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JUICY 10, 1916. Council Ct~ambers, Eugene, Oregon, July 10, 1916. Council met in regular monthly session, and was called to order by Mayor Bell. Present Councilmen Polders, Parks, Peterson, Koppe, Nosher and Quimby; absent Devereaux and Goodpasture. Minutes of June 12th, 19th and 26th were read and approved. Request of the Park Board that the rubbish left by the Warren Construction Co. in Riverview Park be removed was referred to the Street Committee. Quarterly~report of the City Treasurer was read and referred to the Finance Committee. The Fire & Water Co~aittee reco~m~ended that D. R. Farrow be placed on the p~y roll of the Fire Department at a salary of $70.00 per month co~.enoing July 1, 1916, and the Street Committee recoml~ended that Rex Myers be placed on the pay roll of the Street Department~ at a salary of .~60.00 per month con~encing July 1, 1916, and a motion was made and seconded that these recommendations be adopted, and the Mayor and Recorder be authorized to issue warrants in p~yment of these salaries on the first day of each month. The ayes and nays were called; Councilmen voting aye-6, nay none, absent Devereaux and Goodpasture. ~,~otlon was declared carried and so ordered. A proposed contract between the Water Board and the City for rental of quarters to the Water & Light Department was read, and a motion was made, second- ed and carried that the contract be accepted by the City, and the Mayor and Recorder instructed to sign the same when acceptable and signed by the Water Board, and that upon the execution of the contract the Recorder shall advertise for bids for the work of remodeling the City Hall for that purpose. At this time Councilman Goodpasture appeared in Council. An Ordinance levying assessments for the construction a~! erection of an ornamental lighting system on both sides of Ninth Avenue between Olive Street and Pearl Street was read and passed its second and third readings by title under suspension of the rule by unanimous consent and was placed upon its final passage. Councilmen voting aye V, nay none, absent Deverea~. The Ordinance was declared passed and numbered #1863. An Ordinance levying assessments for the improvement of Tenth Avenue West from Van Buren Street to Polk Street in the City of Eugene by grading and gravelling the same was read the first time and laid over. An Ordinance licensing and regulating motor buses operating in whole or in part within the City of Eugene, Oregon, and repealing all Ordinances and parts