The San Francisco call., 1898-04-04
ARTICLE VT.
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC
 WORKS.
CHAPTER [.

CHAPTER I.
 The Board of Public Works.
 SECTION l. There shall be a Depart ment of Public Works under the man. agement of three Commissioners who shall constitute the Board of Public Works, and who shall give all their time during official business hours to the duties of their office. The members of said Board shall be appointed by the Mayor. Of those first appointed he shall appoint one for one year, one for two years, and one for three years Each year thereafter he shall appoint for three years one person as the suc- ceSsor of the Commissioner whose term of office expires in that year. All such appointments shall be so made that not more than one member shall at any one time belong to the same political party. No person shall be eligible for appointment as such Commissioner un- less he is, and has been for at least five years next preceding his appointment, an elector of the City and County. Each of. said Commissioners shall receive an annual salary of four thousand dollars.
 Sec. 2. Of the Commissioners first appointed under this Charter, one shall be designated by the Mayor to serve as President for one year. All subse- Quent Presidents of the Board shall be elected by the members thereof for terms to be fixed by said board. The President of the Board shall in each case hold office until his successor has been elected or until his membership on the Board expires.
 Sec. 3. The Board may appoint a Secretary who shall receive an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars. The Board may employ such clerks, super intendentS, inspectors. engineers, sur veyors, deputies, architects and work men as shall be necessary to a proper discharge of their duties under this Ar ticle, and fix their compensation; but no compensation to any of said persons shall be greater than is paid in the case of similar eInployments.
 Sec. 4. The Board shall establish all necessary rules and regulations for it's government, and for the performance of it's duties, and for the regulation and conduct of it's officers and employees and shall require adequate bonds from it's officers and employees, except labor ers for the faithful performance of all their duties in such sums as may be fixed by the Supervisors. Said bonds shall be approved by the Mayor and shall be filed in the office of the Audi tor
 Sec g. The Board shall hold regular meetings at least once each week at a place and time to be fixed by resolution entered on it's minutes. No changes in place or time of regular meetings shall be made without resolution passed at least two weeks before the time the change is to go into effect. Such spe- cial meetings may be held as the Com miSSionerS may deem necessary after notice of the same has been posted ten hours before the time of holding any such meeting. All meetings shall be public No business shall be transacted at an adjourned meeting except such as may have been under, or proposed for, consideration at the meeting from which the adjournment was had. No business shall be transacted at. a spe- cial meeting except that which is named in the notice of said meeting. Special meetings may be called by any member of the Board. In every case where a power is exercised under this Article by the Board the vote thereon shall be taken by ayes and noes.
 Sec G. The Board shall keep and preserve record of all it's proceedings, and copies of all plans, specifications, reports, contracts, estimates, certiff- cates, receipts, surveys, field notes, maps, platS, profiles, and of all papers pertaining to the transactions of the Board. The Secretary of the Board shall keep a record of all its transac- tions, specifying therein the names of the Commissioners present at all the meetings, and giving the ayes and noes upon all votes. The Secretary shall post and publish all orders, resolu- tions and notices as required in this Chapter or which the Board shall order to be posted or published. He shall perform such other duties as may from time to time be prescribed by the Board.
 Sec. z. The Board shall be the suc- ceSsor in office and shall have all the powers and perform all the duties of the Superintendent of Streets, High ways and Squares, of the New City Hall Commissioners, and of the Com missions in existence at the time this Charter goes into effect for the open ing, extending, widening, narrowing, strengthening. closing or changing the grades of streets in the City and Coun- ty.
 Sec. 8. The Board shall immediatel, after its organization take possession and have the custody and control of al, maps, plats, surveys, field notes, rec ords, plans, specifications, reports, con- tracts, models, machinery, instruments, tools, appliances, contract rights, priv ilegeS, books, documents and archives and other property belonging to thu City and County or which may be of value and importance to the City and County, and heretofore kept by or in the offices of the City and County Sur veyor, the Superintendent of Public Streets, Highways and Squares, the Board of New City Hall Commission CTS, and all commissions in existence aS the time this Charter goes into effect for the opening, extending, widening. narrowing. strengthening. closing or changing the grades of streets. and all