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r'" 288 . - - - -- - - "-- ~ - - -. . -- - . - - - --- -:- Be it further resolved that this Resolution be spread on the minutes '::;j (t: '1;: c ~'; of this meeting and a copy thereof be forwarded to Mrs. Jackson. I . a A motion was made and seconded that the allowance of ~22.50 per month for rental of office quarters of S.E.R.A. be placed on the regular payroll, and that warrant for this amount be drawn and issued to the Southern Oregon Publishing Company each month at the time regular salaries are drawn. The ayes and nays were called, and Councilmen voting aye 7, Nay none, absent Harris. 1~. Her~an Knutsen submitted an offer to the City to pay the principal assessment of $73.37 for sewer against a lot on the Northeast corner of 17th and Pearl Streets, 50 x 156.34, if the City would rebate the interest. The matter was referred to the Finance COfnmittee to report ba(l'k to the Council. On motion duly seconded and carried the City purchased from W. F. Semlow one modernistic piece 4xl2 feet fringed, and four 4t x 7 feet national colors, and two 26T1 x 10' American streamers, for the sum of $20.00. The following Resolution was read and on motion adopted: . RESOLUTION < This matter coming on to be heard before the Common Council of the City of Eugene, pursuant to notice, on Jume 11, 1934, at 7:30 . o'clock P. M. of said day, in the office of the City Recorder in the City Hall in the City of Eugene, Lane County, Oregon, and it appearing to the Council that complaints have been made by residents living near the property herein described, and reports have been made by the Chief of Police, the City Attorney, the Chairman of the Health Committee I and the Chief of the Fire Department, declaring said buildings dangerous, and the COrnmon Council having personally inspected said buildings and having heard all protests, remonstrances and objections, at this time makes its finding that the buildings at 1601 Orchard street in Eu@9ne, Oregon, are, and are hereby declared to be, dangerous buildings, under the provisions of Ordinance No. 8292, in this: That the walls and timbers are leaning and there is danger of them falling on children I I II ,I and other persons. That the buildings are filled with rubbish and are unsanitary and a menace to the health of the neighborhood and constitute an attractive nuisance for children to play in; that because of the close proximi ty of the a"handoned buildings to the buildings in the surrounding neighborhood, they constitute a fire hazard. That said buildings constitute a trap for the unwary and are in a bad state of '.' unrepair. The Common Council therefore orders and directs that said buildings be removed and the nuisance abated, and the City Recorder is hereby ordered and directed to give five days notice of the findings of the Council to William Sweet and Timothy Sweeb, the owners of said buildings, requiring them to remove said buildings and abate the nuisance, or to render it safe within twenty five days from the expiration of the five days notice, and if they fail so to do, that the Common Council I shall thereupon order said buil~ings removed. . ~