All decisions
46 Board decisions about John D. Hynes, in date order. Each links to its printed page.
- Point of order sustained against the committee's proposed appointment of Ernest C. Williams as Municipal Band leader.
- Board approved $10,000 for the Municipal Band, limited to concerts and functions in public parks and municipal grounds.
- Supervisor Hynes proposed asking the Chief of Police to investigate side rooms at liquor-serving cafes; sent to the Police Committee.
- Municipal Orchestra granted free use of Exposition Auditorium Main Hall on March 11, 1917 for a concert.
- Supervisor Hynes offered a resolution to appoint Edward Lemare as official city organist; the outcome continues on the next page.
- Property owners' appeal against the Nineteenth Avenue street assessment was laid over two weeks on Hynes's motion.
- Supervisor Hynes's motion asking the Finance Committee to give each supervisor budget comparisons was lost.
- Clerk directed to ask Board of Public Works why lights on safety stations were not installed.
- Motion to strike $82,152 restoring money to the Municipal Railway Fund from the budget was lost.
- Proposal to raise 36 jailers' yearly pay from $1,200 to $1,500 was withdrawn.
- Hynes's proposal to set the Twin Peaks Tunnel clerk pay at $1,800 was ruled out of order.
- Motion to raise the Convention League grant by $10,000 to $25,000 failed.
- Motion to cut daily pay for 20 city team drivers from $10 to $9 was referred to the Finance Committee.
- Supervisor Hynes moved to print Mayor Rolph's Hetch Hetchy Valley description as a pamphlet; motion carried.
- Ordinance setting standard bread weights and regulating its sale was postponed to the next regular meeting.
- Supervisor Hynes moved that the police matrons' charter amendment be referred to committee with instructions to draft a separate matrons-only amendment.
- Board, as amended, ordered a charter amendment on blanketing chief deputies submitted to voters.
- Supervisors voted on a letter demanding removal of school director Alice Rose Power over her ties to Harr Wagner Publishing.
- Tuberculosis association letter on care of San Francisco patients in outside counties sent to the Health Committee for a report.
- Complaint about an apartment house at Twenty-sixth avenue and West Clay referred to the Building Committee.
- Clerk instructed to ask department heads for employee lists, salaries and hours of employment.
- Request for Duboce Avenue tunnel rates laid on the table
- The Lighting Committee may keep employing Miss Maroney as long as it needs her and its funds permit.
- Supervisor Hynes moved to defer the Masonic avenue streetcar extension bill one week after the City Engineer warned of losses.
- Masonic Avenue streetcar tracks agreement with Market Street Railway Company was put off for one week by Supervisor Hynes' motion.
- Motion to raise per diem men's daily wages from $5 to $6 failed on a vote of seven to eleven.
- Ringling Bros. and Barnum-Bailey allowed to show at Twelfth and Market
- Municipal Railway extension proposed from Cole and Carl to Great Highway
- Mayor was authorized to appoint Supervisors to attend the League of California Municipalities convention at Palo Alto.
- $5,000 set aside for Live Stock buildings at Twelfth and Market
- Board carried a motion asking the Clerk to invite supervisors to a Southern Heights Improvement Club meeting at Neighborhood Hall.
- Fire limits to be extended along Van Ness Avenue
- Supervisor Hynes moved that his resolution on investigating License Tax Amendment campaign money be reported back next Monday; the motion carried.
- Board ordered the Mayor to appoint a committee to plan sunrise Easter services on Mt. Davidson, with the Municipal Band.
- Publicity and advertising payment of $840.98 to the Convention and Tourist League was referred to committee.
- Mrs. S. Boylan and other property owners petition against burning rice hulls and dumping garbage along San Bruno avenue and Army street.
- The Board refused to reconsider the $10,000 annual salary fixed for the Purchaser of Supplies.
- Hynes's motion to take an itemized budget from the table was defeated by the Board.
- Supervisor Hynes moved that the Public Welfare Committee chairman call a meeting on narcotics, including the Mayor, police chief and White Cross; motion carried.
- An ordinance proposed authorizing the Board of Public Works to advertise for bids on a bus line on Embarcadero.
- The Central Council of Civic Clubs urged the Board to announce a plan for disposing of Hetch Hetchy hydroelectric power; the matter was referred to committee.
- $29,825 more for the Army Street sewer, built by Clinton Construction
- $224,802 set aside to build the Francisco School on Powell Street
- $20,000 each for an Ocean Beach swimming tank and Lake Merced golf links was laid over one week.
- Proposal to invite East Bay cities to join the Hetch Hetchy water project was referred to committee.
- Hynes's resolution opposing private resale of Moccasin Creek hydroelectric power was referred to the Public Utilities Committee.