,658 for Chenery Street land
- Supervisor Power proposed appropriating money for County Jails canvas, Rhode Island street paving, Orizaba avenue sewers and a Jackson street outfall.
- City buys $800 of canvas cot covers for the county jails
- Bill proposed ordering a building and pumping equipment for the Relief Home water supply, passed for printing.
- Bill proposed construction and plumbing of lavatory buildings in the Monroe School yard, passed for printing.
- Jean Victor and Jaussaud allowed a laundry at 474 O'Farrell Street
- Joseph and Katherine Feerick paid $5,225 for Chenery Street land
- Supervisor Power's resolution to study buying the United Railroads was referred to the Public Utilities Committee.
- Walter & Co. paid $990 for linoleum laid in City Hall
- Former Supervisor Paul Bancroft was invited to represent San Francisco on the Naval Base delegation to Washington.
- Supervisor Power presented a proposal to appropriate $180 to move street hydrants to a new curb line.
- Board authorizes a batch of payments to contractors and suppliers for sewers, schools, jails, streets and water.
- R. C. Storrie & Co. paid $107,500 for Twin Peaks Tunnel
- Proposed $6,200 for land to extend Lippard street and open Chenery street, passed for printing.
- Supervisor Power's $556.24 payment to Spring Valley Water Company for Relief Home water was laid over one week.
- John W. Rogers was appointed Acting Clerk of the Board of Supervisors while the Clerk was in Washington, D.C.
- $2,500 paid to John and Bridget Brennan for Fairmount School land
- Adopted: $450 paid to attorney R. Woodland Gates for Hetch Hetchy water matters, and $75 for County Jail No. 2 sash repairs.
- $1,800 paid to Daniel and Julia McDonald for Fairmount School land
- The Board authorized payments from city bond and general funds to contractors for Hetch Hetchy, Daniel Webster School, Sanchez Street and San Francisco Hospital work.
- Bill to reset salaries for Treasurer's Office appointees was passed for printing, not yet law.
- Resolution proposed to set aside $2500 from urgent necessities for Washington expenses tied to a Hunters Point naval base.
- Board paid $556.24 from urgent necessities funds to Spring Valley Water Co. for water supplied to the Relief Home.
- Board approved $625 from Auditorium Fund paid to G. A. Wahlgren for thirty days' rental of canopy and draperies.
- Proposal to advertise sale of $1,640,000 in Water Bonds was laid over one week.
- Sewer to be built in Seventh Avenue and Dewey Boulevard
- Ocean Shore Railroad asked to repave Twelfth Street beside its tracks
- Supervisor Nolan's resolution asking the Assessor to value stored foodstuffs at market price was referred to the Public Welfare Committee.
- Whitcomb Estate paid $1,050 rent for hospitals on Stevenson Street
- Proposed appropriations include hospital lighting work, several sewers, and $299,225 for Hetch Hetchy water system construction.
- Proposed $13,702 from Municipal Railway Fund to buy copper trolley wire from Telephone Electric Equipment Co.
- Sent back to Finance Committee: $26,316.75 from Municipal Railway depreciation fund to pay injury and damage claims.
- Board agreed to consider the effect of the Rominger Act on San Francisco revenue at 3 p.m. next Monday.
- Supervisor Nolan's resolution asking the Assessor to value city food stores at market price was referred to the Public Welfare Committee.
- Proposed $7710 from the General Fund to continue City Attorney's rate litigation.
- Garbage disposal resolutions were laid over two weeks and set as a special order for March 19, 1917.
- $1,500 to buy J. G. Walker land for Hunter's Point Boulevard
- Hampshire Street to be paved in front of city property
- Anderson & Ringrose paid $10,035 for the Central Emergency Hospitals
- Bill amending Ordinance 3535 deputy salaries and adding two expert searchers at $1800 a year; passed for printing.
- Schoolyard ordered improved at Junipero Serra School on Holly Park Avenue
- Resolution for $9,000 in architect's fees and inspection for Fairmount School was passed for printing.
- Fire Department ordinance changing machinist and brass finisher positions and daily pay passed for printing.
- Election Commission watchman position set at $1500 yearly, passed for printing.
- $171 set aside to move ten lanterns to the City Hall
- Engine House No. 37 ordered built at Twenty-fifth and Vermont Streets
- A $1,500 appropriation for the District Attorney's bomb investigation was laid over one week on motion of Power.
- Lavatories ordered built at Francis Scott Key School on Forty-second Avenue
- Supervisors proposed $29,550 from the Municipal Railway Fund to buy five auto buses from the White Company.
- Bill 4469, amending the Additional Positions Ordinance for the Election Commission, was passed for printing.
- The Board rescinded a $1,390 appropriation for a balcony and partitions in the Assessor's Office at City Hall.
- Authorizations for payments to named claimants for City Hall, hospital, school and Municipal Railway work were passed for printing.
- Bill 4468, amending the Additional Positions Ordinance for Supervisors' offices, was passed for printing.
- Bill 4470, amending the Additional Positions Ordinance for the Treasurer's Office, was introduced by Supervisor Power.
- Board passed for printing a batch of city payment claims to vendors, charities and contractors, totalling tens of thousands of dollars.
- $17,000 voted as the city's share of improving Railroad Avenue
- Proposes appropriating $3,204.15 from the Hospital-Jail Completion Fund for pathology building equipment at San Francisco Hospital.
- Power proposed appropriations for San Francisco Hospital equipment, water works and Relief Home repairs; vote not printed here.
- Hogberg & Ludwig paid $12,000 for brickwork at San Francisco Hospital
- Proposed resolution sets aside funds for Church Street Municipal Railway construction and related cable and rail contracts.
- Resolution authorizing dozens of city payments to contractors and payees, including hospital, library, school, sewer and street work.
- Resolution proposed to set aside $11,500 for April 1917 sewer repairs, maintenance and reconstruction.
- Supervisor Power withdrew his motion asking Public Works to repair Twelfth Street between rails, charging the Ocean Shore Railroad.
- A resolution authorizes payment to Mysell-Rollins Bank Note Co. for printing 250 Water Construction Bonds; outcome continues on next page.
- Board authorizes a $535.96 payment to Spring Valley Water Company for water supplied to the Relief Home.
- The Board passed for printing authorizations for payments to contractors and suppliers for school, Hetch Hetchy water and park work.
- The Board authorized payments totalling tens of thousands of dollars for schools, hospitals, water works, sewers and charities, passed for printing.
- Item 1, a $1,825 Municipal Railway conduit appropriation, was recommitted to the Finance Committee; other appropriations were not shown decided.
- A resolution authorizing payments to eight contractors and suppliers, including Pacific Gas & Electric, was passed for printing.
- Bill would set two assistant deputies and drivers in the Coroner's Office at $1200 a year each.
- Bill would add one chauffeur position at $1500 a year in the Sheriff's Department.
- Board passed for printing $5,000 from the General Elections budget for the Assessor to compile a military roll.
- Bill 4512 amending fire department positions in the Additional Positions Ordinance was passed for printing.
- Board passed for printing authorizations to pay vendors for hospitals, transit, parks, fire and court facilities.
- Supervisor Power's proposal for $1500 in emergency supplies for the Relief Home was passed for printing.
- Proposed May 1917 appropriations for fire, police, health and school building repairs, sewers, street paving and cleaning.
- Ordinance amending the Additional Positions Ordinance for the sergeant-at-arms salary was passed for printing.
- Ordinance amending Auditor staff positions and salaries in the Additional Positions Ordinance was passed for printing.
- Payment of $586 to the Spring Valley Water Company for water to the Relief Home was passed for printing.
- Supervisor Power's minority report urging a 15-cent school tax instead of a bond issue was defeated, 12 to 5.
- Supervisor Power moves to set sidewalk widths on Alvarado Street
- Supervisor Power's bill to amend the Additional Positions Ordinance, setting a stenographer-typewriter salary at $1,680, was passed for printing.
- Supervisor Power proposed setting aside $3,533 to paint and repair ten Fire Department engine company buildings.
- Supervisor Power's proposed $3500 for Isolation Hospital contagious disease expenses was passed for printing.
- Board tells the Auditor it concurs with the Finance Committee in objecting to moving Assessor funds to the Election Department.
- Proposed payments to many claimants and contractors for care, supplies, street repairs and sewers, pending adoption.
- Bill amending the Fire Department positions ordinance to set a steam fitter's daily pay at $6.50 was passed for printing.
- Payments proposed to Symmes and Means, J. Spargo, Herman Lawson and Spring Valley Water Co. for Hetch Hetchy, Engine House 17, hospital and park water.
- Municipal Railway wooden ties from A. F. Mahony, under contract No. 90, were funded at $18,480 by a 17 to 1 vote.
- $1,400 to sink a well on Van Ness Avenue
- $1,500 to caulk joints in the Lake Merced sewers
- Labor Council protested possible layoffs of Public Works laborers under the budget; referred to the Finance Committee.
- Thomson Bridge Co. paid $810.94 for the Fourth Street bascule bridge
- Funston Avenue sidewalk money cut from $4,000 to $3,000
- A bill ordering the Board of Public Works to prepare plans for ungraded primary schools was referred to the Finance Committee.
- The Board passed for printing an authorization of payments to many contractors and claimants, including library, fire and hospital works.
- Resolution passed for printing authorizing $605.80 payment to Spring Valley Water Company for water supplied to the Relief Home.
- $700 to Carl Ehrhart for early work on Evans Avenue
- Payments to contractors, utilities and a claimant, including $17,272.04 to PG&E, were passed for printing.
- Payment of $750 to Pierce-Arrow Pacific Sales Company for Mayor's automobile repairs was laid over one week.
- Proposed $543 added to Daniel Webster School construction funds, passed for printing.
- Registrar of Voters authorized to complete draft registration of men subject to conscription, paid from Elections funds.
- Auditor directed to cancel an erroneous assessment on Block 1016 Lot 1 assessed to Hahneman Medical College.
- Finance Committee urged plans for an ungraded school on Union Street be drawn in the City Architect's office; report referred to committees.
- Board refuses $750 for land appraisals on Sloat Boulevard
- Ordinance amending Registrar's Office staffing and salaries was passed on first reading for printing.
- Privilege of the floor was granted to Mr. John T. Williams to address the Board.
- Supervisors voted to request that the Board of Public Works furnish a list of employees to be laid off July 1.
- Payment of $750 to Pierce-Arrow Pacific Sales Co. for repairs to the mayor's automobile was passed for printing.
- A resolution authorizing city expenditures to named claimants, including Hercules Powder Co., was passed for printing.
- $1,850 paid to Michael and Bridget Gilbride for Fairmount School land
- A resolution proposed authorizing a list of expenditures; its full terms continue on the next page.
- Resolution appropriating $1,342 for railway material, Superior Court alterations and a Relief Home fire escape was adopted.
- Proposed ordinance orders a central heating plant built at Branch County Jail No. 2, passed for printing.
- Proposed ordinance fixing monthly and daily pay for Department of Electricity staff for fiscal 1917-1918, passed for printing.
- Finance Committee recommends asking Public Works to advertise for bids to reconstruct Mission Street and other budgeted streets.
- Resolution authorizing 29 payments from city funds to suppliers, contractors and institutions was passed for printing.
- An appropriation from the Work in Front of City Property budget was passed for printing.
- A special committee of five supervisors was appointed to hear charges that the Board of Public Works was wasteful.
- Plymouth Avenue money sent back to the Finance Committee
- Ordinance setting the yearly salary of nine hostlers at $1200 passed for printing, effective July 1, 1917.
- Resolution authorizing listed expenditures to named claimants was passed for printing on Supervisor Power's motion.
- Charles A. Stewart allowed an 80 horsepower boiler on Geary Street
- $8,455 for kitchen equipment in the new San Francisco Hospital wing
- Resolution authorising about 30 city claims, including hospital, water and fire supplies, was passed for printing on Power's motion.
- Resolution to pay Spring Valley Water Company $633.64 for water to the Relief Home was passed for printing.
- Proposed ordinance would amend Section 16 of Ordinance 3535 on Sheriff's Office additional positions.
- Civil Service Commission's amendment to additional positions ordinance, changing staff salaries, passed for printing.
- Board passed for printing payments to utilities and contractors for park, library, school, road and sewer work.
- Proposed ordinance amends Juvenile Court staff positions and salaries and adds an Adult Probation Department to the Additional Positions Ordinance.
- Board passed the 1917-18 tax levy ordinance setting $2.29 per $100 of taxable property valuation citywide.
- Board authorizes twenty-one payments to contractors and suppliers from city funds, including Fire Department coal and Twin Peaks Tunnel work.
- A city and county property tax levy for fiscal 1917-18 was passed for printing on Supervisor Power's motion.
- Proposed $5,000 from the Municipal Railway Fund for emergency bus service to outlying districts; outcome not shown here.
- Trocadero sewer to be built from Nineteenth Avenue to Sloat Boulevard
- Resolution proposed authorizing over $40,000 in city fund payments for schools, Muni, Hetch Hetchy water, fire and parks.
- $3,000 moved from the General Fund to pay bridge engineers and watchmen's vacation allowances; adopted.
- $2,550 from the Urgent Necessity Fund proposed for additional beds at the Relief Home.
- Storrie & Co. paid $2,823.87 for Twin Peaks Tunnel work
- Bill amending Ordinance 3535 on Juvenile Court and Adult Probation staff positions and salaries was passed for printing.
- $1,100 for a retaining wall at Margaret Gattinger's Fifteenth Street property
- Proposed amendment to the Additional Positions ordinance setting two Chief Engineers' salaries at $2250 a year.
- Proposed amendment to the Additional Positions ordinance setting two stenographer-typewriter salaries at $1500 a year.
- Finance Committee reports on appropriating $392,000 received from Southern Pacific for sale of South Beach blocks.},
- Resolution authorizing $58,732.59 in payments to fifteen contractors and suppliers for schools, hospital, water and transit was passed for printing.
- $300,000 for schools and $92,000 for Aquatic Park laid over
- Proposed $1,000 for school bond issue campaign expenses, passed for printing.
- Proposed resolution would appropriate $3,810 from the General Fund to raise engineers' wages in street and building repair.
- Proposed resolution would pay eight tax refund claims totalling $5,244.93 from General Fund surplus moneys.
- Proposed $5,985 raise for San Francisco Hospital institutional help, from $25 to $30 a month.
- Proposed $10,000 from the Urgent Necessity Fund to pay police extra overtime during the street railway strike.
- R. C. Storrie & Co. paid $100,000 for Twin Peaks tunnel
- The Board adopted a resolution letting the Treasurer buy $700,000 of U.S. convertible gold bonds from surplus city funds.
- $150 set aside for a roadway and stairway on Douglass Street
- $4000 was moved from Budget Item 32 to Budget Item 56 for fiscal year 1917-1918.
- Nettie Beckwith and Minnie Clark paid $1,933.60 for a sewer easement
- The Board adopted a $60,000 General Fund transfer to raise teachers' and janitors' salaries in the School Department.
- Board authorized payments from city funds to contractors and suppliers for schools, hospital work, railways, water, police and pensions, with the list continuing.
- Supervisor Power proposed setting aside $10,000 from the Urgent Necessity Fund to reimburse Police Department members; outcome continues.
- O. Monson paid $45,654.75 for the San Francisco Hospital northeast wing
- Resolution to spend $17,770 on yard work for the San Francisco Hospital wing was passed for printing.
- Resolution proposed to pay $3,000 in salaries to Twin Peaks tunnel accountants collecting tunnel assessments.
- Ordinance proposed amending Section 19a to set Deputy Tax Collector pay for Twin Peaks tunnel accountants.
- Bureau of Governmental Research asks for Hetch Hetchy cost figures
- Motion to lay over the resolution refusing Hetch Hetchy data to a research bureau was defeated.
- Supervisors proposed authorizing about two dozen payments to claimants for hospital supplies, street repairs, and Hetch Hetchy insurance.
- Supervisor Power moved to set aside $23,375 from Urgent Necessities for repairs and paving of streets.
- Supervisor Power proposed $1,000 from the Urgent Necessity Fund for emergency supplies at the Relief Home.
- Laidley Street to be rebuilt where a slide damaged it
- Board proposed paying surplus General Fund money to four claimants, including Bank of California, for 1907-1908 tax refunds.
- Ten gatemen on the high pressure water system get $1,440 yearly
- New sidewalks ordered around the Visitacion Valley School
- Hunter's Point road to be graded, paved and sewered
- Board began a resolution appropriating money to pay street work damages; the outcome is not shown on this page.
- Maloney Electric paid $6,336.75 for Hetch Hetchy transformers
- Supervisor Power proposed a resolution setting aside $16,000 from the General Fund to the Park Fund; it was passed for printing.
- $7,149.48 set aside for the city's share of Railroad Avenue work
- Supervisor Power moved to pass for printing a resolution authorizing payments to many claimants, including schools, transit and fire work.
- Payments to hospitals, asylums, contractors and suppliers from city funds were passed for printing, pending adoption.
- $16,000 transferred from the General Fund to the Park Fund; Supervisor Power's motion to rescind the transfer was defeated.
- Ordinance setting a procedure for changing street grades and assessing costs was laid over two weeks on Power's motion.
- California College of Chiropody refused a school at 1315 Gough Street
- Small repairs at Isolation Hospital and lighting study funded
- Proposed funds for refrigerators and iron work at San Francisco Hospital, plus $1,000 for boulevard right-of-way investigations.
- Proposed $500 for the city's Baby Welfare Week exhibit under Public Health; it was laid over one week.
- United Railroads to pay the city $194.19 on Parkside Transit fares
- $4,497 set aside for plumbing at the San Francisco Hospital
- Resolution providing $836.94 for school bond issue campaign expenses passed for printing.
- Resolution appropriating about $13,400 for Municipal Railway land and San Francisco Hospital wing work passed for printing.
- Proposed $500 for the city's Baby Welfare Week exhibit was laid over one week.
- Proposed ordinance amends Sheriff's staffing positions and salaries, including assistant jailers, under Ordinance 3535.
- Supervisors set aside $2,300 for planning a Greenwich Street rail extension and repairing Laidley Street.
- Resolution authorizing payments to National Ice Cream Co., C. Peterson and A. Lettich, including ungraded school plumbing and heating work.
- Bill 4773 amending Ordinance 3535 on Tax Collector duties was passed for printing on Supervisor Power's motion.
- Passed for printing a schedule authorizing payments to 22 claimants, including street repairs, a sewer, transit work and library books.
- Payment of $18,900 proposed to Ocean Shore Railroad Company for Southeast Mission playground land.
- $315 to fix the heating at the Ingleside Police Station
- $317.50 pays hospital bills for firemen hurt on Third Street
- Board committed $1,577.39 to Police Department funds for gasoline and repairs on private cars used during the street car strike.
- Resolution passed for printing to fund $1,500 for District Attorney evidence gathering in juvenile cases.
- California College of Chiropody refused a school at 1315 Gough Street
- $5,166 for a heating system at Branch County Jail No. 2
- Supervisor Power moved a resolution authorizing payments to named claimants, passed for printing.
- Board repealed its resolution converting $300,000 of Liberty Loan bonds, after the Mayor said the city would lose money.
- Up to $150,000 from water construction bond funds is proposed for Hetch Hetchy water supply work.
- Edwin H. Lemare paid $833.33 for organ recitals at the Auditorium
- George McCord paid $450 for land to widen Corbett Avenue
- Proposed appropriations of $1,524.22 and $1,442.58 for street paving on Sehwerin and Alabama streets were passed for printing.
- Appropriations for steel rail, tie plates, tie rods and a Hetch Hetchy locomotive were passed for printing.
- Supervisors proposed adding a $3000-a-year Office Superintendent post to the Tax Collector's Office by amending Ordinance 3535.
- Proposed purchase of $312,000 in Water Construction Bonds with South Beach Lands Fund money, passed for printing.
- City Attorney directed to compromise a $1195 claim against Alice Victory's estate, splitting the residue equally with the City.
- Proposed ordinance adds subdivision (aa) to Section 19 of Ordinance 3535 for the Tax Collector's office, passed for printing.
- Authorizations for eight routine city claims, including water, bread, cement and cookers, were passed for printing.
- The White Company paid $28,120 for five Municipal Railway buses
- Board adopted Resolution 15220 correcting the journals of July 9, July 10 and October 8, 1917.
- Proposed change of grade ordinance was put off one week on Supervisor Power's motion.
- Request for the Municipal Band at the Sunset District bus-line celebration was referred to the Concerts Committee.
- Citizens' committee sought to plan the aquatic park at Van Ness
- Consideration of the proposed Rincon Hill-Islais Creek project was taken up at a 3 p.m. special order; no outcome is shown.
- $19,304.72 in demands on the treasury approved
- Ordinance banning free lunch in saloons unless priced was laid over one week for lawyers to seek compromise.
- The Board voted 18 to 0 to thank Harry I. Mulcrevy for running a soldiers' entertainment for the State Council of Defense.
- Mendell Street ordered paved between McKinnon and Newcomb Avenues
- Health Committee recommends against the proposed anti-vivisection ordinance limiting animal experimentation and setting penalties.
- Supervisors amended the sheriff's commissary salary to $1,680 after a higher $1,800 figure failed.
- A clerk's salary in the Auditor's office was reduced from $2,100 to $1,980 and then approved.
- Supervisor Power moved to set the Elections Department's ten deputy salaries at $1,680 each, and the amendment carried.
- Property owners' objections to extending and widening Market Street from Ord Street to Twenty-fourth Street were put off one week.
- Objections to Board of Public Works plans to open and widen streets near Olympus Way were postponed two weeks.
- The City Attorney was asked whether garbage collection from householders can legally be required while exempting some classes.
- The Board defeated Supervisor Power's substitute, which would have sought garbage disposal bids for all garbage or excluding hotels and restaurants.
- Mrs. Marie Gommet refused a stable on Thirty-sixth Avenue
- Resolution authorizing payments for libraries, streets, sewers, Market Street Railway and Twin Peaks Tunnel was passed for printing.
- The Board urged the Board of Education to use State school surplus funds to raise janitors' and janitresses' salaries.
- Thos. V. Cator's letter on framing charter amendment titles was referred to the Judiciary Committee.
- S. F. Dairy seeks a 125 horsepower boiler on Turk Street
- Supervisor Power's motion to send an explanatory telegram to Mr. Drum correcting the Hetch Hetchy bond application was adopted.
- Civil Service Commission asked to send a man to temporarily fill the Assistant Light and Water Inspector vacancy left by E. Ellison's leave.
- A. Phillips refused a stable at 117 Somerset Street
- Supervisor Power moved to tell Senator Phelan the Board concurs in his proposal for a Liberty Thanksgiving Day holiday.
- Supervisor Lahaney was added to the Finance Committee investigating the burial of indigent dead.
- Board adopted Supervisor Power's resolution asking the Finance Committee to find added revenue to reduce the proposed 1919-1920 tax rate.
- Five supervisors to be appointed by the Mayor to attend the County Supervisors' Convention in Sacramento.
- Mayor authorized to increase membership of the citizens' committee receiving returning troops.
- Hearing on the Olympus Way street openings put off two weeks
- Board adopted a resolution rescinding an earlier resolution that directed the City Attorney to sue the Chronicle for damages.
- Board referred a protest resolution against proposed federal railroad switching-zone charges for San Francisco and South San Francisco industry to the Commercial Development Committee.
- Jos. McCormick says he resigned unpaid as the City Attorney's appraiser
- Joseph McCormick seeks pay for right-of-way work on Olympus Way; the City Attorney disputes the claim.
- Joseph McCormick's $600 claim for city work recommended for denial
- Supervisor Power's resolution backing teachers' salary increase was laid over one week, with teachers told they need not fund publicity.
- Resolution backing a salary increase for San Francisco teachers was amended to include janitors; final vote not shown.
- Board resolution honouring the late Phoebe Apperson Hearst was moved for adoption, with Supervisor Schmitz proposing an added paragraph.
- $1,000 sought for the Assessor to make the military roll
- Elks, Knights of Columbus and Moose lodges urged a budget appropriation for Hyde Street improvement; it was referred to conference.
- Motion to cut the $50,000 Police Pension Fund deficit payment to $30,000 failed.
- Supervisors rejected a motion to take up the city budget item by item before passing it to print.
- Proposal to drop paving Waller Street to Buena Vista
- Motion to cut the $359,462 street repair budget was defeated; a $59,000 reduction also failed.
- Supervisor Power proposed changing a budget item from an esplanade wall to convenience stations in business districts and Ocean Beach.
- Power proposed raising court interpreters' pay from $1,200 to $1,500 each, and a previous question motion was made before any vote.
- Proposed new Journal and Calendar Clerk post at $2,700 was referred to the Finance Committee.
- Supervisor Power moved a change to the Chief Matron's pay; the outcome is not on this page.
- Supervisor Power presented a resolution mourning Jesse W. Lilienthal, adopted by rising vote.
- Supervisor Power proposed eighteen Sheriff's keeper positions at $960 a year each; referred to the Finance Committee.
- Street lamp asked for Macondray Street between Jones and Leavenworth
- Proposed request for a City Attorney opinion on forcing telephone service was referred to the Telephone Rates Committee.
- Joseph Hagan & Sons to bury the indigent dead for $8
- The Board carried Supervisor Power's motion recommending that Public Works raise carmen's wages to $5.00 per day.
- Supervisor Power proposed adding eighteen Sheriff's keeper positions at $960 a year each; the vote continues.
- Mayor's proposed ordinance adding city positions was deferred one week on Supervisor Power's motion.
- Request to ask contractors for estimates on planned street reconstruction was refused by vote.
- Salary ordinance raising assistant jailers' pay was passed for printing, with Supervisor Gallagher's amendment carried.
- An ordinance adding 18 Sheriff's keeper positions was laid over one week at Supervisor Power's request.
- Mayor's veto stands, and the Wayland Street appeal is heard
- Power's motion to fund a salary increase for draftsmen and engineers was referred to the Finance Committee, to report back in one week.
- Board of Public Works was instructed to consider repaving Van Ness Avenue between Eddy and Turk streets.
- Market Street extension resolution referred, Olympus Way owners to be notified
- Taxicab fare and district rules amended; bill returned from Police Committee with a favourable recommendation.
- The Board recommended that the Park Commission accept the Chaplain McKinnon Monument and select a site for it.
- Supervisor Power moved to accept the McKinnon bronze statue from veterans and have it placed in Golden Gate Park.
- Supervisor Power moved to reconsider Gallagher's resolution on the federal mine strike injunction; debate was proposed to be put off a week.
- Supervisor Gallagher's resolution criticising the Government and the courts was referred to the Public Welfare Committee.
- Resolution authorizing payments to Pacific Gas & Electric, Spring Valley Water and several suppliers was passed for printing.
- Daniel Giovannini's fifty-horse stable on Greenwich Street would end July 1920
- Supervisors asked the Streets and Finance committees to consider a Good Roads Fund sum for Telegraph Hill boulevard.
- Board postponed its hearing on the proposed Spring Valley Water purchase until Tuesday at 1:30 o'clock.
- Supervisor Power's motion asks the Streets Committee to consider moving Market Street statues and fountains to Civic Center; carried.
- Supervisor Power appealed the Chair's ruling on petitions, then withdrew the appeal.
- City to improve Corbett Avenue between Hattie and Ord streets
- Plans for eight school buildings put off for now
- The Mayor was authorized to appoint a citizens committee to help reorganize the National Guard, so ordered.
- Board of Health asked to have staff cover its deficit
- Supervisor Power's motion asking the City Attorney to draft an ordinance on financing future Hetch Hetchy construction carried.
- Motion passed asking the Park Commissioners to move Market Street statues and fountains to a suitable location and estimate cost.
- Clerk ordered to advertise for proposals to light city buildings, streets and parks from July 1, 1920.
- Two unused fire department lots on Forty-fourth Avenue to be leased
- Supervisor Power moved that the Board of Public Works estimate the cost of replacing the Clayton Street bulkhead, which carried.
- A resolution appropriating $14,020.89 to James B. McSheehy for hospital wing delays was passed for printing after the earlier resolution was rescinded.
- A contract for lighting city streets and buildings is proposed; its outcome continues on the next page.
- Supervisor Power asks whether $37,500 can be saved for Collingwood Street
- Board directs the Tax Collector to correct a typo setting second-hand clothing dealers' quarterly tax at $10, not $25.
- Owners of the Marina land, including Virginia Vanderbilt, were ordered to appear and show why assessments should not rise.
- Supervisor Power asked the City Attorney to explain a recent surcharge decision of about $30,000 to $40,000 before Lighting Committee.
- Supervisor Power moved that owners of the twenty-two Marina blocks be notified to show cause why assessments should not rise.
- Pacific Gas & Electric to add street lamps on 17th Avenue
- Supervisor Power proposed a resolution asking the Assessor to reconsider the low valuation of the Marina property owned by Oelrichs and Vanderbilt.
- Supervisor Power moved that the Municipal carmen's salary increase be referred to the Public Utilities and Finance Committee.
- Motion carried asking the City Planning Commission to file its report and set a hearing where interested parties may be heard.
- Standard Oil Co. released from building public toilets at its stations
- Board of Health sanitation appropriation of $5,000, including rat catchers, was laid over one week.
- Street railway safety rules to gain a new section
- Anti-scalping ordinance banning sale of non-transferable amusement tickets was referred to the Police Committee.
- Supervisor Power's motion to delay the Tax Levy until next Monday failed, six ayes to eleven noes.
- Supervisor Power's motion sent Brannan Street paving between First and Second streets to committees for funding study.
- Teachers' amendment reorganising the School Department and its Board of Education was ordered submitted to city voters.
- Supervisor Power's motion carried directing the Clerk to correct Charter Amendment No. 25 so the ballot text includes night schools.
- Motion carried requiring that persons or organizations submitting arguments on charter amendments sign their names to them.
- Supervisor Power proposed setting aside $50,000 to improve Brannan Street from The Embarcadero to Second Street; referred to Finance Committee.
- Supervisor Power proposed certifying Charter Amendment No. 25 to the Legislature, adding night school teachers; put off one week.
- Board puts off the Southeasterly Mission Playground question for a week
- Supervisor Power's motion to appoint a committee drafting condolences for Lord Mayor Terence MacSwiney of Cork was carried.
- Willis Polk urges the Board to beautify Sutro Heights
- Education, Parks and Playgrounds Committee asked to study opening Sutro Heights Park to motorists.
- Clerk asked to request that the entire Board be invited to talks on buying Spring Valley water properties.
- Supervisor Power's bill raising the Civil Service deputy chief examiner salary to $3,600 was passed for printing.
- Mme. Sorbier was granted use of the Board's chambers on one of four days this month for an anti-cemetery-removal meeting.
- The Board allowed $8,703.30 in publicity bills for the Spring Valley water purchase, with eleven ayes and four noes.
- Supervisor Pouer moved that Mary McSwiney's remarks be printed in full in the Journal; the motion carried unanimously.
- Board authorized the Chair to appoint a five-member committee to receive the visiting Chicago delegation.
- The charge over a civil service examination was laid over one week, with a special order set for next Monday at 3 p.m.
- Supervisors postponed the dispute over Flaherty's civil service selection to a special order next Monday at 3 o'clock, with the Commission present.
- Board debates an ordinance for citywide garbage collection contract, with amendments on term length and floor-based rates, not yet decided.
- Board asks the Special Garbage Committee to study garbage rates for small businesses located in residential districts.
- Red Cross offered to vacate its Civic Center buildings for High School use; the resolution accepting it, with $25,000 reimbursement, was laid over.
- A proposed ordinance would fund construction of a children's tuberculosis ward at San Francisco Hospital.
- Traffic officer asked for at Fifth and Market streets
- Supervisor McLeran proposed a resolution commending the Police Department for enforcing federal, state and municipal laws; debate followed.
- Supervisor Power's resolution seeking an investigation of 51 barrels of whiskey was referred to the Police Committee.
- New lamps for Laguna Honda Station and Huntington Park
- Juvenile Court probation officer salaries were raised in the 1921 budget, with assistant and deputy officers set at $1,920 each.
- Bidders to be told that certain coal awards were not made and the published award notice was erroneous.
- Amendment carried authorizing City Attorney to draw a contract with officials at Weimar for a tubercular sanitarium.
- Additional Positions Ordinance laid over until July 18, 1921 for further consideration by the Board.
- City Engineer asked to report on extending the Municipal Railway
- Cyril Williams proposed as city financial adviser for life at $500 a month; passed to print.
- Board carried a motion inviting officials to help American Legion Post 40 build a $175,000 clubhouse at Turk and Polk.
- Supervisor Power moved that the Clerk obtain the proposed Weimar Sanatorium contract from the City Attorney for the next meeting.
- Board asked the City Engineer for a report on extending Municipal Railway lines into Haight-Ashbury and Sunset districts.
- Supervisor Power gave notice he would move to reconsider the defeated bill on creating additional city positions.
- Board of Equalization sent for the City Attorney to advise on its legal time to adjourn; motion carried.
- Board of Equalization directed the Assessor to report within 10 days on all referred matters; motion carried.
- Board accepted Chicago Mayor Thompson's invitation to the Pageant of Progress exposition, July 30 to August 14, 1921.
- Supervisor Power presented a resolution asking the War Department to approve a Bay bridge linking San Francisco cities.
- Petition to close streets in the Islais Creek district was sent to the Commercial Development and Streets Committee for a policy report.
- Board ordered the City Engineer to report on widening a path from the Market Street extension into Noe Valley.
- $1,150 proposed to improve Foerster Street between Mangels and Thirty-third
- Clerk directed to ask the City Engineer about improving Minerva Street alongside the proposed Ocean View Municipal Railway extension.
- Special Garbage Committee recommends passing an ordinance licensing refuse collectors and fixing citywide garbage collection rates; the vote is on the next page.
- The Board adopted a resolution expressing regret at the death of Assistant Law Librarian Alfred J. Nagle.
- Martin Welch's recommended appointment as assistant in the Public Defender's office was referred to the Public Defender.
- A resolution on Market Street traffic, cut off before its terms
- Talks on buying the Market Street Railway put off a week
- Planning Commission opposed rezoning north Washington Street between Locust and Spruce; Board referred it to Joint Zoning Committee.
- Supervisor Power asked the Health Committee to prepare an ordinance on sheep corrals in the University Mound District; police were told to enforce existing law.
- Supervisors postponed further hearing on the proposed retirement system ordinance for aged and disabled city employees until Friday.
- Charter voting-requirements memorandum and rules put off one week by a 15 to 2 vote.
- Supervisor Power moved that the Clerk write to the Board of Public Works about the chauffeurs' salary fund.
- Supervisor Power moved to add an exception for street, road, boulevard and tunnel lands to the Public Buildings and Lands Committee's duties.
- Board Rule 41 was laid over temporarily by motion of Supervisor Power.
- Clerk to notify members of Wednesday's Spring Valley Water vote
- Supervisor Power moved that the Veterans continue their statements, seconded by Supervisor Hayden, at the War Memorial hearing.
- Supervisor Power proposed returning the War Memorial trustee nominees with a request for an additional veteran.
- Supervisor Power's motion asks the Mayor to replace a non-veteran War Memorial trustee with a veteran, nearly unanimously concurred in.
- Board returns the War Memorial trustee nominations to the Mayor, asking him to name at least one more veteran.
- The Board ordered the Clerk to tell the Registrar it does not accept securing permanent-registration petition signatures in the Registrar's office.
- Supervisor Power moved that the Public Buildings and Lands Committee consider ventilating the Board chambers; the committee will consider it.
- Resolution No. 31023 repealing the Finance Committee's power to hire appraisal staff was held over one week as a special order.
- Supervisor Power moved to expunge remarks about a San Mateo County shooting from the record; outcome not yet shown.
- Permit granted for premises on Clement Street near Twenty-first Avenue
- Supervisor Power moved to repeal Resolution 31023 and discontinue the appraisal bureau; the vote is not shown here.
- Henry Cowell Lime & Cement Company's appeal over Commercial Street sidewalks was laid over on Supervisor Power's motion.
- Board repealed Resolution 31023, ending the city's Appraisal Bureau plan for valuing taxable property.
- Resolution asking the Board of Public Works to estimate a Bay Front boulevard's cost failed to adopt and was referred to the Streets Committee.
- The Civil Service Commission's salary standardization report was referred to the Finance and Civil Service Committees.
- The Public Utilities Committee was asked to report on moving Post Street cars to Sutter and removing Howard Street tracks.
- Ornamental street lights ordered on Hyde Street from Market to California
- Board members paid tribute to the late Auditor Thomas F. Boyle, and a copy of the proceedings was proposed for his family.
- Board ordered the Clerk to send a floral piece in tribute to Auditor Thomas F. Boyle.
- Supervisors asked the Board of Public Works whether water shipping rates to ships could be reduced.
- Portions of Rhode Island, Carolina, Wisconsin and Arkansas Streets closed
- Supervisor Power moved a resolution directing the City Attorney to prepare bond ordinances for the Moccasin Creek transmission line; outcome continues next page.
- Board directs City Attorney to draft $3.5M bond ordinances for Moccasin Creek power line; an amendment to raise the sum lost.
- Railroad tracks proposed for Pacific Can Company across Newhall Street
- Supervisor Power asked the Judiciary Committee for a report next Monday on amending how Board of Education members are selected.
- Appeal to rezone property at 19th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard from residential to commercial was put off until 4 p.m. next meeting.
- Supervisor Power's motion to take up a pay rise for Municipal Railway trackwalkers was defeated by the Board.
- Supervisor Power proposed that Municipal Railway trackmen receive $6 per day; the Finance Committee report followed.
- On Supervisor Power's motion, an initiative amendment was to be ordered submitted to the voters.
- Payment of $10,000 to Lester G. Loupe Company for land for Shipley Street was put off one week.
- $10,000 to Lester G. Loupe Company to open Shipley Street
- Lester G. Loupe Company deeds land near Fourth and Folsom
- Supervisor Power moved that the Clerk prepare an engrossed transcript of the inauguration proceedings for Mayor Rossi.
- H. V. Tucker allowed blasting at Harrison and Hawthorne streets
- Amendments adopted to the garbage ordinance allow building incineration and bar dumping at sea, with refuse sent to the San Francisco incinerator.
- The David Scannell Club proposed a charter amendment changing Fire Department pension contributions and benefits; the Board began committee consideration.