All decisions
82 Board decisions about William P. Stanton, in date order. Each links to its printed page.
- Pacific Gas and Electric asked to remove Lombard Street gas lamps
- Pacific Gas and Electric asked to remove lamps on Monterey Boulevard
- Street levels set on Laguna Honda Boulevard between Hernandez and Portola
- Recorder's office budget of $122,000 approved, with Supervisor Stanton's proposed pay increases for deputies and copyists referred to Finance Committee.
- Board took up the Civil Service Commission's $27,710 appropriation; a proposed amendment to Item 272 was moved.
- Amendments raising pay for janitors, window cleaners and elevator operators were referred to the Finance Committee.
- Sheriff's office personal services budget of $268,664 for deputies, jailers and staff is listed for approval.
- Juvenile Court salary and expense appropriations approved; several salary amendments were sent to the Finance Committee.
- Supervisor Stanton's proposed pay raise for six street cleaning watchmen was referred to the Finance Committee.
- An amendment raising three watchmen's pay to $1,920 each a year was referred to the Finance Committee.
- Engineering Department salary and non-personal budget items for the year are listed, with the outcome continuing on the next page.
- Superior Courts budget items for judges, jurors, translators and stenographers were taken up; the outcome continues on the next page.
- Supervisor Stanton proposed higher pay for bridge watchmen and tenders; the amended items were referred to the Finance Committee, and the rest was approved.
- $25,000 sought for Main Street between Howard and Harrison streets
- Supervisor Stanton proposed raising a Bureau of Architecture stenographer's salary to $2,220; the amendment was sent to the Finance Committee.
- Supervisor Stanton proposed raising pay for several Department of Public Health clerks and stenographers; referred to Finance Committee.
- Supervisor Stanton proposed adding $42,660 to School Department budget for 237 janitors, referred to Finance Committee.
- An ordinance amending the street excavation rules for gas lamp post removal was passed for printing on first reading.
- Annie W. McMullen's land on Thirty-first Avenue accepted for a school
- Supervisor Stanton presented Charter Amendment 37, adding a new Article XVI section, which the Judiciary Committee did not recommend.
- Board ordered submitted to voters a charter amendment transferring wage-fixing powers to the Board of Supervisors.
- The San Francisco Labor Council asked for pay increases for Municipal Railway employees; the Board sent it to Finance Committee.
- An ordinance letting the lighting committee hire engineers for a proposed citywide street lighting survey was passed for printing.
- Stanton proposed a $10 monthly raise for 15 assistant appraisers; the motion was referred to Finance Committee.
- Supervisor Stanton proposed raising eight Superior Court translators' salaries to $2,400; referred to Finance Committee.
- Supervisor Stanton's proposed $50,000 transfer for a forty-cent daily raise for Municipal Railway workers was referred to committee.
- A motion to send the Board's telegram asking the War Department whether it would relax its ban on bridges north of Hunter's Point failed.
- Pratt Building Material Company's spur track permit on Berry Street was rescinded and sent back to the Streets Committee.
- Supervisor Stanton's resolution to raise salaries for assessor, public works, electricity and health staff was refused passage.
- Overhead wires to go underground on California Street and Marina Boulevard
- The Mayor vetoed an amendment to the spur track ordinance barring trade-restraint conditions on deliveries; the veto was continued one week.
- Overhead wires to go underground on Sacramento and Pacific streets
- Resolution expresses the Board's sympathy on the death of George Flatley, Electrical Workers business agent and Labor Council delegate.
- Wires to go underground on Guerrero Street between Nineteenth and Valley
- Poles and overhead wires to go underground on Hayes Street
- Pacific Gas and Electric to relight San Bruno Avenue
- Finance Committee was ordered to hold a Wednesday night hearing on city employees' requested salary raises.
- Bill 8318, amending Order No. 214 on underground wires and conduits, was passed for printing.
- Motion carried asking the Finance Committee to bring in a resolution raising city wages to match private employment pay.
- Board adopted Resolution 28276 raising pay for many city jobs, including cooks, engineers, sewermen and linemen, effective January 1, 1928.
- Motion to telegraph Supervisor McSheehy about a Bay Bridge tube compromise carried with an amendment; text continues.
- The $1,875 appropriation for a Chief Engineer of the Building Inspection Bureau was referred to the City Attorney for opinion.
- Proposed ordinance would move overhead wires on Buena Vista Terrace, Roosevelt Way to Fourteenth Street, underground; passed for printing.
- Board of Public Works sought $907.25 to pay a building inspection superintendent; a motion to lay the resolution over one week failed.
- Supervisor Stanton proposed raising sixteen ambulance drivers' pay to $2,700 each; the amendment was referred to the Finance Committee.
- Supervisor Stanton proposed raising pay for health department stenographers, clerks, nurses and supervisors; the vote is not printed here.
- Aquatic Park improvements were fixed at $100,000 in the budget, up from the original $50,000 proposal.
- Supervisor Stanton moved that the Southern Pacific railroad agreement be referred to the City Attorney to check its Mission District franchise.
- Whether Southern Pacific uses other streets cannot be determined
- Stanton's motion sent commercial development and city harbor control to a five-member special committee.
- Proposed wiring of 500 arterial stop signs of the Carter type citywide was laid over one week and made a special order.
- Supervisor Stanton's motion endorsing State Senate Bill 112, barring alien labour on public work, was carried by 13 votes to 1.
- Civil Service Committee report on standardizing city salaries was continued one week and made a special order for 10 a.m.
- A resolution granting laundry permits to named Chinese persons was taken up; its outcome continues on the next page.
- Janitor pay for item 410 was raised by $10 a month each, with the understanding it covers all janitors.
- S. F. Association of the Blind's assessment was reduced to $5,000 on Supervisor Stanton's motion, seconded by Schmidt.
- Market Street Railway pays $10,000 to give up Pacific Avenue tracks
- Board asked the City Attorney and Playground Committee to prepare a voter statement favouring the China Beach land acquisition.
- Board asked for a similar voter statement favouring the land acquisition for Marina Park.
- Choice of boulevard lamp posts put off another week
- Boulevard lighting standards matter was put over to December 23, 1929 after a failed amendment to postpone it four weeks.
- Stanton's proposal to require a two-thirds vote to suspend the Board's rules was defeated.
- Streets Committee ordered to investigate street paving contracts after newspaper reports and report back, with the City Engineer present.
- Stanton's motion for a Streets Committee investigation of street paving irregularities was carried by the Board.
- Supervisor Stanton moved that the Streets Committee investigate alleged street paving irregularities and that Public Works list street extras; motion segregated.
- City opposes a food terminal at the foot of Laguna Street
- Marina Boulevard rezoning appeal between Buchanan and Webster put off
- On Supervisor Stanton's motion, 400 lamps were ordered installed on Pacific Avenue from Van Ness Avenue to Steiner Street.
- The San Francisco Labor Council's protest against Civil Service examinations was granted, asking for public hearings on the matter.
- Board adjourned for lack of a quorum until the next Tuesday morning.
- Hearing on appeal of the City Planning Commission's Marina Boulevard rezoning was continued to September 21, 1931.
- Property owners appealed a City Planning Commission rezoning of Marina Boulevard between Buchanan and Webster streets; the hearing was laid over four weeks.
- Wires to go underground on Pacific Street to Van Ness Avenue
- Two-family housing proposed near Broadway and Fillmore streets
- Proposal to rezone an area bounded by Broadway, Laguna, Fillmore and Green Streets from First to Second Residential.
- Two-family housing proposed near Broadway and Fillmore streets
- Record book of votes from the May 3, 1932 presidential primary and special elections was approved as the official canvass record.
- Proposed approval of the statement of votes for the May 3, 1932 presidential primary and special election.
- Zone change for blocks bounded by Broadway, Laguna, Fillmore and Green Streets continued to November 14, 1932.
- Board laid over for one week an ordinance amending Camp Mather seasonal employment pay and positions.
- Application to be made to the federal government for refund of City money paid for Sunnyvale and Marin bombing base sites.
- Supervisor Stanton moved that the Mayor telegraph Secretary Ickes urgently asking for a reply on NRA grants.