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September ll~ lgl6. Council Chambers, E~gene, OregOn, September ll, 1916. Council met in regular monthly session, and was called te order by M. ayor Bell. Present Councilmen Parks, Polders, Peterson, Koppe, ~osher, Goodpasture and Quimby, absent Devereaux. Nlnu~es o~ August 1Wth were read ar~ approved. Repo~ts of W. L. Cheshire, Health Offiee~, and of Y. H. Alexander, Building Inspector, were read and filed. Recom~endation of the Street Committee that the matter of opening Second Avenue be he~d in abeyance until such time as occasion may require the working and pu~ting the street in better condition, except that the Committee recommend the immediate removal of all obstructions thereon was on motion ad opt e d. The Street Con~aittee recommended the purchase of another team of horses and harness for the ~Street Department, and~.upon motion the recon~aenda- tion was adopted and the Street Con~aittee authorized to make the purc_h~se. Recommendation of the Sewer Committee to make ~epairs at the outlet of the trunk line sewer, and a Resolution authorizing the Sewer Committee to procure materials to do the necessary work, the expense to be met by the Trunk SeWe~ Fund was read and on motion adopted. The Sewer Co~,ittee reco~maended that a relief sewer be constructed on THird Avenue from the Jefferson Street sewer to the alley'between 5i~coln 'aD.d Lawrence Streets, and a Resolution directing the Engineer to .prepare plans and speeifio~tions for the construction of said sewer was read and on motion adopted. The Sewer Committee recommended that the sewer on Cheshire Avenue f~'om the alley between Lawrence Street and Washington Street to Jefferson Street a distance of 500 feet be reconstructed and changed from a l0 inch to a 16 inch sewer, and a Resolution instructing the City Engineer to prepare plans ~nd specifications therefor was read and on motion adopted. A complaint as to the location of telephone pole and fence posts on Eighth Avenue West, interfering with the entrance to Col. J. ~J. Harbougt~'s garage was referred to the Street Committee with power to act. A letter from the Eugene Water Board advising the Council of the cost of the installation of the ornamental lighting systems on Eighth Avenue from Willamette Street to Pearl Street, $13~0.00, and on Seventh Avenue from Olive Street to High Street, $2560.00 was read and on motion the Engineer was