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Home My WebLink About02/12/1940 Meeting r""Z78 Council Chambers, Eugene, Oregon February 12, 1940 .[~ :..J':~J GC The minutes of the regular meeting of the Common Council held at the hour of 7:30 o'clock p.m. February 12, 1940. Mayor Elisha Large presided over the meeting. Councilmen present were: Messrs: A. A.Reid, Sam C. Bond, A. C. Farring- ton, Fred Carlson, Louis Koppe, E. A. Barette and Herbert J.Cox. I ~; ~} 1 The minutes of the previous meeting, January 22, 1940, were presented 2JVand ordered placed on file. Councilman Farrington, Chairman of the Finance Committee, presented the property offers beginning with the offer of L. J. PI ovv.man, $50.00 cash, for the West 46 feet of the east 160 feet of Lot 9, N~thews Park Addition. The Finance Comraittee recommended that the offer be accepted and upon motion made and seconded 3 the recommendation was unanimously approved. The Finance Committee recommended a counter offer of $450.00, and the buyer to assume delinquent taxes on the offer of Byron D. Agerter $400.00 for Lot 7, Block 7, Huddleston's Amended Addition. T4is offer is made on condition that a loan is obtained to build a home. Upon motion made and seconded the recomDlenda- 4 % tion was unanimously approved. I The Finance Committee also recommended the r~jection of the offer of C. M. Hall, $800.00, $200.00 cash and the balance at $200.00 or more per year plus interes at 6% for Lots 7 and 8, Block 23, Gross Addition. Upon motiQn made and seconded 5 the recommendation was unanimously approved. The offer of Mrs. Marvin Jackson, $1250.00, $100.00 down and the balance at $15.00 per month including interest at 6% f~r Lot 6, Block 5, Purkerson and Quimby Addition was presented. The Finance Committee recommended a counter offer of $250.00 down, and $15.00 per month plus interest. Motion was made and seconded 6 unanimously approving the committee's recommendation. The offer of Montie Lesley, $2000.00, $500.00 "cash and the balance at $25.00 or more per month pJus interest at 6% for the East 50 feet of Lots 1 and 2, Block 8, College Hill Park was presented with a recommendation from the Finance Committeethattthe .offer be accepted. Motion was made and seconded approving the 7 recommendation of the Finance Committee. The Finance Qommittee recomnended a counter offer of $550.00 on the offer of W. L. Seward, $500.00, $120.00 down, $10.00 per month plus interest at 6% for Lot 1, Block 9, Hollenbeck Addition qnd motion was made and seconded unanimously 8 approving the committee's recomDlendation. \ , . . The Finance COmDlittee recommended the acceptance of the offer of Melvin Short, $500.00, $100.00 down and balance at $100.00 per year pl~s interest at 6% for the West 70 feet of Lots 24 and 25, Block 1, Hendrick's Amended Addition. gV Motion was made and seconded unanimously approving the committee's recommendation. I The offer of Edith Gardiner for clients, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Rogers, $1000.00 no down payment and $15.00 per month for Lot 4, Block 5, Blair Street Addition, known as 1683 and 1683t West 2nd Avenue was presented. As the Finance Committee reco~nended the rejection of this offer, motion was made and seconded unanimously l~ approving the recolIDnendation of the committee. The offer of C. F. Hyde for client, E. J. Eberdt, $550.00, $100.00 cash and the balance upon receipt of deed for Lot 4, Block 4, Hollenbeck Addition was presented. As the Finance Conwittee recommended a counter offer of $650.00; $100.00 returnable when the building is started~ motion was made and seconded unanimously 11 approving the recomnendation of the cOmDlittee. At this time Councilman Hanns arrived. Councilman Farrington presented' the bills for the month of January, 1940, with a recommendation that warrants be drawn to pay for the same. The ayes and nays were called, councilmen voting aye: A. A. Reid, P. J. Hanns, Sam C. Bond, A. C. Farrington, Fred Carlson, Louis Koppe, E. A. Barette and Herbert J. Cox. 12/ The recommendation was declared approved. I Parking Meter Fund Dual Parking Meter Company Sam C. Bond Duncan Meter Corporation Duncan Meter Corporation Veltum's ~~chine Shop A. E. Hulegaard, Tr~asurer Shelton-Turnbull& Fuller Co~ State Industrial Ace. Comm~ 280.00 5.00 400.26 164 69 52.65 43.94 17.70 7.15 Dual Parking Meter Co. Dual Parking Meter Co. Duncan Meter Corporation C. P. Tillman Co. Oregon Supply Co. Natron Printing Co. Koke Chapman Co. City of Eugene 98.40 117.29 212.81 10.08 2.74 11.60 127.90 5.35 I ~ 279~ '---r _ _.,-.;. .~_ .."..... Improvement Bond Sinking Fund I Eugene Daily News Lane County Abstract Co~ A. E. Hulegaard, Treasurer 28.84 82.00 487.41 t\.) ;",:rl~l ~~~ General Bond Interest Fund ~::;< '., A. E. Hulegaard, Treasurer 3362.50 A. E. Hulegaard, Treasurer A. E. Hulegaard, Treasurer 2625.00 Improvement Bond Interest Fund A. E. Hulegaard, Treasurer 1293.75 Lien Rent Fund I A. E. Hulegaard, Treasurer Eugene Water Board A. E. HUlegaard, Treasurer State Industrial Ace. Comm. Tromp & McKinley Agency Eugene Hardware Co. Pacific Telephone & Tel. Co. I McLean Sanders Sigman Fell Insurance Co. Bryant DeBar Eugene Water Board Oregonier Press Eugene Water Board J. W. Quackenbush & Son C. A. Swarts, Sheriff Woolach Bros. Roy Stien C. R. Saville Union Oil Co. Rex Cafe C. & S. Electric Eugene Water Board Bucknum Motor Company Charles Farnham Day Ni te Garage Veltum's Machine Shop Strobel & Miller Scobert Bldg. Material Co. Ludford's Paint Shop Manerud-Huntington Fuel Co. Goettling Sign Company Eugene Concrete Pipe Co. Eugene Sand & Gravel Co. Carson's Saw Shop Carlson, Hatton & Hay, Inc. Alaska Junk & Machinery Co. The Pratt & Owens Ins. Agency Bryant DeBar, Insurance Agent General Petrolemn Corp Williams Bakery Long's Marke t Jack Junne Western Union Bernice E. Ruble, Magazine Sec. Natron Printing Co. Oregon Supply Company Howard Cooper Corporation I I 4.00 6.92 537.5 Montie Lesley 3.5 Sewage Disposal Fund 70.00 .20 Aviation Field Levy 13. 50 Eugene Water Board C. P. Tillman Co. 3.1 2.2 Playground Fund 160.00 6.35 State Ind. Ace. Comm. Gilmore Oil Co. 3.5 6.40 General Fund 5.00 112.50 123.75 102.46 21.60 1.57 1.80 25.50 .50 3.30 3.30 .50 4.25 1.50 2.03 1.50 9.55 JI::6.75 32.73 1.90 37.25 17.92 2.50 4.35 38.52 186.00 1.05 15. 60 .54 105.00 10.00 32.00 2.90 1.10 45.00 3.07 20.50 25.75 22.59 24.88 Montie Lesley Fuller Brush Company C. P. Tillman Company. E. D. Furrer, M.D. J. P. SChimberg Eugene Water Board Eugene Water Board Sparky's Garbage Service Chase Plumbing Company Eugene Water Board Central Heating Conwany Lane County St. Ind. Ace. Comm. League of Oregon Cities N. H. Comish Eugene Public Library Mayor Elisha Large Lloyd Denslow, Treasurer George A. Halton Co. Vitus Electric Works Valley Printing Company Sigloh-Sawyer Company Simmons-Kendall Co. A. E. Hulegaard, Treasurer Shelton Turnbull Fuller Co. Preston & Hales Gilmore Oil Co. Gj::i:JXrnl:rJl[X~i:i:xg~x Eugene Laundry & Cleaners Eugene Hardware Co. Eugene Water Board Eugene Planing Mill Clark Battery & Electric Co. Cresseys' R. A. Babb Hardware Co. Pacific, Telephone & Tel Co. J. K. Gill Company Aetna Life Ins. Co. Aetna Life Ins. Co. Pacific Hospital Assoc. Eugene Hospital & Clinic 7.50 2.00 1.3 45.00 1.7 1984.66 163.20 1.00 1.65 13.56 58.59 16.50 155.8 189.01 1.00 903.33 50.00 41.66 . 29.01 178.88 75.00 19.15 7.14 79.34 7.80 1.15 186.58 j:x~& 8.39 4.95 4.32 12.75 53.35 26.86 45.98 22.55 6.50 128.4 71.55 70.50 , 31.50 ....4 r""z 8. 0 .Jf I ~ '~, ." Councilman Bond, Chairman of the Police Conwittee reported that his committee had received a number of complaints apout motorists speeding in the neigh- borhood of 22nd and Agate Streets and reported that his committee was making a study of the same. :' I }'3' ,;$..,,. t\.? Peti tions, with the ir required number of 1100 signatures, calling for a Cb special election to levy a tax for the proposed city swimming pool were presented ~ t9 the city' council together with a ~et~er from, the Eugene Youth Council highly endorsing the project. Because of the legal ho~iday ruling of transacting no ~ business, no action was taken upon the petitions except the placing of them on l4v file for checking of the signatures by the county court. Councilman Farrington suggested to the 90uncil that the following descFib~d property: I owned "Commencing at the intersection of the East line of Chambers Street with the South line of Twelfph Avenue West ~nning thence east along the south line of Twelfth Avenue West 900 feet; thence South 334 feet to the North iine of Thirteenth Avenue West, thence West along the North line of said Thirteenth Avenue 900 feet to the east line of Chambers street; thence north 334 feet to the place of begipning. by the city ~ be set aside by resolution of the council'to be held intact for future use as a playground and recreation area. After a short discussion by mocm ErEX~~ 15 members of the council the proposal was set aside for future action. o Communication from the Board of Appeals, was presented, revealing the request from Irish and Swartz ask~ng for a modification of the Building Code regarding the amount of reinforcing in their concrete walls. The Board recommends that their request be granted providing they place three-eights inch reinforcing rods perpend- JVicularly three feet centers the full height of the wall. Motion was made and sec- 16 o;nded approving the r~commendat ion of the board,. . Another request was received from Irish~Swartz asking for a modification of the code to permit them to use plywood on the exterior of their proposed service station to be built on the northwest corner of the intersection of I~dison Street and Sixth Avenue. The Board recorr~ends that th~ requ~st be granted providing the specifications on this t~pe of construction to pe received, from Tacoma are satis- f~ctory to the Board. Motion was mad~ apd secopded unanimously approving the 17 r~cownendation of the Bo~r~. - . < A request was received from D: L. Freel: asking for a permit to complete ap outside stairway at the rear of his house at. 2113 Kincaid Street that he might. utilize the second floor as an apartment. The Board reco~aends that this r~quest be granted providing he ,till enclose th~ stairway, and motion ~as made and s~conded approving the recomrnendation of the co~ittee. I IS.... 19 A request was received from Mrs. Grimes: Perin asking for a pe~it to wfeck a garage on the r~ar of, her property at 2~5 Eleventh Avenue East and to e~ect an apartment twenty by twenty-four feet, ~aiving the requirements of a. stucco exterior as required in Fire Z9ne,No. 2., The building to conform in all lother respects to the Code. The Board recommen~s that this request be granted and upon motion made and seconded the recom~endatiop was unani~ously approved. Cormnunication from County, Judge Clinton:Hurd ~egarding the house located 1297 West 6th Street against which the City pas a paving lien, was referred to Finance Committee. ' / - ap 20/ t:p.e o Oemmunications 'Y1ere presented from W, B:.Dillard, County Clerk, dat,ed F~brua:ry",p and 7, with regard to Lot 7, Block 1, Campbell's First Addition and 21 o+dered placed on file. , The following department reports were presented and' ordered placed ~n file: City Engineer's- report for the month of January, 1940; Epgene Public Library for the JYTonth of December, 1939; Police Matroh's report,for the ~onth of January, 1940; and 22 the Annual Police report for the year of 1939~ . o The following curb cut applications wer~ presented and recommendations of the City Engineer approved with the exception of Application No. 722 for the Consumer's Co-o~ at 166 East Eleventh and this request w~~peld until the next meeting of the counpil: No. 716, Iris~ &.Swartz,~Inc. (Q~~); No. 71S~ W. K. Hamiltonf(approyed); No,. 719, A. W. Berg';(approyed); ~o. 720,M. B. Vitus, (approved No. 721, Wilbur Hyland; (approved); Np. 722, Consumer s CO-01), held over until the 23/ next council meeting. I I An application for a Second-Hand Dealers' License of E. A. Jerome at Jeromec~'s Trading Post, 764 Willamette. been approved by the Chief of Police, motion was made and Jerome a license and it was so ordered. was presented on behalf As the application had seconded to grant E. A. 24 ~ ~ 281 -=..::....:---.:...:........ -_':'-'~.~:.~._-"":'::_---~--_.._---~:....._--~;,.-=---~":.-:...:..-~-------- ------- --- -" ---- -- ------ _. ---------~-- --.---..--.........--..----- ----- -_.- - --- -- - ----. ~---.--- .__._---~-~-~----------,...-.-._-~----_.~- ~---------------....;"..- ._--- I The City Recorder stated that in accordance with the instructions of the last council meeting, he had published a "call for bids" for the purchase of two motor vehicles for the City Engineer's Department. As it was advertised that awards would be made, Tuesday February 13, motion was made and seconded that the bids be turned over to the Finance Committee with power to act, and it was so 2ft! ordered. t...~ or) ~.. .~,...! '" I The resignation of H. L. EdmUnds from_the Civil Service Commission was read and a'ccept~d byth~ council. Mayor Large recommended the appointment of William W., Bartle, la~er, to succeed Mr. Edmvnds and the recommendation was unanimously approved by the council. The City Recorder was instructed to send a letter of appreciation to Mr. EdmUnds for the fine servic~s he has rendered to 2& the city and the Civil Service Commission, and it was so ordered. '-".~' Upon motion made ,and seconded the meeting was herewith adjourned. C. M. Bryan City Recorder I I I ~