All decisions
85 Board decisions about Jesse C. Colman, in date order. Each links to its printed page.
- Hearing on Pacific Avenue building lines put off a week
- Charter amendment fixing the number of police detectives and their salaries was ordered submitted to voters.
- Spring Valley Water objects to paying for the Buchanan Street work
- A $3,000 appropriation for publicity on the proposed school bond issue was passed for printing over McSheehy's objection.
- The Board ordered the Clerk to urge Washington representatives to keep the naval station at Goat Island.
- Masonic Avenue track deal sent to committee after public objections
- Clerk directed to thank Col. E. V. Smith of the Civilian Military Training Camp for the invitation and pledge support.
- Clerk directed to send a letter inviting the Grand Army of the Republic to hold its next convention in San Francisco.
- Supervisors heard objections to renting the Auditorium to Eugene V. Debs; the rescission motion has no printed outcome.
- Board ordered the Clerk to send Mayor Rolph and his wife sympathy over their son's car accident injury.
- Warren Shannon leaves to invite the Republican convention to San Francisco
- Board adopted Supervisor Colman's motion thanking Harvey M. Toy for his highway improvement work.
- Consideration of the proposed cemetery removal ordinance was put off until February 4, 1924 at Archbishop's request.
- Bill to repeal the 1921 ordinance for a Municipal Railway extension on Masonic Avenue was passed for printing.
- Cemetery removal ordinance was laid over on motion of Supervisor Colman until February 18, 1924.
- Masonic Cemetery removal ordinance, Bill No. 6645, was passed for printing on Supervisor Colman's motion.
- Proposed ordinance orders all bodies removed from Odd Fellows' Cemetery, bounded by Geary and Arguello, within five years.
- Supervisor Colman moved to postpone action on the cemetery removal ordinances for one week, and the motion carried.
- Board postponed the ordinance to disinter and remove bodies from Calvary Cemetery until next Monday.
- Lyon and Filbert street zoning put off after owners object
- Duboce route put off until November after reference to committee
- Board rejected the Public Works assessment report for the Easterly District and returned it with instructions for a new report.
- Repaving of Oak Street sought between Buchanan and Fillmore
- Consideration of the Sunset Tunnel (Duboce route) was laid over until January 12, 1925, on Supervisor Colman's motion.
- Supervisor Colman asked the Public Utilities and Finance committees to recommend how to dispose of Hetch Hetchy power arriving April 1, 1925.
- Consideration of the Sunset Tunnel on the Duboce route was laid over, on Supervisor Colman's motion, until March 9, 1925.
- Plan to stop advertising on street cars sent to committee
- The Board adopted resolutions honouring Sam Berger, a long-serving San Francisco merchant.
- Consideration of the Sunset Tunnel (Duboce route) was continued by motion of Supervisor Colman to March 23, 1925.
- Consideration of the Sunset Tunnel's Duboce avenue route was postponed to March 30, 1925.
- Discussion of the Sunset (Duboce route) tunnel was continued to 3 p.m. Monday, April 6, 1925.
- On Colman's motion, the Board passed for printing a resolution for a tunnel under Buena Vista Park, which is still pending.
- Hiring Theodore J. Savage for the Duboce tunnel sent to committee
- An ordinance concerning California Street introduced
- Theodore J. Savage was retained as special counsel for the City in the Duboce Tunnel litigation for $2,500 fees.
- Removal of Hetch Hetchy railroad tracks pressed for a road
- Proposed set-back lines along parts of Lincoln Way and four avenues were recommitted to the City Planning Committee.
- Harrelson's substitute resolution on public utility pavement cuts was laid over one week and referred to committee.
- Resolution urges city officials to enforce law and order amid violence during the carpenters' strike; outcome not yet shown.
- Supervisor Colman moved that the power sale contract with the Modesto Irrigation District be referred to the Public Utilities Committee.
- Supervisor Colman moved to refer the Modesto Irrigation District power contract amendment to the Public Utilities Committee.
- The Mayor was authorized to appoint a citizens' committee to entertain visiting Netherlands submarine crew.
- A committee of 100 San Francisco leaders asked the Board to fund more police; the letter was referred to committee.
- Supervisor Colman proposed a committee to celebrate the Sunset Tunnel opening, and the resolution was referred to the Public Welfare Committee.
- Board asked the Mayor to appoint a citizens committee to arrange the Memorial Day observance.
- Board granted Sealer of Weights and Measures Thomas Flaherty thirty days leave of absence from May 20, 1927.
- The Board congratulates trans-Atlantic flyers Chamberlin and Levine and invites them to join the Dole flight to Hawaii.
- Board congratulates aviators Chamberlin and Levine on their New York to Berlin flight and names them honorary citizens.
- Board considers reconsidering a resolution letting James G. Stafford and associates appraise city property, with contract terms to be set.
- A $4,000 publicity appropriation for Armistice Day was passed for printing.
- Mayor authorized to appoint a committee to arrange the reception of a French warship due in port.
- Supervisor Colman moved that Supervisor Havenner's remarks attacking the San Francisco Bulletin be expunged from the record.
- Proposed rezoning of Ocean Avenue blocks from First Residential to Commercial; a motion to refer it back to planning committee lost.
- Supervisor Marks read and explained a proposed charter amendment on civil service probation and emergency appointments.
- A charter amendment extending civil service to more city jobs was ordered submitted to voters.
- Bill repealing Ordinance 8196 on second-hand dealers' records passed to print on first reading.
- Assembly Bill 1066 on stage bus corporations was rescinded and sent to the Legislative Committee for further hearing.
- Civil Service Committee proposed declaring the Bond and Ordinance Clerk position vacant; action was deferred one week.
- Charles Strub's Campton Place garage put off another week
- The Board ordered that a time be set next Monday to honour retiring Registrar of Voters Harry Zemansky.
- Board gives official approval to Californians, Inc.'s slogan 'It is Cool in San Francisco.'
- Board sends congratulations to six local Boy Scouts chosen for a trip to Europe.
- Solon & Schemmel protested the Bureau of Architecture's rejection of decorative tile for Roosevelt School; referred to Public Buildings Committee.
- Civil Service Commission salary classification schedules were sent to the Joint Committee on Civil Service and Finance.
- Board asks the Mayor to appoint Supervisor Fred Suhr as official city representative on the Chamber of Commerce world tour.
- Motion to send Dion Holm to Washington on telephone rates was referred to a joint Finance committee, reporting at the next meeting.
- Supervisor Hayden was appointed Acting Chairman of the Finance Committee during Supervisor Rossi's absence.
- Colman moved that boulevard lighting standards be made a special order for next Monday at 3:30 p.m.
- Seventeen contracts letting Water Department land near Sunol, Colma, Niles Canyon and elsewhere were passed for printing.
- Board debated a garbage incinerator after Judge Mogan threatened abatement of the nuisance unless definite progress was reported.
- Supervisor Colman moved to accept the Harbor Defense Association's invitation to inspect Citizens' Military Camp at Crissy Field.
- Board carried Colman's motion inviting the Grand Jury to send a committee to explain the County Jail bond issue.
- Charter amendment on the school department was laid over until September 8, 1930, as a special order.
- Supervisor Colman's proposal to have Public Utilities Commission members appointed rather than elected was defeated on the Board's vote.
- Board considers approving a $1,096,000 budget to connect the Hetch Hetchy water system with the East Bay district's system.
- Supervisor Colman's substitute resolution on taking Hetch Hetchy water from the East Bay Utility District was debated; an amendment to direct an ordinance failed.
- The Clerk was asked to request Market Street Railway to allow Community Chest drive banners on its cars; the Board ordered it.
- Market Street Railway allowed on Municipal Railway tracks on Market Street
- Market Street Railway to get tracks along Turk and Balboa streets
- An earlier bill on the same subject indefinitely postponed
- City land near Pleasanton to be sold at auction
- Supervisor Colman moved to correct the June 8, 1931 Journal so the right-of-way easement sale continues to July 6.
- Plans proposed for a Hetch Hetchy pipe line of 45 million gallons daily over the Corral Hollow route.
- Supervisor Colman moved a resolution directing the City Attorney and Public Works to prepare Hetch Hetchy steel and redwood stave pipeline legislation.
- Supervisor Andriano's resolution letting a special committee collect voluntary employee contributions for the unemployed was referred to Finance Committee.