All decisions
about 410 Board decisions about John A. Kelly, in date order. Each links to its printed page.
- Payment from the sewer construction account to Metropolitan Construction Co. for Fulton Street sewer work is proposed.
- City demands listed in Register of Demands No. 9 were allowed and ordered paid after Finance Committee approval.
- Payments for fire department supplies, hydrants and fuel to several vendors were passed for printing.
- Resolution authorizes $43,900.60 in sewer construction payments to Healy-Tibbitts Construction Co. for Yerba Buena and North Point sewers; passed for printing.
- Payments totalling $63,723.69 for pipe and freight for the fire-protection water system passed for printing.
- Passed for printing a resolution authorizing $44,859.74 in fire protection account payments to two valve suppliers.
- The Board adopted the Committee of the Whole's report on the Spring Valley Water Company investigation.
- Demands totalling $149,008.52 on the Treasury were allowed and ordered paid.
- Proposed payments totalling $17,059.25 to contractors for school construction work, passed for printing.
- The Finance Committee's batch of city demands was allowed and ordered paid by the Board.
- Payments from the school bond fund for building the McKinley and Sheridan primary schools were passed for printing.
- A $24,750 payment to Pacific Rolling Mill Co. for steel at San Francisco Hospital was passed for printing.
- A sixth payment of $23,582 to Kittle Construction Company for Mission Grammar School was passed for printing.
- Plumbing and plastering payments for several San Francisco schools were passed for printing.
- An $11,557.50 payment to Dyer Brothers for steel work at the Hall of Justice was proposed for printing.
- Board allowed $72,165.16 in city demands from Register of Demands No. 10 and ordered them paid.
- Demands totalling $17,303.73 were referred to the Finance Committee, which recommended allowing and paying them.
- Board concurred in Mayor McCarthy's reply to the Interior Department on Hetch Hetchy water rights.
- Finance Committee approved and the Board ordered paid city demands totaling $99,258.90.
- Supervisors approved $300 to move the Sheriff from McAllister Street quarters to the lower floor of a City Hall building.
- The Board authorized payments from the school construction account to contractors for work on Sutro, Madison, Sheridan and McKinley schools.
- Resolution releases the City's rights under insurance policies covering two fire boats built by Risdon Iron and Locomotive Works.
- Resolution to pay $12,762.64 for street supplies, fire battery work and rent was passed for printing.
- Passed for printing: $35,860.75 from school bond funds to contractors on several San Francisco schools.
- Purchase of Lake Eleanor lands and water rights from Ham Hall and the Tuolumne company was laid over to a March 23, 1910 hearing.
- Payment to the San Francisco Gas and Electric Company for March 1910 gas and electricity for public buildings and streets was proposed.
- Demands from Register of Demands No. 9 allowed and ordered paid after Finance Committee review.
- Resolution authorizing payment for March 1910 lighting service was introduced under suspended rules and passed for printing.
- Payment to San Francisco Gas and Electric Co. for August 1910 building and street lighting passed for printing.
- Payments of $30,285.90 for fire cisterns and turbine pumps were proposed for the Auxiliary Water System, passed for printing.
- Payments from the school construction bond account to contractors building several San Francisco schools were passed for printing.
- Payments for testing pipe and railroad freight on the auxiliary fire water system were passed for printing.
- Payments of $28,526.15 from the school construction account were authorized for work on several city school buildings.
- The Board allowed and ordered paid $174,027 in city demands on the Finance Committee's report.
- Finance Committee recommended and the Board ordered paid city demands totalling $188,804.78.
- City demands totalling $474,824.79 were allowed and ordered paid after Finance Committee review.
- Board adopted the Committee of the Whole report, closing the rate hearing and referring testimony to the Artificial Lights Committee for gas and electric rate bills.
- Ordinance proposing $76,500 construction of Marshall Primary School passed for printing; not yet final.
- The Board approved the Finance Committee's recommendation to allow and pay pending city demands.
- William R. Hagerty was appointed Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, replacing the resigned former clerk.
- Urgent demands for medical, lumber and locksmith work were listed for payment; the list continues on the next page.
- Resolution passed for printing to pay Dyer Brothers $9050 for structural steel at Commercial High School.
- Peter McHugh to be paid $13,057.95 for the Fourteenth Street sewer
- The Board set aside $250 from urgent necessities so the Department of Public Health could buy a horse for hospital ambulance service.
- $250 approved to buy a horse for the City and County Hospital ambulance service.
- Finance Committee approved and the Board ordered paid $192,371.66 in city demands upon the treasury.
- Payments from school bond funds were proposed to contractors for work at Hancock and South End schools.
- A resolution to pay Southern Pacific Company for railroad freight on pipe for the fire protection water system was passed for printing.
- Routine bills totalling $421.4 for repairs, supplies and services to city offices and buildings were approved for payment.
- Payments totaling $94,805.80 to pipe and cistern contractors for fire protection were passed for printing.
- A payment to Union Iron Works Company for fourth installment on fire hydrants was proposed on Kelly's motion.
- The $100 from Robinson and Windel bequest funds given to the Board of Health is repealed and given to the Mayor instead.
- Payment to San Francisco Gas and Electric Company for January 1910 lighting of streets and public buildings passed for printing.
- A $500 appropriation for repairs to city Emergency Hospitals was adopted by the Board of Supervisors.
- Resolution adopted setting aside $60 for ventilators in Department of Public Health laboratories.
- A bill authorizing three additional deputies for the Sheriff's Office was passed for printing.
- Finance Committee approved $39,500.37 in city demands, which were allowed and ordered paid by an 18-vote majority.
- Payments to four contractors for fire cisterns, pipe and gate valves were passed for printing from the Fire Protection Account.
- Eureka Construction to be paid $11,785.90 for the East Potrero sewer
- The Finance Committee's report allowing a batch of city demands to be paid was adopted by the Board.
- Payments totalling $33,957.25 from the school construction account to four contractors for school buildings were passed for printing.
- City sets aside $500 from urgent necessities funds to buy supplies for the Bureau of Architecture.
- The telephone rates hearing was closed and its testimony referred to the Telephone Rates Committee to draft rate bills.
- A $7200 payment to Pacific Rolling Mill Company for steel work at San Francisco Hospital was passed for printing.
- The Board allowed and ordered paid $21,774.31 in city demands listed in Register of Demands No. 9.
- A payment for fire cisterns and turbine pumps in the auxiliary water system was passed for printing.
- A $35,895 payment to Condon-McGlynn Co. for interior work at the Infirmary on the Relief Home Tract was passed for printing.
- Resolution repealing the one-general-contractor rule for public buildings was recommitted to the Public Buildings Committee.
- Metropolis Construction to be paid $18,263 for sixteen fire cisterns
- The Board allowed and ordered paid city demands totaling $256,896.56 after Finance Committee review.
- Payment of $907.65 to Scott & Magner for hay and feed for the Police Department was passed for printing.
- Bill providing for payment of bond premiums for Board of Public Works members was passed for printing.
- Board approved a $52,000 final payment to Pacific Itollinu Company for structural steel at San Francisco Hospital.
- Finance Committee recommended and the Board allowed $150,752.06 in city demands for payment.
- $300 set aside to repair the cistern at Sixteenth and Mission
- The Finance Committee's report allowed and ordered paid $274,602.70 in city demands, passed by 18 supervisors.
- A resolution to pay $33,516.04 to suppliers and services, including gas and rent, was passed for printing.
- Payments totalling $19,461.25 from the school bond fund for school building work and desks were proposed for printing.
- Treasury demands were referred to the Finance Committee, which recommended paying them; the final vote continues on the next page.
- Supervisor Kelly's bill to appoint an assistant clerk for Board ordinances and bonds was passed for printing.
- Electricity Department to spend $1,500 on downtown fire alarm cables
- City pays $47,518.03 for sewer work across the city
- Pittsburg Valve Foundry paid for gate valves for fire water system
- City assigns its rights under fire boat construction insurance policies to Risdon Iron and Locomotive Works, which may collect sums due.
- Board allowed and ordered paid the treasury demands listed in Register of Demands No. 9 on Finance Committee report.
- Resolution appropriates $300 to continue sanitary measures in San Francisco during April 1910.
- Payment to Healy-Tibbitts Construction Co. for North Beach sewer work, sixth contract installment, passed for printing.
- Mission Bank and C. A. Waring were awarded unsold 1904 sewer bonds at par, totaling $40,200.
- Payments from the school bond fund for construction work at Clement Primary and McKinley schools were adopted.
- A resolution authorizing payments from the school construction bond issue was introduced and passed for printing.
- Clerk to advertise a $900,000 water bond sale in June
- The Finance Committee's report allowing demands on the treasury totalling $219,470.86 was approved by the Board.
- Payments for pipe and fire cisterns in the Auxiliary Water System were passed for printing, including $7,993.39 in freight charges.
- Proposed ordinance paying premiums on bonds of Board of Public Works members was sent back to the Finance Committee.
- Resolution appropriates $170 from urgent necessities funds so the Sheriff can buy medical instruments for the Ingleside County Jail.
- Payment of $20,000 to Dyer Brothers for steel work at the Hall of Justice was adopted.
- Resolution passed for printing: $16,629.54 from the school bond fund paid to contractors for five school projects.
- $300 from urgent necessities funds bought stationery for the Assessor's office, adopted.
- Antonietta Casini to be paid $700 for the Pixley Street land
- Resolution repealing the $200,000 set-aside for building and equipping Marshall, Grattan, Peabody and Cleveland Schools was passed for printing.
- Supervisors approved $300 to continue sanitary measures in San Francisco during May 1910 through the Board of Health.
- Isolation Hospital's $19,100 salary and upkeep accounts merged into one
- The Finance Committee's report was adopted, allowing $100,440.80 in city demands to be paid.
- Finance Committee reported in favour of allowing $221,246.88 in demands, which the Board ordered paid by vote of 16 ayes.
- Board proposed paying Caldwell & Co. $32,460 as the first installment on the Hall of Justice construction contract.
- City accepts the Geary Street railroad's report of April fares
- Finance Committee recommended, and the Board allowed and ordered paid, demands totalling $24,495 from the treasury.
- The Board allowed and ordered paid city demands totaling $365,502.42 on the Finance Committee's report.
- Demands on the city treasury of about $205,827 were allowed by the Finance Committee and ordered paid.
- Teachers' convention invited to meet in San Francisco next
- Demands of $13,600.80 on the treasury approved for payment
- The Board extended sympathy to Supervisor Paul Bancroft on the death of his mother, Matilda G. Bancroft.
- The Board asked the District Attorney to seek annulment of the injunction that let a stable at 129 Wilmot Street continue.
- Finance Committee's report on city demands in Register No. 9 allowed and ordered paid.
- Resolution authorizing payment for supplies to the Relief Home was passed for printing.
- The Board of Public Works was proposed to receive $500 to continue work in Hetch Hetchy Valley.
- Supply payments totaling $42,243.39 to city vendors, including Relief Home food, were passed for printing.
- Southern Pacific to pay extra for the sewer under its tracks
- Mayor authorized to appoint a committee of fifty citizens to arrange the Discovery Day celebration.
- Healy-Tibbitts paid $25,209.11 for the Yerba Buena district sewer
- The Board allowed and ordered paid city demands totalling $5,103.56 after the Finance Committee approved them.
- Ninth installment of $18,873 to Charles C. Moore & Co. for fire-protection water system steel was passed for printing.
- Board approved payment of presented treasury demands, following the Finance Committee's recommendation.
- $250 for test holes at the Marshall Primary School site
- Sharon Estate Company's temporary City Hall accepted at $5,000 a month
- $693.25 to Mahoney Bros. for fire cisterns at Berkshire and Diamond
- Finance Committee approved city payment demands, beginning with numbers 15,481, and they were ordered paid.
- Sewer construction payments totalling $80,187.27 to several contractors were passed for printing.
- Proposed resolution authorizes fire-protection bond payments to Pittsburg Valve Foundry for gate valves, and Ajax Brass for manhole frames.
- Board asked its Streets Committee to investigate the city's title to Mission Bay tide lands, including China and Central Basins.
- $133.49 paid in redemption fees on land the city acquired
- City's financial statement approved, with bonded debt of $16.3M
- Rincon Publishing Company is paid $580.61 for printing the Municipal Record in September 1910.
- Resolution to pay Sherry-Freitas Co. $1028 for City and County Hospital food supplies was passed for printing.
- E. G. Knapp's land for St. Mary's Square bought for $400
- Payment of $30,694.45 to the Gas and Electric Company for October 1910 street and building lighting was passed for printing.
- Resolution authorizing payments for sundry supplies and services introduced by Kelly and passed for printing.
- Running water for County Jail cells put off indefinitely
- The Board allowed and ordered paid a batch of city demands recommended by the Finance Committee.
- Supervisor Kelly's $2,000 resolution for water connections in County Jail No. 2 cells was passed for printing.
- Supervisor Kelly's proposal for a $4,500 hand ball court at the Southern Police Station was refused passage.
- Board accepted United Railroads' Parkside Transit receipts and ordered $242.48 paid to the city as franchise percentage.
- Robert C. Storrie to be paid $15,080.06 for Hunter's Point sewer
- Board fixed December 5, 1910 for opening bids on $181,200 sewer bonds and $50,000 school bonds.
- Five rooms rented in the Hibernia Building for the County Clerk
- Land bought on Farallones Street for the Sheridan School
- The Finance Committee's report allowing $327,020 in city demands was approved and ordered paid by the Board.
- Kelly-moved payments from the School Construction Account, including $2,475.40 to J. J. Connolly for Clement Primary School plastering.
- Proposal to rescind the award of water bond printing to Security Bank Note Company was refused passage.
- Payments totaling $9,214.88 from the Fire Protection Account for auxiliary water system castings were passed for printing.
- Payment to R. J. Keown Jr. for asphalt furnished to the Municipal Asphalt Plant was passed for printing.
- The Finance Committee's city payment demands totalling $20,779.18 were allowed and ordered paid.
- Payments totalling $37,336.25 to contractors for school buildings from the School Construction Account were passed for printing.
- City demands in Register of Demands No. 10 were allowed on the Finance Committee's report and ordered paid.
- C. J. Harney paid $10,220.15 for the North Point main sewer
- A Merchants' Association complaint about Charter Amendment No. 38, which sets a $3.00 daily minimum wage, was referred to the Charter Amendment Committee.
- Payments totalling $4,708.79 for minors' care and Assessor's rolls were proposed and passed for printing.
- Supervisor Kelly moved a four-member special committee to work with Finance Committee on honouring Madame Tetrazzini.
- The Board allowed city demands totalling $135,638.70 on the Finance Committee's report.
- The Board approved paying $154,159.74 in city demands recommended by the Finance Committee.
- Proposed measure authorizing payments for construction of school buildings was passed for printing on Kelly's motion.
- Resolution authorizes a payment of $31,611.98 from the General Fund to the San Francisco Gas and Electric Company for lighting.
- Finance Committee's report allowing city demands numbered 27,881 to 28,422 was approved and ordered paid.
- A payment of $31,547.52 to C. J. Harney for North Point Main Sewer work was passed for printing.
- A $12,000 payment to Caldwell & Co for the San Francisco Hospital construction was passed for printing.
- A resolution to pay Chas. H. Cassasa $761 for a band for Golden Gate Park concerts was passed for printing.
- A resolution to pay Rincon Publishing Company $523.39 for printing the April 1911 Municipal Record was passed for printing.
- Bill 1875 authorizing Board of Public Works contracts for San Francisco Hospital interior work, up to $300,000, was passed for printing.
- Passed for printing: payments of $1,808.56 for paving at Bernal Park and $33,044.06 for gas and electricity.
- $500 was approved for the Board of Public Works to build desks and shelving for the County Clerk at Temporary City Hall.
- A. M. Hunt was awarded 15 water supply bonds worth $15,000 at the bid price.
- Resolution 8225 lets the Auditor move $1,500 to the City and County Hospital salary fund to cover a deficit.
- Board passed for printing payments totaling $16,978.21 to Healy-Tibbitts and Michael Murphy for the Auxiliary Water Supply System.
- The Board passed for printing payments of $8,080.65 to institutions caring for minors committed by the Juvenile Court.
- Bay Cities Home Telephone Company's $250,000 franchise performance bond was approved and an earlier 1906 bond was cancelled.
- Resolution adopted setting aside $500 from the Polytechnic High School fund for a program clock.
- Resolution proposed to pay $14,186.43 for fire station construction and care of minors, passed for printing.
- $500 was approved for the Board of Health to buy a team of two horses for emergency ambulance service.
- One thousand forty-nine dollars and thirty-two cents was proposed for redwood ties for the Geary Street railway, paid to Julius Heyman Company.
- Board proposed paying Mabel R. Stoneberger $9,500 for a Commercial Street lot needed by the Fire Department.
- Resolution passed for printing authorizing $21,000 to Trevor & Co. for playground land and $1,666 to Spring Valley Water Co.
- Bill to let the County Clerk appoint four more clerks and the Sheriff four more bailiffs for Superior Courts was passed for printing.
- Spring Valley Water Co. and the SF SPCA are to be paid $11,712.24 for hydrant water and animal impounding.
- Board passed for printing a resolution authorizing $26,056.25 in payments for school building work, including Lowell High School.
- The Mayor was authorized to appoint a 25-citizen Memorial Day committee, which may spend up to $500, adopted 14 ayes.
- Finance Committee's report allowing city demands for payment was approved and ordered paid by the Board.
- Resolution passed for printing to pay Columbia Marble, Wm. Bateman and A. Knowles $16,305 for Hall of Justice construction work.
- $50 approved for June 1911 sanitary measures by the Board of Health and Marine Hospital Service.
- Board allowed and ordered paid treasury demands listed in Register of Demands No. 11, after Finance Committee review.
- Board allowed and ordered paid city demands numbered 28,441 to 28,754 in Register of Demands No. 10.
- Payment of about $12,021 to Pennsylvania Steel Co. for Geary Street railway rails was passed for printing.
- Property owners' appeal against the Twentieth Avenue sidewalk assessment issued to McGaffigan was denied and the assessment confirmed.
- Earlier $2,000 appropriation for preliminary work on the Stockton Street tunnel was repealed.
- Resolution proposing $14,171.34 final payment to F. Rolandi for Sunnyside sewer Section B was passed for printing.
- Resolution proposing $13,504 final payment to Healy-Tibbitts Construction Co. for North Point sewer was passed for printing.
- Resolution proposing $11,479.69 progress payment to Healy-Tibbitts Construction Co. for Yerba Buena sewer was passed for printing.
- Resolution authorizing $578.88 from the General Fund to R. A. Crothers, proprietor of the Bulletin, for official advertising was passed for printing.
- Passed for printing: $740 payment to C. F. Weber & Co. for 370 chairs for Hancock Grammar School.
- Proposal to advertise for bids on a franchise to remove dead animals from streets was laid over one week.
- Payment of $5,119.90 to Norman W. Hall for San Francisco films was indefinitely postponed.
- Proposed payment of $11,139.21 from the sewer construction account to Pacific Coast Casualty Co. as surety for Metropolis Construction Co.
- Proposed payment of $45,038.11 to Robert C. Storrie & Co. for Hunters Point sewer construction work.
- Proposed school payments totaling $2,138.38 were indefinitely postponed on Kelly's motion.
- Board of Public Works may spend $500 on a curb wall and fence at the San Bruno Avenue fire house.
- Demands totaling $243,831.13 were allowed and ordered paid after the Finance Committee approved them.
- Resolution to pay Pennsylvania Steel Company $45,397.22 for Geary Street railway rails passed for printing.
- Resolution to pay E. A. Norton $30,000 for land at Jefferson and Jones Streets for a Geary Street power house passed for printing.
- Proposed payments totalling $11,613.27 for March 1911 Relief Home supplies and Spring Valley Water fire-hydrant service.
- Resolution authorizing $19,782.45 from the Sewer Construction Account to Pacific Coast Casualty Company for Lower Sunset Sewer work was passed for printing.
- Resolution authorizing March 1911 payments to charitable institutions for maintaining minors committed by the Juvenile Court was passed for printing.
- Proposed payments totaling $6,275.38 for rents, plumbing supplies and fire house work were passed for printing.
- City authorizes $32,174.49 payment to San Francisco Gas and Electric Company for June 1911 street and building power.
- Resolution rebuts San Francisco Chronicle criticism, calling the Cherry Creek water-rights purchase a desirable one.
- Department of Electricity cable splicer gets a $280 raise to match union scale for the fiscal year.
- Payments totalling $43,675.30 for North Point main sewer contractors were passed for printing.
- Demands totalling $79,097.61 were allowed and ordered paid after Finance Committee review.
- Payments of $43,485.20 were proposed for May 1911 gas, lighting and water bills to the Gas and Electric Company and Spring Valley Water Company.
- Resolution authorizing street work expenditures was passed for printing on Supervisor Kelly's motion.
- Payments totaling $11,676.99 proposed to Spring Valley Water Co. and the animal society for June 1911 services.
- Finance Committee's report allowing $47,817.96 in city demands for payment was adopted.
- Payments totalling $26,871.75 to contractors for school buildings were passed for printing, funded from the School Construction Account.
- The city agreed to accept P. Martin's offer of land in Mission Block 90 as an additional site for Edison School.
- The Board adopted a $500 payment to the Memorial Day Committee for the 1911 Memorial Day celebration.
- The Board received a statement of $1,418.95 in receipts from San Francisco Electric Protective Company under its burglar alarm franchise.
- $60 was approved for Miss Fry to buy an artificial limb for a leper patient at Isolation Hospital.
- Demands of $82,504.42 from Register of Demands No. 10 approved by Finance Committee and ordered paid.
- Resolution to pay Dyer Brothers $2,775 for fire-protection Pumping Station No. 1 steelwork was passed for printing.
- Supervisor John I. Nolan was granted a thirty-day leave of absence from April 6, 1911.
- Payments for maintaining and schooling committed minors at six institutions were passed for printing.
- Fire Department payments for September 1911 supplies and services, including $570 to D. Demartini, continue on the next page.
- Public Works ordered to prepare plans for the Geary Street railway roadbed from Market to Thirty-third Avenue.
- The Committee of the Whole reported continuing the water rates inquiry for 1911-12, and the Board adopted that report.
- Demands of $284,400.20 on the treasury, recommended by Finance Committee for payment, with vote on next page.
- Chas. C. Moore & Co. would be paid $12,112.50 for pumping equipment at Townsend street, passed for printing.
- Bay Cities Home Telephone Company's $250,000 franchise bond was ordered cancelled once a replacement bond is filed.
- Demands totalling $143,002.36 from Register of Demands No. 11 allowed on Finance Committee report and ordered paid.
- Resolution proposed to pay $5,838 for groceries and office rents from the General Fund.
- Presidio and Ferries Railroad's $272.35 fare-receipts payment accepted and ordered deposited in the General Fund.
- The Board adopted a resolution letting Mayor Taylor travel to Washington to promote the Panama-Pacific Exposition.
- $250 was set aside for an incinerator at the new Tubercular Pavilion to destroy sputum cups and rags.
- The Mayor was authorized to lease the Old North Beach Police Station to the Commissioner of Immigration for ten dollars a month.
- Payments totalling $25,952.25 from the school construction account were authorized to contractors for Jean Parker, Spring Valley and Grattan schools.
- The Board allowed and ordered paid $189,365.55 in city demands after Finance Committee approval.
- Payment to Union Machine Company for Auxiliary Water Supply gate valves proposed, passed for printing.
- Passed for printing: $54,833.08 in progress payments to five contractors for the North Point main sewer.
- Resolution adopted transferring $745 from the Public Health salary budget to cover the Health Department's expense deficit.
- $150 adopted to entertain forty-five visiting boys of the Young Australian League from Perth.
- Resolution adopted providing $500 to buy flags for decoration, to be spent by the Finance Committee.
- Sewer construction payments to contractors including Storrie and Keystone were introduced and passed for printing from the Sewer Construction Account.
- Board fixed the maximum payment for burying indigent honorably discharged soldiers and sailors at $50.
- Resolution proposed to pay Union Iron Works Company $13,244.99 for the ninth installment on fire hydrants.
- Resolution proposed to pay $23,088.01 for Geary Street Municipal Railway wire, trolley poles and rail freight, passed for printing.
- Resolution proposed to pay Wm. Bruce $2,045.57 for fire-protection water tank work near Lombard Street, passed for printing.
- Clerk to advertise sale of school, hospital and Hall of Justice bonds, with the sale set for September 11, 1911.
- Board approved $14,357.97 in payments from the school construction account for work on several San Francisco school buildings.
- Halsey and Company and Rollins and Sons win the city's $612,302 bond sale for school, hospital and Hall of Justice bonds.
- Supervisor Kelly moved $411.80 from urgent necessities funds for law books for the Justices' Court and Recorder's office.
- Resolution to pay McLeran and Peterson $17,329 for Polytechnic High School shop building work was passed for printing.
- The Board awarded a contract for a motor ambulance for emergency hospitals to Consolidated Motor Car Company, a Pope-Hartford.
- Payments totalling about $6,320 were allowed to suppliers for Fire Department hay, coal, oats and fuel oil.
- Payments were allowed for architect fees on the Marshall School and progress payments on the Grattan School construction contract.
- Demands totaling $315,331.93 on the city treasury were allowed and ordered paid.
- Pennsylvania Steel Co. to receive $30,590.20 final payment for rails for the Geary Street railroad; passed for printing.
- Passed for printing: $13,548 in school fund payments to contractors for Grattan, Spring Valley and Lincoln schools.
- The Clerk was directed to advertise for bids for canvas storm curtains at the Tubercular Pavilion of City and County Hospital.
- Payments totalling $6,622.53 to five suppliers for Fire Department fire boats and supplies were passed for printing.
- Board of Park Commissioners gets $50 to connect Park Police Station to Spring Valley Water Company mains.
- A resolution to pay Whitaker & Ray-Wiggin Co. $1,198.50 for blackboards at Jean Parker School was passed for printing.
- The Board sold $313,758 of Polytechnic High School bonds to Harris Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago, the highest bidder.
- Bill to let the Auditor appoint additional employees and set their pay was passed for printing under suspension of rules.
- Payments totalling $2,929.43 for asphalt and limerock supplies to the Board of Public Works were introduced and sent to print.
- Board engaged rooms in the Grant Building for Superior Courts at $300 monthly rent, starting May 1, 1911.
- Progress payments to sewer contractors on North Point, Ingleside, Mission and Seventh street sewers proposed; passed for printing.
- Resolution proposed paying Southern Pacific Company $3,036.87 for freight on Ingleside sewer pipe, passed for printing.
- Resolution setting aside $1212.75 for furniture and linoleum for Superior Courts in the Grant Building was adopted.
- Board adopted a resolution setting aside $500 for the Board of Health to buy a team of horses for emergency ambulances.
- Bill 1832 proposes letting the Sheriff appoint an additional cashier for his office, passed for printing.
- A $32,922.34 payment to San Francisco Gas and Electric Company for October 1911 street and building lighting was passed for printing.
- Payments of about $21,910 from the School Construction Account for work on several city school buildings were passed for printing.
- Payments of about $21,922 from the sewer construction account were proposed to contractors building North Point and Division Street sewers.
- Payments totalling $6,531.25 to four suppliers for Fire Department supplies in January 1911 were passed for printing.
- Resolution adopted giving the Discovery Day Committee $250 to observe Discovery Day on October 12, 1911.
- Bill No. 1798 to place unsold 1904 school bonds on sale at the City Treasurer's office was introduced and passed for printing.
- Payments of $552.76 to Rincon Publishing and $1,214.85 to A. Crothers for printing and advertising were introduced and passed for printing.
- The Board sent a resolution paying gas, electricity and printing bills totaling $33,504.09 to the printing stage.
- Resolution adopted providing $400 for screens and bars at the Juvenile Detention Home, 2344 Sutter Street.
- Proposed $2,000 from the paving budget for preliminary work on the Stockton Street tunnel, passed for printing.
- Six thousand four hundred sixty-eight dollars was proposed as second payment to Henning & Burke for Clement School yard work, passed for printing.
- Board adopted Resolution 7776, setting aside $200 for the Clerk to pay witness and jury fees in city lawsuits.
- Resolution adopted giving $75 to cover a court messenger's salary shortfall for April through June 1911.
- $500 approved to remove partitions in Grant Building and arrange court rooms for the Superior Courts; resolution adopted.
- The Board accepted George Somers's offer to sell land in Excelsior Homestead Block No. 14 for an additional Monroe School site.
- Resolution authorizing $5,500 for Corbett Avenue land and $10,896.25 to Spring Valley Water for hydrant water, passed for printing.
- Finance Committee's report allowing city demands numbered 694 to 704 was approved and ordered paid.
- A resolution to spend $38,422.50 on Hall of Justice and County Jail construction was passed for printing.
- Treasury demands of $56,279.54 were allowed and ordered paid after Finance Committee approval.
- Supervisors approved transferring $635 between Health Department appropriations to cover a January to March 1911 expense deficit.
- $17,000 set aside to cover the City and County Hospital salary and maintenance deficit, adopted.
- Board allowed and ordered paid $332,620.59 in city demands after Finance Committee approval.
- $2,000 for incidental expenses on the Stockton Street tunnel passed for printing.
- City demands totalling $205,170.08 were allowed by the Finance Committee report and ordered paid.
- H. H. Bancroft's Sons, Inc. was awarded ten Geary Street Railway bonds for $10,010, and the Board accepted the bid.
- Resolution introduced and passed for printing to pay sewer contractors from the Sewer Construction Account.
- Board of Health gets $150 from urgent necessities funds to buy diphtheria anti-toxin for free distribution.
- Board proposed paying City and County Hospital suppliers for November and December 1911 meat, groceries and milk.
- Resolution proposed to pay Wm. Bateman $7,500 for interior finish work at the Hall of Justice.
- Board adopted a resolution accepting bids from N. W. Halsey and Company and E. H. Rollins and Sons to buy certain bonds.
- Board passed for printing a $6,675 payment to Henning & Burke for yard work at Clement Primary School.
- Board authorized $10,343.70 from the Fire Protection Account to Union Machine Co. for fire water-supply gate valves.
- The Finance Committee's report allowing the presented city demands in Register No. 10 was approved and ordered paid, 14 ayes.
- Resolution authorizing $12,647.75 in payments to contractors for work on Denman and Harrison Primary Schools was passed for printing.
- Treasury demands totaling $192,843.27 were allowed by the Finance Committee and ordered paid.
- Proposed payments of $36,425 for the county jail and Hall of Justice construction were passed for printing.
- Proposed payments totaling $8,438.88 for playground loam, teaming, directories and printing were passed for printing.
- Board repealed the $500 earlier grant for a program clock at Polytechnic High School.
- Treasury demands totaling $58,154.30 allowed and ordered paid on Finance Committee report.
- Certain painting supply bids were rejected and the Clerk was directed to advertise for new proposals.
- City demands totalling $124,480.69 were allowed and ordered paid after Finance Committee approval.
- Resolution proposed paying seven sewer contractors a total of $42,773.85 from the 1908 bond sewer account.
- Progress payments for Lower Sunset and North Point Main sewer contracts were proposed for printing, to be paid from the Sewer Construction Account.
- A $60,000 appropriation for street and sewer repairs in June 1911 was passed for printing.
- The Clerk was directed to advertise the sale of $8,000 in Garbage Disposal Bonds, with bids due June 12, 1911.
- Passed for printing: a $38,422.50 sixth installment payment to Caldwell & Co. for Hall of Justice construction.
- Supervisors' committee approved $375 from urgent necessities funds to attend the League of California Municipalities convention in Santa Barbara.
- Resolution to pay Mary's Help Hospital $25,000 for Jefferson street land, a Geary Street railway power house site, passed for printing.
- Passed for printing a $26,000 ordinance letting the Board of Public Works contract for yard work at Clement Primary School.
- Passed for printing a $2,000 ordinance authorizing a yard fence contract at Mission Grammar School.
- Board adopted resolution setting aside $200 so the Clerk can pay witness and stenographer fees in city lawsuits.
- Supervisors allowed and ordered paid $170,317.97 in city demands recommended by the Finance Committee.
- Board thanks Spring Valley Water Company for its relief map of its plant and properties.
- Demands totalling $48,372.08 were allowed and ordered paid on the Finance Committee's report.
- Playground Commissioner Henry J. McCoy was granted thirty days' leave of absence from the city, starting May 29, 1911.
- Payment of $717.80 to Rincon Publishing Company for printing the Municipal Record was approved.
- Finance Committee reported approval and the Board allowed $101,578.33 in treasury demands for payment.
- Resolution authorizes $1,138.38 in school yard supply payments to J. W. Shouten & Co. and Golden Gate Brick Co., passed for printing.
- Board allowed and ordered paid city demands totalling $103,890.11 after the Finance Committee approved them.
- Board allowed and ordered paid $17,899.26 in treasury demands on the Finance Committee's recommendation.
- Board approved $300 for Sarah B. Frey to buy clothing for Leper Hospital inmates.
- Payments totalling $42,219.91 to contractors and a surety for sewer construction work were introduced for printing.
- Proposed $13,400 final payment to Pacific Rolling Mill Co. for structural steel at Lowell High School, passed for printing.
- Proposed $11,700 second installment to Henning & Burke for yard work at Denman School, passed for printing.
- Proposed payments totalling $9,268.36 for police station work, ballots, water and Ingleside compensation, passed for printing.
- Proposed $8,970 fourth installment to Robert Trost for construction of Lincoln School, passed for printing.
- Proposed $1,133.88 payment to Whitaker & Ray-Wiggin Co. for desks at Peabody School, passed for printing.
- The Finance Committee's demands totalling $873,488.42 were allowed and ordered paid.
- Resolution proposed authorizing General Fund payments to food and drug suppliers for the Relief Home and City and County Hospital.
- Geary Street, Park and Ocean Railroad's March 1911 fare receipts accepted; $736.50 owed to the city deposited.
- Land on Greenwich Street offered by H. T. Gower for $8,000 accepted as Harbor View police station site.
- The Board allowed and ordered paid $181,211.03 in city demands after the Finance Committee approved them.
- Finance Committee approved and the Board ordered paid $8801.84 in city demands upon the treasury.
- Board ordered the City Attorney to begin condemnation of a Broadway parcel needed as an added Washington Irving School site.
- Board authorizes condemnation of land on Broadway near Sansome Street for Washington Irving School expansion.
- Demands totalling about $102,198 were allowed and ordered paid after Finance Committee review.
- Resolution authorizing payment for water supplied to hydrants and the public pound was passed for printing.
- $606.78 from the General Fund authorized to pay R. A. Crothers, publisher of The Bulletin, for Board advertising.
- Resolution proposed to pay Raisch Improvement Company $11,412.24 for granite curbs on Mission Street, Eleventh to Fourteenth streets.
- Supervisor Kelly's $10,000 request for Second Street high-pressure water mains was sent back to the Finance Committee.
- Resolution to pay a man to keep city office furniture in order was refused passage, then sent back to the Finance Committee.
- Payment of $778.60 to San Francisco Cornice Co. for storm doors at four schools passed for printing.
- Board allowed and ordered paid city demands on the treasury totalling $159,213.05 on Finance Committee report.
- Resolution proposed to pay three orphan asylums about $4,149 combined for housing minors committed by Juvenile Court in June 1911.
- Ordinance to offer unsold 1910 Geary Street Railway bonds for sale at the Treasurer's office was passed for printing.
- Finance Committee recommended paying $209,697.78 in city demands, and the Board ordered them paid by a 17-0 vote.
- The Board accepted the Geary Street Park and Ocean Railroad's December 1910 receipts statement, and $817.41 due the city was paid into the General Fund.
- Payments of $758.91 for lumber to J. W. Schouten & Co. and $648.00 rent to C. Anderson were adopted.
- City Attorney authorized to condemn two lots in Holly Park Tract to enlarge the Holly Park School.
- Resolution for printing authorizes $23,583.04 in payments to three contractors for sewer work on Lincoln Way and North Point.
- City demands totalling $100,989.70 were referred to the Finance Committee, which reported favourably on paying them.
- Resolution to pay the Mee Estate $56,000 for land at Geary and Presidio for a Geary Street railway barn was passed for printing.
- Demands totalling $54,683.21 on the treasury were allowed and ordered paid on the Finance Committee's report.
- A resolution authorizing $16,485.38 for gate valves for the auxiliary water system was proposed.
- Payments totalling $32,897.60 for sand and gas and electricity supplied to city works were passed for printing.
- The Board allowed and ordered paid city demands of about $16,349 on Register of Demands No. 10, on the Finance Committee's report.
- The Board adopted a motion appointing a committee, including the Mayor and City Attorney, to plan gradual removal of shack buildings.
- Board asks the Mayor to proclaim that City employees may take time off for Good Friday services.
- Supervisor Kelly's motion directs the Clerk to draft a resolution urging the Panama-Pacific Exposition Company to pick a site and begin construction.
- The budget for the ensuing fiscal year was passed for printing as Bill No. 1773, an ordinance appropriating city funds.
- Supervisors passed the 1912 city budget bill for printing by a vote of sixteen ayes.
- Board finally passed Resolution 8055 providing $3,600 to cover the June 1911 deficit in the Fire Pension Fund.
- Finance Committee's report allowing $112,501.68 in city demands was approved and ordered paid by the Board.
- City Attorney told to drop condemnation proceedings for land on Dehon Street needed for Everett Grammar School.
- Finance Committee's recommended payment of $10,864.69 in city demands was allowed and ordered paid.
- Resolution authorizing $1,580.86 in June 1911 grocery payments to Sherry-Freitas Co. passed for printing.
- Board allowed $10,864.69 in city demands for payment, listed in Register of Demands No. 10.
- Resolution proposed authorizing payments for Relief Home groceries and election printing, passed for printing.
- Motion carried to appoint Supervisors Kelly, Murdock and Nolan to draft condolence resolutions for Supervisor Harris.
- Supervisor Kelly moved to give Gallagher the committee seats vacated by Supervisor Harris's death; motion carried.
- Board of Health approved $150 to buy a sputum shaker for the Department of Public Health's bacteriological laboratory.
- Finance Committee recommended and the Board allowed $12,339.42 in city demands, ordered paid by a 17-member vote.
- Sundry supplies, gas and electric service, and police contingency payments were passed for printing, totaling $33,293.05.
- Final payment of $23,050.91 to R. C. Storrie & Co. for North Point sewer work passed for printing.
- Board deferred a $5,110.90 payment to Norman W. Hall for San Francisco films shown at the Chicago municipal exhibit.
- Demands totalling $14,054.81 were allowed and ordered paid after Finance Committee approval.
- City demands totalling $28,008.25 from Register of Demands No. 11 were approved by the Finance Committee and ordered paid.
- A resolution authorizing payments from the School Construction Account for school building work was passed for printing.
- Payments of $987.75, $5,307 and $4,395 to contractors for work on Visitacion, Spring Valley and Lowell schools were sent to print.
- Offer to sell land on Hayes Street near Clayton Street for $37,500 for Jackson School was accepted on Supervisor Kelly's motion.
- Payments to McSheehy Bros, Pacific Gas and Electric and an animal society were passed for printing.
- Board of Public Works gets $500 to prepare a profile map of the Reis Tract and Visitacion Valley.
- A resolution authorizing payment from the General Fund to Spring Valley Water Co. for water furnished to fire hydrants was passed for printing.
- City demands totaling $23,792.56 were approved by the Finance Committee and ordered paid.
- A progress payment to Brandon & Lawson for school building work was passed for printing.
- Payments of $15,135 to two contractors for work at the Lowell High School and Lincoln School were passed for printing.
- Cornelia M. Stafford's land bought for $22,000 for the Grant School
- A bill ordering construction of Pumping Station No. 2 of the Auxiliary Water Supply System at Fort Mason was passed for printing.
- Proposed payments of $47,034.64 to utility and stationery companies for December 1911 services were sent to printing.
- A $300 salary increase for the Assistant Bond Clerk in the Treasurer's office was adopted by the Board.
- The Board allowed and ordered paid about $44,186 in city demands after the Finance Committee approved them.