All decisions
68 Board decisions about Adolph Schmidt, in date order. Each links to its printed page.
- Board learned the defective Golden Gate Park road work lies wholly with the Park Commission, so it has no jurisdiction.
- Supervisor Schmidt's motion to refer Supervisor Uhl's garbage disposal facts to the Grand Jury carried.
- Sanitary Service Company's Puttaert garbage method bid, earlier ruled illegal, is still being argued before the Board.
- Board sets basic daily rates for patients able to pay at San Francisco Hospital and Hassler Health Home.
- Supervisors moved to reopen the Park budget to consider Dr. Heil's proposal to buy the Hyde Street pioneer home.
- Ramsey Moran was confirmed without objection as a member of the War Memorial Board.
- A resolution mourning Fire Department First Assistant Chief Thomas J. Murphy, who served 41 years, was adopted unanimously.
- Supervisor Schmidt's motion to appoint a committee to join the Anti-Red Plague Campaign carried, and a Health Committee was appointed.
- Finance Committee reports on the trans-Market Street traffic problem
- Chronicle plan to cut Bay Bridge tolls to 25 cents endorsed
- Supervisor Schmidt proposed asking the Navy Secretary to allocate auxiliary vessel building to idle Pacific Coast private yards.
- Schmidt brings forward a resolution endorsing the Chronicle's plan to fix the Bay Bridge toll at 25 cents.
- Schmidt moved an inquiry to the Attorney-General on transferring the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District to state control.
- Northern counties conference on bridges called out of committee
- Inquiry to Attorney-General Webb on transferring Golden Gate Bridge control to the state toll authority adopted without objection.
- Chronicle plan to cut Bay Bridge tolls to 25 cents endorsed
- Chronicle plan to cut Bay Bridge tolls to 25 cents endorsed
- Supervisor Schmidt asked Public Works for the steps and cost to acquire a small gore property at Duboce and Market.
- Motion honouring surgeon Dr. Emmett Rixford, founder of the Lane Medical Library, adopted unanimously; the Board adjourned in his memory.
- The Shaffer continuous sub-surface rapid transit plan was referred to the Citizens' Committee on Rapid Transit.
- The Board adopted a unanimous resolution mourning City Physician Dr. Arthur O'Neill, and adjourned in his memory.
- Public Utilities Commission asked to send Shaffer rapid transit proposals to the Citizens' Committee on Rapid Transit.
- Board urges the Exposition Company to keep its pledge of a five-cent fare to the Yerba Buena Shoals site.
- Supervisor Schmidt's motion to send Dr. J. C. Geiger a letter of congratulation on his honorary law degree was carried.
- Supervisor Schmidt proposed amending Roncovieri's resolution to acquire Market Street Railway properties for $9,780,000.
- Supervisor Reilly proposed a resolution in memory of Frank P. Noon; outcome not printed on this page.
- The Board unanimously adopted a motion thanking the Bernstein family for feeding the poor at Bernstein's Grotto on Thanksgiving.
- Market Street Railway's jitney petition denied; abandoning car lines debated
- Board sits as a Committee of the Whole to hear public views on Marina height limits and rezoning to First Residential.
- Schmidt's substitute asking voters whether to let private companies distribute Hetch Hetchy power was sent back to the Public Utilities Committee.
- The Board passed the Assessor's budget, a net increase of $10,539, after an unsuccessful motion for an automobile.
- The Board passed the budget for the Board of Supervisors, which drops $1,620 after the former Clerk's death.
- Supervisor Schmidt presented a resolution opposing the Housing Authority's use of Calvary Cemetery for low-cost housing.
- Spray paint shop fire-safety ordinance was postponed to August 14, 1939 after a tied vote on referral.
- Appeal to rezone part of California Street near Locust Street to commercial use was continued to October 30, 1939.
- Ordinance regulating poultry killing and sale permits was re-referred to the Health Committee on Supervisor Schmidt's motion.
- The Board unanimously congratulated Dr. J. C. Geiger for his botulism research honours.
- Proposed amendment increasing the tenure of temporary Exposition Organization staff under the mayor's salary ordinance was temporarily postponed.
- Congratulations to the San Francisco Chronicle on its 75th birthday, proposed by Supervisor Schmidt, carried unanimously.
- Nuisance case at North Point and Larkin Streets returned to committee
- The Board voted to hold a special session on March 6, 1940, at 2 P.M., on unemployment relief.
- Supervisor Schmidt asked the SRA to restore a higher pregnancy food allowance, then did not press the motion.
- Supervisor Schmidt moved that the per diem employees' schedule of compensations, as passed by the Board, be included in the budget.
- Supervisor Schmidt's motion to cut the health department's $550 phonographic reporter line to $475 failed.
- Motion to cut the Health Department's $465 accounting contractual services line to $325 failed.
- Supervisor Schmidt moved to cut the health department's $450 accounting materials line to $400; outcome continues.
- The Board rescinded its earlier $20 monthly raises for seventeen librarians, and later approved $10 increases instead.
- Move to cut $25,000 from Aquatic Park building budget turned down
- Supervisor Schmidt moved to rescind the earlier refusal of WPA sponsorship funds for widening Post Street and other streets.
- Flood Realty Co's building assessment was reduced by $1000 to $80,000 on Supervisor Schmidt's motion; appraisers agreed.
- The Board adopted a resolution expressing regret at the death of consulting engineer George William Shultz.
- Occupational license ordinance proposed; Supervisor Schmidt moved to re-refer it to the Finance Committee, with the vote continuing.
- Consideration of the ordinance regulating wholesale and retail poultry permits and licences was postponed to September 30, 1940.
- The Board unanimously voted to send a letter of thanks to McKinley Circle No. 31 for two donated flags.
- Ordinance on food-business permits, licence revocation and uncooked poultry sale hours was referred to the Finance Committee.
- Fire Department surplus of $49,920 reappropriated to create 36 firemen and four chief positions for January to June 1941.
- Proposal to close and abandon a small part of Union Street east of Calhoun Street was postponed to January 6, 1941.
- Resolution on bus permits and a five-cent fare was sent back to Judiciary Committee for further study.
- The Board commended the San Francisco Examiner and stamp editor Sydney Ooldie for a successful philatelic exhibition.
- Will Merryman congratulated on leading the Chamber of Commerce
- Supervisors voted to hold a conference meeting on Wednesday, March 5, 1941, to consider the city budget.
- The Board asked the Park Commission what will be done with palms being removed from Union Square.
- A Master Plan "Plan of Action" for San Francisco, costing about $54,432 in its first year, was referred to Finance Committee.
- Mayor asks the Board to reconsider and pass a $30,000 appropriation for San Francisco street lighting.
- Supervisor Schmidt had the Clerk send the school ticket resolution to the Public Utilities Commission for weekend use on the Municipal Railway.
- The Public Welfare Commission and its director were asked to attend a joint committee meeting on the relief matter.
- The Board adopted a resolution of sympathy for Dr. Aaron S. Green, noted San Francisco ophthalmologist, by rising vote.
- Board unanimously endorsed the President's declaration of war on Japan and pledged loyalty and support to the national government.