Public service Jim Wilson (Los Angeles)

1 public service

1.1 city council

1.1.1 elections
1.1.2 positions
1.1.3 reputation


1.2 board of public works
1.3 public transit

public service
city council
elections

see list of los angeles municipal election returns, 1933–41.

in 1933, los angeles city council district 1 covered sparsely populated san fernando valley , atwater section, los feliz area east of griffith park, east of vermont avenue , north of fountain avenue. wilson won first election 1st district seat in 1933 on incumbent, charles randall, 2-to-1 margin. reelected in 1935 , in 1937 , 1939 lost delamere francis mccloskey in 1941.

positions

1936 wilson appeared @ meeting of city police commission, along representatives of los feliz women s club , parent-teacher association of los feliz district, protest issuing of floor-show permit wigwam cafe @ 3100 los feliz boulevard, saying activities @ wigwam keep neighborhood awake @ nights , nuisance district.

1941 councilman on losing end of 9-5 vote when city council approved spot zone allow radio station kmpc construct transmitter, building , towers on north side of burbank boulevard 600 feet east of coldwater canyon boulevard. neighbors protested of red-and-white towers gigantic barber poles.

reputation

wilson said have equable , agreeable temperament on council , wheelhorse work. when appointed board of public works, times reporter wrote wilson regarded real diplomat might able iron out misunderstandings have kept mayor , council @ loggerheads.

board of public works

wilson appointed board of public works mayor fletcher bowron in february 1943 , served until 1948. appointment opposed councilman parley parker christensen because christensen believed wilson might have voted in favoring of reimbursing councilman g. vernon bennett gasoline , oil used in supposedly illegally driving city car vancouver, b.c.. bennett issued statement denying charge.

public transit

in 1951 wilson secretary of engineering corporation planning construction of monorail rapid-transit system between long beach , san fernando valley via downtown , los angeles river. told reporter monorail trains attain speeds 100 miles hour and, counting station stops, should average better 40 miles hour.

at time of death in 1956, secretary of los angeles metropolitan transit authority.