All decisions
about 600 Board decisions about William H. McCarthy, in date order. Each links to its printed page.
- Auditor directed to cancel tax-sale certificates on several parcels sold to the State in error.
- Resolution to send the police chief and officers to study eastern city police methods with $2000 from Urgent Necessities Fund passed for printing.
- Resolution accepting the Presidio and Ferries Railroad Company's statements of passenger fare receipts owed to the city; outcome continues on next page.
- Treasurer authorized to burn cancelled 1904 bonds and useless poll tax receipts under Finance Committee supervision.
- Finance Committee's report allowing $103,755.74 in city demands was approved and ordered paid.
- Board passed for printing a resolution authorizing many city payments for schools, the hospital, sewers, fire protection and parks.
- Payments to about eighteen city vendors and claimants were passed for printing in a resolution authorizing city expenditures.
- Board sends to print a resolution authorizing payments from city funds to many suppliers and contractors for hospitals, sewers, schools and streets.
- Pacific Gas and Electric Company is awarded the one-year contract to light city streets and public buildings, pending the rest of the resolution.
- Board declares conditional support for a private Transbay bridge from San Francisco to Oakland, pending legislation from both counties.
- Board authorized payments from city funds to contractors, landlords, and charities for schools, hospitals, fire department supplies, and minors' maintenance.
- Board proposed releasing Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland from liability on the treasurer's bond tied to Crocker National Bank.
- Paid demands on the city treasury were sent back to the Finance Committee on Supervisor McCarthy's motion.
- Board of Election Commissioners may spend $275 preparing Assembly and Senatorial district maps.
- Board approved and ordered paid $203,007.50 in city demands after Finance Committee review.
- Appropriations approved: $1,350 for sanitation, $5,000 for Hall of Justice moves, and $275 for Engine House No. 43 lighting.
- Proposed appointment of a Danish, Swedish and Norwegian court interpreter was indefinitely postponed on McCarthy's motion.
- The Board allowed and ordered paid $145,324.06 in city demands after the Finance Committee approved them.
- Caldwell & Company paid $15,972.75 for building the Spring Valley School
- The Board approved $375 from the Urgent Necessities Fund for emergency expenses of the Mayor's office.
- An $8,000 resolution for an Everett School annex, funded from 1904 school bonds, was referred to committee.
- Electric Agencies Company contract repealed and its bells returned
- Resolution authorizes city payments to orphanages, relief homes and suppliers from the General Fund, including Miller & Lux and Sherry-Freitas.
- City demands totaling $131,512.53 were allowed and ordered paid after Finance Committee review.
- Spring Valley Water Company paid for water in the public parks
- The Board sold $1.24M of school, sewer and fire bonds to Watson, Pressprich, Adams & Co. of New York.
- Finance Committee recommended paying $36,258.08 in city demands, and the Board ordered them paid.
- Wilson Bros. Co. Inc. was awarded the contract to move city departments to the new Hall of Justice for $471.
- Board allowed and ordered paid $155,272.60 in city demands after the Finance Committee report.
- Expenditures for plumbing, paving, electrical work and furniture at several named schools were passed for printing.
- Board allowed and ordered paid $23,960.55 in city demands, following Finance Committee approval, by a 17-0 vote.
- A bill authorising the Board of Police Commissioners to appoint certain Police Department employees was passed for printing.
- Proposed resolution authorizing payments to contractors for sewers, schools, a hospital and water mains from bond funds.
- United Railroads' January 1912 Gough Street Railroad receipts statement accepted; $30.80 due the city.
- Request for $57 to build a sidewalk on Third Street near Perry Street denied.
- Board of Public Works may deposit fees for cutting Geary Street railway trolley wires into the Geary Street railway fund.
- Authorizations for street repaving and school and Hall of Justice payments passed for printing.
- The Board is accepting California Street Cable Railroad's passenger receipts statement and the City's $2,000.42 percentage due.
- Demands totalling $103,755.74 were allowed by the Finance Committee and ordered paid.
- $35,000 for the Polytechnic High School academic building foundation
- Auditor and Treasurer were directed to transfer leftover bond fund balances totalling $770.29 into the General Fund.
- The Board allowed $218,554.88 in city demands on the treasury, as recommended by the Finance Committee.
- A proposed ordinance amending Ordinance No. 1345 on a stenographer for the Tax Collector was passed for printing.
- $2,200 payment to S. M. Bloomer proposed for fire department land
- The City Attorney was given $200 for witness fees, stenographers and court costs in city lawsuits.
- A resolution proposed releasing $1600 held in escrow to County Line Water Company to cover water system deficits.
- Board adopted resolution directing the Clerk to advertise sale of $400,000 Geary Street Railway bonds.
- $24,160.05 paid to Federal Construction for the North Point main sewer
- The Board of Health was authorized to move $575 from its salary account to buy equipment for Central Emergency Hospital.
- Demands on the treasury totaling $105,722.92 were allowed on the Finance Committee report, 17 ayes.
- Troy Laundry Machinery Co. paid $8,250 for the hospital laundry
- Tax sale No. 210 on Seventeenth Street property owned by First Norwegian-Danish Methodist Church is cancelled as religiously exempt.
- $1,000 provided for a sewer in Harlan Place off Grant Avenue
- City payment demands totaling $55,600.81 were presented and referred to the Finance Committee.
- Resolution to set aside $60,000 for street repaving in April 1912 was laid over one week.
- Payments to contractors and suppliers for schools, hospitals, the jail and Pumping Station No. 1 were put forward for printing.
- Resolution authorizing dozens of city claims for supplies, construction and utilities, including Pacific Gas and Electric and Spring Valley Water.
- City sets aside $19,000 to repave Howard Street with basalt blocks
- Demands on the city treasury totalling $281,739.91 were allowed by Finance Committee report and ordered paid.
- Board allowed and ordered paid $92,445.61 in city demands after the Finance Committee approved them.
- Assessor directed to correct a 1911-12 assessment wrongly charged to Charles Bonbrow for a sold ship.
- The Board of Health was authorized to move $250 to convert the Park Emergency Hospital stable into a garage.
- Demands totaling $92,445.61 on the treasury were allowed and ordered paid after Finance Committee review.
- Proposed ordinance for $8.8 million in City Hall bonds to build a Civic Center was passed for printing on McCarthy's motion.
- Finance Committee's report allowing $124,564.18 in city demands was approved 16-0 and ordered paid.
- Adams and Company of Boston buys $400,000 in Geary Street bonds
- Board proposed six payments from building and general funds, including to contractors for Lowell High School and San Francisco Hospital work.
- Presidio and Ferries Railroad Company ordered to deposit $602.74 in the General Fund for street railroad fares.
- The Finance Committee's report allowing $27,975.30 in city demands on the treasury was approved and ordered paid.
- A resolution proposed paying contractors for North Point and Ingleside sewers, gate valves, and the Polytechnic High School foundation.
- The Emporium paid $766.49 for books for the Public Library
- The Finance Committee's report allowing city demands of $192,923.44 was adopted and ordered paid by the Board.
- The Board allowed and ordered paid $24,870.51 in city demands from Register of Demands No. 12 after Finance Committee approval.
- Resolution passed for printing to authorize city payments for street repaving, Hetch Hetchy expert services and North Point sewer work.
- Resolution passed for printing authorizing payments to contractors and charities, including fire, hospital, school and water works claims.
- Board of Public Works directed to advertise for bids to build a special construction building for the Ashbury Heights Pump House.
- Board passed for printing a resolution authorizing payments to contractors and suppliers from named city bond and fund accounts.
- Board allowed and ordered paid $293,364.74 in city bills after Finance Committee review.
- The Finance Committee's examined demands totalling $26,392.40 were allowed and ordered paid by the Board.
- Payments from park, general and school funds to named firms and suppliers were passed for printing, led by $25,946.25 to W. H. Henning.
- Resolution urging public convenience stations downtown and at Ocean Beach was referred to the Finance Committee.
- Mayor authorised to transfer fire department horses, previously ordered sold, to another city department.
- $120 set aside to clean and repaint the city's Mission Bells
- Finance Committee allowed $165,487.15 in city demands on the treasury, approved by the Board.
- Supervisor McCarthy moved a resolution authorizing expenditures to named claimants; it was passed for printing.
- The Board adopted a resolution directing the Clerk to advertise for bids to make 5,000 Exposition Bonds on May 13, 1912.
- Mission Promotion Association's request to celebrate the Mission viaduct's completion on September 15, 1912 was granted.
- Overhead wires to go underground on Geary Street to Presidio Avenue
- P. Mon's laundry petition at 3027 Twenty-second Street sent back
- Bill letting United Railroads use portions of Bay and Laguna streets for streetcar tracks was laid over one week.
- United Railroads would use Bay and Laguna streets for its tracks
- United Railroads would use Bay and Laguna streets for its tracks
- Supervisor McCarthy's bill limiting speed of fire apparatus was refused passage, 7 ayes to 11 noes.
- Board allowed Fannie Feidler to withdraw her bid, which she had made under a misapprehension.
- Supervisor McCarthy introduced an ordinance amending Ordinance 1650 on the Sealer of Weights and Measures and moved it to print.
- Proposed repeal of the weights and measures ordinance was laid over temporarily after Chas. E. Johnson spoke.
- McCarthy's bill amending the Weights and Measures ordinance and setting the Sealer's salary and deputies passed for printing.
- Bill No. 2353 repealing Ordinance 1650 on weights and measures was indefinitely postponed.
- McCarthy's substitute resolution, accepting Spring Valley Water Company's offer to arbitrate its property value before the State Railroad Commission, was adopted.
- Bill to close certain streets within the Panama-Pacific International Exposition site until January 1, 1917 passed for printing.
- A bill proposing to discontinue streetcar service on Fillmore Street north of Chestnut Street until 1917 was passed for printing.
- Sierra and San Francisco Power Company's wires run along Buchanan Street
- S. Nathan to lease city land on Jackson Street
- A bill amending Section V of the Electrical Installation Ordinance, effective January 1, 1914, was introduced and passed for printing.
- Bathing in the Bay now requires a suitable bathing dress
- Electrical installation rules for city buildings were amended and finally passed, taking effect January 1, 1914.
- The Board asked the Park Commissioners to build a children's playground and convenience station at the Municipal Railway beach terminal.
- Finance Committee recommends relief for families of two Sewer Department employees who died on duty, subject to City Attorney review.
- The O'Farrell Street Improvement Association requested permission for overhead electric lights; the decision continues on the next page.
- Dolores Street island park money no longer tied to Twentieth Street
- Board asks City Attorney whether city ordinances allow demolishing a condemned building outside the fire limits.
- Chief of Police directed to enforce permit rules against Gray Brothers Crushed Rock Company blasting at Thirtieth and Douglass Streets.
- Board allowed $2,454.25 in widow's pension claims to sundry claimants under the state and county pension act.
- Southern Pacific Company's railroad track franchise amendments carried, with street repair duties added; final passage continues on the next page.
- Board denied United Railroads' request to re-route cars 4, 17 and 20 and asked for direct Sunset transit plans.
- City Attorney asked to negotiate for a 30-foot strip on the northerly line of Sloat Boulevard for street use.
- The Board of Public Works was asked to pave the Civic Center central square with vitrified brick; adopted after one week's delay.
- Street work on Powell Street between Sutter and Bush streets, costing $3,374.64, passed for printing.
- The Board directed the Board of Public Works to recommend roadway improvements on Noe Street and De Haro Street.
- The Board adopted the official map of Lyon & Hoag's Subdivision of Lincoln Manor, previously approved by the Board of Public Works.
- Board asks the Board of Public Works to estimate asphalt paving costs on Fifth Avenue between Geary and Fulton streets.
- Ordinance ordering curbs, pavement and a sewer on several San Francisco avenues and streets; passed for printing.
- Proposed ordinance sets sidewalk widths on Twenty-seventh to Thirty-first avenues between Lincoln Way and Irving Street; outcome continues on next page.
- Resolution to widen San Bruno Avenue was moved by Supervisor McCarthy; the outcome is not shown on this page.
- Resolution asks the Board of Health to equip beds and wards for children at the new San Francisco Hospital.
- Proposal to conditionally accept the roadway of Hemlock Avenue between Van Ness Avenue and Franklin Street, passed for printing.
- Proposal to order certain street work and authorize a Board of Public Works contract, passed for printing.
- Board asked the Lighting Committee to recommend two street lights for Noe Valley, as requested by J. Branagan.
- Hearing set for April 13, 1914 on whether to confirm the Public Works report on extending Vulcan Street to Ord Street.
- Board of Public Works ordered paving, curbs and sewers on Twentieth, Keith and Santa Marina streets; ordinance proposed.
- Board of Public Works ordered heavy vehicles diverted to Third Street bridge, letting streetcars and light vehicles cross Fourth Street bridge.
- Proposed ordinance would limit asphalt paving on steep streets and in a central district without a binder course.
- The Board asked the Harbor Commissioners to build a sea wall along Berry Street between Second and Third streets.
- All city departments ordered to file itemized employee lists within ten days for a proposed pension scheme.
- Board of Public Works told no street contract extensions will be granted unless contractors attend Streets Committee meetings.
- Board petitions the Legislature to let cities postpone tax installments up to sixty days; referred to Judiciary Committee.
- Supervisor Power proposed a four-member committee to consider changes to the Board's standing committees.
- Vulcan Street to be extended east to Ord Street
- The Board asks the Chief of Police, District Attorney and police judges to enforce support duties of fathers of dependent children.
- Revocable permit proposed for Southern Pacific Company to build and maintain a spur track.
- Nineteenth Avenue to be paved between Lincoln Way and Judah Street
- Geary Street to be paved between Boyce Street and Parker Avenue
- Geo. H. Roundey given 90 more days grading Woolsey Street
- Grade changes proposed on Jessie Street near Seventh Street
- Paving ordered in Osage Alley and at Twenty-fourth and Utah streets
- Margaret McGraw was granted leave from her post as Assistant Director of the Woman's Pension Bureau until July 1, 1914.
- The Board of Public Works recommended that the Board of Supervisors carry out all street work in San Francisco not yet done.
- Board of Supervisors set February 16, 1914 as the hearing on protests against confirming Main and Harrison street grade changes.
- Proposed ordinance sets sidewalk widths of ten or twelve feet on six streets, passed for printing after amending Ordinance 1061.
- Edward Malley given sixty more days on Polk and Chestnut Streets
- Board of Public Works asked to recommend improving Nineteenth Avenue
- Church & Clark given thirty more days on Twenty-third Street
- Board of Public Works directed to estimate repaving costs for Third Street from Market to Berry Street and recommend a pavement type.
- F. Rolandi given 120 more days on the Forty-eighth Avenue sewer
- Barber Asphalt Paving given ninety more days at Laidley Street
- City to take over roadways on Fifteenth, Noe and Lawton Streets
- Paving and sewers ordered on Forty-second Avenue, Coleridge and Vermont Streets
- Bill proposed to ban advertising signs on telegraph, telephone and light poles and sidewalks; referred to City Attorney.
- The Board directed the Board of Public Works to recommend street improvements on Fourteenth Street and Magnolia Avenue.
- Mayor to sign a deal for Southern Pacific's Bernal Cut land
- Bill to amend Ordinance No. 1061 on sidewalk widths by adding seven new sections was passed for printing.
- City to take over Third Avenue between Parnassus and Irving
- Street levels to be changed on Twenty-first Avenue near Taraval Street
- Resolution passed for printing to permit Merchants' Ice and Cold Storage Company to blast for grading a block near Montgomery Street.
- Sewers ordered for Junipero Serra Boulevard and the former Ocean Avenue
- The S. A. Born Building Company's re-subdivision map of lots 4 to 19 in Sea Cliff was adopted as official.
- Fifteenth Street to be paved in front of city property
- Deed for opening Twenty-fifth Avenue sent to the City Attorney
- Merchants' Ice and Cold Storage allowed blasting near Montgomery Street
- Closing of part of Georgia Street taken up again
- City to take over the roadway on Eighteenth Avenue
- Street levels set on Steuben Street between Augusta and Helena Streets
- Resolution asks the City Attorney whether the Board can legally close part of Eighteenth Street.
- Board ordered Nineteenth Avenue between Lincoln Way and Judah Street improved under public proceedings, not private contracts.
- Supervisor McCarthy's bill amending the city's traffic speed limits was passed for printing, not yet enacted.
- Ordinance banning excavation in Third Street for two years during repaving passed for printing.
- Report on land for the Bixby Street extension confirmed
- Stone sidewalks to be laid on Alma Street and O'Farrell Street
- Report on the Vernon Street assessment moved for confirmation
- Land assessment for opening Ramsell Street confirmed
- Land assessment for opening Orizaba Avenue confirmed
- Assessment for opening Arch Street sent back after an objection
- Land assessment for opening Beverly Street confirmed
- United Railroads is directed to repave the area between its tracks on Fourth and Kentucky streets.
- Public Works asked to repair Twentieth Street and De Haro Street
- The Board asked the Mayor to appoint a committee to propose a charter amendment giving municipal employees an old age pension.
- Bill for a Second avenue street railway line passed for printing as amended, after neighbours protested the route.
- City takes over roadways on Third and Twenty-sixth Avenues
- Report on the Head Street assessment moved for confirmation
- Substitute permit offered for the four-day Stockton Street carnival
- Assessment for land purchase to open and extend Monticello Street was confirmed.
- Street levels on Railroad Avenue to be changed
- Polk and Larkin merchants press for their outdoor park celebration
- Intention to change grades on Chestnut Street repealed as a duplicate
- Point Lobos Avenue levels to be changed beside the Great Highway
- Land assessment for opening Ralston Street confirmed
- Street levels set on Steuben Street between Augusta and Helena Streets
- Land assessment for opening Victoria Street confirmed
- Board proposed that the Mayor appoint a five-member committee to recommend a charter amendment on old age pensions for municipal employees.
- The Board of Public Works was directed to recommend repaving Powell Street between Sutter and Bush streets.
- Map of the S. A. Born Building Company re-subdivision of Sea Cliff lots 4 to 19 was approved and adopted.
- City Attorney asked whether outside owners deserve Main Street damages
- Grade changes proposed on San Jose Avenue near Mount Vernon
- Gerke alley grade ordinance passed for printing, a first reading, with no recorded vote.
- Street levels to be changed on Twenty-second Avenue near Quintara Street
- Crocker Estate Company gives land for streets in the Amazon Tract
- Grade ordinance for Ada court and Amity alley passed for printing, a first reading, with no recorded vote.
- Board set March 16, 1914 as the hearing date for objections to assessments for the Main Street grade change.
- Federal Construction given ninety more days on Lincoln Way
- Street levels set on Gerke Alley east of Grant Avenue
- Union Trust Company gives land to open Yosemite and Mendosa Avenues
- Grade changes proposed on Jefferson Street between Hyde and Van Ness
- Street levels set on Steuben Street between Augusta and Helena Streets
- The S. A. Born Building Company and John Brickell Company bond of $1,500 for taxes on Sea Cliff property was approved.
- Sixth Street to be repaved with brick between Mission and Howard
- Time for filing protests against the Church Street Municipal Railway extension assessment was extended to midnight today.
- Fay Improvement Company allowed blasting for a sewer in Sansome Street
- Crossing of Thirteenth Avenue and Judah Street to be paved
- Crocker Estate Company's $2,500 bond guaranteeing land taxes on Crocker-Amazon Tract Subdivision No. 2 was approved.
- Street work with sewers, catchbasins and paving on Forty-third Avenue from Geary to Clement streets was passed for printing.
- Revere Avenue to be graded and curbed between Lane and Keith
- G. W. McGinn given sixty more days on San Bruno Avenue
- Folsom Street and Mateo Street to be paved and curbed
- Owen McHugh given thirty more days in Golden Gate Park
- Objections by J. J. Lermen and others to the Main Street grade change were laid over four weeks.
- Edward Malley allowed blasting for the Mile Rock tunnel sewer
- Knights Tanning Company to be heard on the Kansas Street paving
- Owen I. McHugh granted twenty more days, from April 7, 1914, to finish curbing and paving on Thirteenth avenue.
- Sidewalk widths on Gaines Street between Green and Union streets are to be abolished, with owners paying the cost.
- Ordinance proposed to abolish sidewalk width limits on Gaines Street by amending Ordinance 1061.
- Sidewalks on Chestnut Street to be twelve feet wide
- City Attorney to take land for the Islais Creek sewer
- Seventeenth Street to be curbed and paved between Ord and Temple
- Beach Street sidewalks to be nine and fifteen feet wide
- Chenery Street proposed to be extended westward
- Knights Tanning Company appeals its bill for paving Kansas Street
- Several streets renamed, Vassalboro Street becoming Delta Street
- Spring Valley Water Company gives a sewer path along Ocean Avenue
- Hastings and Wallace Estates allowed a rail spur across Bryant Street
- Church & Clark given 60 more days on Bosworth Street
- Hearing set for William H. Cole's appeal on San Bruno Avenue
- City Attorney asked whether a court halted San Bruno Avenue work
- Board set May 18, 1914 as the hearing date for Dundon & Co.'s appeal against the Beach street improvement.
- Appeal by J. J. Lermen et al. on Main Street grade-change damages was laid over four weeks until a financing plan is completed.
- Board sustained property owners' protest against widening Thirty-fourth Avenue between Fulton and Clement streets.
- The Mayor was authorised to sign an agreement with John Brickell Company for a sewer easement in Sea Cliff.
- The ordinance requiring the muzzling of dogs was indefinitely postponed by the Board, so it will not become law.
- Flinn & Treacy given 30 more days on Chenery Street
- The Board asked the City Attorney to draft an ordinance letting the Mayor order dogs muzzled where rabies danger exists.
- Hearing set on T. J. Flynn's appeal over Wisconsin Street sidewalks
- State Improvement Company given 90 more days on Brompton Avenue
- The Board directed Public Works to recommend improving the roadway of Vallejo Street between Kearny and Montgomery streets.
- John H. Wise appeals the plan to improve Arlington Street
- Board sets May 18, 1914 hearing on John H. Wise's appeal over the Arlington Street improvement.
- $48,975.95 proposed to pay the city's Stockton Street tunnel bill
- Land from Fernando Nelson to open Hillway and Hill Point avenues
- Sidewalk widths fixed on Stockton Street
- Liberty Street to be graded and sewered between Noe and Sanchez
- Supervisor McCarthy proposed applying $26,300 in budget reductions to cut the tax rate one-half cent; the Chair ruled motions out of order.
- Resolution transferring $48,971.20 from the General Fund to pay the Stockton Street tunnel assessment was passed for printing.
- Union Street Railroad earnings of $147,592.44 put partly into reserve
- Sewer for Newell Street, paving and sewer for Morrell Place
- Eaton & Smith allowed to blast on Eleventh and Division streets
- William H. Cole's appeal over San Bruno Avenue is refused
- Division Street spur track revoked for the Potrero Avenue railway
- H. Shimer defends the Beach Street paving as a needed link
- Appeal against the Mohawk Avenue improvement heard
- City to take over new roadways on Clover and Ortega streets
- Street levels to be changed on Bradford Street
- Street levels to be changed on Twenty-first Avenue
- State Improvement Company given 60 more days on Edna Street
- California Poultry Company is granted revocable permission to lay an ammonia feed pipe from the Central building.
- Sidewalk work on Wisconsin Street put off for a year
- Street levels to be changed on San Jose and Lake View
- Robinson Nugent given 30 more days on Ninth Street
- City to take over new roadways on Twenty-third and Thirty-fifth avenues
- R. Satake's chute at the Battery Street rice mill sent back
- Street levels to be changed on Twenty-second Avenue
- Street levels proposed on Mansell, Bowdoin and many nearby streets
- Hearing fixed for May 25, 1914 on Mary J. Claasen's appeal against the Mohawk Avenue improvement.
- Ordinance ordering further street work and authorizing a Board of Public Works contract was passed for printing.
- Church and Clark given 30 more days at Borland and Dolores
- Flinn & Treacy given thirty more days on Onondaga Avenue
- Street levels on Quesada Avenue to be changed
- Corbett Avenue and Lyon Street to have their levels changed
- Owen McHugh given thirty more days at Thirty-third Avenue
- Kate Faulkner's appeal against her Twenty-first Avenue paving bill denied
- Robinson Nugent given thirty more days on Ninth Street
- John H. Wise appeals the planned work on Arlington Street
- Appeal by J. J. Lermen over Main Street grade-change damages and benefits was laid over two weeks.
- Virginia Avenue to be widened to sixty feet and paved
- Sunset Construction given 30 more days on Forty-fifth Avenue
- Proposed ordinance orders curbs and paving on Balboa Street and Downey Street, with the contract let by Public Works.
- City to take over the new roadway on Twenty-sixth Avenue
- Church Street streetcar extension set for debate on July 20
- Street levels to be set on McCormick Street near Pacific Street
- Board of Public Works directed to recommend budgeted street work, including San Bruno avenue and Fulton street projects.
- Geary Street Railroad ordered to remove its tracks from Fifth Avenue
- Legallet-Hellwig Tanning Co. to extend its spur track on Quint Street
- Liberty Street work ordered, and an Exposition parade invitation accepted
- Bill No. 3114 amending street paving rules in Ordinance No. 240 was passed for printing.
- Bill No. 3128, a spur track permit for Dunham, Carrigan & Hayden Company, was passed for printing.
- Board moves to extend and widen Diamond Street to 60 feet between Berkshire and Wilder Streets, paid from city revenues.
- Church & Clark given fifteen more days on Bosworth Street
- City to take over the new roadway on Grove Street
- Street levels to be changed on Sansome, Green and Union streets
- City waives damages for harbor land taken to extend The Embarcadero
- Improvement urged for the Laguna Honda road to the Relief Home
- G. W. McGinn given thirty more days on Moraga Street
- City to take over the new roadway on Masonic Avenue
- Virginia Avenue widening refused, and a potato moth warning heard
- Street levels to be changed on Willard Street near Parnassus Avenue
- G. W. McGinn & Company given ninety more days on Fifteenth Avenue
- Sewers ordered on Visitacion Avenue between Britton and Rutland streets
- W. E. Gruver given twenty more days on Rhode Island Street
- Sunset Construction Company given sixty more days on Twenty-first Avenue
- G. W. McGinn & Co. given ninety more days at Iowa Street
- Street levels to be set on Cross, Morse and Brunswick streets
- State Improvement Company given ninety more days on Revere Avenue
- Resolution asks Public Works to build a Twenty-eighth Street sewer and postpone grading between Diamond and Castro streets, adopted.
- Resolution on sewering Twenty-eighth Street between Diamond and Castro streets, and postponing its grading, was moved by McCarthy.
- Supervisor McCarthy's bill to amend the street excavation ordinance was passed for printing, not yet enacted.
- Margaret McGraw was proposed for a leave of absence from her position as Assistant Director.
- Flinn & Treacy's appeal over Clover Street set for August 17
- Hearing on J. B. Michel's protest against widening Circular Avenue fixed for August 24, 1914.
- Cliff Avenue renamed Point Lobos Avenue west of Forty-second Avenue
- Proposed resolution would have the City Attorney condemn land to open a new street from The Embarcadero.
- Consolidated Construction Company to be sued for $62,366.91 in extra sewer costs
- Flinn & Treacy given sixty more days on San Bruno Avenue
- Sidewalk widths set on Geary Street and Point Lobos Avenue
- Monday, August 31, 1914 set for hearing property owners' appeal against street improvement of Twenty-eighth Street.
- Appeal by property owners against the Twenty-eighth Street improvement between Castro and Diamond streets denied.
- Power Equipment Company granted a thirty-day extension to finish its street sign contract.
- Frank M. Garden & Company's contract for the Municipal Asphalt plant is proposed for a thirty-day extension.
- G. W. McGinn & Co. given sixty more days on Harper Street
- Ordinance to accept land deed from five owners for opening Corbett Avenue as a public street was referred to committee.
- Resolution asking Public Works to estimate cost of school slow-down signs, with a bill adding a school speed rule, referred to Streets Committee.
- G. W. McGinn & Co. given sixty more days on Fair Avenue
- Twenty-eighth Street between Castro and Diamond to be graded and sewered
- Flinn & Treacy given sixty more days on Russia Avenue
- Flinn & Treacy given sixty more days on States Street
- Owen McHugh given thirty more days on Plymouth Avenue
- J. F. Dowling & Company given thirty more days on Mateo Street
- Flinn & Treacy given sixty more days on Ney, Russia and Folsom
- Mayor Rolph refuses the outdoor park at Van Ness Avenue
- Rhode Island Street paving appeal put off one week
- The Board denied the petition to reroute United Railroads cars 4, 17 and 20, and instructed committee to study Sunset transit.
- Raisch Improvement Company granted thirty more days to finish its Seventh Avenue improvement contract between Kirkham and Lawton streets.
- City Attorney authorized to solicit offers for land needed to extend Nordhoff Street in Sunnyside.
- Planted strips along Dolores Street set aside as public ground
- A street work ordinance, Bill No. 3215, was passed for printing; its details are not shown on this page.
- Bill 3226 orders street work to be done under Board of Public Works specifications, passed for printing on first reading.
- Park Commissioners asked to give up land to widen Fifteenth Street
- Board of Public Works asked to report the cost of standard asphalt paving and curbs on Sloat Boulevard.
- J. A. Folger & Company allowed a spur track on Spear Street
- Part of Corbett Avenue deeded to the city by its owners
- Board of Public Works asked to estimate the cost of slow-down signs on the corners of every school block.
- Hearing fixed for September 28, 1914 on property owners' appeal against the Rhode Island Street improvement protest overruling.
- Portions of Innes and Galvez avenues to be closed
- Flinn & Treacy given ninety more days on Downey Street
- Street levels changed on Castro Street and Valley Street
- Supervisor McCarthy's street work order was passed for printing, with its details continuing on the next page.
- Contractor Stanley Fay offered to pave Civic Center for $35,000 less; City Attorney asked whether city crews may do such work.
- Improvements sought for Thomas Avenue and Judah Street
- Rhode Island Street assessment appeal taken up
- G. W. McGinn & Co. was granted an extension of time on a contract; the remaining terms appear on the next page.
- Supervisor McCarthy moved a resolution extending time; its text continues on the next page.
- Street levels on Girard Street between Silliman and Felton to change
- Property owners' appeal over Rhode Island Street paving denied
- Sewer to be built under Valley Street between Castro and Diamond
- Mission Consolidated Realty allowed pipes across Howard and Sixteenth streets
- Davis-Rogers given forty more days on the Fulton Street sewer machinery
- Street levels on Pope Street to be changed
- Street levels on Leesing Street to be changed
- Noriega Street between Ninth and Tenth avenues to be paved
- Bill No. 3265 for street work was passed for printing on Supervisor McCarthy's motion.
- Board of Public Works urged to open streets from City Land Association tract into Ingleside Terrace at once.
- Protest against the Galvez Avenue grade change overruled
- Chestnut Street levels to be changed between Polk and Van Ness
- Polk and Larkin Street District Association's outdoor celebration permit on Polk Street was laid over one week.
- Santa Fe and Southern Pacific refused leave to abandon Quint Street
- Grade changes proposed on Randall Street and San Jose Avenue
- Owners' protest over new street levels on Galvez Avenue overruled
- Mission Consolidated Realty allowed pipes across Howard and Sixteenth streets
- Hearing set for the appeal over paving Twenty-ninth Avenue
- Hearing set for November 9, 1914 on property owners' appeal against overruled protest of Twentieth Street improvement.
- Street levels set on Antonio Street near Jones Street
- Sewers to be built in Carolina Street and Rhode Island Street
- State Improvement Company given sixty more days on Revere Avenue curbs
- Board proposes a resolution commending the Inland Waterways Association and urging the Legislature to provide funds.
- Flinn & Treacy given ninety more days on Nye Street
- Park Street to be curbed and paved from Mission Street
- Street levels changed on Thirty-first Avenue between Anza and Balboa
- Street levels set on Thirty-second Avenue
- City land on Fifteenth Street to be sold at private sale
- Hearing set for Flinn & Treacy's appeal over a street assessment
- Hearing of Geo. W. McGinn & Co.'s appeal over the San Bruno Avenue intersection assessment laid over until January 4, 1915.
- City Electric Company disputes the new asphalt plant lighting contract
- Flinn & Treacy given 90 more days on Ord Street
- Judiciary Committee to meet on Friday, December 18
- A. T. Jannson given sixty more days blasting on Castro Street
- Offers sought for Mrs. Ann Cronin's land to straighten Army Street
- City Attorney asked about the land case for widening Corbett Avenue
- State Railroad Commission asked to permit cattle guards and fences at Niagara Avenue crossing Southern Pacific tracks.
- United Railroads directed to pave between its rails and two feet beyond on Railroad Avenue, Revere to Yosemite avenues.
- Hearing on property owners' protests against closing certain streets set for December 14, 1914.
- Bill ordering grading, curbs and asphalt paving on Fifteenth Avenue at Cabrillo Street was passed for printing.
- Hearing set on the San Bruno Avenue and Division Street crossing
- The Board voted 14 to 4 to ask the Chief of Police to stop the Langford-Petrosky contest.
- Raisch Improvement given thirty more days paving Van Ness Avenue
- Margaret Gattinger's lot on Fifteenth Street bought for $2,500
- Flinn & Treacy given sixty more days on Russia Avenue
- State Improvement Company allowed blasting on Keith Street for sewer work
- Sidewalks fixed at fifteen feet on Arthur, Burke and Custer avenues
- Flinn & Treacy's appeal over the Chenery Street assessment is upheld
- Board adopted a resolution mourning Archbishop Patrick Riordan and closed its office on December 31 out of respect.
- Street levels on Girard Street to be changed
- Mistake corrected in a street agreement at San Bruno Road
- Mayor authorized to execute corrected agreement with Crocker Estate Company for dedicating land to straighten San Bruno Avenue.
- Supervisor McCarthy proposed that the City Engineer report on districts inadequately supplied with water by Spring Valley Water Company.
- Board directed the City Attorney to ask the State Railroad Commission to set fair water rates from Spring Valley Water Company.
- An ordinance ordering street work and authorizing the Board of Public Works to contract for it is pending.
- Property owners led by W. C. Cavitt appealed the assessment for sewer work on Irving Street; the hearing proceeded.
- Spur track permit for The John Bollman Company on Bluxome Street passed for printing on first reading.
- Resolution deploring rent increases in hotels and apartments and ordering the Public Welfare Committee and Police Chief to investigate complaints.
- Charter amendment letting the Supervisors postpone the first tax installment's delinquency date was submitted to voters.
- Resolution urging voters to pass the charter amendment changing the dollar limit on taxation was adopted.
- Permission proposed for C. E. Grosjean to build two spur tracks from Southern Pacific tracks in Harrison Street.
- Bids to be called for the Church Street streetcar extension
- Geo. W. McGinn & Co. appeals its Ninth Street paving assessment
- Hearing to be set on Flinn & Treacy's Seventeenth Street appeal
- City takes over new roadways on Chestnut and Edinburgh Streets
- Board intends to lower street levels on Point Lobos Avenue
- City takes over the new roadway on Portola Drive
- Rainier Brewing Company allowed a spur track on Florida Street
- United Railroads to reroute its cars over the Third Street bridge
- W. V. McDonald given thirty more days on San Bruno Avenue
- Board resolution holds that Ordinance 2261 lets the Panama-Pacific Exposition Company use property outside its fence.
- Flinn & Treacy allowed blasting at Lombard and Montgomery streets
- Hearing set for property owners appealing Athens Street improvement
- Property owners protest the new street levels on Pope and Morse
- City takes over the new roadway on Portola Drive
- A bill previously passed for printing was indefinitely postponed on Supervisor McCarthy's motion.
- Board of Public Works ordered to correct Flinn & Treacy's Seventeenth Street paving assessment after their appeal was sustained.
- City Street Improvement Company given thirty more days on Lyon Street
- Rivera Street to be graded and paved between Nineteenth and Twentieth
- Church & Clark are proposed for a fifteen-day extension from February 3, 1915 to complete a street contract.
- Street levels to be changed on Thirtieth Avenue at Balboa
- Board asked the Harbor Commissioners to protect traffic and safeguard crossing at North Point and Taylor streets.
- F. Rolandi allowed blasting on Clement Street for sixty days
- Street levels on Hayes and Pierce streets to be changed
- City Street Improvement Company given thirty more days on Clipper Street
- Flinn & Treacy were granted extensions of time to finish street paving contracts on St. Mary's and Russia avenues.
- State Improvement Company to be allowed blasting on Valley Street
- City to take over the new roadway on Thirty-ninth Avenue
- Street levels on Winnipeg Avenue to be changed near Sickles Avenue
- Board sustains an appeal by Flinn & Treacy and Landed Securities, ordering a corrected paving assessment on San Bruno Avenue.
- William J. Tobin was granted permission to blast for sewer construction on several Visitacion Valley streets.
- A. J. Raisch given thirty more days at Twenty-second and Vicksburg
- Flinn & Treacy appeal the San Bruno Avenue paving charge
- California State Automobile Association granted permission to erect a redwood emblem post at 1628 Van Ness Avenue.
- George H. Tay Company authorized to install a public drinking fountain on the sidewalk at 599 Mission Street.
- The Board asked Public Works to act on a property owner's sidewalk obstruction on Third Street near Market Street.
- Board denied W. C. Cavitt's appeal and confirmed the assessment for sewer work in Irving Street between Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh avenues.
- An ordinance was proposed ordering artificial stone sidewalk work on several San Francisco streets, recommended by Public Works.
- Flinn & Treacy given thirty more days on Charles Street
- New public streets named, including Ralston, Vernon and Victoria
- Street levels to be changed on Prentiss between Tompkins and Ogden
- The Board rejected The Destructor Company's claims totalling about $161,000 for North Beach and Islais Creek incinerator work, on the City Attorney's advice.
- Flinn & Treacy given ninety more days on Corbett Avenue
- S. F. Johnson given sixty more days on Milton Street
- Spring Valley Water Company gives land to widen Ocean Avenue
- Sewers ordered for Lane Street and McKinnon Avenue
- City takes over the roadways of Castro and Chestnut Streets
- Street levels set on San Bruno Avenue to the county line
- Renaming Kentucky Street and Railroad Avenue to Third Street put off
- Flinn & Treacy given thirty more days on Ney Street
- Street levels to be changed on McKinnon Avenue at Lane
- Street levels on Rockland and Eastman Streets proposed for change
- L. F. Gerdetz allowed to blast on Raymond Avenue near Delta
- State Improvement Company given thirty more days on Plymouth Avenue
- Promised lighting on Third and Fourth Streets is dropped
- City takes over the new roadway on Portola Drive
- Palou Avenue to be graded and paved between Lane and Keith
- Sidewalks on Nineteenth Street set at thirteen feet, owners paying
- Sidewalks on Quint Street set at ten feet, owners paying
- Santa Fe Railway allowed a spur track on Illinois Street
- Sidewalks on Twenty-third Avenue set at twelve feet wide
- Sidewalks on Seventeenth Street set at fifteen feet wide
- Santa Fe Railway allowed a spur track on Illinois Street
- Sidewalks set at fifteen feet on Thirteenth and Fourteenth Avenues
- Pacific Pumping allowed a water pipe along Portola Drive
- City to accept the Demartini land extending Vulcan Street
- Mayor vetoes the Mathewson transfer deal at the Great Highway
- Boyce Street to be paved between Geary and its northern end
- Part of Custer Avenue to be closed
- Street levels on Alemany Avenue to be changed
- United Railroads seeks the outer tracks on lower Market Street
- Easterly half of Buena Vista Avenue to be paved
- Street work ordering new artificial stone sidewalks on several streets, including Howard, Seventh and Nineteenth, was passed for printing.
- City Street Improvement Company given thirty more days on Divisadero Street
- Request that Spring Valley Water Company submit its stockholder names was referred to the Public Utilities Committee.
- Madrid Street to be graded and sewered between France and Amazon
- Ordinance on concrete street pavements and sidewalks was recommitted to the Streets Committee by McCarthy.
- Street levels to be set on Ashton and Grafton avenues
- Sibley Grading and Teaming Company to blast on Stockton Street
- J. P. Holland to blast for grading on Hudson Avenue
- Blasting allowed for grading Madrid Street between France and Amazon
- Chas. Roof to blast only between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m.
- Galvez Avenue sidewalks to be fifteen feet wide, owners paying
- College Avenue to be curbed and paved near Mission Street
- Mayor Rolph's proposal to welcome the Liberty Bell with citywide reception committees was approved, with the Mayor to appoint committees.
- Balboa Street to be paved between Thirteenth and Fourteenth avenues
- Street levels to be changed on Peralta Avenue and York Street
- Supervisor McCarthy moved to defer the Islais Creek matter until June 14, 1915, and the motion carried.
- M. Schlosser's appeal on Grove Street sidewalks is denied
- Property owners' appeal on San Bruno Avenue assessment is denied
- City sets sidewalk widths on Caselli Avenue and Falcon Avenue
- Street levels changed on Hayes Street between Pierce and Scott streets
- Roadway to Twin Peaks Reservoir to be paved from Corbett Avenue
- Supervisor McCarthy's resolution asking the State Railroad Commission to set fair water rates was referred to the Water Rates Committee.
- Healey-Tibbitts Construction given permission while building the Fifth Street sewer
- Street levels changed on Oakdale Avenue and Selby Street
- Street levels abolished on Twenty-eighth through Thirty-first avenues
- Property owners' appeal against accepting Folsom Street work between Cortland and Eugenia avenues was put off until July 12, 1915.
- Bill No. 3635 on conditional acceptance of certain streets was passed for printing on McCarthy's motion.
- Eaton and Smith allowed blasting on Twenty-eighth Street for a sewer
- Proposed ordinance ordering curbs, sidewalks, catchbasins and pavement at Anza, Irving and Fulton street crossings.
- City Attorney was directed to seek a State Railroad Commission ruling on Santa Fe's Islais Creek drawbridge duty.
- Resolution and substitute on the City's claim to India Basin land in a condemnation suit were taken up.
- Board declares its intention to close and abandon part of Missouri Street, south of a line 433 feet south of Army Street.
- Property owners' appeal against acceptance of Folsom Street paving between Cortland and Eugenia Avenues was put off one week.
- City takes over new roadways on Lincoln Way and Douglass Street
- Sewers ordered on La Playa and the Great Highway near Irving
- Street levels set on Bartol Street between Broadway and Vallejo
- Contractor allowed 90 days of blasting to grade boulevard
- Fulton Street to be curbed from Twenty-eighth to Thirty-seventh Avenue
- Property owners' appeal against street work on Folsom Street between Cortland and Eugenia avenues was laid over to August 9, 1915.
- Street levels set on St. George Alley between Bush and Pine
- O. Monson given thirty-five more days on the Third Street bridge
- Quarry blasting and rock crushing petition at Thirtieth and Castro Streets was laid over one week after the Streets Committee recommended denial.
- Street levels changed on California Street near Thirty-second Avenue
- McCarthy's ordinance ordering certain street work and adopting specifications is printed here; its outcome continues on the next page.
- Property owners appealed Board of Public Works approval of a La Playa sewer; the hearing was postponed to August 16, 1915.
- Land accepted from Simons-Fout Brick Company to open Fout Avenue
- The Board approved the Streets Committee report recommending denial of the petition to stop quarry blasting at Twenty-ninth and Castro Streets.
- Ocean Shore Railroad allowed ninety days of blasting near Crescent Avenue
- W. S. Gause allowed ninety days of blasting on Castro Street
- Hearing set for Crimm, Newton and Roller's Excelsior assessment protest
- Royal Insurance Company allowed steam pipes under Sansome Street
- Rules named for digging up and refilling the city's streets
- City orders Mariposa Street paved between Potrero Avenue and Hampshire Street
- V. Franceschi & Co. allowed four horses at 2029 Filbert Street
- W. J. Tobin allowed to blast for a Prentiss Street sewer
- W. S. Gause allowed to blast for a Castro Street sewer
- Objections to property damages for widening Circular Avenue were heard; Supervisor McCarthy moved the matter lay over two weeks.
- City to take over the new roadway on Boyce Street
- Bill 3796 orders grading, sewer and paving work on Moraga Street between Eleventh and Twelfth avenues, passed for printing.
- Sunset Construction allowed to blast while grading Kansas Street
- J. G. Walker Company's land accepted to widen San Bruno Avenue
- California Fruit Canners' Association to get spur tracks on Beach Street
- Stone sidewalks ordered on Bosworth Street from Mission to Milton Street
- Corbett Avenue to be improved east of Danvers Street
- Sansome Street to be graded and curbed between Green and Union
- Cyrus Place to be improved south of Broadway
- Proposed amendments to the city's traffic ordinance, Ordinance No. 1857, were passed for printing.
- Flinn & Treacy allowed to blast at Lombard and Montgomery Streets
- Flinn & Treacy allowed to blast at Lombard and Montgomery Streets
- Street levels changed on Prospect Avenue between Virginia and Eugenia
- Street levels changed on Van Ness Avenue near North Point Street
- Eight bills changing official street grades in several districts were deferred after being passed for printing.
- Street levels changed on De Haro Street near Nineteenth and Eighteenth
- Flinn & Treacy allowed to blast on Railroad Avenue for grading
- Bill 3838 proposing changes to the street specifications ordinance No. 240 was passed for printing on McCarthy's motion.
- Flinn & Treacy allowed 90 days blasting on Rhode Island Street
- The Board reduced the Municipal Auditorium rent for Mr. Hefron to $800 for the main hall and $100 per side hall.
- Plan No. 1, a Twentieth Street site between Texas and Missouri streets, approved for the new Daniel Webster School.
- Eaton & Smith allowed 90 days blasting on Paris Street
- Curbs, sidewalks and paving ordered at Twenty-second and Vermont
- Board approved Plan No. 1 as the site for a new neighborhood school, by 16 votes to none.
- Pacific Salt Co. allowed a steam pipe under Utah Street
- C. Frederick Kohl allowed a steam pipe under Montgomery Street
- Property owners' assessment appeal heard for Twenty-third Avenue
- The hearing on property owners' objections to the Circular Avenue widening was laid over one week on McCarthy's motion.
- Property owners' appeal against accepted street work on Folsom Street was laid over one week on McCarthy's motion.
- Property owners' appeal against the Downey Street grading assessment was laid over one week on McCarthy's motion.
- The appeal against the Drumm Street work assessment was laid over one week on McCarthy's motion.
- Cutting & Co. loses its appeal over the Drumm Street sewer
- Karoline Dickman appealed an assessment for Twenty-eighth Street street work; the outcome is not on this page.
- Union Iron Works gets a spur track on Illinois Street
- F. E. Knowles gets spur tracks off Division Street
- Objections by property owners to the Board of Public Works' damages and benefits report for widening Circular Avenue were filed.
- United States government gets a spur track to Fort Mason
- Hearing on Santa Marina Street between Mission and Elsie streets was reset to Monday, January 24, 1916.
- Curbs and asphalt proposed for Cabrillo Street between Fifteenth and Sixteenth
- City to take over the roadways on Harrison and Vermont streets
- Property owners' appeal on Bemis Street was reset for hearing on Monday, January 17, 1916.
- Property owners lose their appeal over street work on Folsom Street
- Board approved plans for an eighteen-classroom Redding School building and directed the Board of Education to start construction.
- Board carried a motion asking the City Engineer to report which districts suffer from inadequate water supply.
- Property owners' appeal on the Randall and Whitney Streets assessment was laid over four weeks for settlement talks.
- Revocable spur track permit for Maria Josefa Cebrian proposed in Bill No. 3882, text continues next page.
- Interurban Realty Company's Nineteenth Avenue appeal comes up for hearing
- Ordinance to fully accept several city street roadways, including Balboa Street, was passed for printing.