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'150 .- n -- -- - ~.~ " .- _. - - . ....--'..- -::-. .:;:.:.:.- .- Fire and Water Chairman Hanns requested permission of the council to trans- fer surplus accounts within the Fire Department budget to other accounts wherein 14 more money was needed. This request was unanimously granted. I I ~ Police Chairman Bond requested that ,the Recorder be instructed to place a ~~ bid for the purchase of a Tudor Sedan for the Police Department with the Police Com :t:6 mittee given power to act in th~ selection of the car. ! . I Mr. Bond, Chairman of the Police Committee, recommended that applications for renewals Bf beer and wine lIcenses be approved, but that at the suggestion of the State Liquor Control Commission all fraternal orders take out a club license in stead of the Retail Beer Class "B" License. This action was duly approved by the 16 Council: 1 I . Peters~n's Grocery . Broadway Cash Store Briggs' Cafe . Snappy S~rvice Sandwich Shop . Brown's Emergency . . . Ted's . College Side Inn . . Tiny Tavern Club Cigar 'Store . Robinson's Gafe Cosmo Cigar store . New Deal, The Drive-Inn Marke~ Ral.ph Rnd Stanley #3 Lone Star Joe Dave's Pie Shop . Moose Club 11686 . BPO Elks No. 357 Oregana Confectionery . Seymour's Cafe Osburn Hotel Frank's Percy's Place Eagle's E~gene Aerie #275 Mr. Bond reported that due to the state traffic law ther~ would be no action on the petitions requesting control of speeding in various zones of the city. The 17 Mayor order'ed'the petitions placed on file. / Mayor Large stated that City Engineer Clupb requested that the sum of $550. be drawn from the Emergency Fund in order- to complete the city's share of expenditur s on the traffic lights. Upon motion duly ~ade and: seconded, this was unanimously 18 approved. , City Engineer Clubb suggested that bicycles be restricted and parking be not I' allowed in the area from 11th to 6th and from Olive to Oak, incl~ding both sides of said streets. The City is then to erect racks on private property at convenient locations for the bicycles. This recommendation was very favorably received by the council and referred to the Police Committee to secure the ne~essary property. f9r. 19 the parking space: . , , At this time the City Recorder recommended that new traffic tickets be printed and numbered according to book and Indivi~ual ticket to provide a means' of checking tickets. It was suggested that the tickets be made out in triplicate; one to r~main in the book; one handed to the violator: and the other to be submitted to the court. The suggestion that one-way traffic b~ instituted in ~lleys and that trucks be required to use them for delivers met with favo~able reaction and was re- ferred to the Police Committee for careful study., In instances where stores have no alley entrances, loading zones should be established on the street, it was sug- gest~d. It was believed that the State Highway C9mmission might have some avail- able material concerning tbaffic regulation in connection with traffic signals and 20 as sbon as contact could be made these Questions would then be acted UDon. . . ~ . ~ I The City Recorder at this time requested approval of the Council to transfer . ' from'the Intersection Fund of the City of Eugene to the Improvement Bond Sinking Fun the sum of $8500.00 which is not needed for the Intersection Fund. Upon motion made 21 seconded, and duly carried, this request was approved. I The Recorder stated that.there was a deficit of $17'(, 574.15 in the Improve- ment Bond Sinking Fund and that due to the fact that these bonds are not refunding I bonds. and where there are no assets in the form of liens they automatically becom~ Genersl Bond obligations. It was recommended that there be transferred from the General Bond Sinking Fund for payment of this amount of money $25, 367.73 per year as of 1938~1944 inclusive plus a transfer of a graduated amount with which to pay interest on these same bonds. The Recorder pointed out that this did not in any way interefere with the General Bond Sinking Fund set-up; that due to an excellent tax collection the General Bond Sinking Fund was in exceptionally good condition. It was further pointed out that,in addition to this proposed transfer the budget committee meeting of 1939 would be required to adopt a policy of levy, principal I and interest, .in excess of $28,000 a year in order to complete the deficit in the Improvement Bonds and therefore if this transfer were not approved that instead of levying $28,000 they would be levying better than $50,000. Mayor-Large stated that as far as taxation is conc;.erned there would be no difrerence in amount being levied if a program were adopted as follows: that rather than transfer f~om General Bond Sinking to the Improvement Bond Sinking that if the levy for the ~eneral Bond Sinking Fund were decreased and a special levy set up for Improvement Bonds that the result would be exactly the same. Mayor Large wanted the picture to be thoroughly clear as to the purpose of the levy; in other words, he wanted the general public to understand that the reason that this levy was having to be made was because of the , ': ~