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~ 317 -- . --- I 35~A...:-: of the 180 day trial period. At this time Councilman Bond stated that the Kiwanis Safety Committee conducting a Safety C~paign had made three requests of the City Council which were that the Police Department should begin to check and issue traffic tickets to all Jay Walkers, a more deliberate check should be made against Basic Rule violators and Reckless Drivers, and Officers should be placed at various known danger intersections and at stop streets. It was the recommendation of the Police Committee that their committee be instructed to prpceedwith'this work and it was 36 so ordered. .."......'" ,.w ...;.... ""'-1 I At this time ~~yor Large, declared a short recess for the Street Committee to study the bids for Sand, Gravel and Cement. The meeting was ca11ed to order .and it was the recommendation of the Street Committee that the bidoof Scobert Building Material Company be accepted for the purchase of necessary cement for the bid price of $3.00 per barrell (paper sacks) and the bid of the Eugene Sand and Gravel Company be accepted for sand and gravel at the price of $1.25 per cu yd for concrete sand and..75 cents per cu yd for concrete gravel. Upon 'motion made and seconded the recommendation was unanimously approved. Other bids presented were from Lane Gravel Company (1.15 per cu yd for concrete Sand and .65 per cu yd for concrete Gravel); Springfield Building Supply Co. ($3.15 and $2.95 per bbl for oement in paper bags and 6,000 bbls in delivery lots of not less than 60 bbls on 37~one order, $17625.00); and Beaver Portland Cement Co. ($2.87 per bbl for cement) I Communication was presented from Jame's A. Rodman asking permiss ion to oonver his residence at 2288 Alder Street into an 'apartment house. The request was 381 unanimously approved. Communication was presented from the Board of Appeals presenting the request from E. H. Hall and Estella Hall asking for a "set-back" of twenty-five feet fran the sidewalk on the east side of Fair.mount Boulevard between Seventtenth and Nine- teenth Avenues. As the Board' recommends that this request be granted, motion was 59,./ made and seconded unanimously approv-ing the recommendation. ' . The communication also presented the request from Hargreaves & Sons asking to be allowed a ten foot "set-back" for a six-apartment house for John H. Lewis on the lot at the southwest corner.of the intersection of Patterson Street and Twelfth Avenue. The Board recommends that they, be reqired to observe a fifteen foot "set-back" and motion was made and seconded unanimously approving the recommend _ 4~ tion of the Board of Appeals. A request was receiy.ed'from D. F. Mains asking for a waiver of the "set-back on Seventeenth Avenue West at Lincoln Street. The Board recommends that he be grant a fourteen foot "set-back" from the front of his poroh to the stree~ property line 41"/and motion was made and seconded apprOVing the recommendation of the Board of Appeal. A request was received from Mrs; Myrtle M. MCAlpin aSking for a special per to erect a duplex residence on Lot 4, Block 2, Walnut Par~ Addition, located on Jefferson Street between Thirteenth and the Amazon. This lot is outside the R-2 Zon , but the Board recommends that the request be granted. Motion was made and seconded 42 ~ unanimously approving the recommendation of the Board of AplE als. A request was received from Oscar Hanson for a permit to build an Apartment House on Lot 7, Block 2, Hendrick's Addition, located at Fourteenth Avenue and 'Lawrence Street. The Board of Appeals would recommend that he be granted a permit for two duplexes only and motion was made and seconded unanimously approving the 45r recommendation of the Board. A request was received from John L. Reynolds, in behalf of H. L. Edmunds; asking for the privilege of installing clear plate glass in a -metal frame in the east wall of a proposed building addition adjoining on the west of 'the Safeway Store property at Thirteenth and Willamette Streets. The Board reoommends that they be required to use metal sash and wire glass and motion was made and seconded unanimous 44v approving the recommendation of the Board. Communication was presented from James W. Mott, Oregon Congressman, stating that the application of the City of Eugene for an allotment of $53,129 to construct and reconstruct sidewalks and curbs had been approved by ~he Work Projects Administra 45v'ltion on April 18, 1940. The communication was ordered placed on file. . C<ilmmunication was presented from S. R. Mosher, 'Building Inspector, stating that 'on 'the afternoon of April 30th, he had been accompanied by Mr. H. J.C.ox, -membe bfthe City Council; Mr. S. M. Calkins, <City Attorney; and Wm. Nusbaum, Fire Chief, ~nd they visited the building located at 189, 191, and 197 Eighth Avenue West whioh had been damaged by fire on the 28th of April. ,As the building is now in a hazardous bondition and is not worth the amount of money required to repair the roof, it is ~ecommended that the structure with its attached sheds be condemned. Motion was made and seconded approving the recommendation and the City Attorney was instructed to 46 ~prepare necessary condemnation p~pers. . ~~mmunication was presented from the Union Central Life Insurance Company advising the ,city that warrants #52028 in the amount of $64.01 and warrant #52327 in the amount of $35.21, had been accepted as payment of the amounts tendered in full settlement of the adjustment of an excess assessment covering property known as 290 I I ~