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r"'" 10 r -- - -,., - - - - -. Council Chambers, Eugene, Oregon Ii November 8, 193'7 w I " 0 - - The minutes of the regular meeting of the common council held at the hour of '7:30 o'clock P.M., November 8, 1937. Mayor Large called the meeting to order; all councilmen were present. The minutes of the previous meeting were presented 1 and ordered filed as read. In conjunction with the regular meeting of the council, members of the Budget Committee together with taxpayers of the city of Eugene were present for discussion of the 1938 budget. All members of the Budget Committee were present I . except David Graham and George Bushman. The meeting of the Budget Committee was turned over for taxpayers' hearing at this time by Chairman Large. Citizen F. G. Reese strenuously objected to the adoption of the wage scale and the $3500..00 levy for the purpose of transient relier. Mr. Reese pleaded that the present salary scale is sufricient and that the taxpayers should be given some relief. Councilman Hendershott moved and Budgetman Horton seconded that the Budget Committee approve the proposed 1938 budget as it had been advertised. At this time Mr. Reese moved t at this motion be amended by reducing the proposed salary increases to the 1937 level and that the $3500.00 levy for relief be stricken out. There being no second to this motion, the Mayor asked if the committee was ready for the question. Question ~as called and all present voted "aye" except for a possible three who voted "nay." The Mayor declared the budget to be approved by the Budget Committee. at this time Mayor Large expressed appreciation to the members of the Budget Committee for their 2 fine endeavor in the preparation of the budget. /'" i: After a short recess Mayor Large called the council to order and stated that the council was now sitting as a levying board to pass upon the budget for 1938 as prepared by the annual budget committee. An ordinance levying the annual tax levy for the city of Eugene for the fiscal year of 1938 was read the first time and passed its second and third readings by title under suspension of the rule by the unanimous consent of the council and was placed upon its final passage. The ayes and nays were called: Councilmen voting aye: Lamb, Hendershott, Reid, Page, Hanns, Farrington, Bond and C2crlson; nay, none; absent, none. The ordinance was (3 declared passed and numbered 8525. I Councilman Lamb, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, stated that the re- quest of C. F. Hyde and D. F. Mains for cancellation of the deed formerly executed in favor of .Ambrose Dennis and to issue it instead to Anne Dennis had been withdraw . The title to the property is to remain in the name of Ambrose Dennis as originally 4 named. / Councilman Lamb requested that the Judiciary Committee be granted another two weeks in which to study the proposed anti-picketing ordinance as presented by Attorney S. D. Allen, representing Ralph & Stanley and A. \iT: Brumwell, proprietor f . /5 of the City Barber Shop. Mayor Large granted this request. I The $400.00 offer of C. A. Wetterstrom for lot on 12th l~venue East located 104 feet west of Alder Street 50' x 35' was denied by the Finance Committee as were the offers of Mr. Wetterstrom for the north 90 feet, Lot 6, Block 2, R. F. Scott's Addition ($400..00) and the north 80 feet of Lot 6 and the north 80 feet of the West 12.8 feet of Lot 5, Block 10, Scott's Addition ($400.00). Upon motion made and (6 duly seconded, the recommendation of the Finance Committee was approved. The request of Mrs. Nettie Duvall was rejected by the Finan~e Committee. '7 Upon motion made and seconded this action was accepted. / The $100.00 cash offer of J. D. Hudspeth for the West 85 feet of Lot 4, Block 30, Gross Addition was held by the Finance Committee until the value of the lot in the attached plat is determined. This recommendatian was unanimously ap- 8 proved by the council., I I The $100.00 offer of Ivan G. Brent for "Beginning 485 feet south of a point made by the intersection of the south line of 23rd Avenue with the west line of University' Street, if extended south, thence south 50 feet, thence west 106.25 feet, thence north 50 feet and thence east 106.25 feet to the place of beginning, all in 1 Eugene, Lane County, Oregon." $10.00 cash and $10..00 each month plus the accrued interest at 6% with the city to pay back taxes but n~t to furnish an insurable title I was denied by the council and a counter-offer of $200.00 extended with the same I 9 terms as above mentioned. This action waB approved by the council. - The $450.00 offer of N. E. Glass for part of Lot 5, Block 30, Fairmount Addition, was denied by the Finance Committee and a counter-offer of $1000.00 ex- tended. Upon motion made and duly seconded, the recommendation of the Committee 10 was unanimously approved. I The $1800.00 cash offer of Maurice S. Allen for the East 50 feet of Lots 1 and 2, Block 8, College Hill Park Addition was denied by the council. Upon motion 11 made and seconded, the recommendation of the Finance Committee was approved. ..... I'