All decisions
about 200 Board decisions about John P. McLaughlin, in date order. Each links to its printed page.
- Supervisor McLaughlin proposed asking the Board of Education to pay $11,393 in teachers' back salaries.
- Supervisor Healy proposed a revocable permission resolution for stables; outcome appears on the next page.
- Sewer contractors would be paid $40,594.56 in progress payments on several city sewer projects, passed for printing.
- The Board resolved into a committee to begin the telephone rates investigation; it will resume on February 24, 1910.
- The Committee of the Whole reported progress on the Spring Valley Water Company rate inquiry and asked to sit again February 10.
- Supervisors passed the amended city budget for printing as Bill No. 1338, a first step toward adoption.
- Southern Pacific Company may move its railroad tracks off Division Street onto adjoining private property.
- Healy-Tibbitts given sixty more days on the Lombard Street sewer
- Yerba Buena Improvement Company's temporary electric streetcar track permit was sent back to the Streets Committee.
- Street levels to change on Greenwich between Fillmore and Steiner streets
- Humboldt Street to be closed between Vermont and San Bruno Avenue
- Sewer ordered in Mission Street from Silver Avenue at $50,000
- Flinn & Treacy given sixty more days grading Fifteenth Street
- Land at Grant Avenue and California Street named St. Mary's Square
- Ordinance approving the official map of Mission Block No. 48 passed for printing.
- Property owners to be heard on the Twenty-first Street sewer bill
- City to take over Geary Street between Ninth and Tenth avenues
- Supervisor McLaughlin moved adoption of the Committee of the Whole report on heat, light and power rates; motion carried.
- Supervisor McLaughlin moved that the Finance and Accounts Committee may hire experts to investigate gas and light company statements; motion carried.
- City to take over Twenty-fourth Avenue between Geary and Clement streets
- United Railroads to lay underground wires on Leavenworth and Mason streets
- Street levels to change on Coleridge Street near Virginia Avenue
- Bill granting John Rapp & Son permission for a spur track was passed for printing.
- City officials were asked to report on policy for developing the Hetch Hetchy water supply by February 28; adopted 18 to 0.
- The Board adopted the Committee of the Whole's report on the preliminary telephone rates investigation and scheduled its resumption.
- Sewers ordered along Polk Street and Sanchez Street
- Street levels to change on Thrift Street between Orizaba and Capitol
- Appeal against Twenty-first Street sewer charge turned down
- Sewer construction in Section D of the Verba Buena District, estimated at $220,000, passed for printing.
- Bill ordering sewer construction in the Lower Sunset District, estimated at $175,000, passed for printing.
- Property owners' appeal against the Eighth Avenue street-work assessment issued to Peter McHugh was laid over one week.
- Mission Street viaduct section ordered at a cost up to $85,000
- Board granted the San Francisco Motor Club use of Nineteenth Avenue for an automobile hill-climbing contest on March 20, 1910.
- Public Works asked to recommend needed street work
- Street work proposed at Kirkham Street and sewers on Laidley Street
- City proposes to take over the new Nineteenth Street roadway
- Street levels proposed for many avenues and for Sloat Boulevard
- City to take over roadways on Diamond Street and Arguello Boulevard
- E. and A. Schumacher given sixty more days on Banks Street
- City to take over Nineteenth Street between Florida and Bryant streets
- Nineteenth Avenue used for automobile hill-climb contest
- Property owners' appeal against the Eighth Avenue grading assessment issued to Peter McHugh was laid over one week.
- James S. Angus and Archibald Kains offer land for Clifford Street
- Appeal against the Eighth Avenue grading assessment between K and L Streets was laid over one week.
- San Francisco Motor Club allowed another hill climb on Nineteenth Avenue
- Street levels proposed for change along Lincoln Way and the avenues
- Street levels to change on Parker Avenue and Fulton Street
- Ordinance proposed to change official street grades on Cortlandt avenue and Elsie street was passed for printing.
- Peter McHugh's Eighth Avenue grading assessment confirmed on appeal
- Hearing set on the sidewalk assessment at Steiner and Lombard Streets
- Thanks sent to Tuolumne County for backing water supply
- City to take over Dolores Street between Twenty-first and Twenty-second
- Property owners' appeal of a sidewalk assessment at Steiner and Lombard streets was referred to the Streets Committee.
- Street levels proposed for change on McKinnon, Newcomb and King Streets
- A vote with no subject on this page
- Grade changes on Parker Avenue and McAllister Street were passed on first reading and sent to print.
- Street levels to be changed on Greenwich between Fillmore and Steiner
- Street levels proposed for change on Polk and Chestnut Streets
- Street levels proposed for change on Clement Street and nearby avenues
- Spur track for Stanley J. Fay proposed off Harrison Street
- A spur track permit for Stanley J. Fay was recommitted to the Streets Committee, so it awaits further review.
- E. O. Rieser seeks a spur track at Twelfth Avenue South
- Supervisor Murdock proposed asking the police chief to strictly enforce the night ban on music and dancing in saloons.
- Sewers proposed for Seventh Street at a cost of $170,000
- Clerk directed to engross and send resolutions on Tuolumne water and ex-Mayor Pond, paid from the Urgent Necessity Fund.
- City Engineer to map the Belle Roche City subdivision
- Passed for printing an ordinance fully accepting the roadway of Lake Street between Twenty-fifth and Twenty-seventh avenues.
- An ordinance ordering a $165,000 sewer construction in Section A of the North Point Main Sewer was passed for printing.
- Adolph Meyer seeks a 1500 gallon oil tank on Leavenworth Street
- Hearing set on the California Street paving assessment appeal
- Street levels to be changed on Parnassus Avenue
- Street levels to be changed on Cortland Avenue and Bennington Street
- Street levels to be changed on Silver Avenue
- Sewers to be built on Silver Avenue for $16,200
- Street levels to be changed on Twentieth Avenue near Geary
- Supervisor Walsh proposed a resolution instructing the Board of Education to pay about $11,000 in back salary to teachers.
- United States allowed to lay a water main on Bay Street
- Street levels to be set on College Avenue near Mission Street
- Tunnel proposed under Stockton Street between Bush and California streets
- Intent declared to change Buchanan Street levels, Waller to Haight
- Supervisor McLaughlin moved to refer an unnamed matter to the Education Committee, and the motion carried.
- Board accepts the surrender of the Stockton Street franchise
- An ordinance to accept sewer rights of way from the Southern Pacific Company is before the Board on motion of McLaughlin.
- Ordinance suspending the dollar limit of taxation was indefinitely postponed on Supervisor McLaughlin's motion.
- A hearing on an assessment appeal for street work on California Street was set for 3:00 p.m. in the Board chambers.
- City to take over the new roadway on San Bruno Avenue
- Milos Gopcevic to get a rail spur off Lombard Street
- Street levels to be changed on Twenty-sixth and Noe streets
- City to take over new roadways on Day and Clement streets
- Street levels to be changed on Lundy's Lane
- Board allowed and ordered paid $27,108.82 in city demands on the Finance Committee's recommendation.
- Board of Public Works to seek bids for street materials
- Globe Grain and Milling seeks a tunnel across Francisco Street
- Resolution to pay Pacific Rolling Mill Co. for steel work on the new County Jail was passed for printing.
- Resolution repealing the earlier award of a contract to H. O. Harrison Company for five Peerless automobiles.
- Demands totalling $189,681.56 on the treasury were approved by the Finance Committee and ordered paid.
- National Ice and Cold Storage allowed a Rhode Island spur track
- Assessor's corrections to the 1910-11 tax roll approved
- The request by Public Works for funds to repair unaccepted streets and sidewalks was denied for the current fiscal year.
- Register of Demands payments were approved by the Finance Committee and allowed and ordered paid.
- Five school construction payments totalling $21,549.75 from the 1908 bond fund were introduced for printing, with McLaughlin moving.
- A resolution fixing a hearing date for objections to the assessment for the Beale Street change of grade, reported by the Board of Public Works.
- Payments totaling $24,707.81 for sewer construction contracts were passed for printing.
- Bill ordering sewer construction on Division Street, estimated at $65,000, was introduced on McLaughlin's motion.
- Academy of Sciences museum in Golden Gate Park proposed to voters
- Street levels to be changed on Newcomb Avenue and Lane Street
- Adolph Hagemann's land accepted to open Ramona Avenue
- Raisch Improvement Company allowed to blast on Fourth Avenue
- Street levels proposed for change on Geary Street near Masonic Avenue
- Healy-Tibbitts Construction Company was granted permission to blast for the North Point Main Sewer along Sansome Street, adopted.
- Property owners appeal the assessment issued to W. F. Hanrahan for paving California Street between Twelfth and Thirteenth avenues.
- A sewer work ordinance moved by Supervisor McLaughlin has its outcome printed on the next page.
- Home Telephone Company asked to install phones in two officials' homes
- Protest against grade changes on San Bruno Avenue sustained
- A resolution to rescind Charter Amendment No. 26 on holding more than one office was laid over to the next Board meeting.
- City to take over the new roadway on Hoffman Avenue
- Sidewalks on St. Mary's Avenue to be twelve feet wide
- Sidewalks on Silver Avenue to be ten feet wide
- City Engineer told to map the Excelsior Homestead Association subdivision
- Ten-foot sidewalks set for Girard, Berlin and many nearby streets
- Grade changes proposed on Chestnut Street between Webster and Steiner
- City to take over the Fifteenth and Utah Street crossing
- Pacific Coast Coal Company seeks a spur track on Fremont Street
- $3,000 proposed to rebuild sewers on Beale Street
- Property owners to be heard on P. J. McGaffigan's Twentieth Avenue assessment
- Mission Street to be repaved between Eleventh and Twelfth Streets
- Mission Street to be repaved between Twelfth and Thirteenth Streets
- Mission Street to be repaved between Thirteenth and Fourteenth Streets
- Consideration of the ordinance banning cremation of dead human bodies was laid over to November 7, 1910.
- Land to be swapped with Bay View Land Company for Jamestown Avenue
- Street levels proposed for change on Nineteenth Avenue and Balboa Street
- City to take over the roadway on Lake Street
- Street levels proposed for change on Faxon Avenue
- Street levels to be set on Silver Avenue
- Daniel Meyer's land offered to open Rae Avenue
- Crocker Estate Company's sewer easement in Glen Park to be accepted
- Sewer ordered along Underwood Avenue between Lane and Keith streets
- William Grant, president of the Homeland Company, was granted a ninety-day extension to finish blasting work.
- Street levels proposed for change on Laidley Street near Castro Street
- Street levels to be set on Doric Alley
- City to take over the roadway on Ord Street
- Property owners' appeal against the Twentieth Avenue sidewalk assessment was referred to the Streets Committee for hearing.
- Drake Street to be renamed West Clay Street
- A resolution introduced by Supervisor McLaughlin was sent back to the Streets Committee.
- Miller & Lux allowed a spur track along Arthur Avenue
- Ocean Shore Railway to replace wooden structures with steel
- City takes over the roadways on Central Avenue and Laguna Street
- City conditionally takes over Laguna Street between Bay and Beach streets
- Change of street levels proposed on De Boom Street
- Proposed ordinance adding a new section 434 on sidewalk widths was passed for printing.
- Ordinance ordering construction of Section A of the Ingleside Outlet Sewer, estimated at $34,000, passed for printing.
- Street levels on Twenty-fifth Avenue and West Clay Street proposed
- City conditionally takes over the roadway on California Street
- Land accepted to open Clifford, Pluto and Juno streets
- City to take over the Dolores Street roadway near Jersey Street
- City to take over Webster Street between Lombard and Chestnut
- The Board sent thanks to the New York Legislature for backing San Francisco's bid for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition.
- An ordinance to build sewers on Lincoln Way and Forty-eighth Avenue for an estimated $125,000 was passed for printing.
- Bill for $70,000 repaving of Mission Street between Second Street and The Embarcadero passed for printing.
- The Board declared its intention to change street grades on Second Street between Howard and Folsom streets.
- Bill 1633 proposes $70,000 in sewer bonds to build Section B of the Sunnyside Sewer, passed for printing on first reading.
- The Board accepted a donated granite fountain for horses and dogs, to be placed at Otis and Mission Streets.
- An ordinance accepting Elizabeth Hudson's sewer easement on Mendell Street was passed for printing.
- An ordinance accepting a Southern Pacific Company sewer easement on Mendell Street was passed for printing.
- Proposed ordinance orders sidewalks, curbs, paving and sewers on several San Francisco streets and authorizes contracts; outcome continues on next page.
- Changes to the official grades of Clayton Street, Corbett Avenue and Eighteenth Street passed for printing.
- Changes to the official grades of Dolores, Cumberland, Twentieth and Church streets passed for printing.
- Changes to the official grade of Faxon Avenue between Holloway and Grafton avenues passed for printing.
- Changes to the official grades of Gough, Filbert and Greenwich streets passed for printing.
- Changes to the official grades of Nineteenth Avenue, Anza Street and Balboa Street passed for printing.
- Changes to the official grades of Twenty-second Avenue and Balboa Street passed for printing.
- Ordinance for a Spring Valley Water Company sewer right of way across Lake Merced Rancho passed for printing.
- The Committee of the Whole ended its hearing on heat, light and power rates for 1911-12 and referred the matter to the Artificial Lights Committee.
- A bill to fully accept the roadway at Noe and Twenty-ninth streets was passed for printing.
- A bill for conditional acceptance of Twentieth Avenue between Geary and Anza streets was passed for printing.
- A bill ordering certain street work, with Board of Public Works contracting, was passed for printing.
- Conditional acceptance of the Anza Street roadway between Ninth and Tenth avenues was passed for printing.
- Flinn and Treacy were granted ninety more days, from January 3, 1911, to finish Stockton Street paving.
- The Board declared its intent to change street grades on Coleridge Street between Powers and Esmeralda avenues.
- A sixty-day extension for C. J. Harney to finish North Point Main Sewer work was passed for printing.
- An ordinance proposed to build an outlet sewer on Mission Street, estimated at $65,000, passed for printing.
- The Board confirmed the Board of Public Works assessment for street work on Beale Street between Folsom and Bryant streets.
- Bill 1666 ordering sewer and street work in Excelsior-area streets was sent back to the Streets Committee.
- A proposal asking the Park Commissioners to set aside part of Duboce Park as a children's playground was indefinitely postponed.
- The Board declared its intention to change street grades on Texas, Missouri and Twenty-second streets.
- Full acceptance of the paved roadway of Fairmount Street between Chenery and Whitney streets passed for printing.
- Conditional acceptance of the Clement Street roadway between Twenty-first and Twenty-second avenues passed for printing.
- Street paving, curbs and sidewalks at the Alvarado Street and Hoffman Avenue crossings passed for printing.
- Ordinance accepting a Spring Valley Water Company sewer easement for the Glen Park sewer passed for printing.
- Ordinance fixing San Jose Avenue sidewalks at twelve feet between Garden lane and Ocean avenue passed for printing.
- Ordinance establishing grades at certain points and heights on Gibb Street passed for printing.
- Ordinance accepting Irving Street roadways between Eighth and Ninth avenues passed for printing.
- Ordinance accepting roadways on Twenty-first and California streets passed for printing.
- McLaughlin's motion asks the City Attorney whether the Board can require Spring Valley Water Company to supply enough water and build needed extensions.
- The Board declared its intention to open Stanyan Street from McAllister to Turk Street through the Cashman Tract.
- Supervisors sent J. E. Cutten's claim that the sheriff's office is vacant, because Sheriff Finn sits in the Legislature, to the Judiciary Committee.
- Committee report on telephone rates investigation for 1911-12 adopted and the matter referred to the Telephone Rates Committee.
- Hearing on property owners' protest against opening Stanyan Street was laid over for one week.