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<br />HARRV R. KRIEQER, fiRE ~HIEr, SPRINGFIELD; I. K. lEAVER, FIRE MARSHAL, YAKIMA WASHINGTON;
<br />O. T. NELSON, GENERAL P~ANT SUPT., NORTHWEST CITIES GAS COMPANY, WALLA WALLA; H. DE MEESTER,
<br />GENERAL MANAGER, NORTHWEST CITIES GAS COMPANY, WALLA WALLA; BERNARD J. lEHDER, GENERAL
<br />COUNSEL, NORTHWEST CITIES GAS COMPANY, lALLA lALLA, FRED W. OLSEN, MANAGER, NORTHWEST CITIES
<br />GAS COMPANY, EUGENE; JACK A.-HAYES, DEP. STATE FIRE MARSHAL, SALEM; U. J. GIBSON, DE~. STATE
<br />FIRE MARSHAL, SALEM.
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<br />THIS MEETING WAS CALLED UPON THE REQUEST or THE NORTHWEST CITIES GAS COMPANY TO PRESENT ,
<br />THEIR PROPOSAL TO BUILD A PROPANE AIR GAS PLANT IN EUGENE TO REPLACE THE PRESENT MANurACTURED
<br />GAS PLANT. .THE PROCEEDINGS WERE ATTENDED BY MEMBERS or THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION, I
<br />STATE FIRE MARSHAL, NORTHWEST CITIES GAS COMPANY AND THE EUGENE AND SPRINGrlELD rlRE AND !
<br />rlRE MARSHAL'S OFFICES. I
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<br />.A WIRE RECORDING WAS MADE or THE PROCEEDINGS or THE MEETING, A COpy or WHICH WILL BE
<br />ON riLE FOR FUTURE CONSIDERATION OF THE PUBLIC SArETY COMMITTEE AND CITY COUNCIL OF THE
<br />CITY OF EUGENE. BRIErLY, THE PROPOSAL or THE NORTHWEST CITIES GAS COMPANY IS TO CHANGE
<br />OVER rROM THE PRESENT MANurACTURED GAS PLANT TO A PROPANE AIR GAS PLANT AND A rEW or THE
<br />PERTINENT ITEMS DISCUSSED ARE AS rOLLOWS:
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<br />I. THE INSTALLATION or 100% AUTOMATIC SHUT-orr CONTROLS ON ALL AUTOMATIC EQUIPMENT
<br />WOULD BE INSTALLED AT NORTHWEST CITIES GAS COMPANY'S EXPENSE BErORE THE CHANGE-
<br />OV E R .
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<br />THE REGULATING AND CHANGING or ALL APPLIANCES WOULD BE AT THE EXPENSE or THE
<br />NORTHWEST CITIES GAS COMPANY.
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<br />3. FREQUENT TESTING AND RODDING or ALL GAS MAINS AT rREQUENt INTERVALS WITH SUBSE-
<br />QUENT AND CURRENT REPORTS WILL BE rURNISHED THE CITY rlRE MARSHALL BY THE NORTH-
<br />WEST CITIES GAS COMPANY AND ALSO A COMPLETE MAP or ALL or THE EXiSTING MAINS
<br />SHOWING LOCATION, DATE or INSTALLATION AND ESTIMATED PRESENT CONDITION TO BE
<br />rURNISHED THE CITY BY THE GAS COMPANY.
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<br />IT WAS NOTED THAT THE PRESSURE UNDER THIS NEW SYSTEM .,LL NOT CHANGE ANY BUT WILL
<br />STAY AT THE PRESENT PRESSURE or 8" MAXIMUM, THAT THE B.T.U. CONTENT WILL BE RAISED FROM 550
<br />B.T.u. TO 1000 B.T.U. IT WAS ALSO BROUGHT OUT THAT THE NEW PROPANE AIR PLANT WOULD STO~
<br />ALL SMOKE AND PRESENT ODORS EMANATING rROM THE PRESENT PLANT AND THAT IT WILL ENABLE THE
<br />NORTHWEST CITIES GAS COMPANY TO BETTER SERVE EUGENE, SPRINGrlELD AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS.
<br />rOLLOWINO IS A COMPARATIVE STATEMENT or LEAKAGE REPORT AND OPERATING EARNINGS AT lALLA
<br />lALLA, WASHINGTON AND EUGENE, OREGON rOA THE YEARS 1945 THROUGH 1949.
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<br /> .UN-AcCOUNTED rOR OPERATING GAIN-LOSS..
<br /> WALLA lALLA, EUGENE, I A L LA WALL. , EUGENE,
<br /> YEAR lASH I NGTON OREGON WASHINGTON OREGON.
<br /> 1945 4.97% 5.2% . 9,049.94.. . 9,950.88
<br />1946 f'IRST 6 Uos. 5.23% 7.62% 20,884.88" I , 330. 83
<br /> tAGT 6 Mos. 4,824.22.. 5,479.98"
<br /> 1946 5.23% 7.04% 25,709.10.. 4,149.15..
<br /> 1947 13.99% 7.79% 13,251.38 20,429.10"
<br /> 1948 15.83% \I .81 % 27,106.54 18,571.50"
<br /> 1949 15.89% 5.99% 40,555.89 18,9'34.35. .
<br /> -SLow-METERS - DEAO-METERS - STOLEN GA S - U A I N It,EAKS - SERV ICE LEAKS
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<br />THE COMPANY WAS ADIVSED THAT UPON RECOMMENDATIONS rROM THE STATE AND LOCAL rlRE
<br />uARSHAL'S orrlCES THIS PRO~08ITION WOULD BE PRESENTED rOR rURTHER CONSIDERATION TO THE
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<br />PUBLIC SArETY COMMITTEE AND THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE CITY COUNCIL WHEN ALL or THE
<br />fNrORUATION HAD BEEN THOROUGHLY INVESTIGATED."
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<br />IT WAS MOVED BY CRUUBAKER, SECONDED By HAWN THAT THE RE~ORT or THE PUBLIC SArETY COMMITTEE
<br />aE RECEIVED AND PLACED ON riLE. MOTION CARRIED. MOTION CARRIED.
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<br />REPORTS Of' BOARDS AND COMU~SSIONS
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<br />A PERMANENT REPORT or THE PLANNING COMMISSION - RE: REZONING RECLASSlrlCATIONS WAS SUB-
<br />UITTED AND READ AS rOLLOWS:
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<br />"As A PERMANENT REPORT, PURSUANT TO THE RESOLUTION or THE COMMON COUNCIL or THE CITY
<br />or EUGENE DIRECTING THE CITY PLANNING COMMISSION TO PREPARE A REPORT UPON CERTAIN REQUESTS
<br />rOR RECLASSlrlCATION AND ZONING IN AREAS WITHIN SAID CITY, THE CITY PLANNING COMMISSION
<br />HEREBY ADOPTS AS ITS PERMANENT REPORT, THE YOLLOWINGt
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<br />THE PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDS THE DENIAL or THE rOLLOWING PETITIONS rOR CHANGE
<br />or CLASSlrICATION, TO-WITt-
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