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That all City Employees not included in the above list be granted a raise of $10.00 per month; provided this $10.00 would not advance 18 any employee to over ~~290. 00. per m.onth. 'That one man in the street Department was granted a raise of ~8.33 on July 1st; 1942, and it is inended that at this time he shall receive a raise of only ~1.67 and one other man in the Street Dept. who was granted a raise of $5.00 per month July 1st, 1942, be allowed 8 raise of only $5.00 now. 'rlhe foregoing adjustments shall be effective September 1, 1942 Cind shall terminate , wi th the fi~]cal year or the duration of the War, whichever shall occur first. In I addition to the foregoing the Recorder is directed to set aside in a separate i fund ~p2,000.00 of the emergency fund as a bacle-log during the fiscal year and to ! be used to c()lUplete the payments above in case of necessity and in case the Council i shall then deem that the emergency still continues. :Mrs. Lloyd Johnson was present and at this tErre stated that one employee of the Fire Deparmtnet living outside the city limits had been on the department for a short time and did not have a telephone and that it was impossible to reach 19 him on his call day, and suggested that this was probably e disadvantage in employin anyone living outside the City Limits. It was pointed out that it would probably be possible~for anyone living outside th~ City limits to secure a telephone if they are employed in the Fire Department. The following resolution vvas read. BE rr RESOLVED BY 11fIE CONim}] COUNCIL of the City of Eugene that in the intere ,t of greater' economy of operation, that the lien deoartment be consolidated with the department; and that the services ;f L. H. Holeman be dispensed with as of . BE 11' ).1'"(JHTl:IER HESOrVED, that one man in the office of the Engineer, ( to be selected by W. C. Clubb) be dispensed with as of . In regard to employment in the Engineer's office, IVlr . Clubb explained that the depar - l[lent had neveI' been over-hand ed and he s ta ted t.he t lvIrs. McKenzie was leaving the I end=i1' this week and he had made arrl:lngements to put Mr. Q,uiner on her \Nork and : that he did not see hm"l it would be possible to d'isf'ose of any more help in the : office. He was asked if' the work in the 1.1ien Department required the services of ! Mr. Holeman all day, a nd he stated tll[:::t ther'e was cDIlsiders ble work in the Lien : Department, there belng a ccmsiclerable nurnber of unpaid accounts on the Lien Dockets, : and for contracts on City lots [:ilready sold. He stated tr18t daily re)orts were : received from abstractors as to the transfer 01' property and that M~. Holeman had : been helping with these transfers so that an uj-to-date map could be kept of the : various transfers. Coune ilIflan Farrington eXDlained at this tli'Tle that the si tuat ion ! in t he Engineer's offic eat least had been pEn'tly ex[)lained \vhen it was learned i that the girl was leeving. Councilman Bond stated that he was not favorable to 20 I the suggestion in tIle resolution r'egarcl:Lng the Engineer's and :Lien Department and ; thought that action on these matters should be deferred at this time. He stated , that t.he set-up had been vl'Orking very satiSfactorily and he wished to enter a i p~~otest o~ any a~ti~m. bein~; taken in t~is r:18tt~r. ,He .,st~lted that he d.id not believ ! tne Councll was ianullar wltn all the uetalls In the EnglIleer':3 or Lien Deplrtrtment I and that there was probably more work there than the Council realized and als 0 that I the employees had been with the City a considerable length of time, and he did not : think changes should be made without further investigation. A motion was made i by Brownson tlta t in view of the fact that the girl was leaving the Engineer'S : Department that the three Illen employed ther be reta ined and tha t the Lien Depart- : ment be transferred to the Recorder's office and that Mr. Holeman be moved over i to the Recorder's office to look after the Lien Department and a/':wist with other I work, and that the services of Miss Brown in the Recorder's office be dispensed I vd the After some discussion by the CounCil, this motion was seconded by Hawn and : on roll call Councilmen voting aye: Koppe, BaretteJ,; Brownson, ~l?-\vn , and Fe,nningt on. : Councilmen voting no: Bond, Farrington, and Stevvart. Ilhe motion vvas declared I carried. On motion by Ha\vn and seconded by BrovJl1son this change VJas ordered : effective as of October 1. Councilman :dawn eXLlained et this time that on account of the first payment :of taxes not falling due until November 15, that there was smoe shortage of funds I, in the Playgrounds, and there 'would be further shortage before tax money was 21 i received, and it was his recolrunendatioll tha t tlfe GaBlIJ'ral Fund purchase the warrants I ,from the Playground Fund to take care of the warrnats until such time as there iwas money in the Playground Fund. A motion to this effect was made by Bond and I seconded by Hawn and carried. At this time I~layor Large sta ted tha t he was still having complaints about the \poles being transported on West Eleventh damaging trees where the trucks turn :off Eleventh. Mr. Clubb stated that i had been planned to have these pole trucks '~}C : use Eight Avenue but the IIighway COnJmis,Eion had blocked 8th Street; therefore it ~~ Iwas necessary to route them on 11th. He said he though this trouble could be icorrected by breaking o~~ the curb at the northeast corner of 11th and Monroe and Igiving the trucks a bigger radius. He said this would i no way danage the street ""'- ~