HomeMy WebLinkAbout03/23/14 Bremerton, ~Jashington, March £3rd 1914.
Regular meeting of the City Council called to order by ~iayor Cody at 7.30 o'clock
p.m. all officers being present.
~[inutes of previous session read and corrected to show that the matte~ of light in
alley was referred to the Fire Light and Water committee instead of Street and Alley
committee, after which minutes were approved as read and corrected.
];etter read from City Engineer submitting completed figures on bids for sewer on
Fifth street, laid over to new business.
Street and alley co~nmittee reported that street flusher was alrtght and in good
working order; co,~ittee also reco~ended tha~ some provision should be made for the
amo~t of space which contractors on new buildings should be allowed ~o use. and called
attention to the fact that the contractor for ~he new building at Pacific and ~ourth
was occupying more space in the street th~ sho~d be allowed as he was blocking traffic
and the o~ers of adjoining were objecting. Mr Richards the agent of the H~ter ~d
Daily building offfered a strong protest agains~ the way the Pacific Avenue was being
blocked. City attorney called attention ~o the provisions of the building Code which
put such matters up to the building department, and it was so referred by ~he Mayor.
Street and Llley Co~ittee recommended that several changes be made in
480. ~.~otion by Worth,m~ Ward to refer ~he matter to the Finance Co,!tree and the
City ~lttorney~ not carrisd.
~Iotlon by Powers and ~orth to approve the reco~endation of the Street and Alley
Conm~ittee sortied on roll call as follows:~ Worth, Powers, Ward, ~,[cGillivrae and Reeves
Yes; Kost, and Foss No.
Finance Co~nittee reported having considered the ma~ter of contract with the
Breme~,ton iIews for ~he ~ublicatlon of the proeea~dings of the Council a~ reco~mmended
that in view oil the f~,ct that the Bre~erton Searchlight had agreed ~ publi~h the
proce~dings as a matter ,of ne?~s free of cost to th,~ city that the proposed contract
Company.be do~; and motion of' ~[orth and McGillivray
with the Bremerton News turned on
report of co~ittee~'~ was adopted
~ Fire.Light and Water com~ittee reported having considered the proposi~ion to place
a light in the alley adjoining the Kimball hotel, and as the s~mer was near the com-
mittee would recor~m~end that no f~ther action be taken a~ this time. Motion by ¥;ard and Kost to adopt report of co~ittee, carried.
Hr. Foss of t~,e i~'ire L~t~and ~'~ater Co,~it~ee reported theft the suit of th~ city
to squire tho i~l~nt of the ~ar~'ison ~is~er Company was progressing favo:~'ably the court
h~ving ~u~r~u].e~l an a,.~plica~ion of counsel for the company~asking permissio~
w~thdr~zw its pleadings.
Ce:~etar~j ::o~:~tttee requested th~.~t the Water Comply be instructed to turn on the
w~ter ~t th~ Cemetary after some discussion the matter w~,s referred b~ck to t~m cerea-
L{etlon by Reeves and ;,IcGilliwrae that Ceme~ary Com~itte,~ submit reoo ~endation for
~rices to be ch~rged on tots at Ce~netary; ca~ried.
Cle~'k read resolution givi~g the Civic i~elfare Board ths right to ~ko improvemen~
~n the up~er story of m~micip~l whar~ building and to rent s~e ~nd to collect th~
rental thereon in consider~tion of their ~ying all bills contracteA therefore a~
on motion of ~o¥~rs ~nd Foss resolution was adopted as read and I,~h~.yor a. nd Clerk auth-
orized to si~ the
~[~yor O~,dy ret~ort,~l. .~ t[~ t l~m~ber for the flooring for the new wharf had been
~ra. ng~d i'or.
i,.Ia~,~or ap~olnted ~.irs. Edith ~Iills :s a member of the Civic '#elfare Board to replace
~,Ir. ;k. L. Croxton who had resig~ed and on motion of Kost aud i~eeves appointment of Mrs~
:,~flls w~s con?irmed.
:,'ih~,,ri' ~o~mnittec~ l-eco~nended theft no ~urt~er wharfage be collected for goods shipped
over [~lo~t ~nd that bui!,~ing co;n~nittee be authorized to issue Ran~z Brothers a ~ermit
l'or h nges o~ building said changes to be done under the supervision of the Building
~o ~nitteeand that notice, s be put u~ on flea, ts theft the City would not be re.~onsible
for ant goods sht??ed over the flo~;s. ~Iotton By Kost and Foss to a~prove recom~neudatioz
of the com~aittee; carried.
i.[r. ~,I. ;lantz complain~d to the co~ncil that the wharfinger wa~~ acti~ toward him
in ~nfirbltrary m~_tnner. The ~harfin~er eo;'plained his position an0 the maturer was
re erred ',o the ,,'h~trf Co~itPee.
Cle k read petiti,~ of several pro~)er~y owner~: requesting that iff Number i salt
Ml.~zed /~/~ clay pipe could b~ ~rocured for the s~.;~e ~rice as cement pipe ~;hat it
~ven th,~ ~zef~r~nc~~ in tbs cons~truct~on of hhe sewer bm ~ifth Street between Warren
and H ~.~h.
Letter ~'e~d f~'om L. Y. St~yton gi~tng fibres at which he ~-~as willing to sell
cement p~_p~ i:f the council should decide to do the 'c*ork by day labor.
Liotion by ,;ard ~nd Powers to award the contract for sewer on Fifth [;treet to L. L.
,ent who w~,~ the lowest bidder on N~ber I vitrified pipe; carrM d.
City Engin~er ~u~m~itted a platt of a new addition to the city to b~.~ known as A. S.
seds~ddition~t~d :t:'eported theft same conformed ~ the pre~ent stre~ts in theft Vim~ini~y
and on motion of ~owers ~:tnd Kost pleat ~:~as tel'erred tO Street ~:,d .~k~!ley Cor~unittee.
Limo~ion by Kost and .,'~rd to approve allbills as read by Cl~-k and a?proved by committee
tattled; The :followin~ bills wers ~pp~'oved: B. 2. ~[arri~ on,~,,~,~~
B. 3~. Harrison ~29.30; Frank l~elzer ~18; Fr~.nk Townsend .,~15;
Smith ~11.25; Geo. Ct~.y ~15; Jacob ,~e~ ~e ~15: Pord Brothers ;~20; Bre~erton Tran~fer
Company ~S9.50; '/dtarfin.,'er .[jl.15; J. J. Ko~t ~2.50; Amdr~w Y~mtg $2; E. R. Caughie
~43.50; John uart,~ ,~,~16.~5; D. ~. Uodegzaph ,~17.50, ~. ~nderson ~18.10, :[. 0.
Bulle~te '~
,,~65 C. 2. Reynolds ,~11.25;
Motion by Eclat ~:nd Pourers to aJourn; carried.