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Home My WebLink About11/10/1930 Meeting . . ~ . 25 - ~- .-.--" - - ------ - ~-- - -- - -- ~ - .--- - -- ...,~ _ __ ._r__ _ - - - -.--- - -- .--- -.. -- - - -.~ -. ----- -- Chambers Counoil, Eugene, Oregon, November 10, 1930. J Minutes of the regular monthly session of the Common Council, held at ("0 7:30 o'olook P. M., November 10, 1930. Council was oalled to order by Mayor H. ~l E. Wilder, with all Counoi~en present except Washburne and Monroe. Minutes ,of the regular meeting of October 13, 1930, and of the adjourned meeting of Oot ober 27, 1930, were read and approved. Bids were reoeived for the construction ofooncrete sid~walks as follows: Ordinanoe No. 7835 L. H. Holeman $50.40 Peter A.Nelson 47.25 Glenwood Sand & Gravel Co. 42.21 . Ordinanoe No. 7870 L. H. Holeman $46.08 Peter A.Nelson 43.20 Glenwood Sand & Gravel Co. 41.47 Ordinance No. 7871 $44 ~ 80 / L. H. Holeman Peter A.Nelson 42.00 Glenwood Sand & Gravel Co. 40~32 After due oonsideration of the bids, the Street Committee reoommended that the bid of Glenwood Sand & .Gravel Co. be rejeoted, and that the oontraot for the oonstruction of said walks be awarded to Peter A. Nelson in aooordance with his bid as above set forth. On motion recommendation was adopted. The Finance Oommittee by Chairman Large recommended that the claim of I Laura Trachsel for personal injury sustained by falling on City sidewalk be settled by the City for $1000.00, and that the warrant issued to Fred E. Smith, Attorney for Laura Trachsel, by the City Recorder under oral instruotion of major- ity of Counoil on the 22nd day of October, be and the same is hereby ratified, approved, and confirmed. The ayes and nays were oalled, all present voting aye, nay, none, absent Washburne and Monroe. The Finanoe Committee also reoommended that the City of Eugene purohase for Sinking Funds $4,000 City of Eugene Sewer Bonds, due September 1st, 1942, and $6,000 General Refunding Bonds of the City of Eugene on a basis to yield about 4.40 per oent of interes~, Motion was made and seconded to adopt the recommenda- tion and authorize the Treasurer to purohase said bonds. The ayes and nays were called, ~ll present voting aye, nay, none, absent Washburne and Monroe; Chairman Zumwalt of the Health Committee reported that they were going ahead with the efforts to olear up the unhealthful and filthy oonditions in the . blook bounded by 7th and 8th Avenues and Olive and Charneltonstreets. Chairman Large of the Finanoe Committee recommended that a warrant be drawn in payment of the Engineer's estimate of Eugene Sand and Gravel Company for the improvement of Indiana Avenue from Columbia Street to Van Ness Street for the sum of $792.10. Motion was made and seoonded that said estimate be allowed. The ayes and nays were oalled, all present voting aye, nay, none, absent Washburne and Monroe.- The Judiciary Committee and City Attorney reported to the Council that .they had advised the Eugene Recreation Company that the Counoil oannot grant any request for Sund~ operation for their plaoe of business, and that their remedy was in an,appeal to the eleotorate. Said oommittee also reoommended in the matter of the lease between the Hobi Airways Company and Standard Oil _Co. that they do not sign the lease and instruoted the Recorder to return the same to the Standard Oil Co. with such in~ I formation. On motion the reoommendation was adopted. Said Committee also reported back a recommendation that the petition of the Fruit and Vegetable Dealers for a wholesale license involved some diffioult legal questions and reoommended that the' petition be referred to the Merchants Assooiation of the City tor consideration, and that the Assooiation seoure their oW.l!l legal advioe as t;o the manner in whioh they wish the ordinance pre~ared. Mayor Wilder named the following persons to serve on the budget oommi ttee in the preparation of the budget of 1931: A. A. Rogers, A. R. Tiffany, H. L. Edmunds, ~m. Tugman, Frank Jenkins. H. C. Farley, Paul Green, Mrs. Otto Horton, .j'~, and J. R. MoKy. ~ "--- - r'" 26 . - - -. -- --- '--~--- -...... n' - - -- --- ... _......-- _ . . ._ _ .. _~T._ -- ,-_.. - ----_.-. - .- ._.____ 0-0 _.- - . -- --. . . ---- .'. -- ,-. .--.----- ".-- -- -- . - - - .. - . .-, .. ~ - ....- --- __4'_ -- --,- TheCi ty Reoorder reported that the County Court had agreed to acoept the prinoipal sum of $20.33 in full of all olaims for taxes against the Opal IV. Niokulil prope,rty, beinl~ an unj;llatted desoription of a traot 47 x 141 fee t, referred to as assessor's des()rlption 2 page 1330 Vol. 1, and that this traotas advised by the I ~I City Engineer lies within the proposed opening of 24th Avenue East from Alder to University ~trE~ets. A motion was made and seconded that the City acoept the County 's CbII offer, and thah t;he Recorder issue a warrant to Lane County for $20.33 and obtain ~.-"'U conveyanoe f.l'O!!l them. The ayes and nays were oalled, all present voting aye, nay, I none, absent Washburne and Monroe. . I The Reoorder called attention to t.he reports of the Engineer regarding the II proposed openiJ~ of various streets as recommended by the City Planning Commission on April 14th of this year. It was the sense of the Counoil that these reports should be held for use at suoh time as seemed expedient to pass resolutions per- taining to the opening of these streets. , . Statement of Hobi Airways Company for field recei pt s for month of Septembe.l' was placed on jri Ie. Report ()f Building Inspeotor for the month of October. was read and plaoed . on file. The following resolution was read: - nWhereaf~, the Ci ty Couneil on May 11 th,1925, by Ordlnanee No. 4796, erron- eously assessecl the cost of construetion of a sidewalk on thee East side of Olive Street between 19th and 20th Avenues to property on the West side of said street., described as Lot 1, Block 1, College lUll Park, for the sum of $48.25, _ . Now Therefore, be it resolved <that said assessment be and is hereby oan- I. celled, and thEt City Treasurer instru.cted to oanoel the same upon the lien dockets of the City ~f Eugene." I Moti on was madE', seeonded, and earried to adopt .the .resolutlon. A sidewalk Improvement Ordinanee for a walk to be construeted on the ~ast I side of Olive Street between 19th and 20th Avenues, desoribed as The South 50 feet I I I of Lot 1, Block 1, Hill Crest Addition to Eugene, Oregon, was read the first time, I and passed its second and third readings by title by unanimous oonsent unde.l' sus- I pension of the rule, and was plaeed on its fInal passage. The ayes and nays were I oalled, all present voting aye, nay, none, absent Washburne and Monroe. The , Ordinanoe was cleolared passed and numbered 7947. An Ordinanoe levying assessments for grading Indiana Avenue from the East !I line ot Columbia Street to the West line of Van Ness Street was read the fi.l'st II time and laid ove.l'. II SeventeEtn Sidewalk Assessment Ordinanoes were read the first time and laid 11 over. Ii Seven sidewalk assessment Ordinanoes, having been read the first time on Ootober 13, 1930, and registered notices for protest having been sent and now no protests being reoeived, said ordinances were read the seoond time, and passed I their third readings by title by unanimous consent under suspension of the rule, II and were plaoed on their final passage. The ayes and nays were oalled, all present . voting' aye, na~r, none, absent Washburne and Monroe. The Ordinances were deelared passed, and numbe.l'ed oonsecutively from 7948 to 7954, both numbers inolusive. II The Polloe Committee recommended that C. F. Bergman and C. R. Mahony be I appoin ted as patrolmen on the poliee force, commencing November 1st at a salary of $125.00 per month, and that they be plaoed on the ~la.l' pay roll and the Recorder 1 be instruoted tiO draw their salaries at the time regular salaries are ,drawn. II Motion was made and sec.onded to adopt the reoommendation. The ayes and nays were oalled, all prosen t voting aye, nay, none, absent Washburne and Monroe. .I :i II The quef~tion of painting stop Street Signs red or installing Lens-Liteo.l' II II other red refleetors signs was diseussed, and .the Reoorder instructed to 'obtain sample s of different methods for inspection. by the Street Department before any i aotion is taken. I The finanoe oommittee reported and reeommended payment of the following bills. The aYE'S and nays were oalled, all present voting aye, nay, none, absent I? Washburne and Monroe: DIS,~RICT IMPRO VE1'IENT I W. W. B. Constl'uction Co. $ 14. 35 L. H. Holeman $ 34.00 I Peter A. Nelson 7.28 Peter A. Nelson 412.44 L. H. Holeman 69.87 N. T. Jorgenson 75.00 Ware-& Son 235.88 .. I .....1 < . ~ . 27 . - - ~ .~.- - .- ~ - . - --- -- ~.- .- -- -~ . -- n _..._- - -- ~--- -~ _.~.- . - ._- - --- "--- - ---- ---- - - ----. - ~- ~. -- - GENERAL BOND INTERES T FUND F. Wentworth, Treas. $2000.00 . F. Wentworth, Treas. $J.062.50 J F.,Wentworth, Treas. . 1250.00 INTERSECTION r~ F. Wentworth, Treas. $1911.37 F. Wentworth, Treas. $1000.00 ~ GENERAL FUND Jack Dawson $ 160.80 Eugene Water Board $1000'.00 C. E. Mercer 160.80 Eugene Water Board 1271.41 C. D. Farmer 134.10 Eugene Daily Guard 25.;50 Aetna Life Insurance Co. 115.40 Eugene Public Library 516.67 Williamson and Company 5.00 Eugene Water Board 12.86 Ray Marlatt 5.00 G. U. McClellan Corp. Ltd. 15.00 Chase Company 5.00 Standard Oil Co. 99.53 . Fred Koken 5.00 Union Oil Co. 70.13 W. W. B. Construction Co. 37.22 Eugene Water Bpard 13.78 Ware & Son 10.00 Natron Printing Co. 41.00 L. H. Holeman 264.14 Koke-Chapman Co. 52.25 Burroughs Adding Machine Co. '5~55 Eugene Hardware Co. 4.85 Shelton, Turnbull & Fuller Co. 14.00 Eugene Concrete Pipe Co. 28.10 F. Wentworth, Treas. 38.18 Coe Stationery Company 7.55 Lane County Abstract Co. 17.50 Carlson & Hatton Parts Co. 30.70 Eugene Dietzgen Co. 5.66 Eugene Storage Battery Co. 18.50 Portland Blue Print Co. 4.43 state Industrial Accident Comm. 133.12 Title Abstract Company 10.00 The Pacific Tel & Tel. Co. 17.65 Nordling Parts Company .45 E. G. Simmons Co. 5.15 The Sanderson Safety Supply Co.3.42 Cressey's Book Store 18.40 Eugene Steam Laundry 10.25 F. Wentworth, Treas. 47.93 Northwest Cities Gas Co. 11.58 Lane County lC5.80 Geo. A. Hal ton 11.20 H. L. Bown, ~heriff 20.33 Williamson & ~ompany 9.30 Chamberlain Brothers Fuel Co. 5.00 Hendershott's Gun Store 10.99 J Western Auto Supply Qo. .67 Imperial Lunc:tl 33.30 Lane Auto C.ompany 3.30 Eugene Sand & Gravel Co.. 19.75 R. A. Babb Hardware Co. 7.74 W. H. Robertson 7.70 Kenneth Carter 77.00 . Neal Bond 100.00 Southern Pacific Co. 1.00 Rainier Coal Company 8.00 Associated Oil Co. 33.23 Oregon Machine ry Co. 123.87 Stien Bros. 342.00 Twin Oaks Lumber Co. 6.49 Manerud-Huntington Fuel Co. 2.50 Quackenbush & Sons 1.25 Kratz Sign Company 1.00 . A. C. Mathews 1.25 Scobert Warehouse Co. .25 Korn Baking Company 11.86 Pacific Feed Supply ,Co. 22.. 85. Graham Sm! th 36.72 Valle y Printing Co. 27.70 Eugene Wa ter Board 152.39 West ~isinfecting Company 2.31' Zellerbach Paper Company 23.75 Chas. C. Hinton 141.00 McAlphin Let~er ~pop 2.90 ]iugene Farmer's Creamery 4.70 Pacific Laboratories 40.36 On motion, the Council adjourned to meet on November 24th, 1930, at 7:30 o'clock P. M. 'I R. S. Bryson, Ci ty Reoorder. *' II ~ -