All decisions
53 Board decisions about Fred Suhr, Jr., in date order. Each links to its printed page.
- City Electric Company told to take down its poles in Chinatown
- City Electric Company ordered to remove unlawfully maintained poles and overhead wires in underground districts, with extensions granted on several streets.
- Overhead wires to go underground on Eleventh Street after September
- The Board asked the Board of Public Works to pave the San Bruno avenue and Alameda street intersection with asphaltum instead of block paving.
- City land on Fifteenth Street between Castro and Beaver to be sold
- Clerk directed to advertise for bids to construct 50 fire alarm standards for the city.
- Proposal to hire 22 surveyor's field assistants at $1,500 each was lost after deferral.
- Proposal to raise thirteen elevator operators' pay from $1,080 to $1,200 each was lost.
- Street levels to be set on Orange Alley
- Property owners appeal the ordered sidewalks on Forty-seventh Avenue
- Mayor's request to insert documents on the Hetch Hetchy bonds veto into the record was granted by seven to three.
- Move to overrule the committee and order Winfield Street work
- Bill 3894 orders grading and concrete curbs on Winfield Street between Coso and Esmeralda avenues, passed for printing.
- Proposed ordinance would make overhead poles and wires unlawful in an added district on Twenty-second Street after January 1, 1917.
- J. P. Holland's ninety-day blasting permit for Leavenworth Street, between Chestnut and Francisco streets, was passed for printing.
- Samantha A. Wohlke's appeal on McAllister Street is denied
- Southern Pacific Railroad's spur track permit near Townsend and Fourth streets amended and passed for printing.
- Magnolia Metal Company allowed a spur track near Bryant Street
- Appeal by E. T. Holmes against the assessment for Rivera Street improvements was referred to the Streets Committee.
- Timothy Hopkins allowed a spur track on Bluxome Street
- Street improvement bill for Judah Street and Fourteenth Avenue, with curbs, sidewalks and asphalt, passed for printing.
- City to take over the new roadway on San Bruno Avenue
- Willis Polk & Company allowed curb changes on Van Ness Avenue
- City to take over the new roadway on Amity Alley
- City to take over new roadways on Taraval and Noriega Streets
- A proposed bill banning dust-producing coal, lime and cement shipments in part of the city was laid over four weeks.
- Supervisor Power's motion asking Public Works to repave Twelfth Street between rails and charge Ocean Shore Railroad was postponed two weeks.
- Property owners appealed the Board of Public Works' order for full-width stone sidewalks on Thomas Avenue; the appeal was laid over two weeks.
- Resolution to authorize a deed of Custer Avenue land from the Coryells and Kingstons to a title company was passed for printing.
- Commercial Centre Realty allowed a water pipe across Jefferson Street
- D. J. Counihan allowed to blast on Florida Street for grading
- Boy Scouts were credited with the city's Liberty Loan subscription, as the Mayor had suggested.
- Board debates repealing city worker pay increases for engineers, janitors, watchmen and elevator operators; motion to refer pending.
- Crescent Avenue appeal taken up again by the Board
- Supervisor Suhr moved to indefinitely postpone Bill No. 5035, the 1918-19 citywide tax levy ordinance.
- San Francisco Labor Council protests the budget's failure to provide union-scale wages; Supervisor Suhr proposed referral to Finance Committee.
- Suhr's bill to let the Board of Public Works seek cost-plus-a-fee bids for Hetch Hetchy construction was passed for printing.
- A single bid from Blyth Witter and the Anglo and London Paris National Bank for $500,000 school bonds was referred to committee.
- The Mayor was authorized to appoint a committee to welcome the officers and men of the Italian cruiser Libia.
- The Board adopted a resolution extending sympathy to the family of attorney Alexander F. Morrison, who died in Singapore.
- Supervisor Suhr, for Supervisor Todd, proposed raising two telephone operators' pay to $2,400 each; the vote is not printed here.
- The Board overruled protests and sustained the Islais Creek reclamation assessment of $1,620,152 against district property owners.
- The Board adopted a resolution mourning Moses Gunst, a former Police Commissioner, and sending sympathy to his family.
- A $1.5M bond needed for the Broadway tunnel
- On Suhr's motion, the Chair was authorized to appoint a five-member committee to attend the Oakland Estuary Tube dedication.
- G. Sanfilippo granted a filling station at Cortland and Folsom
- Opening of Theresa Street west of Alemany Boulevard was put off for two weeks pending a Streets Committee report.
- A bill moved by Supervisor Suhr was passed for printing, its subject not shown on this page.
- Enterprise Brewing Company bid $2,517 for city property at Eighteenth and Treat avenue; the bid was sent to the Finance Committee.
- McCormick Lumber Terminal allowed a spur track across Evans Avenue
- Police pension association's request to withdraw the Police Department Organization and Pension amendment from the ballot was granted.
- Lawrence J. Leipsic asks for a filling station on Army Street
- Resolution proposed to employ Peter D. Conley for Municipal Concerts to maintain required service; outcome continues on next page.