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<br /> Council Chamb3rs, City Hall
<br /> September 13. 1937
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<br /> AI '. The minutes of the regular meeting of the common council held at the hour
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<br /> ~....' of 7~30 o'clock P. M., September 13, 1937. The meeting was called to order by
<br /> 1. Mayor Large. All members of the council were present.
<br /> The minutes of the previous meeting, August 23, 1937, were presented and
<br /> 2 ordered filed as there were no corrections appearing.
<br /> Ii Councilman Fred Lamb, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, reported that thE
<br /> II proper franchise between the city of Eugene and Postal Telegraph Company would be
<br /> " ready for presentation at the next council meeting and requested the City Attorney
<br /> 'I to communicate with the proper authorities of the Western Union Telegraph Company
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<br /> " informing them that unless a proper franchise is prepared, they will be subject to
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<br /> ,I the 5% tax provided by the state law. The recommendation of the Judiciary Com-
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<br /> I! mittee was upheld.
<br /> 11 Relative to the petition requesting the council to remove the woodyard now I
<br /> Ii being maintained by Lane County at 17th and High Streets, it was the recommendatior .
<br /> I ~ of the Judiciary Committee that this wood storage space be left as it is and this
<br /> 4 " recommendation was duly approved.
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<br /> i' The Judiciary Committee reporting on the Anne Whiteaker claim, stated that
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<br /> 'I a conference had been held in the office of the City Attorney with Judge Potter,
<br /> I plaintiff's attorney. It was pointed out that Miss Whiteaker is willing to settle
<br /> II for $200.00, but that the city could not see liabi~~ty to that extent, therefore
<br /> 5, il no decision was made. /
<br /> , :1 The $214.99 offer of Beatrice O. Brownson for Lots 1 and 2, Block 33, Fair-
<br /> ,I- mount Addition, city to furnish insured title, was upon motion made and seconded,
<br /> 6 ;1 accepted by the council.
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<br /> " The $563.28 offer of R. S. Shelley for the North 75 feet of Lot 5, Block 2,
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<br /> II Original Plat of Eugene was upon motion made and seconded, accepted with the ex-
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<br /> I' ception that payments of $7.00 per month be increased to $10.00 per month and it I
<br /> /1.11 was so ordered.
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<br /> II Upon motion made and seconded, the $400.00 offer of C. P. Tillman for Lot 1
<br /> Block 1, Maplecroft Addition, was rejected and a counter-offer of $850.00 extended ~-
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<br /> II Letter from Mrs. A. B. Brown requesting an extension of one year on their
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<br /> II contract in which to redeem their property described as Lot 15, Block 4, Fairmount
<br /> i! Addition was presented and it was agreed that this extension be granted on the
<br /> Ii condition that the party pay this year's interest and taxes that are due and it
<br /> 9 was so ordered.
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<br /> II Upon motion made and seconded the $350.00 offer of R. G. Marks for property
<br /> I, described as: "Beginning at a point in the south line of 9th Avenue West if extend
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<br /> ! ed 100 feet East of the West line of Lot 4, Huddleston's Addition, running thence
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<br /> I South 136 feet, thence East 51.33 feet, thence North 100 feet, thence West 1.33
<br /> - I feet, thence North 36 feet, thence West 50 feet to the place of be~inning, all in
<br /> 10 II Eugene, Lane County, Oregon~, was rejected and a counter-offer of 1553.84 extended
<br /> and it was so ordered.
<br /> / II The $400.00^offer of J. W. Armstrong, at the rate of $25.00 per month and 6~ .-
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<br /> 1, interest on the unpaid balance was upon motion made and duly seconded, accepted
<br /> 1111 and it was so ordered. ~.+.4 ~:2.. ~ (J>,l~
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<br /> I' The School Board Rental Committee recommended that the rent be placed at
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<br /> il $40.00 per month for a period of one year with the following condition that the
<br /> School Board surrender the Adult Education Room and build an office from the north
<br /> I end of the hall and make all improvements themselves including wiring and water
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<br /> 12' service. This recommendation was duly approved.
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<br /> I, Councilman Hendershott, chairman of the Finance Corrmittee, recommended that
<br /> $50.00 per month for a period of three months be paid Victor P. Todd, WPA Engineer
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<br /> II for the local sewing project. The ayes and nays were called, councilmen voting
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<br /> I: aye, Lamb, Hendershott, Reid, Page, Hanns, and Carlson; nay, Farrington and Bond,
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<br /> :1 Councilman Hendershott, Finance Committee Chairman, reported the following
<br /> II bills to the council with the recommendation that they be allowed and motion was
<br /> " made and seconded that warrants be drawn. The ayes and nays were called, council-
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<br /> I' men voting aye: L8.lIlb , Hendershott, Reid, Bond and Carlson, Hanns, Farrington and
<br /> I Page; nay, none; absent, none:
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<br /> I GENERAL BOND INTEREST FUND
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<br /> F. Wentwor;th, Treasurer $62.50
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