All decisions
about 170 Board decisions about James L. Gallagher, in date order. Each links to its printed page.
- Gallagher's substitute motion to appoint a seven-member committee to draft building law amendments was adopted.
- A resolution to pay J. W. Amrath $675 for expert services to the Grand Jury was passed for printing.
- The Board set aside $5,000 from surplus for Public Works to keep removing debris from City property.
- Temporary repairs to Mission and Howard streets approved, using $3,500 from the Surplus Fund, to divert traffic during Market Street repaving.
- Supervisors propose resolutions asking Congress to lend the Red Cross $10,000,000 to house homeless San Franciscans after the fire.
- Proposed citywide Building Law presented as Bill No. 17; Supervisor Gallagher moved an amendment on fire limits.
- The Finance Committee recommended paying the Treasury demands, and the Board allowed and ordered them paid by a 15-vote majority.
- Demands against the Treasury totalling $7519.81 were allowed by the Finance Committee and ordered paid.
- Supervisor Gallagher moved that the assessment roll be open for public inspection until August 6, 1906; adopted.
- The Board fixed the Police Relief and Pension Fund for fiscal 1906-7 at the minimum amounts the Charter permits.
- Supervisor Gallagher moved adoption of a resolution favoring the Committee of Forty's citywide plan for widening, extending and grading streets.
- Supervisor Gallagher's chimney inspection bill passed first reading, barring chimney use until Public Works inspects them.
- A resolution to refund $646.38 in duplicate 1906-7 taxes to San Francisco Savings Union was passed for printing.
- Supervisor Gallagher's motion directs the Clerk to obtain Citizens' Relief Committee meeting records and hire a stenographer.
- The Board agreed to meet Architects and Builders at Franklin Hall on April 28, 1906 to consult on new building ordinances.
- Demands totalling $1,900 from the Treasury, reported by the Finance Committee, were allowed and ordered paid.
- A proposed resolution would have owners clear debris and let the Chief of Police issue entry permits; referred to committee.
- Proposed resolution would pay Spring Valley Water Company $5327.32 for March 1906 municipal water; passed for printing.
- James Whitney offers park land at Fourteenth Avenue for $9,000
- Board allowed and ordered paid $1,041.66 in city demands, approved by the Finance Committee.
- Arthur Newton was paid $200 from the 1904-1905 surplus for extra Coroner's clerk work in May and June 1900.
- The Board approved the Home Telephone Company's $250,000 bond, with Aetna Indemnity Company as surety.
- The Board ratified the award of a citywide telephone franchise to the Home Telephone Company of San Francisco.
- Resolution to pay P. F. Dundon $1786 for City Hall boiler repairs was passed for printing.
- $1850 transferred from the 1904-1905 surplus to the Firemen's Relief Fund for May 1906 pensions.
- Demands totaling $65,239.10 were referred to the Finance Committee, which recommended allowing them; the vote continues on the next page.
- Supervisor Gallagher's motion fixed Friday, June 1, 1906 at 2:30 p.m. as the public hearing time on the budget; carried 13 ayes.
- Anyone holding another's horse must deliver it to Woodlawn Stables
- Mowry's Hall at Laguna and Grove made the official chambers
- Mowry's Hall leased month to month as municipal offices at $500 per month, approved.
- Demands totalling $1,417.32 on the Treasury were allowed and ordered paid after Finance Committee approval.
- Carl Martin given 60 more days on the Noe Street sewer
- Board allowed and ordered paid $19,513.83 in city demands from Register of Demands No. 1.
- San Francisco Construction given 90 more days on First Avenue
- Tax of one dollar thirty-two cents per hundred dollars proposed
- Resolution adopted directing the Clerk to file the 1906-07 city budget, Ordinance No. 15, with the Auditor.
- Demands totaling $12,718.80 from Register of Demands No. 1 were allowed and ordered paid.
- Demands totalling $18,736.07 were allowed and ordered paid after the Finance Committee approved them.
- A proposed $585.75 payment from the Surplus Fund to Wells Fargo & Co. Express for shipping coin was passed for printing.
- The Finance Committee's city payment demands totalling $62,825.44 were allowed and ordered paid.
- Unexpended Presidio Heights engine house funds, about $18,000, moved to build temporary fire engine houses.
- Recorder Printing and Publishing Company awarded contract to print court calendars and Board journal for $275 monthly.
- Board allowed and ordered paid $9,406.38 in city demands after the Finance Committee approved them.
- A $40,918.67 payment to City Street Improvement Company for paving Valencia Street was passed for printing.
- Board passed for printing a resolution authorizing $40,918.67 from the Street fund to pave Valencia Street.
- Demands totalling $85 against the Treasury were approved by the Finance Committee and ordered paid.
- $40,918.67 sought for paving Valencia Street from Eighteenth to Mission
- Finance Committee's city demands totalling $55,377.35 were allowed and ordered paid by the Board.
- Board awarded fiscal 1906-07 supply contracts for city institutions to Hooper & Jennings, Snook & Co., Leege & Haskins, and other firms.
- Ordinance appointing attorney A. L. O'Grady as assistant to the Supervisors to revise city ordinances was adopted.
- Payments totalling $1723.39 from the Park Fund to Eckstrom Lumber Co. and Standard Electrical Construction Co. were passed for printing.
- The Board allowed $27,148.06 in city demands on the Treasury after the Finance Committee reviewed and approved them.
- Resolution directs attorney A. L. O'Grady to investigate quiet-title suits involving city lands and report to the Board.
- A $4000 payment to John W. and Sarah A. Flinn for balance on a Fire Department land purchase was passed for printing.
- Proposed $1,500 payment to engineer Marsden Manson for reviewing water supply sources offered to the city.
- Seven thousand five hundred dollars is set aside from the 1905-06 surplus for equipment at the temporary Polytechnic High School.
- Transfers $1,209.75 from the Duplicate Tax Fund to the Tax Collector's Tax Account after fire-destroyed records.
- Action on the bill put off for one week
- $39,689 to City Street Improvement for paving Valencia Street
- Board amends the supply contract award to James A. Snook & Co. and Geo. W. Caswell for coffee and tea, with revised bonds.
- Board awards supply and service contracts for public institutions and departments for fiscal 1906-1907 to several firms.
- A $77.45 refund was ordered to Mrs. Dempsey's agent after a court voided the De Haro Street grade assessment.
- Herbert & Vogel allowed two 75 horsepower boilers on Seventh Street
- $2000 for a sewer in Eighth Street between Bryant and Brannan
- Street levels set on Madison Avenue
- Gallagher's bill proposes a state property tax of 47.6 cents per $100 of valuation for fiscal 1906-07.
- Resolution to pay Boyer Motor Car Company $1900 for one motor car was passed for printing.
- $554 refunded after the Supreme Court voided the Telegraph Hill Park tax
- An ordinance allowing the County Clerk to appoint six additional clerks passed for printing.
- A resolution to pay $20,000 from the surplus fund to A. A. Sanderson on a court judgment was passed for printing.
- Balances transferred into the surplus fund
- City's funded debt reported at $4,568,600
- Proposed payment for the balance of land purchased to widen Brannan Street at Tenth Street and Potrero Avenue.
- $2042 refunded to Hibernia Savings after the Telegraph Hill Park tax was voided
- $1351 to the State and Mt. St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum for keeping children
- Passed for printing: $5,495 payment to Fallon & Daley for erecting 35 election booths.
- Payment of $4,640.97 to Phillips & Van Orden Company for printing the Great Register was passed for printing.
- Additional expenses for the Election Commission were proposed in Resolution 492; outcome not shown on this page.
- Resolution adopted to raise nine Emergency Hospital stewards' salaries by $20 a month from surplus funds.
- Resolution proposed to set aside $3,200 from the Surplus Fund to raise Health Department cooks' and waiters' salaries.
- Silva & Rose allowed a stable at Seventeenth and Potrero
- The Board adopted Resolution 531, setting aside $990 from the Surplus Fund to raise plumbing inspectors' pay.
- Payment of $7100 for voting machines and election supplies was passed for printing.
- The Board adopted a resolution setting aside $800 to hire an additional Food Inspector for the Board of Health.
- A proposed ordinance to appoint and fix pay for certain Department of Electricity employees was passed for printing.
- The Board allowed and ordered paid the Treasury demands on the Finance Committee's report, by a 12-vote ayes.
- Boyer Motor Car Company would be paid $1950 from the surplus fund for a Franklin car for the Chief of Police; passed for printing.
- Sergeant-at-arms of the Board of Supervisors granted a monthly salary increase to $125, effective November 1, 1900.
- Board transferred $200 from the Surplus Fund into the salary account of Supervisors.
- Resolution 601, proposed by Gallagher, would direct plans and estimates for an auxiliary fire-protection water system; outcome continues next page.
- F. H. Smith allowed a stable on Seventh Street
- Ten more copyists for the County Clerk's office
- Market inspectors' salaries were increased with $450 from the surplus fund for the Board of Health.
- Police Department salaries for December 1906 were funded with $3,200 from the surplus fund.
- The Board allowed and ordered paid city demands totalling $60,923.93 reported by the Finance Committee.
- Geo. B. Willcutt bid for the Devisadero and Twentieth Street cross-town railroad franchise, offering a percentage of gross receipts.
- Payment to W. F. Hanrahan for sewer construction in the Upper Sunset District was passed for printing.
- Award of contracts for subsistence and supplies for 1907-8 was taken up and continues on the next page.
- Board ordered the City Attorney not to appeal the Langdon suit over the title to the office of District Attorney.
- The Finance Committee's batch of city demands on the Treasury was allowed and ordered paid.
- Demands totalling $49,400.28 were presented and referred to the Finance Committee for review.
- Flinn & Treacy paid $5,450 for the Seventh Street sewer
- Payment for lumber and a refund of survey fees to Parkside Realty Co. was passed for printing.
- Demands totalling $37,446.97 were approved by the Finance Committee and ordered paid.
- Resolution proposing higher salaries for Auditor's office clerks, with the outcome printed on the next page.
- Passed for printing: $2550 to E. P. Slosson for a Premier touring car furnished the Mayor.
- The Board allowed city demands totalling $19,691.99 from the Treasury, on the Finance Committee's report.
- A resolution to spend $2550 on an automobile for the Mayor was passed for printing.
- Resolution proposed to raise monthly salaries of Auditor's Office employees, charged to the assessment roll appropriation, effective January 1, 1907.
- The Board allowed and ordered paid city demands totalling $38,724.33 on the Finance Committee's report.
- Resolution proposed setting aside $10,500 from the Surplus Fund to pay January 1907 Police Department salaries.
- Bill proposed on Supervisor Gallagher's motion for the sale of sewer and street bonds.
- Proposed one-year lease of a Meiggs' Wharf building to H. H. North, federal immigration commissioner.
- Board appropriated $6,500 from the Surplus Fund for extra clerks in the Assessor's office.
- Ernestine Kreling paid rent for city offices on Eddy Street
- Mayor authorized to lease a Geary Street lot near Scott Street for a fire house, with an option to buy.
- A proposed ordinance would authorize an extra special assistant to the City Attorney with set pay.
- $7,500 set aside for a fire house on Geary Street
- Supervisors ordered the water rates inquiry report accepted, with a rates bill to follow at the next meeting.
- Mary A. Runyon's land at Green and Leavenworth accepted
- Board accepted an offer to sell a Green Street lot near Leavenworth Street to the city for $5,000 for Fire Department use.
- Spring Valley Water Company's franchise declared forfeited to the city
- Resolution appropriates surplus funds to city departments, including street cleaning, police buildings, hospital repairs and a Bush and Stockton building.
- City demands on the Treasury were presented and referred to the Finance Committee for approval and payment.
- A proposal to extend the oil refining limits under Ordinance 302 was referred to the Fire Committee on Supervisor Gallagher's motion.
- Evening Post named the city's official newspaper at 35 cents
- Proposed ordinance to sell $1,087,200 in sewer bonds and $331,000 in street bonds on April 22, 1907.
- Board allowed and ordered paid a batch of city demands recorded in Register of Demands No. 4.
- Minnie Davis and A. G. Davis are refunded $492 and $154.75 for property destroyed in the 1906 fire.
- Duplicate taxes refunded to the Hibernia Loan Society
- Bill 220 proposes erecting a temporary main library building on a Western Addition block, passed for printing.
- Expenditure of about $15,000 for supplies and a Fire Department lot purchase was passed for printing.
- Proposed sale of $2,444,400 in school bonds was passed for printing on first reading.
- John H. Ryan was appointed Clerk of the Board of Supervisors and T. B. McGinnis Chief Assistant Clerk.
- Earlier referral of temporary library plans cancelled
- Resolution proposed to reject J. A. Waldteufel's claim for refund of 1902 hospital and school taxes.
- Rebecca Levy paid $1,000 for a fire lot on Geary Street
- Board adopted $9,600 from surplus to meet the Police Department salary roll for April 1907.
- City to pay Jacob Goldberg $2,800 for land on Clement Street
- City Attorney to examine Rebecca Levy's title on Geary Street
- Renaming China Avenue to Excelsior Avenue put off three weeks
- Geary Street railway ordered to resume service or lose its license
- A resolution authorizing $4,537.67 to five suppliers for meat, water, coal, hay and oats was passed for printing.
- Nicholas Lang was named appraiser for a proposed county jail site tied to a bond issue.
- China Avenue in the Excelsior district renamed Excelsior Avenue
- Resolution transferred $3,300 from the Surplus Fund to the Fire Relief and Pension Fund for May 1907 expenses.
- Resolution proposed to set aside $11,500 from the Surplus Fund to cover Police Department May salary deficiency.
- Pacific Coast Construction Company paid $41,954.21 for Sixth Street sewers
- Supervisor Gallagher moved to adopt amendments to the 1907-8 budget as presented; the final vote is not printed here.
- Payment from the General Fund to the State of California for maintaining minors at Preston School of Industry passed for printing.
- A second municipal tax levy bill for 1907-1908 was passed for printing on Supervisor Gallagher's motion.
- Ordinance 235 sets the 1907-1908 city property tax levy at $1.415 per $100 of taxable property.
- Citywide property tax levy for fiscal 1907-08 passed for printing on first reading.
- Proposed citywide tax increase of twenty cents per $100 assessed value for street sprinkling and teacher salaries, passed for printing.
- Proposed payments to Gas and Electric Co. for street lighting and Spring Valley Water Co. for street sprinkling water.
- Ordinance suspending the tax limit to raise 20 cents per $100 for street work and teacher pay advances to final vote.
- Supervisor Gallagher's bill to suspend the tax limit for a twenty-cent levy on street care and teacher pay passed for printing.
- Twelve thousand dollars from the Surplus Fund was set aside to pay the Police Department's June 1907 salary roll.
- Printing contract for court calendars and city journal awarded
- Resolution to pay Brown & Power $1000 for license tags for the Auditor's office was passed for printing.
- Resolution moved by Supervisor Gallagher would fund paving of Seventh Street and a sewer in Stevenson Street, funds $7,500 total.
- A proposed resolution would pay $21,515.47 from the General Fund for street lighting, water, and minors' maintenance, passed for printing.
- Board adopted a $2,275 payment to California Block Book and Map Company for County Recorder's block books.
- Board allowed $3,892.50 for Department of Electricity July salaries over budget, paid from the Rehabilitation appropriation.
- Board refused a $160,000 extra water appropriation that would have let Spring Valley Water Company extend its system.
- A $1,550 payment to Century Electric Company for Hall of Records fixtures was passed for printing.
- Mayor Taylor appointed James P. Booth to fill Charles Boxton's vacant supervisor seat, and the Board seated him.