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~38 'n _ 5123/60_ e - ---- - , IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MRS. LAURIS THAT THE BILL BE APPROVED AND GIVEN FINAL PASSAGE. ROLLCALL VOTE. ALL COUNCILMEN PRESENT VOTING AYE, THE BILL WAS DECLARED PASSED AND NUMBERED 11826. ! I I I I I . i \1 I II r II I i I I I I I I I 21 COUNCIL BILL No. 4964 - RE: LEVYING ASSESSMENTS FOR SANITARY SEWER EAST OF EMERALD STREET FROM 26TH TO 28TH AVENUE, INTRODUCED AND READ THE FIRST TIME IN FULL ON MAY 9, 1960, WAS BROUGHT ON FOR CONSIDERATION. THE CITY MANAGER REPORT NO WRITTEN PROTESTS ON FILE. MR. SCOTT WALTON APPEARED BEFORE THE COUNCIL TO PROTEST THE ASSESSMENT INDICATING HE HAD RE- CEIVED NO BENEFIT BECAUSE HIS ~OT HAD BEEN PREVIOUSLY CONNECTED TO A SEWER LINE. IN THE EXPLANATION IT WAS POINTED OUT THAT THE PREVIOUS OWNER OF THE WALTON PROPERTY AHD, BY RUNNING A LINE NORTH ON EMERALD STREET, MADE A CONNECTION TO AN EXISTING SEWER WHICH WAS NOT ORIGINA~LY DESIGNED ToO SERVE THE WALTON PROPERTY, AND THAT THE WALTON PROPERTY HAD NOT HERETOFORE BEEN ASSESSED FOR A SEWER LINE. IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MRS. LAURIS THAT THE COUNCIL BILL NUMBER ONLY, WITH UNANIMOUS CONSENT OF THE COUNCIL. THE BILL WAS READ THE SECOND TIME BY COUNCIL BILL NUMBER ONLY. BILL BE READ THE SECOND TIME BY MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY AND IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MRS.LAURISTHAT THE BILL BE ,READ THE THIRD TIME BY COUNCIL BILL NUMBER ONLY, WITH UNANIMOUS CONSENT OF THE COUNCIL. MOTION CARRIED ,UNANIMOUSLY AND THE BILL WAS READTHE THIRD TIME BY COUNCIL BILL NUMBER ONLY. IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MRS. LAURIS THAT THE BILL BE APPROVED AND GIVEN FINAL PASSAGE. ROLLCALL VOTE. ALL COUNCILMEN PRSENT VOTING AYE, THE BILL WAS DECLARED PASSED AND NUMBERED 11827. COUNCIL BILL No. 4965 - RE: LEVYING ASSESSMENTS FOR SANITARY SEWER TRUNK IN AREA BETWEEN EMERALD AND BAKER STREETS FROM 28TH AVENUE TO SOUTH BOUNDARY OF FAIRWAYS ADDITION, INTRODUCED AND READ THE FIRST TIME IN FULL ON MAY 9, 1960, WAS BROUGHT ON FOR CONSIDERATION. THE CITY MANAGER REPORT NO WRITTEN PROTESTS ON FILE. II , IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MRS. LAURIS THAT THE COUNCIL BILL NUMBER ONLY, WITH UNANIMOUS CONSENT OF THE COUNCIL. THE BILL WAS READ THE SECOND TIME BY COUNCIL BILL NUMBER ONLY.. BILL BE READ THE SECOND TIME BY MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY AND IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MRS. LAURIS THAT THE BILL BE READ,THE THIRD TIME BY, COUNCIL BILL NUMBER ONLY, WITH UNANIMOUS CONSENT OF THE COUNCIL. MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY AND THE BILL WASREAD THE THIRD TIME BY COUNCIL BILL NUMBER ONLY,. IT WAS MOVED BY MR. PASSAGE. ROLLCALL VOTE. NUMBERED ~. SHEARER SECONDED BY MRS. LAURIS THAT THE BILL BE APPROVED AND GIVEN IHNAL ALL COUNCILMEN PRESENT VOTING AYE, THE BILL WAS DECLARED PASSED AND 3 COUNCIL BILL No. 4966 - RE: LEVYING ASSESSMENTS FOR SANITARY SEWER IN AREA BETWEEN 28TH AND 29TH AVENUES TO BETWEEN 30TH AND 31ST AVENUES FROM BETWEEN LINCOLN AND WASHINGTON STREETS TO WEST BOUNDARY BOUNDED BY LORANE HIGHWAY, INTRODUCED AND READ THE FIRST. TIME IN FULL'ON MAY 9, 1960, WAS BROUGHT ON FOR CONSIDERATION. MR. ED DEARDORFF APPEARED TO PROTEST THE ASSESSMENT ON HIS PROPERTY INDICATING HE HAD RECEIVED A BILL FOR $1547.57, THAT HE HAD TALKED WITH HIS NEIGHBORS AND DOES NOT BELIEVE THE ASSESSMENT IS JUST OR EQUiTABLE. HE FURTH~R POINTED OUT THAT HE HAD PROTESTED,THE 1NSTALLAT10~ OF THE SEWER LINE BEFORE IT WAS CONSTRUCTED AND REITERATED THAT HEhBELIEVES THE ASSESSMENT IS MUCH TOO HIGH. ' MRS. T. E. JOLL APPEARED BEFORE THE COUNCIL, INDICATED SHE DID NOT DESIRE TO BE ANNEXED TO THE CITY, THAT THE ASSESSMENT APPROXIMATED $1400 AND THAT IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT~FOR HER TO PAY SINCE SHE IS RECEIVING ONLY $33.00 PER MONTH FROM SOCIAL SECURITY. THE DIRECTOR Of PUBLIC WORKS INDICATED THE ESTIMATE OF THE CONSTRUCTION HAD BEEN $5.64 PER ZONE FOOT WHEREAS TH~ ACTUAL CONSTRUCT10N COST HAD BEEN $5.86 PER ZONE FOOT. f i I I I 'I 11 MR. EKSTROM LIKEWISE APPEARED BEFORE THE COUNCIL TO'STATE THAT A PRIVATE SEWER LINE-MAKING, A CONNECTION OF HIS PROPERTY TO AN EXISTING SEWER ON 28TH AVENUE COULD HAVE BEEN CONSTRUCTED FOR APPROXIMATELY ONE-FOURTH OF THE ASSESSMENT COST. MRS. ROECKER APPEARED AND ALSO INDICATED SHE BELIEVES THE ASSESSMENT IS TOO HIGH AND PROTESTED DAMAGES TO ALLEYS AND STREETS IN THE AREA. .,'-;.. ;; .,. MRS. DAVE ZUKRELLS ALSO APPEARED TO PROTEST THE ASSESSMENT COST AND FURTHER STATED THAT PRIOR TO THE INSTALLATION OF THE 'SEWER SHE HAD HAD A WELL GRAVELED ALLEY'WHICHSHE HAD.MAINTAI~ED, AND THAT IT HAD NOT BEEN RETURNED TO ITS ORIGINAL SHAPE FOLLOWNG THE CONSTRUCTION., THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS INDICATED THAT IN ALL CASES WHERE SEWER LINES WERE BUILT, SOME PROBLEMS WERE EXPERIENCED IN STABILIZING THE BACKFILL AREA AND THAT ALSO IN CERTAIN SITUATIONS GROUND CONTOURS HAD BEEN 'CHANGED FOLLOWING THE INSTALLATION OF THE SEWER WHICH LEFT MANHOLES EX- POSED AND CREATED OTHER PROBLEMS. ONE WRITTEN PROTEST FROM MARIAN O. WOOD WAS PRESENTED AND READ AS fOLLOWS: ) I \! ~ \' ...) I '.: I; II t: e II I: II I II :1 'I 'I I) II fl ;\ Ii :1 'I II I ii II ; ~ ~ ! ii Ii II ,I ,I r ,I i: II Ii .1 II I ,I !i il I I' I: I, I Ii 11 j! I; I !: I' r ,I Ii I: l! :: e 11 I, 'I I I: j i: 'I I, I, I: " Ii j Ii I. i I: I I II I 1, Ii .1 Ii :1 I e