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95-'" e _._-~--- ~------~----_._---_._- ------ --- -+~._--_._-~ .-. . --. -- ----- ---------- - .------------------ -~.- ---~ --- ---- --._-~- I I COUNCIL CHAMBERS, EUGENE, OREGON. MAY 24, 1954. THE REGULAR MEETING or THE COMMON COUNCIL or THE CITY or EUGENE, AND ADJOURNED TO MAY 24,' 1954, WAS CALLED TO ORDER AT 7:30 P.M. IN THE HIS HONOR, MAYOR V. E. JOHNSON WITH THE rOLLOWING COUNCILMEN PRESENT: SIEGENTHALER, CONE AND bWEN. COUNCILMEN BOOTH AND WATSON WERE ABSENT. TOOK HIS SEAT IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS AT 7:50 P.M. HELD ON MAY 10, 1954 COUNCIL CHAMBERS BY CRUMBAKER, KOPPE, COUNCILMAN GODLOVE THE MINUTES Or THE LAST REGULAR MEETING HELD ON MAY 10, 1954 AND ADJOURNED TO MAY 24, 1954 WERE READ AND APPROVED. REPORTS OF OFFICERS e THE rOLLOWING REPORT WAS GIVEN BY THE CITY MANAGER - RE: IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS; LEARN TO SWIM PROGRAM; FINANCE OrrICER'S ABSENCE. I "THE STREET I MPROVEMENT PROJECTS .ARE PROGRESSI NG NI CELY. ON 21 ST AVENUE BETWEEN EMERALD AND AGATE STREETS, AND BETWEEN POTTER AND UNIVERSITY STREET, THE CURB AND GUTTERS HAVE BEEN'.INSTALLED AND THE CONTRACTOR IS PLACING THE rOUNDATIO~ ROCK. ON VAN BUREN STREET ~ETWEEN 21ST ~ND 22ND AVENUE~ TH~ POURING or THE CURB AND GUTTERS IS PRACTliALLYrIN~~HED AND THE ROUGH GRADING IS BEING'SMOOTHED UP GETTING READY rOR THE rOUNDATION. IN THE ALLEYS BETWEEN PEARL AND HI~H, rROM 7TH TO 8TH AVENUE; ALSO BETwq:N 12TH AND 13TH rROM HI L YARD STREET TO THE EAST LINE or LOT 2 AND 9, BLOCK 3, SHAW'S SECOND ADDITION, THE ROUGH GRADING IS PRACTICALLY DONE AND MUCH Or THE rORM WORK IS IN. ON THE 18TH AVENUE, CHARNELTON TO WASHINGTON CUT- THROUGH, ALL HOUSES HAVE BEEN MOVED rR"OM THE R I GHT-Or-WAY AND T.HE WATER BOARD I SNOW LAYING PIPE PRIOR TO THE CONTRACTOR STARTING HIS JOB. THE WIDENING or CHARNELTON AND BROADWAY IN THE, VICINITY or THE BON MARCHE IS BEING HELD UP UNTIL THE CONTRACTORS rOR THE BON MARCHE BUILDING ARE OUT or THE STREET. THE CITY MAINTENANCE CREW HAS A' SMALL AMOUNT Or WORK LEr.T TO rl NI SH THE BERKELEY PARK STREET CORRECTION WORK. THE CONTRACTOR, AS YOU PROBABLY REMEMBER, LErT $3,000 rOR THIS PROJECT IN THE HANDS Or THE CI TY AND TNI S WORK I S PLANNED TO CORRECT THE ROADWAY rl RS'T, AND ANY MONEY LErT WILL BE USED ON THE CURBS. . THE CITY ENGINEER REPORTS THAT HE HAS SECURED THE EASEMENT BETWEEN 30TH AND 31ST AVENUE rROM PORTLAND TO OLIVE STREET WHICH WAS HOLDING UP THE SOUTH WILLAMETTE, CREST DRIVE SEWER PROJECT. WITH THIS EASEMENT THIS PROJECT CAN SOON BE rINISHED. THE DIRECTOR or PARKS AND RECREATION HAS INrORMED ME THAT 1,688 CHILDREN, AGES EIGHT TO rlrTEEN HAVE REGISTERED rOR THE CITY'S "LEARN TO SWIMtt PROGRAM. TOTAL LIVING IN THE CITY IS 1,231 AND THOSE LIVING OUTSIDE THE CITY TOTAL 457. THE BEGIN- NING CLASS BREAKS DOWN INTO 1,616 BOYS AND 654 GIRLS. THE INTERMEDIATE CLASS BREAKS DOWN INTO 210 BOYS AND 208 GIRLS. I MR. HENRY F. BEISTEL, THE CITY FINANCE OrrlCER IS ATTENDING THE MUNICIPAL FINANCE OrrICER'S ASSOCIATION CONVENTION IN SAN FRANCISCO, AND DURING HIS ABSENCE, IT IS REQUESTED THAT THE COUNCIL, BY MOTION, GRANT THE ASSISTANT CITY TREASURER, MISS ERNESTINE SCHArrNER, PERMISSION TO SIGN THE PAYROLL WARRANTS rOR THE MONTH Or MAy.tt IT WAS MOVED BY CRUMBAKER, SECONDED BY SIEGENTHALER THAT THE REPORT Or THE CITY MANAGER BE RECEIVED AND PLACED ON FILE. MOTION CARRIED. e REPORTS OF COMMITTEES 2 A REPORT or THE' PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE MEETING HELD ON MAY 13, 1954 - RE: COUNTY ROADS WITHIN CITY LIMITS; REQUEST OF CHARLES KREINBRING TO OPEN 38TH AVENUE WEST rROM WILLAMETTE STREET; VACATION or PORTION or OAK GROVE DRIVE WAS SUBMITTED AND READ AS FOLLOWS: "A MEET I NG Or THE PUBLI C 'NORKS COMMI TTEE WAS HELD ON MAY 13, 1954 WI TH THE FOLLOWING ,PRESENT: COUNCILMEN CRUMBAKER; KOPPE AND SIEGENTHALER; CITY MANAGER; CITY ENGINEER AND CITY R~CORDER. THE MEETING INCLUDED INSPECTION TRIP TO THE rlELD TO VIEW SOME OF THE MATTERS UNDER DISCUSSION. THE MATTERS DISCUSSED ANDTHE'RECOMMENDATIONS BY THE COMMITTEE ARE AS rOLLOWS: I I. COUNTY ROADS WITHIN CITY LIMITS - THE CITY ENGINEER BROUGHT UP THE MATTER or COUNTY ROADS WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS AND POINTED OUT THAT THE COUNTY COULD VACATE ANY or THESE ROADS WITHOUT CONSULTING THE CITY. AFTER A rULL DISCUSSION or THE MATTER, IT IS THE RECOMMENDATION or THE COMMITTEE THAT THE CITY MANAGER INVESTIGATE AND HAVE ALL NECESSARY PAPERS PREPARED rOR TAKING OVER ALL COUNTY ROADS WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE METHOD AS SET UP BY STATE LAW. 2. REQUEST or CHARLES L. KREINBRING rOR OPENING 38TH AVENUE WEST rROM WILLAMETTE STREET. THE COMMITTEE LOOKED THE GROUND OVER WHERE 38TH AVENUE WOULD BE CUT THROUGH; ALSO THE CITY MANAGER INFORMED THEM THAT- MR. KREINBRING WOULD BE WILLING TO SECURE THE RIGHT-Or-WAY IF THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT WOULD MAKE UP THE DEEDS. e ~