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JI""'" 444 -- -~~_.- ~ ..~OO' ~ ~ Councilman Bond, Chairman of the Police Committee, recommended that the sout side of East Fifth Street between Pearl and High Streets be posted "NO PARKING". He also recommended that East 10th Street between High and Mill Streets be posted fo one-hour parking on both sides of the street. Motion was made and seconded unanim- ously approving the recommendations. I Councilman Bond reported tha~here was a sandwich wagon located on the south '- side of Fifth Street between Pearl and High and this is to be taken care of by the 33 Health Committee. Communication was presented from Reverend V. T. Speece of the Bethany Evangelical Church to be erected on Eighth and Monroe Streets, aSking for a grant to locate the north end of the building on Eighth Street up to seven feet of the sidewalk. Upon motion made and seconded the matter was referred to the Board of 34 Appeals, with a request that they report back to the council. I Communication was presented from the Board of Appeals reporting they had received a request from C. A. Witham asking for a permit to erect a wooden frame canopy with storm-seal galvanized iron roof to take the place of the qld canvass awning on the Signal Service Station lot at Tenth Avenue and Oak Street. The Board l recommends that this request be denied, and motion was made and seconded unanimously 35 approving the recommendation of the Board. Request was also received from Mr. and Mrs. Bertie Kellogg asking for a permit to make alterations in the house at 1404 Twenty-Third Avenue East and to install additional plumbing in order to be able to rent sleeping rooms. The Eoard ~recommends that the request be granted on condition that no outside stairway be 36 erected and the recommendation was unanimously approved. A petition was presented to the Council asking for the vacation of 24th Avenue between Olive and Lincoln Streets. Upon being informed that all abutting property owners had not signed, any definite action was postponed until all signa- tures were had. However, motion was made and seconded instructing the City Attorney to prepare necessary papers initiating the vacation as soon as all necessary signa- 37~tures were obtained. Petition was presented to the council asking that the city investigate the conditions of that portion of the west end of second street which is just east of the railroad and thereafter do whatever is necessary and proper to place said street in a passable condition. Councilman Bond also requested the Street Committee _ to consider the possible improvements of Ash Street. Both matters were referred 38 to the Street Committee. ~, -I The following curb cut applications were presented: No. 836 for Hale Thompso ;' No. 83? for Ben H. Weber;- and No. 838 for H. J. Jones.'- The/City Engineer recommende that the cuts be granted and motion was made and seconded unanimously approving 39 the recorr~endation of the committee. . Resolution was presented authorizing the cancellation of certain warrants which had been issued for certain airport property, and upon motion made and seconde 46 the resolution was unanimously approved. RES 0 L U T ,ION WHEREAS, on the 31st day of December, 1940 the Council at a special meeting authorized the Mayor and City Recorder to issue warrants to Elisha Large, Mayor, for the purchase of the J. Clyde Hurzeler and George W. and Gladys Boqua properties in order to cash the warrants and have available money for the filing of suits in case it became necessary, and also authorized the Mayor and City Recorder to issue other warrants necessary for the purchase of the new airport, and I WHEREAS, warrants numbered 54096 and 5409? issued to Elisha Large, Mayor, for the Hurzeler property and warrants numbered 54098 and 54099 issued to Elisha Large, Mayor, for the Boqua property, were duly authorized and issued on December 31, 1940, and ViliEREAS, it later developed that it was not necessary to~ use these four warrants made out to E~isha Large, Mayor, and warrants numbered 54111 and 54112 dated December 31, ,1940 were issued to J. Clyde Hurzeler and warrants numbered 54369 and 54370 dated January 31, 1941 were issued to George W. and Gladys Boqua, and upon tendering these warrants for payment of the property, the original warrants numbered 54096, 54097, 54098, and 54099, were returned to the City Recorder; these four warrants never having been presented to the Treasurer for payment or registration and proper notation having been made on the Recorder's warrant Register showing that they have been cancelled; I .....