Excerpt from The Municipal Employee, Vol. 3: Service, Efficiency, Co-Operation; January, 1929 That San Francisco has just completed one of the most successful and greatest years in a program of civic improvement is indicated by the annual reviews of the Board of Public Works, the office of City Engineer M. M. O'shaughnessy, the Board of Education, the Playgrounds and the Park Commissions and the many other departments that contribute their share in the progress of this rapidly growing metropolis. On February 1 the municipal government will take over 60, 000 acres of Spring Valley properties, bought at a cost of $41, so that the Hetch Hetchy piping system will carry water through San Francisco's own land to the Spring Valley lakes. In acquiring the Spring Valley properties the company's 600 employees automatically will be welcomed as members of the city's official family. One of the outstanding undertakings this year will be development of the city's boulevard system, including extension of Van Ness Avenue through to Howard Street, work on the latter having been scheduled to begin immediately. Completion of the Bay Shore Boulevard and the Great Highway are two of the major projects in View. Construction of additional hospital facilities, with enlargement of Central Emergency Hos pital to include a Health Center, and construe tion of new sewer systems are only a few of the year's contemplated achievements. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.